User:GPa Hill

As it turns out, if your name is Michael Dennis Hill, which mine is, there are no reasonably good variants you could use as a persona on wikipedia. Most people call me Hill.

The most important role I have in life, realistically the main one that keeps me in it at all, is my role as common-law-step-in-common-law-and-other-somewhat-more-obscure-relationships-grandfather to my enormous village full of grandchildren. (Yes, it does take a village to raise a grandpa. Nine and counting.)  The father of a few of those kids started calling me GPa, pronounced GEE-paw, hence:  GPa Hill.

In non-wikipedia life, I'm Mike Hill, the American one who lives at Shannon Farm in Virginia and grew up in Parsons, Kansas, and works for Industrial Logic, Inc. and is middle-aged and moderately chubby with short dark hair, a beard, and monstrously thick glasses. (Nice disambiguation, yes?)

I am multi-dorktual, being a software-making dork, a book-reading dork, a history-loving dork, a music-listening dork, and primarily just a plain old dork dork.

I rarely contribute other than minor grammatical, spelling, or intention-revealing edits. I'm not really a WikiGnome: I was an avid contributor to the original Wiki. We each do what we can when we can, though, and my writing efforts are currently reserved primarily for other projects.

I am a reasonably well-known coach, teacher, writer, and student in the world of Extreme Programming. Don't expect any contributions on the topic, though. First, I'd violate NPOV for sure. I have a bit of a reputation in XP circles for that kind of thing. Second, that's my day job. If you really want to know about that side of my life, try the aforementioned old stuff or Industrial Logic, Inc., the company I work for.

I am one of the primary authors on three of Industrial Logic's eLearning courses:


 * Microtesting: The Basics
 * Microtesting: Collaboration
 * Microtesting: Legacy

I am also more or less constantly at work on various other writing-ish projects, including a modest amount of poetry. I'm the only person I know who subscribes to all three of the New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, and the London Review of Books. If you'd like to talk about any recent articles in any of the three, by all means ping me.

For that matter, ping me on my talk page if you'd like to schmooze about, well, pretty much anything.

Cheers! Hill

GPa Hill 08:40, 22 September 2007 (UTC)