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	This user is away
Name	Ben Hamill
Gender
Date of birth
Age	23
Location	Texas
Timezone	{{{timezone}}}
Email
Gmail/GTalk	iamday
AIM	NoitFi (or less commonly DayAsPrometheus)
ICQ	{{{icq}}}
Twitter	{{{twitter}}}
Callsign	Day
Parents
Siblings
Children
Marital Status	Engaged
Occupation	Retail
Rank
	Star of Kobol
	Day is a Chief
	Day is a Senior Chief
	Day supported the 2007 WGA strike.

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Activity Notice

I've finished my move and my new job starts soon. A comensurate inscrease in my presence here should follow.

Ben "Day" Hamill lives in Texas where he enjoys MUSHing, playing Guild Wars and watching roughly one hour of television each week. You get three guesses as to which hour.

Personal Information

Occasionally, Ben spends time viewing various things on DVD. In his opinion, these things don't quite count as watching television as, "it's the ads that really rot the brain. You can choose not to watch a bad show, but bad ads could be in any show, no matter how good."

Currently, Ben lives with his girlfriend of 6 years, Sara. They were engaged on 4 March 2006 and have begun planning their wedding. The date is set for 23 June, 2007. For more information, simply ask, but be prepared for a deluge of information.

Ben is a Bachelor of the Arts in Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin. This is noteworthy because, apparently unbeknownst to UT, Linguistics is a science. While there, Ben was a member of the Longhorn Band in which he played the Trombone.

Ben has been a member of the Battlestar Wiki since 29 August, 2005. Users who sign talk page posts, but have empty user pages irk Ben because they trigger his broken link sense needlessly.

Ben owns a Mac (G4 Cube) named Melchior, a PC (Dell with user upgrades) named Prometheus and an XBox with no name. He is considering naming his Honda Civic something that sounds like the name of a Space Marine Dreadnaught from Warhammer 40,000, but as of yet can't think of a decent name.

Ben's favorite time is 11:11.

http://miniprofile.xfire.com/bg/sf/type/2/oneseventeen.png

On my iPod

Ask a Ninja - Ninja are cool, and this one answers questions (video).
Hope is Emo - Emo kids are the funniest joke God ever told (video).
The World's Technology Podcast - An expanded cast by the host of The World's technology show (audio).
TTBOOK Podcast ^(subscribe) - A show of random cool stuff by Public Radio International (audio).
The Onion Radio News - Like skimming the Onion: Funny headlines, none of that boring "content" crap (audio).

Toolbox

Non-Wiki Projects

Texas Sports Weekly
I am the web dude for Texas Sports Weekly, which is a podcast hosted by my good friend, Ross Lucksinger, which focuses primarily on sports related to the University of Texas, secondarily on sports in the state of Texas and tertiarily on professional sports in the United States. He has yet to mention a sport in another country, but I wouldn't put it past him to talk a bit about the Tour de France or the World Cup in their time.
Nomicron
I play a nomic called Nomicron. My player name there is, amazingly, Day. One of my proudest accomplishments there is that it's sort of a tradition, now, for me to design a new logo for each Round. I've done Rounds four, five and six, which has just begun. The theme of the logo doesn't have to affect how the Round turns out, but it did in an amusing way in Round five, and very well may in Round six.

A Note on Images

I try to use the following format for naming image files I upload. This is mostly for my own reference, though if someone wants to use this sytem, too, they're welcome to. The reason I like to include episode names is so that, when I see a picture, I might have a better idea of the context if I knew what else had been going on at the time.

Episode_Name-Content.ext (ex: Image:Kobols Last Gleaming pt2-Gaeta.jpg, Image:Tigh Me Up Tigh Me Down-Baltar Six.jpg, Image:Mini-Billy.jpg, etc.)

