User:Lar

Hi! I am Larry Pieniazek and I am not notable. I am extremely proud that User:Josette was my wife.

I served on the WMF meta:Ombudsman commission for 2010. (While serving, I was temporarily suspended from all Checkuser roles and from my role as Steward. These suspensions were noted with strikeouts)

I was an admin, bureaucrat, checkuser and oversighter on Commons and have access to OTRS.

I was also an admin and checkuser on en:wp (the English Wikipedia), and I was also an admin, bureaucrat and checkuser on meta: (the Wikimedia Meta-Wiki), and would be happy to help you if I can. Feel free to email me about that or anything else. I think meatball:DefendEachOther is a great idea and I try to practice it.

For more information, see: Wikipedia:User:Lar, or see my WikiMatrix of most all the wikis that I have ID's on.

• I was involved in creating this: Wikimedia logo mosaic
  • an early version: User:Lar/SolidMosaic

I have one sock here: Larbot (talk · contributions · Move log · Statistics · logs · block log), which someday may be a bot but for now, just reserving the name (and using it as a non admin ID when I need to test things out)

A few of my favourite pictures from among those I have taken uploaded here...

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  Dapples and reflections of the Fallasburg Bridge near Lowell, Michigan
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  Hertz Rent a racer Shelby Mustang at Boston Logan Airport
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  Shivering Timbers at Michigans Adventure in Muskegon, Michigan

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  M29 Weasel at the US Army Transportation Museum in arctic dress
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  TECO Line Streetcar System streetcar in Tampa, Florida
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  Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona (used in Encyclopedia Britannica as well)

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  A scene from Indiana Beach, an amusement park located in Monticello, Indiana on Lake Shafer
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  A scene from Ada, Michigan on the Grand River
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  Corn nuts, toasted large kernel corn

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  Seen on the Seward Highway, SE of Girdwood, Alaska.
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  The Gaylord Building in Lockport, a building on the National Register of Historic Places

A few images created by other means than cameras.

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  Cross sectional view of a steel dam, drawn with Visio
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  A context map of the U.S. Army Transportation Museum in Fort Eustis, Virginia, done with Paint Shop Plus from TIGER generated maps
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  A photo locator map of the location of the Hardy Dam, a dam and powerplant complex on the Muskegon River in Michigan. Uses letters for photo spots. From TIGER, converted in Inkscape.

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  Diagram of a w:Brown Truss drawn in the West Point Bridge Designer program.

A few pics I found on Flickr and convinced the original photographer to license so we could use them

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  A canoe livery on Lake Louise, Alberta
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  Jumbo Kingdom, floating restaurant in Aberdeen Harbour, Hong Kong, from waterside.
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  Croton Dam is a dam and powerplant complex on the Muskegon River, operated by Consumers Energy. Composite of 3 images.

A few pics found at other sites which were already free, or which were old enough.

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  Waldo Hancock Bridge in Maine (from HAER collection of the Library of Congress)
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  A pass to ride on the SS Christopher Columbus signed by Alexander McDougall her inventor, from shipwreck.com
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  A drawing from the patent application for the Brown Truss, from Google Patents

A few favourites I did NOT upload, but just found.

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  Baumgardener's Covered Bridge by Ram-Man
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  NMRA National Train Show in w:Cincinnati Ohio, taken by Slambo. The blue striped white double ended train in the right background is mine, as is the ATSF pulling out of the trainshed in the far left background

Here are my pictures via Flommons, a truly neat tool by Magnus.