User:Cburnett

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Accounts at (45+10=55):
Other sites:

My wikiphilosophy:

With each and every edit ask yourself this: does the edit make Wikipedia better? Edit warring is an automatic no. Bad Faith editing is an automatic no. Edits that suit your personal/political agenda is an automatic no. Edits that suit a business's agenda (advertising) is an automatic no.


User page of Colin M.L. Burnett. My first edit was of Nevada, Iowa on 01:04, November 23, 2004 [1]. Since then I've made more than 27,412 edits on 11,284 unique pages (as of 1:23 February 29, 2008 (CDT) counter) in addition to any edits made on interwiki accounts. This ranks me (as of January 20, 2008) #395 of users who have contributed the most number of edits. Go magic save button!

Some time ago I came up with an idea for reorganizing WP: User:Cburnett/Hierarchy. The point is that article content is more-or-less separated from the title and the title is then combined with redirects and categories. Knowledge is not necessarily hierarchial but it does conform to a cyclical directed graph.

I was nominated for adminship (WP:RFA/Cburnett) on April 23, 2005 and promoted on May 1 by Cecropia.

My interests in topics on wikipedia is quite varied and I tend to migrate from one topic to another as time goes on. I tend to be a perfectionist and spend many of my edits simply converting tabular data into tables. I've had a fair amount of success in this endeavor and I've seen a general increase in the use of tables in the following areas that, IMHO, started from my edits:

My latest kick is creating Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) images with Inkscape (as of March 25, 2007 I've contributed over 250 SVGs to wikipedia).

See my wikipinion (wiki-pin-yon) for my opinion on Wikipedia.

Contents

[edit] Me

27 year old with a BS in electrical engineering and computer engineering from Iowa State University.

I'm generally interested in these topics:

The remainder is just a bunch of topics of interest to me and some of my favorites from each.

Why is all this here? If you ever have a question about anything listed here or related to anything list here, then hit me up on my talk page and I might be able to give an answer (not saying it will be right :) though).

[edit] Books

Books; my favorites:

[edit] Movies

Movies; my favorites:

[edit] Music

Music. I much prefer music of instrumental substance/focus than vocals.

[edit] Musicals

Musicals I've seen:

[edit] TV

Television programs I like. Favorite episodes are listed with the #1 in bold.

[edit] Photography

Photography; quick equipment list:

Wanted:

  1. Canon WFT-E3A — GPS tagging, saving to USB drives, and wireless transfer...
  2. Canon EF-S 10-22mm lens — More wide-angle than the 24-70
  3. Canon EF 600mm lens — Gooder longer zoomer
  4. Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM — A nice macro
  5. Canon EF 500mm lens — Good long zoom
  6. Canon EF 1200mm lens — pfftttt, yeah right........

See User:Cburnett/GFDL images for a list of images I've contributed to wikipedia that I've taken.

[edit] Video games

[edit] Console

I guess you could say I've been a loyal fan of Nintendo since the beginning.

[edit] Windows

[edit] Other

[edit] Zoos

Been to:

Huzzah.

[edit] US Parks, et. al.

National Parks:

National Monuments:

National Forests:

Iowa state parks and forests:

[edit] Member of

[edit] Programming languages/Frameworks

[edit] Familiar topics

[edit] Periodicals I read

[edit] Places to go

Basically a list of places to go to at some point in my life. By no means is this a complete list...it never will be. I mostly just add stuff when I come across it.

Main article: User:Cburnett/Places to go

[edit] Images

For images I have uploaded that I didn't release into public domain (e.g., Template:PD-self), please attribute them:

  • to "Colin M.L. Burnett" if used external to wikipedia (or sister projects)
  • to "[[:en:User:Cburnett]]" if used internal to wikipedia (or sister projects).

Of course, if you want to use the exact image I (or any image for that matter) uploaded then just use it. The image page gives attribution to the creator.

