User:Ubiquity

I have three kids, two ex-wives, 16 patents ("Pneumatic oxygen conserver" isn't mine) and a PhD in "Mathematical Science" that I never use. After a career as a programmer and software architect, I now develop and deliver courses for IBM's WebSphere Education group. In my spare time I like to read, go to movies (only the big screen really does it for me), make music, or goof on the internet.

[edit] Articles with Major Contributions from Me

• Boyle Roche — Irish soldier, politician and wit
• Tiger Roche — disreputable brother of Sir Boyle Roche
• Thomas Jevon — English actor and dramatist
• Thomas Browne, 4th Viscount Kenmare — Irish landowner and politician
• John Frush Knox — American memoirist
• Lou Levy (pianist) — American jazz pianist
• Lou Levy (publisher) — American music publisher
• Irish bulls — humorously self-contradictory statements and some people famous for making them
• The Goldwyn Girls — a troupe of musical comedy dancers
• Yosef Almogi — Israeli politician
• New York State Route 104B — insignificant highway
• Texas, New York and New York, Texas — two insignificant hamlets
• New York State Route 481 — highway from Oswego to Syracuse (and vice versa)
• Katharine Sergeant Angell White — New Yorker editor and wife of E. B. White
• Jacques Rivière — French man of letters
• Harold F. Clayton — American sculptor and stone carver
• Tanzan, Tetsugen and Subhuti — Japanese Zen Masters

[edit] Articles of Significant Interest to Me

• Wilson Mizner — American playwright, scenarist, raconteur, wit and general trouble-maker
• Earl of Kenmare — lineage of Sir Valentine Browne, including the Baronets Browne of Molahiffe and the Viscounts Kenmare
• Sammy Cahn — American composer
• William Hootkins — American actor
• Alain Fournier — noted academic and computer graphics pioneer.

[edit] People in Wikipedia I have met

1. Yosef Almogi — distant cousin
2. John Browning — met backstage
3. Ramsey Clark — friend of the family
4. Ted Codd — met at a conference
5. Kenneth H. Cooper — met at the Cooper Aerobics Center
6. John Cornyn — voted in the precinct where I was an election judge
7. Mike Cowlishaw — met professionally
8. Nikki Craft — met at KCHU in Dallas
9. Hugh Darwen — met professionally
10. August Derleth — met over the phone while ordering a book
11. Lloyd Doggett — met at a political event
12. Michael Douglas — met at a press conference
13. Alain Fournier — close friend
14. Jane Fonda — met at a press conference
15. Bamber Gascoigne — met while on University Challenge
16. Jack Gilford — met at the Tadditch Grill in San Francisco
17. Banesh Hoffmann — met at an astrophysics convention
18. Stephen Hawking — met at an astrophysics convention
19. Robert Hoffman — same school
20. William Hootkins — same school, same drama group
21. Tommy Lee Jones — same school, same drama group
22. Tom Kite — met at a birthday party for his son
23. Polykarp Kusch — on my doctoral committee
24. Jack Lemmon — met at a press conference
25. Benoît Mandelbrot — had dinner with him when he spoke at my school
26. Stuart Margolin — my aunt's nephew
27. Edwin Neal — same drama group, later member of same synagogue
28. Dean Ornish — same high school, same poker group
29. Rick Perry — sat next to him on a plane
30. J.J. Pickle — met at a political event
31. Patricia Richardson — same drama group
32. Wolfgang Rindler — on my doctoral committee
33. Allan Shivers — met at UT Board of Regents meeting
34. Penn & Teller — volunteer from the audience in The Refrigerator Tour
35. Lewis Shiner — same school, same drama group
36. John Silber — met while at UT
37. Preston Smith — met at a press conference
38. Stephen Spender — interviewed for The Daily Texan
39. Roger Staubach — met in the locker room of the Cooper Aerobics Center
40. Annette Strauss — served with her on a committee
41. Bjarne Stroustrup — met at a conference
42. Jeffrey Swann — same school
43. Edward Teller — met when he spoke at our school
44. Stephen Tobolowsky — met at high school debate tournaments
45. Alex Trebek — met while on Jeopardy!
46. Jack Valenti — interviewed for The Daily Texan
47. John Wayne — had lunch with him at a press conference
48. Angus G. Wynne — father's law partner