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| For those who are curious (and most Wiki readers/contributors are): | For those who are curious (and most Wiki readers/contributors are): | ||
| My username comes from one of my favorite lines from one of my favorite films, '']''. Except I replaced the |
My username comes from one of my favorite lines from one of my favorite films, '']''. Except I replaced the J.H. with my own initials. Without initials ''Ghost In The Machine'' is also the title of one of my favorite albums by ''The Police''. | ||
| I'm just a rotund nerd in early mid-life crisis with a love of knowledge. My mind is a vast Pack-rat's maze of facts and information ranging from the truly profound to the trivial to the outright useless. | I'm just a rotund nerd in early mid-life crisis with a love of knowledge. My mind is a vast Pack-rat's maze of facts and information ranging from the truly profound to the trivial to the outright useless. | ||
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For those who are curious (and most Wiki readers/contributors are):
My username comes from one of my favorite lines from one of my favorite films, Brazil. Except I replaced the J.H. with my own initials. Without initials Ghost In The Machine is also the title of one of my favorite albums by The Police.
I'm just a rotund nerd in early mid-life crisis with a love of knowledge. My mind is a vast Pack-rat's maze of facts and information ranging from the truly profound to the trivial to the outright useless.
A major reason for this is my lifelong love of encyclopedias. These miniture libraries were fantastic mind expanding tools for me. Plus, not meaning to sound like some prehistoric geezer here, in the times before home computers became commonplace and long before the WWW, they were the closest thing we had to easy information avalable at the fingertips.
But early on I embraced computers, recognizing their vast potential as mind-expanding tools also. In fact it seems Iam one of few in my age cohort who did not manage to cash in on the computer revolution in some way. This is due partly to technical ineptitude but also to a firm belief that knowledge should be free and open.
This is why the Misplaced Pages strongly appeals to me on many levels. And why it is a pleasure and privilege for me to contribute in some small way to this noble project. Afterall, as Tuttle put it in Brazil, "We're all in this together kid..."
Thank You.
--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) 18:00, 18 July 2005 (UTC)