User:Bdesham

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Hi there! My name is Benjamin Esham, but I go by bdesham on the 'pedia. I am an administrator, although in the rare event that I use the associated powers it's just for maintenance work.

Contact info:

• I'm bdesham128 on AIM and bdesham@gmail.com on Google Talk / Jabber.
  • If it's at all possible, please use OTR encryption—you can find my fingerprints at /OTR fingerprints.
• You can e-mail me at bdesham AT gmail DOT com.
  • Feel free to use my PGP key to encrypt your e-mail.
• Visit /Userboxes to see my entire life summarized by a series of colorful boxes.

Other user pages (mostly just redirects to here): commons - esperanto - français - italiano - latina - lojban - meta - sep11 - simple - wikibooks - wikinews - wikiquote - wikisource - wiktionary

[edit] Brag sheet

Articles I've started or contributed to heavily.

Adium, Alias (television), Armenian Dances (Part I), AWK programming language, B.Y.O.B. (Bring Your Own Bombs), Capriccio espagnol, Carly Patterson, DejaVu fonts, Epcot, footbag, Geneseo, New York, cellular respiration, Drum Corps International, genetic code, Jennifer Garner, mellophone, Moleskine, Odyssey of the Mind, pentaquark, Russian Christmas Music, Spaceship Earth (Disney), Taps, TI-89, Variations on a Korean Folk Song (et al)

Images: see User:Bdesham/Images for my gallery.

[edit] Great quotes from Wikipedia articles

• "These approximations [of pi] have so many digits that they are no longer of any practical use, except for testing new supercomputers." — Pi
• "The reader may legitimately wonder if the author of the above joke gets invited to many parties." — Lightbulb joke
• "...most of the campus contains a jumble of buildings with different architectural styles and all the charm and elegance of a typical run-down industrial park." — MIT
• "Please remember that Wikipedia is offered for informational use only.... You are advised to contact your Commander-in-Chief for war-related decisions." — Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships
• "Some have interpreted the parrot debate as a sixth level theological argument concerning the existence (or otherwise) of God. Others haven't." — Dead Parrot
• "There need not be infinitely many monkeys; a single monkey who executes infinitely many keystrokes suffices." — Infinite monkey theorem
• "Thanks. Yes I'm very lucky to have a number of very popular letters in my name." — Theresa knott
• "Dildo, as you may know, has an unusual name." — Dildo, Newfoundland and Labrador
• "...it is reasonable to assume someone is angry when they are hitting you." — Spanking
• "Note that in "Crazy as f*ck", MC Hawking states that "my d*ck is twice as long as my attention span". Since time can also be measured in meters, and assuming a fairly modest attention span of 200 seconds, this would imply an appendage with a length of just slightly under 120 billion meters. Now, in "The Mighty Stephen Hawking", MC Hawking states that his "d*ck's harder than concrete." Assume a cross sectional area of 40 cm^2, and using the fact that the density of concrete is 2300 kg/m^3, this would imply an appendage with a mass of over 1 trillion kg." — MC Hawking
• "Exa-annum, usually abbreviated as Ea, is a unit of time equal to 10¹⁸ years. It is an absurdly long unit of time." — Annum

[edit] License

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