User:TakKendrick

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edit About Me

Odds are if you've landed on this page you've seen my edits somewhere on the wiki or I've left you a talk message.

I'm an AboutUs employee now working primarily as a co-organizer for the Content Team. I've led several of the Portals projects and am currently helping with structure and support for the PortlandTech, LahoreTech, SeattleTech and VancouverTech portal projects, and will be heading a lot of the initiative on our newest (1/08) project, the Oldcastle APG wiki area. Because writing and teaching the community are my passions, I also continue to do a lot of work on messaging, and with the Community Team on such projects as the Weblog, promoting featured pages, Patrol RecentChanges and welcome people. I've been with AboutUs since August 2006.

I have a master's degree in Creative Writing from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, CO. My undergraduate degree is in communications from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA.

Professionally, I've been a journalist, writer, graphic designer, and an after-school teacher. In addition to a variety of gigs in those fields, I was formerly the news director for a community radio station in Olympia, WA. I'm also an avid baseball fan and know way too much about classic rock. I've also been a computer geek since I was eight and am happy to be helping out at AboutUs.org.

As a writer I have been published in numerous journals across the US (none of which you've heard of), and was one of the co-publishers of the now defunct Ellipsis... Literary Serials and Narrative Culture, a monthly literary magazine highlighting the long lost tradition of the "Literary Serial." Although in earlier years it varied, for the last couple of years I've been publishing nearly exclusively under my full name, "Takashi L. Kendrick".

If you have any questions, feel free to ask, if I can't answer them, I'll try to find someone who can! If you don't want to leave a message here, you can always Send me a private email

edit Motivations



"Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies — 'God damn it, you've got to be kind.' "
-- Kurt Vonnegut,
God Bless You Mr. Rosewater.




"If I work hard as I can in my life, I may be able to end up building this thing that nobody can tear down after I'm gone."
-- Jerry Garcia




"My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here."
-- Jim Henson



"And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.'"
-- The Beatles, The End


edit Various Esoteric Links

  • My favorite non-AboutUs wikis are:
    • Wookieepedia.com -- Everything related to the Star Wars universe
    • TVIV.org -- A wiki about TV shows: past, present and even future, with episode listings, casts and crew notes and more. This wiki can use some love in some ways, but it's a good resource that has the potential to be great.
    • wikiHow.com -- How-to guides anyone can contribute to. It's just awesome what they have there.

edit Want to contact me? Let me count the ways...