User:Cenobite

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Cenobite Currently at-large
Pretentious Cenobite
Name: Cal Harding Gender: Male Birth date: 1983-09-26 Location: South Africa Marital status: Unmarried Occupation: Student University: UNISA Religion: Discordianism
Contact info
E-mail: calvin.harding@gmail.com Skype: cal.harding MSN: calvin.harding@gmail.com Yahoo: Cenobite_101

Location
This user comes from South Africa.
PMB This user is a resident of 'Pietermaritzburg'.
This user's time zone is UTC+2.
00:00 This user uses 24-hour time
SI This user uses the metric system of measurement.

Language
Wikipedia:Babel en-5 This user is able to contribute with a professional level of English. af Hierdie gebruiker se moedertaal is Afrikaans. la-4 Hic usor simile nativi latine loquitur atque contribuere potest. de-2 Dieser Benutzer hat fortgeschrittene Deutschkenntnisse. Search user languages
OED This user uses Oxford spelling.
ipa-2 This user has an intermediate understanding of the International Phonetic Alphabet.
This user speaks Latin anyway.

Computers
This user contributes using GNU/Linux, but doesn't care what other people call it.
This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox.
This user contributes using Vim.
C++ This user can program in C++.
Perl This user is a Perl hacker.
py This user can program in Python.

Wikipedia
This user is a WikiGnome.
tyop typo This user is a member of the Wikipedia Typo Team.
This user is a member of the WikiProject Cricket.

[edit] About myself

[edit] General

I consider myself a consummate geek. In 1991, after I had taught myself BASIC on my trusty Commodore 64 (a language I have since disowned, the learning of which I consider an embarrassing faux pas), I first connected to the Internet at a blinding 1200 baud. I believe I may be the first person from my city, if not my whole country, to have needlessly flamed someone on a BBS.

After taking that first evolutionary step and going "online" all those years ago, I have encountered a few things on the Internet which have no less than filled me with awe and excitement, some of which include: my first discovery of Usenet, my first game of NetHack, my first naive steps in using Unix and, of course, my first visit to Wikipedia.

[edit] Education

I'm currently a student at the University of South Africa with a double-major in philosophy and economics, and I am complementing my studies with the aid of MIT's fantastic OpenCourseWare initiative. My further interests and passions lie in computer programming, artificial intelligence and linguistics.

[edit] Charity

My favourite charity is Child's Play and I am presently campaigning to get the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital in Cape Town listed as a partnered hospital. The hospital is the largest of its kind in the country, and often receives patients from foreign and overseas countries into its specialized care. Unfortunately, government funding for the hospital was recently cut and it now survives primarily on donations, currently requiring approximately another R10 million to upgrade its fifty-year-old theatre complex to meet modern standards.

[edit] Wikipedia

I've been using Wikipedia for a few years now, but have only made minor contributions in the vein of spelling and grammar correction, and so forth. Since Wikipedia has proven itself to be a most invaluable resource to some of my recent academic work, I have decided to give back by stepping up my commitment to its gradual yet inexorable improvement by contributing more frequently and diligently.

[edit] Cricket

Cricket is my favourite sport and, as a member of WikiProject Cricket, I echo the project's sentiment that the number of cricket-related articles can always increase and be better organized. Sadly, many cricket-related articles on Wikipedia are of little more than mediocre quality, which is certainly not what such a sublime and sophisticated sport deserves.

It is my desire to see many more cricketing articles achieve Featured Article status and appear on the front page in order to potentially spread cricket's exposure to people who may otherwise have no knowledge of, or interest in it.

Cricket-related articles to which I'm currently committing a great deal of work include:

• Makhaya Ntini
• Lord's Cricket Ground
• Melbourne Cricket Ground

Planned future cricket-related projects include:

• Pietermaritzburg Oval
• Paul Adams
• History of women's cricket

[edit] Userbox lameness

This user is male.

This user is a bibliophile.

This user is interested in ancient civilizations.

This user studies at the University of South Africa. gk This user is a geek.

@ This user plays NetHack. This user enjoys playing poker. This user identifies with hacker culture.

fark This user is a farker. This user is a cat lover. This user opposes all forms of racism and admires Nelson Mandela.

C2H6O-0 This user is a non-drinker. This user does not smoke. ubx-5 This user uses entirely too many userboxes.

This user is interested in Linguistics. This user is interested in Space Sciences. This user plays the guitar.

cRap This user can't stand rap/hip hop music. This user likes most types of music. ¡ This user knows the Chewbacca Defense and is not afraid to use it!

This user thinks 2001: A Space Odyssey is the best film ever made. This user supports the South African cricket team. This user is a fan of Monty Python!

This user is a captive on the Satellite of Love This user is a fan of The Sopranos. rvb This user is a Red vs. Blue fanatic.

RD This user knows that "they're all dead, Dave". Good news, everyone! This user is a fan of Futurama! This user rejects any violence towards women.

This user is a skeptic. /. This user has a Slashdot account. This user prefers using userboxes to fill up his/her user page instead of actually writing something useful.

Genuine and Authentic Discordian Pope. So please treat him/her right. This user is drug-free.

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nws-3 This user newspeaks goodwise. BS-n This user is a native speaker of Bullshit. LE-0 This individual still maintains a shred of dignity in this insane world by adhering to correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, and capitalisation.

... This user would like to be able to speak many more languages. ... in. Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which this user will not put. whom This user insists upon using whom wherever it is called for, and fixes the errors of whomever he sees.

they This user considers singular they substandard English usage. . The This user does not put two spaces after a full stop. A, B, and A and B This user prefers to use the serial comma only when its omission can be confusing.

"…" This user favours typewriter style quotation marks over typographic ones. This user enjoys overcast weather

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