User: Slambo
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Who am I
My name is Sean Lamb, and I live in Madison, WI. I grew up in Manhattan Beach, CA, but after college I moved to the Midwest with my wife in 1992.
I am currently employed as a Software Engineer for a local retail company where I maintain and update the company's point of sale application. I program in a UNIX environment with open source tools and techniques. Most of my programming work is in C/C++, but I've also worked with php, perl and various shell scripting languages.
I'm very active in the local division of the NMRA, the South Central Wisconsin Division; I serve on the Division's Board of Directors, and I fulfill the roles of Model Contest Chairman and Webmaster for the Division. I'm also very active in the Capitol City NGineers (I hope to have a website up for the club later this week) displaying NTrak modules at model railroad shows around Wisconsin and northern Illinois. I'm also the webmaster for The Rip Track where I plan to put up reviews of model railroad products and howto articles periodically.
What am I doing here
Well, I'm editing and adding information, of course. When I have time, I like to add new information that relates to one of my specialties. I have a bunch of data that I've collected on these subjects and I will be adding pages and data as I have time.
When I don't have quite as much time, but when I do have a few minutes, I will often hit the Special:Randompage link to see what it comes up with; I'll then read the page that is displayed and see if there's anything I can add to it. Usually my random page edits are just linkifying dates and some strings or adding categories and correcting grammar and typos. So far, the random page function hasn't shown me anything that I know a lot about, so my edits there are minor, if at all.
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What are my specialties
Trains and railroads
Almost everything I do in my free time has something to do with railroads and model railroading. I intend my primary focus here to be adding and updating historical railroad information. The pages that I've created and/or significantly expanded will be listed on User:Slambo/Trains. Also, images that I've created and uploaded will be listed on User:Slambo/Gallery.
As for expanding these and other pages that I create, please take a look at the articles' talk pages for some ideas I've had for the articles' expansion. If I can get to it and add the information, I'll update the talk page appropriately.
Jazz music and novelty recordings
I'm a big fan of jazz music from before 1940, and I'm learning more and more about the artists and the music as I read the liner notes in the CD reissues that I purchase. While most of the music in my jazz collection is on CD, I do purchase 78 RPM records from local antique stores to further enhance my collection.
Also, for the last 20 years or so, I've been collecting comedy/novelty recordings. While I was in college in California (at the University of California, Riverside), I was the host of Slambo's Car of Idiots on the campus radio station, KUCR. On my radio show, I shared a portion of my comedy/novelty recording collection. I briefly hosted the show at the University of California, Santa Barbara campus station, KCSB, when I lived in that city for two years. The show hasn't resurfaced on the radio airwaves, but I've been volunteering at WORT during pledge drives, and I'd very much like to get on the air again.
While I have yet to update or add any artist pages here, it's not entirely out of the question.
Linux and open source
I use SuSE Linux as my primary desktop environment both at home and at work. The only real reason for keeping any other operating system around on my hard drives is to play computer games, and there are enough games that I enjoy (like Trainz) that I run dual boot systems at home (the name of the alternate operating system that I use is left as an exercise for the reader). I enjoy contributing to open source projects, so Wikipedia's goals fit very nicely with what I like. I've started a couple of projects but none has gotten very far.
A couple years ago, I was a contributing author to Using KDE, Special Edition (now out of print) from Que Publishing. I haven't done much more paid work, but I write a lot of documentation for my projects at work.
Philately
I have recently rediscovered my postage stamp collection, so I am once again active in philately. The majority of my collection is a worldwide hodgepodge of material, but I'm working on building an album of worldwide train and railroad stamps. I am interested in trading 1:1 worldwide; send me an email if you want to trade.
