User:Pakaran

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You may edit this page: If you have something to say to me, use my talk page. If you have something to say about me, or can think of a way to make my user page look better, by all means edit it. It's worked great for various other Wikipedians, so I figured why not? :)


I award you this barnstar for your work on this project, including everything from spiking vandals to cleaning up the pedia to changing user names. Redwolf24 (talk) 04:07, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
I award you this barnstar for your work on this project, including everything from spiking vandals to cleaning up the pedia to changing user names. Redwolf24 (talk) 04:07, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

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My name is Nathan, and I graduated in May 2004 from the University at Buffalo with my BS in computer science and RIT in August with my MS, and am now back at UB for my Ph.D.. My long-term goal is becoming a college professor (probably in computability theory), or securing an industry position.

This is me, until I can get a pic with better lighting (the computer's in the basement, with the lights behind it, and there's no way to hold the webcam so it points at me but the lighting is good and I can see the screen):

Statement of POVs, intrinsic biases and self-descriptions:

  • Aspie and proud of it
  • straight with some Bisexual leanings. I don't personally like the term "bicurious."
  • Depressed for several years, now fully recovered (I have trouble in times of stress, but so do we all)
  • not a registered Democrat, but agree with them on many issues
  • Civil libertarian, but economic socialist.
  • Sometimes Transhumanist (to some extent Singularitarian), and sometimes more New Age (increasingly the later, especially in the past several years)
  • Vegetarian, but not devout
  • Been around over two years, and consider myself a

Strongly opposed to:

I am a sysop, although my contributions in that regard are somewhat minor. I firmly believe that sysops should use our abilities only as servants of the community. I am also a bureaucrat, and help out with bureaucratic tasks when it's needed (which is perhaps an hour a week of work between all of us, so that also isn't my major contribution to Wikipedia).

If you disagree with any of my actions, please discuss it on my talk page, or email me using the "email this user" option below; I try to check my email every 12 hours around the clock.


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This user is a bureaucrat on the English Wikipedia. ([1])
NF This user is opposed to non-free images in userspace, including userboxes.

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