User:ExplorerCDT

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Me

My name is Christopher Daniel Thieme.

There are other individuals who possess the name "Christopher D. Thieme" out there, (several in fact) but none like me. Please do not confuse me with those individuals or any of their deeds (because all too often, many of you do).

My works follow me and consume more than enough of my time and patience...I don't need anyone else's as a cross to bear.

Locales
Me pinguem et nitidum bene curata cute uises, cum ridere uoles, Epicuri de grege porcum.

(As for me, when you want a laugh, you will find me, in fine fettle, fat and sleek, a true hog from Epicurus' herd)
— Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Epistula ad Pisones (Ars Poetica), I, iv, ll. 15-16. (19-18 B.C.)

Education

Politics
European-variety conservative with aristocratic leanings (if not pretensions), with a few competing Anarcho-capitalist and Social Liberal thoughts and an keen interest in conservationism. I am sometimes referred to (often in jest) as a "bi-polar extremist." While it may seem contradictory, it works for me...and often works in the end. After all, F. Scott Fitzgerald was probably writing about someone like me when he scribed in The Crack-Up (1936) that "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."

Religion
Episcopalian (Anglican), very High Church, Anglo-Catholic.

Works

  • On Crossroads and Signposts: An Etymology of Place Names in Sussex and Warren Counties, New Jersey. (forthcoming, 2007)

Things I love
Fly fishing, Baseball (especially the Boston Red Sox), Writing, Literature, Sailing, Bullfighting, History, Political Theory, the Piano, Cooking, Old Maps, Argentine Tango, Travel, prescriptive grammar, culturally important things...and Rutgers University.

Things I hate
Mayonnaise, Lowbrow, popular culture, bad grammar, bad writing (especially bad poetry)

Genealogical Triviata
I am directly descended from Charlemagne (as is half of those with northern European blood), Simon de Montfort, (1160-1218) 5th Earl of Leicester, a Anglo-French nobleman who took part in the Fourth Crusade (1202-1204) and led the Albigensian Crusade (1209-1229), William Stoughton, judge and prosecutor at the Salem Witch Trials and both John Winthrop (1588-1649), founding governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and his similarly famous and named son John Winthrop (1606-1676), Colonial Governor of Connecticut.

Through Stoughton, I am related collaterally to (at least) eighteen Presidents of the United States.

Contact

  • e-mail: cdthieme@gmail.com / cthieme@alumni.rutgers.edu
  • AIM: ExplorerCDT / Hythlodaeus80
  • Snail-mail address, phone and fax available for qualified customers.

About licensing

At this time, despite many exhortations to release my work under some apparatus of licensing, and not having found any of the specific apparati currently available to be acceptable or sufficiently comprehensive, I do not release my contributions and edits into the public domain through any specific license, relying only on Wikipedia's default policies, though I continue to reserve the right to release these works under the license of my choice at any time in the future.

Wikipedia at its best

  • A former introduction to the Stephen Hawking article [1]

My work here

I started contributing to Wikipedia on 30 September 2004. Looking back, I don't remember exactly what led me to Wikipedia, or what divine spark got me interested. But I got involved, stayed, and am now addicted. I think what keeps me here is the feeling of contribution, even in the smallest way, to the whole of knowledge, it makes me feel like Diderot. I don't think Diderot would have liked the profundity of Pokemon articles here, but hey, when in Rome...

Typically, you may find me contributing to articles regarding Rutgers, Princeton, and a few other universities, things in and around New York City, and other places (see above) I've been, anything dealing with history, political theory, or literature, classical music, various cultural movements, biographies of culturally important people, Anglicanism, theology, liturgical calendar stuff. I can be found contributing to the discussions at Featured Article Candidates, and less frequently at Peer Review, Good Articles, and Articles for Deletion.

My first act as a Wikipedian was to upload an historical image of Old Queens for use on the Rutgers University article. It is still there.

Wikipedia Club of New York

I seem to be the organizer and "unofficial social chair" behind the Wikipedia Club of New York, which followed a successful NYC meetup on 9 December 2006. If you want to join up, find out about events, drop me an e-mail (listed above).

Featured Articles (1)

Good Articles (2)

  • Paulins Kill (8 November 2006. promoted to FA 10 January 2007.)
  • Joyce Kilmer (31 December 2006 after under 1 hour 56 minutes as a nominee).

