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== '''REDIRECT NOTICE''' ==
Between July 24, 2004 and January 9, 2005, I made edits w/o a username, and a few times since then, I may have inadvertently edited w/o logging in.  Ooops!  July 24 is when I got cable modem, finally, and a static IP.  Prior thereto, I was on dialup, and despite my best efforts, have been unable to find a reliable list of my anon edits.  Oh well. :-p  [[User:TShilo12|Tomer]] [[User talk:TShilo12|<sup style="color:#129DBC;">TALK</sup>]] 04:32, May 16, 2005 (UTC)
Apparently I'm now editing from {{User|66.188.250.140}}.

== Read this! ==
*[[Wikipedia:Researching with Wikipedia]]

==About me==
===Userbox overload===
This page was starting to suffer from userbox overload, so I got rid of ''all'' of them and put them [[User:TShilo12/Userboxes|here]] instead.  Enjoy.
===Wikipedia===
I first started messing around on wikipedia several years ago, at which time I was unaware that there was a login or contributors' list, or whatnot.  Most of my dillydallying has been starting or contributing to articles about Jews and Judaism, as well as a few minor edits in other fields.  I first signed up as a real "user" just a couple months ago, so now I've gotta be careful, since now ppl can see what I'm doing... ;-)
[[User:TShilo12|TShilo12]] 01:17, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

OK, and so now, I spent a little time compiling a [[User:TShilo12/Articles|list of articles I started]]...have yet to compile a list of articles to which I've contributed extensively.  For those wondering how many edits I've made on the English WP, click [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~kate/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=TShilo12&dbname=enwiki here]. 
And here's a [[User:TShilo12/Garbage_Collection|collection of garbage I've found on WP]].

===Autobiography===
I was born at 8:38 PM [[Atlantic Standard Time|Atlantic time]], [[April 15]], [[1972]], in [[Aguadilla, Puerto Rico|Aguadilla]], [[Puerto Rico]].  That's right, [[income tax]] day.  Since puertorricans don't pay [[United States of America|U.S.]] [[Income_tax#History_of_income_tax_in_the_USA|Federal Income Tax]], however, it's not such an [[Al Gore|evil]] day there.

I've lived in the [[Washington, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin|Town of Washington]], in [[Eau Claire County, Wisconsin]] (just south of [[Eau Claire, Wisconsin|Eau Claire]], [[Wisconsin]]) since I was 7 years old.  I hate [[winter]], and blame it on the fact that I'm from Puerto Rico, eventhough my memories of PR are rather scanty, and none of them have anything to do with the [[climate]] there.

I went to [[Cleghorn Elementary School]] in [[Cleghorn, Wisconsin]], and then to [[South Junior High School]] in Eau Claire, although from mid-[[October]] until early [[January]] of fifth grade (grade 5 for the [[Canuck]]s out there), I went to [[Downsville Elementary School]] in [[Downsville, Wisconsin]], and I went to [[Pepin High School]] in [[Pepin, Wisconsin]] for the first [[semester]] of 9th grade.  (Incidentally, when I was going to Pepin HS, I was living near [[Lund, Wisconsin]], about 2 miles from the girlhood home of [[Laura Ingalls Wilder]].  Every day on the way to school, I passed the park containing her real-life house described in [[Little House in the Big Woods]]. [http://www.laurasprairiehouse.com/sites/pepinhome.html]  I graduated [[June 6]], [[1990]] from Eau Claire's [[Memorial High School (Eau Claire, Wisconsin)|Memorial High School]].  Unlike most people, apparently, I absolutely do ''not'' think High School was the best time of my life.  One cool thing about High School tho, was the fact that the principal's office left us alone for the most part when we took over the [[lobby]] by the main [[auditorium]] every morning before school (sometimes as many as 40 of us), playing [[hackey sack]]...usually with [http://members.verizon.net/vze7h421/ koosh balls], in those days...

