User:MonkeeSage

Who is MonkeeSage?


My nickname is derived from the fact that I like monkeys and I consider myself a sage, in a sense (viz., I like reading and learning and discussing issues).

My interests are philosophy, theology, writing, photography and art.

That's about it! Feel free to leave me a message on my talk page.

A Curse Upon Vandals
Here is an ancient Germanic curse upon wiki-vandals, which I just made up:

|en Die Flöhe auf Zehntausend verärgerten Kamels läuft innen Ihrer Unterwäsche!

The Fifty-Third Calypso
Oh, a sleeping drunkard Up in Central Park, And a lion-hunter In the jungle dark, And a Chinese dentist, And a British queen&mdash; All fit together In the same machine. Nice, nice, very nice; Nice, nice, very nice; Nice, nice very nice&mdash; So many different people In the same device.
 * Kurt Vonnegut, "&#91;Bokonon's] Fifty-third Calypso", in Cat's Cradle, p. 2.

Lawn mowing machine
I love visiting with Grandma and Grandpa, and writing letters to parents, and pushing lawn mowing machine so Grandpa’s hyena don’t get disturbed.
 * Long Duk Dong from the 80's movie Sixteen Candles.

Programming and Scripting Skills
I am a fairly proficient HTML/XHTML/XML/XUL/CSS user. Same with JavaScript, perl, Ruby, Python, C# and PHP. I've recently been playing with D, and learning Haskell and OCaml (Haskell is fun). Most recently my favorite tinker-toy is Vala—which is a preprocessor that turns a language with almost the exact same syntax and semantics as C# 2.0, into standard C code using GLib / GObject for its object system, and produces native binaries.

Free / Open-Source Projects I've Contributed To

 * K-Meleon web browser (minor backend bug-fixes and updates, chrome and extension hacking).
 * Mozilla Firefox (created 8 or so 3rd-party browser extensions, io.js module featured on XULPlanet.com).
 * Last-Exit (some aesthetic patches and added playing /remaining time display).
 * Mono (couple of patches for BackgroundWorker).
 * Others I may have forgotten about.

Disclaimer
Some information regarding pictures on this page is meant to be purely comedic, not factual. Please don't sue me or do me bodily harm if you were fooled into thinking the information was being presented as factual. Beware, I am a trained Jedi knight!