User:Rethunk

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(2024) Does anyone read user pages any more? Wow, I've been on Wikipedia for 21 years now, long enough to see the article count increase from 100,000 to nearly 7 million (in English alone).

(2018) I remembered my login! But I've only made anonymous edits the past few years.

User Info before 2008: Ancient History

I'm an engineer in the field of machine vision, which is essentially a combination of computer vision--the academic study of "making computers see"--and industrial automation.

(Yada yada yada) . . . I wish I could find a snooker table within 100 miles.

. . . and I found a snooker table. Well, after quite a bit of work and lots of help I found over 300 snooker tables (now nearly 400 tables) in the U.S. http://www.findsnooker.com/

Here's a quick list of articles for which I've written first drafts.

Miscellany

• machine vision
  • "at the time of writing this, [the 100,000th article on Wikipedia] is Machine vision by Rethunk, started at 05:30 the same morning! (That is, assuming that none of the subsequent new pages are non-articles, which may not actually be true.)" -- from "Wikipedia: 100,000th article" (as of 21 Jan 2003)

• Austin City Limits (television)
  • concert music program on American television
• Celis
  • Belgian-style beer brewed in Texas, then Michigan
• Kris Kringle

Music

• Weather Report
  • 1970s jazz fusion band featuring Jaco Pastorius, Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter
• Julian Cannonball Adderley
  • jazz saxophonist
• Béla Fleck & the Flecktones
  • funky jazz/bluegrass/superchops band
• Béla Fleck
  • banjo player
• Juan Atkins
  • father of techno music, Detroit musician

Literature

• Jonathan Franzen
  • American novelist, author of The Corrections
• Christopher McQuarrie
  • American writer, Oscar winner for screenplay of The Usual Suspects

Edited or Tweaked

• accuracy, calibration
• billiards - added a few games
• beer - added breweries, etc.

And so on.