The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. - Josh Ponytail Gordoning
I'll be appearing on Antiques Roadshow on the show premiering July 12, 2008. I'm showing some Woody Guthrie Jr. drawings my Dad was given when he interviewed Woody for a New York Times story in 1989 or so. I really miss my daddy too. He had a laugh that could make the birds sing.
Here's the appearance. I had the info wrong when I did the show, unfortunately. But what the heck. 66.162.207.21
User.jpgordon@gmail.com
Hi everyone! My name's Josh Gordon. I've got a ton of different interests and possibly interesting experiences that might or might not result in useful and informative additions to Wikipedia. For example, I've worked at IMSAI (my first job out of college), Autodesk (my longest job) and eBay (where I was Chief Engineer) as a programmer; I was lead trumpet for the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo for a couple of years in the '70s; I'm a jazz pianist and folk/blues guitarist; I've lived in New York City, Alexandria, VA, Munich, Germany, Eugene, Oregon, Tarzana, Berkeley, San Francisco, and Carmel-by-the-Sea. I moved to Las Vegas in early 2005; I split my time between Vegas and Kernville, California, my wife's hometown. I spent many years on The Well, for a long time as conference host of several of the most popular forums (Current Events and Politics, for example), and I'm an utter fanatic for encyclopedias and dictionaries of all sorts.
Mostly I'm doing janitorialwork around here.It comes naturally to me; I was "code cop" at Autodesk and at eBay, so browsing other people's work is quick, easy, and pleasurable.
I became an administrator on Nov. 26, 2004
I have been named a "monster admin" by a fellow editor at WP:RfAr[1] -- I don't think it was meant as praise, though.
I'm currently on a crusade against "ironically". And now "interestingly" is also on my list -- I found one sentence starting, "Interestingly and ironically", which was just proof to me that my sword is insufficiently swift. But I'm letting "interestingly" stay in video game and other pop culture sorts of articles, because, really, who cares.
I don't like adverbs in general, it would appear. "Indeed" is now on my list too.
It should be noted that it is noteworthy that it should be mentioned that I also have a bug up my ass about "It should be noted" and other such wastes of bits.
