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I'm just one of the many thousand people editing here and who want wikipedia to be as complete, accurate and trust worthy as possible. I hope many more will join the project, become [[Wikipedia:Wikipedians|wikipedians]] and have fun contributing.


I started editing here in November 2004, and [[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Shanes|became]] an [[Wikipedia:Administrator|administrator]] in April 2005. I live in [[Oslo]], [[Norway]] and have a [[Master's degree]] in [[theoretical physics]] from some 12 years back.
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==Rant==
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I detest many of the dominating boxes and tags being placed in various articles for self centered reasons and wrote [[User:Shanes/Why tags are evil|a rant about it]] (now slightly out of date in some respects, but I'm too lazy/busy to update it).


I wish we could keep articles as clean as possible, follow the [[WP:STYLE|style manual]], and stop starting articles with big distracting boxes and messages meant for editors. If we want to say something to the editors of an article, we should do it on the talk page. That's what talk pages are there for. The articles should be about the article topic, not about Wikipedia or the people editing it. We are here for the readers.
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BODY WEIGHT : 150 lb


==Barnstars==
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Image:Barnstar of Reversion2.png|I, [[User:Flcelloguy|Flcelloguy]], do hereby present this Barnstar of Reversion to [[User:Shanes|Shanes]] for his tireless work in deleting non-sensical pages and for his effort in reverting vandalism.
Image:Barnstar-minor.png|I, [[User:FireFox|<font color=black>Fir]][[WP:ESP|<font color=green>e]][[User:FireFox|<font color=red>Fo]][[User talk:FireFox|<font color=blue>x]] hereby award you this Minor Barnstar for all your brilliant minor edits!
Image:Barnstar.png|'''For keeping focus''' Well done for reminding people what we're all here to do. [[User:Robchurch|Rob Church]]
Image:Barnstar3.png|'''Barnstar of Diligence Award''', from [[User:Encyclopedist|Encyclopedist]]
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The following is a brief recollection of (possibly) the most frightening experience of my life. I experienced the kind of irrational fear that I did when I was four or five years old. I remembered that I had swallowed 21 dymenhydrinate pills and that none of what I saw could possibly be real or harm me, but it made no difference to the fear and anxiety I was experiencing. Upon the realization that there was no way I could stop any of what was taking place before me, I slipped deeper into a state of shock and horror. I spent most of the trip with my back against the wall convulsing in fear.


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It all started out quite innocently. I downed 21 pills with one gulp of milk and waited for the effects to come on. I felt the typical heaviness and relaxation flow over me in waves and then I realized something was quite wrong. Everything I was seeing was some kind of spider. Little clear spiders were scurrying over everything I looked at. In the darker areas (under my desk, bed etc.) there were huge, more detailed spiders that were coming right for me but luckily dissolved when they came into the light. Then they started crawling on me and biting me, I could even see and feel their bites.
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==Travels==
It made no sense to me. I had never experienced anything like this on a drug before and my sense of confidence and control simply vanished. I grabbed them and squished them and my hands felt slimy but there was nothing there. It was like they were actually half-real, somehow bridging the gap from my mind to reality. Although anyone can easily see that they were nothing more than convincing hallucinations I wasn't convinced and that was enough to water the seeds of uncertainty and fear within me. I went to the kitchen to get a glass of water and there was a body slumped just outside my window. It didn't move or shake or wiggle like the spiders and it didn't just appear there, it was there at my first glance out the window and remained motionless and unchanging the entire time. I was totally immersed. My skin felt as though I was deep underwater with a constant pressure everywhere. I couldn't go back to my room because of my fear of the biting spiders so I went to my living room and sat down at the computer.
I like traveling. Here are the countries I've lived in or visited so far.
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I kept hearing snickering and voices calling my name from behind me and when I turned around there was a giant purple white-spotted mushroom sitting positioned on my couch quivering and shaking. It wouldn't go away. I looked away and looked back and it was still there. I knew it couldn't be real, but it didn't seem to act the way hallucinations usually do. Then it suddenly absorbed itself into one of the cushions and it took on the same purple white-spotted appearance and began shaking. I could only gasp. Soon everything was shaking and wobbling. The loveseat right beside me started wobbling and morphing into ridiculous shapes. A lamp in the corner bent down and did a full circle bent then sprung back. I have no explanation why I thought this was so horrifying, except that I had no ground to stand on; no words of wisdom to fall back on came to mind. I was completely alone and everything seemed to actually becoming real, manifesting out of my hallucinations somehow. Everything I saw 'felt' wrong and evil and somehow intent on harming me.

