User:Jidanni/Dan Jacobson (Taiwan)
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This is the soon to vanish corpse of a deleted translation into English of zh:積丹尼 that I attempted to do, but instead ended up having to prove how notable I am.
I will leave that job to others for now on! Jidanni 00:14, 13 November 2007 (UTC) |
| Daniel Jacobson | |
 Jacobson at Wikimania 2007
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| Born | December 16, 1960 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
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| Occupation | subsistence farmer, intellectual, volunteer |
| Spouse | DENG Yingyu (鄧盈玉) |
| Children | none |
| Website http://jidanni.org/ |
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Dan Jacobson (traditional Chinese: 積丹尼; simplified Chinese: 积丹尼; pinyin: Jī Dānní), born 1960, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, moved in 1965 with his parents to Evanston, Illinois, where he attended the Free School of Evanston and also received a Bachelor's Degree in Geology and a Master's degree in Computer Science from Northwestern University, at minimal tuition as his father worked in the library. In 1977 he lived on The Farm (Tennessee).[1]
He worked for a mere three years in Bell Labs, Naperville, Illinois, when in 1991 on a visit to Taiwan he met a local woman, remarrying and moving to the island, where he is now a permanent resident and a member of the expatriate community, with occasional press attention,[2] despite location on a remote hilltop due to his fear of noise, where he maintains subsistence agriculture amid a hectare of Taiwan subtropical evergreen forest.[3]
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[edit] Actions
Over the years Jacobson has occasionally drawn attention:
- Promoting Hanyu Pinyin over the Democratic Progressive Party's Tongyong Pinyin.[4]
- Promoting the use of the Taiwan Power Company's pole coordinates as a "poorman's GPS". These were then incorporated into maps by e.g., Sunriver, who now informally feature Jacobson on their maps and website.[5]
- Promoting house number planning amongst local governments.[6]
- Discovering the reversal of the globe on the 1999 version of the NT$1000 bill. Despite denials, the image was replaced in the 2004 reissue.[7]
- The Highway System in Taiwan adopted Jacobson's suggestions
- Integrated formerly all-female toll collector hiring
- Replaced reoccurring e.g., 0.8 fractional kilometer posts with their full versions: 169.8
- Replaced the 1/2 half kilometer posts on the provincial highways expressways with their full versions: 37.5
In 2007 Jacobson became focused on rescinding Article 9 of the Nationality Law of the Republic of China, so immigrants to Taiwan such as himself can keep their original nationality.[8]
[edit] Comments
Richard Stallman notes Jacobson is "much more unusual" than Stallman.[9]
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ http://jidanni.org/me/
- ^ http://jidanni.org/me/media.html
- ^ http://jidanni.org/location/
- ^ http://jidanni.org/lang/pinyin/older.html (first image is newspaper front page), more scans
- ^ http://jidanni.org/geo/taipower/
- ^ http://jidanni.org/geo/house_numbering/
- ^ http://jidanni.org/geo/nt1000/
- ^ Not allowed to be Taiwanese
- ^ http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/entry-20050712.html