If you desire to have the picture under another license, please feel free to email me (see "E-mail this user" under the toolbox menu) and ask. The images are also scaled-down from their originals. I'm likely to oblige...

Attribution signature I use on images: {{User:Cburnett/image sig}}

Be sure to read #Licensing.

[edit] Airport diagrams

Main article: User:Cburnett/airport diagrams

Des Moines International Airport

[edit] GFDL'ed images

Main article: User:Cburnett/GFDL images

As of June 18, 2007 I've contributed over 487 images to wikipedia under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). As mentioned above, I've been on a Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) kick lately with over 300 SVGs so far.

Some of my favorites:

Shamu at SeaWorld San Diego

Cape Thick-knees

Diana Monkey

Mantled Guereza

Wolf's Mona Monkey

Cattle Egret

Jaguar

Jaguar

Fountain of Four Seasons

Campanile

Milwaukee Art Museum

Bayer filter

RGBE filter

Example map avoiding race hazard

Light knight on light (Chess pieces)

World's first, last, and only panoramic/stitched image of a Granola bar

Strawberry

Baseball

Hamming distance

Hamming code

King of spades

Cyclonic separation

Metrorail (Washington, D.C.)

System-on-a-chip

Ebony Jewelwing

[edit] Non-GFDL'ed images

Main article: User:Cburnett/Images

The bulk of my non-GFDL images come in the form of screenshots of TV episodes and movies. I'm too lazy to count them.

Some of my favorites that I can visually display (non-fair use):

Mountain Dew

[edit] Links

[edit] Things to work on

Disambiguate:

[edit] Past/Current/Future releases

Movie/Book/DVD releases that I care (or might care) about. Light blue are those already released and light red is the next release(s).

[edit] 2008 releases

Date Movie Notes
December 25 Star Trek (film) Theater
November 21 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film) Theater
September 2 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 3 DVD
August 26 Heroes (TV series) Season 2 DVD
August 1 The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor Theater
July 18 Mamma Mia! (film) Theater
June 24 Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs
June 10 Jumper (film) DVD
May 22 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Theater
May 20 National Treasure: Book of Secrets DVD
May 16 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian Theater
April 4 Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series) Season 4
March 25 Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series) Season 3 DVD
March 18 I Am Legend (film) DVD
March 11 30 Days Season 2
January 31 Lost (TV series) Season 4
January 22 Saw IV DVD
January 8 The Riches Season 1 DVD

[edit] 2007 releases

Date Movie Notes
December 25 Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem Theater
December 21 National Treasure: Book of Secrets Theater
December 14 I Am Legend (film) Theater
December 11 The Bourne Ultimatum (film) DVD
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) DVD
Lost (TV series) Season 3
December 4 Battlestar Galactica: Razor DVD
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End DVD
November 27 Futurama: Bender's Big Score
November 24 Battlestar Galactica: Razor TV
November 20 Live Free or Die Hard DVD
October 30 Scrubs (TV series) Season 6
October 26 Saw IV Theater
October 23 Veronica Mars Season 3
October 16 Medium (TV series) Season 3
September 25 Numb3rs Season 3
The Unit Season 2
September 18 Smallville (TV series) Season 6
September 4 30 Rock Season 1
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Seasons 1 & 2
Robot Chicken Season 2
August 28 Heroes (TV series) Season 1
August 21 House (TV series) Season 3
July 11 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) Theater
July 10 Eureka (TV series) Season 1
March 27 Casino Royale
January 30 Lucky Louie Season 1
January 23 Saw III
January 2 Snakes on a Plane

