User:Vespristiano
I use this page to display information about me, to keep track of past and future Wikipedia-related tasks, and to help me remember topics about which I don't want to forget as I spend time in the socially-constructed reality.
Random facts (and quotes) about me
Facts
- I am a member of WikiProject Automobiles.
- Angela greeted me warmly when I first began visiting Wikipedia.
- Mozilla Firefox is my primary web browser. (I use it on Windows XP, though not by choice.)
- I'm an undergraduate at a coeducational, residential, private liberal arts university affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. My major is bioengineering.
- I currently work for an architecture corporation, where I have done such interesting work as measure buildings.
Quotes
These quotes are listed in ascending chronological order by day.
- +02004-01-28T03:23: Vespristiano "You've done some really great work on Star Trek articles." —Acegikmo1, in "User talk:Vespristiano"
- +02004-03-05T16:33: Vespristiano "...seems to be catologuing his gadget collection!" —akaDruid, in "Talk:List of Nikon products"
- +02004-03-05T16:33: "This guy works hard and has been commended for his work on Star Trek episodes..." —akaDruid, in "Talk:List of Nikon products"
Tasks I might complete
- Write/enhance "Sony HDR-FX1" (or add relevant content to another article)
- Write/enhance "Wicker Park (movie)".
- Write/enhance "Tableau Software"
- Write/enhance "Hamnoy, Norway"
- Write "Nikon Coolpix 5200".
- Expound on The Human Factor: Revolutionizing the Way People Live with Technology.
- Enhance articles about ELCA colleges and universities
- Augustana College (Illinois)
- Augustana College (South Dakota)
- Capital University
- Dana College
- Finlandia University
- Grand View College
- Gustavus Adolphus College
- Lenoir-Rhyne College
- Luther College
- Midland Lutheran College
- Muhlenberg College
- Newberry College
- Pacific Lutheran University
- Roanoke College
- St. Olaf College
- Susquehanna University
- Texas Lutheran University
- Thiel College
- Wagner College
- Waldorf College
- Wartburg College
- Wittenberg University
Time-dependent tasks
+02004-07
Articles I started from scratch
Some listings are italicized to denote special importance to me.
On or after +02004-02-12
This list is sorted in descending chronological order and broken into blocks of twenty-five items, followed by the date on which I first submitted the articles (or when I plan to submit them).
Tenth twenty-five: my newest articles
- "GREENGUARD Environmental Institute" (+02004-08-16)
- "Forest Stewardship Council" (+02004-07-30)
- "ViewSonic VP2290b" (+02004-07-30)
Ninth twenty-five
- "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book)" (+02004-06-26)
- "The Hunting of the President" (+02004-06-24)
- "Community Climate System Model" (+02004-06-24)
- "Microbial fuel cell" (+02004-06-24)
- "Nipton, California" (+02004-06-24)
- "Hans Christian von Baeyer" (+02004-06-24)
- "Information (book)" (+02004-06-24)
- "Snowbird, Utah" (+02004-06-24)
- "Deer Valley" (+02004-06-24)
- "Ricoh Caplio 400G Wide" (+02004-06-23)
- "Quantum nucleonic reactor" (+02004-06-23)
- "Beyond Fear" (+02004-06-21)
- "Inducement Devolves into Unlawful Child Exploitation Act of 2004" (+02004-06-19)
- "DualDisc" (+02004-06-14)
- "Church-Turing-Deutsch Principle" (+02004-06-10)
- "Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies" (+02004-06-09)
- "Zélé Café" (+02004-06-09)
- "Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences" (+02004-06-06)
- "Molecular Foundry" (+02004-06-06)
- "Center for Nanoscale Materials" (+02004-06-06)
- "Volvo V30" (+02004-06-05)
- "Protecting the Virtual Commons" (+02004-06-05)
- "The Coming Generational Storm" (+02004-06-05)
