User:Ubiquity

I'm a retired computer programmer. I like to read, travel, go to movies (only the big screen really does it for me), make music, or goof on the internet. I also contribute to WikiQuote.

Articles with Major Contributions from Me

 * Boyle Roche &mdash; Irish soldier, politician and wit
 * Tiger Roche &mdash; disreputable alleged brother of Sir Boyle Roche
 * Thomas Jevon &mdash; English actor and dramatist
 * Thomas Browne, 4th Viscount Kenmare &mdash; Irish landowner and politician
 * John Frush Knox &mdash; American memoirist
 * Lou Levy (pianist) &mdash; American jazz pianist
 * Lou Levy (publisher) &mdash; American music publisher
 * Irish bulls &mdash; humorously self-contradictory statements and some people famous for making them
 * The Goldwyn Girls &mdash; a troupe of musical comedy dancers
 * Yosef Almogi &mdash; Israeli politician
 * New York State Route 104B &mdash; insignificant highway
 * Texas, New York and New York, Texas &mdash; two insignificant hamlets
 * New York State Route 481 &mdash; highway from Oswego to Syracuse (and vice versa)
 * Katharine Sergeant Angell White &mdash; New Yorker editor and wife of E. B. White
 * Jacques Rivière &mdash; French man of letters
 * Harold F. Clayton &mdash; American sculptor and stone carver
 * Tanzan, Tetsugen and Subhuti &mdash; Japanese Zen Masters
 * Nevil Maskelyne (magician) &mdash; British magician and inventor
 * The Brasher Doubloon &mdash; famous old coin
 * Stuart Merrill &mdash; French symbolist poet
 * Millard Kaufman &mdash; American screenwriter and novelist
 * Billy Lee Brammer &mdash; American writer
 * Old Leighlin &mdash; small village in Ireland
 * Victor Schertzinger &mdash; American film director and composer
 * Edward Austin Sheldon &mdash; American educator
 * Oswego Movement &mdash; influential 19th century American educational movement
 * The Gay Place &mdash; trilogy of novellas by Billy Lee Brammer
 * Whitfield Cook &mdash; American writer
 * Hoes Heights, Baltimore and Old Town, Baltimore &mdash; Baltimore neighborhoods
 * Bianca Bagnarelli &mdash; cartoonist and illustrator
 * Rimrock Lake and Cuisson Lake &mdash; two adjacent lakes in BC
 * Dmitri Usatov &mdash; Russian tenor and music teacher
 * Love and Pain (painting) &mdash; Munch painting often called Vampire
 * Clay County High School &mdash; Kentucky secondary school
 * Clay Blaker &mdash; Texas country singer-songwriter
 * Alberto Pla y Rubio &mdash; Spanish impressionist painter
 * Dark Lake (Independence Township, Michigan) &mdash; two lakes in Michigan
 * Tom Pedi &mdash; American actor
 * Syrup of figs &mdash; a laxative
 * Tim White and Trevor White &mdash; award-winning fraternal film producers

