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I'm a software engineer working at CodeSourcery on the GNU project, in which I've participated for many years - first at Apple Computer doing the oft-disbelieved port of GCC to the System 7 Mac, then Cygnus Solutions working on GDB, then Apple again working on GCC and GDB for Mac OS X, followed by a short stint at Mozilla Corporation working on the Firefox browser. In my younger days I got a PhD doing research on Lisp implementation techniques.
My personal interests are varied and include software, stamp collecting, sailing ships, ship models, history (particularly ancient history and military history), rock climbing, mountaineering, languages, literature (novels mostly), botany (particularly desert plants), fish, and entomology (particularly beetles).
I can read German, but struggle with French and Italian.
Dumping my life's accumulated factoids into Wikipedia seems like a fun thing to do, we'll see how it goes.
- Two weeks after first edit (mid-February 2003) - it's like being an ADD-afflicted magpie in a bottle cap factory!
- August 2003 - it's consuming nearly all of my waking moments...
- August 2004 - not as many of the waking moments, but I think about it a lot when doing other things.
- July 2005 - monitoring a lengthy watchlist (19,000 pages), but not writing so much; mostly taking plant pictures for commons.
- May 2006 - finally got tired of the old watchlist and erased it (vandals everywhere rejoice), will be gradually rebuilding it.
To commons: commons:User:Stan Shebs To wikibooks: wikibooks:User:Stan Shebs
[edit] Activities
User:Stan Shebs/Articles - User:Stan Shebs/Grove Sample - User:Stan Shebs/Philatelic accounts - User:Stan Shebs/Gallery - User:Stan Shebs/Plant taxa - User:Stan Shebs/Game collection - User:Stan Shebs/Model collection - User:Stan Shebs/List of Roman praenomina - User:Stan Shebs/Stomp
[edit] Indexes
Ancient history - List of ancient Greeks - List of ancient Greek cities - List of ancient Romans - List of Republican Roman Consuls - List of Early Imperial Roman Consuls - List of Late Imperial Roman Consuls - List of Roman legions - List of Roman nomina - List of Roman cognomina
Philately - Category:Philately - Stamp collecting - Postage stamp - List of philatelic topics - List of entities that have issued postage stamps - List of people on stamps - List of ships on stamps
Climbing - Category:Climbing - List of climbers - List of climbing areas
Science - List of fish families - List of fish common names - List of garden plants
For an astonishing amount of contributions of the highest quality to all sorts of articles, I,
Mark Dingemanse award you the
Tireless Contributor Barnstar. Wear it with pride, and keep up the great work!
(KC)
- Whitesmiths C - Mt Lykabettos add - sea bass add - blowfish/pufferfish/puffer sort out - Mary Everest Boole - German colonies organize - Diego Suarez/Diego Diaz/Hernan Suarez/Fernan Soares problem - investigate reputed Zimbabwe Rhodesia overprints - Phalaris - truth maintenance system add - Ortler Alps - different Eudoxias - Heliodorus mess - Degas paintings donated by A. S. F. Gow - Michael Pexenfelder - Elephant Island and related pics in de: - severus/serenus/sammonicus? - Florus/Julius Florus/Publius Annius Florus confusion - Bonifatius/Bonifacius - HMS Torbay at Quiberon (Neptune renamed) - GDR Schubert/Schumann 1956 as example of postage stamp design error - Aegineta/Paulus Aegineta - Julia Barlow Platt on de: (?) - APS philatelist bios - Expand and bulletin pic for The Mountaineers (Pacific NW) - postage stamp copyright
