User:AlMac

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Introduction

I"m Al Macintyre, currently residing and working in Evansville, SW corner of Indiana, USA. Traditionally, irrespective of individual communities, my interests include:

Simulation games
; and topics from my profession, as a midrange systems computer programmer. I am also a news-junkie and book-a-holic.

:Disclaimer: any and all opinions expressed here are the opinions of AlMac (and any vandalism miscreants whose damage has not yet been repaired) and are not neccessarily endorsed nor held by the Wikipedia encyclopedia itself.

WP:AUM
crisis is resolved sufficiently so that Image newbies like me have how-to instructions to fix what we've done with minimum of hassle.

I just got invited to

Yahoo Answers
.

I extend my sympathies to the people of the region of the latest terrorist attacks,

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My edit count:

If we been away from Wikipedia for too long, we may need to revisit

Wikipedia:Cheatsheet
.

This user has a ton of edits.

Season's Greetings

  • May 14 US postage rates go up
    • first class up to
    • 1 ounce = 41 cents
    • 2 = 50 cents
    • 3 = 75 cents
    • 3.5 = 92 cents
  • Thank God its Friday, on steroids.

Hopefully in the next year I will have time to contribute more here than I was able to do last year.

Pelléas et Mélisande
Pelléas et Mélisande is an opera in five acts with music by the French composer Claude Debussy. The French-language libretto was adapted from Maurice Maeterlinck's symbolist play Pelléas and Mélisande. The plot concerns a love triangle between Prince Golaud, Mélisande (a mysterious young woman he had found lost in a forest), and Golaud's younger half-brother Pelléas. The only opera Debussy ever completed, Pelléas et Mélisande premiered on 30 April 1902 at the Salle Favart in Paris, performed by the Opéra-Comique, with Jean Périer as Pelléas and Mary Garden as Mélisande. The premiere was conducted by André Messager, who was instrumental in getting the Opéra-Comique to stage the work. This poster by the French painter Georges Rochegrosse was produced for the premiere.Poster credit: Georges Rochegrosse; restored by Adam Cuerden
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The Inaccessible Island rail (Laterallus rogersi) is a bird found only on Inaccessible Island in the South Atlantic Tristan archipelago. This rail, the smallest extant flightless bird, was described by physician Percy Lowe in 1923. The adult has brown plumage, a black bill, black feet, and red eyes. It occupies most habitats on the island, from the beaches to the central plateau, feeding on a variety of small invertebrates and some plant matter. Pairs are territorial and monogamous; both parents incubate the eggs and raise the chicks. The rail's adaptations to living on a tiny island at high densities include a low basal metabolic rate, small clutch sizes, and flightlessness. Unlike many other oceanic islands, Inaccessible Island has remained free from introduced predators, allowing this species to flourish while many other flightless rails have gone extinct. The species is nevertheless considered vulnerable, due to the danger of a single catastrophe wiping out the small, isolated population. (Full article...)

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New Year Resolutions

  • Take a break from giving lip service to losing weight, and just enjoy life.

My activity

Heavily defined with the aid of userboxes. Where I give links to various WP articles about topics of interest to me, I have also been rather involved in editing many of those articles.

Archives

Userbox Concept

Userbox concept technique

User:Redvers with help from Wikipedia:Userboxes
, assuming I can figure out how to work this concept (I not want wrap around vs. next sub-topic, nor do I want very wide pages, and I want the colors to be very readable to my aging eyes.).

Point of View

We all have a POV or bias on some topics, and need to be careful not to contaminate factual WP articles with our opinions.

This user is a mad scientist.

I identify with a collection of view points from different competing philosophies.

  • I share the
    libertarian
    view that we all need to be accountable for our actions.
  • I share the liberal view that we all have a responsibility to help our fellow humans with some kind of social safety net.
  • I share the
    conservative
    view that a nation ought to have a strong economy to pay for a strong military to protect itself.
  • I favor a variety of international efforts to make the world a better place for us all.

Geography

  • I reside and work in Evansville Indiana USA.  United States which is on Central daylight savings time ... I guess no user box yet for CDT time.
    • I have been selected for jury duty, which i expect will be an educational experience.
  • I got my college education in Cincinnati Ohio and Sacramento California.
  • I was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, which is part of Great Britain, or United Kingdom.  United Kingdom

Who Am I?