A rocking chair in the corner began rocking violently and a face formed on it and it was laughing at me, then they were all laughing. As they laughed they would point to me and look at eachother. The face came right up to me from out of the rocking chair and passed through me as it laughed. I was utterly horrified and sweating profusely. Then I caught a glance of the large window and saw people reflected who weren't in the room. It seemed as if they were in a different room altogether, a room that was an exact mirror of the one I was in. They saw me see them and they came zombie eyed to the window and banged on the glass with their hands. They were pale white and sickly looking, the typical undead stereotype, and they were passing through the glass onto my couch. My only savior seemed to be light. I was too afraid to go over to the other side of the room and turn on the other lights (or leave the room and wander through the darkness of the house for that matter). I was squatted and nauseated with fear when the zombie things came towards me but as they came into the light they became transparent and dissolved into nothing.

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I was there until the next day. I was still very much intoxicated as dawn broke, but the symbolism of it (and my extreme tiredness) somehow gave me the courage to go back to my room and sleep. If there's a lesson I learned it would be to respect fear for what it is. I tried everything I could to make the experience positive or at least neutral. When all else failed I had to wait for sunrise and believe it would somehow release me from my fear, which fortunately it did.

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I'm just one of the many thousand people editing here and who want wikipedia to be as complete, accurate and trust worthy as possible. I hope many more will join the project, become wikipedians and have fun contributing.

I started editing here in November 2004, and became an administrator in April 2005. I live in Oslo, Norway and have a Master's degree in theoretical physics from some 12 years back.

Rant

I detest many of the dominating boxes and tags being placed in various articles for self centered reasons and wrote a rant about it (now slightly out of date in some respects, but I'm too lazy/busy to update it).

I wish we could keep articles as clean as possible, follow the style manual, and stop starting articles with big distracting boxes and messages meant for editors. If we want to say something to the editors of an article, we should do it on the talk page. That's what talk pages are there for. The articles should be about the article topic, not about Wikipedia or the people editing it. We are here for the readers.

The Signpost
24 December 2024

Barnstars

Wikipedians don't get money for their work, but sometimes they get a Barnstar. I've received 4 (you've now got 5) myself. Thanks!

  • I, Flcelloguy, do hereby present this Barnstar of Reversion to Shanes for his tireless work in deleting non-sensical pages and for his effort in reverting vandalism.
    I, Flcelloguy, do hereby present this Barnstar of Reversion to Shanes for his tireless work in deleting non-sensical pages and for his effort in reverting vandalism.
  • I, FireFox hereby award you this Minor Barnstar for all your brilliant minor edits!
    I, FireFox hereby award you this Minor Barnstar for all your brilliant minor edits!
  • For keeping focus Well done for reminding people what we're all here to do. Rob Church
    For keeping focus Well done for reminding people what we're all here to do. Rob Church
  • Barnstar of Diligence Award, from Encyclopedist
    Barnstar of Diligence Award, from Encyclopedist
The Original Barnstar
I am awarding you this barnstar in recognition of your tireless work - like a bright barnstar against a dark barnnight

Travels

I like traveling. Here are the countries I've lived in or visited so far.

 AND  BEL  BUL  CAN   CH  CPV
 CZE  DEU  DNK  ESP  EST  FIN
 FRA  GRC  HRV  HUN  ITA  LUX
 MCO  NLD  NOR  POL  POR  RUS
 SWE  TUR  GBR  USA  VAT  SVN  Soviet Union


The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. -- Bertrand Russell
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