User:Eric Shalov
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Eric Shalov is an American male of mostly European descent. He was born in 1977 in the United States of America. He has worked in several roles in the Information technology industry.
Eric welcomes comments on his Wikipedia contributions on his talk page, and, like Jimbo, encourages editing of this page as well, if the reader feels that it can be legitimately improved.
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Location
Eric Shalov is a resident of the community of Winnetka in the southern San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles.
Name
The surname Shalov is a an "Ellis Island name", the product of a common practice during a period of mass European immigration to the United States of altering the family name to be easier to spell in the English language. It is derived from the Russian language name Soloveitchik (Соловечик).
Eric may be distantly related to the Soloveitchik European Rabbinical dynasty of Brisk, of whom Chaim Soloveitchik is the best known in recent times, as Eric has geneological roots in Ukraine.
Interests
- Travel
- French Language and film
- Arabic Language
- Spanish Language and Mexican culture
- Japanese Language and culture
- Wikipedia
- Computer security
- Computer programming
- Rollerblading
- Motorcycles
Wikipedia
Eric's first Wikipedia contribution was an addition to the Winnetka article made on 3 July 2004.
In considering Eric's choice of contributions, one must remember to consider Wikipedia's policies on maintenance of neutrality in editing, including writing for the enemy. It might be best to avoid making any assumptions relating Eric's contributions to his personal opinions, interests or political positions.
Eric monitors the Mexican nonsense campaign.
Some of the Wikipedia articles he's initiated or contributed to:
Los Angeles local interest
- Glendale Community College - more details needed
- Reseda, California
- Winnetka, California
- Farmers and Merchants Bank - needs more wikilinks, categorization, GFDL picture?
- Dominique Amestoy
- Marian Otis Chandler
- Alquist Priolo Special Studies Zone Act - needs categorization (perhaps a sample map?)
- Moorpark College - needs more detail (perhaps famous attendees?)
Geography
- Mt. Woodroofe - more details needed (named after? first to ascend?)
- Baltic Exchange
- St. James Square, London - picture needed, more address details, more history
- Ville Platte, Louisiana, United States - could use more modern day info
- Eighty Four, Pennsylvania
- Cape Bojador - needs categorization, map?
- Minho River - Spanish communities along the Minho?
- Yokneam - more foreign investment info, region details
Judaism and related
- Sefer Torah
- Stern College of Yeshiva University
- Max Stern
- Synagogue Council of America
- Ephraim Buchwald
- Chaim Soloveitchik
- Shlomo Riskin
- Nachman Bulman
Linguistics
- Oropom language
- Ticuna
- Sogdian alphabet - needs categorization, picture of script
- Chinese English Pidgin
- Aymara - needs help
History/Politics/Religion
- Operation Algeciras - needs more details, map?
- Association for Cultural Freedom - needs pictures
- Ngintaka
- Commonwealth Club
- John Randolph Club - could use a "People"/"Members" section
- President’s Commission on the HIV Epidemic - needs member list, more details, categorization
- Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS - needs member list, more details, categorization
Biographical
- Abu al-Qasim
- Dresden Dolls
- Siouxsie Sioux
- Moses Sherman - needs more details, more wikilinking, picture
- Arthur Vidrine - needs categorization, more wikilinking, picture
- Christopher Beckwith - could use more details, birth categorization, picture?
- João Fernandes Lavrador - needs categorization, more details, picture?
- Yunus Qanuni - needs better categorization, more pictures, Arabic spelling of name
- James D. Watkins - needs picture
- John Hay Whitney - needs picture, better use of original text
- William S. Farish - needs picture, more info
- Edmund Glazer - needs details
Other
- Reseda Odorata - needs categorization, picture
- Page moved to Mignonette and expanded; pic added - MPF
- Bridge Trilogy - needs categorization
- Long Reach Ethernet - needs protocol history, categorization
- Adam style - needs categorization, building examples
- MRV Communications - needs details (from SEC filings?), subsidiaries
- MOL Enterprise
To-do list
- Comté
- Gif Sur Yvette
- Incorrect gasoline dilemma
- The Jewish Observer
- Given Imaging
- Mind CTI
- Rikodo Kasai
- Syneron
- Lumenis
- Jason Robards, Sr.
