Hello! I'm Xenonts. I have been using Wikipedia for as long as I can remember,[citation needed] but I created my account in 2018. I wanted my user page to include various interests of mine, and I think it has essentially become a compendium of subjects I find intriguing.
I am originally from Morris County, New Jersey (which falls in the region of North Jersey), in the United States, but am currently attending college in Ohio. Sto studiando l'italiano :)
Some of my interests
edit- Americana
- Astronomy
- Baseball, as a fan of the New York Yankees
- Carl Sagan's works, including my favorite book, Pale Blue Dot
- Cartography/Geography
- Environmental science, which I'm currently studying in college
- Film photography; I mainly shoot with 35mm on an early 1950s Kodak Retina Ia
- Hiking
- History in general, but right now, particularly American history in the latter half of the 19th century (i.e., the Civil War and Gilded Age periods)
- Listening to music; I listen to many genres of music, but my favorite is probably classic rock, and my favorite band is Chicago
- Playing instruments; I play several saxophones, and main the soprano saxophone, as well as low clarinets, my favorite of which being the alto clarinet
- Seinfeld
- Time as a concept
- Statistics
- Vexillology
Some of my favorite books
edit- If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
- Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan (as mentioned above)
- What If? by Randall Monroe
Some of my favorite movies
edit- Bonnie and Clyde, 1967
- The General, 1926
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, 1966
- Stand by Me, 1986
Some of my favorite music albums
edit- 1984, Van Halen, 1984
- Abbey Road, the Beatles, 1969
- Appetite for Destruction, Guns N' Roses, 1987
- Blood, Sweat & Tears, Blood, Sweat & Tears, 1968
- Chicago Transit Authority, the Chicago Transit Authority, 1969
- Chicago II, Chicago, 1970
- Revolver, The Beatles, 1966
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Beatles, 1967
- Time Out, the Dave Brubeck Quartet, 1959
- Wings at the Speed of Sound, Paul McCartney and Wings, 1976
Some of my favorite video games
edit- Deliver Us the Moon
- The Forgotten City
- L.A. Noire
- Minecraft
- Okami
- Railway Empire
- Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption II
- The Wii series, with Wii Sports Resort being my favorite game in the series
Wikipedia articles I find interesting
editLastly, since this is Wikipedia, I think it's fitting for me to include a (very) long list of articles of various topics I've found intriguing over the years, not including ones I've already mentioned; essentially, the following is a list of random articles I find cool and would recommend reading at some point:
- 1 - 2 + 3 - 4 + ⋯
- 46 BC
- 51st state
- 1973 Concorde eclipse flight
- Abiogenesis
- Absaroka (proposed state)
- Adak, Alaska
- Adaptation (eye)
- Aeronomy
- Airborne observatory
- Albedo
- Albino redwood
- Alert, Nunavut
- Aleutian Islands World War II National Monument
- Altissimo
- American frontier
- American march music
- Ampersand
- Anadrome
- And yet it moves
- Anglo-Frisian languages
- Anidolic lighting
- Antarctica during World War II
- Antiqua–Fraktur dispute
- Ars subtilior
- Atka B-24D Liberator
- Atlantic coastal pine barrens
- Atlanticism
- Atmosphere of the Moon
- Atmosphere of Pluto
- Atomic clock
- Aviation in the pioneer era
- Banana paper
- Battle of Cuddalore (1783)
- Belle Époque
- Bioregionalism
- Blowhole (geology)
- A Boy and His Atom
- Brackish water
- Breviograph
- Caffenol
- Calque
- Canadian raising
- Canyon de Chelly National Monument
- Cape to Cairo Railway
- Cat organ
- Central Park be-ins
- Chess annotation symbols
- Christmas truce
- City-state
- Cold seep
- Color temperature
- Common heritage of humanity
- Complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir
- Connecticut Western Reserve
- Core Four
- Corrido
- Cottage Gardens
- Creole architecture in the United States
- Cryptic (geology)
- Dagen H
- Data and information visualization
- De Stijl
- Death from laughter
- Deckle
- Delmarva Peninsula
- Deus vult
- Disrupted planet
- Dream argument
- Earthlight (astronomy)
- Eggnog riot
- Environmental portrait
- Escape attempts and victims of the inner German border
- Eskaleut languages
- Eureka, Nunavut
- Exploration of Pluto
- Extreme trans-Neptunian object
- Extremes on Earth
- Fairy chess piece
- Fallingwater
- Feynman diagram
- Firelands
- Flag of Earth
- Flag of the Green Mountain Boys
- Fleuron (typography)
- Fort Ross, California