- "Inventing the Internet" (+02004-06-05)
- "Neuroethics" (+02004-06-04)
Eighth twenty-five
- "Mercedes-Benz G-Class" (+02004-06-03)
- "Mercedes-Benz X-Class" (+02004-06-03)
- "National Treasure" (+02004-06-02)
- "Radeon X300" (+02004-06-02)
- "Radeon X600" (+02004-06-02)
- "Radeon X800" (+02004-06-02)
- "Volvo XC60" (+02004-05-31)
- "Volvo XC50" (+02004-05-31)
- "Volvo C50" (+02004-05-31)
- "Prochlorococcus" (+02004-05-31)
- "Bruntingthorpe" (+02004-05-31)
- "Noble M14" (+02004-05-31)
- "Noble (automaker)" (+02004-05-31)
- "Alfa Romeo 158" (+02004-05-28)
- "Murray Silverstein" (+02004-05-26)
- "Daniel Pauly" (+02004-05-23)
- "Helios (vehicle)" (+02004-05-22)
- "List of MOTU products" (+02004-05-21)
- "MOTU" (+02004-05-21)
- "Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics" (+02004-05-21)
- "Digital Divide Network" (+02004-05-19)
- "Social informatics" (+02004-05-19)
- "List of sociological topics" (+02004-05-19)
- "Tannhäuser scandal" (+02004-05-19)
- "Christian Monyk" (+02004-05-19)
Seventh twenty-five
- "Secure Communication based on Quantum Cryptography" (+02004-05-19)
- "Imagining Numbers" (+02004-05-18)
- "Arryx" (+02004-05-18)
- "Metabolic theory of ecology" (+02004-05-18)
- "Frame story" (+02004-05-17)
- "Dramatic monologue" (+02004-05-16)
- "Didactic literature" (+02004-05-16)
- "Dead metaphor" (+02004-05-16)
- "Contrast (literary)" (+02004-05-16)
- "Conflict (narrative)" (+02004-05-16)
- "Author's purpose" (+02004-05-16)
- "List of literary topics" (+02004-05-16)
- "Department of Transportation v. Public Citizen" (+02004-05-14)
- "Recovery-oriented Computing" (+02004-05-14)
- "Hamdi v. Rumsfeld" (+02004-05-14)
- "Sanctuary (show)" (+02004-05-12)
- "The Lady of Shalott" (+02004-05-12)
- "Second Sight" (+02004-05-11)
- "United States v. Benitez" (+02004-05-10)
- "Spacewarp" (+02004-05-10)
- "Networks of Innovation" (+02004-05-09)
- "Ilkka Tuomi" (+02004-05-09)
- "The Way of the Warrior" (+02004-05-09)
- "Diversa" (+02004-05-09)
- "Industrial biotechnology" (+02004-05-09)
Sixth twenty-five
- "Audi A7" (+02004-05-09)
- "Audi A5" (+02004-05-09)
- "Rasul v. Bush" (+02004-05-08)
- "Central Laborers' Pension Fund v. Heinz" (+02004-05-08)
- "AutoWeek" (+02004-05-08)
- "Lincoln Zephyr" (+02004-05-08)
- "E2" (+02004-05-06)
- "Intel Corp. v. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc." (+02004-05-05)
- "The Forgotten" (+02004-05-03)
- "HP 33s" (+02004-05-02)
- "Chrysler Crossfire" (+02004-05-01)
- "Damage (show)" (+02004-04-28)
- "Sony Librie EBR-1000EP" (+02004-04-24)
- "Open Source Applications Foundation" (+02004-04-22)
- "Makoto Tamamura" (+02004-04-17)
- "Sharp Viewcam VL-Z800U" (+02004-04-17)
- "List of Sharp products" (+02004-04-17)
- "Sony DCR-PC330" (+02004-04-17)
- "More Eric Meyer on CSS" (+02004-04-17)
- "The Search (Star Trek)" (+02004-04-17)
- "Homeward" (+02004-04-16)
- "Iomega REV" (+02004-04-13)
- "List of Iomega products" (+02004-04-13)
- "Iomega" (+02004-04-13)
- "The Cheating Culture" (+02004-04-12)
Fifth twenty-five
- "Mazda Mazda3" (+02004-04-11)
- "List of Matias products" (+02004-04-10)
- "Matias" (+02004-04-10)
- "Edgar Matias" (+02004-04-10)
- "Blood Oath" (+02004-04-10)
- "The Maquis" (+02004-04-09)
- "Profit and Loss" (+02004-04-09)
- "Audi RSQ" (+02004-04-09)
- "Dynamic Hedging" (+02004-04-09)
- "Fooled by Randomness" (+02004-04-09)
- "Melora Pazlar" (+02004-04-08)
- "Melora" (+02004-04-08)
- "Rivals" (+02004-04-08)
- "David J. Farber" (+02004-04-08)
- "Rules of Acquisition (show)" (+02004-04-08)
- "Martin Seligman" (+02004-04-07)
- "Dan Gillmor" (+02004-04-02)
- "Final Cut Pro 4 and the Art of Filmmaking" (+02004-04-01)
- "Final Cut Pro 4 for Mac OS X" (+02004-04-01)
- "Conundrum (Star Trek)" (+02004-04-01) (A friend and I have collaborated on this one.)
