User:SpartHawg948

About Me
My name is William, I am 27, and I am a Staff Sergeant (SSgt) in the US Air Force Reserve, moonlighting as a security consultant for a major Silicon Valley pharmaceuticals company. I live in Santa Clara, California, and I LOVE Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2!!! I aim to do whatever I can to improve this site, as I feel it's a great resource. Also, I am an Bureaucrat (both here and at a secret side project...), so if anyone has any questions or needs help with anything, please just let me know!

Also, not to put too fine a point on it, but I have no patience whatsoever with crybabies, whiners, speculators, and boors. If you are going to be rude to someone else, plant purely speculative info, or insult others but then start crying when someone calls you on it, you WILL be hearing from me.

Now that the seriousness is taken care of, it's my goal to make this the most informative site possible, while also keeping it a nice, friendly environment for users. Any assistance in furthering that goal is, of course, greatly appreciated, and I try to acknowledge people for their efforts as much as possible. So I hope you all enjoy the site, and hopefully you'll be hearing from me (for something good, of course!)

Words to live by

 * "Let him who desires peace prepare for war"- Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus (more commonly known as Vegetius) from De Re Militari
 * "An armed society is a polite society"- Robert A. Heinlein
 * "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent vice of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries"- Winston Churchill
 * "Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity- in short, of tyranny- and is committed to making tyranny universal."- Adlai Stevenson
 * "The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage."- Alexis de Tocqueville
 * "The world is not going to be saved by legislation."- William Howard Taft
 * "A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company."- Charles Evans Hughes

Featured Quote
This section will just be for quotes I like that aren't necessarily as concise and pithy as the ones featured above. They don't even necessarily have to be relevant to anything, I may just choose quotes from sources I like (such as George S. Patton, who provides the first of these) or works I like (such as the Anabasis by Xenophon). Good times!


 * "A Soviet agricultural commissar visits a collective farm and demands to know how the potato harvest is proceeding. ‘Marvelously!’ replies the head of the farm. ‘We have so many potatoes that if we put them all in one pile, it would reach the foot of God!’ The commissar turns grim and thunders, ‘This is the Soviet Union! There is no God!’ To which the farmer replies, ‘That’s alright, there are no potatoes, either." - an old economist's joke, as relayed by Kevin D. Williamson.

Spart's History Corner!
So, as mentioned earlier, it's a pretty big day. Why? Well, because 150 years ago today, April 12th, Confederate batteries under the command of General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard opened fire on the Federal garrison at Fort Sumter, commanded by Major Robert Anderson. With this act of unprovoked aggression, the South ushered in the American Civil War, one of the most ghastly conflicts in the history of mankind.

19 April - 150 years ago today, the Baltimore riot of 1861 began. Massachusetts militiamen marching through the city of Baltimore, Maryland were attacked by gangs of Confederate sympathizers. During the riot, four soldiers from Company D and Company I of the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment and twelve civilians were killed, and the offices of the Baltimore Wecker, a pro-Union German-language newspaper, were burned. The next day, Massachusetts Brigadier General Benjamin Butler (who I once chronicled in my featured bio section) arrived with reinforcements from the Massachusetts militia and restored order.

3 June - another big day today. Why? Because, 150 years ago today, the first land battle of the Civil War was fought, the Battle of Philippi. In this battle, a Union force split into two columns and converged on a smaller Confederate force, taking the Confederates unawares, and attaining complete tactical surprise. After a few minutes, the Confederates gave up all efforts at resistance, and their lines broke, with the rebels fleeing in terror, many still in their pajamas. This sorry sight led to the battle being named the "Races at Philippi".

Tongue-in cheek thought of the, ah, who am I kidding? I'm not gonna change this daily...

 * 40 days till Skyrim!!! In a show of just how big a nerd I am/how excited I am for these games, I have two video-game related apps on my phone. One is the Skyrim countdown app, and the other is the Mass Effect 3 countdown app. I don't look at the ME3 one as often though. It makes me sad when I do... SpartHawg948 07:38, October 2, 2011 (UTC)
 * Also, the draft for my fantasy hockey league was tonight! It was all sorts of fun, and I made out pretty well! And you know what that means! Another egotistical fantasy hockey blog is coming up shortly! :P SpartHawg948 07:38, October 2, 2011 (UTC)
 * So much to do... gotta update my book blog, post a new policy for review/discussion/probably a vote (haven't quite decided yet), start a new contest, and update the discussion on the N7Academy partnership proposal. I'll try to get it all done by Wednesday, or Thursday at the latest. After all, gotta get the math homework done too... :( SpartHawg948 10:18, October 5, 2011 (UTC)
 * Fans of Miranda Lawson and her hot hot hotness will definitely want to check out the latest Maxim magazine, which features (on the cover, no less) Yvonne Strahovski, who provides both the voice and the likeness for Miranda. Those pants she's wearing in the first picture of the article are... wow. Just wow! SpartHawg948 09:56, October 6, 2011 (UTC)
 * Folks, I don't care what some schlub from N7Academy wants to say about you guys and gals. For my money, you're the best group of people on the internet. It's an honor and a privilege to edit alongside you all. If it weren't, I wouldn't put nearly as much time and effort into this site as I do. I like the site and all, but it's you people who keep me coming back! :D SpartHawg948 08:32, October 11, 2011 (UTC)
 * In an aside, it's funny that, while N7Academy's Facebook page has been around much longer than ours, we have about three times the number of likes! So much for their generous offer to help us out! :P SpartHawg948 08:32, October 11, 2011 (UTC)
 * But hey, enough about some narcissistic whackjob from some obscure website nobody has ever heard of who wanted to exploit our wiki and community for his own gain. Let's get to the real news! SpartHawg948 08:52, October 12, 2011 (UTC)
 * Less than 30 days left until Skyrim! Super psyched!!! SpartHawg948 08:52, October 12, 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm also pretty amped about this new Galaxy at War feature for Mass Effect 3. The multiplayer, I'm still undecided about. But Galaxy at War sounds like it'll be right up my ally! SpartHawg948 08:52, October 12, 2011 (UTC)
 * 20 days till Skyrim! Very excite!!! SpartHawg948 19:37, October 21, 2011 (UTC)