People in Wikipedia I have met
"Met" means, at a minimum, that I either introduced myself or was introduced by name, and that I and the listed person said at least a few words to each other. Simply being in the same room is neither necessary nor sufficient. I've also run into Chinua Achebe, Dan Rather (twice!), Ann Richards, Johnny Mathis and Jason Alexander, but was not introduced. I also feel like I once met Michael Stonebraker, but I can't remember the circumstances.
 * 1) Samuel Adler &mdash; met when he was music director at the temple I went to in Dallas
 * 2) Kaveh Akbar &mdash; son's English professor
 * 3) Yosef Almogi (d. 1991) &mdash; distant cousin
 * 4) Marc Auslander &mdash; met professionally
 * 5) John Baird &mdash; met at a wedding
 * 6) Bianca Bagnarelli &mdash; my girlfriend's niece
 * 7) Brian A. Barsky &mdash; friend of a friend
 * 8) Patricia Bernstein &mdash; cousin
 * 9) Ewan Birney &mdash; my son's graduate advisor
 * 10) Grady Booch &mdash; met on a visit to Rational Software
 * 11) John Browning (d. 2003) &mdash; met backstage
 * 12) Bill Buxton &mdash; friend of a friend
 * 13) Loren Carpenter &mdash; met at SIGGRAPH
 * 14) Lee Child &mdash; in same drama club at university
 * 15) Ramsey Clark (d. 2021) &mdash; friend of the family
 * 16) Harold F. Clayton (d. 2015) &mdash; met over the phone
 * 17) Ted Codd (d. 2003) &mdash; met at a conference
 * 18) Kenneth H. Cooper &mdash; met at the Cooper Aerobics Center
 * 19) John Cornyn &mdash; voted in the precinct where I was an election judge
 * 20) Mike Cowlishaw &mdash; met professionally
 * 21) Nikki Craft &mdash; met at KCHU in Dallas
 * 22) Elijah Cummings (d. 2019) &mdash; met in the garage behind his Baltimore office
 * 23) Hugh Darwen &mdash; met professionally
 * 24) Christopher J. Date &mdash; met professionally
 * 25) Robert H. Dedman Sr. (d. 2002) &mdash; father's law partner
 * 26) August Derleth (d. 1971) &mdash; met over the phone while ordering a book
 * 27) Lloyd Doggett &mdash; met at a political event
 * 28) Nick Donofrio &mdash; met professionally
 * 29) Michael Douglas &mdash; met at a press conference
 * 30) Taissa Farmiga &mdash; met at a screening of Jamesy Boy
 * 31) Jane Fonda &mdash; met at a press conference
 * 32) Alain Fournier (d. 2000) &mdash; close friend
 * 33) Henry Fuchs &mdash; met while at UT Dallas
 * 34) Bamber Gascoigne (d. 2022) &mdash; met while on University Challenge
 * 35) Jack Gilford (d. 1990) &mdash; met at the Tadich Grill in San Francisco
 * 36) Stephen Hawking (d. 2018) &mdash; met at an astrophysics convention
 * 37) Banesh Hoffmann (d. 1986) &mdash; met at an astrophysics convention
 * 38) John H. Hoffman (d. 2021) &mdash; met while at UT Dallas
 * 39) Robert Hoffman (d. 2006) &mdash; same school
 * 40) William Hootkins (d. 2005) &mdash; same school, same drama group
 * 41) Lane P. Hughston &mdash; high school friend
 * 42) Donald Johanos (d. 2007) &mdash; was friends with his daughter
 * 43) Tommy Lee Jones &mdash; same school, same drama group
 * 44) Bryce Jordan (d. 2016) &mdash; met while at UT Dallas
 * 45) Tom Kite &mdash; met at a birthday party for his son
 * 46) Polykarp Kusch (d. 1993) &mdash; chairman of my doctoral committee
 * 47) John Lehmann (d. 1987) &mdash; took a course from him at UT
 * 48) Jack Lemmon (d. 2001) &mdash; met at a press conference
 * 49) Alan I. Leshner &mdash; sat next to him on an airplane
 * 50) Joyce Currie Little (d. 2023) &mdash; neighbor
 * 51) Valerie Mahaffey &mdash; in my English class at UT
 * 52) Benoit Mandelbrot (d. 2010) &mdash; had dinner with him when he spoke at my school
 * 53) Stuart Margolin (d. 2022) &mdash; my aunt's nephew
 * 54) Lorenzo Milam (d. 2020) &mdash; met while working at the long-defunct KCHU in Dallas
 * 55) Turk Murphy (d. 1987) &mdash; met after a performance
 * 56) Edwin Neal &mdash; same drama group, later member of same synagogue
 * 57) Tameka Norris &mdash; son's art professor
 * 58) Douglas Northcott (d. 2005) &mdash; undergraduate professor
 * 59) Levi Olan (d. 1984) &mdash; rabbi at our congregation
 * 60) Dean Ornish &mdash; same high school, same poker group
 * 61) Madalyn Murray O'Hair (d. 1995) &mdash; met in Dallas
 * 62) Rick Perry &mdash; sat next to him on a plane
 * 63) Penn & Teller &mdash; volunteer from the audience in The Refrigerator Tour
 * 64) Brian Tinsley &mdash; colleague
 * 65) Beatrice Tinsley &mdash; wife of a colleague
 * 66) J. J. Pickle (d. 2005) &mdash; met at a political event
 * 67) David Pines (d. 2018) &mdash; related to first wife, also present at my first conference talk
 * 68) George Pólya (d. 1985) &mdash; met at a guest lecture at the University of Sheffield
 * 69) Regina Resnik (d. 2013) &mdash; met backstage
 * 70) Bill Reeves &mdash; met at a conference
 * 71) Patricia Richardson &mdash; same drama group
 * 72) Wolfgang Rindler (d. 2019) &mdash; on my doctoral committee
 * 73) Ivor Robinson (d. 2016) &mdash; my graduate advisor
 * 74) Robert Xavier Rodriguez &mdash; met at UT Dallas
 * 75) Barefoot Sanders (d. 2008) &mdash; introduced by his daughter, a school friend
 * 76) Allan Shivers (d. 1985) &mdash; met at UT Board of Regents meeting
 * 77) Lewis Shiner &mdash; same school, same drama group
 * 78) John Silber (d. 2012) &mdash; met while at UT
 * 79) Preston Smith (d. 2003) &mdash; met at a press conference
 * 80) Stephen Spender (d. 1995) &mdash; interviewed for The Daily Texan
 * 81) Roger Staubach &mdash; met in the locker room of the Cooper Aerobics Center
 * 82) Annette Strauss (d. 1998) &mdash; served with her on a committee
 * 83) Bjarne Stroustrup &mdash; met at a conference
 * 84) Jeffrey Swann &mdash; same school
 * 85) Edward Teller (d. 2003) &mdash; met when he spoke at our school
 * 86) Stephen Tobolowsky &mdash; met at high school debate tournaments
 * 87) Andrzej Trautman &mdash; met at a conference
 * 88) Alex Trebek (d. 2020) &mdash; met while on Jeopardy!
 * 89) Jack Valenti (d. 2007) &mdash; interviewed for The Daily Texan
 * 90) Dee Dee Warwick (d. 2008) &mdash; met on a tour bus in the Bahamas
 * 91) John Wayne (d. 1979) &mdash; had lunch with him at a press conference
 * 92) Trevor White &mdash; my son's friend
 * 93) George Whitman (d. 2011) &mdash; hung out in his bookstore in Paris in the early seventies
 * 94) Angus G. Wynne (d. 1979) &mdash; father's law partner
 * 95) Sheldon Zimmerman &mdash; rabbi at our congregation

Useful Links

 * WikiProject Deletion sorting/Flat
 * WP:MULTIAFD
 * WikiProject Unreferenced articles

Autobiography
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