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Hi, I'm Dan. Feel free to reminisce with me about some shiny things I've received over my years on Wikipedia, or wander around my userspace. Some observations on Wikipedia:
No place for beginners or sensitive hearts
when sentiment is left to chance
No place to be ending, but somewhere to start— Sade, "Smooth Operator"
Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group ... people from divergent ethnic and cultural backgrounds [are] working in some sense together – surely a humanizing and character building experience.
You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.
Botany
editEtymology
editIf I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.
With generous help from PawełMM at the Graphics Lab, PresN, DavidAnstiss, Nomen ambiguum, Featured List reviewers, and Johnboddie, who did most of the work selecting images