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My user name

My user name is a reference to the video game "Adventure" on the Atari 2600. "Grundle" is the name of the green dragon in that game. See Adventure (Atari 2600).

Userboxes

This user drinks chocolate milk.

This user likes dinosaurs.

This user likes green anoles.

This user is interested in Greek mythology.

This user was born in 1971.

This user is male, straight, and has no problem wearing pink.

This user lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

This user does not use drugs, but figures people should be able to use recreational drugs in their own home if they're responsible about it.

This user supports the legalization of same sex marriage.

This user supports universal health care.

This user thinks we should tax pollution instead of income.

User:Apollonius 1236/userboxes/Gun control Totalitarian

This user supports the use of nuclear energy.

This user is in favor of desalination.

This user supports Ron Paul.

This user does not trust politicians who praise public schools while sending their own children to private schools.

This user believes that sweatshops in poor countries do more good than harm.

This user opposes corporate welfare and bailouts.

This user believes that the death penalty should never be used.*

This editor is mentioned in The World and Misplaced Pages.

This user is a blood donor.

This user believes in a foreign policy of non‐interven­tionism, but is not a pacifist.

According to The Political Compass this user is: Economic Right (2.00) and Social Libertarian (−5.64)

This user is a member of the Puppy Cabal.

Articles that I started

100 Black Men of America (an organization designed to educate and empower black children and teens in the United States)

1977 Revisited (a compilation by the Clash)

2009 extinct fossil octopus discoveries (three newly discovered species of extinct octopus)

2009 satellite collision (the first major collision between two artificial satellites in Earth orbit)

2009 VA (an asteroid that came within 8,700 miles of Earth)

Acanthomysis microps (a species of mysid)

Adam (robot) (a robot that can conduct independent experiments and come to its own conclusions without help from humans)

Afrocimex constrictus (an insect parasite of Egyptian fruit bats)

Agelas clathrodes (a species of sponge)

Air Force One photo op incident (people in New York City mistakenly thought there was another terrorist attack)

Album of Dinosaurs (a dinosaur book that was published in 1972)

Alexis Lemaire (set new world record for calculating the 13th root of a random 200 digit number in the shortest time)

American Indian Public Charter School (a California school that successfully teaches low income minority students)

Anthosactis pearseae (a sea anemone that lives inside dead whales at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean)

Apteronotus galvisi (a species of ghost knifefish)

Asian predatory wasp (a species of hornet that is native to China, and has become invasive in France)

B&W mPower (a proposed 125 MW advanced light water nuclear reactor)

Babcock Ranch (a proposal for the world's first solar powered city)

Bare-faced Bulbul (a species of bird)

The blob (Chukchi Sea algae) (a large mass of algae in the Chukchi Sea)

Blue Tree (a store owned by Phoebe Cates)

Bone Detectives (a TV series on The Discovery channel)

Bonnie Hayes (a new wave singer from the 1980s)

Bothriechis bicolor (Guatemalan palm-pitviper, a snake that lives in southern Mexico and Guatemala)

Barbara Bullock (former president of Washington D.C. public school teachers union who was jailed for embezzling $4.6 million from the union)

The Chimpcam Project (the first movie to be filmed entirely by chimpanzees)

Chrysaora hysoscella (a species of jellyfish)

Cigar Lake Mine (the world's second largest uranium mine)

Cnemasspis kolhapurensis (a species of gecko)

Coconut doughnut (a kind of doughnut)

The Compact (an environmental movement that asks people not to buy anything new for a year)

Conus textile (a species of cone snail known as the "cloth of gold")

Cosmo the Merry Martian (a 1950s comic book)

D-Shape (a machine that builds three dimensional objects out of sand and glue)

Dan Brown (YouTube) (a YouTube commentator with a very large audience)

Dear IRS (a letter to the editor that gained national media attention)

Desertec (a proposal for what would be the world's biggest solar power farm)

Ebony Experiment (an experiment to find out what happens when people buy things only from black owned businesses)

