User:Candidhq

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This user is a native speaker of the English language.

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Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel básico de español.

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Who am I?[edit]

CandidHQ is my internet handle, because it is the name of the internet community that I run. I try to be a good boy on Wikipedia, and I'm all about working together and being civil. I do this for fun, so if it gets uncivil, it's no longer fun. It's how I relax. Weird, huh?

Wikipedia areas I watch and edit[edit]

Subjects related to the Wichita, Kansas area
Games that I enjoy
The one show I watch on tv
IBLP, my former employer.
Currently, I am trying to decide whether or not to get involved in the "spoken articles". I have experience and training in the area of naration, stage voice, and such. Additionally, I can work on the recordings myself using my own software. The question is finding the time...
I was involved for a few days in the translation effort at SPATRA, mostly in the Threshing-board article for some time. I try, but I'm not that hot at translation.

My employment (past and present)[edit]

I currently work in Instructional Technology at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas.

In the past, I have been a Video Editor, Engineer, and Producer for the Institute in Basic Life Principles, Oak Brook, IL, http://www.iblp.org

I worked at one point for http://www.characterlink.net, where I performed background coding (Server scripts that served as pipelines between data sources and destinations). Most of the work I did was in Perl, and was never seen by the customer, although I did some ASP work (VBScript), too.

The Slew of Way-Too-Many Userboxes[edit]

This user is a citizen of the United States of America.

This user is a native of Kansas.

@

This user can be reached by email at steve@candidhq.com.

This user's AOL Instant Messenger screenname is candidhq.

Web	This user has a website.

This user maintains a blog at We're Blogging This.

Computer Skills[edit]

This user uses Google as a primary search engine.

This user uses Wikipedia as a primary point of reference.

OWN

This user uses an email account with their own domain name.

This user's primary Instant Messaging software is Trillian.

This user contributes using
Internet Explorer.

This user contributes using Microsoft Windows.

This user has a dual monitor configuration.

BB

This user contributes using a broadband connection.

This user hacks happily with Emacs.

Perl

This user is just another Perl hacker.

<html>

This user can write HTML.

mysql

This user writes programs that access MySQL.

re-2

This user writes intermediate regular expressions.

XML

This user can write XML.

Java

This user can program in Java.

Preferences[edit]

met?

This user prefers metric units, but, having grown up in the United States, cannot relate to them.

US

This user uses American English.

~~they~~
he or she

This user considers the singular they to be substandard English usage.

snuk

This user says snuck.

infinitive

This user has no opinion about split infinitives.

by

The passive voice may be used by this user.

~~... in.~~

This user thinks that a sentence ending with a preposition is just dumb-looking.

man-
kind

Regarding gender, this user prefers the vernacular, not what is politically correct.

to
too
two

This user thinks that too many people have no idea how to use words that they should have learned in grade two.

whom

This user insists upon using whom wherever it is called for, and fixes the errors of whomever they see.

which & that

This user knows how to use which and that correctly.

their
there
they're

This user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they're worse than their own children at spelling!

your
you're

This user thinks that if your grammar is incorrect, then you're in need of help.

Subj

This user prefers that the subjunctive mood be used. Were this user you, he would use it.

“,;:’

This user is a punctuation stickler.

. The

This user puts two spaces after a period.

A, B and C

This user prefers not to use the serial comma.

its

This user understands the difference between its (of it) and it's (it is or it has).

’s

Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice.

"…"

This user favours typewriter style quotation marks over typographic ones.