User:Johnruble

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Hi there. My name is John. I just graduated from Purdue University with a BS in CS, and am living and working in West Lafayette.

Contents 1 wikipedia stuff 2 neat stuff 3 random cool pages 4 teevee 5 music 6 movies 7 software 8 other wikis 9 miscellany 9.1 scream 9.2 tf2, nolf, evil genius, james bond-ey style 10 userboxes

[edit] wikipedia stuff

I fix grammatical and hyperlink errors as I encounter them, but my only real contribution is the picture on the Kurt Eisner page.

[edit] neat stuff

• Clive Cussler's books
• computer games
• Nintendo DS Lite (check out the download station)
• Nintendo DS homebrew
• NVIDIA (and graphics cards in general)
• Wii!
• Modular Origami
• U-MYX
• Pulp magazine

[edit] random cool pages

• featured pictures are way cool, especially the panoramas
• Biosphere 2
• Demoscene
• The Turk
• Zeppelin
• Formicarium
• u-boats (indeed, wikipedia is really good at all kinds of military history)
• MC Escher
• TR
• Machu Picchu - gotta go here someday.
• Dolby Digital - (specifically this picture)
• Security theater
• 2-XL - I used to have one of these as a kid, which I used primarily for playing The Four Tops' best of.
• Enigma machine
• Write Only Memory
• Joe Arpaio
• Image:Video_Standards.svg
• Loudness war
• Airborne aircraft carrier

[edit] teevee

• hustle zomg this is the best show evar
• firefly
• deadwood
• battlestar
• scrubs
• becker
• lost
• Discovery HD Theater, excepting that motorcycle show

[edit] music

• Bond (band)
• Brad Paisley
• Kate Nash
• Wir Sind Helden

[edit] movies

• After the sunset
• Equilibrium (2002 film)
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• Spy Game
• The Shawshank Redemption

[edit] software

stuff I use alot:

• gaim
• firefox
• thunderbird
• skype
• itunes
• pandora (specifically openpandora)

development:

• vim
• cygwin
• perl

misc:

• winamp (2.95 from oldversion.com)

phone:

• Opera mini
• Google Maps Mobile phone version

[edit] other wikis

• mythtv wiki (my user page) all about Mythtv
• wowwiki (my user page) is one of the best WoW resources out there
• pocketheaven wiki is all about portable videogame pira.. i mean development
• the tv-iv is all about tv shows
• productwiki will be interesting to watch. it's a good idea, but we'll see how the implementation goes.
• wikihow is really good when you need a laugh. they have serious guides about ridiculous things.
• dreamhost wiki is a great idea and more service-based companies should follow suit
• i'm a little disappointed that wikibooks doesn't use the same login as wikipedia.
• wii linux wiki
• dsx wiki useful to owners of a dsx
• nawiki natrium42's wiki - lots of crazy awesome DS hardware work

[edit] miscellany

[edit] scream

What is this scream? It's not the Wilhelm. This guy points out some of its memorable uses, and provides a .wav.

[edit] tf2, nolf, evil genius, james bond-ey style

I like the style of these games. Is there a word for it? I'm not only referring to the secret base with minions in jumpsuits and big blue computers, but also the music and everything else.

TF2: ..."light-hearted and whimsical visual style...", "stylized, cartoon-like approach 'heavily influenced by early 20th century commercial illustrations'"

Nolf2

Evil Genius

[edit] userboxes

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