User:Mulad

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

• SCO v. IBM Linux lawsuit
• SCO Group
• Caldera

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
  • The University of Minnesota, where I spent nearly 6 years of my life
    • I went to the Twin Cities campus[?]
    • I was in the University of Minnesota Marching Band[?] for 4 years
  • Because of the Mall of America and Rosedale[?], the first enclosed shopping mall, I'm interested in their history
    • arcades
    • department stores
    • discount stores[?]
    • etc.
  • The Metrodome[?] (and, I suppose)
    • Minnesota Twins
    • Minnesota Vikings
    • others?
  • Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport[?]
  • IDS Tower[?]
  • Foshay Tower[?]
  • Apparently, I lived in a house once owned by a founder of
    • Pillsbury[?] or
    • General Mills
  • Some NOAA stations in the area: MSP and MPX[?]
    • Related to weather, NEXRAD[?] radar
    • EMWIN[?]
    • others
  • Twin Cities Linux Users Group and it's sponsor Real-Time Enterprises (probably too insignificant to really be in an encyclopedia, but we'll see)
  • Fort Snelling, at the confluence of
    • Mississippi River
    • Minnesota River
  • the general history of the Twin Cities, including railroads and rail barons
• 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
  • The Daily Show, along with Jon Stewart and friends
  • The Onion, a satirical newspaper
  • Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me![?], an NPR show that includes Daily Show correspondent Mo Rocca[?]
    • Also, Car Talk (not a news show, but a funny one on NPR)
  • Weekend Update, the Saturday Night Live skit
  • Frontline, a damn good real-news show
• 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