Users/CarlosOverstreet

Sir Carlos Überstraße

One time student, turned Davis resident working in Fishery Management.
Carlos currently has a Shadiness Factor of 5.5. How shady are you?
Dislikes Feral Cats, Dairy Queen & Cenario's Pizza

In the autumn of 2005, Rienda Hall became the seat of a short lived monarchy that lasted for most of the school year. In a daring move to consolidate power and support, Melvin Cabebe crowned his fellow resident Carlos Overstreet the King of Rienda Hall. Although unpopular at first, the majority of his subjects looked to him with ambivalence at worst. Like the Sultans of the late Ottoman Empire, he was never able to completely extend his influence throughout his realm. In the spring of that year, his divine right was called into question but Joseph Bleckman rallied support to defend the crown. The legacy of his reign still remains to be seen but by his final days, he had become weary with his rule.

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Howdy, Carlos. We're currently debating the inclusion of Campus Crusade for Christ on the Cults entry. If you could provide any insight as to why you added it, it would be most appreciated. —jw

NICE edit on Northern California. *standing applause* —jw

I think it is nice that you want to add more content to Central California and Northern California but I don't think it is very helpful to say that places are quaint or uninteresting, or that there is nothing to see. I believe that there is beauty everywhere, even if it is hidden by social standards of the moment, and your flippant comments discourage people from finding beauty in unconventional places. Please don't write insulting things, it is not funny. Thanks. —NickSchmalenberger

• While it's important to find beauty in a glass of bland, I don't think it's that irresponsible to describe things accurately. —JosephBleckman
  

• Quoted from Steve Ostrowski's page: "You are aware that bias on DavisWiki is considered acceptable. This is a multiple bias site, meaning that everybody contributes from their own bias and all views are presented by aggregation. This is not Wikipedia, and does not have a NPOV policy. —JabberWokky" — I'm presenting things as I percieve them. You may see Owen's Lake as a wonderful recreation spot for hiking, and that's cool, go right ahead an edit it and put in your own say or additional information about it. Me thinks Owen's Lake is an unattractive piece of caked earth. - Carlos
  

• I don't have a problem with subjective descriptions of things, but if you are going to be insulting I don't think you should use the third person. Otherwise it makes the wiki itself sound flippant and mean. I don't think there should be a NPOV policy either because then people get anal about it and it creates flame wars, but in the third person I think it is helpful to at least try to write moderately, plainly, and succinctly. For example, in Northern California, you could have used "town" instead of "large collection of civilization". Furthermore, If I know of some specific nice thing in a town like Mt. Shasta, I could just add it to the page as you suggest, which might be helpful. I really don't think it is at all helpful to make cheapshots at nice towns as you have done. If it is really as boring as you say why mention it at all, if not just to be mean? —NickSchmalenberger
  

Well, there's Ludy's, which is a short drive or long bike ride away. Not bad for lunch, although I'd prefer a Park Avenue or even a Sonny's. The best BBQ (certainly the most authentic) I've found so far in NorCal is House of Chicken and Ribs.

Catch and release. Just need a tranquilizer gun, a few volenteers, and some radio-tagging equipment. -ES

2006-07-25 17:10:43   i'm pretty sure that copy is (c) the tribune. seeing as the story has nothing to do with davis or the davis wiki, i don't think Fair Use applies here. you should link to the story rather than including it. if you want people to discuss the story, try UCDLJ. —ArlenAbraham

2006-07-25 21:42:29   Just for fun, they discovered that tweaking of genes can turn fruit flies gay. The scientific article was in Cell. But there's a ton of blogs out there with links to the normal mainstream articles. Can't wait to see what's said about it all in 20 years. —ES

2006-07-25 21:54:41   very interesting article. —CarlosOverstreet

2006-07-29 16:52:08   With the Directorial power in me, I name you Archbishop Carlos Overstreet, of the Wiki. —JosephBleckman