I went to [[University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire|UWEC]] off and on thereafter, finally getting a [[Bachelor of Science|B.S.]] in [[Physics]] on [[May 22]], [[1998]], after (sometimes serious) flirtations with [[Sociology]], [[Geology]] and [[Ethnography|Cultural geography: Linguistics]].  I didn't go to commencement, as I had to work that day, at [[ShopKo Stores, Inc.|ShopKo]]'s service desk, and didn't really regard my finally having graduated as much of an accomplishment (my GPA was only 2.44).

In [[July]] of [[1999]], I became manager of the [[shoe]] department at ShopKo #24 in Eau Claire, which meant, at that time, that I became an employee of [[J. Baker, Inc.]], a company that should rot in [[hell]] for the way they screwed over their employees and the chains that contracted with them.  Oh wait.  That's right, they went [[bankrupt]].  I guess [[annihilation]] is about the same thing as hell, except without the [[torment]].  Oh well.  As that stupid [[country music|country]] song says, "two outta three ain't bad"...

[[Payless Shoes]] took over JBI's ShopKo account in June of 2000, which meant I was either out of a job, (unless I was willing to accept the equivalent of [[anal sex|anal]] [[rape]] from Payless, a store from which I will never buy a pair of shoes or even a pair of [[shoelace]]s as long as I live or) unless I went back to my service desk job at ShopKo.  I was out of a job.  Happily, I already had lined up a position at [[Honeywell]], in the Advanced Circuits unit of their Electronic Materials division.  Unfortunately, my brother, through whom I got the job, had made some enemies among the [[bigwig]]s, and so I was stuck in an unadvanceable position.  When a layoff was offered in [[November]] of [[2002]], I took it happily.  Greedily, you might say.  

I returned to UWEC in [[January]] of [[2003]] and completed a second [[academic degree|degree]], this time in [[Computer Science]].

While working on my CS degree, and then for a year afterwards, I worked as the [[Technical writer|regulatory coördinator]] and biolab tech for a local [[Veterinary medicine|veterinary]] [[pharmacology|pharmaceutical]] [[laboratory]].  Since June of 2007, I've been working as a data tech for [[IDEXX Computer Systems]], a division of [[IDEXX Laboratories]].

===Other stuff about me===
I have a mom and a dad.

I have 2 sisters and a brother, some cousins, nephews, grandparents, nieces, and various other relatives.

I'm a proud [[Jew]].

I'm single and love it, but would also love to not be.  <strike>I'm just starting a relationship with a great girl who, if things work out alright, will be my wife come Sept. 2006.  Well wishing is welcome, but gifts and financial contributions will be appreciated even more.  [[Image:Teeth.png]]</strike>

One of my fun little projects in high schools (besides inventing my own language) , was to invent a [[User:TShilo12/Igglix orcâgrïfí|new orthography for English]].

For the dialectologists, the way I speak English, "Atlantis" sounds like {{IPA|/ɛʔ·'læ<sup>n</sup> nis/}}, "Toronto" sounds like {{IPA|/tɹ̩·'a no/}} or {{IPA|/'tɹa·no/}}, and while "dentist" is usually /'dɛ·nɪst̚/, "dentists" is /'dɛ·nɪs:/ (not to be confused with "Dennis", which is /'dɛ·nɪs/).

