User:Tlogmer

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I run a weblog about wikipedia. If you want me to write about a particular article/topic/concept/whatever, leave a note, or comment on a weblog post.

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My name's Ben Yates; I'm a technical writer, student, and keyboardist from Ann Arbor.

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This user is a member of the Wikipedia Industrial Design Cartel.

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This user rescues articles for the Article Rescue Squadron.

This user plays the piano.

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This user is a noder at Everything2.

This user runs macOS.

This user knows where in the world Carmen Sandiego is.

So. I've been here since late 2003; I started the wikipedia articles Metrosexual and Hell, Michigan (and the wikibooks summary of Understanding Comics). Most of my stuff is elsewhere, though.

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T. D. Bancroft

... that in an 1876 United States centennial publication, T. D. Bancroft (pictured) was the first person to write about Abraham Lincoln's relationship with his dog Fido?
... that a reviewer praised At Hope's Ravine by saying that singer Pat Hynes sounds "like he's being unbearably tortured whilst holding a pneumatic drill"?
... that Carlos Baxter was erroneously given 130 votes meant for his brother during the 1860 U.S. House of Representatives election?
... that during the Spanish Civil War, when the government fled the coming siege of Madrid, the Rosal Column detained several government ministers and accused them of cowardice?
... that Almeda Lambert provided detailed instructions for creating homemade meat substitutes, such as "Nutora" and "Nutmeato"?
... that Tao Asian Bistro was used by The New York Times to test new conversation-boosting features in Apple's AirPods Pro?
... that runner Mirsada Burić survived a concentration camp, an attempted rape, and snipers' bullets before she competed at the 1992 Olympics?
... that a former U.S. president helped dedicate the United Engineering Center, and a future U.S. president demolished it?
... that former governor of Jakarta Sutiyoso has a museum dedicated to himself in his backyard?