Wikipedia user page for Chris Lawson, devourer and regurgitator of knowledge.

Areas of particular interest include

• aviation (I'm a flight instructor by day, and a tireless vandalwhacker by night)
• numismatics
• Macintosh computers
• history, particularly World War II and United States history
• engineering and technology in general
• computer programming of late, particularly Apple's Cocoa libraries of Objective-C. I've been doing lots of minor patching to the Camino Web browser.

If you'd like to see my personal Web site, where you'll find some biographical info, my blog, and assorted other bits, please feel free to visit it.

I have made particularly significant contributions to the following articles:

• Dime (U.S. coin)
• Nickel (U.S. coin)
• XF-11
• Lockheed L-188 Electra
• Larry Pina

Most of my contributions around Wikipedia are of the housekeeping variety, with lots of copyediting (my other day job, for ATPM and SchwarzTech) and other related cleanup.

I also do the occasional (not-so-occasional of late) RC patrol and enjoy whacking vandals in my spare time. This "hobby" is not without its risks; the vandals seem to be getting more aggressive and confrontational about my patrol. Shrugging off the offensive comments comes with the territory. Vandals beware: you're going to have to work really really hard to get my dander (not dandruff) up.

Stuff on my to-do list:

• Finish breaking down other U.S. coin denominations by series, as has been done with the dime and nickel.
• As part of above, incorporate Franklin half dollar into United States half dollar coin and probably Wheat penny into Penny (U.S. coin).
• Thoroughly copy-edit the entire United States coins category and make sure stuff that isn't currently there gets included
• Collaborate with DieYuppieScum and other members of WikiProject Numismatics on the above