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'''Some amusing and interesting things I have found'''
'''Some amusing and interesting things I have found'''
==Monopoly!==
==Monopoly!==
Revision as of 12:40, 18 September 2015
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I ban myself from filing any checkuser request untill 9/2/2016. Apparently I need to learn how to do the job properly. So I will!
Angeli i demoni kruzhyli nado mnoj, Rassekali ternii i mlechnye puti, Ne znaet schast'ya tol'ko tot, Kto ego zova ponyat ne smog,
- Inner Universe, Ghost in the Shell -
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Welcome! Have a seat (non-alcoholic drinks only, served here! :) )
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KoshVorlon
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KoshVorlon is my non de plume. I'm really a dyed-in-the-wool geek (I even do that as a living! ) and a musician.
I use Linux primarily, and windows (at work only). I've been a Linux user (proudly using OpenSuse 13.2, 64 bit at the moment) since Suse 6.2 first rolled out from its headquarters in Nurenburg, Germany. I favor German OS's and German Cars!
I primarily remove vandalism.
Pro's of Wikipedia : - If we see vandalism, we can remove it on our own.
- Everyone's voice counts here.
Cons of Wikipedia: Socks - people try to use other names to pretend they're other people, and it's stupid
- POV, everyone has one, most don't push it into articles, but some do, even sysops will at times. (Hey, they're human too ! :) )
Some milestones
June 4, 2007 - 1st edit
October 1, 2013 - Got T'Banned
Some of my favorite movies:
Dune { The David Lynch version - the Sci-Fi Version is a disgrace! }
Star Wars { The Entire Series }
Chronicles of Riddick { "No, I'm gonna kill you with a teacup" best line in the whole movie! }
The Tocopilla railway was a mountain railway built to serve the sodium nitrate mines in the Toco area of the Antofagasta Region in Chile. With a gauge of 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm), it ran from the port of Tocopilla on the Pacific coast up to a height of 4,902 feet (1,494 metres), with gradients up to 1 in 24. The railway was built by a joint-stock company founded in London and was designed by William Stirling of Lima, with a detailed description of the initial operation of the railway published by his brother Robert in 1900. The line was electrified in the mid-1920s and expanded in 1930 with the addition of lines serving new areas of mining. It continued operating into the 21st century, but was forced to close in 2015 when flash flooding caused numerous washouts on the electrified section of the railroad. With the declining prospects for nitrate, it was not economical for the line to be repaired. This photograph taken in 2013 shows a boxcab on the Tocopilla railway, leading a train down towards the coast.Photograph credit: David Gubler
~ Hugo Dyson, Tolkien's friend and fellow academic, during a reading of The Lord of the Rings at a meeting of the Inklings; as quoted in C.S. Lewis: A Biography (1990) by A. N. Wilson, p. 217