User:Xenonts

Hello! I'm Xenonts. I have been using Wikipedia for as long as I can remember, but I created my account in 2018. I wanted my user page to include various interests of mine, and I think it has essentially become a compendium of subjects I find intriguing.

I live in Morris County, New Jersey, in the United States. Sto studiando l'italiano :)

Some of my interests

 * Americana
 * Astronomy
 * Baseball, as a fan of the New York Yankees
 * Carl Sagan's works, including my favorite book, Pale Blue Dot
 * Cartography/Geography
 * Environmental science, which I'm currently studying in college
 * Film photography; I mainly shoot with 35mm on an early 1950s Kodak Retina Ia
 * Hiking
 * History in general, but right now, particularly American history in the latter half of the 19th century (i.e., the Civil War and Gilded Age periods)
 * Listening to music; I listen to many genres of music, but my favorite is probably classic rock, and my favorite band is Chicago
 * Playing instruments; I play several saxophones, and main the soprano saxophone, as well as low clarinets, my favorite of which being the alto clarinet
 * Seinfeld
 * Time as a concept
 * Statistics
 * Vexillology

Some of my favorite music albums

 * Abbey Road, the Beatles, 1969
 * Blood, Sweat & Tears, Blood, Sweat & Tears, 1968
 * Chicago Transit Authority, the Chicago Transit Authority, 1969
 * Chicago II, Chicago, 1970
 * Revolver, The Beatles, 1966
 * Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Beatles, 1967
 * Time Out, the Dave Brubeck Quartet, 1959

Some of my favorite video games

 * Deliver Us the Moon
 * The Forgotten City
 * L.A. Noire
 * Minecraft
 * Okami
 * Railway Empire
 * Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption II
 * The Wii series, with Wii Sports Resort being my favorite game in the series

Wikipedia articles I find interesting
Lastly, since this is Wikipedia, I think it's fitting for me to include a (very) long list of articles of various topics I've found intriguing over the years, not including ones I've already mentioned:


 * 46 BC
 * 51st state
 * Abiogenesis
 * Absaroka (proposed state)
 * Aeronomy
 * Albedo
 * Alert, Nunavut
 * Altissimo
 * American frontier
 * American march music
 * Ampersand
 * Anadrome
 * And yet it moves
 * Anglo-Frisian languages
 * Antarctica during World War II
 * Ars subtilior
 * Atlantic coastal pine barrens
 * Atmosphere of the Moon
 * Atomic clock
 * Aviation in the pioneer era
 * Bioregionalism
 * Blowhole (geology)
 * Brackish water
 * Breviograph
 * Caffenol
 * Calque
 * Cat organ
 * Cape to Cairo Railway
 * Chess annotation symbols
 * Christmas truce
 * City-state
 * Cold seep
 * Color temperature
 * Common heritage of humanity
 * Connecticut Western Reserve
 * Cryptic (geology)
 * Data and information visualization
 * De Stijl
 * Delmarva Peninsula
 * Disrupted planet
 * Earthlight (astronomy)
 * Eggnog riot
 * Environmental portrait
 * Eskaleut languages
 * Eureka, Nunavut
 * Extreme trans-Neptunian object
 * Extremes on Earth
 * Fairy chess piece
 * Fallingwater
 * Fleuron (typography)
 * Fort Ross, California
 * Freedom to roam
 * Freezing level
 * Gay Nineties
 * Geologic time scale
 * Geology of the Moon
 * Geology of Socotra
 * Gravettian
 * Glossary of environmental science
 * Glossary of jazz and popular music
 * Glossary of music terminology
 * Hertzsprung–Russell diagram
 * Highly composite number
 * History of Antarctica
 * History of timekeeping devices
 * Hoba meteorite
 * Holocene calendar
 * Human–canine bond
 * Human outpost
 * Humanism
 * Indian reunification
 * Intercalation (timekeeping)
 * Intertidal zone
 * Irony punctuation
 * Jackson Hole
 * Jesus bloodline
 * Jim Bridger
 * Julie d'Aubigny
 * Language change
 * Language family
 * Ligature (writing)
 * Lincoln Highway
 * List of artificial objects on the Moon
 * List of ghost towns in Alaska
 * List of ghost towns in Hawaii
 * List of language regulators
 * List of medieval abbreviations
 * List of musical symbols
 * List of musical works in unusual time signatures
 * List of non-standard dates
 * List of regions of the United States
 * List of tautological place names
 * Long s
 * Lost Dakota
 * Lunar geologic timescale
 * Manhattanization
 * Meng Po
 * Mensural notation
 * Metric prefix
 * Meroë
 * Mesosphere
 * Middle English
 * Molecular vibration
 * My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love
 * Names of the American Civil War
 * Native Esperanto speakers
 * Neutral Moresnet
 * Noctilucent cloud
 * Nok culture
 * Non-numerical words for quantities
 * North American X-15
 * Northeast megalopolis
 * Obelus
 * Oceanic dispersal
 * Oort cloud
 * Orders of magnitude (length)
 * Outer Lands
 * Outline of meals
 * Parity of zero
 * Paul Gauguin
 * Peconic County, New York
 * Per sign
 * Percy Grainger
 * Perfect number
 * Petrichor
 * Phantom island
 * Planetary geology
 * Post-theism
 * Pyramiden
 * Proton decay
 * Quartz clock
 * Republic of Formosa
 * Retail apocalypse
 * Ribs (recordings)
 * Río Rico, Tamaulipas
 * Rodney, Mississippi
 * Salt marsh
 * Satellite tornado
 * The School of Athens
 * Shooting an apple off one's child's head
 * Shorthand
 * Space Station Freedom
 * Spacetime
 * Spencerian script
 * Sprocket hole photography
 * Sumerian religion
 * Summer of Love
 * Swinging Sixties
 * Swiss Style (design)
 * Table of nuclides
 * TAU (spacecraft)
 * Tetration
 * Thimble Islands
 * Timbre
 * Timeline of the far future
 * Tutankhamun's trumpets
 * Tuvan People's Republic
 * Unit of time
 * Upper-atmospheric lightning
 * Urban prairie
 * Venus snow
 * Voltaire
 * Wanderlust
 * Warming stripes
 * Wetland
 * Wilmer McLean
 * York Factory
 * Young Man at His Window

In closing
Thank you for reading this far! Lastly, here's a quote from Carl Sagan:

"We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers."