Skylark of Space

Howdy!

I'm a Mechanical Engineering major at Texas A&M University, and a big fan of the golden age of Science Fiction (or SF, but never Sci-Fi)

License Info

This is meant to simplfy things. Don't worry about all the extra licenses if you don't want to, everything is still available with the good ole GFDL.

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I grant non-exclusive permission for the Wikimedia Foundation Inc. to relicense my text and media contributions, including any images, audio clips, or video clips, under any copyleft license that it chooses, provided it maintains the free and open spirit of the GFDL. This permission acknowledges that future licensing needs of the Wikimedia projects may need adapting in unforeseen fashions to facilitate other uses, formats, and locations. It is given for as long as this banner remains.

Minor edits multi-licensed into the public domain

I agree to multi-license my eligible text contributions marked as minor edits, unless otherwise stated, under Wikipedia's copyright terms and into the public domain. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use my minor edit contributions in the public domain, please check the multi-licensing guide.

• note: I want to re-emphansize that I am releasing minor edits only to the public domain.

My Moniker

And, in case you were wondering, the name come's from Doc Smith's classic science fiction series, the Skylark of Space.

Wiki Projects

I am currently a memeber of the following projects:

• WikiProject Hats and Headgear

Wiki Anecdotes

I happen to use a Dvorak keyboard layout. But as I am too cheap to actually buy a Dvorak keyboard, I merely remapped the keys on my old Qwerty keyboard. As you can imagine, this makes it difficult for other people to use my computer.

So, one of my friends decided to show me a page that he had created on Wikipedia. This page is The Lais of Marie de France. My browser was already open to the Wikipedia article on Robert A. Heinlein. Because he couldn’t use the keyboard, he stubbornly navigated from Heinlein to the Lais of Marie de France in 6 mouse clicks, without using the menu links. I don’t know if I am more impressed at his feat of skill, or at Wikipedia’s interconnectedness.

For those that are interested, the exact path he took was:

• Robert A. Heinlein
• United States Naval Academy
• Doctor of Philosophy
• Humanities
• Literature
• Medieval literature
• The Lais of Marie de France