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== Contact ==
[[File:Tomruen userphoto.png|thumb|Self]]
Hi, my name is Tom Ruen. If you'd like to contact me, try out the form at: [[Special:Emailuser/tomruen]]

I also edit from [[User:SockPuppetForTomruen]], mostly for [[eclipse]]s.

== My work here ==
I first came on here to edit on April 28, 2004 (21 years ago now!) It is an addicting idea to try to add to something much bigger than I could ever do. I am a little skeptical over the idea of freedom to change anything, but overall I'm very impressed by the quality of articles and I have faith good work is being done and I can add to it.

There are many quality websites out there and it seems silly to duplicate too much. I like the idea of learning about something and testing my knowledge by trying to share it. For me that motivates much of my efforts here.

Primary topics I've worked on include [[List of geometry topics|geometry]], and [[astronomy]].

My specialty has primarily been image generation, perhaps because I've found so many articles where useful images were absent. I try to make quality images, but I will compromise perfection for meaningful improvement. I'm happy if anyone can replace my images with better ones.

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== Active work and subpages ==
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[[Image:Homemap.jpg|thumb|[[Earth|Home]]]]
[[Image:FullSkyAstronomySoftwareLogo.png|thumb|[[Astronomy|Space]]]][[Image:Small snub icosicosidodecahedron.png|thumb|[[Uniform star polyhedron|Uniform polyhedra]]<BR>(Thanks [[User:RobertCWebb|Rob]]!)]]
[[Image:Truncated icosidodecahedron stereographic projection decagon.png|thumb|[[Truncated icosidodecahedron]]]]
[[Image:Uniform tiling 63-t012.png|thumb|[[Uniform tiling]]s]]
[[Image:Uniform tiling 73-t012.png|thumb|[[Uniform_tilings_in_hyperbolic_plane|Hyperbolic tilings]]]]
[[File:H2chess iiic.png|thumb|[[Infinite-order apeirogonal tiling|{&infin;,&infin;}]]<BR>(Thanks [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tamfang Anton] !)]]
[[Image:Stereographic omnitruncated 120-cell.png|thumb|t<sub>0,1,2,3</sub>{5,3,3}, [[omnitruncated 120-cell|Uniform polychora]]<BR>(Thanks Fritz!)]]
[[Image:Cantitruncated cubic tiling.png|thumb|[[Andreini tessellation|Uniform honeycombs]]<BR>(Thanks [[User:Tamfang|Anton]]!)]]
[[Image:Hyperbolic orthogonal dodecahedral honeycomb.png|thumb|{5,3,4} [[List_of_regular_polytopes#Tessellations_of_hyperbolic_3-space|Hyperbolic honeycombs]]<BR>(Thanks [[Jeffrey Weeks (mathematician)|Jeff]]!)]]
[[Image:E8 graph.svg|thumb|{3<sup>4,2,1</sup>}, [[Semiregular E-polytope]]s<BR>Thanks [[User:Rocchini|Rocchini]]!]]
[[File:H3 353-0011 center ultrawide.png|thumb|t{3,5,3}, [[Uniform honeycombs in hyperbolic space|Hyperbolic honeycombs]]<BR>Thanks [[User:Roice3|Roice]]!]]
[[File:Hyperbolic_3d_hexagonal_tiling.png|thumb|{6,3,3} [[Paracompact uniform honeycombs]]<BR>More thanks [[User:Rocchini|Rocchini]]!]]
[[File:H3_337_UHS_plane_at_infinity.png|thumb|[[Order-7 tetrahedral honeycomb|{3,3,7}]] Lorentzian honeycomb<BR>Thanks [[User:Roice3|Roice]]!]]
[[File:Hyperbolic_honeycomb_7-3-3_poincare.png|thumb|[[Heptagonal tiling honeycomb|{7,3,3}]] Lorentzian honeycomb<BR>Thanks [[User:Roice3|Roice]]!]]
[[File:Co2_glacial_cycles_800k.png|thumb|
[[Timeline_of_glaciation|Past]]]]
[[Image:Ultimatereserveoilprojections.gif|thumb|[[peak oil|Future]]]]
[[Image:Gregoriancalendarleap.png|thumb|[[Leap year]]s]]
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* [[User:Tomruen/subpages]]