Economic Recovery and Middle-Class Tax Relief Act of 2009 (proposed law that would cut U.S. tax rates)

Eocarcharia (a dinosaur that lived in Africa 110 million years ago)

Extra Mile Education Foundation (a charitable organization located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which pays for scholarships for low income African American children and teens to attend private K-12 Catholic schools)

Fedexia (a prehistoric amphibian)

Flag Protection Act of 2005 (a bill introduced by Hillary Clinton that would punish flag burners with a punishment of one year in jail and a fine of $100,000)

Flippopotamus (a board game from the 1970s)

Flo (Progressive Insurance) (appears on TV commercials for Progressive insurance)

Flying syringe (proposal to genetically modify mosquitoes to carry vaccines for humans)

Force Trainer (a toy that is said to allow its user to create the illusion of performing Jedi Mind Tricks)

Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act (2009 bill in U.S. Congress that would allow U.S. citizens to travel to Cuba)

Funeral Procession (painting) (a painting that was used in the TV series The Cosby Show)

Gerardo Puisseaux (a guy who looks like Barack Obama)

Godzilla Game (a Mattel board game from 1978)

Goodbye to You (Scandal song) (1982 song "Goodbye To You" by Scandal)

Greatest Hits (The Who album) (a compilation by the Who)

Hauser's Law (a theory that states that in the United States, federal tax revenues will always be equal to approximately 19.5% of GDP, regardless of what the top marginal tax rate is)

HD 172555 (a star with evidence that two of its planets recently collided with each other)

HMS Vanguard and Le Triomphant submarine collision (two nuclear submarines collided in 2009)

Homeowners Affordability and Stability Plan (2009 plan to bail out people in the U.S. who bought houses they couldn't afford)

The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon (a 2008 film short)

A Horsefly Fleas (1948 Warner Bros animated short)

Indiana State Police Pension Trust v. Chrysler (police officers and teachers sue Chrysler for illegally treating their secured credit worse than unsecured credit)

Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2009 (proposed U.S. law to repeal federal ban on growing hemp)

Is It Possible? (a TV series on the Discovery Channel that features people, animals, technology, and other things that are real, but so unusual and surprising that they seem impossible)

Isabelle Redford (an artist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist)

J-Wear (a line of clothing designed for use by astronauts during space missions)

Jaekelopterus rhenaniae (an extinct species of giant sea scorpion - one of the two biggest arthropods of all time)

Josephoartigasia monesi (a giant prehistoric rodent)

Joule Biotechnologies Inc. (a company that creates transportation fuel by combining water, nutrients, photosynthetic organisms, carbon dioxide, and sunlight)

Lance Thomas (watch merchant) (a shopkeeper who shot and killed five armed robbers who shot at him first)

Language and Human Nature (a joint literature project that was begun, but never completed, between C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien)

Laugh Comics Digest (from the Archie series of comics)

LED Incapacitator (a nonlethal weapon that police can use while trying to catch suspects)

Lemur Street (a TV show on Animal Planet)

Let’s Pizza (a vending machine that makes fresh pizza from scratch)

Levi Johnston (the father of Sarah Palin's first grandchild)

LEXID (a hand held X-ray scanner used by police)

Life After People (a documentary about what the earth might be like if people went extinct)

Life Saver bottle (bottle that turns dirty water into clean water in just a few seconds)

Lightning GT (a plug in electric car)

Magombera chameleon (a species of chameleon)

Mangroomer (a back hair shaver for men)

Mark Addison (a shark researcher who interacts with sharks without using any safety equipment)

Markus (prostitute) (the first legal male prostitute in the United States)

Mosquito laser (a device that kills mosquitoes to protect people from malaria)

Mycocepurus smithii (a species of ant that consists exclusively of females)

Mycoplasma laboratorium (a potential form of artificial life)

Nadya Suleman (also known as Octomom because she gave birth to octuplets)

