User talk:JustStopDude

Hello...I'm JustStopDude and I am an alco...wait wrong meeting.

I am a field engineer who spends far too much time on the road. As such, I have ended up stumbling on this website. I am new to the whole wiki thing so I expect to be a huge pain in the ass to people who know what they are doing and have to go back and fix my crap.

My background is in Mechanical Engineering, though I work primarily in the automation of large cranes at port facilities, usually outside of the US. Don't ask me how I landed that job as I am terrified of heights. Prior to that, I did six years in the USN and then went to college.

I am merely making an account to possibly one day actually add content or comment on certain articles in the area of engineering. I don't want to be involved in a ego match over technical things as that is the primary reason I have never participated in Wikipedia. Generally I find their science articles as either woefully inadequate or on the other end of the spectrum, so far over the top that almost no one can use them. I also find the level of content to be very...interesting at times. I am constantly amazed at the weird fringe stuff that gets sneaked into articles.

I look forwards to adding to the community and hopefully won't step on any toes or piss anyone off. JustStopDude (talk) 22:32, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Too late, pal, you've already pissed me off, and I'm kind of a big deal around here. What you just posted above should go on your user page (that little red tab up on the left&mdash; I want to see it turn blue.)
 * Belay that&mdash; I just checked, and by all indications, I'm nobody special. Welcome to RW, and may the local chatter amuse you in your down time. That thing about finding the happy middle, the Goldilocks zone, between "woefully inadequate" and "over the top," well, that is something I've noticed ever since high school, which was a while ago. Always gratifying to come across a piece of reading that's just right.
 * Welcome to RationalWiki! I'll just go ahead and throw a template here, with some links that might help, if you haven't seen them already.

Sprocket J Cogswell (talk) 23:17, 9 February 2014 (UTC)