User:Steve8675309
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My name is Steve. I live near Dayton, Ohio with my wife and our two little ones. I am a scientist. I work for the military-industrial complex.
[edit] Wikipedia
My opinion of Wikipedia is not good. The engineering and math pages I’ve looked at have are okay, but Wiki’s biography articles are just plain awful. The first page I edited was Richard Guadagno’s. My dad worked with Guadagno at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Guadagno died on 9/11 while attacking the terrorists that hijacked Flight 93. It's well-documented that Guadagno lived in Eureka, California and worked for the USFWS [1][2]. But his Wiki entry said that he was "manager of EPPD" (whatever that means) and lived in El Paso, Texas [3]. I fixed those errors, but wonder how many similar mistakes are scattered throughout the Wiki pages. And don’t get me started on how biased the Wiki page is for the worst professor ever.
[edit] The Worst Professor Ever
“…as we have seen, facts aren’t professor Churchill’s strong point” – University of Colorado law professor Paul Campos
I'm embarrassed to admit that I went to the school that gave Ward Churchill tenure. Anyone who wants to know about Churchill should read the reports in the Rocky Mountain News [4] instead of the biased and silly puff-piece that appears in Wikipedia. Wikipedia is full of slanted and poorly-written work like its Churchill article. Which is exactly why nobody considers Wikipedia a reliable reference [5] [6].
“University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.” – Henry Kissinger [7]
If I met Ward, I imagine that we would have a conversation very similar to the one Dr. Hibbert had with the Springfield U. placekicker (Lubchenko) on The Simpsons... [8]
LubchenkoWard:LubchenkoWard must return togameteaching!
HibbertMe:- [chuckles] Your
playingteaching days are over, my friend. But, you can always fall back on your degree in ... [reads chart] communications!? Oh, dear Lord! [9]
- [chuckles] Your
LubchenkoWard:- I know! Is phony major.
LubchenkoWard learn nothing. Nothing! [cries]
- I know! Is phony major.
[edit] The Best Thing I’ve Added to Wikipedia
I’m a fan of Battlestar Galactica and read somewhere that Katee Sackhoff went to a high school in the suburbs west of Portland, Oregon. I grew up in the same area, went to a rival high school, and remembered that Starbuck’s high school mascot was Apollo [10] [11].
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