User:Tomruen

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Contents 1 Wikibreak 2 Contact 3 My work here 4 Subpages 5 About me 6 Pictures 7 Affiliations 8 Links 9 Wiki news

[edit] Wikibreak

I think I must call for a wikibreak, glad for this wonderful place of exploration and infinite distraction! Glad for firm hard reality to remind me there's more to life than doing something incredibly cool. See ya'll in a month or two, if I make it. HA! (Available by email as always!)

Tom Ruen (talk) 23:56, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Contact

Hi, my name is Tom Ruen. If you'd like to contact me, try out the form at: Special:Emailuser/tomruen

[edit] My work here

I first came on here to edit on April 28, 2004. It is an addicting idea to try to add to something much bigger than I could ever do. I am a little skeptical over the idea of freedom to change anything, but overall I'm very impressed by the quality of articles and I have faith good work is being done and I can add to it.

There are many quality websites out there and it seems silly to duplicate too much. I like the idea of learning about something and testing my knowledge by trying to share it. For me that motivates much of my efforts here.

Primary topics I've worked on include geometry, astronomy, and election methods.

My specialty has primarily been image generation, perhaps because there's so many articles I've found where useful images were absent. I try to make quality images, but I will compromise perfection for meaningful improvement. I'm happy if anyone can replace my images with better ones.

[edit] Subpages

• My to-do list
• User:Tomruen/PagesEdited
• User:Tomruen/References
• User:Tomruen/subpages Full list
  • User:Tomruen/Uniform polyhedron table
  • User:Tomruen/Pentachoron family
• User:Tomruen/Mars oppositions
• User:Tomruen/21 February 2008 lunar eclipse
• User:Tomruen/21 December 2010 lunar eclipse

[edit] About me

• I'm 39 years old and I live near Minneapolis, Minnesota. I like astronomy, science, math, walking, running, bicycling, reading, writing, photography, and gardening.
• I am a Toastmaster club member for public speaking.
• I do computer programming for a living, mostly in Java and C++. For my own fun projects I'll program in Borland Delphi.
• I have a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics, minor in Physics (astronomy), 1991, from the U of MN.

[edit] Pictures

• Astronomy Picture of the Day, November 12, 2003
• Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 10, 2005
  • User:Tomruen/2006featuredpicture #10 Copied from on Commons Picture of 2006 [1]
• Mars animation 2003
• Sunrise corona animation

[edit] Affiliations

• Four Seasons Toastmaster club, District 6, club 373
• Oil awareness meetup on peak oil
• Fairvote Minnesota Advocating for Instant Runoff Voting and majority rule
• Minnesota Independence Party (IP)
• Citizen's League (CL)
• League of Women Voter (LWV)
• Eastside Food Cooperative (EFC)
• Friends for NonViolent World (FNVW)
• Itasca Consulting Group Employer

[edit] Links

• URL tracer
• Edit counter]
• Texvc TEX formatting on wiki
• Special:Newimages
• Wikipedia:Keyboard shortcuts
• http://www.uni-bonn.de/~manfear/html2wiki-tables.php HTML to Wiki Converter
• Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Merging and splitting
• Wikipedia:Deletion policy
  • {{ deletebecause|Reason. }}
• Macro codes:
  1. {{Unreferenced}}
  2. {{cleanupdate| DATE }}
• <:nowiki>
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup
• Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not
• Wikipedia:Bot requests#Script generation of uniform polyhedra articles
• [2]
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics

[edit] Wiki news

• [3] Jimmy Wales is founder of Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, ever-expanding, and thoroughly addictive encyclopedia of the future. In this presentation, he explains how Wikipedia's collaborative system works, and why it succeeds. (Recorded July 2005 in Oxford, UK. Duration: 20:47)

Seven people are killed and ten injured in a stabbing spree in Tokyo, Japan. The government of Southern Sudan withdraws its mediation efforts at the Juba talks between Uganda and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (leader Joseph Kony pictured). In tennis, Rafael Nadal and Ana Ivanović win the singles titles in the 2008 French Open. The Diet of Japan recognizes the Ainu as an indigenous people for the first time. Israeli minister Shaul Mofaz threatens an attack on Iran's nuclear program. Turkey's Constitutional Court reinstates a ban on the hijab in universities, citing the constitution's secular principles. In ice hockey, the Detroit Red Wings win the Stanley Cup by defeating the Pittsburgh Penguins in six games in the 2008 Finals. Wikinews – Recent deaths – More current events...

Picture of the day
This true-color image, taken by the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, shows the Victoria Crater from Cape Verde, Mars. Cape St. Vincent is the promontory visible on the left of the photo. On the right is Duck Bay, and beyond that, on the inner crater wall, is the north face of the 15 meter (50 foot)-tall stack of layered rocks called Cabo Frio. Photo credit: Opportunity rover Archive – More featured pictures...

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