Nannarrup hoffmani (a species of centipede that was discovered in New York City's Central Park)

Nanodragster (a car 50,000 times thinner than a human hair)

Nanping school stabbings (a man in China used a knife to kill eight children and seriously wound five others)

Nemicolopterus (one of the smallest pterosaurs)

North Shore Connector (a 1.2 mile tunnel in Pittsburgh that cost more than $550 million)

Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009 (U.S. government pays to remove tattoos from gang members)

Orangutan Island (a TV series on Animal Planet)

Orectochilus orbisonorum (a species of beetle named after Roy Orbison)

Platanthera yosemitensis (an orchid that grows in Yosemite National Park)

PlayPower (a non-profit organization designed to create free educational computer software for low income families in developing countries)

The Power of Half: One Family's Decision to Stop Taking and Start Giving Back (a book documenting how and why its authors sold their house and donated half of the sale's proceeds to charity)

Pristipomoides filamentosus (a fish that is eaten by humans in Hawaii)

Project Icarus (two MIT students launched a camera into the stratosphere at a cost of only $148)

Pteropus allenorum (a species of fruit eating bat)

Pterosaur Beach (an area in France with the first ever discovered pterosaur landing tracks)

Pyrops candelarius (a very interesting and beautiful insect)

Reann Ballslee (a drag queen who was elected homecoming queen at George Mason University)

Revenge of the Electric Car (a documentary on the Tesla Roadster)

Ricci v. DeStefano (2009 U.S. Supreme Court case on affirmative action)

Richard B. Bernstein (a constitutional historian whose biography of Thomas Jefferson was called "the best short biography of Jefferson ever written" by The New York Times)

Rielle Hunter (John Edwards' mistress)

Rise of the Video Game (a 5 part documentary about video games on the Discovery Channel)

Safari cards (animal information cards that were sold through mail order in the 1970s)

Sakshat (a low cost computing device to be sold in India)

Sebastien Briat (anti-nuclear activist who chained himself to train tracks, got run over by train, and died)

The Simple Solution to Rubik's Cube (a book on how to solve Rubik's Cube)

Smash Lab (a TV series on The Discovery channel)

Smoker's face (damage that happens to the faces of people who smoke)

Some Assembly Required (TV series) (a TV series on the Discovery channel)

Spira (car) (a foam car that gets more than 100 mpg)

Stephen Marchesi (an artist)

Students for Concealed Carry on Campus (a gun rights organization)

Summit Candy Bar (a U.S. candy bar from the 1980s)

Teilhardina magnoliana (the first known primate to live in North America)

Tell Me You Love Me (a TV series on HBO)

Tesla BlueStar (a planned future plug in electric car)

Titanoboa (the biggest snake ever discovered)

Toyota FT-EV - (an electric car that Toyota plans to start selling in 2012)

Toyota iQ (Toyota claims that this is the world's smallest 4 passenger car)

Transition (roadable aircraft) (the world's first commercial flying car)

Twanda Carlisle (member of Pittsburgh city council who went to jail for stealing money from taxpayers)

Varanus lirungensis (a species of monitor lizard)

Vincent Who? (a 2009 documentary film about a 1982 Detroit murder)

Vintage Estate Wine and Beer (rated the best beer retailer in the world by ratebeer.com)

Virtual Cocoon (a virtual reality helmet that stimulates all 5 senses)

W33A (a star in the early stages of formation which has attracted the interest of astronomers)

Waitaha penguin (an extinct species of penguin that was discovered in 2008)

Waiting For Superman (a 2010 documentary film about education)

WASP-18b (an extrasolar planet with an orbital period of less than one day, which scientists think will eventually spiral into its sun)

Weapon Masters (a TV series on The Discovery Channel)

WeCU Technologies (a technology company that is developing a "mind reading" technology for the purpose of detecting terrorists at airports)

Whisson Windmill (a device that extracts clean drinking water from the atmosphere)

Xenoposeidon (A genus of sauropod dinosaur that was discovered in 2007)

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