- Franco-Tereneuvien
- Cord Meyer
- John Hay Whitney
- Caves of the United Kingdom
- Manmasseh
- Kenneth Gibson
- Martin Williams
- Seth Cropsey
- Christopher Maletz
- Daniel McKivergan
- Henry Rowen
- Stephen Rosen
Some of my Favorite Quotes
- "Veritas vos liberabit" ("The truth shall make you free")
- "We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.
- "I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate."
- "Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce."
-Benoit Mandelbrot, "Fractals : Form, chance and dimension" (San Francisco, 1977)
- "We are the music-makers, and we are the dreamers of the dreams."
- "There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it."
-Aldous Huxley (At a speech given in 1961 at the California Medical School in San Francisco)
- "What I am condemning is that one power, with a president who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust."
Interesting trivia extracted from Wikipedia pages
- Aldous Huxley: Aldous Huxley, C. S. Lewis, and John F. Kennedy all died on 22 Nov 1963.
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: On a visit to the new Welsh Assembly in Cardiff, the Duke of Edinburgh told a group of deaf children standing next to a Jamaican steel drum band, "Deaf? No wonder you are deaf standing so close to that racket."
- Queen of Canada: A 2002 poll of Canadians found that only 5% were even aware that the Queen was in fact Canada's head of state.
- Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution: Originally, the U.S. Electoral College would elect both the President and the Vice President in a single election; the person with a majority would become President and the runner-up would become Vice President.
- Raven paradox: The statement "all ravens are black" is logically equivalent to the statement "all non-black-things are non-ravens". If we observe a red apple, that is consistent with that statement. A red apple is a non-black-thing, and when we examine it, we observe that it is a non-raven. So by the principle of induction, observing a red apple should increase our belief that all ravens are black!
- List of movies and television programs affected by the September 11, 2001 attacks: Perhaps the most eerie instance, the pilot episode of The Lone Gunmen, which depicted a plan by terrorists to fly a highjacked airplane into the World Trade Centre, actually aired in Australia on the evening of September 11, 2001, at 9 PM local time. Given the 12 hour timezone difference from New York City, the show began airing and was soon interrupted by the real attacks.
- All Souls College, Oxford: Every hundred years there is a commemorative feast after which the fellows parade around the College with flaming torches, singing the Mallard Song and led by a "Lord Mallard" who is carried in a chair, in search of a fictional giant mallard that supposedly flew out of the foundations of the college when it was being built. The last mallard ceremony was in 2001 and the next will be held in 2101.
- Herman Hollerith: The tendency for computer terminals to have 80 columns originates with Hollerith's 1928 punched card system that stored data in 80 columns.
- Mars bar: The Mars Bar sold outside of the United States is marketed within the U.S. as the "Milky Way" bar, while the bar marketed internationally as "Milky Way" is called the "3 Musketeers" within the United States.
- Saudi Arabia: Per capita income in Saudi Arabia has fallen from $25,000 in 1980 to $8,000 in 2003, up from about $7000 in 1999. The decline in inflation-adjusted per-capita income from 1980 to 1999 set a record, being by far the worst such decline suffered by any nation-state in history.
- United States armed forces: The United States military budget is larger than the military budgets of the next twenty biggest spenders combined, and six times larger than Russia's, which places second. The United States and its close allies are responsible for approximately two-thirds of all military spending on Earth (of which, in turn, the U.S. is responsible for two-thirds), dollar for dollar. Military spending accounts for more than half of the United States' federal discretionary spending, which is all of the U.S. government's money not spoken for by pre-existing obligations.
See also
External Links
- Eric Shalov's web site (http://www.EricShalov.com)