Articles I gave birth to (71)

This list does not include all the redirect articles, etc. that I've had to create.
Conversion of Paul (25JAN07) • Robert E. Mulcahy III ‎(25JAN07) • Extreme points of United States (25JAN07) • Bethlehem Down (24JAN07) • Le Colonel Chabert (novel) (13JAN07) • Post-secondary education in New Jersey (12JAN07) • President of Rutgers University (05JAN07) • Athletics at Rutgers University (31DEC06) • Traditions at Rutgers University (31DEC06) • The Bells Must Ring (31DEC06) • Louis Finkelstein (artist) (20DEC06) • List of characters of La Comédie humaine (18DEC06) • History of Rutgers University (14DEC06) • Stillwater Presbyterian Church (Stillwater, New Jersey) (27NOV06) • Harmony Hill Methodist Church (Stillwater, New Jersey)(27NOV06) • Stillwater Cemetery (Stillwater, New Jersey)(27NOV06) • Rutgers-Princeton Cannon War (24NOV06) • Henry Pachter (21NOV06) • History of slavery in New Jersey (01NOV06) • Samuel Fowler (30OCT06) • Military Road (New Jersey) (29OCT06) • New Jersey Frontier Guard (29OCT06) • Carmen-Francesca Banciu (24OCT06) • T. Corey Brennan (22OCT06) • Richard P. McCormick (14SEP06) • University College (Rutgers University) (10SEP06) • Old Queens (10SEP06) • WCTC (10SEP06) • On the Banks of the Old Raritan (10SEP06) • Voorhees Mall (10SEP06) • Rutgers University student organizations (09SEP06) • Rutgers University Greek organizations (09SEP06) • Aline Murray Kilmer (19AUG06) • Thomas Oakley Anderson (14AUG06) • Newman E. Drake (14AUG06) • William C. Dowling (13AUG06) • Philoclean Society (03AUG06) • List of Rutgers University people (28JUL06) • James Jordan (conductor) (19JUL06) • Charles J. Fletcher (21JUN06) • New Brunswick Theological Seminary (01APR05) • Mason W. Gross (29MAR05) • Lewis Webster Jones (29MAR05) • Robert Clarkson Clothier (29MAR05) • Philip Milledoler Brett (29MAR05) • John Martin Thomas (29MAR05) • William H. S. Demarest (29MAR05) • Austin Scott (29MAR05) • Merrill Edward Gates (29MAR05) • William H. Campbell (29MAR05) • Edward J. Bloustein (29MAR05) • Francis L. Lawrence (29MAR05) • Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck (29MAR05) • Philip Milledoler (29MAR05) • John Henry Livingston (29MAR05) • Ira Condict (29MAR05) • William Linn (29MAR05) • Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh (29MAR05) • Mirabelle (02MAR05) • Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture (02MAR05) • Gustav Landauer (19FEB05) • Erich Mühsam (15FEB05) • Handicapping (13FEB05) • Weimar Culture (26JAN05) • Damson (07NOV04) • Bufalino crime family (11DEC04) • Colonial Colleges (14NOV04) • Edmund Plowden (29OCT04) • Greengage (28OCT04) • Norman Maclean (18OCT04) • Stephen Bronner (17SEP04)

I contributed a lot here to help make a better article (38)

I've made significant or formative edits that changed the entire dynamic of the following articles (people alphabetized by last name):

Aaron Burr • A River Runs Through It (film) • Albert Anastasia • Melville W. Beardsley • Honoré de Balzac • Burr-Hamilton duel • College football • The College of New Jersey • Confession of Peter • Drew University • Festivus • F. Scott Fitzgerald • Theodore Frelinghuysen • Milton Friedman • Geography of New Jersey • Grand Illusion • Hovercraft • Hymnus Eucharisticus • Joyce Kilmer • Matthew Leydt • Richard L. McCormick • Nassau Hall • New Brunswick, New Jersey • Paulins Kill • Robert Pinsky • Port wine • Presentation of Jesus at the Temple • Princeton University • Public Ivy • Rutgers University • Rutgers Preparatory School • School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (Rutgers University) • Saint Thomas Church (New York City)‎ (my home parish) • Simeon the Righteous • Stepping (walking) • Sussex County, New Jersey • University of New York • Selman Waksman

Tools I use

Some of these you might find handy. I do.

WikiProjects

I am a participating member of the following WikiProjects:


Priorities:

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The following I am trying to prepare for FAC.

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Articles I will give birth to (eventually)

  • Fort Johns
  • Fort Carmer
  • Fort Van Campens
  • Fort Reading
  • Varshavianka

Awards, Barnstars, etc.

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
It appears that you pretty much never take a break from editing! After editing for so long, with contributions that seem of fine quality to me, I think you deserve a barnstar. Green451 17:54, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
Given with respect and admiration to ExplorerCDT for all your hard work and attention to detail, and especially for making Paulins Kill a great featured article. Keep up the good work! Ruhrfisch 02:32, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
The Working Man's Barnstar
For heeding some pedantically-expressed suggestions and making the large number of tedious changes to incorporate said suggestions, I award you the Working Man's Barnstar. Cheers, and keep up the good work, Daniel.Bryant [ T · C ] 07:45, 13 January 2007 (UTC)