User:Ron Johnson~commonswiki

Welcome!

I'm a Wiki user from California. I haven't been very involved in writing updating, or building wiki much, though.

As I have multiple wiki* accounts, you should probably consider the one at Wikipedia the "main" one.

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About

About me (personal) I'm 30something I'm a computer nerd I'm interested in a wide range of topics I have varying policital views (ranging from far right, to far left) I'm the most patient person I have ever met I'm the most tolerant, intolerant person I've ever met (I have hard views on things, and tend to be an absolutist / literalist / extremist in my views, but extraordinarily tolerant in my expectations of others). I was online back when I could type faster than my modem could transmit. I'm quite familiar with operating servers, linux, windows, php, and other techie stuff. I love open-source, and similar ideas. I (almost) hate closed-source things, like Windows. I strongly agree with, and support public domain, creative commons, open-source, GPL works. I (in most cases) do not support copyright, patents, and the like. I use Fedora Core (GNU/Linux) on all but one of my computers. I'm philosophically opposed to questions like: Would you ever... Is it possible to... Is there any concievable way... ... as such questions have no meaningful answer (they're all "yes"). I'm really cynical sometimes, and getting worse. I'm really a nice person, if you knew me, you'd probably see what I mean with the above, but think that I'm unfairly biasing others against me (and I am, I'd rather you think I'm a hard-ass, and then find out otherwise).

Contacting Me Good luck. Seriously, I mean it. I have more accounts on more systems than I can think of off the top of my head. Please feel free to leave a message on my talk page here, or on one of the other wiki's that I have accounts at, however, seriously, I'm not very good at checking messages. Maybe you'll get lucky, maybe not. If I've been editing recently, there's definately a better chance that I'll see your message, but it's also entirely possible I may not see it at all. As a kind of example of the kind of lag you might get, I only check my personal email once every few months (the main one, the alternates, which I have hundreds, maybe once a year or longer), my snail-mail once a week (only to keep it from filling up, I don't actually read it but once very few months). The only thing I actually check promptly is my cellphone voicemail, work email/tickets, and I'm not giving any of that out here. Even if you did get them: I'd probably ignore anything at work, as it's not work related -- I'd probably get pissed for anything personal, as I don't know you, and don't want people I don't know contacting me at personal accounts, phones, etc. (I'm a rabid anti-spam, anti-solicitation, anti-telemarketer kinda person) Sorry, but that's just how it is.

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