User:EncMstr

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This user has earned a Silver Badge for contributing 10 Oregon related DYKs!

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		Well done, good sir— you valiantly sorted the category entries for all Oregon ballot measures. I would have got a headache after the first five. Thanks for all your work on Oregon pages. -Pete 08:00, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

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Thank you for looking at my user page. I endeavor to be to the point, except an occasional fun detour.

I have several interests, including

• Correct, clear, unambiguous use of the English language, courtesy of two years of Latin language study, frequent travel abroad, and developing and maintaining computer software for 25+ years.
• Learning new things. Special:Random is perfect to humble and challenge me.
• Numerous activities. Recent prevalences are
  • filmmaking
  • bicycling
  • alpine skiing (part time seasonal instructor)
  • backpacking (in Austria and at home in Oregon)
  • kayaking
  • scuba (divemaster)
  • aviation (private pilot)
  • kickboxing
  • yoga
  • vegetarian cuisine

[edit] Places Visited

I have spent significant time in and have respectable cultural exposure to the people of

This user is a libertarian.

The best government is that which governs least —Walt Whitman, Duties of Government (1846)

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[edit] Some works in progress

• Oregon ZIPs subpage: a prototype for table formatted version of List of ZIP Codes in Oregon
• User:EncMstr/List of Frank Lloyd Wright works: an upgrade of List of Frank Lloyd Wright works
• User:EncMstr/sandbox: personal tests

[edit] Tools

• Cool tool from Geonames database plotted on Google maps

[edit] To do

[edit] Create

• Portland Business Journal create over redirect
• Oregon Tourism Commission
• Philip Foster Farm
• Laurel Hill Chute [1] [2]
• Aufderheide National Scenic Byway [3] [4] [5] [6]
• Willamette floods
  • general:
    • Elizabeth L. Orr and William N. Orr, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene (November/December 1999). "The other face of Oregon: Geologic processes that shape our state" 61, Number 6: 132–134. Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries. 
  • 1861:
    • Cain Allen (2004). The Great Flood of 1861. The Oregon History Project. Oregon Historical Society. Retrieved on 2007-11-22.
    • Stephenie Flora. Marion County Flood of 1861. The Oregon Territory and Its Pioneers. Retrieved on 2007-11-22.
  • 1890:
    • Oregon's Great Floods. New York Times (February 7, 1890). Retrieved on 2007-11-22.
• Carl L. Linde [7] Sovereign Hotel (Oregon) Camlin Hotel [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]

[edit] Expand

• Badger Creek Wilderness
• Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness
• Mark O. Hatfield Wilderness
• Mount Jefferson Wilderness
• Zigzag River
• Salmon River National Recreation Trail
• Ray Atkeson
• Rajneeshpuram‎ (refs on talk page)
• List of Oregon covered bridges: 3 of 51 articles started

[edit] Oregon lists

• User:EncMstr/List of Oregon GNIS features an experiment. Yikes! there are 27,239 Oregon features in the gnis database!

These have Oregon mixed in with other states. Might be good candidates for creating another article, or reworking these with sortable tables.

• Concert hall#United States
• List of American football stadiums by capacity
• List of areas in the National Park System of the United States
• List of art schools
• List of astronomical observatories
• List of AZA member zoos and aquariums
• List of festivals in the United States
• List of indoor arenas in the United States
• List of Mexican American communities
• List of National Monuments of the United States
• List of the United States National Park System official units
• List of bascule bridges#United States
• List of bus companies#United States
• List of farmers' markets#USA
• List of fossil sites#North America
• List of intentional communities#United States
• List of National Fish Hatcheries in the United States
• List of postal killings#USA
• List of rail transit systems in the United States
• List of university and college name changes in the United States
• List of water polo organizations#USA
• List of waterfalls#West of the Mississippi River