User talk:Randy Kryn

• An editing respite
• Some useful things from a non-medical non-professional: Tom Brady follows the hydration route (1/2 your weight in number of ounces per day, i.e. if someone weighs 180 pounds hydrate 90 ounces of water a day), and look where it GOAT him. Then what about Linus Pauling advocating at least two grams a day of ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) divided into several equal portions (morning-afternoon-evening), you'd almost think he wanted people healthy. And last but least, microwave an ear of corn for four minutes, with the husk left on — if two ears, double it to eight minutes. When you peel off the husk and eat the thing, you'll thank me later.
• Now you know: Saverland v Newton
• Remembering four of the last eight Earthlings to travel to the Moon, murdered soon after their return, sadly bookending the first two Moon pioneers murdered 20 days after arriving back on Earth.
• Maybe my best geek edit: A five cushion bank shot italicizing Star Trek and Buffy links on Wikipedia's Klingon language page.
• An IP upon realizing that birds are dinosaurs, and a nod to our dinosaur brothers and sisters.
• Write on!: Don't kick the Ouija board
• An IP's inadvertent poetically sexist edit, which they quickly corrected
• Perhaps my best one-word edit (although...)
• Ready to check out the size of the Solar System? No small children or comfort animals on board please, and keep your arms and stuff where you can see them: If the Moon were only 1 Pixel (web based scroll map scaled to the Moon being, well, 1 pixel)
• A sci-fi short story plot (dibs)

. . .Veiled Christ, a statue in Cappella Sansevero, Naples, Italy, that depicts a knobbly-kneed Christ in the tomb, please give the image two or three clicks. This almost unbelievable 1753 sculpture ("how'd he do that?"), carved from one piece of marble, has one of only two Wikipedia article's which have to prove, with sources, that the artwork was not the work of an alchemist. Step right up, and don't miss the modern looking couch, the two tasseled pillows, or the crown of thorns and other torture things down by the feet. All carved from a single block of marble. Literally steps away from Veiled Christ sits another "how'd he do that?" sculpture, also carved from a single block of marble (or created by alchemy).

While thinking aloud after mentioning impossible statues carved from one piece of rock...who can forget flowers made of glass.

Watching Secretariat run his 1973 Triple Crown races in order while knowing three things: 1) Secretariat's trainer and jockey realized after the second race that the horse could run full speed from start to finish. 2) While drastically held back during the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, Secretariat still holds the fastest time in all three Triple Crown races. 3) Sham - the horse Secretariat trashed like a dancing bear in the Kentucky Derby - still holds the Derby's second fastest time.

Here's the 1973 Kentucky Derby...Secretariat's jockey holds him back...holds him wayyyy back, almost last place. Next the Preakness...holds him back... And then: the Belmont..."He is moving like a tre-men-dous machine".

• ...winner of the 2017 "Shakespearean dramatic romantic tragic tale in six words" Heisman.

July 8, 2022: during three edits in three minutes an IP proposes marriage on the same page as the above masterpiece, creating their own. Wikipedians have a romantic side, even the bots, so nobody reverted until I did after two hours with a note saying that it should be enough time, and wished him luck. Does anyone know of an earlier proposal on Wikipedia, especially on such a good page for it and so perfectly played out - he seemingly decides to marry her right there, between two edits. Film scene scenario worthy (Hallmark, are you listening?).

The docents ask people: "Find the cat". Letting the coolness of it lead me to break my oath as a Wikipedian, I now self-identify as a vandal. (in other vandal news, an IP spent a great deal of time removing all the vowels from several articles. Wh ddn't thnk f tht?).

See and listen to Wikipedia edits as they occur. Designed by Stephen LaPorte and Mahmoud Hashemi of hatnote.com, the link was copied from a user page, don't remember where, but deservedly displayed on quite a few as well as having its own article. Just who is making all this noise? Well...

Here is Paine Ellsworth's subpage about how many Wikipedians can dance on the head of a pin.

Hi, IMO replacing a featured picture by this poor quality version is vandalism. Do not do that. Thanks, Yann (talk) 07:25, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Yann. The long-time image used doesn't seem at all poor quality (File:Mountrushmore.jpg) but is a much clearer image of the statue than the one you profer (File:Mount Rushmore detail view (100MP).jpg). Please take it to the article talk page, which is where this discussion should go. Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 08:21, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, but no. File:Mountrushmore.jpg is the worst possible choice. Even if one wants a different framing that File:Mount Rushmore detail view (100MP).jpg which is a high quality and resolution, and a featured picture, there are better choice. File:Mount Rushmore detail view (100MP).jpg was chosen as a FP when it was used in the article, and it shouldn't be removed, unless a better quality is offered. Thanks, Yann (talk) 08:29, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]