[edit] 2006 releases

Date Movie Notes
December 19 Lady in the Water Never seen it though
December 5 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
November 28 Next (novel) Next Michael Crichton novel
October 24 MacGyver Season 7
October 10 NUMB3RS Season 2
October 3 Lost (TV series) Season 2
Medium Season 2
September 19 The Unit Season 1
Battlestar Galactica Season 2.5
September 5 Commander in Chief (TV series) Season 1, volume 2
August 29 Desperate Housewives Season 2
August 22 Threshold (TV series)
August 15 Surface (TV series)
August 1 V for Vendetta
July 11 30 Days Season 1
June 13 MacGyver Season 6
June 13 Medium (TV series) Season 1
May 30 NUMB3RS Season 1
April 4 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
March 28 Robot Chicken Volume 1
March 21 South Park Season 7
March 14 MacGyver Season 5
March 7 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film) Movie #4
January 24 Flightplan
January 3 Wedding Crashers

[edit] 2005 releases

Date Movie Notes
December 6 MacGyver Season 4
November 29 March of the Penguins
November 18 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (movie) Movie #4
November 1 Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
October 11 Arrested Development (TV series) Season 2
September 20 Lost Season 1
September 6 Desperate Housewives Season 1
MacGyver Season 3
July 26 Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2
July 16 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Book #6
July 12 Bill & Ted's Most Excellent Collection
June 7 Star Trek: Insurrection Special collector's edition
MacGyver Season 2
May 24 Law & Order Season 3
The Day After Tomorrow Collector's edition
I, Robot (movie) Collector's edition
May 19 Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith Oooo, now in PG-13!
May 17 Team America: World Police
May 4 Law & Order Season 2
May 3 National Treasure
Spaceballs Collector's edition
The Phantom of the Opera (2004 movie)
Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1
April 19 Meet the Fockers
April 12 Oceans Twelve
March 29 Closer (movie)
January 25 MacGyver Season 1

[edit] Current projects

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Zoo

WikiProject Zoo open tasks
watch · edit · discuss
Project-wide tasks
  • Start articles for red links at List of zoo associations; include list of members or accredited zoos.
  • Add infoboxes to zoo, aquarium, and aviary articles (see Category:Zoos or Category:WikiProject Zoo articles for lists of articles).
  • Request logos and photos of zoo signs/entrances for inclusion in infoboxes.
  • Flesh out infoboxes with sourced information (# of animals, featured exhibits, date opened, etc.).
  • Add {{Zoos}} to each page.
  • Add {{WPZOO}} to each talk page.
  • Write articles :)
  • Find non-facility articles to include that are related to zoos, aquaria, and aviaries.
Specific article tasks
FAC/FAR/GAC 
Articles here that are undergoing Featured Article or Good Article processes.
Cleanup 
Kansas City Zoological Park
Attention needed 
More...
Requested articles 
Folsom Children's Zoo • Sepahijala Zoo • Zoo Nebraska • More...
Requested images 
Riverside Park and Zoo • Werribee Open Range Zoo • More...
Expansion needed 
Aquarium Barcelona • Cleveland Metroparks Zoo • Diergaarde Blijdorp • Granby Zoo • Knoxville Zoo • Montreal Insectarium • More...

[edit] Userboxes

I haven't been a huge fan of the user boxes for the simple reason that it's very akin to pigeon holing users. Anyway, here's a list of them at the bottom of my user page assuming that if you've scrolled this far down then you're not pigeon holing me. :) But even still, you get an explanation with each.

[edit] Projects

This user is a member of WikiProject Zoo.

My work on {{Infobox zoo}} got the project going.
⚕ This user is a member of the Medicine WikiProject
Yeah for feeling good 'n stuff.
Image:Enterprise.jpg This user is a member of
WikiProject Star Trek
This project is where, IMHO, tv lists started going and the particular format gained popularity to start off the tv episodes wikiproject.

[edit] Programming

My guideline for picking each level:

  • expert — I know my way in, out, through, and behind; can code it in my sleep; I can list pros and cons as well as what I'd change
  • advanced — I know well enough to be proficient
  • intermediate — Used it before, would recognize and understand it; reference or sample code mandatory to code more of it
  • beginner — I've used it before but that's about it
asm-2 This user is an intermediate assembly language programmer.
I "get" it, can use it, but I've never written stuff in assembly "for the fun of it" or tweaked C code with assembly to improve performance.
C-4 This user is an expert C user.
Expert? Dynamic runtime modules, void *, char ****? No problem.
csharp-2 This user is an intermediate C# programmer.
c++-2 This user is an intermediate C++ programmer.
I "get" it but think it's a hack on C and there are better OOP languages, so I've never enhanced my skills. Static typing and OOP don't seem to be good roommates, IMHO.
for-1 This user is a beginning Fortran programmer.


