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Welcome! Have a seat (non-alcoholic drinks only, served here!  :) )

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 Leap 42.1, 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 gnome around Wikipedia (Removing vandalism, answering questions over at the teahouse.

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, and edits according to it. To pretend that any of us could actually edit without it is preposterous. The most we can hope to do is edit in a way that's supported by reliable sources.

Some milestones

  • June 4, 2007 - 1st edit
  • October 1, 2013 - Got T'Banned


Some of my favorite movies:

  1. Dune { The David Lynch version - the Sci-Fi Version is a disgrace! }
  2. Star Wars { The Entire Series }
  3. Chronicles of Riddick { "No, I'm gonna kill you with a teacup" best line in the whole movie! }

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Tocopilla railway
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
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The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, Of the big lake they called 'gitche gumee' , The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead , When the skies of November turn gloomy

~ Gordon Lightfoot - "Wreck of the edmund fitgerald"