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+|location=Texas
-|callsign= Day
+|email=
-|death=
+|gmail=iamday
-|parents= 2
+|aim=NoitFi (or less commonly DayAsPrometheus)
-|siblings= 1
+|callsign=Day
-|marital status= Long-term dating
+|parents=
-|role=Clueless Newbie
+|siblings=
-|rank=
+|children=
-|actor= Himself
+|marital status=Engaged
-|cylon=Y
+|occupation=[http://www.aaronbrothers.com Retail]
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+{| style="background-color:#461919; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align:center; color:white;"
+|Activity Notice
+|}
+|-
+|I've finished my move and my new job starts soon. A comensurate inscrease in my presence here should follow.
+|-
+|}
-==About the Auth--um... Guy==
 Ben "Day" Hamill lives in Texas where he enjoys MUSHing, playing [http://www.guildwars.com/  Guild Wars] and watching roughly one hour of television each week. You get three guesses as to which hour.
-Occasionally Ben spends time viewing various things on DVD. Primarily these things are episodes from the various series of [http://www.memory-alpha.org/ Star Trek], the occasional anime and, recently, the series [http://www.scifi.com/firefly/ Firefly], also produced by the [http://www.scifi.com/ SciFi Channel]. In his opinion, these things don't quite count as watching television as, "it's the ads that really rot the brain. You can choose not to watch a bad show, but bad ads could be in any show, no matter how good."
+==Personal Information==
+Occasionally, Ben spends time viewing various things on DVD. In his opinion, these things don't quite count as watching television as, "it's the ads that really rot the brain. You can choose not to watch a bad show, but bad ads could be in any show, no matter how good."
-Currently Ben lives with his long-time girlfriend and is trying to convince her that she really ''does'' like asian food and that raising a zombie army for the conquest of the civilized world is a good idea.
+Currently, Ben lives with his girlfriend of 6 years, Sara. They were engaged on 4 March 2006 and have begun planning their wedding. The date is set for 23 June, 2007. For more information, simply ask, but be prepared for a deluge of information.
-The email address Ben wishes to share on this site is with [http://www.gmail.com/ gmail]. His user name there is iamday.
+Ben is a Bachelor of the Arts in Linguistics from the [http://www.utexas.edu/ University of Texas at Austin]. This is noteworthy because, apparently unbeknownst to UT, Linguistics is a ''science''. While there, Ben was a member of the [http://www.longhornband.org/ Longhorn Band] in which he played the [http://www.texastrombones.net/ Trombone].
-Ben recently received a Bachelor of the Arts in Linguistics from the [http://www.utexas.edu/ University of Texas at Austin]. This is noteworthy because, apparently unbeknownst to UT, Linguistics is a ''science''. While there, Ben was a member of the [http://www.longhornband.org/ Longhorn Band] in which he played the [http://www.texastrombones.net/ Trombone].
+Ben has been a member of the Battlestar Wiki since 29 August, 2005. Users who sign talk page posts, but have empty user pages irk Ben because they trigger his broken link sense needlessly.
+Ben owns a [http://www.apple.com/ Mac] ([http://www.apple-history.com/body.php?page=gallery&model=g4cube&performa=off&sort=date&order=DESC G4 Cube]) named [[Wikipedia:Melchior|Melchior]], a PC (Dell with user upgrades) named [[Wikipedia:Prometheus|Prometheus]] and an [http://www.xbox.com/en-US/default.htm XBox] with no name. He is considering naming his Honda Civic something that sounds like the name of a [http://us.games-workshop.com/games/40k/spacemarines/catalog/spacemarines/sm_dreadnought.htm Space Marine Dreadnaught] from [[Wikipedia:Warhammer 40,000|Warhammer 40,000]], but as of yet can't think of a decent name.
 Ben's favorite time is 11:11.
-==Current Projects==
+http://miniprofile.xfire.com/bg/sf/type/2/oneseventeen.png
-*Picture adding (feel free to point me at some)
-**Currently I'm going through the character profiles and seeing who needs a picture. As you read this, I'm in the A's still. I've  already created and added in pictures for [[Aaron Doral]], [[William Adama]], [[Samuel T. Anders]] and [[Lee Adama]], and I've created pictures for [[Karl Agathon]].
+{| width="40%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="5" style="vertical-align:top; background-color:#1F0B0B; margin: 1em 0; float: right;"
-**My next step will be to add pictures to various episode articles. I think that a large-ish one at the top and then one or two in the synopsis is a good goal.
+! style="background-color:#461919; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:100%; border:1px solid #461919; text-align:left; color:white;"  |
