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JohnOwens
— Wikipedian  ♂ —
Name
J. Randall Owens
BornDecember 31, 1969
Current locationManchester, UK
Hobbies, interests, and beliefs
Aliases Randy, KarMann, DeadMeat
Contact info
WebsiteGhiaPet
BlogYes
Userboxes

Round holes I almost fit

This user is a
Citizen of the Galaxy ‡
and nothing else matters.
This user is from Earth .

11 This user has visited 11 of the 205 countries in the world.
This user is a participant in
WikiProject Merseyside

Language

en This user is a native speaker of the English language .
de-3 Dieser Benutzer hat sehr gute Deutschkenntnisse .
la-2 Hic usor media latinitate contribuere potest.
ru-1 Этот участник владеет русским языком на начальном уровне .
fr-1 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français .
it-1 Questo utente può contribuire con un livello semplice di italiano .
ipa-1
ə This user has a basic understanding of the International Phonetic Alphabet .
blz-2 This user is an intermediate speaker of blazon .
... This user would like to know all existing languages .
(削除) they (削除ここまで)
he or she This user considers the singular they to be substandard English usage.
man-
kind Regarding gender, this user prefers the vernacular , not what is politically correct.
to
too
two This user thinks that too many people have no idea how to use words that they should have learned in grade two.
whom This user insists upon using whom wherever it is called for, and fixes the errors of whomever he sees.
their
there
they're This user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they're worse than their own children at spelling!
your
you're This user thinks that if your grammar is incorrect, then you're in need of help.
Subj This user prefers that the subjunctive mood be used. Were this user you, he would use it.
. The This user does not put two spaces after a full stop.
A, B, and
A and B This user uses the serial comma unless its inclusion is confusing.
its
it's It's really not that hard to use each word in its proper manner.
’s Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice.
"..." This user favours typewriter style quotation marks over typographic ones.
ANAL 5 This user is incredibly stringent with professional grammar.
Mix This user has been influenced by too many dialects of English to use one orthography, vocabulary and grammar consistently.

Computer

This user contributes using Linux .
Fedora logo This user contributes with Fedora Linux .
This user contributes using FreeBSD .
w/l This user has a dual boot configuration.
This user contributes with the
KDE desktop environment.
This user hacks happily with Emacs .
Perl-3 This user is an advanced Perl programmer.
C-1 This user is a beginning C programmer.
mysql-2 This user is an intermediate MySQL programmer.
HTML-3 This user is an advanced HTML user.
xhtml-3 This user is an advanced XHTML user.
CSS-2 This user is an intermediate Cascading Style Sheets user.
js-2 This user is an intermediate JavaScript programmer.
XML-1 This user is a beginning XML coder.
OSrc This user contributes to Open Source projects.
This user contributes using a PC .
This user uses an AMD processor
IP This person's IP is 127.0.0.1
IP This user's IP is ::1.
This user contributes using Free Software .
GIMP This user contributes using GIMP .

This user contributes using Inkscape .
This user enjoys using Celestia to look at the virtual skies.
This user BOINCs .
This user couldn't live without the keyboard shortcut Alt Tab .

Communicating

This user uses Wikipedia as a primary point of reference.
7,000+ This user has made more than 7,000 contributions to Wikipedia.
Web This user has a website .
@ This user can be reached by email .
@ This user can be reached by email at jowens.wiki@GhiaPet.net.
OWN This user uses an email account with his own domain name.
Pidgin This user uses Pidgin to chat on multiple instant messaging networks.
* This user can be found on most, if not all, IM networks!
B This user keeps a weblog at Blogger .
WordPress This user uses WordPress .
Firefox This user prefers Mozilla Firefox .
This user thinks an explorer can't be better than a fox!
This user contributes using Firefox .
This user uses Mozilla Thunderbird .
BB This user contributes using a broadband connection.

Interests

This user loves knowledge .
This user prefers
the metric system.
?met? This user prefers metric units and cannot figure out why Americans and Brits have such a hard time with them.
This user has a keen interest in physics .
Eagle Nebula This user is interested in astronomy .
This user enjoys skygazing and astronomy .
This user is interested in space sciences .
This user doesn't care whether Pluto is a planet or not – but IAU's 2006 redefinition of planet was a linguistic-philosophical embarrassment.
This user is an advanced mathematician .
This user knows by heart the first 15 digits in the decimal representation of pi .
This user is a Bayesian .
∑ k = 1 ∞ x k k ! {\displaystyle \sum _{k=1}^{\infty }{x^{k} \over k!}} {\displaystyle \sum _{k=1}^{\infty }{x^{k} \over k!}} This user loves problem solving.
This user knows how to travel 1 mile due south, due east, then due north and end up where he started.†
×ばつ9=42 This user jokes in base 13.
This user is interested in linguistics .
la Hic usor latine loquitur atque contribuere potest.
This user is interested in ancient Rome .
This user is interested in the
Middle Ages
This user is interested in the Crusades .
This user is interested in politics .
This user accepts evolution as a biological fact.
Boeing 777-31H, Emirates JP452808 This user is interested in aviation .
/. This user has a Slashdot account.
This user enjoys reading science fiction .
This user is skeptical of the Zodiac .
Lynch This user is a fan of David Lynch's films.
This user enjoys photography .
This user loves calculators .
This user plays games on a graphing calculator .
This user is a fencer .
This user is an archer .
vla-1 This user is a novice viola player .
vln-1 This user is a novice violinist .

