User:Tamfang

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Contents 1 I'm just this bloke 1.1 the handle 1.2 subpage(s) 2 external links

[edit] I'm just this bloke

I'm Anton Sherwood, one more middle-aged adolescent with a library, a modem and no life.

I love Baroque and world fusion music; the sunlight of a late afternoon in spring; making what I call mathematical doodles with PoV-Ray.

I am afflicted (to varying degrees) with depression, insomnia, underemployment, and Rapture of the Future; allergic to perfumes, pollen, authority and good advice.

I was once fluent in Esperanto, French and Tourist Italian. I can also count to ten in Spanish, Latin, German, Russian, Sanskrit, Japanese; and can recite the alphabet in Greek and Hebrew.

I have received compliments on my voice, my habit of whistling (believe it or not) and a bit of a knack for pinning the tail on the fallacy.

I attended University Laboratory High School of Urbana, Illinois but have not won a Nobel, Pulitzer or Ig Nobel Prize. I did get a Knuth reward check, though.

I was, so they tell me who keep track of such things, the first Libertarian in California to be endorsed for partisan office (Assembly) by a major daily newspaper (the San Francisco Examiner before Hearst Corporation sold it). This happened during the newspaper strike of 1994.

My Wikipedia activities include

• major rewrites of Uniform polychoron and Andreini tessellation, and minor edits to many articles about polytopes and other branches of mathematics;
• a pruning-by-chainsaw of Heraldry, and minor edits to related pages;
• reorganization of Enclave + Exclave into Enclave and exclave + List of enclaves and exclaves;
• creation of vampire (Buffyverse), so that general information about vampires need not be repeated for Darla, Angel, Drusilla, Spike and so on — and then, a few days later, someone else replaced it with a completely different article, full of padding, misspellings and misleading links. I guess everyone gets a shock like that sooner or later.

I also precipitated the deletions of

• Earl of Amersham and Fürsts of Schwarzenberg, hoaxes by the same person
• Estalena, alleged to be a personal name in an unspecified American Indian language
• Icosahedral–hexagonal grids in weather prediction (redirected)

[edit] the handle

Tamfang, in case you were wondering, is Elvish for copper beard.

The first element is attested (so far as I know) only in a footnote to an early version of The Chaining of Melko; but the canonical word for copper is less euphonious, so I choose to assume that some form of tambe survived east of the Misty Mountains.

[edit] subpage(s)

User:Tamfang/Stuart is a list of descendants of King James VI & I who were born before the death of Queen Anne (1714) and died after the flight of James II (1688), in the normal order of succession. See Act of Settlement 1701 for context. I chose those dates as forming convenient boundaries to the succession crisis.

[edit] external links

• personal website
• blog