User:Ammodramus

This is my desktop: the digital equivalent of a horizontal surface densely covered with illegible notes scrawled on the backs of old envelopes. (PW is based on 'Only God...')

For the biographical stuff, click this sentence.

For uploading pictures

 * Commons:Main Page
 * Commons:Category:Pictures_by_Ammodramus
 * Try OpenStreetMap to generate maps; save as SVG. Get Inkscape; or try it in Windows Paint.

NRHP sites

 * WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/NRIS information issues
 * UTM converter
 * Articles for deletion/Helfensteller, Hirsch & Watson
 * To get nom form: if it's been digitized at NPS, paste 8-digit refnum into URL: http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/NNNNNNNN.pdf. For photos, replace "Text" with "Photos" in URL.  For NHLs, replace "NRHP" with "NHLS" in URL.  Discussed at NRHP, under heading "A little search trick..."

Nebraska

 * WikiProject Nebraska
 * Andreas History of the State of Nebraska (1882)
 * Past and Present of Platte County, Nebraska (1915)
 * Platte County online books at GenWeb: includes link to Curry
 * Nebraska History Quarterly: selected articles online
 * CASDE: Nebraska... Our Towns
 * Nebraska DNR databank: get township-range-section maps.
 * Nebraska governors' speeches to Legislature: includes budget messages, state-of-the-state.
 * Encyclopedia of the Great Plains. From UNL.
 * Historical Nebraska legislative district maps

Bridges

 * Bridge terminology: Pittsburgh website

Architectural styles
Indiana DNR guide

Congress

 * House of Representatives history. For election results, pick a Congress; then on the page for that Congress, there's a link to a PDF with the results of all elections.

WP tools

 * WikiStalk -- what articles have you and someone else edited?
 * AfD voting history
 * XKCD: "In Popular Culture"
 * /vector.js
 * Newspapers.com: includes parameters that should be used when citing

Drafts

 * Scratch page for drafts: The Bertrams
 * Scratch page 2 for drafts: Akron Plan
 * Scratch page 3 for drafts: Nebraska freshman legislators
 * Scratch page 4 for drafts: Norfolk Regional Airport
 * Scratch page 5 for drafts: Bridge 650 (Barton County, Kansas)
 * Scratch page 6 for drafts: scratch
 * Scratch page 7 for drafts: Nebraska gubernatorial election, 1990
 * Scracth page 8 for drafts: scratch

Stuff to worry about

 * Re. Welsh settlement: museum in Wymore, with link to site at Wymore, Nebraska
 * Barrio Sta. Rosa copyright discussion re. NRHP: Copyright_problems/2011_November_25

Loup Canal
A source on irrigation: |Columbus Telegram article