User: Kingturtle

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Peace on earth, good will toward men

the revolution will not be televised. but it WILL be wikified - Kingturtle

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I discovered wikipedia the evening of February 27, 2003 while searching for information on the internet to fatten a lecture I was writing on prohibition. I teach U.S. History, World History and Psychology in high school. My first edit was on 1964.

The discovery matched love-at-first-sight. For years, I've been collecting old almanacs and encyclopedia. I bandied about different ideas regarding sharing and documenting the information revealed in these discarded sources. To stumble on a thriving community devoted to sharing information gave me a tremendous thrill and a curious sense of relief. Thank heavens you're all out there!

I attended University of California, Santa Cruz and received a BA in political science. I've studied with Victor Burgin and Angela Davis. I study Hannah Arendt closely. I am a second cousin, five times removed, of Ralph Waldo Emerson. If I hadn't been an atheist all my life, I'd have been a priest.

I grew up in Rochester, New York, lived in New York, New York for many years, and now reside in Santa Cruz, California. I am forever transfixed by "Black and Tan Fantasy" by Duke Ellington. I was born with Spina bifida occulta.

I became an admin 16:15 May 12, 2003 (UTC); at that point I had 3,944 edits and 75 days experience. Before being an admin, I averaged 55 edits a day. After becoming an admin, that average dropped to 28 a day. Fabiform says the decline is because of IRC.

My interests include: birding, chess, the Beatles, Freud, muckraking, baseball, the President of the United States of America, Afghanistan, Tintin, Surrealism, U.S. presidential election, 2004, the Cold War, ukulele, punk music, indie rock, glam rock, semiotics, maps, word games, jazz, timelines, Fats Waller, lists, etc. etc. etc. I also haunt Disinfopedia [1] but I don't post there.

Personal use sub-pages: Reading List - Reading List Two - WikiPrinciples - Lecture outlines - SCUM - Kingturtle/History of corruption in the United States government - Kingturtle/Blocked user names - Kingturtle/Alligator - Kingturtle/World Coin Gallery - Kingturtle/2Pac - Kingturtle/Wikipedia arms

Notes to self:

To do: Ali Ahmad Jalali, List of territorial occupations, Allen Funt. Playlists compete: 1/17/04, 1/10/04
next:
- 2000: completed up to May 3...December 31
- 2001: completed up to January 5...August 31; completed up to September 22
- 2002: completed up to February 28...October 31; completed up to November 30
- 2003: completed
- 2004: up to June 9
- Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

"It takes a flimflammer to catch a flimflammer." Harry Houdini
"If you cannot rely on good, accurate intelligence that is credible to the American people and to others abroad, you certainly can't have a policy of preemption." - David Kay
"I long to accomplish some great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." - Helen Keller
"Statistics don't lie, but statistics don't die either." - Phil Ochs
"There is such a thing as a free lunch. You just have to offer it." - Kingturtle
"Foreigners, because they never have enough words to express their ideas, often invent remarkable new modes of expression. Poets are all foreigners." - Denis Diderot
"Without irony, where would be poets be?" - Kingturtle
"Me fail English? That's unpossible." - Ralph Wiggum
"I'm not here for rage; I'm here for revenge!" - George Costanza
"Maintaining one's own dignity hangs on maintaining the dignity of others." Kingturtle
"A man who represents himself has a fool for a client." - Abraham Lincoln
"I'm for truth, no matter who tells. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I'm whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole." - Malcolm X
"If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." - President George W. Bush during his first day as president-elect.
"Only those who can play God can conceive of God." - Kingturtle