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Name	Philoserf
Born	(1962-07-04) July 4, 1962 Jamestown, New York; 43.119780°N 79.238°W / 43.119780; -79.238
Name in real life	Mark Ayers
Nationality	United States
Country	United States
Current location	Rockford, Michigan; 47.808°N 85.559530°W / 47.808; -85.559530
Languages	English with some Italian & Spanish
Time zone	Eastern
Ethnicity	Swedish & Scottish
Race	Human
Height	71 inches (180 cm)
Weight	205 pounds (93 kg)
Personality type	(ei)NTP
Education and employment
Occupation	Information Technology
Education	Bachelor of Arts
University	University at Albany, SUNY
Hobbies, favourites and beliefs
Hobbies	Long-distance wilderness hiking
Politics	pragmatic
Books	eccentric
Music	eclectic, with a preference for Downtempo
Interests
TBD, & much more
Contact info
Website	github.com/philoserf
Blog	philoserf.com
Email	markphiloserf.com
Account statistics
Joined	2 November 2005
First edit	2 November 2005
Autoconfirmed	24 April 2015
Extended confirmed	10 March 2020
Signature	—¿philoserf? (talk)
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Mark Ayers lives in Rockford, Michigan, a small town on the Rogue River near Grand Rapids. He has lived in:

• Jamestown, New York;
• Lilburn, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta;
• Dublin, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus;
• Edmonds, Washington, a small town near Seattle; and
• a few US Army bases.

He lived in Italy for a year in the early 1980s and Turkey for a year in the early 1990s; he earned a degree in political science at The University at Albany, State University of New York.

Mark works on improving technology systems, services, and processes for Subsplash. He has worked: at Nordstrom writing application programming interfaces for mobile applications and as a site reliability engineer; on Samsung’s Cloud Native Computing Team doing research and development on the Kubernetes platform; with ESPN.com for The Walt Disney Company ensuring fantasy football and March Madness scaled; and for dental and medical insurance companies; supporting information systems and information security.

He served in the US Army as both an enlisted airborne infantryman and an officer. Mark’s community service includes:

• four years on his local public library board, including one year as its president;
• five years on the advisory board of a regional writers’ conference recruiting, selecting, and scheduling presenters and keynote speakers; and

He has also been an officer on the executive committee of a few volunteer nonprofit organizations.

The views expressed here are his own. They are not endorsed, reviewed, or approved by any other person or organization.

My favorite poem

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
     They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
     And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn
     By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
     And half at one another's throats.

Man hands misery to man.
     It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
     And don't have any kids yourself.

  —Philip Larkin

Gnomic loops

My gnomic article improvement loop

1. See a way to improve an article
2. Do it
3. Go to 1

Or

1. Pick an issue type
2. Find pages with that issue
3. Clean up that issue
4. Go to 1

Or

1. Visit a random article
2. Improve the article
3. Go to 1

Or

1. Use a lint indicating user script/user sheet
2. See some lint
3. Fix some lint
4. Go to 1

Article improvement loop

My dedicated article improvement loop

1. Pick an article (sometimes two)
2. Build a task list
3. Pick a section and drop an excerpt in the /sandbox with, {{Excerpt|page#section}}
4. Research, write, edit, repeat, & optionally discuss changes in talk:page
5. Replace the section in main
6. Publish
7. Go to 1

See also

• Being
• Human
• Philosopher
• Serf

Notes and References

Notes

References

External links

views expressed | @GitHub

Meta

For an assessment of which WikiProjects I have touched in recent months see my WikiProject reach

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