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tiny turts.JPGFox and Shell were teeeeny. About the size of a half-dollar each.huge turts.JPGLarge and in charge, Fox and Shell preparing to move.

Ed graduated in Fall of 2006. He majored in Biotechnology with a major emphasis in Microbiology, and a minor in Economics. During his time in Davis, he worked for nearly two years at the VMTH, and had a nine month long internship with CVEC in an infectious disease research lab. He left Davis in '07, moving back to the Bay Area and spent his time working as a research associate at a biotech startup. He moved to Los Angeles to begin a doctorate program at UCLA in 2008. The shift from UCD to UCLA is pretty dramatic (as was living in the Bay Area compared to LA).

He really wants a [WWW]PhD in Horribleness. (For anonymity, it might technically say it's from the department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics.)

hammies.JPGBelgarion and Buttons hanging out.mika.JPGThis is Mika during a ride in the back of a Mini-Cooper. (seat cropped out)

In mid-2003 or so, with his lovely girlfriend, a pair of cute red-eared slider turtles were "rescued" from Oakland's Chinatown. It's actually illegal to sell baby turtles, but it's common at certain street fairs. Unfortunately, the majority end up dying due to malnutrition, poor care, or abandonment. After over two and a half years of comfortable living and safe care, Fox and Shell finally became the big huge turtles they were meant to be. For their sake, they moved to an actual turtle rescue in the East Bay, and now spend their time relaxing and basking with other large turtles in a very large and protected pond.

In 2006, they went out and got two amazingly cute 'lil Russian dwarf hamsters, Buttons and Garion! It was way more fun to watch them play than it is to study. And they were really, really playful. Well socialized, they didn't mind being held or eating off of the palm of one's hand. They loved exploring in their little hamster balls, and running through mazes of cardboard tubes. They got delightfully chubby over their first winter and hid their food in the silliest places. Unlike normal hamsters, dwarf hamsters can be social if raised together and coexist peacefully. Garion passed shortly before his 2nd birthday, and Buttons lived to a very old age, of well over two years.

They had ridiculously cute personalities, and we really miss them. You can watch a short clip of Gary chowing down on some popcorn [WWW]here.

seeds.jpgButtons likes to bulk up for the winter and watch TV.

His girlfriend also has an amazing sheltie, Mika. A mischievous and shy pup, who's a few years old, and loves to play hide and go seek, frisbee, tug of war, and other fun games. She enjoys chasing the squirrels who tease her from atop her fence, and doesn't mind teasing ducks but is scared of geese (maybe because they're bigger than she is).

Help me find a video! Somewhere on the wiki, I've seen at least one video setup near a roundabout in the middle of campus which showed the massive rush of bicyclists on their way to and from class. Can anyone help me find it?

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2005-05-15 12:06:57   You know, I'd honestly never thought anyone would see the Orkut announcement I made. I mean, come on, who uses Orkut? —PhilipNeustrom

2005-05-17 10:57:09   Please do join. —GeorgeLewis

2005-05-17 11:02:40   Oh, concerning the removal of the two comments, I am not sure what happened, but when I saw that they were removed I replaced them. —GeorgeLewis

2005-05-17 20:40:15   that was odd. looks like our llama posts overlapped. we said about the same thing anyway... —CarlMcCabe

2005-05-30 09:30:27   ha ha, you were waiting for that one! —CarlMcCabe

2005-06-06 19:24:14   Hey whats your nationstate called? You should move it the Land of Thud region with mine and the P.R. Davis Wiki —KrisFricke

2005-06-14 01:09:09   Hey Edwin, I'll rename the page within the code so it works with the spaced page :) —PhilipNeustrom

2005-06-22 14:54:49   Miriam and I used Swearasaurus to try to find a good name for lil Molly-cat! We (obviously) didn't end up using it, though! —SummerSong

2005-06-27 15:06:50   Your mom's a Pootleberry Dinglehopper! —SummerSong

2005-08-06 13:57:14   I didn't actually catch mine, he had gotten into one of the animal rooms where I work and I just trapped him in a corner. It was easier because I think mine's just a baby lizard. —AllisonEriksen

