User:Donald Albury/Personal Information

I live in Florida and am retired.

I think I can give some idea of who I am by listing famous people that I admire, and that I think I would have liked to have been friends with: Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Samuel Clemens, Harry Truman, Steve Allen, Jimmy Carter, Richard Feynman, Steven Jay Gould, and James Randi, among others. (I've never met any of these people, but I would have loved the opportunity to talk with them. I do realize that they are all white American males, and most of them are dead, so make of that what you will.)

I have a Ph.D. in Linguistics, but have never worked in the field. I also have a B.S. in Computer Systems, and have worked with computers for more than 20 years, including ten years administering Novell NetWare networks. I served for five years as a volunteer SysOp on the Novell Product Support Forums. At various points in my life I have also earned a living (not counting student and summer jobs) as a bus station ticket agent, a cabinet maker, a campus cop, a soldier, a planner, an "internal compliance officer", a middle-manager, a computer programmer, a teacher, a school crossing guard, and a library page and assistant.

According to Political Compass, I am

Left/Libertarian

As of 12 November 2005:
 * Economic Left/Right: -4.38
 * Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.00

As of 28 March 2010:
 * Economic Left/Right: -5.38
 * Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.10

As of 23 March 2015:
 * Economic Left/Right: -5.13
 * Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.9

As of 13 April 2020
 * Economic Left/Right: -6.88
 * Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.54

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Left (Liberal)

As of 12 November 2005:
 * Your PERSONAL issues Score is 80%.
 * Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 40%.

As of 28 March 2010:
 * Your PERSONAL issues Score is 90%.
 * Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 30%.

As of 23 March 2015:
 * Your PERSONAL issues Score is 80%.
 * Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 30%.

As of 13 April 2020:
 * Your PERSONAL issues Score is 80%.
 * Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 40%.


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Notable people I have known

 * Charles Donald Albury, my first cousin, once removed
 * John Algeo, my advisor junior year at UF, served on my MA thesis committee, as editor of American Speech published my article
 * James Cooke Brown, worked for him on the first edition of his Loglan dictionary
 * Scott Camil, met him a couple of times, he didn't remember our first meeting the second time I talked to him
 * Frank S. Cerveny, he was a young priest at church when I was in high school
 * David Mark Chalmers, took one course with him, later met him socially, my first wife was friends with his wife
 * Charles H. Fairbanks, took Anthropolgy 101 when he taught it
 * Bill McCollum, served with him on the student union board at UF
 * Kenneth Megill, peripheral acquaintance through anti-war activities at UF
 * Ginny Montes, my first wife
 * Ants Oras, I took a class on Milton he taught
 * Paul Ortiz (historian), I know his wife
 * Meredith Ann Pierce, my supervisor at a part-time job in a library
 * Ivan Sag, we met at the LSA Linguistic Institute in 1972
 * Janos Shoemeyn (pen name Lawrence Dorr), we used to chat at lunch in the early 1960s