I'm
Mike Hicks (
http://umn.edu/~hick0088/).
Before creating this account, I created/modified some entries from 24.26.179.194[?] on May 27, 2003. Some other entries show up from that address when Wikipedia forgets my cookie.
I'm a filthy American consumer who usually watches too much TV. I've been using the Linux operating system since 1996 though I've been interested in computers for much longer. I'm also from Minnesota, eh? I'm sure all of that shows in the entries I write and edit..
Some pages I'm interested in due to current events
Some pages I'm interested in because of my location and family connections
- The Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul and the surrounding Metropolitan Area
- Byron, Minnesota, where I grew up
- Rochester, Minnesota, a nearby city
- The Mayo Clinic and the Drs. Mayo
- IBM, where my dad works (my mom used to work there, too)
- AS/400, which both of my parents worked on
- System/38[?], a machine my mother worked on (not sure what specific model(s), but they called it the "washer-dryer system" because of it's similarity to those appliances)
- and other miscellaneous IBM stuff
- Tysnes, the island/region near Bergen, Norway that my grandmother is from
- Fargo, North Dakota, where my grandmother is now
Some movies, TV shows, etc
- Fake news and "Oh my god, I can't believe that's real" news
- Movies by Joel and Ethan Coen
- Mallrats was partly filmed in the Cities
- TV/Radio stations in my area
- WCCO[?] (definitely worthy of an article)
- KSTP[?] (dunno.. Hubbard Broadcasting[?], though..)
- KARE[?] (has some history, though I'm too young to know much, has had many names, though is noted for having first pictures of a tornado from a helicopter)
- Channel 23 (many different owners), original source of MST3K
- more (though probably not very noteworthy) WFTC (We're (not) Fox Twin Cities), KMSP, KAAL, KIMT, KSMQ, KTTC (hmm, they were pretty early with HDTV in Rochester, as I remember)
- Twin Cities Public Television[?] - KTCA and KTCI
- Radio stations are messy, but some might be noteworthy
- Rev 105[?] (there should still be an article in the MN Daily, and City Pages)
- tons of other stuff I just can't remember right now
I'm also interested in the history of computing and a lot of pieces of hardware and software
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