- "The Elements of Typographic Style" (+02004-03-31)
- "To a Louse" (+02004-03-31)
- "Red Sky at Morning" (+02004-03-31)
- "Society for Philosophical Inquiry" (+02004-03-31)
- "Small Pieces Loosely Joined" (+02004-03-31)
Fourth twenty-five
- "Aseptic technique in microbiology" (+02004-03-30)
- "The Joke of Federal Cybersecurity Oversight" (+02004-03-30)
- "Richard Forno" (+02004-03-30)
- "Voice of an Angel" (+02004-03-29)
- "Tour of the North Orange Order" (+02004-03-29)
- "Nokia 7610" (+02004-03-29)
- "Toyota Avalon" (+02004-03-28)
- "Mercedes-Benz SLR" (+02004-03-28)
- "Infiniti QX56" (+02004-03-28)
- "The Human Factor: Revolutionizing the Way People Live with Technology" (+02004-03-28)
- "Taylor and Francis" (+02004-03-27)
- "Optimize (magazine)" (+02004-03-27)
- "X-43A Hyper-X", later merged with "Boeing X-43" (+02004-03-27)
- "Garden State" (+02004-03-27)
- "Heavenly Handel" (+02004-03-27)
- "Network Solutions" (+02004-03-27)
- "EE Times" (+02004-03-27)
- "Authorized Domain" (+02004-03-27)
- "Audi TT" (+02004-03-27)
- "Nokia 9500" (+02004-03-27)
- "Xbox 2" (+02004-03-27)
- "Volvo V50" (+02004-03-26)
- "Mercedes-Benz R-Class" (+02004-03-26)
- "Premier Automotive Group" (+02004-03-25)
- "Apple Filing Protocol" (+02004-03-24)
Third twenty-five
- "Berkeley Lower Extremity Exoskeleton" (+02004-03-21)
- "VWVortex" (+02004-03-20)
- "Audi A6" (+02004-03-20)
- "University of Denver" (+02004-03-20)
- "Vocera Communications" (+02004-03-20)
- "Similitude (ENT)" (+02004-03-14)
- "Unification (Star Trek)" (+02004-03-13)
- "North Star (ENT)" (+02004-03-12)
- "Power Play" (+02004-03-10)
- "Mab-Bu VI" (+02004-03-10)
- "CinéWave" (+02004-03-10)
- "List of Pinnacle Systems products" (+02004-03-10)
- "Pinnacle Systems" (+02004-03-10)
- "Azati Prime (ENT)" (+02004-03-08)
- "Azati Prime" (+02004-03-08)
- "Ricoh Caplio RX" (+02004-03-07)
- "List of Ricoh products" (+02004-03-07)
- "Ricoh" (+02004-03-07)
- "Small and Smaller" (+02004-03-06)
- "Mercedes-Benz CLS-Class" (+02004-03-06)
- "Foreign direct investment", later moved to "Foreign Direct Investment" (+02004-03-05)
- "Paid inclusion" (+02004-03-03)
- "Quantrix Modeler" (+02004-03-02)
- "Quantrix" (+02004-03-02)
- "Scientific Integrity in Policymaking" (+02004-02-29)
Second twenty-five
- "Union of Concerned Scientists" (+02004-02-29)
- "Commonplace" (+02004-02-28)
- "Canon MVX250i" (+02004-02-26)
- "List of Canon products" (+02004-02-26)
- "Pro Audio Firewire800 HD" (+02004-02-26)
- "List of EZQuest products" (+02004-02-26)
- "EZQuest" (+02004-02-26)
- "Sony Ericsson P900" (+02004-02-25)
- "List of Sony Ericsson products" (+02004-02-25)
- "Doe v. Chao" (+02004-02-25)
- "Ensemble La Fenice" (+02004-02-24)
- "Film punctuation" (+02004-02-24)
- "Doctor's Orders" (+02004-02-24)
- "Un Concert pour Mazarin" (+02004-02-23)
- "List of Nokia products" (+02004-02-22)
- "Nokia 6620" (+02004-02-22)
- "PhysicsWeb" (+02004-02-21)
- "Hund's rule" (+02004-02-21)
- "NewsMonster" (+02004-02-21)
- "Xplore" (+02004-02-20)
- "Group Sense PDA" (+02004-02-20)
- "Entropy (computing)" (+02004-02-19)
- "iFile" (+02004-02-18)
- "Ingenuity Software" (+02004-02-18)
- "Portfolio (image management computer program)" (+02004-02-18)
First twenty-five
- "Extensis" (+02004-02-18)
- "Hans Wegner" (+02004-02-17)