2005-08-12 20:17:29   That would be WAY far off. Albertsons? I don't even know where that is yet. He *should* be around Davis Commons, the Arboretum, the industrial area at the end of Olive Drive near the arboretum bike path. I'll check it out though, thanks. —BlancheNonken

2005-08-12 23:06:54   No, i don't have a brother named Sam. Is this guy's last name Trivedi as well? —RishiTrivedi

2005-08-15 16:54:19   Haha, that's hella funny. I had no idea I had used Scanlan instead of Song. All fixed. :) —SummerSong

2005-08-18 07:20:19   Thanks for the Chevron catch - I was looking at the picture thinking "yup - Chevron, good". I should have checked the address. —JabberWokky

2005-08-19 19:47:45   Thank you for helping with links on my page : ) —JuliaRoseFurman

2005-08-21 18:48:57   Edwin! Yes, less people were at the second BBQ but it was a nice little group. I think the list of people is pretty accurate. —MichelleAccurso

2005-08-23 11:38:16   Eddy is indeed a papillon. —PaulThober

2005-08-28 22:11:30   Thanks Edwin. Have you seen that sign near IN'n'Out that says, "WE SELL BOXES" — and... is that place on the wiki? —MichaelGiardina

2005-08-31 07:45:58   They had a description of the car, and nailed the guy because he was connected to the car. I.e., he matched the (very vague) description given. I have a feeling it may have been excessive and unwarranted, especially since the details were way too vague, but they caught him hanging out in a park with kids. It's a case of worst place, worst time to make an innocent person look bad. Ever listen to the This American Life about the stenciler who accidently looked like he was planning an attack on Rumsfeld's family? All the real facts that we now know weren't available to the police involved until after they investigated. To them, he was the guy that somebody reported was trying to abduct children. Oops. —JabberWokky

2005-09-15 16:36:50   I think we're definitely on the same page :-) —CraigBrozinsky

2005-09-19 11:44:10   RE: Cafe Italia -I understand your point. My reasoning: It was an orphan page, and a misspelling, and I figured a search would show up the correct page, and having a misspelling adds confusion since some people don't know which is correct. —SteveDavison

2005-10-07 01:27:17   LOL - at your chasing down a bike thief. Cracks me up. I think I'm the world's most unlucky Davis bike owner... 3 Stolen 6+locks shattered. If you simply write a piece of paper that says "I give my bike to Mike" that bike will be stolen in a matter of days. —MichaelGiardina

2005-10-16 15:24:40   He could be in custodial. I'll see what I can find out from SPAC. —BrentLaabs

2005-10-18 21:57:45   Really, flame wars are what the internet is for. Makes the stupid people stay at home and type angrily on their computer and keeps them off the streets. —MikeIvanov

2005-10-20 22:51:34   were you making a random comment or were you looking for a mechanic to check out a car? try Redfield Machine — he's so thorough you'll weep —CraigBrozinsky

2005-10-26 23:20:04   Why not add to the page directly through editing instead of through comments? You have a lot to add! —JackHaskel

2005-10-30 20:07:20   Don't worry, that is why there are so many editors here! I just got rolling on the spelling of that one word and kept at it. —JasonAller

2005-11-02 22:56:49   I wasn't implying that you were voting yes, only that the "Yes on X" people weren't requiring people to vote one way or the other. —ArlenAbraham

2005-11-04 18:02:50   Frisbees are contra-indicated in minefields. —JabberWokky

2005-11-17 06:15:51   Yes, but they are citing the pages as proof that it can't happen. In the comments you'll find people saying the cow "has to be asleep or it won't count". I'm not sure when the IEEE defined the standard for cow tipping, but I believe it was when they were all drunk. People seem to want to confirm through logic this is impossible when the second or third edit was me saying "Yup, it happens" in practice. Observation should always trump theory, and when people try to force it the other way, it makes me upset. —JabberWokky

2005-11-21 14:49:51   Ok,Ok! Thanks for the info Edwin. As a fellow UCD employee I get what you're saying, even if you sound like you just came straight from a union meeting.=) I just compared 5 UC expense budgets and they are all pretty much the same. As far as the Regents go: Just another big corp. to me. Thanks again for setting me straight —MyaBrn —MyaBrn

