WELCOME
I use the top of this Page as a 'Scratch Pad' — But visitors are always welcome.
- Have a seat and let me grab us a couple of brewski's! — Look around if you like, but watch your step as you wander around amongst the clutter!
If you want a clue as to who I am Click: Flue Powder if you don't want to trip going across the floor. I'm afraid I'm very ADD (AD/HD)so the piles on the floor are the best I can do to organize myself without a lot of anxiety provoking effort.
My TOC: (NOT really of use TO YOU! I'm afraid.)
Useful links
- HELP by Department
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Check out/Examine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary
Useful Techniques/Tools
- Embedding GeoCo-Ordinates Template: Geographical location 32°44′N 129°52′E / 32.733°N 129.867°E (Nagasaki) (Link indication is beta-test to mapping software.)
- Edit Counter
- Counter Summary section only
Reminders and ToDo Lists
Completed To-Do Items
Nagasaki, Nagasaki - 10 August 2005
Maybe: This category contains Wikipedians who participate in the Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting. If you want to add yourself, put on your user page or, if you don't have a user page, on your user talk page. (fab-050701)
Community Contributions
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Mr_Tan
- Above Wikified
- Some POV edit-war fix suggestions
- POV Naming Wars
- Battle of Trafalgar (Aide to author)... on Peer ReviewFabartus 04:12, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Artikel
Articles I'm Working On (large edits)
- 1632 (novel) -- 1632 series -- 1632 series characters
- 1632_series/1632_series_historical_background -- 24.61.229.179
- Battle of Port Arthur -- Battle of Tsushima -- Russo-Japanese War and related articles
Articles I'm Researching
- Other battles of Russo-Japanese war (a lot)
- Timeline of the Russo-Japanese War -- Battle of Chemalpo -- Naval Skirmishes of the Russo-Japanese War
- Battle of Shantung -- Dalian -- Lushun -- Fleets of the Russo-Japanese War
Dont forget: web reference for additional research: http://www.russojapanesewar.com/tsushima.html
- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Boxer_Rebellion&action=edit§ion=1 - This has error "had begun to demand" - build a list of known concessions 1894-1897, including extra-terratorality, naval bases and 'Regions' (ala WeiWei, Liaodong, CER, etc.), then incorporate into this causes section. Fabartus 04:58, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Battle of Trafalgar (Aide to author)... on Peer ReviewFabartus 04:12, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Wiki Articles I Started
Excludes the trivial redirects, Natch!'
- Table of US Weights and Measures : stub Fabartus 04:12, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Wiki Article Contributions
This will never be up to date, I fear!!!
Minor Contributions
Korea Strait -- Tsushima Islands -- Tsushima Strait -- Dalian -- Lushun
Article Significant edits
- Natural Gas — Treaty of Shimonoseki — Siege of Port Arthur
- Drum (container) — Battle of Port Arthur — Russo-Japanese War
Older Work (as Anom)
- One Computer - User:24.61.229.179 (Office Desk)
- Fathometer -- Natural Gas
Pending Large Edit Articles
Miscellany
Mine for Goodies
- (When brain is otherwise fried)
Examin Boxes -- Techniques -- Tech2 -- Tech3 -- Intereting Record Examine Imbeds in Talk Page Box is Neat Idea — Another Box trick and Fonts! Explore Graphics Generation
patrol
Vandalism Category:Candidates for speedy deletion - Deletion log - Commons_Images - Wikipedia:Deadend pages WikiProjects -- RecentChanges
R-JW Project References
- F.R. Sedwick, (R.F.A.), The Russo-Japanese War, 1909, The Macmillan Company, N.Y., 192 pp.
- Colliers (Ed.), The Russo-Japanese War, 1904, P.F. Collier & Son, New York, 129 pp.
- Dennis and Peggy Warner, The Tide At Sunrise, 1974, Charterhouse, New York, 659 pp.
- Geoffrey Jukes, The Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905, 2002, Osprey Publishing, Oxford, Ox2 9LP (Britain), ISBN 1-84176-446-9, 95 pp.
- William Henry Chamberlain, Japan Over Asia, 1937, Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 395 pp.
- Frank Theiss, The Voyage of Forgotten Men, 1937, Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1st Ed., Indianapolis & New York, 415 pp.
- Ian Nish, A Short History of JAPAN, 1968, LoCCC# 68-16796, Fredrick A. Praeger, Inc., New York, 238 pp.
- ditto, The Story of Japan, 1968, (British Title and Publisher), Farber and Farber, Ltd. (i.e. same book)
- Edwin O Reischauer, Japan - The Story of a Nation, 1970, LoCCC# 77-10895 Afred A. Knopf, Inc., New York. 345 pp. plus index.
- Richard Hough, "THE FLEET THAT HAD TO DIE", 1958, LoCCC# 58-9650, The Viking Press, Inc., New York, 212 pp.