- "Trion Operating System" (+02004-02-16)
- "Lighthouse Design" (+02004-02-16)
- "One Fish, Two Fish, Crawfish, Bluefish" (+02004-02-15)
- "List of cookbooks" (+02004-02-15)
- "Liquid crystal on silicon" (+02004-02-15)
- "Kodak Photo Printer 6800" (+02004-02-15)
- "List of Kodak products" (+02004-02-15)
- "Four Thirds System" (+02004-02-15)
- "List of Sony products" (+02004-02-15)
- "Sony PictureStation DPP-EX50" (+02004-02-15)
- "Zappos.com" (+02004-02-15)
- "Northwest Region Music Festival" (+02004-02-15)
- "Arizona Music Educators Association" (+02004-02-15)
- "Panasonic Lumix DMC-LC1" (+02004-02-14)
- "List of Matsushita products" (+02004-02-14)
- "ISO 9241" (+02004-02-14)
- "XPLANE" (+02004-02-14)
- "Olympus C-770 Movie" (+02004-02-13)
- "Olympus C-8080 Wide Zoom" (+02004-02-12)
- "List of Olympus products" (+02004-02-12)
- "List of Nikon products" (+02004-02-12)
- "Olympus" (+02004-02-12)
- "Mercedes-Benz E-Class" (+02004-02-12)
Before +02004-02-12
Before +02003-12-27T05:54:13Z
This list is sorted in ascending alphabetical order.
- "Acura TSX"
- "Baryon sweep"
- "Brian Greene"
- "California Lutheran University"
- "Cosmochemical Periodic Table of the Elements in the Solar System"
- "Exhortation and Litany (1544)"
- "Mackie 1604-VLZ Pro"
- "Mercedes-Benz C-Class"
- "Mercedes-Benz S-Class"
- "Smile"
- "Something's Gotta Give"
- "When the Bough Breaks"
- "XGI Technology Inc."
After +02003-12-27T05:54:13Z
This list is sorted in ascending chronological order and broken into blocks of twenty-five items which, in some cases, are followed by the submission date.
First twenty-five
- "BMW 1-Series" (+02003-12-27)
- "Common Application" (+02003-12-27)
- "Film grammar"
- "Coming of Age" (+02004-01-03)
- "Redemption (Part 1)"
- "Exile (show)"
- "Audio mixer", later merged with and redirected to "Mixing console"
- "GarageBand"
- "Electron Spiral Toroid"
- "Volkswagen Phaeton"
- "North American International Auto Show"
- "Lexus RX 400h"
- "Nissan Frontier"
- "Toyota FTX"
- "Toyota Highlander"
- "Ford Five Hundred"
- "Pontiac G6"
- "Star Trek: The Experience"
- "Nikon D70"
- "Photo Marketing Association Annual Convention and Trade Show"
- "Pontiac Solstice"
- "Harbinger (show)"
- "Global Ring Network for Advanced Application Development"
- "National Honor Society"
- "Java Enterprise System"
Second twenty-five
- "Western Digital Media Center"
- "The Emperor's Club"
- "J2S"
- "J2STask"
- "Xgrid"
- "Institute of Medicine"
- "Logic Express"
- "Land Rover Range Stormer"
- "Chosen Realm"
- "Get Back"
- "Cisco Wireless IP Phone 7920"
- "Proving Ground"
- "Combustion (computers)"
- "The Enemy" (+02004-02-01)
- "The Humane Environment" (+02004-02-11)
Literary summaries and analyses
I've occasionally added or expanded summaries and analyses of film and literature in already-existent Wikipedia articles. This is a list of those articles (excluding the ones I haven't yet submitted). It's sorted in ascending alphabetical order and broken into blocks of twenty-five items, followed by the dates on which I contributed the information.
First twenty-five: my newest contributions
- "Ode to the West Wind" (+02004-04-29)
- "The World Is Not Enough" (+02004-03-18)
- "A Beautiful Mind" (+02004-03-24; +02004-03-25)
- "To a Mouse" (+02004-03-29)