- Freedom to roam
- Freedom Riders
- Freezing level
- French Aerostatic Corps
- Friendship, New Jersey
- Frutiger Aero
- Fulgurite
- Gay Nineties
- Geologic time scale
- Geology of Antarctica
- Geology of the Moon
- Geology of Socotra
- Glossary of environmental science
- Glossary of jazz and popular music
- Glossary of music terminology
- Gravettian
- Haibun
- Hertzsprung–Russell diagram
- Highly composite number
- History of Antarctica
- History of timekeeping devices
- Hoba meteorite
- Holocene calendar
- Human–canine bond
- Human outpost
- Humanism
- Hypercomplex number
- Indian reunification
- Ink wash painting
- Intercalation (timekeeping)
- Interesting number paradox
- Intertidal zone
- Irony punctuation
- Island of stability
- Jackson Hole
- Jersey Dutch language
- Jesus bloodline
- Jim Bridger
- Julie d'Aubigny
- Just Room Enough Island
- L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat
- Language change
- Language family
- LaTeX
- Lichtenburg figure
- Ligature (writing)
- Lincoln Highway
- List of artificial objects on the Moon
- List of chemical compounds with unusual names
- List of ghost towns in Alaska
- List of ghost towns in Hawaii
- List of historical unrecognized states
- List of language regulators
- List of map projections
- List of medieval abbreviations
- List of musical symbols
- List of musical works in unusual time signatures
- List of non-standard dates
- List of regions of the United States
- List of state partition proposals in the United States
- List of tautological place names
- List of unsolved problems in physics
- Listenbourg
- Long s
- Longyearbyen
- Lost Dakota
- Louisiana Creole
- Lunar geologic timescale
- Manhattanization
- Meng Po
- Mensural notation
- Meroë
- Mesosphere
- Metric prefix
- Middle English
- Molecular vibration
- Mots d'Heures
- Mummy brown
- Murderer's Row
- My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love
- M&M Boys
- Nacirema
- Names of the American Civil War
- Nang Tani
- Native Esperanto speakers
- Naqada culture
- Neapolitan language
- Neutral Moresnet
- New Ireland (Maine)
- Nickajack
- Noctilucent cloud
- Nok culture
- Non-numerical words for quantities
- North American X-15
- Northeast megalopolis
- Nostratic languages
- Nuclear close calls
- Nullification Crisis
- Obelus
- Oceanic dispersal
- Oikophobia
- Ombre
- Ong's Hat, New Jersey
- Oort cloud
- Operation Highjump
- Orders of magnitude (length)
- Outer Lands
- Outline of meals
- Panhumanism
- Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument
- Parity of zero
- Paul Gauguin
- Peconic County, New York
- Per sign
- Percy Grainger
- Perfect number
- Petrichor
- Phantom island
- Phases of ice
- Phlegethon
- Photographers of the American Civil War
- Physics beyond the Standard Model
- Planetary geology
- Political geography of Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Post-theism
- Project Mohole
- Proton decay
- Pyramiden
- Pyrography
- Quartz clock
- R (programming language)
- Republic of Formosa
- Retail apocalypse
- Revolutions of 1848
- Ribs (recordings)
- Río Rico, Tamaulipas
- Rodney, Mississippi
- Roof and tunnel hacking
- Rubble pile
- Russian Fort Elizabeth
- .su
- S. R. Crown Hall
- Salt marsh
- Satellite tornado
- The School of Athens
- Serapis flag
- Shaftment
- Shooting an apple off one's child's head
- Shorthand
- Sixth borough
- Sky lobby
- Solar eclipse of July 28, 1851
- Solid oxygen
- Solipsism
- Space advocacy
- Space Station Freedom
- Spacetime
- Spanish expeditions to the Pacific Northwest
- Spanish Main
- Spencerian script
- Spilling water for luck
- Sprocket hole photography
- Sumerian religion
- Summer of Love
- Superseded theories in science
- Swinging Sixties
- Swiss Style (design)
- Table of nuclides
- TAU (spacecraft)
- Tetration
- Thimble Islands
- Timbre
- Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana
- Timeline of the far future
- Todd Beamer
- Tutankhamun's trumpets
- Tuvan People's Republic
- Union Carbide Building
- Unit of time
- United States Antarctic Program
- Upper-atmospheric lightning
- Urban prairie
- Venus snow
- Vinicunca
- Voltaire
- Wanderlust
- Warming stripes
- Waybury Inn
- Wetland
- Wilmer McLean
- World Federalism
- Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus
- York Factory
- Young Man at His Window
- Zhuangzi (book)
In closing
editThank you for reading this far! I'd like to leave you with a quote from Carl Sagan, which also happened to be my senior yearbook quote in high school:
"We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers."