User:Bdiscoe

Ben Discoe
I generally live on the Big Island of Hawaii in an area called Ahualoa, doing software and agricultural consulting, as well as farming vegetables, chickens, and tea. I am the benevolent dictator of a open-source software project and information resource, the [Virtual Terrain Project]. I also maintain many websites for local non-profits, hosted on my server at http://ahualoa.net/

In October 2010, i moved to Berkeley to work as a geospatial visualization software engineer in the field of LIDAR mobile mapping. As of October 2011, i was at Google in Mountain View on the self-driving car team (which has its own article: Google driverless car).

My old personal website (from the dawn of the web) is http://washedashore.com/

I enjoy contributing minor corrections and additions to a large number of extremely diverse wikipedia subjects. I have created some articles:


 * Ahualoa, my home.
 * Alternanthera sissoo, Gynura crepioides: food plants that grow here in Hawaii.
 * Megathyrsus maximus, an extremely common grass worldwide, which i was astonished to find did not have an article.
 * Splendor, a disambiguation page.
 * Waveform Records, a record label that was influential to many of us in the 90s.
 * The Né River in France.
 * Gereida, South Darfur, a town surrounded by Darfur's largest camp for IDPs.
 * The Gove Dam on the Kunene in Angola.
 * The Tendaho Irrigation Dam on the Awash in Ethiopia.
 * Outro, an epic song by M83.
 * Blind Mr. Jones, Adolfo Doring, Forbidden Warrior, Karl von den Steinen, Noel Botham, random things that caught my attention.

I have made some contributions to Romanian wikipedia, but since i am not a native speaker, i tend to limit myself to minor corrections and adding links.