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I think I've found the ultimate nerd..

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by JR, Aug 4, 2006.

  1. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    24 year old Ottawa guy has edited almost 80,000 Wikepdia articles and contributed between 2,000 and 3,000 new articles.......

    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060804.wxwiki04/BNStory/Technology/home

    Some lovely stuff here:

    In Grade 8, he, attired as Stalin, and other friends re-enacted the Yalta conference on the balcony of a friend's house. In university, he became the Trivial Pursuit champion at his college, and even won when the whole residence took him on.

    Upon graduation (from university), the Ottawa resident took a year off to devote eight to 10 hours a day adding new entries to the site.

    "It's an addiction," said Mr. Pulsifer, who describes himself as anything but self-indulgent in other aspects of his life. He lives at home and doesn't have a girlfriend.
     
  2. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

    That last sentence qualifies as the most shocking one of the day so far, folks.

    I could understand if this guy lived in some place like Brampton or Owen Sound, but, man, Ottawa's a great city to party in. Plenty of great bars and thew wonders of Quebec just minutes away.
     
  3. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    The dressing up as Stalin was the thing that broke me up.

    Can you imagine recruiting his friends?

    "Hey, Johnny, wanna play Winston Churchill? We're gonna divide up Europe"
     
  4. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    My guess: The room is in the basement
     
  5. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

  6. Idaho

    Idaho Active Member

    What? They just imported mirrors to the great white north? :D
     
  7. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

  8. Ashy Larry

    Ashy Larry Active Member

    JR........Dyepacks not gonna be happy that you outed him.
     
  9. OnTheRiver

    OnTheRiver Active Member

    From the thread title, I'd guessed this was going to be about either me or Bubbler.
     
  10. Perry White

    Perry White Active Member

  11. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    Ya think?
     
  12. Idaho

    Idaho Active Member

    Holy cow. It is SauronPony!
     
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