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Working on: The 800 Club - Canadian current events - Deadend - Talk ABC - Talk Cre.v.Evo

Eyes on: Vandals - WP:CWNB - Pump - Wiki.ORG - List # Edits - Pict_Tut - RfA - Signpost - Wikipedia:Million pool - Blade Runner - Wikiatlas - Tables Tut

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RoyBoy Info

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Film poster for Blade Runner

I'm an information addict... so it was inevitable I'd find myself here. I live in Dundas, Ontario, Canada and have a wide variety of intellectual interests. I particularly enjoy controversial subjects where free and unconventional thinking are requirements.

Hence my favorite book is The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes, The Human Animal by Desmond Morris, almost finished Paris 1919. I'm also a big fan of string theory.

I'm a pro-choice atheist who believes in eternal recurrence and frequents alt.fan.blade-runner, Newspeak Dictionary, TheBible.net and BR-Insight all under the same handle.

Favorites:

Films: Blade Runner - Koyaanisqatsi - Memento - Fight Club - Donnie Darko - Ghost in the Shell - The Princess Bride

Documentaries: The Corporation - Frontline - Wide Angle - Commanding Heights - RACE: The Power of an Illusion - Hijacking Catastrophe

TV: BBC World News - Uncommon Knowledge - Law & Order - Nova

Earworms: "So fresh, and so clean clean." "I’ve never seen a man eat so many chicken wings."

As for my dislikes, unnecessary letters (ie. labour - labor), shorter = better. My idea is that the U.S. will switch to metric and Canadians will spell like Americans. I think it's a fair trade off. :' ) Intentional scientific ignorance also annoys me; especially if its coupled with religious self-righteousness. And if you hold strong opinions without strong evidence in context... well then I'll creatively shoot you down.

Thanks for your interest and I hope my addiction can be put to some use around here.

"Money obfuscates truth for aggravating periods of time." - RoyBoy

Favorite Quotations

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Jon Stewart

"What you do is not honest. What you do is partisan hackery. You have a responsibility to the public discourse, and you fail miserably."
- Jon Stewart to Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala on Crossfire

"[When a young person loses faith in his religion because he begins to study science and its methodology] it isn't that [through the obtaining of real knowledge that] he knows it all, but he suddenly realizes that he doesn't know it all." - Richard P. Feynman

"As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth — hear both sides and believe neither." - Josh Billings
"Our citizens may be deceived for a while & have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light; still more perhaps to the taxgatherers; for it is not worth the while of our antirepublicans to risk themselves on any change of government, but a very expensive one. Reduce every department to economy, & there will be no temptation to them to betray their constituents." - Thomas Jefferson ~ Letter to Archibald Stuart (14 May 1799)

"Because bias impedes our vision and is subject to sound inquiry, we are far from reaching a scientific ‘limit.’ Indeed, after this excursion into the issue of abortion, bias, and breast cancer, it seems our future has as much to do with human behavior as with human biology."
- Drs. Weed & Kramer (1996) J National Cancer Inst. 88(23):1698-700 [1]

"Some foolish men declare that a Creator made the world. The doctrine that the world was created is ill-advised, and should be rejected. If God created the world, where was He before creation?... How could God have made the world without any raw material? If you say He made this first, and then the world, you are faced with an endless regression... Know that the world is uncreated, as time itself is, without beginning and end. And it is based on the principles..."
- The Mahapurana (The Great Lege) Jinasena (India, Ninth Century)

From alt.fan.blade.runner:

A merry christmas to all - no matter what you do or do not believe in. - Lukas Mariman

I believe in santy claws - POD {Ò¿Ó}

... What about a Sanity Clause? - Lukas Mariman

There's no such thing as a sanity clause. - Patrick MM

Articles

Special pages (maintenance)	Information
Broken redirects
Dead-end pages	Dead-end pages
Dormant pages	Forgotten articles
Double redirects	Double redirects
Lonely pages	Orphaned articles
Long pages
New pages	New pages patrol
New pages feed	Page curation
Protected pages	Protection policy
Short pages
Uncategorized pages	Categorization
Uncategorized categories
Uncategorized templates
Unused categories
Unused files (images)
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Without interwiki links
Most interwiki links
Wanted pages
Most-wanted articles
See also: Maintenance departments

Edit #1307 (including this one) is when I found out about the edit counter, from Dbenbenn RfA comment.
- RoyBoy [∞] 06:11, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Started: Abortion-Breast_Cancer_(ABC)_hypothesis - Hijacking_Catastrophe - Quantum darwinism - History of abortion - Uncommon Knowledge

