English and Economics were my major to getting my B.A. Besides having been a full-time student, I am still interested in console gaming, watching mainstay cinema, basketball, street hockey, and being an avowed ebay enthusiast. As a prime user of Wikipedia, I find the the profit of information it gives me unparalleled. This is the greatest online expedient in the world, hence I for one feel obligated to correct what I can for the sake of bettering this tool for future and present users.
My primary objective is not in fabrication, but polishing and refining articles through the removal of verbiage/"verbage"(rhymes with garbage). Verbosity is one of the salient problems in e-literature and e-reference; many times users are inclined to use a wordy, jargon-rife explanation for an concept with the intent of sounding like an "expert", though the result is often a pedantic effort. As a student myself I am occasionally the culprit of this erroneous methodology. The art of being didactic requires the ability to render technical, difficult knowledge to the intuitive. A good article should not be so discursive as to force the reader to memorize volumous information, but should be effective in giving wisdom that can be paraphrased and imparted in many ways. Excessively lofty diction confuses more than facilitating the learning experience. The person of average intelligence will put down a written encyclopedia if it works to insult their vernacular, and make them feel unlearned. I also act as a de facto grammar technician and will exercise my shrewd language skillz as someone who is fairly comfortable in English (it's my concentration afterall).
I do not limit my interest in articles to one or two wiki-categories. Much like the six degrees of seperation between humans there is a similar inexplicable link between articles such that I may find myself paradoxically jumping from the article on The Big Crunch to the article on Cecil De Mille. I can tell you I make excursions into subjects such as canonical film, North American athletics, theoretical physics, contemporary music, literature and theatre, and adult comedy animation. Besides a number of articles I made for a certain mysterious Anglo-Saxon poet on a different account, I will rarely initiate an article page. I take particular interest in adult animation, and I will try to contribute to articles on programs from Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block.
It has been years since what I wrote regarding the Judaic people and what I viewed as their prominent international strengths. With gathering more a history, I reget what I typed about as a young, all too naive, childish man. Please know I no longer believe my then possibly offensive claims or insults. All smart minds are meant to be broader than racism, homophobism and anti-Semitism -- and other backward beliefs. Thankfully, I only worship methodologies of the highest truth: science.
'Tis not due yet; I would be loath to pay him before
his day. What need I be so forward with him that calls not on me? Well, 'tis no matter; honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on? how then? Can honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. 'Tis insensible, then. Yea,to the dead. But will it not live with the living?
no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon: and so ends my catechism.
Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you? (Calmer.) They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
