User:Slashme

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David Richfield

I am David Richfield, a chemical engineer working as a formulations chemist for Vital Health Foods, a South African foods and supplements company.

I enjoy proofreading, playing Go and tinkering with Linux systems.

I bought a Canon PowerShot A630 in April 2007, and have since started contributing photos to Wikipedia.

I bought a Genius easypen serial graphics tablet for R 200 in December 2007, and find it extremely useful for graphics editing. It works fine with X-windows on my Debian Linux system, thanks to Melchiorsen. It's a tolerably good entry-level tablet, but it has no pressure-sensitivity, and only one button apart from the tip, which makes it less than ideal for X-windows. Also, releasing the pressure on the tablet comes with a clicky feel, so things never end up exactly where you dragged them to, which is a bind in inkscape. So I upgraded to a Genius G-pen 560, which works with Jan Horak's Wizardpen Driver and the linux kernel aiptek driver.

My cub scout patches

en	This user is a native speaker of English.

af-4

Hierdie gebruiker praat Afrikaans op moedertaalvlak.

de-2

Dieser Benutzer hat fortgeschrittene Deutschkenntnisse.

ru-1

Этот участник владеет русским языком на начальном уровне.

fr-1

Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français.

your/ you’re

This user thinks that if your grammar is incorrect, then you’re in need of help.

its & it’s

This user understands the difference between its and it’s. So should you.

to¦go

This user chooses to sometimes use split infinitives.

whom

This user insists upon using whom wherever it is called for, and fixes the errors of whomever he sees.

This user is part of the
Welcoming Committee.

This user is a recent changes patroller.

This user scored 140 on the Wikipediholic test .

This user is a Go player.

gk	This user is a geek.

BE	This user has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in chemical engineering.

MSc

This user has a Master of Science degree in biochemistry.

This user has published peer-reviewed articles in academic journals.

This user contributes using Linux.

This user contributes using Debian GNU/Linux.

This user uses Microsoft Windows under duress.

LaTeX-3

This user is an advanced LaTeX user.

This user contributes using Vim.

elinks

This user contributes using ELinks.

This user contributes using Mozilla

I'm a Wikigraphist of the Graphic Lab, from which you can request image improvement.

This user contributes using The GIMP.

This user contributes using Inkscape.

1 Activity
2 Some of my favourite wikitools
3 External references
4 Footnotes

[edit] Activity

[edit] Parliament diagram tool

I am currently working on a tool to render svg diagrams for legislatures. It is still under construction, so please head on over to User talk:Slashme/parliament.py to help.

[edit] Pages I started

~~Don't~~ start what you can't finish.

3Beta Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase	Trilostane
Hydrophilic-lipophilic balance	Feingold Diet
Sixto Diaz Rodriguez	bath salts
Capsule (pharmacy)	Thearubigin
Vital Health Foods	Theaflavin
Jean-Louis Jeanmaire	Bardi family
Mike Wilks (author)	Colloid mill
Thiamine pyrophosphokinase	Quarg^[1]
Riaan Cruywagen	Ed Nather
Combretum caffrum	Patch point
Template:Enzyme inhibition	Elysia viridis
The Ultimate Alphabet	Latinisation
List of Latinised names	Muira puama
Robert Pauli Scherer	Clastogen
Compagnia dei Bardi	Isibongo
Pill (pharmacy)	Particle density
List of steroid abbreviations	Iron Hand
Brookfield Engineering	Carr index
Hydroxycitric acid	Claude Serre
Ian Fleming (chemist)	Prostho Plus
J Willard Hershey	Hausner ratio
Elysia chlorotica	Aspalathin
Trimagnesium citrate	Nothofagin
Reducing equivalent	Sally Cato
Shazam Entertainment	Far-Eastern blot

[edit] Some pictures I've contributed

A diagram of a myofibril	A diagram of the movement of the units of a myofibril	An old Cadmach tablet press
A graffito of Riaan Cruywagen	Round, biconvex white tablets	Two snails invesigate each other prior to mating
The Oshima peninsula	Tablet failure modes	An empty pycnometer
A full pycnometer	BSD version popularity stats	Chlorophyll a
An SVG icon for manufacturing company stubs