User:The.dharma.bum

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The.dharma.bum

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I live in St. Paul, Minnesota. I grew up in Stillwater, Minnesota. I received a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Minnesota in Dec. 2002. I currently work in corporate communications for a large company in Eagan, Minnesota, I do some writing, communications strategy, and a lot of messing around with the corporate portal, which is powered by Plumtree.

Please, leave me a note on my talk page, I enjoy connecting with like-minded folks.

1 Other Projects and Pastimes
- 1.1 BWCAWiki
- 1.2 Writing
2 On Wikipedia
- 2.1 What It Means to Me
- 2.2 Username
3 Contributions

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[edit] BWCAWiki

I founded and am one of the primary contributors to the BWCAWiki, a wiki about one of my favorite places on Earth, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

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I have been blogging at the dharma blog since 10/2004. I write about my experiences in the natural world, wilderness, writing, and life in general. I also post the occasional photograph. I have been half-heartedly working on a novel, most of it posted on there as "The McDonald's Kid." It is around 12,000 words now, but I would like to devote more time and effort to it in 2006 and 2007.

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[edit] What It Means to Me

I remember when I was a little kid I believed that there had to be somebody in the world who knew everything. Everything. I repeatedly asked my parents who that person was. I couldn't accept that there wasn't such a person. Knowledge seemed finite, school seemed to be a means to learn as much of it as possible.

Anyway, sooner or later I accepted the fact that no such person existed. But, I do believe that with Wikipedia and other Wiki projects, the idea of gathering everything of any importance that we humans know is possible. And beautiful.

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My username is an allusion to a favorite novel of mine by Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums, and that book's hero, Japhy Ryder (based on the poet Gary Snyder).

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St. Croix River	Superior Hiking Trail	Superior Hiking Trail	Superior Hiking Trail
Superior Hiking Trail	Afton State Park	William O' Brien State Park	St. Croix River
St. Croix River