I live in the United States with a spouse and cat(s).
Formal education: M.A. in public sector management; and M.S. in computer science, most of a Ph.D. (not completed) in Germanic linguistics and literature, and B A. in liberal arts, major English. I joined this wiki in 2007. Some articles I have worked on:
 Amaryllis: The common name for a group of showy ornamental perennials plants in the genus Hippeastrum. [e]- Amy Lowell (poet): Modern American poet (1874-1925), posthumous winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926, author of poemms Patterns and Lilacs [e]
 Appalachian Mountains: North American mountain chain of 2,000+ miles going from central Alabama to Newfoundland, parallel to the Atlantic Ocean, short, rugged, bunched up, a barrier to early European settlers, subject to strip mining and mountaintop removal, and home to the iconic "AT" hiking trail. [e]- Claude Shannon: (1916-2001) American theoretical mathematician, founder of information theory. [e]
- Clean Water Act: Federal laws from 1948, 1972, 1977 and 1987 that govern water quality in the United States of America [e]
- Coal mining: the various methods used to extract coal from the ground. [e]
- Croquet: A sport using wooden mallets to knock balls across a lawn, playable with average strength, speed, agility and endurance, barefoot or in any kind of shoes including high heels. [e]
- C_Sharp: Object-oriented general-purpose programming language developed for the Microsoft .NET Framework. [e]
- Eugene Daub (sculptor): An award-winning American scultor (1942-?) known for statuary, busts in a classical style, and for medallic art and bas relief. [e]
- Evening primrose: Several species of wild flowers native to eastern and central North America from the genus Oenothera. [e]
- Georgette_Heyer: (1902-1974) Widely-read English writer of over 50 historical (17th-18th cent.) novels; arguably created the Regency romance genre [e]
- Gertrude_Stein: American author (1874-1946) who lived in Paris, France, and is best remembered for creating deliberate linguistic conundrums. [e]
- James H. Schmitz: Add brief definition or description
- Lois_McMaster_Bujold: American science fiction and fantasy writer, winner of seven Hugos, three Nebulas, and many other awards [e]
- Macrobiotics: A mostly vegan, low-salt, low-oil diet; a social movement training people to cook according to their personal condition. [e]
- Mary Baker Eddy: American founder of Christian Science and of international newspaper The Christian Science Monitor. [e]
- New Jersey: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See New Jersey (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
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- One-way encryption: Form of encryption used to store passwords on disk and verify intact file transmission. [e]
- Paris, Tennessee: A town of about 10,000 in West Tennessee; county seat of Henry County; has a 70' replica of the Eiffel Tower [e]
- Patriot_Act: a controversial law expanding the ability of the U.S. government to surveil both U. S. citizens and foreign nationals around the world, passed immediately after the 9/11 attack [e]
- Quinto_(grid_game): Board game a.k.a. Game of Fives resembling Scrabble but with numbers. [e]
- Rainer_Maria_Rilke: German poet (1875-1926) from Austria-Hungary famous for the Duino Elegies and The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge among other works [e]
- Ruby (programming language): Dynamically-typed, object-oriented programming language created by Yukihiro Matsumoto in 1995. [e]
- Scylla (sea monster): A mythological a sea hazard on one side of a narrow strait across from a dangerous whirlpool. [e]
- Smoke Signals (film): A 1998 Canadian-American film about a troubled father-son relationship on Idaho's Coeur D'Alene Reservation. [e]
- Tennessee Heritage Protection Act: Tennessee state law (2013) to prevent removal or relocation of confederate memorials on public property. [e]
- Tennessee River: a large tributary of the Ohio River [e]
- Theater in the round: A performance space in which the audience sits on at least three sides of the stage [e]
- Theodor Fontane: A popular, late 19th-century German-language novelist whose realistic works are still widely read, sometimes in English translation. [e]
- To Have and To Hold (Johnston novel): an 1899 novel by American author Mary Johnston, best-seller in 1900, taking place in 1621-22 in Jamestown, Virginia colony [e]
- Walt Whitman: (1819-92) American poet and essayist, famous for his flowing free verse in Leaves of Grass, including 'A Noiseless Patient Spider' [e]
- What is language?: The definition of language - what counts as a language and what doesn't - is a difficult philosophical topic, deserving an article in its own right. [e]
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