User:Davidbspalding

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I've been a registered user since March, 2006. Web user/developer since 1994. Internet user since 1991. Home page [http://www.chromejob.com/david here]. Former freelance writer, public radio producer, technology mentor, U.S. Coast Guard avionics tech and aircrewman, musician, film student (USC). Strictly a Wikipedia newbie, but catching on fast.

I usually reply to any post on my talk page, as I'm still learning fundamentals and stylistic conventions of WP. Please feel free to [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:davidbspalding&action=edit§ion=new leave me a message] about any concern or correction.

I'm a San Francisco native, have lived and worked in the South many years, currently residing in Durham, NC and working for a [http://www.redhat.com/about/careers/ a Linux company].

IMHO Wikimedia is about the neatest application of WWW tech since, oh, XHTML and the OEBPS, or custom portal pages. Generally, I'm learning as I go. I'm about as excited about Wikipedia as I was about computers in the mid-1970s, and the WWW in 1994.

Generally I like to:

• Add to topics I have some knowledge of,
• Clean up language issues,
• Patrol recent changes (a-vandal huntin' we will go, hi-ho the merry-o...)
• Learn something new each day, and add to topics based on my escapades in learning. I reserve the right to be a dumbass, or inadvertantly break a page; I also reserve the privilege to fix my screw-ups as soon as I'm (made) aware of them. ;)
• I've created a few Userboxes when I feel pretty darn sure that no one has done one like it.

Yes, as you can see, I am a sci-fi geek. I grew up that way, before anyone heard of Star Wars_(original) or Star Trek_{(movies, spin-off series)} or Battlestar Galactic_(either).

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2001: A Space Odyssey (film) – 2005 Sony BMG CD copy protection scandal – A Christmas Story – A Matter of Life and Death (film) – Albert Spalding – American Film Theater – Anchor Bay Entertainment – Ancient Order of the Pterodactyl – Batman Returns – Blue Peter (disambiguation) – Bluetooth – Bodhrán – CompuServe – Cyberspace – DR-DOS – Dassault Falcon – Dick Smith (make-up artist) – Discovery One – Dolby Pro Logic – EVA Pod – Electronic Frontier Foundation – Elmer Fowler Stone – Film – Filmmaking – Fire in the Sky – Heywood R. Floyd – High-definition television – History of Microsoft Windows – Idiocracy – Jargon File – Jefferies tube – Ken Takakura – List of 2001: A Space Odyssey trivia – Manhunter (film) – Mr. Baseball – NC-4 – Open eBook – Oral sex – Pan and scan – Peter Bogdanovich – Rescue on Fractalus! – Rick Baker – Robert Mulligan – Rogue (computer game) – Start menu – THX – The Hacker Crackdown – The Haunting (1963 film) – The Innocents (film) – The Last Wave – The Other – The Wicker Man – The Wind and the Lion – The Yakuza – Tricorder – Turner Classic Movies – U.S. Coast Guard in popular culture – Vincent (film) – Voight-Kampff machine – Wah Chang – Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory – :Category:United States Coast Guard Aviation

• Film
• Sci-fi, horror, fantasy film
• Star Trek
• Classic studio pictures
• Special visual effects

• Computing
• Music
• Irish Traditional music (play bodhran and bones)
• Space music (as defined by Stephen Hill)

I've had my own domain, [http://www.korova.com/ Korova.com] for quite a while. I got rid of www.RadarLove.com when spam got out of hand, and picked up [http://www.chromejob.com/ ChromeJob.com] instead. Claims to fame? I've a few ... saved lives and intercepted airborne drug smugglers in the USCG (I was an avionics techSi, se habla MIL-STD-1553 and [http://www.korova.com/images/dspalding/hu25_2107.jpg flew in jets]), reviewed music and film, produced an ambient music program for public radio, sysop'ed on CompuServe, wrote about [http://korova.com/virus/ cyberban legends,]'' hoaxes and malware on the Internet before most people did,.... I'm also a contributor to [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/User:Kojirovance Memory Alpha]. (I'm an old, old school Trekkie.)

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