User:Rethunk

By profession I am an engineer working in machine vision. Machine vision is a twin to computer vision, the academic study of "making computers see." I've worked in the field for seven years.

My interests outside of work include fiction writing, philosophy, etymology, jazz, billiards/pool/snooker, and being a beer snob. I also hope to one day find a pair of ideally comfortable shoes.

At the university I completed degrees in physics and German. (Falls Sie lieber deutsch sprechen . . .)

Here on Wikipedia I look to edit articles related to my interests, and I spend some time de-stubbifying stubs. Though my German is not what it once was, I plan to write occasionally on the German-language site, also under the user name "Rethunk".

Here's a quick list of articles for which I've written first drafts.

Miscellany

• machine vision
  • "at the time of writing this, [the 100,000th article on Wikipedia] is Machine vision by Rethunk, started at 05:30 the same morning! (That is, assuming that none of the subsequent new pages are non-articles, which may not actually be true.)" -- from "Wikipedia: 100,000th article" (as of 21 Jan 2003)

• Austin City Limits (television)
  • concert music program on American television
• Celis
  • Belgian-style beer brewed in Texas, then Michigan
• Kris Kringle

Music

• Weather Report
  • 1970s jazz fusion band featuring Jaco Pastorius, Joe Zawinul[?], Wayne Shorter[?]
• Julian Cannonball Adderley
  • jazz saxophonist
• Béla Fleck & the Flecktones
  • funky jazz/bluegrass/superchops band
• Béla Fleck
  • banjo player
• Juan Atkins
  • father of techno music, Detroit musician

Literature

• Jonathan Franzen
  • American novelist, author of The Corrections
• Christopher McQuarrie
  • American writer, Oscar winner for screenplay of The Usual Suspects

Edited or Tweaked

• accuracy, calibration
• billiards - added a few games
• beer - added breweries, etc.

And so on. If you want to know more about my habits--and golly, I'm not sure even I would do this--then click 'User contributions' and check the list.