User:Blueminneapolis

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Introduction

Greetings and welcome to my userpage. I am a 26-year-old gay male and a former Minnesotan now living in Ladera Heights, California.

Areas & Levels of Expertise

Expert

  • Not currently comfortable with claiming this title in any field

Intimately Familiar

  • Minnesota State Parks
  • GLBT Civil Rights

Conversant

  • Minnesota History
  • English Grammar
  • Insurance billing
  • Dental terminology
  • World of Warcraft
  • Arts Education
  • Theatre Arts

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Personal Heroes

This user's hero is Isaac Asimov.
This user's personal hero is Carl Sagan.

Computing

Online Presence

Upcoming
.
This user has a website, which can be found here.
This user uses Wikipedia as a primary point of reference.
This user maintains a blog at his own website.
This user uses WordPress.
This user uses Google as a primary search engine.
This user uses Gmail as a primary email service.

Software

This user is using a web browser.
osThis user uses an operating system.
AdiumThis user uses Adium to chat on various instant messaging networks.
This user contributes while using VLC Media Player.
FirefoxThis user prefers Mozilla Firefox.

Hardware/Usage

snail mail
.
This user contributes using a PC.
Macintosh
computer.
BBThis user contributes using a
broadband
 connection.

Entertainment

bThis user supports
Blu-ray.
This user knows where in the world Carmen Sandiego is.
This user likes their Martinis shaken, not stirred.
Narnia This user loves The Chronicles of Narnia.

Games

WRODHits sure silke dingo nags a ram.
Board Games
This user is a checkers player.
This user enjoys chess.
This user plays Jenga.
This user plays mahjong.
This user passed GO!
(…so where is my $200?)
This user is attacking you with all three dice.
S1This user is a Scrabble player.
Computer & Video Games
This user is addicted to video games.
+This user enjoys playing retro games.
This user prefers to play games on a PC.
?This user doesn't care what console a game is for as long as it's fun.
PS2This user plays games on the
PlayStation 2.
CIVThis user loves to play Civilization.
EaW This user plays
Star Wars: Empire at War.
FalloutThis user prefers advanced power armor.
This user is addicted to playing the Final Fantasy series.
minesweeper
.
N This user is a fan of Nintendo hardware and software.
PSxThis user is a
SimCity.
SC4This user's city is much better than Defacto's.
TThis user prefers to side with the
Terrans.
This user plays games from The Legend of Zelda series.


EVE Online
.
XIThis user plays Final Fantasy XI.
An Adventurer is this User.
Mrh?This user plays Urban Dead.
Graaaagh!

Literature

This user enjoys reading anything.
This user enjoys reading fiction.
This user enjoys reading non-fiction.
This user enjoys
geofiction
.
alternate history fiction.
This user enjoys reading thrillers.
This user enjoys reading mysteries.
C.S. Lewis
.
This user enjoys the works of Larry Niven.
This user enjoys the works of George Orwell.
This user enjoys the works of
Kim Stanley Robinson.
This user enjoys the works of
J. R. R. Tolkien.
This user believes that "all the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players".
short stories.
Big Brother is watching this user.
This user supports Don Quixote, and therefore opposes the use of wind power.
This user has or has yet to Journey to the Center of the Earth.
Narnia This user loves The Chronicles of Narnia.
Melange This user has a spice addiction.
AtrThis user serves
House Atreides.
FearFear is the Mind-Killer.
The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything
.
LOTR This user loves
films
.
The Silmarillion This user not only likes The Lord of the Rings, but The Silmarillion as well.
This user enjoys writing.

Language

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This user would like to be able to speak more languages.
pas-1This user is a beginning Pascal programmer.
HTML-2This user is an intermediate HTML user.
{{Wiki}}This user can write in the MediaWiki language.

English Grammar

ANAL 4This user advocates good grammar usage.
’sThi'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.

Usage

they
he or she		This user considers the singular they to be substandard English usage.
snkThis user says either sneaked or snuck.
to¦goThis user chooses to sometimes use split infinitives.
byThe passive voice may be used by this user.
…in.Ending a sentence with a
preposition is something that this user is okay with.
mankindThis user supports the use of gender-neutral language.
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.
who(m)This user uses either who or whom in the object case.
which & thatThis user knows how to use which and that correctly.
if & whetherThis user knows how to use "if" and "whether" correctly.
less & fewerThis user understands the difference between less & fewer.
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.

Punctuation

“,;:’This user is a punctuation stickler.
.  TheThis user puts two spaces after a period.
A, B, and CThis user prefers the serial comma.
itsThis user understands the difference between its (of it) and it's (it is or it has).
"…"This user favours typewriter style quotation marks over typographic ones.
"…"?This user thinks "British punctuation is best for quotation marks". Do you?
ubx-5This user uses entirely too many userboxes.
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