User:Dto1138

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[edit] About me

I'm David O'Toole, a new wikipedian. I live in Northborough, Massachusetts. I've been reading wikipedia for some time now, and have increasingly had the urge to contribute something. So I opened a wikipedia account and here I am!

[edit] Todo

  • See if I can help improve the article on Deconstruction. Its section on "Criticisms" seems to leave out criticism of Derrida's theory of language (which underpins deconstruction.) I wonder if it would be cool to add a synopsis of such an argument, along with a reference to John Ellis' "Against Deconstruction". Also the article has a lot of weasel words (i.e. "many critics believe...")

In fact the whole section on criticisms seems a bit poorly developed and seemingly skimmed from tirades against Deconstruction in journals like The New Criterion. Not to push a POV here but I happen to be aware that the criticisms of deconstruction have been developed to much more depth than the present Deconstruction article would have you believe.

  • Create a small article about GNU Eev, or perhaps add a mention to Emacs
  • Create an article about the author and professor John M. Ellis
  • Add something about my town, Northborough, Massachusetts perhaps reporting interesting facts from the History of Northborough book that got published a while back.

[edit] Userboxes

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This user is a Libran.
ath This user is interested in atheism.
This user is interested in materialism, the belief that everything that exists is made of matter.
This user is from Earth.
Emacs This user is interested in the Church of Emacs.
This user has never left the Western Hemisphere.
OCD This user lives with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
A This user is an adult.
This user is Irish.


TEX This Wikipedian is a TEX user.
prog-x This user is merely a humble programmer.


BS This user has a Bachelor of Science degree.
This user is a music composer.
This user is a modular synthesizer player, user, tweaker, and/or builder.
fan-3 This user loves The Brian Jonestown Massacre.
This user enjoys reading non-fiction.
This user enjoys writing.
This user has a profile on MySpace as http://www.myspace.com/dto1138.
G This user uses Google as a primary search engine.
This user uses Gmail as a primary E-mail service.
GIMP This user contributes using The GIMP.
This user is using a web browser.
This user contributes using GNU/Linux.
This user hacks happily with Emacs.
This user is proud
to be a Wikipedian.
This user supports the use of nuclear power.
This user thinks that abstractions cannot hurt anybody.
This user is a skeptic.
X This user does not believe in the existence of human races, except as a social construct. X