2005-11-22 23:15:00   Seems like John Dudek wants a SWRR Wed Nov 22, noon at 2nd & D -see his page —SteveDavison

2005-11-22 23:16:35   Well, Edwin, you're right if it seemed like I was assuming quite a bit based on what was on that page—perhaps I brought in too much background information from the context of other wiki debates into my post. And if I accidentally erased some of what you wrote by re-saving, I apologize. I thought that re-saves would not delete what someone else was writing. I guess I was wrong. Sorry. You can delete our insignificant exchange from the “I Hate Davis” page if you wish. No hard feelings here :) —ZacharyNorwood

2005-11-23 12:26:09   The SWRR is going to go to Y2k, so if you get this in time, meet us there. —AlexNorris

2005-11-28 20:20:46   Yes! You rock! We thank you! —SummerSong

2005-11-30 18:45:10   "This page will be updated by Ed at some soon time." Just a reminder, that was 3 months ago. —BrentLaabs

2005-12-05 15:03:36   Thanks for adding the link :) —MatthewKeys

2005-12-11 17:32:42   ? —MichaelGiardina

2005-12-12 13:06:50   Nice cleanup work —JabberWokky

2005-12-12 20:24:32   There is no benefit to deleting orphaned redirects - deleted pages are still archived in the depths of the wiki memory, and furthermore something outside the wiki may link to the redirect. I personally enjoy the fact that I can link to most things in the wiki by whatever name comes to mind and if its not correct it'll redirect. Please don't break all the links I've made across the internets and blogosphere. —KrisFricke

2005-12-19 08:30:27   Thanks for the tip. I don't really have a personal vendetta against IKEA. I shop at IKEA. I also happen to think that when a company appears squeaky clean, people are less likely to question the product they buy. I always question what I'm buying and from whom. It doesn't matter if it's anti-semitic or not ... it just happens to be anti-semitic this time. —SS

2005-12-22 10:40:52   glad to see someone has some sense re:ikea. —DomenicSantangelo

2005-12-22 14:57:35   Hows the Cal.NET filing going? —ArlenAbraham

2005-12-26 20:31:43   yeah, i got it from the main menu. er, woops :-) —CraigBrozinsky

2006-01-16 18:56:43   Hey Edwin, I think you said you missed my column. The weblog is up as of yesterday. :) —KarlMogel

2006-02-01 11:13:22   how are you accusing me about something that I do not even know the person or the people involved. I was editing my Ignite thing, and now people are accusing me of making fun on a person I do not even know. —MichaelMolnar

2006-02-01 11:29:21   I don't even know James, or L.E.A.D. or Focus. Myabe I should change my password because I would not be able to write crap about a person I do not even know. —MichaelMolnar

2006-02-14 00:06:21   RE: Front Page: It is somewhat longer by comparison, but not unreasonably. I think the solution is to edit Explore -it needs a bit of focus. —SteveDavison

2006-02-15 21:22:00   you are right. point conceeded —AdamGerber

2006-02-20 10:31:13   Chicana/o (Mexican-American) Studies is the new name. If you go to the Chicana/o Studies Dept, it's on all their new paper work... The General Catalog is never up to date —JoAnnaRich

2006-03-04 19:04:46   I still think the page Hugging Guy basically treats him like an animal. —NickSchmalenberger

2006-03-15 23:52:13   Hey, it wasn't partisan or anything. Also, we had ASUCD Elections on that page in the past. Of course, it was actually on the day of voting. Oh well, no fun for me. —BrentLaabs

2006-03-16 02:22:13   OAK is the official three letter name for Oakland Airport (much like Capitol Public Radio is officially known as KXJZ). Check out their website — they refer to themselves as OAK several times on it. —JabberWokky

2006-03-16 17:01:04   Yeah, I'm iffy on it as well, but IMO, most redirects are "spreaders"... they tend to expand the wiki. A bad redirect becomes a good disambiguation entry, and winds up spawning a new entry or two. That, plus I know several people who refer to all airports by their travel code. If you travel often it becomes second nature. Same goes for radio stations... the call sign and frequency are often interchanged. —JabberWokky

2006-04-04 21:51:53   Thanks for the positive feedback. Maybe somehow we can effect change and have a decent cafe right next to campus. —NicholasCorwin