Helped: 2003 North America blackout - Dundas, Ontario - User:Tony Sidaway - Bushmeat - Shakespearean authorship#Christopher Marlowe - Jackass: The Movie - Cherry Sisters - X-ray vision - Counter-Strike - Cyberathlete Professional League - Toronto, Ontario - Mobile phone#Health controversy - Kashan - Vanna White - Counter-Strike equipment - Benelli - Carboplatin - Powder - PAR2 - Hatak - Carl E. Stewart - Albert Leonard Oldham - Chinatown - Social problems in Chinatown - Oceania - Adelbert Range Trek - David_Carnegie - Various Nirvana (band) pages - Dave Grohl - Self Decay - Recall bias - Redemption (Star Trek) - Hamilton, Ontario - AdBusters - Bradbury Building - Qazvin (city) - John_A._Burns_School_of_Medicine - Helgalund - Versata - The Score - Ho_Chi_Minh - Daily Planet - Frontline_(PBS_TV_series) - Metrodorus - Tuluá - Tex zippers - Brown note - Conflict diamonds - Canadian Alliance of Student Associations - Dull Knife Fight - Avantouinti first "Wikipeida" result on Google

Merge: Rug making & Carpets (Merge Proposed) - Pre 9/11 intelligence - Tulua

Wikipedia:Category: Category:Iranian architecture

To Do: Peter Coyote - Who's Counting: Sex, Lies and Global Economics - Electricity market deregulation - Christopher_Marlowe - Janeane Garofalo - Nature (television series) - T-shirt inspector - Parallels

I saw the NFB documentary Who's Counting: Sex, Lies and Global Economics with feminist Marilyn Waring, which gave a straight forward account of how economics doesn't count women's contribution to society.

Wikiquote: Abortion - Thomas Jefferson

Redirects: BBC World News - Buskers - Arts & crafts - X-ray glasses - Mortal combat - Induced abortion - Buzz Osborne - McJobs - Self decay - Stanley "Tookie" Williams - Bumfight - Frontline World - Reexistance - Reexistence - Alfred Percy Freeman

Disambiguation: Honeycomb (disambiguation) - Redemption - Mount Ida (disambiguation)

Wikipedia:VfD: Erotica (madonna) - Athalia Bromton

Wikipedia:Images: Image:Royboy.gif - Image:Hijacking catastrophe (poster).jpg - Image:Kitchums keyboard.jpg - Image:Jackass poster.jpg - Image:Janeane Garofalo.jpg - Image:Vanilla Sky poster.jpg - Image:AdBustersFlag.jpg - Image:AdBustersFlag Boycott.jpg - Image:Bradbury_Building_Name.JPG - Image:Bradbury_Building_Lobby.JPG - Image:Bradbury_Building_Skylight.JPG - Image:Cs office compare.jpg - Image:BradburyBuilding_Outside.JPG - Image:Firefox CSS Margin Bug.jpg

Users

Here are some of the users I've met so far that have shared some WikiLove:

Hadal - First user I contacted to try and get a "feel" for Wikipedia rules.
Marcie - A fellow Canuck interested in abortion issues.
Howrealisreal - Offered help in my future Wiki endeavors after my quick integration of his ABC news in the ABC debate article.
Tony Sidaway - Did some quality NPOV editing on the Abortion-Breast_Cancer_(ABC)_hypothesis article I started. I helped him out by making his navbar 800x600 friendly and look cooler in the process.
Saforrest - Also hails from Dundas, Ontario.
MamaGeek - Bold women's issues contributor. I tangled with Mama on ABC introductory paragraph in Abortion which has improved thanks to her input.
Catherine - Creator of the new Wikipedia.org portal, also interested in Blade Runner.
Vaceituno - A fellow regular Blade Runner article contributor who I've debated with on Deckard's identity. Tends to assume I don't know what I'm talking about. :'D
CannedLizard - Originated Counter-Strike source comparison images. We collobarated on the Image:cs_office_comparison.jpg.

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License

Against voluntary dual-licensing
I am against voluntary dual-licensing of Wikipedia contributions.

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+'''Working on:''' [[User:RoyBoy/The 800 Club|The 800 Club]] - [[Canadian current events]] - [[Wikipedia:Deadend_pages|Deadend]] - [[Talk:Abortion-Breast_Cancer_%28ABC%29_hypothesis|Talk ABC]] - [[Talk:Creation-evolution_controversy#Unable_to_publish_vs._unwilling|Talk Cre.v.Evo]]
-'''News:''' On short Wikivacation, be back soon. - [[User:RoyBoy|Roy]][[User talk:RoyBoy|'''Boy''']] <sup>[[User:RoyBoy/The 800 Club|800]]</sup> 15:00, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
-'''Working on:''' [[User:RoyBoy/The 800 Club|The 800 Club]] - [[Canadian current events]] - [[Wikipedia:Deadend_pages|Deadend]]
 '''Eyes on:''' [[Wikipedia:Vandalism_in_progress|Vandals]] - [[WP:CWNB]] - [[Wikipedia:Village pump|Pump]] - [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Www.wikipedia.org_portal#Switch_to_Catherine.27s_layout Wiki.ORG] - [[Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits|List # Edits]] - [[Wikipedia:Picture_tutorial|Pict_Tut]] -  [[Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship|RfA]] - [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost|Signpost]] - [[Wikipedia:Million pool]] - [[Blade Runner]] - [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipediatlas Wikiatlas] - [[Wikipedia:How_to_use_tables|Tables Tut]]
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+* [http://www.frontrowcentre.com/westdaletheatre.cfm?cinema=Westdale%20Theatre Westdale Theater]
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