GABaker

I have enjoyed working on Wikipedia. I came here after seeing an article on Kuro5hin, checked it out, and found that I could make a positive contribution.

Biographical Information

Full name: Gregory Albert Baker (there are a lot of us in this world)

Birth: September 20, 1955, in Washington, D.C. Education: B.Sci, University of Maryland; Empire State Military Academy, Army OCS; couple of computer schools City: Odenton, Odenton, Watch Your Step, Odenton, Maryland

Profession: Technical writer and substitute teacher; occasional writer of fiction and nonfiction

Family: wife, daughter, two cats

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Interests and Hobbies

• International broadcasting
• Shortwave radio; I've been listening since 1968
• Open-source intelligence gathering
• Music, listening and playing

Dumb Facts About Me

• I was born in the eye of a hurricane. No, I'm not Jumping Jack Flash.
• I'm a distant cousin of former Vice President Albert Gore.

Contributions to the Wikipedia

Articles started:

• Voice of America
• Broadcasting
• International broadcasting
• Civil Air Patrol
• Longwave
• Mediumwave
• Black comedy
• Alas, Babylon
• Fail-Safe
• Soviet submarine Komsomolets
• Fort George G. Meade
• Knots
• Ded reckoning
• Lord Haw-Haw
• Northwest Ordinance
• STANAG
• Motion picture rating systems
• Ace
• Ship prefix
• Order of battle
• Business process improvement
• IBM Message Queue Interface

Articles to which I contributed more than minor material:

• Propaganda
• Dictionary attack
• Shortwave
• Winfield Scott
• BBC World Service
• World War III
• Detective
• Battle of Tsushima
• Military doctrine
• Chechnya
• William Joyce
• George Washington
• Arab League
• Russian submarine Kursk
• Military intelligence
• Merkava

Please note: I truly value working collaboratively with other people on this project, and do not want to be seen as grabbing credit in a collaborative work. However, I am also proud of what I write; furthermore, if anyone has a specific criticism of my facts or my style, I would be glad to address that. As Huey Long once said, "He who does not toot his own horn, the same shall not be tooted."

Other Stuff

• The Battle of Hell, Kentucky; An Essay in Creative History [2]
• Contributions to the UNCLE/Callahan series on alt.callahans. including the Bunnies
• Contributions to Plastic.com