Warpflyght is also known as Ben Mitchell. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia and raised in Lilburn, Georgia. He's also lived in Shreveport, Louisiana, Mesa, Arizona, Navarre, Florida, Cupertino, California, San Jose, California, and Miami, Florida. He attended Red Mountain High School and Gulf Breeze High School, and earned a Computer Science degree from Georgia Tech in Atlanta. He is on a quasi-wikibreak, but still drops by and makes small edits occasionally.
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His main interests include Star Trek (and he has been simming for over two decades (see USS Potemkin)), sailing, and computers (particularly subjects related to programming and the Internet). Other interests include Spanish, the Romance Languages and their history, the Roman Republic and Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, space exploration, geography, and the study of history. Articles on the American Civil War and the History of Atlanta have occupied countless hours of his time. Hurricanes are a more recent interest due to the aftermath of Hurricane Ivan and its damage to his home and hometown. He is also a roadgeek, focusing particularly on places he's lived and visited. He considers Google Maps to be both wonderful and highly dangerous.
He is a proud geek and a liberal. He is a Unix geek (using macOS and Linux among other flavors). He is an Apple Macintosh convert and a Rubyist. He speaks fluent Objective-C, Swift, Python, and several other languages. He prefers vi over emacs, but often develops in Xcode or TextMate. He often recommends Swift Playgrounds to new developers. He believes in the Open Source movement. He is a member (and is a former president) of his local Linux Users Group. He was in attendance for the lower pair of index values of C4 and enjoyed them beyond words.
He is a strong believer in the serial comma, and on Wikipedia, he prefers to make detailed edit summaries. He prefers "lede" over "lead" to identify the beginning of an article. His watchlist includes articles on places he's lived, subjects related to Star Trek and Simming, some topics on Ancient Rome and British history, and some of the articles listed in the various sections further down on this page. He can often be found making small edits (including copyedits, adding relevant wikilinks where appropriate, and reworking a few sentences or paragraphs) during his seemingly random Wikipedia travels.
Two of his former roommates are Wikipedians: SCEhardt (who was once an administrator) and VinnyR.