2006-11-19 02:35:23   I think all that you not seeing anything remarkable in a place means is that you didn't look hard enough. I believe that there is always more to see, and I don't think you should discourage people from doing so. —NickSchmalenberger

2007-02-09 15:29:22   Thanks. Its partially anti-war, but its also about respecting the sacrifices of the troops, and making people realize the true American human toll (with the Iraqi toll much larger). —MaxMikalonis

2007-02-12 00:07:57   It is pronounced like peak as in the top of a mountian...interesting question...can I ask why? —AndrewPeake

2007-02-12 02:37:54   No... While it is occuring before and after the names, they are not affiliated with DCDs name read off. Kinda defeats the purpose of just honoring the dead and raising awareness when you throw the anti-war elements in there. DCD or its members may be involved in the 2/15 antiwar protest, but the organizations are not affiliated. —MaxMikalonis

2007-02-12 02:46:46   They will be having their Unity in Peace stuff from 11-12, We will ask them to stand down on active demonstrations and anything offensive that detracts from our message during our 12-1, and then they will most likely resume what hopefully won't be (but could possibly be) rabble-rousing from 1-2. The reason I am an Admin on the event (in case you were wondering) is because I've been trying to work to keep their posters/flyers/boards within some level of reason and respect. Also, to further clairify, our event has been planned out for weeks in advance, w/o prior knowledge of the intention for the 2/15 protest. Because of this, and because of time, we will continue to read the names as normal, for the entire week +1 day. —MaxMikalonis

2007-02-22 19:01:33   The Hive and The Honey Bee has a small chapter on ancient beekeeping, but it is only 20 pages long. I might suggest contacting Eric Mussen here at UCD (find his email in the directory), he probably has some ideas, otherwise there's Shields Library and Google. What do you need the info for? —KarlMogel

2007-02-22 21:51:57   it's the beekeeper's bible - its in the UCD bookstore (or it should be in the spring) and the library. —KarlMogel

2007-02-27 15:54:15   Those "few good links" can go on the abortion page. There is no need to have a debate page. —WilliamLewis

2007-05-21 13:48:46   The Anglican Communion Network? Are you serious? Why, Carlos, why? —FreddieOakley

2007-06-16 20:24:55   Hey, Carlos, keep in mind that you can't just move wiki entries between wikis without giving attribution. See Copyrights for more information. If you are the original author and nobody else has edited, you can move it, but if anybody else has edited it or you aren't the complete author of an entry, the Copyright is assigned to DavisWiki, and has to be properly attributed when you move it. As a result, you might not want to move too many, as it might be taken as an unwanted "invasion". Particularly from Davis Wiki where we have a strong community, we should probably try to avoid being pushy on newer, young wikis that are still growing their own culture and conventions. Regardless, it's a copyright violation unless you follow Creative Commons "By" license (and also be aware that not all wikispot wikis are Creative Commons, so you may be doing a "one-way" move). —JabberWokky

I completely disagree that moving entries is a negative thing in any way. If anything it helps out new wikis build up a strong base of content. "Invasion?" I think the biggest problem new wikis face is building up content to get people interested. This is especially helpful to everyone when there's an off-topic page here on Davis Wiki that could easily be moved elsewhere. —PhilipNeustrom

I disagree too... it *should* be okay, but there was some early pushback that I encountered that caused me to back off, including an email. Perhaps my experience is the exception or I just tripped across a jerk. Once burned, now sensitive to the issue. I probably shouldn't conflate the two issues (attribution and 'prime directive'), as they are very different. I'd rather see things move back and forth (remember, I took the side of "less attribution, easier migration"), but in a way that both communities agree with. I honestly don't understand the rationale, but was told that they wanted to make "their own" content. Some wikis even locked down their content for awhile, which I never quite understood, but I (perhaps mistakenly) attributed to the same logic. It may just be a misunderstanding on my part, and I shouldn't have added that side point to the above comment, as it confused the main point about attribution —JabberWokky

I agree the two points are unrelated. I think we ought to just assume that by default folks want their wikis to be edited :) —PhilipNeustrom

