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1 About me
2 Administrating
3 Therapy
4 Ironically
5 It should be noted
6 International Travels
7 US Travels
8 (tools)

Looking down the Kern River from my back yard

A Common Poorwill sitting on my porch in Las Vegas

A Great Blue Heron in my back yard in Kernville

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[edit] About me

Hi everyone! My name's Josh Gordon. I've got a ton of different interests and possibly interesting experiences that might or might not result in useful and informative additions to Wikipedia. For example, I've worked at IMSAI (my first job out of college), Autodesk (my longest job) and eBay (where I was Chief Engineer) as a programmer; I was lead trumpet for the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo in the '70s; I'm a jazz pianist and folk/blues guitarist; I've lived in New York City, Alexandria, VA, Munich, Germany, Eugene, Oregon, Tarzana, Berkeley, San Francisco, and Carmel-by-the-Sea. I moved to Las Vegas in early 2005; I split my time between Vegas and Kernville, California, my wife's hometown. I spent many years on The Well, for a long time as conference host of several of the most popular forums (Current Events and Politics, for example), and I'm an utter fanatic for encyclopedias and dictionaries of all sorts.

I've collected comic books most of my life, though not much in the last ten years -- my old friends kept getting killed off or replaced with children, so to hell with it. I do have a nice collection of original art by John Byrne, Neal Adams, Scott McCloud, and Chris Ware. I also collect photography, and have some lovely prints by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Ruth Bernhard, Paul Caponigro, and Diane Arbus (the "Jewish Giant" was my cousin Eddie Carmel) .

I've recently taken up riding.

I have a serious fondness for hats, in particular Panama hats.

For reverting vandalism on Jew [1] you get a bunch of grapes. Enjoy. :) Sam Vimes 22:31, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

To JPGordon I award the surreal barnstar for his addition of "special flavor" to the community and being of great help at all times, Drboisclair 02:42, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Administrating

Mostly I'm doing janitorial work around here.It comes naturally to me; I was "code cop" at Autodesk and at eBay, so browsing other people's work is quick, easy, and pleasurable.

I became an administrator on Nov. 26, 2004. I ran for ArbCom in January, 2006 and came in just out of the running. I'm running again.

I have been named a "monster admin" by a fellow editor at WP:RfAr [3] -- I don't think it was meant as praise, though.

[edit] Therapy

I'm a strong proponent of the concept Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not therapy, though I don't think it should be part of WP:NOT.

[edit] Ironically

I'm currently on a crusade against "ironically". And now "interestingly" is also on my list -- I found one sentence starting, "Interestingly and ironically", which was just proof to me that my sword is insufficiently swift. But I'm letting "interestingly" stay in video game and other pop culture sorts of articles, because, really, who cares.

[edit] It should be noted

It should be noted that it is noteworthy that it should be mentioned that I also have a bug up my ass about "It should be noted" and other such wastes of bits.

[edit] International Travels

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	Idea and layout taken from User:Calton, who appropriated it from User:Salsb, who stole it from User:Guettarda who borrowed it from User:Coolcat

I had the privilege and pleasure of making two Atlantic crossings, in the SS United States and the SS America.

[edit] US Travels

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	Idea and layout taken from User:Calton, who appropriated it from User:Salsb, who stole it from User:Guettarda who borrowed it from User:Coolcat