Der Elbenkoenig

Der Elbenkoenig is a user of Wikipedia.

Me

Mission on Wikipedia

Hello World! I am the Wikipedian formally known to this community as Der Elbenkoenig, which (as I learned from Wikipedia itself) is a possible German translation of the Danish Ellerkonge, or Elven King. I have long been fascinated with and made extensive use of Wikipedia, the Font of all Knowledge, as a resource for my own personal study as well for academic work. During high school, I was engaged in a project which gives me a tremendous opportunity to give back to the community and to become in a real sense a contributor to the world of science. As I continue to grow as a contributor I hope that my work will become in a real, significant, and measurable sense an asset to the great Bazaar that is Wikipedia. I also am a huge fan of Wikipedia's system of internal links.

Interests

A relatively old picture of myself and my saxophone. My grandfather gave me this saxophone, he having obtained it from his father or grandfather; if I remember correctly, the serial number indicates that this saxophone was manufactured in the year 1914. It is a silver-plated Conn.

I am a recent graduate of North Carolina State University with a Computer Science bachelor's. While there, I worked in an educational games lab on campus as an undergraduate researcher. Now, I work for Bandwidth.com as a software developer. My daily job consists of crawling through code in a process similar to exploring a cavern in Minecraft. Languages in which I am competent include: TI-BASIC, Java, javascript, C and Python. Languages in which I would like more experience include Lisp, Rust, C++, Whitespace, Brainfuck and probably infinity others, plus or minus 4.

I'm also a musician. The instruments that I play include but are not limited to: clarinet(s), saxophone(s), recorder, baritone or euphonium bugle, and guitar. From time to time, I try to do some musical composition. I have composed a couple of pieces using CSound which is fantastic.

I am a fan of Super Smash Bros. Melee and Magic: the Gathering, both of which I play competitively-ish (but without much success, so far).