2006-04-08 14:00:59   Thnx, I'm being edit-retarded today! —JamesSchwab

2006-04-22 21:26:56   Thanks for restoring my comment on the Christian Slate. —MaxMikalonis

2006-04-23 19:21:09   Don't worry about it. Your content is always high quality. —JasonAller

2006-04-25 17:51:18   Start a Science Slate. Then anyone who opposes it will be Anti-Science! haha! —KarlMogel

2006-05-04 06:15:41   I agree with the idea of inside jokes being a bad idea, but this isn't an inside joke — it's a preexisting joke external to the wiki. I don't have any problem with labeled, preexisting jokes, as the Wiki is documenting the world around it. I think labels are a good idea to make sure people don't get confused and distrust the wiki. So goes my logic, at any rate. —JabberWokky

2006-05-18 08:57:30   My apologies for clashing with your edit - I didn't notice the edit warning thingy and figured it was ok. Anyway, do you think we should keep Dating404 as a 'bad date' page, or integrate it into the original? —Joseph —DavisWikiGnome

2006-05-19 12:09:55   It was inappropriate for him to link to his myspace for the following reasons.

I should also add that MySpace has deemed his profile inappropriate and has deleted it. —WilliamLewis

2006-06-09 21:48:29   You should say which year the junction was in the trailer or whatnot. —PhilipNeustrom

2006-06-09 22:30:34   Yeah he's also going to use the facebook groups people are in against them....Yay for ASUCD McCarthyism! —JamesSchwab

2006-06-12 11:04:01   Hi Edwin. There are lots of great places to go within an hour this time of year, especially since the weather hasn't gotten to hot yet. Two places that I really like which I have posted on wiki are Mount Saint Helena and Long Canyon. Both are a little bit over an hour drive, but are well worth it if you want to enjoy the views. Other great hikes with descriptions can be found on yolohiker.org. South of campus, right here in Davis, there is some nice places to walk ane take your dog. Just access Putah Creek from either Old Davis Road or south of the University Airport and walk along the leeves. If you want to head towards the Sierras there is some great hiking around the confluence of the middle and north forks of the American River. Access is just south of Auburn. Hope this sparks an idea for a hike. —ToddBartlow

2006-06-16 20:13:16   If being blasphemous of the CDP means not entering CDP heaven and hanging out with them, then point me to the altar so I can desactify it. Seriously, reading that he said he could define "member" any way he wanted was funny. He's a helluva smart guy! (haha you didn't know that I secretly redefine smart as stupid on your page only. I define what smart means and I say it means the opposite!) —KarlMogel

"2006-06-26 24:11:15"   I changed my profile to answer your question =] Ooh and I wanted to mention, I also had a very similar experience with a red eared slider recently, he was just released into a turtle pond last week. —BobbyGray

2006-07-02 20:20:24   Yup... your links should go into the entry, as they are relevant, but the vague comment of (paraphrased) "that film on the internet about KFC" really doesn't provide enough info to integrate and doesn't really add anything (and I was pretty sure was technically incorrect as it was phrased). That's what I was objecting to. I just didn't want to delete it without giving somebody the chance to replace it with some useful, factual and hopefully linked information. I got done uploading a bunch of photos, and went back and got a snide remark... it hurt a bit, especially as I had carefully worded that to be positive and encourage people to add useful, non-rumor information (which you did do, thanks). No worries, though, and thanks for the apology. I have made my share of snide comments on the Wiki before too... it's hard to remember that the written word can really bruse at times. —JabberWokky

2006-07-03 07:43:56   In case you're wondering why I reverted some of your coupon comments, it's because last night I moved several up into the entries (see the Mountain Mike's history, for example). —JabberWokky

2006-07-04 22:48:30   Just curious as to why you deleted your PetCo comment. I didn't know about the boycott, but we've been steadily realizing that PetCo is really not very good at all for small mammals. —JabberWokky

2006-07-04 23:00:25   IP address. I checked it because I thought it might have been that guy from Dixon that had a radio show and was messing things up a while back. —KarlMogel