- Tom McKnight,PhD, et al; Geographica (ATLAS), 1999-2004, 3rd revision, Barnes and Noble Books AND Random House, New York, ISBN 0-7607-5974-X, 618 pp.
- David Walder, THE SHORT VICTORIOUS WAR, 1973, Harper & Row, New York, ISBN 0-06-014516-1, 321 pp.
- Constantine Pleshakov, The TSAR'S LAST ARMADA, 2002, Basic Books/The Perseus Books Group, New York, ISBN 0-465-05791-8, 396 pp.
For the Incorrigibly Curious
I feel that Self-promotion is something that ought to be practiced like masturbation - in private, but now that I finally committed myself to the Wiki-culture and signed up, I suppose something autobiographical should be written here. I've been making anyominous edits and fixes for five or six months, at least. So have been poking around since the end of 2004 iirc,
I'm a self-employed engineering consultant in the Boston Area with a strong general knowledge background in the sciences, history, and to a lesser extent economics and finance. I attended Washington and Jefferson College in Pennsylvania (Biology+Chemistry+Economics), DeVry Institute of Technology, Evanston Ill. (Associates in Electronics), Northeastern University and Tufts University (various electrical and computer engineering), not to mention a lot of US Navy Technical Schools while I was in the regular navy. My college education was broken and changed track as a result of the world wide recession triggered by the OPEC Oil Embargo of 1973 and 1974. In 1974 (my first 'real' professional job as a student) was as an Industrial Chemist in a steel stamping and galvanizing plant, making sure we were in compliance with the Clean Air and Water Act and resultant E.P.A. regulations.
To many, that recession meant only gas lines and odd-even license plate restrictions for when we could buy, but to me, working to put myself through school, it meant watching a company die, a consequent stint in the US Navy serving in Submarines when I couldn't afford a third years tuition, and a reserve career as a Chief-Petty-Officer now spanning decades. It also bumped me into electronics and software which I've kept balanced on a plate as a systems specialist ever since, even before adding other engineering degrees. I have a wife who is a notable tax expert, CPA, currently President of the local chapter of NWBO (pronounced 'Nah-Bow'- Nation Womans Business Owners) and two teenagers now both in a private high school. We live in North Anover, Massachusetts -- but if you tell anyone, I'll have to kill you cause that's classified. <G>
(If you're unfamiliar with military humor in general, you have to forgive me for things like that. Some say I have a low and evil sense of humor, but that's a base slander — it's not evil in the least but does go quite low at times!)
I write science fiction and fantasy under a nom de plume (which is how I found Wiki), read almost anything, but especially love to study history by reading biographies of various 'characters on the historical stage' so I can get the 'flavor' of the time and the balanced viewpoint from various authors. If a figure is especially noteworthy, I'll read three or four biographies over time, as some biographers exibit bias. Living near Boston, I'm also a big PATS (and Steelers) fan, though the home town team wins my loyalty over the old town 'Steel city' when they meet head to head. (After such occasions, the family will even talk to me again— after a month or so of sulking.) I'm a fair REDSOX baseball fan as well (and no, not fair weather!), but more fanatic about the shorter football season. I don't generally watch TV unless it's current events (News, sports) or History, save for family time, got to the movies only rarely, and browse the web less than that without a specific purpose. Those sessions meant I started seeing Wikipedia more and more, and I guess that's the short form of why I'm here now taken together with my penchant for reading and wanting to check a related matter.
I'm a lifelong Boy Scout (Us older 'graduates' and mentors are known as 'Scouters') and like a lot of outdoor stuff varying from the horses and hunting dogs I had as a kid, to mountaineering things like rapeling and white water rafting. I'm very into blue water boating, used to race extensively (Glory Days) in sailing clubs and regatta's, and can be seen cruising (or flying very low) in local waters in the Nauti-gal, a cuddy-cabin go fast boat my wife talked me into when she opined that sailing was too much work (as an activity).
So my sentence for accepting that arguement is that I get to spend my spare time maintaining 'Nauti-Gal' and hung a license-plate sign saying "I'd Rather be Sailing" on the stern. Hey, gotta be honest! I'm currently rebuilding her engine (As a youth, I managed a gas station and helped build dragsters) and hope to get her back on blue water by May 2006.
I Trailer the beast, so you can find me on New Hampshires Lakes as readily as on the coastline between Kennibunkport, ME (No, Haven't seen Bush Senior on his boat yet.) to Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island. This summer I may cruise down to New London and Groton (Ct.) to see if the old Navy base looks the same.
In addition to all that, I keep after an endless list of hands on projects around the house or grounds, train and walk our two dogs, and build furnature and do cabinetry about every third year. The Doc said I was good for another 100,000 miles early in 2006 but wants me to loose more weight (15 pounds down from December to February wasn't enough!). While that sounds well enough, he wants me to get a colonoscopy which is about as bad as it gets, so say a prayer for me come May!