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About Me

Hello and welcome to my user-page! My username comes from Stax Records (if you’re wondering) and my real name is James. I have lived in Hamden, Connecticut, New Haven, Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut, and Wallingford, Connecticut. Stop me if you see a pattern. I joined Wikipedia as a senior at Hopkins School and became an admin in early June 2006. I have a variety of interests including baseball, sabermetrics, bluegrass music, and port wine. I graduated with a BA in Political Science from the University of Connecticut in 2010 and I earned a JD from University of Connecticut School of Law in 2013. I am a member of the Connecticut, U.S. District of Connecticut, and 2nd Circuit bars.

I try to remain an active Wikipedian, though sometimes the pressures of the real world make that less likely. Given my editing tendancies I would consider myself a WikiOgre, though I’ve collected quite a healthy edit count. Somebody even called me a champion once.

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Ingenuity
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter, as imaged by the Perseverance rover’s Mastcam-Z on Sol 768 (April 18, 2023). Ingenuity made history as the first aircraft ever to pull off a powered and controlled flight outside Earth on April 19, 2021. Originally planned for only five flights, it ultimately completed 72 flights over nearly three years before its mission ended in January 2024.Photograph credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing” — Edmund Burke.

Leadership is not an end in itself. It’s what you do with it that counts.” — United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright presenting an award to General Wesley Clark

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Disclaimers

Today’s motto…
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.


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