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User page of Colin M.L. Burnett.
Me
40-something year old with a BS in electrical engineering and computer engineering from Iowa State University; an MS in biomedical engineering (striated muscle electrophysiology) from University of Iowa; and an MD from University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine.
I'm generally interested in these topics:
My first edit was of Nevada, Iowa on 01:04, November 23, 2004 [1].
I was nominated for adminship (WP:RFA/Cburnett) on April 23, 2005 and promoted on May 1 by Cecropia; the 416th admin.
My interests in topics on wikipedia is quite varied and I tend to migrate from one topic to another as time goes on.
Books
Books; my favorites:
- Science Fiction:
- The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke
- Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
- Odyssey series (2001, 2010, 2061, & 3001) by Arthur C. Clarke
- Prey by Michael Crichton
- Ringworld by Larry Niven
- Fiction:
- Non-fiction:
- Creating Minds by Howard Gardner
- Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet by Steve Squyres
- The Civilized Engineer by Samuel Florman
- The Forgotten Revolution by Lucio Russo
- To Engineer Is Human by Henry Petroski
- Restoring the Lost Constitution by Randy Barnett
- Pure, White and Deadly by John Yudkin
Music
Music. I much prefer music of instrumental substance/focus than vocals.
- Classical music
- Electronic music
- Instrumental
- Rock
Theater
Photography
See User:Cburnett/GFDL images for a list of images I've contributed to wikipedia that I've taken.
Zoos
Been to:
Museums
Museums and museum-like places I've been to:
Architecture
- Des Moines, Iowa
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Spring Green, Wisconsin
- House on the Rock
- Taliesin (see above)
Botanical Gardens
Been to:
- Botanical Building, Balboa Park, San Diego, California
- White River Gardens, Indianapolis, Indiana
- Des Moines Botanical Center, Des Moines, Iowa
- Como Park, Zoo, and Conservatory, Saint Paul, Minnesota
- Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- The State Botanical Garden of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
US Parks, et. al.
Iowa State Parks
University Campuses
University and college campuses I have been to (for any reason):
Places to go
Basically a list of places to go to at some point in my life.By no means is this a complete list...it never will be.I mostly just add stuff when I come across it.
Zebras
"When you hear hoof beats: think horses not zebras."However, if you do not think about zebras then you will never find them.
Zebras I have diagnosed
- AL amyloidosis, Kappa dominant
- Conn's syndrome (Aldo/renin of 30)
- Ectopic Cushing's in small cell lung cancer based on hyperglycemia
- Familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia with PTH 150 and undetectable 24 hour urine calcium
- HCC due to HCV found on TTE for new leg/scrotum swelling
- Polycythemia vera causing SMA, right portal hepatic vein, and main portal vein thromboses
- Pulmonary sarcoidosis with hypercalcemia and elevated vitamin D 1,25 & ACE level
- Q fever
- Complete sinoatrial block due to flumazenil
- IgG4-related disease as retroperitoneal fibrosis (Ormond disease)
Uncommon things I have seen:
- Acquired Factor VIII deficiency found at time of NSTEMI
- Aortocaval fistula
- Borderline personality disorder in a man
- Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease 1a
- CIDP
- Devic's disease
- Enterococcus hirae infected hip prosthesis
- Hemispatial neglect
- HLH with ferritin > 600k
- Metastatic intimal sarcoma of the heart
- Metastatic lymphoma invading into the heart atrium
- QTc of 693
- Torsades de pointes
Deaths
These are the deaths of people who, while weren't necessarily my heroes or anything, had a disturbance in The Force that I felt.
Images
For images I have uploaded that I didn't release into public domain (e.g., Template:PD-self), please attribute them:
- to "Colin M.L. Burnett" if used external to wikipedia (or sister projects)
- to "[[:en:User:Cburnett]]" if used internal to wikipedia (or sister projects).
Of course, if you want to use the exact image I (or any image for that matter) uploaded then just use it. The image page gives attribution to the creator.
If you desire to have the picture under another license, please feel free to email me (see "E-mail this user" under the toolbox menu) and ask.The images are also scaled-down from their originals.I'm likely to oblige...
Attribution signature I use on images: {{User:Cburnett/image sig}}
Be sure to read #Licensing.
Airport diagrams
GFDL'ed images
As of June 18, 2007 I've contributed over 487 images to wikipedia under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL).As mentioned above, I've been on a Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) kick lately with over 300 SVGs so far.
Some of my favorites:
Example map avoiding race hazard
Light knight on light (Chess pieces)
World's first, last, and only panoramic/stitched image of a Granola bar
King of spades
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Non-GFDL'ed images
The bulk of my non-GFDL images come in the form of screenshots of TV episodes and movies. I'm too lazy to count them.
Some of my favorites that I can visually display (non-fair use):
Current projects
Wikipedia:WikiProject Zoo
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Userboxes
Projects
| My work on {{Infobox zoo}} got the project going. | |
| Yeah for feeling good 'n stuff. | |
| This project is where, IMHO, tv lists started going and the particular format gained popularity to start off the tv episodes wikiproject. |
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Licensing
Unless explicitly and directly stated by me, anything licensed under the GPL is only licensed under version 2. This includes any future works and applies to all previous works. (The text of templates do not count as explicit or direct statements.) Because the wordage of templates can change and can be interpreted differently, all previously licensed works were never licensed under anything but version 2. I am making this interpretation explicit now.