This is my desktop: the digital equivalent of a horizontal surface densely covered with illegible notes scrawled on the backs of old envelopes. (PW is based on 'Only God...')

For the biographical stuff, click this sentence.

Useful links

For uploading pictures

• Commons:Main Page
• Commons:Category:Pictures_by_Ammodramus
• Try OpenStreetMap to generate maps; save as SVG. Get Inkscape; or try it in Windows Paint.

NRHP sites

• Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/NRIS information issues
• UTM converter
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Helfensteller, Hirsch & Watson
• To get nom form: if it's been digitized at NPS, paste 8-digit refnum into URL: http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/NNNNNNNN.pdf. For photos, replace "Text" with "Photos" in URL. For NHLs, replace "NRHP" with "NHLS" in URL. Discussed at NRHP, under heading "A little search trick..."

Nebraska

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Nebraska
• Andreas History of the State of Nebraska (1882)
• Past and Present of Platte County, Nebraska (1915)
• Platte County online books at GenWeb: includes link to Curry
• Nebraska History Quarterly: selected articles online
• CASDE: Nebraska... Our Towns
• Nebraska DNR databank: get township-range-section maps.
• Nebraska governors' speeches to Legislature: includes budget messages, state-of-the-state.
• Encyclopedia of the Great Plains. From UNL.
• Historical Nebraska legislative district maps

Bridges

• Bridge terminology: Pittsburgh website

Architectural styles

Indiana DNR guide

Congress

• House of Representatives history. For election results, pick a Congress; then on the page for that Congress, there's a link to a PDF with the results of all elections.

WP tools

• WikiStalk -- what articles have you and someone else edited?
• AfD voting history
• XKCD: "In Popular Culture"
• /vector.js
• Wikipedia:Newspapers.com: includes parameters that should be used when citing

Drafts

• Scratch page for drafts: The Bertrams
• Scratch page 2 for drafts: Akron Plan
• Scratch page 3 for drafts: Nebraska freshman legislators
• Scratch page 4 for drafts: Norfolk Regional Airport
• Scratch page 5 for drafts: Bridge 650 (Barton County, Kansas)
• Scratch page 6 for drafts: scratch
• Scratch page 7 for drafts: Nebraska gubernatorial election, 1990
• Scracth page 8 for drafts: scratch

Stuff to worry about

• Re. Welsh settlement: museum in Wymore, with link to site at Wymore, Nebraska
• Barrio Sta. Rosa copyright discussion re. NRHP: Wikipedia:Copyright_problems/2011_November_25

The War on Error

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everyday they
everyday he
everyday she
everyday it
everyday the
it everyday
him everyday
her everyday
them everyday
there everyday
out everyday
up everyday
down everyday
over everyday
everyday at
everyday in
everyday one
everyday some
everyday somebody
everyday someone
time everyday
times everyday
passed away

Loup Canal

A source on irrigation: Columbus Telegram article

References