Used it for a class once.
java-0 This user has some undisclosed problems with Java.
My Java rant is too long to say here.
Perl-2 This user is an intermediate Perl programmer.
I've written some but don't my way in and out through perl. I'll use python and PHP before perl unless I need to harness the regexp-chi of perl.
php-4 This user is an expert PHP programmer.
I find so much crap in it that it drives me nuts and boggles my mind at how poorly it is designed.
py-4 This user is an expert Python programmer.
I've written a variety of things in python. Multi-threading, XML-RPC, SOAP, custom HTTP server, PyQt, etc. Current fav scripting language.
rb-1 This user is a beginning Ruby programmer.
I find the syntax of Ruby repulsive. Python is just as "readable" without making the general syntax very informal. I completely understand but completely deplore 5.times.
css-2 This user is an intermediate Cascading Style Sheets user.
I know how to use it but haven't spent my time doing super-mega fancy stuff with it. I never have a problem ultimately getting the style I want.
<html> This user can write HTML.
The slack browsers have for HTML drives me nuts. I want the W3C to add support for a greater number of widgets (combo box and slider to name two).
js-3 This user is an advanced JavaScript coder.
Done some semi-fancy stuff with it. Like PHP, it's poorly designed in my book and lack of consistency across browsers makes it that much less valuable to humanity.
mysql This user writes programs that access MySQL.
Use it but it's slowness to adopt standard SQL features like cursors, views, and...sequences is appalling.
sql-3 This user is an advanced SQL programmer.
Oh, I'm sure there's plenty of people that can whiz around SQL better than I, but I have used it sufficiently enough that I find the shortcomings of it.
{{Wiki}} This user can write in the MediaWiki language
Wiki is so easy
xml-4 This user is an expert XML coder.
Well-formedness, xpath, etc. XML isn't that hard.
xhtml-4 This user is an expert XHTML user.
Pft!

[edit] Computing

This user contributes using Linux.


Dumped Microsoft with 98SE. I disagree with MS on their business practices, but Linux offers much more than I can get with Windows. Besides, I can save my bucks for real beer.
Firefox This user prefers Mozilla Firefox.
IE is slacking off. Debugging JS is infinitely easier in Firefox.
G This user uses Google as a primary search engine.
Actually, google is second to wikipedia but first for non-topical information seeking.
g This user contributes using Gentoo Linux.
RedHat -> Slackware -> Mandrake -> Gentoo
This user contributes with
KDE.
I've flipped-flopped between KDE and Gnome several times and have ended up with KDE.
This user contributes using Vim.
My philosphy on this: you hate vim until you learn it, then you hate to be without it. Nano is painful. Actually, using any text entry (like this very box in Firefox I'm typing in now) without vim commands is painful. I WANT VIM BINDINGS FOR EVERYTHING! And if you can't empathize, then I'd bet $10 that you don't use vim or emacs or any "fancy" editor. :)
64
This user uses an AMD Athlon 64-bit Processor.
At home.
BB This user contributes using a broadband connection.
Qwest...bleh

[edit] Custom userboxes

Found here: User:Cburnett/userboxen

This user wishes he had an interplanetary driver's license.

Others:

This user's got a case of the Mondays.

[edit] Licensing

Unless explicitly and directly stated by me, anything licensed under the GPL is only licensed under version 2. This includes any future works and applies to all previous works. (The text of templates do not count as explicit or direct statements.) Because the wordage of templates can change and can be interpreted differently, all previously licensed works were never licensed under anything but version 2. I am making this interpretation explicit now.