User:KCinLA

To start with, I am including a user page 'warning' notice as recommended.
There will be a box that will be generated which contains text you (and I) will see after I publish the page which briefly explains purpose of it and that it is not a typical encyclopedic article that you would normally find at Wikipedia.

I have known about the editing tool called a sandbox here and some other places use that term which is a system of "learn-by-doing" without the risk of doing serious damage to Wikipedia due to lack of my experience, but I still did not know how it really worked or what I needed to do first to start it up. So that is one of the main purposes of this user page for me since I still am quite new here even though I first heard of and accessed Wikipedia around March 2007 using my PSP handheld game console. I have made a few edits that have been minor errors in typing (most of the time I call them 'typos') or a minor change because the external source being referenced as an authority for a particular piece of information has made a minor change.

And now for a little 'About Me' data which I will be blending in my hopes of how I will be a real participant here at Wikipedia.
I have a background in electronics and computers with special interests in music as an art expression having learned to play the piano in my preteen years. I attended the public school system where I grew up in Modesto, CA, but my interests in science and electronics was always ahead of what the school system was able to provide. I was disappointed when I entered high school to learn that I had to wait until the second year there as a sophomore before I could take a class in electronics, but the school I was attended made up for it by having three years of teaching for more advanced and complex training from 1969 to 1972. I consider myself fortunate to have grown up at that time and taking classes when integrated circuits were becoming popular in manufacturing technologies.

I really would have loved to have a Wikipedia around in those days, because as I mostly learned about electronics on my own from books from the library. I has been suggested that the user page can be used as a place to keep to-do notes for the items I am interested in doing here as my contribution to the project(s). I have worked with computers since before the eighties and had an interest in MIDI due to my background with piano and then video when I was an intern for a public access cable TV system in 1998.

I am an extremely slow reader which some have said that it was understandable since much of the material I was reading was of a technical nature. I did graduate from high school in the top 15% of my class and have a life membership with CSF (I don't know if they are still around, but to qualify for it 6 out of the 8 semesters had to have grades in college prep level classes with almost all A's. I find audio books interesting because when done right by a good reader helps to gain more from the story by their inflections and voice changes.  It helps me also because when I was growing up there were some words and terms so new in the tech field (and particularly people's names) that I didn't know exactly how to pronounce.

I also dabbled with speech synthesis and recognition electronic circuits and programs years ago. Just recently I came across a site that offers for free an online service to take a topic from Wikipedia and render it in several different audio formats with I guess a main target is for cell phone users to learn from Wikipedia because cell phone are small and text is possible but they are mainly intended for audio communication. It seems that most all of the newer ones do video playback as well as capture images (and video) so they could here the text to let the small screen available to view the supporting graphics which are essential for some subjects.

So those are my current projections of areas I will be looking into here at the Wiki Suite of Services of Information. I remember that there was a need for contributions in the Wikimedia. And I will utilize my skills in piano via a MIDI system to generate materials for that project.

PS I don't know if this is where I am suppose to use those four tilde characters as a way to sign the posting, but this is one of my sandbox pages so I guess it is appropriate even if it isn't. Since I have looked at the preview I now think I understand that I need to do something with my talk page because the link is in read. Also, I don't know why my user name is in read, but first things first.

KCinLA (talk) 05:02, 27 November 2009 (UTC)