User:GABaker
I have enjoyed working on Wikipedia. I came here after seeing an article on Kuro5hin, checked it out, and found that I could make a positive contribution.
Biographical Information
Full name: Gregory Albert Baker (there are a lot of us in this world)
Birth: September 20, 1955, in Washington, D.C.
Education: B.Sci, University of Maryland; Empire State Military Academy, Army OCS; couple of computer schools
City: Odenton, Odenton, Watch Your Step, Odenton, Maryland
Profession: Technical writer and substitute teacher; occasional writer of fiction and nonfiction
Family: wife, daughter, two cats
= Interests and Hobbies =
- International broadcasting
- Shortwave radio; I've been listening since 1968
- Open-source intelligence gathering
- Music, listening and playing
= Dumb Facts About Me =
- I was born in the eye of a hurricane. No, I'm not Jumping Jack Flash.
- I'm a distant cousin of former Vice President Albert Gore.
Contributions to the Wikipedia
Articles started:
- Voice of America
- Broadcasting
- International broadcasting
- Civil Air Patrol
- Longwave
- Mediumwave
- Black comedy
- Alas, Babylon
- Fail-Safe
- Soviet submarine Komsomolets
- Fort George G. Meade
- Knots
- Ded reckoning
- Lord Haw-Haw
- Northwest Ordinance
- STANAG
- Motion picture rating systems
- Ace
- Ship prefix
- Order of battle
- Business process improvement
- IBM Message Queue Interface
Articles to which I contributed more than minor material:
- Propaganda
- Dictionary attack
- Shortwave
- Winfield Scott
- BBC World Service
- World War III
- Detective
- Battle of Tsushima
- Military doctrine
- Chechnya
- William Joyce
- George Washington
- Arab League
- Russian submarine Kursk
- Military intelligence
- Merkava
Please note: I truly value working collaboratively with other people on this project, and do not want to be seen as grabbing credit in a collaborative work. However, I am also proud of what I write; furthermore, if anyone has a specific criticism of my facts or my style, I would be glad to address that. As Huey Long once said, "He who does not toot his own horn, the same shall not be tooted."
Other Stuff
- The Battle of Hell, Kentucky; An Essay in Creative History [http://extlab1.entnem.ufl.edu/olustee/related/hell.htm]
- Contributions to the UNCLE/Callahan series on alt.callahans. including the Bunnies
- Contributions to Plastic.com