User:Ubiquity
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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
[edit]- Boyle Roche — Irish soldier, politician and wit
- Tiger Roche — disreputable alleged brother of Sir Boyle Roche
- Thomas Jevon — English actor and dramatist
- Thomas Browne, 4th Viscount Kenmare — Irish landowner and politician
- John Frush Knox — American memoirist
- Lou Levy (pianist) — American jazz pianist
- Lou Levy (publisher) — American music publisher
- Irish bulls — humorously self-contradictory statements and some people famous for making them
- The Goldwyn Girls — a troupe of musical comedy dancers
- Yosef Almogi — Israeli politician
- New York State Route 104B — insignificant highway
- Texas, New York and New York, Texas — two insignificant hamlets
- New York State Route 481 — highway from Oswego to Syracuse (and vice versa)
- Katharine Sergeant Angell White — New Yorker editor and wife of E. B. White
- Jacques Rivière — French man of letters
- Harold F. Clayton — American sculptor and stone carver
- Tanzan, Tetsugen and Subhuti — Japanese Zen Masters
- Nevil Maskelyne (magician) — British magician and inventor
- The Brasher Doubloon — famous old coin
- Stuart Merrill — French symbolist poet
- Millard Kaufman — American screenwriter and novelist
- Billy Lee Brammer — American writer
- Old Leighlin — small village in Ireland
- Victor Schertzinger — American film director and composer
- Edward Austin Sheldon — American educator
- Oswego Movement — influential 19th century American educational movement
- The Gay Place — trilogy of novellas by Billy Lee Brammer
- Whitfield Cook — American writer
- Hoes Heights, Baltimore and Old Town, Baltimore — Baltimore neighborhoods
- Bianca Bagnarelli — cartoonist and illustrator
- Rimrock Lake and Cuisson Lake — two adjacent lakes in BC
- Dmitri Usatov — Russian tenor and music teacher
- Love and Pain (painting) — Munch painting often called Vampire
- Clay County High School — Kentucky secondary school
- Clay Blaker — Texas country singer-songwriter
- Alberto Pla y Rubio — Spanish impressionist painter
- Dark Lake (Independence Township, Michigan) — two lakes in Michigan
- Tom Pedi — American actor
- Syrup of figs — a laxative
- Tim White and Trevor White — award-winning fraternal film producers
People in Wikipedia I have met
[edit]"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.
- Samuel Adler — met when he was music director at the temple I went to in Dallas
- Kaveh Akbar — son's English professor
- Yosef Almogi (d. 1991) — distant cousin
- Marc Auslander — met professionally
- John Baird — met at a wedding
- Bianca Bagnarelli — my girlfriend's niece
- Brian A. Barsky — friend of a friend
- Patricia Bernstein — cousin
- Ewan Birney — my son's graduate advisor
- Grady Booch — met on a visit to Rational Software
- John Browning (d. 2003) — met backstage
- Bill Buxton — friend of a friend
- Loren Carpenter — met at SIGGRAPH
- Lee Child — in same drama club at university
- Ramsey Clark (d. 2021) — friend of the family
- Harold F. Clayton (d. 2015) — met over the phone
- Ted Codd (d. 2003) — met at a conference
- Kenneth H. Cooper — met at the Cooper Aerobics Center
- John Cornyn — voted in the precinct where I was an election judge
- Mike Cowlishaw — met professionally
- Nikki Craft — met at KCHU in Dallas
- Elijah Cummings (d. 2019) — met in the garage behind his Baltimore office
- Hugh Darwen — met professionally
- Christopher J. Date — met professionally
- Robert H. Dedman Sr. (d. 2002) — father's law partner
- August Derleth (d. 1971) — met over the phone while ordering a book
- Lloyd Doggett — met at a political event
- Nick Donofrio — met professionally