<table style="width: 320px; border: 1px solid gray; font: normal 12px arial, verdana, sans-serif; background-color: white;"><tr><td colspan="2" style="background: white; color: black; padding: 5px;"><b style="font: bold 20px 'Times New Roman', serif; display: block; margin-bottom: 8px;">What American accent do you have?</b> <div style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 4px;">Your Result: <b>The Inland North</b></div><div style="width: 200px; background: white; border: 1px solid black;"><div style="width: 89%; background: red; font-size: 8px; line-height: 8px;">&nbsp;</div></div><p style="margin: 10px; border: none; background: white; color: black;">You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?"  Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop."</p></td></tr><tr><td style="color: black; background: white; padding: 3px;">The Northeast</td><td style="background: white; padding: 3px;"><div style="width: 100px; background: white; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 4px;"><div style="width: 61%; background: red; font-size: 8px; line-height: 8px;">&nbsp;</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="color: black; background: white; padding: 3px;">Philadelphia</td><td style="background: white; padding: 3px;"><div style="width: 100px; background: white; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 4px;"><div style="width: 60%; background: red; font-size: 8px; line-height: 8px;">&nbsp;</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="color: black; background: white; padding: 3px;">The South</td><td style="background: white; padding: 3px;"><div style="width: 100px; background: white; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 4px;"><div style="width: 46%; background: red; font-size: 8px; line-height: 8px;">&nbsp;</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="color: black; background: white; padding: 3px;">North Central</td><td style="background: white; padding: 3px;"><div style="width: 100px; background: white; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 4px;"><div style="width: 36%; background: red; font-size: 8px; line-height: 8px;">&nbsp;</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="color: black; background: white; padding: 3px;">The Midland</td><td style="background: white; padding: 3px;"><div style="width: 100px; background: white; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 4px;"><div style="width: 30%; background: red; font-size: 8px; line-height: 8px;">&nbsp;</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="color: black; background: white; padding: 3px;">Boston</td><td style="background: white; padding: 3px;"><div style="width: 100px; background: white; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 4px;"><div style="width: 0%; background: red; font-size: 8px; line-height: 8px;">&nbsp;</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="color: black; background: white; padding: 3px;">The West</td><td style="background: white; padding: 3px;"><div style="width: 100px; background: white; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 4px;"><div style="width: 0%; background: red; font-size: 8px; line-height: 8px;">&nbsp;</div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center; padding: 8px;">'''[http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_american_accent_do_you_have" What American accent do you have?]'''<br>[http://www.gotoquiz.com/ Quiz Created on GoToQuiz]</td></tr></table>

===My Interests===
*[[Physics]] 
*[[Astronomy]] 
*[[Computers]]
*[[Logic]]
*[[Electronics]] 
*[[Comparative religion]] 
*[[Comparative linguistics]] 
*[[Judaism]] 
*[[History]] 
*[[Politics]]

===Music===
Basically, I like anything except most of what comes out of the [[Hip hop music|Rap]] and [[Country music|Country]] world.  I hate any and everything, however, bearing the label [[Jazz]].

===Movies===
*[[Star Trek]], the various series (although I'm less than enthusiastic about [[Deep Space 9]]), as well as the movies
*[[Stargate (film)|Stargate]], including [[Stargate SG-1]] and [[Stargate Atlantis]]
*[[Good Will Hunting]], mostly because I so strongly identify with [[Matt Damon]] in that film
*[[Europa, Europa]]
*[[Dead Poets Society]] (a movie because of which I will forever hate [[Robin Williams]])

===Friends===
My closest friendships in the world are with Jordan, Munch and a few other great guys, more recently, Coot, Shneb, Lester and [[User:Earck|Milas]], none of whom have any particular overriding interest in Wikimania.

===Actrons===
*[[Mili Avital]] (the hottest actress ever)
*[[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] (and not only because I can spell his name w/o looking it up)
*[[Nicolas Cage]] I hate.  He's a crappy actor and should go work in a gas station.  I take that back.  He probably can't even pump gas properly.

===Politics===
I honestly believe that people who believe that "[[communism]] works, it just hasn't been tried by the right people" are delusional.

===My favorite vandal===
*{{Vandal|Illinoisan}}

==Contact me==
Email me by clicking [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Emailuser&target=TShilo12 here].  

I have a number of instant messenger sns, but I'm not going to list them here.  Email me and I'll email you how to IM me.

{{Torah portion}}

==To do==
[[User:TShilo12/ToDo|My to do list]]
Check out [http://musicthing.org/vision.htm musicthing].
If you're looking for something to do, how about checking out some of these articles in need of attention:
*[[Wikipedia:Dead-end pages]]


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