American female, born in the early 1970s (in the same hospital as J. Wales, as it happens; thanks, 60 Minutes, for teaching me a thing I would never have guessed in a jillion years). B.A., in art history and English, from a women's college, followed by professional degree, in neither art history nor English, from a former men's college; former academic-journal assistant editor; current resident of a state whose ZIP code starts with the number 8.
Favorite color: green.
Favorite movie: Bull Durham. Runners-up include, without limitation, Caddyshack, Mulholland Dr., The Hunt for Red October, Soylent Green, and Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (non-hyphenation sic; see infra).
Favorite American prose stylist/cat lover since Ernest Hemingway: Richard Posner. (See also Samuel Johnson... or not?! No, no. Hodge shall NOT be shot.)
Favorite American poems that are not "Casey at the Bat": "Anecdote of the Jar" and "Fire and Ice".
Favorite place (physically and culturally) in the history/geography of the universe: the Chateau Marmont. Silver medal: Allinges (deep cut: [1]). Bronze: Valletta.
Almost gold-medaled in the Olympics of my particular demimonde.
Topical hobby-horses include, without limitation, foodstuffs, geography, disasters (artistic/critical as well as mechanical/environmental), language, medicine, and textiles.
Wikipedia Manual of Style hobby-horses include, without limitation:
- MOS:HYPHEN: hyphens still being a thing even if one has to click over to another keyboard on one's phone to get to them
- MOS:SECTIONCAPS: looking at existing Wikipedia articles re:, e.g., how the section headings are capitalized before plowing on into the fray
- MOS:POSTABBR: not using United States Postal Service mechanical-sorting abbreviations in actual prose
- MOS:SURNAME: not talking about encyclopedia-article subjects on a first-name basis, whether those subjects are people you've never actually met in real life and likely won't or your own unencyclopedic self, but especially if you genuinely don't understand why somebody would have a problem with that
- MOS:CAPS generally: capitalizing random words for no discernible reason and getting tetchy if asked why one thought that was necessary
- MOS:AMP: using two keystrokes to make a lazy symbol instead of one more keystroke to be respectful to the universe and make an actual three-letter word
| en | This user is a native speaker of the English language. |
| ru-1 | Этот участник владеет русским языком на начальном уровне. |
This user is a userbox minimalist apart from the above-noted language "competencies" (or essential lack thereof). But I get one bit of lagniappe after 11,000 42,000 edits, I hope:
 | This user misses David Foster Wallace. |
I am in here, too. Abyssinia, dear DFW.—JDL.
July 2020 addendum: Non-lagniappe!
shades of green
Thank you for quality copy-editing ("capitalization, punctuation, and formatting corrections"), such as Shades of green and Pesto, for welcoming new users, for fighting vandalism, spam and advertising, for an exceptional effort in keeping a great editor (above), - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
You are recipient no. 2412 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:03, 4 July 2020 (UTC)