Other

GMT This user's time zone is GMT .
This user dislikes the new DST time. (削除) New DST Time (削除ここまで)
00:00 This user uses 24-hour time .
This user supports sustainable living .
This user supports
renewable energy .
This user supports the use of nuclear energy .
This user supports public transit .

Personal

♂ This user is male .
This user is straight
but not narrow.
This male user supports feminism .
♂♀ This user supports gender equality .
HRC This user supports the Human Rights Campaign .
Choice This user is pro-life and pro-abortion .
X This user is a member of
Generation X .
This user is old enough to remember what a typewriter is, and that's all you need to know.
This user remembers using
a rotary dial telephone.
This user is not a biological parent .
This user is right-handed .
IQ This user's Intelligence Quotient is ≥154.
This user sleeps, but not for predictable amounts of time.
This user is near sighted .
This user is a telecommunications engineer .
This user is interested in humanism .
This user believes in materialism, the belief that everything that exists is made of matter.
EAC This user is a member of the Evil Atheist Conspiracy . Booga booga!
Until proven wrong, this user does not believe in the supernatural .
This user realizes that the Earth isn't an oblate spheroid, but rather a close approximation of one.
This user believes that the Universe began with a bang .
news The only reality show this user watches is the news.
This user thinks Keith Olbermann is superior to Bill Orly in every way possible. YA RLY
According to the political compass this user is Economic Left (-7.13) and Social Libertarian (-7.33).
? This user follows his own political ideals.
This user believes in the separation of church and state.
This user supports
instant-runoff voting .
This user does not trust electronic voting machines.
C2H5OH-2 This user drinks occasionally.
This user is a Goth .
NG This user's alignment is Neutral Good : the "Benefactor."
This user is of multiple ancestries.
Wales/Cymru This user is of Welsh descent .
This user is of English ancestry.
🇳🇴 This user is of
Norwegian ancestry .
🇩🇪 This user is of German ancestry.

Food & Drink

This user believes that caffeine is necessary in large doses daily.
This user takes his/her coffee with 2 creams and 6 sugars.
This user drinks nothing but Dr Pepper.
(削除) H2O (削除ここまで) This user is H2O intolerant. Achoo!
This user eats cheese .
This user loves to eat pineapples .
This user likes a 'proper' Pasty .
This user has eaten MREs and lived to tell the tale.

Userboxen

-xen This user believes that userbox should always be pluralised userboxen, and thinks that this is one of the most important and exciting issues of our time.
ubx-c This user thinks that userboxes have gotten out of control.

Pedia pages

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Mine

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Talk | Pet Projects | Gallery | Bookmarks | My Main Page | Variables | Boilerplate

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Vandalism | Editing | All style | Style | Layout | Tables | Characters | TeX (math) new | Newpages | Templates | Stubs | Boilerplate | Upload | Utilities | Public | DB

Other Wikipediæ

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Meta | Commons | News | Species | Deutsch/German | Русский/Russian | Latina/Latin

John Owens

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John Owens lives in Manchester, UK since 2016, after moving from Tucson, Arizona, and was until recently a student at the Pima Community College. He is (yet another) computer system and network administrator, with some knowledge of server administration and a good grasp of Perl. And he has been voted Number 1 on the "list of bigots to avoid" on User:Olga Bityerkokoff's page! He came in at number 32 on this month's Top 200 Countdown, and he'd like to extend his special gratitude to Michael, who made it all possible.

If you have a Un*x computer and check its native-format time, you've got a pretty good idea how old he is, in seconds.

Currently

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As a recovering non-Wikipedoholic, I'm starting to edit again, but in moderation, so far. I recently upgraded to a mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera, so I'm starting to accumulate some pictures for the Wikipediæ. See some of what I've got so far: /Pet Projects#New pictures from trip. I'm currently focusing on my astrophotography technique (pun intended).

In things tangentially related to Wikipedia, I've started a project to create an electronic markup format for corrections to all those things that aren't Wiki. With my vast imagination, I've decided to call it the ProofReading Markup Language, or PRML for short. (SourceForge project site)

What he does

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Weed whacker extraordinaire, great at spotting typos, too.

Oh yeah, and I know lots of stuff, too. ;)

And I refuse to ever take the Wikipedia:Are You a Wikipediholic Test. There are some things both you and I are better off not knowing. See also: Wikipedia:Wikipediholics in denial.

Foreign languages and contributions

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I'm now contributing to the German and Russian Wikipædiæ in my own small way, too. (And in case you can't tell by my abuse of 'æ's, I just wish there was a Latin Wikipædia for me to contribute to, too.)

I'll be demmed, there is a Latin Vicipædia!!! :) I always wondered if there was a language code for Latin; never could find one in a list. Now I'm going to have to find out if 'la' is really official, or just what they use because it makes sense.

Since then, I've discovered Wikipedia:Multilingual coordination and ISO 639. Yup, it's a real, genyooine, official code.

A few of my best, most pride-inspiring contributions:

Mostly though, I'm more of an editor than a writer. And yeah, I know what all those authors say about editors....

All contributions of my own work (i.e., excluding only a few photographs snarfed from web sites) excluding items in the User:JohnOwens "userspace" (or whatever the proper term might be) are available under any or all of the following licenses unless stated otherwise:

GNU Free Documentation License:{{GFDL-en}} Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License:{{MultiLicenseWithCC-BySA-Any}} BSD License:{{BSD|owner=J. Randall Owens}} Lesser General Public License:{{LGPL}}

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