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Who is this guy anyway?

I am a software/firmware/computer engineer who has occasionally contributed to Wikipedia since early 2005. I live in Westminster, Colorado, a suburb about 10 miles northwest of downtown Denver. Sometimes I rewrite pages or add content, but usually it's just nitpicks or vandalism cleanups.

Places I have lived in

Westminster, Colorado: Since June 2006.
Boulder, Colorado: June 2005-June 2006.
Lafayette, Indiana/West Lafayette, Indiana: July 2000-June 2005 (with a few interruptions).
Metamora, Michigan: 1985?-July 2000.

Places I have been

Items with parens after them indicate number of visits; "n" means unknown, but at least 5.

Domestic (United States)

Arizona: Phoenix (x2); Flagstaff; Grand Canyon (x2)
California: San Francisco (xn); Berkeley (xn); Silicon Valley (San Jose, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Menlo Park) (xn); Anaheim; Los Angeles (x2); San Diego (x3); La Jolla; Santa Cruz; Monterey (x2); Napa
Colorado: Denver (xn); Fort Collins (xn); Keystone (x2); Copper Mountain (xn); Vail (xn); Arapahoe Basin; Breckenridge (x3); Dillon (x2); Winter Park (xn); Aspen; Colorado Springs (xn)
Connecticut: Hartford; New Haven
Florida: Tampa (xn); Orlando (xn); Kennedy Space Center (x2); Everglades National Park (x2)
Illinois: Chicago (xn)
Indiana: Indianapolis; Fort Wayne (x2); Gary; Nappanee (xn)
Iowa: Cedar Rapids (xn); Iowa City; Des Moines; Ames (x3)
Massachusetts: Boston
Michigan: Detroit (xn); Flint (xn); Lansing (xn); Houghton; Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
Minnesota: Minneapolis; Duluth; Ely; Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
Missouri: St Louis (x3)
Montana: Big Sky; West Yellowstone
Nevada: Las Vegas (x2); Reno; Lake Tahoe
New York: Buffalo; Rochester (x2)
Ohio: Port Clinton; Toledo; Put-in-Bay; Sandusky; Cleveland
Oregon: Portland (x2); Mount Hood (x2)
Utah: Salt Lake City; Park City
Washington: Seattle
Washington, D.C.
Wisconsin: Milwaukee
Wyoming: Jackson; Yellowstone National Park (x2)
Others (mostly driven through): Georgia; Idaho; Kentucky; Maryland; Nebraska; New Mexico; Pennsylvania; Rhode Island; Tennessee; Virginia

International

Canada: Sarnia, Ontario (xn); Toronto (x2); Hamilton, Ontario; Ottawa; Vancouver (x2); Whistler, British Columbia (x2)
France: Paris; Versailles
Italy (x2): Rome; Florence; Pisa; Genoa; Tirano
Mexico: Zihuatanejo
St. Kitts/Nevis
Switzerland: Zürich; Davos
The Bahamas
Micronations: Monaco; Vatican City

Airports

In parentheses: 'x' means transited through; 'd' means destination.

Caribbean: The Bahamas: Nassau (d); St. Kitts/Nevis: Bassetterre (d)
Europe: France: Paris-Charles de Gaulle (d); Italy: Rome-Fiumicino (d); Switzerland: Zurich (d); The Netherlands: Amsterdam (x)
Mexico: Mexico City (x), Zihuatanejo (d)
United States: Boston (d), Bozeman (d), Chicago-O'Hare (xd), Dallas/Fort Worth (x), Denver (xd), Detroit (d), Indianapolis (d), Las Vegas (d), Los Angeles (d), Miami (x), Minneapolis/St. Paul (x), New York-JFK (x), Orlando (d), Phoenix (d), Portland (OR) (d), Reno (d), St. Louis (d), Salt Lake City (xd), San Diego (d), San Francisco (d), San Jose (CA) (d), Seattle/Tacoma (d), Tampa (d), Washington-Dulles (d)

Aircraft/Airlines

This list is partial and almost certainly incomplete/inaccurate. But what the hey, while I'm at it...

American Airlines: MD-83, 767-300ER
Delta Air Lines: 757-200, MD-90
Frontier Airlines: A318, A319
Northwest Airlines: DC-9, 757-200, 747-400, A320
United Airlines: 737-300, 737-500

Interests

Denver and Colorado in general
Passenger rail and rail-based public transportation, e.g.
- Systems: TheRide, Shinkansen, S-Bahn, Paris Metro, S-Train, New York City Subway, Long Island Rail Road, Metro-North Railroad, BART, London Underground, Amtrak
- Stations: Denver Union Station, Gare du Nord, Grand Central Terminal, London Waterloo, Ueno Station, Shinjuku Station
- Trains: TGV, Shinkansen, Thalys, Maglev
Aviation, especially:
Computers, particularly
- Open-source software, especially FreeBSD and KDE
- Operating systems, file systems, compilers, storage systems, computer networking, ASICs, software engineering
- I have been part of IT and engineering teams, and have consulted for a variety of purposes.
- I once helped implement a DOCSIS 1.1-compliant (well, almost) cable modem and am (or rather, was) intimately familiar with cable/HFC systems as well as Ethernet.
- I also fixed a broken Infiniband Linux device driver.
- I have worked on more than one SNMP implementation and am much more familiar with the protocol than I'd like to be.
- Insert familiarity with C, Python, TCP, IP, HTTP, SMTP, etc.
Photography, hiking, skiing, astronomy, women, racquetball, video games, cars, cochlear implants, soccer, FIFA World Cup, cooking, nuclear power plants and many other things.

Places I would like to visit

These are roughly in order of interest. Places I have already been are excluded.

Japan: Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya, Sapporo, Okinawa
Germany: Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Cologne/Bonn
United States: New York City; Charlotte; Philadelphia; Austin, Texas; New Orleans; Atlanta
United Kingdom: London, Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Southampton, Stonehenge, Belfast
Sweden: Stockholm, Gothenburg, Uppsala, Malmo
Denmark: Copenhagen, Billund, Aarhus, Aalborg
Norway: Oslo, Tromso, Svalbard
Finland: Helsinki
Asian islands: Singapore, Taiwan, Philippines
Thailand: Bangkok
China: Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai
United Arab Emirates: Dubai, Abu Dhabi
Israel: Tel Aviv, Jerusalem
Iraq: Baghdad, Sulaymaniyah
Saudi Arabia: Riyadh, Jeddah, Makkah
Brazil: Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia
Chile: Santiago
Peru: Lima, Machu Picchu
Argentina: Buenos Aires
Australia: Sydney, Adelaide, Perth
New Zealand: Auckland, Christchurch
Morocco: Casablanca, Marrakech
Spain: Madrid, Malaga, Barcelona
Russia: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk
Netherlands: Amsterdam, Nijmegen, The Hague
Austria: Vienna, Salzburg
Italy: Turin, Milan, Venice
South Korea: Seoul, Panmunjom
South Africa: Johannesburg, Cape Town
Poland: Warsaw, Krakow
Czech Republic: Prague
Hungary: Budapest
Ukraine: Kiev, Pripyat
Greece: Athens, Sparta
Belgium: Brussels, Antwerp
Ireland: Dublin
North Korea: Pyongyang
Egypt: Cairo
Ghana: Accra
South Pole

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