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Category:Wikipedians in Canada Mendel Mendel

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I'm Rich, a geek from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I look remarkably like the handsome gentleman illustrated at right.

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You can glean more info about me from [http://mendel.livejournal.com/ my LiveJournal] and its [http://mendel.livejournal.com/info userinfo page], and my [http://www.lafferty.ca/ website].

For two days I was known as RichL, but ten years of being "mendel" on IRC won out.

I am engaged to the lovely Nyxie.

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All of the following make using and contributing to Wikipedia easier for me:

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Areas of Interest

In which I describe in a barely-organized manner the sorts of things I expect I might be contributing to based on my interests and history.

= Computing =

I'm a Unix system administrator and Perl programmer by trade, and while I only briefly studied formal computer science I expect I'll touch on that area here and there.

= Sociology and Economics =

I have an undergraduate degree in sociology which at times started looking like I might end up studying Economics instead. My areas of concentration at the time included deviance, labor theory, queer theory, and medical sociology.

= Music =

I studied jazz performance and computer music at the undergrad level for three years before switching into sociology. I play rock and jazz bass guitar, jazz and a bit of classic double bass, Irish traditional music on the flute and tinwhistle, and a bit of bodhrán and guitar.

Much of my listening time is filled with indie rock. The first article I wrote from scratch was on Canadian indie rock band Hot Hot Heat.

= Aviation =

I possess (but have not used for some time — in fact it expires any day now) a student pilot permit, and am predictably a bit of an aviation nut, although I'm certainly not an aviation historian. Nonetheless I expect I will be dabbling in some general aviation articles.

= Physics =

I have no formal training in physics whatsoever, but I might have enough understanding thereof to tweak articles toward the layman level.

= Motorcycling =

I am a neophyte motorcyclist, having picked up a license and a 1981 GS250T this summer and will find my way around relevant articles soon enough.

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Articles for which I take some blame

= Full or nearly-full blame =

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= Photos =

  • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bodhran.jpg Bodhrán] in Bodhrán
  • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Betta_splendens.jpg Betta splendens] in Siamese fighting fish
  • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:North-shore-tugboats.jpg Tugboats] in Tugboat
  • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Freshwater_angelfish_biodome.jpg Freshwater angelfish] in Freshwater angelfish
  • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tinwhistles.jpg Tin whistles] in Tin whistle

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