== About me ==
* Born {{Birth date and age|1968|04|16}}, I live near [[Minneapolis]], [[Minnesota]]. I like [[astronomy]], [[science]], [[math]], [[Road running|running]], [[bicycling]], [[reading]], [[writing]], [[photography]], and [[gardening]]. 
* I do computer [[computer programming|programming]] for a living, mostly in [[Java (programming language)|Java]], [[JavaScript]], [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]], [[C++]], and [[Delphi (software)|Delphi]].
* I have a [[Bachelor of Science|B.S.]] in [[Computer Science]] and [[Mathematics]], minor in [[Physics]] (astronomy), 1991, from the [[University of Minnesota|U of MN]].
* https://twitter.com/Tom_Ruen

== Pictures ==
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* [http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap031112.html Astronomy Picture of the Day, November 12, 2003]
* [[Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 10, 2005]]
** [[User:Tomruen/2006featuredpicture]] #10 Copied from on Commons Picture of 2006 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2006]
* [[:Image:Marsrglobe2004.gif|Mars animation 2003]], or simulated rotation [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu2cX1IxeRs April 2014]
* [[:Image:C solarcorona2003.gif|Sunrise corona animation]]
* [[:File:Venus_set_may_29_2020.gif]] Crescent venus setting
* [[:File:Asteroid_flyby_2015_TB145.gif]] [[2015 TB145]] Halloween flyby animation
* [[:File:Saturn view from earth 2009.gif]] Saturn animation, 2009 ring crossing
* [[:File:Saturn timelapse-29 years.gif]] Saturn animation for 29 years. (or [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj9GVkilvD8 as seen from Jupiter, 2000-2333], or [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMLrkAH3Wu8 from Pluto, 1890-2138]
* [[:File:Lunar_eclipse_chart_close-2010Dec21_animation.gif]] 2010 lunar eclipse animation, or [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0NY6xPBmgs April 2014 lunar eclipse]

== Links ==
* <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:sfn|sfn]]|Smith|2005|p=25}} shortened footnote 
* <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:rp|rp]]|pages<nowiki>}} reference page
* <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:anchor|anchor]]|text<nowiki>}}</nowiki> .. linking between sections
* <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:clear|clear]]|left<nowiki>}} </nowiki> ... flow text past left images, like <nowiki><DIV style="clear:both;"/></nowiki>
* <nowiki>[[Category:Minor planet object articles (unnumbered)]]</nowiki>
* <nowiki> <source lang="pascal"> </nowiki> 
* <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:columns-list|columns-list]]|colwidth=10em| ...<nowiki>}} </nowiki>
* [http://en.wikichecker.com Edit counter]
* [https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Unicode/Character_reference/2000-2FFF Unicodes 2000-2fff] Inverted-Y: & #8516; = ⅄, hex 2144
* http://frodox.ch/infoboxplanet/rapid.php
* http://word2cleanhtml.com
* http://bmanolov.free.fr/html2wiki-tables.php HTML to Wiki Converter 
* [http://xahlee.info/comp/unicode_arrows.html unicodes:] Isomorphism ≅, approximate ≈, ↔
* [[Special:Newimages]]
* [[Wikipedia:Keyboard shortcuts]]
* [[Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax]]
* [[Wikipedia:Template messages/Merging and splitting]] 
* [[Wikipedia:Deletion policy]]
** <nowiki> {{ deletebecause|Reason. }} </nowiki>
** <nowiki> {{ deprecated|date= }} </nowiki>
* [[Wikipedia:Oversight]] - permanent deletion of revision history
* αβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρστυφχψω
* Macro codes:
*# $1000 = {{currency|{{inflation|US|1000|1900}}|us}} in 1900
*# <nowiki> {{Unreferenced}} </nowiki> 
*# <nowiki> {{cleanupdate| DATE }} </nowiki> 
*# <nowiki>  {{db-author}}</nowiki> - delete article with wrong name
*# <nowiki>  {{db-f1}} </nowiki> - delete image with wrong name
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* [[:Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup]]
* [[Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not]]
* [[Wikipedia:Bot requests#Script generation of uniform polyhedra articles]]
* [http://fixedreference.org]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics]]

== Wiki news ==
* [http://www.ted.com/talks/jimmy_wales_on_the_birth_of_wikipedia.html] Jimmy Wales is founder of Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, ever-expanding, and thoroughly addictive encyclopedia of the future. In this presentation, he explains how Wikipedia's collaborative system works, and why it succeeds. (Recorded July 2005 in Oxford, UK. Duration: 20:47)
* [http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Jimmy-Waless-benevolent-Wikipedia-wisdom Jimmy Wales’s benevolent Wikipedia wisdom] By DAVID HOROVITZ 07/01/2011 

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