User:Bmsnook

I am especially interested in history, technology, woodworking, music, and connections between people.

Liking history means I am fascinated by where we have come from and how we have become who we are (individually and collectively). Technology has always fascinated me, from disassembling my grandmother's non-working desk lamp to see if I could fix it as a child to maintaining Internet application servers as an adult. I've designed and built bookshelves, beds for my children, a pantry cabinet for a kitchen, and jigs for making other things in my garage. While I have played trumpet and a bit of guitar, I only really understand enough about music to know how to make those instruments occasionally make a non-offensive noise and when I like the noise I hear other people make.

I believe we need to interpret the English word "humankind" literally and be "kind humans."

Disclaimer: Most formatting on this page is stolen learned from User:Headbomb. I tired of seeing the default "Wikipedia does not have a user page with this exact name" message when I clicked on my profile to see what edits I have submitted. Seeking examples, I looked for users in the history of the English-language page for Emil Theodor Kocher more recent than some minor typographical and grammar edits I made in 2013. I have barely scratched the surface and have a lot more to steal learn from him.

''A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.'' – Robert A. Heinlein –

Le soleil n'oublie pas un village parce qu'il est petit. (The sun does not forget a village because it is small.) - un proverbe africain -

''Le patriotisme, c'est aimer son pays. Le nationalisme, c'est détester celui des autres.'' (Patriotism is loving your country. Nationalism is hating that of others.) - Charles de Gaulle -

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. – Stephen R. Covey –

- Joyner Lucas - I’m Not Racist -