- Michael Douglas — met at a press conference
- Taissa Farmiga — met at a screening of Jamesy Boy
- Jane Fonda — met at a press conference
- Alain Fournier (d. 2000) — close friend
- Henry Fuchs — met while at UT Dallas
- Bamber Gascoigne (d. 2022) — met while on University Challenge
- Jack Gilford (d. 1990) — met at the Tadich Grill in San Francisco
- Stephen Hawking (d. 2018) — met at an astrophysics convention
- Banesh Hoffmann (d. 1986) — met at an astrophysics convention
- John H. Hoffman (d. 2021) — met while at UT Dallas
- Robert Hoffman (d. 2006) — same school
- William Hootkins (d. 2005) — same school, same drama group
- Lane P. Hughston — high school friend
- Donald Johanos (d. 2007) — was friends with his daughter
- Tommy Lee Jones — same school, same drama group
- Bryce Jordan (d. 2016) — met while at UT Dallas
- Tom Kite — met at a birthday party for his son
- Polykarp Kusch (d. 1993) — chairman of my doctoral committee
- John Lehmann (d. 1987) — took a course from him at UT
- Jack Lemmon (d. 2001) — met at a press conference
- Alan I. Leshner — sat next to him on an airplane
- Joyce Currie Little (d. 2023) — neighbor
- Valerie Mahaffey — in my English class at UT
- Benoit Mandelbrot (d. 2010) — had dinner with him when he spoke at my school
- Stuart Margolin (d. 2022) — my aunt's nephew
- Lorenzo Milam (d. 2020) — met while working at the long-defunct KCHU in Dallas
- Turk Murphy (d. 1987) — met after a performance
- Edwin Neal — same drama group, later member of same synagogue
- Tameka Norris — son's art professor
- Douglas Northcott (d. 2005) — undergraduate professor
- Levi Olan (d. 1984) — rabbi at our congregation
- Dean Ornish — same high school, same poker group
- Madalyn Murray O'Hair (d. 1995) — met in Dallas
- Rick Perry — sat next to him on a plane
- Penn & Teller — volunteer from the audience in The Refrigerator Tour
- Brian Tinsley — colleague
- Beatrice Tinsley — wife of a colleague
- J. J. Pickle (d. 2005) — met at a political event
- David Pines (d. 2018) — related to first wife, also present at my first conference talk
- George Pólya (d. 1985) — met at a guest lecture at the University of Sheffield
- Regina Resnik (d. 2013) — met backstage
- Bill Reeves — met at a conference
- Patricia Richardson — same drama group
- Wolfgang Rindler (d. 2019) — on my doctoral committee
- Ivor Robinson (d. 2016) — my graduate advisor
- Robert Xavier Rodriguez — met at UT Dallas
- Barefoot Sanders (d. 2008) — introduced by his daughter, a school friend
- Allan Shivers (d. 1985) — met at UT Board of Regents meeting
- Lewis Shiner — same school, same drama group
- John Silber (d. 2012) — met while at UT
- Preston Smith (d. 2003) — met at a press conference
- Stephen Spender (d. 1995) — interviewed for The Daily Texan
- Roger Staubach — met in the locker room of the Cooper Aerobics Center
- Annette Strauss (d. 1998) — served with her on a committee
- Bjarne Stroustrup — met at a conference
- Jeffrey Swann — same school
- Edward Teller (d. 2003) — met when he spoke at our school
- Stephen Tobolowsky — met at high school debate tournaments
- Andrzej Trautman — met at a conference
- Alex Trebek (d. 2020) — met while on Jeopardy!
- Jack Valenti (d. 2007) — interviewed for The Daily Texan
- Dee Dee Warwick (d. 2008) — met on a tour bus in the Bahamas
- John Wayne (d. 1979) — had lunch with him at a press conference
- Trevor White — my son's friend
- George Whitman (d. 2011) — hung out in his bookstore in Paris in the early seventies
- Angus G. Wynne (d. 1979) — father's law partner
- Sheldon Zimmerman — rabbi at our congregation
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.
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