• So am I in trouble in anyway and should I do anything to the entries I made on Sac Wiki? - Carlos
  

• No, no, no "trouble" at all... you just moved it without attribution. Check out Copyrights for the details... basically, by moving it outside of Davis Wiki, you are acting as an outside editor (an editor of Sacramento Wiki), and copying material from Davis Wiki (which is certainly encouraged!). Just as if you were using it in the SacBee or your blog, all you need to do is put an attribution into the entry as described on the Copyrights entry. My apologies for confusing the issue: it is really quite simple! —JabberWokky
  

• No. Ignore our discussion :)
  

2007-07-17 15:46:08   Band pages for groups that performed for maybe three people in their entire existance, apartment pages for people who live together, etc. At one point I opposed these types of pages, but eventually I had a change of heart. There's little harm in pages existing if they aren't hurting anyone, or having the same name as another Davis Entity. It provides an interesting look at various subcultures in Davis, a look that is not being recorded otherwise. To delete them rather than letting them grow hurts the historic record. —JoseBleckman

2010-04-16 16:39:51   Hi, Carlos, I'm responding to your comment on the Arboretum wiki page from February 25th. You remarked on haphazard placement of photos, and I'm trying to put them into better order. I tried using the Help with Tables doc to get them into rows, but did not get the results I'd hoped for and backed out. Do you know of any pages on the wiki that do a nice job of arranging a collection of photos, so I could look at the code to get an idea of how they did it? I tried a quick search but did not see any. (But I did blow a couple of hours looking at some of the fascinating pages that are up there. This thing is great!) TIA, PrescottWilliams —PrescottWilliams

2010-12-03 01:19:09   Dude, you deserve at least a 5.5 on the shadiness scale because you look so damn shady. —ScottMeehleib

2010-12-15 00:47:50   Fair enough. Done. —CarlosOverstreet

2011-05-13 08:52:20   I like the pages about the fishes. I'm glad somebody is catching fish in Putah Creek. I remember taking a summer fishing program with the City of Davis once and somehow getting my line very tangled, around where Mace Boulevard crosses the creek. I don't think I caught anything during the program either! —NickSchmalenberger

• Ah that's unfortunate. I've fished along Mace bridge a couple of times and haven't caught a darn thing down there. The best spots for me have been Old Davis Road and the Railroad bridge. - CarlosOverstreet
  

2011-08-21 00:52:31   Yea I really don't know if it's big mouth or small mouth bass. I read something about identifying based on the eye location relative to the back of the mouth, but if you say it's a large mouth, it's probably a large mouth. —MikeyCrews

2011-08-24 00:55:24   I fished by Pedrick Bridge again today. Caught a few bass and whitefish again. I tried using a larger spinner this time and I saw some bigger shadows chasing it but overall hooked less fish. I also tried using the smallest popper they had at big5 but no fish seemed interested. I see a lot more fish in the small fast-moving waters than I do in the large still waters. You got any hot tips for me on artificial lures? I'm as interested in catching a lot of small fish and I am in catching a few big fish. I talked to a guy who says that he catches bass out there on dry flies but that he has to wade out into the water to cast. Ever catch any of those little fish you added to local fishes page? —MikeyCrews

2012-01-30 09:05:51   Heh was the Skunks page inspired by this morning's fragrant roadkill on I-80 by Old Davis Road? I read it this morning and was thinking that I hadn't seen that many dead skunks on the road lately... 10 minutes later, there it is! —TomGarberson

2012-02-04 00:25:09   Mostly. On my way to work that day, I saw 3 dead skunks. That one, and a pair of them on county road 102 north of woodland. I've never seen a live skunk in Davis City Limits though. A picture would be nice, as well as some information like where people have seen them and if they have been a nuisance. —CarlosOverstreet

2012-05-01 01:13:43   Can you point me towards a few good bass or whitefish holes on Cache Creek? mvcrews@gmail.com —MikeyCrews