-*Formatting
+{| style="background-color:#461919; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align:left; color:white;"
-**As I go through looking at who need pictures, I'll also probably do some reformatting so that they all use the Character Data Template. I've redone the formatting on [[Aaron Doral]], [[Zak Adama]] and [[Caroline Adama]]. I'm not actualy sure what to do with  [[Adar (RDM)]] since we don't ever, really, see him and we don't know much about him, his Character Data would be mostly "Unknown" which would look lame. For now, I'm leaving him be.
+|On my iPod
-*Moving
+|}
-**I moved [[Anders]] to [[Samuel T. Anders]] because his full name was noted on the page, so I figured I'd make his page like everyone else's.
+|-
-**I plan to move [[Agathon, Karl C.]] to [[Karl C. Agathon]].
+|
+<div style="padding-right: 2em;">
+# [http://www.askaninja.com/ Ask a Ninja] - Ninja are cool, and this one answers questions (video).
+# [http://www.hopeisemo.com/ Hope is Emo] - Emo kids are the funniest joke God ever told (video).
+# [http://www.theworld.org/technology/podcasts.shtml The World's Technology Podcast] - An expanded cast by the host of [http://www.theworld.org/index.shtml The World]'s technology show (audio).
+# [http://www.ttbook.org TTBOOK Podcast] <sup>([http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/pcttbook/.jukebox?action=viewPodcast&podcastId=189 subscribe])</sup> - A show of random cool stuff by [http://www.pri.org/index.html Public Radio International] (audio).
+# [http://www.theonion.com/content/radionews The Onion Radio News] - Like skimming the Onion: Funny headlines, none of that boring "content" crap (audio).
+</div>
+|-
+|}
+==Toolbox==
+* [[Battlestar Wiki:Characters|Character Project Page]] ([[Battlestar Wiki talk:Characters|Talk]])
+* [[Battlestar Wiki:Standards and Conventions|Standards and Conventions]] ([[Battlestar Wiki talk:Standards and Conventions|Talk]])
+* [[Battlestar Wiki:Quotes|Quotes Project]] ([[Battlestar Wiki talk:Quotes|Talk]])
+* [[Battlestar Wiki:Featured articles|Featured Articles Project]] ([[Battlestar Wiki talk:Featured articles|Talk]])
+* [[Battlestar Wiki:Citation Jihad|Citation Jihad]] ([[Battlestar Wiki talk:Citation Jihad|Talk]])
+* [[Battlestar Wiki:Template List|Template List]] ([[Battlestar Wiki talk:Template List|Talk]])
+* Images
+*: [[Battlestar Wiki:Requested Images|Pictures I Need to Get]]
+*: [[Battlestar WIki:Island of Misfit Images|The Island of Misfit Images]]
+*: [[Battlestar Wiki:Image tagging policy|Image Tagging Policy]]
+* [[Battlestar Wiki:Administrators' noticeboard|Administrators' Noticeboard]]
+* [[Battlestar Wiki:Portals|Portals Project]]
+* [[Wikipedia:Administrators' how-to guide]]
+==Non-Wiki Projects==
+* '''Texas Sports Weekly'''
+*: I am the web dude for [http://www.texassportsweekly.com/ Texas Sports Weekly], which is a podcast hosted by my good friend, Ross Lucksinger, which focuses primarily on sports related to the University of Texas, secondarily on sports in the state of Texas and tertiarily on professional sports in the United States. He has yet to mention a sport in another country, but I wouldn't put it past him to talk a bit about the [http://www.letour.fr/indexus.html Tour de France] or the [http://www.fifa.com/en/index.html World Cup] in their time.
+* '''Nomicron'''
+*: I play a [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/nomic.htm nomic] called [http://www.nomicron.org Nomicron]. My player name there is, amazingly, Day. One of my proudest accomplishments there is that it's sort of a tradition, now, for me to design a new logo for each Round. I've done Rounds four, five and six, which has just begun. The theme of the logo doesn't ''have'' to affect how the Round turns out, but it did in an amusing way in Round five, and very well may in Round six.
+==A Note on Images==
+I try to use the following format for naming image files I upload. This is mostly for my own reference, though if someone wants to use this sytem, too, they're welcome to. The reason I like to include episode names is so that, when I see a picture, I might have a better idea of the context if I knew what else had been going on at the time.
+''Episode_Name-Content.ext'' (ex: [[:Image:Kobols Last Gleaming pt2-Gaeta.jpg]], [[:Image:Tigh Me Up Tigh Me Down-Baltar Six.jpg]], [[:Image:Mini-Billy.jpg]], etc.)
-[[Category:Wikipedians|Day]]
+[[Category:Galactipedian|Day]]

Day

This user is away
Name	Ben Hamill
Gender
Date of birth
Age	23
Location	Texas
Timezone	{{{timezone}}}
Email
Gmail/GTalk	iamday
AIM	NoitFi (or less commonly DayAsPrometheus)
ICQ	{{{icq}}}
Twitter	{{{twitter}}}
Callsign	Day
Parents
Siblings
Children
Marital Status	Engaged
Occupation	Retail
Rank
Star of Kobol
Day is a Chief
Day is a Senior Chief

Day supported the 2007 WGA strike.