User:NaySay

Most of all, I'm curious--and a pretty good writer.

I'm now a professional researcher and editor and before that I had a long career as an educational administrator (budget manager) and a professional musician.

I'm fascinated by diverse topics, from the historical Jesus to Hebrides knitting. I have many interests: music, theater, writing, botany, astrology, cooking, history, politics, philosophy, science, language, religion.

In addition to a good deal of editing, I've authored a number of Wiki articles. Some of those which are most important to me include:


 * Pico della Mirandola
 * Dorotheus of Sidon
 * Katarche
 * Marsilio Ficino (in part)
 * Vettius Valens
 * Paulus Alexandrinus
 * Rhetorius
 * Hephaistio of Thebes
 * Olympiodorus the Younger
 * De vita libri tres
 * Elia del Medigo
 * Essential dignity
 * Astrological fall
 * Terms or bounds
 * Mutual reception
 * Triplicity

and many more that I collaborated on. I have also made hundreds of editing corrections--especially to articles on plants, animals and science. I have done Wiki translations from French and German Wiki articles. Some of my more difficult efforts were:


 * Le Pere Duchesne
 * Le Père Duchesne (19th c.)
 * Daniel Schneidermann
 * [|Hiéroglyphe] (French Wiki article on Egyptian hieroglyphics)
 * Corinne Lepage
 * Charles Bettelheim
 * Rodolphe Seeldrayers

My greatest problem is enthusiastic gushing and I welcome curbs on my adjectival barrages.

Papyrus has never been exticnt,i thought you should know Luke12345abcd (talk) 10:51, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Not sure where I said that Luke, but thanks very much for the correction. I don't think I believed it was extinct, just becoming very rare. But I no longer recall. Thanks. NaySay (talk) 18:32, 28 March 2009 (UTC)