User:NetherlandishYankee

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Me in February 2007
Me in February 2007

Hi, I'm Robert McDaniel (Rob to my friends). I'm twenty-four years old, I'm a euphonium performance and music education major at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas, and I love pretty much everything about music in general. My non-music interests include: reading Christian apologetics (especially C.S. Lewis), traveling/sightseeing, and linguistics and etymology.

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[edit] Some facts about me

  • I'm a Born-again Christian, which means that I have accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior, though for the purposes of Wikipedia, it means that I believe strongly in the principles of objective truth, moral right and wrong, courtesy, reason, and tolerance... yes that's right, I'm a Christian and I prize reason and tolerance.
  • I'm socially and fiscally conservative, though this does not mean being a blind follower of George Bush or the Republican Party. On most of the hot-button foreign and domestic policy issues of the day, I'm moderate, in the sense that I don't believe either party or any politician has all the answers. In general, I dislike most politicians regardless of affiliation, and I despise advocacy, tunnel vision, and blind allegiance to any earthly cause.
  • My father was a U.S. Air Force officer for 30 years (1975-2005). Traveling and moving around have always been parts of my life, though saying goodbye never gets any easier. Places I have lived include:

Overall, I've lived for eleven years in Europe.

  • Some family trivia: as noted above, my father was in the Air Force for 30 years, first as a fighter pilot (first F-4s and then F-16s) and then as a military attaché. He's now a doctoral student in medieval Spanish history at Texas Tech University. My mother used to be a math teacher and has since held a variety of jobs. I have one brother, who is User:ryanmcdaniel; he's 28 and married. We get along great, but as you can probably tell from our user pages, we're pretty different. My mom's mom is English, from the tiny village of Parson Drove, and was a war bride. I have first cousins ranging in age from 40 to 6. Virtually all of my extended family - cousins, aunts, uncles and all - works or has worked in either the Air Force or in education. NO member of my extended family currently holds a typical corporate desk job.
  • I am absolutely fascinated by the historical development of languages and the connections between them, especially in the many influences on the English language. I hope someday to be able to make some contributions to Wikipedia on this subject.
  • I'm an Eagle Scout and believe strongly in the value of the Scouting program.

Some things I would like to do before I die:

[edit] My travel log

[edit] In the U.S.

Lived in:

Spent long periods of time in (several days to weeks):

Spent at least one night in:

Never spent a night in, only driven across or been in a tiny corner of:

Never been to:

All in all, I've been to 38 states. One of my goals in life is to spend at least a night and a day in all 50 states. I think I'm at 28 so far... good thing I'm still young!

[edit] Abroad

Lived in:

Spent long periods of time in (several days to weeks):

Spent at least one night in:

Never spent a night in, only driven across or been in a tiny corner of:

Never been to:

[edit] Extreme points of my travels

In the U.S.

In the world:

Where I've lived:

[edit] Places I would most like to go

In the U.S.:

  • eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas (the Ouachita Mountains and Ozark National Forest)... also northwest Arkansas and southwest Missouri... it looks soooo beautiful
  • Appalachia, especially eastern Tennessee, western Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky... I'm all about natural beauty and camping/hiking/rafting/canoing... you've also probably figured out what kind of terrain I like best
  • upper New England (Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine) in the spring or fall, preferably!
  • Alaska
  • Hawaii

Abroad:

  • Australia and New Zealand... I wish I could take like 4 months to just thoroughly explore these countries and all their nooks and crannies... that would be the trip of a lifetime
  • eastern Europe, especially Vienna, Budapest and Prague, and possibly Warsaw or Krakow as well
  • Scandinavia... Oslo and Stockholm, yes, but more so the fjords in Norway and some of the little villages waaayyy up there, like Lofoten
  • Svalbard, Iceland and Greenland... call me crazy, but ever since a few flyovers of Greenland and a layover in Iceland, I've had an insatiable curiosity for places that are exceedingly remote
  • several highland locations in South America and Africa... I have been fascinated by reading about entire climate types (namely Koppen Cwb) that are completely outside my knowledge. I am especially intrigued by Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, not only for its seemingly perfect climate, but also as the capital of an ancient Christian nation. I really want to go on a photo safari too.
  • Hokkaido, Japan and possibly some mountain locations in central Honshu... I really want to see the extreme natural beauty I've heard is found there. Not Tokyo, that would be too overwhelming for me.

[edit] Edits to pre-existing articles by category

Music

WikiProject Spain (all with translations from their equivalent Spanish-language articles)

WikiProject Netherlands

  • Wassenaar - with translations from the Dutch article (found it like this)

Left Behind

Fantasy books/movies

Miscellaneous

[edit] Articles I've created from scratch

Original English

Translated from Spanish

Translated from Dutch


I created this account on December 23, 2005. As of December 19, 2007, I've made about 970 edits under this username to 133 distinct articles (not counting this userspace) and 34 distinct talk pages (not counting user talk pages). I've also uploaded 12 images to Wikipedia, used in 3 different articles.

All the edits by 80.34.109.71 and 129.120.233.7 and the ones by 80.58.9.44 between 12/22/05 and 1/5/06 were by me too. Counting my anonymous work, I've made about 750 edits to 79 articles and 23 talk pages.



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es-3 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel avanzado de español.
it-2 Questo utente può contribuire con un italiano di livello intermedio.
nl-2 Deze gebruiker heeft een middelmatige kennis van het Nederlands.
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