User:Tomruen
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Me
Hi, I'm 37 years old and I live near Minneapolis, Minnesota. I do computer programming, mostly in Java, for a living. I have a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics, and a fun minor in Physics (astronomy), 1991, from the U of MN.
I'm a Information Junkie in some ways, always collecting little and big ideas that amaze me. I had my own website for a while on a free site, but it got knocked down and I've not found a new home.
My work here
I just came on here April 28, 2004 and first tried an edit. It is an addicting idea to try to add to something much bigger than I could ever do. There are many good websites out there, and it seems silly to duplicate too much here. It it hard for me to treat this encyclopedia as an isolated complete resource when it can give brief introductions and link to something much better.
Topics of my interest include Math, science, astronomy, history, genealogy and election methods have been my strongest interests, and I'm sure they will dominate any pages I add or edit.
Pages I've edited
Updated: 5/22/04
- Astronomy/optics
- Created
- Atmospheric Diffraction - images of diffraction rings around sun/moon
- List of stars by constellation
- List of brightest stars Replaced list with one of brightest 100 stars
- Mars photos - images of mars
- Saros 131 - Describe example lunar eclipse cycle
- Modified
- Absolute magnitude - add some formulae
- Libration - Add photos
- Luminosity - add some formulae
- Lunar eclipse - add diagrams/photos
- Mirage - Add photos
- Saturn (planet) - add 29 year opposition images and "dark side of ring"
- Solar luminosity - add some formulae
- Markab - Add info about star alpha pegasus
- Pioneer 11 Add Saturn image
- Parallax - Added images to stellar and lunar parallax
- Created
- Mathematics
- Created
- Exact trigonometric constants - Formula for trig constants
- Tilings_of_Regular_Polygons - polygon tilings
- Modified
- Penrose tiling - Add image example
- Perfect square - add number examples
- Prism (geometry) - add image examples
- Spheroid - add volume formulae
- Wallpaper group - added 17 symmetry diagrams
- Created
- Calendars
- Modified
- Gregorian calendar - Add graph
- Iranian calendar - Add graph
- Modified
- Elections methods/history
- Created
- Bucklin voting - describe voting method
- IRV_-_Sample_election_-_favorite_season
- Minnesota Governor election 1998
- Modified
- Bloc voting - added other name "Plurality at large"
- Cumulative voting - Add ballot diagrams
- Instant-runoff voting - Add tie-breaking rules
- Preferential_voting - Add ballot diagrams
- Created
- Words
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Contact:
- tomruen_@_yahoo_._com
- (underscores added for protection against web spiders)