User:JohnAlbertRigali/Me

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JohnAlbertRigali

Education

This user works at Verbum Dei High School.

Languages

en This user is a native speaker of English.
es-1 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel básico de español.

Mathematics

a²+b²=c² This user is an intermediate mathematician.
ft-lb This user uses American Measurements.
met? This user prefers metric units, but, having grown up in the U.S., cannot relate to them.
\sum This user is greater than the sum of his or her userboxes.

Musical Instruments

gtr-1 This user is a novice guitarist.
arg-2 This user is an intermediate air guitarist.
voc-1 This user is a novice vocalist.

Life and Profession

A This user is an adult.
X This user is a member of Generation X.
This user remembers using
a rotary dial telephone.
This user is male.
This user is of multiple ancestries.
dad This user is a father.
sis This user has a little sister

Programming

cmd-2 This user is an intermediate Microsoft command line script programmer.

Anime

This user is a fan of the Dragon Ball franchise.
CB This user is a Space Cowboy.

Books

This user is a bibliophile.
This user enjoys reading anything.
This user enjoys writing.
This user enjoys the works of
J. R. R. Tolkien.
This user enjoys reading mysteries.
This user enjoys reading science fiction.
This user enjoys reading thrillers.
This user likes Sherlock Holmes
LOTR This user loves The Lord of the Rings, both the books and the films.
This user likes their Martinis shaken, not stirred.
Narnia This user loves the The Chronicles of Narnia, both the books and the movies.
G This user is a Gryffindor.
C&H This user has managed to transmogrify himself into a Calvin and Hobbes fan.
BATMAN This user is a fan of the Batman.
D This user reads Dilbert.
M
 This user reads Marvel Comics.
POEM This user has had one of his/her poems published.

Computing

@ This user can be reached by email at johnarigali@aim.com.
This user's AOL Instant Messenger screenname is JohnARigali.
This user's ICQ number is '
This user uses MSN Messenger and his/her e-mail address is johnsara@verizon.net
Y! This user's Yahoo! Messenger screename is johnarigali.
This user has a website, which can be found here.
This user loves using Google Earth.
ISP
This user uses the email account provided by their ISP.
Vz
This user's internet service provider is Verizon.
nap This user has used Napster in the past, back when it was free.
This user uses
Kazaa Lite
IE This user contributes using
Internet Explorer.
This user contributes using
Internet Explorer 7
This user contributes using Microsoft Windows XP.
NOTEPAD.EXE| This user contributes using Notepad.
This user contributes using a PC.
CBM This user is a Commodore Business Machines enthusiast.


BB This user contributes using a broadband connection.

Wikipedia
This user is proud
to be a Wikipedian.
' This user believes that only articles need reflect a NPOV, and that displaying political, religious, or other beliefs using userboxes and user categories should not be banned.
ubx-2 This user is an intermediate user of userboxes.
This user loves userboxes.
no
ads		 This user is against advertisements on Wikipedia.

Politics and Beliefs

This user is interested in Roman Catholicism.
This user believes in
Santa Claus.
This user believes in intelligent design or creationism.

This user believes that evolution doesn't have to conflict with Christianity.
NO FD This user opposes the Fairness Doctrine and believes it is censorship.
DIVORCE This user is thoroughly against divorce, except in a few cases.


This user believes in Pro-Life.
viva This user supports the Consistent Life Ethic.
con This user is a conservative.
GOP This user supports the U.S. Republican Party.
This user believes it is every citizen's duty to vote.

Social Issues

This user supports environmental health.
This user does not appreciate tobacco smoke.
This user is drug-free.

Hobbies and Interests

This user is interested in his or her family history.
This user enjoys rock music.
This user enjoys heavy metal music.
This user is interested in maps.
D&D This user plays Dungeons & Dragons.

Miscellany

This user lives in or hails from the state of California.
This user is a whiz kid and an absent-minded professor.
This user advocates the use of more cowbell.

Contents

[edit] Boring details

I was born in 1968 in Montebello. I was raised mostly in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles County. I have lived for most of my life in Duarte, one of the smallest incorporated cities in Los Angeles County.

Thanks to Scott Dayman, the first bulletin board system user that I ever met in person, I worked for Spaulding Instruments in 1988. I met my wife Sara there. We got married in 1995, and she gave birth to our daughter Amy in 1998.

(Spaulding Instruments manufactured rotary encoders and seems to have been the birthplace of the shaft position encoder; it was a dying subsidiary of a subsidiary of Parker Hannifin when I worked there, but seems to have been resuscitated and spun off as Applied International Motion.)

I have been involved with computers on a hobbyist level since 1980 and on a professional level since 1988. I've been a true IT professional since 1995. Right now I'm the Information Technology Coordinator for Verbum Dei High School, one of the Catholic high schools in Los Angeles, California. My primary duties are system administration, network administration, technical support and information technology help desk.

I'm a rabid fan of music, particularly of classic rock and album-oriented rock of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, and those hard rock and heavy metal artists that grew out of or were inspired by that music. I'm a relative fountain of knowledge about pop music of the rock music era (1955 to present). (I don't know it all, but what I don't know I can usually find out quickly; so can you.)

I've been an amateur genealogist since 1995, having been recruited by one of my father's second cousins. You can find out more about my genealogical research here.

Martin Atencio, who has been my friend longer than any other person, began trying to convert me to Roman Catholicism in 1998, and finally succeeded in autumn 2001. I began the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA) in late September 2002 but sadly dropped out on January 27, 2003 because of threatening circumstances; I re-entered in October 2007 and expect to celebrate my sacraments on Holy Saturday in 2008. Amy was baptized into the Catholic faith on Mother's Day, 2003 and celebrated her first Holy Communion on May 6, 2006.

[edit] My Wikipedia:Are You a Wikipediholic Test scores

September 16, 2006 score: 490.94721277653423

[edit] Geek Code

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[edit] My What Is Your World View? quiz result

Thanks to Facto for making me aware of the quiz. You can see all of the possible quiz results at http://www.geocities.com/worldviewquiz/.

You scored as Cultural Creative. Cultural Creatives are probably the newest group to enter this realm. You are a modern thinker who tends to shy away from organized religion but still feels as if there is something greater than ourselves. You are very spiritual, even if you are not religious. Life has a meaning outside of the rational.

Cultural Creative
75%

Postmodernist
50%

Existentialist
25%

Fundamentalist
25%

Romanticist
25%

Modernist
0%

Materialist
0%

Idealist
0%

What is Your World View? (updated)
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