About James I hope that these userboxes will help other editors to understand my personal point of view, so that together we will be able to build a more neutral encyclopedia. dad This user is a father. File:San Mateo County ca seal.gif This user lives in Menlo Park, California. This user has studied at Carnegie Mellon, Northwestern, and Stanford universities. Template:User clean fuels File:Red carnation.jpg This user opposes oligarchy by supporting the progressive tax and public education. File:Voting box clipart.gif This user supports instant-runoff voting. en This user is a native speaker of the English language. A, B, and C This user prefers the serial comma. c This user is a C programmer. Tcl This user is a Tcl/Tk scripter. Template:User perl File:6sigmaIQrange.png This user is a statistician. This user supports the ACLU. This user is a Capitalist. This user supports the United Nations. This user is old enough to remember what a typewriter is, and that's all you need to know. This user has petitioned the Food and Drug Administration regarding modafinil. This user has petitioned the Department of Transportation regarding depleted uranium. This user has petitioned the Nuclear Regulatory Commission regarding depleted uranium. This user believes that the death penalty should never be used. This user is in favor of gun control. This user understands biological evolution. evol-4 This user is absolutely certain of the theory of evolution. This user believes that the universe is in a quasi-steady state. This user believes in the separation of church and state. File:Former BSA.jpg This user no longer wishes to be associated with the leadership of the Boy Scouts of America. This user is interested in law. This user believes in the existence of a human soul or spirit. File:Humanism.png This user is a spiritual humanist. This user is a transhumanist. This user is a religious pluralist. This user can scarcely believe anyone takes astrology seriously. Template:User hobby:Electronics Template:User diy Template:User backpacking Template:User bicycling Template:User Nearsighted Template:User Doctor Who 4th Doctor Template:User bubble tea Template:User OJ Template:User green colour Template:Userbox Night This user reserves the right to completely screw up their own edits. This user assumes good faith. Note: due to a change in userbox policy, I am currently unable to inform you that I am also an agnostic Quaker in convienient pictorial fashion.

James Salsman

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My web sites: bovik.org, readsay.com.

Some sites I like: DailyKos, Washington Monthly, RADSAFE archives.

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To do

• Adapt examples from Chatfield, C. (1993) J Bus Econ Stat 11 121-135 and Meade, N. and T. Islam (1995) J Forecast 14 413-430;
• Update graphs with more recent data and convert them to timeline syntax;
• Check the categories of articles on my watchlist;
• Fix Design a bot to fix dead external links with the {{dlw-inline}} Internet Archive template;
• Fix syntax errors;
• Behave according to the rules;
• Edit according to the guide and manual (except for footnotes, which are ugly); and
• Help write an encyclopedia.

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