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The real world me
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In the real world, I'm a 29-year-old former software developer-turned-student hailing from Long Island, New York in the United States. I'm attending Stony Brook University, where I am working toward my PhD in genetics.
How I came to be a student at my age is a not uncommon story: having entirely burned out from the rigors of the software development field, I was (after some reflection) quite pleased to be laid off. Almost immediately I decided, with the support of my lovely wife Jennifer, to return to Stony Brook University.
Finally, by sheer cosmic coincidence, I happen to share a birthday with the Illustrous Jimbo Wales, but so does Garrison Keillor, David Duchovny, and the Purple Heart.
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The Wikipedia me
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During my attendance here, I have been doing my best to make Wikipedia a better (and better informed) place. I am an administrator, and a staunch advocate for boldness in recognizing the hard work of others and of WikiLove in general.
Finally, when I'm here, I'm fiercely apolitical. I believe that truth and honesty – whether we like it or not – are far more useful than idealogy.
If you wish to contact me, feel free to make a note on my talk page.
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Significant contributions
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My general tendency is to edit a relatively small number of articles, making large and often exhaustively researched edits. My first major project started when I noticed that the article for sarin was short and ugly, which got me deeply entrenched in rewriting nearly all articles relating in any way with chemical warfare, and which resulted in my first featured article.
I recently joined the start-up WikiProject Beer, and it shows signs of becoming my next additions.
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Featured articles
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Below are featured articles that I wrote in their entirety or very nearly in their entirety.
Chemical warfare (Designated a featured article on January 22005)
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Major contributions
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Below are featured articles that I contributed more than a modest amount of editing to.
3-quinuclidinyl benzilate | Acanthocephala | Adenosine triphosphate | Alkene | American breweries | Anglo-Zanzibar War | Anticholinesterase | Asian giant hornet | Bass (beer) | Beer | Biotoxin | Blood agent | Bottom-fermenting yeast | Blue Point Brewing Company | Brazilian wandering spider | Brewery | Brook Ellison | Brooklyn Brewery | Camp Upton | Cell (biology) | Chemical warfare | Chinese fir | Chinese raping chair | (Cunninghamia lanceolata) | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Cyanogen agent | Cyanogen chloride | Cyclosarin | De vulgari eloquentia | Defoliant | Dinosaur | Dire wolf | Dogfish Head Brewery | Endosymbiotic theory | Flying dog brewery | Fruit / vegetable beer | Gene doping | Genetic code | Gerhard Schrader | Harpoon Brewery | Hydrogen cyanide | Incapacitating agent | Iran-Iraq War | Jon Stewart | Kim Peek | KOLOKOL-1 | Leto Regio | Lewisite | Long Trail Brewing Company | Magic hat | Malathion | Mitochondrion | Moosehead | Mustard gas | Mutant | Neapolitan Mastiff | Nerve agent | Neutral Milk Hotel | Non-event | Paul Lauterbur | Pepper spray | Photosynthesis | Pimp | Plum Island, New York | Printer's devil | Pulmonary agent | Primordial sandwich | Pyramid Breweries, Inc. | Randi Rhodes | Riot control agent | Roma (people) | Saber-toothed cat | Sarin | Sierra Nevada Brewing Company | Sinclair Broadcast Group | Smilodon | Soman | Spinal cord injury | Stevens Point Brewery | Stink bomb | Stony Brook University | Tabun | Tantulocarida | Texas Medication Algorithm Project | Top-fermenting yeast | Trivia | Trivial | Upton, New York | U.S. Electoral College | Vesicant (and REDIRECT Blister agent) | VE (nerve agent) | Venom | Verdigris | Victor Grignard | VG (nerve agent) | VM (nerve agent) | VX | Yaphank, New York | Zanzithophone
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User page vandalism
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I, like some others, see a moderate amount of vandalism of my user and talk pages as a good thing: it means that I am establishing a WikiPresence (to coin a term).
As Winston Churchill said, "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
People who apparently hate me:
- 18:57, 18 Oct 2004 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User%3AClockworkTroll&diff=6691991&oldid=6685835) by 172.152.235.164 (AC98EBA4.ipt.aol.com - My first vandalism!)
- 22:08, 7 Nov 2004 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User%3AClockworkTroll&diff=7206180&oldid=7205949) by 69.197.204.214 (CPE00080dcd85d1-CM000e5ce6ca90.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com)
- 02:15, 9 Dec 2004 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User%3AClockworkSoul&diff=8259837&oldid=8259815) by 195.92.194.12 (webcacheM02b.cache.pol.co.uk)
- 16:14, 11 Apr 2005 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AClockworkSoul&diff=12177781&oldid=12177630) by Orangeness
- 18:33 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:ClockworkSoul/to_do&diff=prev&oldid=12364360) and 18:34, 15 Apr 2005 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AClockworkSoul%2Fuserpage%2Fpanel_center&diff=12364306&oldid=12364283) by 128.125.52.65 (vpn-052-065.usc.edu)
- 15:24, 16 Apr 2005 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AClockworkSoul&diff=12399846&oldid=12399684) by 131.111.225.21 (ap434.caths.cam.ac.uk)
- 22:16, 26 Apr 2005 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AClockworkSoul&diff=12865390&oldid=12865342) by Clockwork Soul
- 07:33, 28 Apr 2005 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:ClockworkSoul&diff=prev&oldid=12926230) by Jimmy Donal Wales
- 16:25, 7 May 2005 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AClockworkSoul&diff=13394677&oldid=13394642) by Jim BeII
I've also had the following impostors:
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Quote of the Moment
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. – Jonathan Swift |
Wikistress: Low
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Barnstarium
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 I, maestrosync, award you a Mouldy Sandwich in recognition of your efforts on wikipedia. maestrosync 11:12, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
(I don't know what I did to get this one, but thanks!) I must admit I've never handed out a barn star before, but here you get one for coming up with the excellent idea of a newcomer-specific award! — David 18:47, 12 Nov 2004  In recognition of your efforts on Wikipedia and for coming up with a newcomer-specific award, I, Bart133, award you the Tireless Contributor Barnstar.  For your tireless contributions to WP:TS with Coffee Roll I, Zeerus, award you the original Barnstar. Keep up the good work.  For your Coffee Roll design, I, Talrias, award you the badly-photoshopped Real Coffee Roll™! 18:36, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
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