This is the user page of Gregg L. DesElms (username: Deselms) (Should be "DesElms" but Wikipedia won't allow the middle capital "E")

I mostly just created this user page because I noticed that my username was always in red throughout Wikidpedia... meaning, of course, that there's no page for it. I let it go that way for a long time, 'til I finally got sick of seeing it. I said to myself, "Self, other people around here seem to have a user page, so maybe you should, too." (Yes, I sometimes talk to myself; I just try to never answer.)

This, then, is it... my user page, I mean; and so now my username isn't red anymore. Believe it or not, that's all I really started out to achieve by even typing anything here.

However, as long as I'm going to the trouble, here's some other barely-worth-reading stream of thought and/or consciousness (aka, babble)...

I use my real last name as my username around here (though the Wikipedia username system rules wouldn't let me capitalize the "E" in the middle, like it's supposed to be); and I always sign everything with my real full name. No aliases or handles for me! It seems to me that if one's going to write something on the Internet/online, then one should have the courage to sign it with his/her real name. Only if anonymity of the sort which our ( United States) founding fathers found necessary in their pamphleteering and posting of bills in order to get out their anti-government message without incurring government's wrath were necessary would I find online anonymity even remotely acceptable. If there were legitimate danger of harm coming to me because of my writing, then I suppose I'd at least consider anonymity; but even then, I'd have to think long and hard on it before I'd ever actually do it. All persons, in my opinion, should wear their writings -- whether or not online -- with at least responsibility, and hopefully also with pride... as I do (unless, again, there's a compelling reason why they shouldn't).

In keeping therewith, here is my full, real-world contact information (which has been public and "out there" for years, and so I have no hesitation to provide it here; plus I have many real-life safeguards in place to ensure that one's knowing it could not help one to harm me in any way):

Gregg L. DesElms

895 Jackson St., #319

Napa CA 94559-1321

1-877-383-5148 (toll-free voice)

(206) 984-1288 (fax)

gregg at greggdeselms dot com (email)

And here's my bio, over on Newsvine:
http://newsvinebio.greggdeselms.com
(at the bottom of which is other contact info)

Oh... and my card, if that's of any interest:
http://www.greggdeselms.com/Gregg_DesElms_Business_Card.pdf

So, then... [sigh]

[long silence]

...um... okay...

...maybe I'll go look at others' user pages and see what else I'm supposed to put here. If I don't change it then maybe I'll have decided that this is good enough... either that, or I just either got too busy to circle back, or forgot. And regarding that last one, if you hear hoofbeats, don't assume zebras: At my age, that forgetting thing is happening more and more often!

Later!

Peace.

Gregg L. DesElms (Username: Deselms) ( talk) 08:03, 5 May 2010 (UTC) (originally posted)
Gregg L. DesElms (Username: Deselms) ( talk) 00:28, 29 November 2012 (UTC) (updated)
Gregg L. DesElms (Username: Deselms) ( talk) 04:21, 15 January 2013 (UTC) (updated)
Gregg L. DesElms (Username: Deselms) ( talk) 21:45, 17 March 2013 (UTC) (updated)
Gregg L. DesElms (Username: Deselms) ( talk) 21:37, 14 September 2013 (UTC) (updated)