This is from before joining WP. Much about me is subject to change. If I could, I would boycott death.

  • My e-mail MacWheel is a play on my surname.
  • My full name is Alister William Macintyre.
  • I sign my name with William shortened as Wm.
  • In the work place I am generally known as Al Macintyre.
    • Except for leg pullers who insist on using MacAlister, or some other variant.

Career

I work in the

transportation
. Sorry Y"all. I have been frenetically busy of late, so there has been a lapse in my contributions here.

Wiki WP Involvement

Note that I have joined some projects, and identified interests, but made significant contributions, in only a few areas, and I often manage to get over-committed.

I am interested in helping out with the

cyberlaw
know-how is that of spending many decades in the computer professional trenches, having had computer security responsibilities for about 40 years, and having no formal training in the law, and not a lot of academic credentials.

I've been a bit heavy with suggestions on many WP talk pages, while rather timid in actual article editing, other than where I tried to start new articles.

Computer Security

This is a major professional interest area, a great degree due to my career.

  • Security breaches
  • Talk:Computer security audit
    • I began to rewrite this, my spare time has evaporated ... hopefully it won't go the same way.

Book a holic

user book-a-holic

I have enjoyed reading

Science Fiction since I was a pre-teenager, then branched out into other genres. My apartment has grown cluttered with many things, including looking like a section of a library. I started the Time travel in fiction article, which has exploded with numerous other contributors, and now there is a Category:Time travel in fiction
.

Gamer

I enjoy many traditional games like

Go (board game)
and not so traditional, although it has been a while since I played some of them.

Time Travel Game Designer

I have designed a few

Games, such as Time travel in fiction "Simulation". In my later life, I hope to put this stuff in the public domain, so that people can play my designs over the Internet
. I have worked on the
Science Fiction
perspective.

Remainder in re-write

Userbox enhancement needs

There are several boxes I need to figure out how to revise, that are not precise mesh with my interests, just in the neighborhood.
Locate the template. For example, color combinations are hostile to my eyesight through the browser I have used. I have heard that some of my solutions are hostile to other eyes as seen by other eyes through other browsers.

Copy it to your page. Then revise it.

rpg
This user is an aficionado of role-playing games.

My interest in RPG is both

Report Program Generator
.

This user is
"Civilization"
.

Other Wiki Interests

Wiki places I been intermittently pretty active so far (this list is far from exhaustive), excluding those already mentioned elsewhere in this collection.

New ideas

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Why I love this place

Wikimood
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Let me count the ways.

High Ratio of Signal to Noise

There are some problems, but proportionally small compared to some other Internet sites.

  • By Signal, I mean information that interests me.
  • By Noise, I mean people saying or writing stuff that gets in the way of me getting at the information I want to see.

Many discussion groups have a high ratio of noise to signal.

  • People misconstrue what we said (some deliberately), then attack what they say we said, which is not what we said.
  • There can be a lot of
    Deja Vu
    (didn't we have this conversation already?)

Massive Value

  • User:AlMac/Wiki Start Map explodes this so the individual details are readable, and here's the context from which I plagarized the diagram.
  • Lots of people have contributed information and links of great value, but there's lots more work to be done. We all can contribute to making a great service even greater.

Al not yet figured out how to rename this as self, without copying the image.

Watch out for Correct Speech

Be bold!

Wiki Correct Speech takes a bit of getting used to.

  • Not just be nice
    • Be Very Nice
  • Be Bold
    • But also be neutral
    • and find ways to do emphasis on steroids without resorting to 4 letter words
This user assumes good faith.


High Focus on Truth

High Focus on Truth, without having to cite every assertiun in rigorous academic sense. Systems for

race horse
.

Useful External Links

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enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.

(see how to do this) Al Mac repaired User:AlMac|(talk) 09:44, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

  1. Since you can read this page, thank a teacher.
  2. Since it is in English, and you have the freedom to get to it, thank a soldier.
  3. But keep an eye on politicians trying to regulate the Internet.
  4. and where some info seems to be gobbly gook, thank a
    spammer
    .
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