User: PedanticallySpeaking

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PS's stomping grounds, Warren County, Ohio

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

---Thomas Huxley

Jack, how do you know all these things that normal people don't know and you don't know things that normal people do know?

---Joey Potter, Dawson's Creek

I always pass on good advice. It is the only sensible thing to do with it.

---Lord Goring

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• For articles I've done see User:PedanticallySpeaking/Articles
  
• For a list of useful pages to Wikipedians, see User:PedanticallySpeaking/Wiki
  
• I've nominated myself in the upcoming Arbitration Committee election. Material on this is posted at User:PedanticallySpeaking/Arbitration.
• I also have a staging area for work in progress that I will move when I get it in shape: User:PedanticallySpeaking/In Progress, User:PedanticallySpeaking/In Progress2

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About Me

Books

I'm not a great reader of fiction but my favorite novel is Christopher Buckley's Thank You For Smoking. Number two would probably be Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October. As for non-fiction, I admire the books of Richard Norton Smith on Herbert Hoover, Robert R. McCormick, and Thomas E. Dewey, Stewart Brand's How Buildings Learn, David McCullough's Truman, and Gordon W. Prange's books on Pearl Harbor (At Dawn We Slept, etc.).

We're all cynics and romantics--sometimes simultaneously.

---Nick Hornby, High Fidelity.

TV Shows

I'm a big fan of Dawson's Creek, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gilmore Girls, and Frasier. I love Britcoms such as As Time Goes By and Are You Being Served? My favorite Masterpiece Theatre production was the House of Cards trilogy starring Ian Richardson. I formerly was an All My Children addict--from around 1992 to 1997--but gave it up when the show stopped making any sense at all.

Movies

My favorite film is WarGames with Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy ("Mr. McKittrick, after careful consideration, I've come to the careful consideration that your new defense system sucks"). I'm also particularly fond of Goldfinger ("I expect you to die, Mr. Bond"), The Hunt for Red October (Soyuz ne rushimi, respublik svobodnik . . . .), 10 Things I Hate About You ("Hello, Katarina. Make anyone cry today?" "Sadly no--but it's only four thirty")--or anything else with Julia Stiles--Cruel Intentions ("It's from Long Island"), My Fair Lady ("I'd prefer a new edition of the Spanish Inquisition than to ever let a woman in my life!"), Amadeus ("Too many notes!"), Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House ("You get that?" "Yup, red, white, blue, and yellow"), Trading Places ("You know perfectly well we don't have three-hundred ninety-four million dollars in CASH!")

Music

As for music, I enjoy everything from Mozart to Britney Spears--have the two ever before appeared together in a sentence? I like Michelle Branch, Rossini's overtures (especially La Cenerentola), 1950's doo-wop, Cole Porter songs, big bands (Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman), and Frankie Valli.

Alias

I seem to get logged out a lot by accident. Among the IP's that are mine are User:66.213.119.98, User:66.213.10.5 and User:66.213.99.62.

That man knows more about more things than I could care less about than anyone else I've ever known. You ask him what time it is and you'll get a history of clock-making.

---Lyndon B. Johnson on his assistant George Reedy

"Dies irae"? Hardly.

Subjects I'm Interested In

• Ohio, Ohio lands, Warren County, Ohio
• Richard M. Nixon
• Newspapers
• Academy Awards
• British territories, such as Pitcairn Island, Tristan da Cunha, Falkland Islands, and the British Indian Ocean Territory
• Pop culture, e.g. Dawson's Creek
• Latin
• Lexicography
• Copyright
• United States Constitution
• Supreme Court of the United States
• Pearl Harbor Attack and the events leading up to U.S. entry into World War II

I like to contribute to the Reference Desk and have an archive of my questions and answers there: User:PedanticallySpeaking/RefDesk.

I'm also interested in the calendar and timekeeping. A fun site that will tell you any what any date is in various other calendars, plus the day of the week and the Julian day number is here.

I also love juxtapositions and making connections between things, e.g. the six degrees of separation and small world phenomenon theories. For example, I am only two degrees removed from Kevin Bacon.

It was such a beautiful day, I decided to stay in bed.

----Somerset Maugham

Articles To Do

I'd like to write or revise:

• the actors and personnel connected on the Dawson's Creek page
• inventor Ralph J. Stolle
• Supreme Court nominees not confirmed (e.g. Homer Thornberry)
• places of Warren County, Ohio
• producer Fred Silverman
• Delbert Latta
• various Ohio politicians
• Florence King
• Robert R. McCormick
• The Truth About Cats and Dogs
• Liesel Pritzker
• Young Americans
• 10 Things I Hate About You
• various islands of the Pacific Ocean
• John Bartlett and Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
• Peter Gelb and Arthur Gelb
• James "Scotty" Reston
• Robert Evans

Edit History

My first contribution was at 10:19 A.M. on August 6, 2004, to Wikipedia:Requested articles/Social Sciences and Philosophy. My first as a registered user was in creating Warren D. Huff. My tenth was to John Morton Eshleman, my 25th to Clarence J. Brown, my 50th to General Land Office, and my 100th to List of United States representatives from Ohio.

I made my one-thousandth edit on August 26, 2004 and I made my two thousandth edit to Wikipedia on September 11, 2004. My 2500th edit came on September 30, 2004. My 3000th edit came on October 13, 2004. My 3500th edit came on October 25, 2004. My 3800th edit came on October 30, 2004. My 3900th edit came on November 5, 2004. My 4500th edit came on November 19, 2004.

As of August 22, 2004 I was ranked the 769th most prolific contributor, having jumped 24,787 places in thirty days, and had made 872 contributions to that date. As of August 28, 2004, I ranked 418th with 315 edits. As of September 6?, 2004, I was ranked 587th with 1312 edits, up from 1885th the previous week. As of September 22, 2004, I was 477th with 1761 mainspace edits. As of October 10, 2004, I was ranked 412th with over 2200 edits to articles and 443d in all namespaces with over 2800 edits. An undated list posted at the ranking page put me at 401st with 3303 edits. As of November 8, 2004, I was ranked 325th with over 2963 edits to articles and 355th in all namespaces with over 3942 edits. As of November 18, 2004, I was ranked 63d for main namespace edits and 75th for all namespace edits at Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_recent_edits. As of circa November 20, 2004, I was ranked I was ranked 310th with over 3123 edits to articles and 329th in all namespaces with over 4254 edits. As of November 29, 2004, I was ranked I was ranked 305th with over 3289 edits to articles and 318th in all namespaces with over 4543 edits.

Other Languages

Though I have done very little in other languages, I have accounts, also under the name PedanticallySpeaking, in the Spanish, French, and Latin Wikipedias.