User: Grunt

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Grunt as of September 23, 2004.

Steven M. aka Grunt is a notable anti-commercialist, pro-capitalist, anti-American ("only against typical Americans", see this extensive footnote below for a lengthy explanation), pacifistic and apparently libertarian by definition currently residing in Alberta, Canada but native to Saskatchewan, Canada. Despite his strong political views he strives to stay neutral in disputes and in material submitted to Wikipedia.

Wikipedia History

Grunt started out here contributing to the Texas Instruments graphing calculator entries in late May and early June of 2004; since then, he has taken to patrolling Recent Changes and dealing with vandalism as it crops up, in addition to copy editing. On August 28, 2004, Grunt was made a sysop. On September 11, 2004, Grunt was made a mediator.

Hobbies

Grunt's notable hobbies including the building of computers, mathematics, computer programming (languages: C, C++, Java, HTML, XHTML PHP, many flavours of BASIC, etc.) and/or computer science, a large degree of reading, etc. and will likely contribute to such entries in the future if he can think of something worthwhile to add there. He has an interest in mass transit and has written a few articles on his local public transit system.

Expected Future

As of September 2005 he intends to attend the University of Alberta and take courses in electrical engineering. His application there is pending. After he gets his bachelor's degree he will probably be moving to Europe (to either the United Kingdom, France, or Germany).

Why I write "anti-American" on this page

A large deal of controversy has been stirred up recently as to just what I mean when I write about an anti-American bias above, and I feel it's necessary to explain exactly what I mean so as to defend against ignorance in this respect. As I've written elsewhere:

... The basic fact is that I am strongly opposed to the current American administration and its policies and actions, and view a "typical American" to be one that blindly supports that administration (otherwise they would not legitimately be in power). It seems to me that most Americans with the skill and knowledge to edit Wikipedia do not fall into this category in that they are at least informed enough to understand why they support the current policy (if they happen to support it).

Also please note that I have explicity stated here that I do not let bias get in the way of my editing. I know and work with plenty of American editors here on the 'pedia and they know that this is the case.

Random facts/thoughts

• I am running in the arbitration committee election of December 2004. Be sure to read the candidate statements and perhaps endorse a candidate today. Exercise your democratic right in Wikipedia - help choose your arbcom! Vote today
• Long live the EU.
• I reached 1000 edits on July 16, 2004.
• I reached 2000 edits on August 19, 2004. (The 2000th edit added this fact here.)
• I reached 3000 edits on September 1, 2004.
• I reached 4000 edits on September 15, 2004.
• I reached 5000 edits on October 22, 2004.
• I reached 6000 edits on December 4, 2004.
• Would have voted Liberal in the 2004 Canadian federal election had he been a year older.
  

  Centcom, Grunt's personal desktop - the computer described at left.
• Current computer stats: AMD Athlon 64 3000+, ATI Radeon 9600 XT, 1GB RAM, 120GB SATA HDD, Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS, 52x32x52x CD-RW drive and 16x DVD-ROM drive, a heavily modified Linux distribution based on Slackware 9.1 + 2.6.x kernel. No upgrades planned for a while.
• I know a bit of French; I have an account on the French Wikipedia, but I don't do much with it. fr:User:Grunt
• I'm also experimenting on the German Wikipedia in an attempt to teach myself to write the German language. Feel free to laugh. :) de:User:Grunt I also wish that there was a simple German Wikipedia in the same style as the simple English Wikipedia, as this would be a benefit to my attempting to learn German.
• This page has been vandalised one hundred and sixty-six (166) times, including four page moves. I have also been impersonated four times.

See also

• /Barnstars - the awards I've won for my Wikipedia service.
• /Bragsheet - articles I've written or significantly expanded.
• /Personal boilerplates - standard text I use when communicating with others.
• /Known vandals - individuals or bots known to systematically cause trouble on Wikipedia.
• /Adminship - what I think an administrator on Wikipedia should be.
• /Photos - photos I've taken.
• /Screenshots and images - other images I've created.

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