User:Tomruen
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[edit] Wikibreak
Break March 26-April 1, while I catch up on things - like taxes! I'm available by email. Tom Ruen 05:38, 26 March 2007 (UTC) |
[edit] Contact
Hi, my name is Tom Ruen. If you'd like to contact me, try out the form at: Special:Emailuser/tomruen
[edit] My work here
I first came on here to edit on April 28, 2004. It is an addicting idea to try to add to something much bigger than I could ever do. I am a little skeptical over the idea of freedom to change anything, but overall I'm very impressed by the quality of articles and I have faith good work is being done and I can add to it.
There are many quality websites out there and it seems silly to duplicate too much. I like the idea of learning about something and testing my knowledge by trying to share it. For me that motivates much of my efforts here.
Primary topics I've worked on include geometry, astronomy, and election methods.
My specialty has primarily been image generation, perhaps because there's so many articles I've found where useful images were absent. I try to make quality images, but I will compromise perfection for meaningful improvement. I'm happy if anyone can replace my images with better ones.
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[edit] About me
- I'm 38 years old and I live near Minneapolis, Minnesota. I like astronomy, science, math, walking, bicycling, reading, writing, photography, and gardening.
- I am a Toastmaster and believe in Agnostic theism. In politics I belong to my own IP party (Idealistic Pessimism), with the slogan: Travel light for darker days will come...
- I do computer programming for a living, mostly in Java and C++. For my own fun projects I'll program in Borland Delphi.
- I have a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics, minor in Physics (astronomy), 1991, from the U of MN.
Favorite famous people include:
- Writers: Berry, Campbell, Homer, Jung, Lewis, Shakespeare, Schumacher
- Leaders: Carter, Gandhi, Mother Teresa
- Musicians: Enya, Horner, Mozart, Simon, Sting, Williams
- Scientists: Aristotle, Einstein, Kepler, Newton, Poincaré, Sagan
[edit] Pictures
- Astronomy Picture of the Day, November 12, 2003
- Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_10,_2005
- User:Tomruen/2006featuredpicture #10 Copied from on Commons Picture of 2006 [1]
- Mars animation 2003
- Sunrise corona animation
[edit] Affiliations
- Four Seasons Toastmaster club, District 6, club 373
- Oil awareness meetup on peak oil
- Fairvote Minnesota Advocating for Instant Runoff Voting and majority rule
- Minnesota Independence Party (IP)
- Citizen's League (CL)
- League of Women Voter (LWV)
- Eastside Food Cooperative (EFC)
- Friends for NonViolent World (FNVW)
- Itasca Consulting Group Employer
- Online activity: Wunderground | flickr |
[edit] Links
- URL tracer
- Texvc TEX formatting on wiki
- Special:Newimages
- http://www.uni-bonn.de/~manfear/html2wiki-tables.php HTML to Wiki Converter
- Wikipedia:Vandalism_in_progress
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wiki_Syntax
- Wikipedia:Template_messages/Merging_and_splitting
- Wikipedia:Deletion_policy
- {{ deletebecause|Reason. }}
- Macro codes:
- {{Unreferenced}}
- {{cleanupdate| DATE }}
- <:nowiki>
- Wikipedia:Template_messages/Cleanup
- Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not
- Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Script_generation_of_uniform_polyhedra_articles
- [2]
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Mathematics
- Curious document Wikipedia: A Techno-Cult of Ignorance, see also Criticism of Wikipedia
Picture of the day | |
A photo of strabismus surgery, surgery on the extraocular muscles to correct misalignment of the eyes, being performed. In this image, the face appears upside down, and the surgeon is disinserting the medial rectus muscle. A Castroviejo locking forceps is grasping the superior pole of the muscle, while a Manson-Aebli scissors does the cutting. The eyelids are being held by a Cook speculum. Photo credit: Bticho |