2006-07-17 12:40:21   Indeed. I scanned through the MasonHarrison page, not noticing any edits by him on it and renamed it - only to see shortly afterwards that he had started the page with a different original title. I didn't change it back since it appears to have been effectively a public page for the past year... However, I would have no complaint if you choose to change it back. —JosephBleckman

2006-07-17 13:46:26   I've two slider turtles from the same Chinatown. How did you take care of them? And how huge did Fox and Shell become? Also, speaking of basking, my two turtles never come out of the water (they have a basking lamp). Any idea of why? Thanks for any advice, and my two turtles will thank you too. —KaiTing

2006-07-17 13:53:27   Belgarion after Eddings? —JabberWokky

2006-07-20 17:48:48   I rewrote it, but my biggest problem with the way it was is that it was seperate from the entry itself... it's part of the writeup of the incident, so I "promoted it" to a second paragraph and moved the cite to the end. I rewrote it to be as straightforward as possible, and I think I hit the main points of both sides in a clear manner. —JabberWokky

2006-07-23 13:20:00   Perhaps we could also attatch an ID tag to their ears. —CarlosOverstreet

2006-07-24 19:19:12   How'd you hear about that other site, collegefacebook? It seems clearly to be a rip of.. —PhilipNeustrom

2006-07-25 16:47:39   Oops, we edited at the same time. Feel free to change it to yours, though I like the mean-spirited comment. It really was that. —SharlaDaly

2006-07-25 16:50:27   Hi Edwin, Yeah I know about Leo. I think I heard a short clip of his TWiT show a while back, he's pretty popular. I didn't know he was starting a biotech podcast... maybe I can get in on that... I'll get back to you about cool podcasts. gotta go! —KarlMogel

2006-07-27 12:35:53   From an asian grocer on the east coast. I'd guess that it can be found in the Bay Area, although I have yet to find it there. —JabberWokky

2006-07-27 14:03:21   Try [WWW]Polly Ann's Ice Cream next time you're in San Francisco. They're known for having loads of exotic flavors. —JosephBleckman

2006-07-31 22:04:31   Unfortuantly I must send the same Pledge bill to the commissions as many times as it takes to get it passed. It would have been easier for everyone to simply pass the thing. —SteveOstrowski

2006-07-31 23:21:43   The really hilarious thing about the pledge is that it was written as a commercial to sell American flags near the turn of the century.....we recite a commericial in our classrooms....aww the American way. :) —JamesSchwab

2006-08-02 03:24:42   you don't work at safeway do you? —JoeRunnels

Dude I'm a smiley kind of guy.—CameronMenezes

2006-08-04 03:30:25   No I didn't! I'll be sure to check again and bring my camera. Hell I should always have my camera with me - you never know! —KarlMogel

2006-08-23 21:37:34   Thanks Edwin, for your recent comment on the VMTH page. I am taking it higher, though Dr. Hawkins flat-out refused to refer me to her superior. It might just be an exotics thing, but unfortunately I don't think I'll be choosing the VMTH for further services unless I can help it. I'm just too shaken by that experience. These comments probably could use some condensing, but I'm worried that other exotics owners might not be sufficiently warned if I take out too many details. Anyway, you're right. It is a big hospital, and I know often things happen underneath our noses in big hospitals. Once I sort this out with someone there who can take me seriously I'll condense my comments accordingly I guess. :) —AnsateJones

2006-10-25 23:47:00   Edwin, can you tell me more about CVEC? Anything there that a budding biochemist can get his hands into? —TusharRawat

2006-11-13 09:26:13   Thanks for catching that... it's a pet peeve of mine (because I always forget). Damn English words that are both nouns and adjectives. He has renown around the world so he is world renowned. —JabberWokky

2006-11-20 14:31:04   Napa may be world renowned, but alot of that is hype and I don't think Davis wiki needs to add to it. I generally don't like extreme language. —NickSchmalenberger

2006-11-20 14:32:56   I can live with it saying world renowned though. —NickSchmalenberger

2006-11-27 11:20:47   Your Sheltie is really adorable. —CarlosOverstreet

2006-11-27 18:28:49   Government definitions of safety do change, but that doesn't really have much to do with what is actually safe for any individual. It's just a useful guideline to follow until you get sick or die doing so, which would indicate that you are a special case. If a lot of people get sick or die, then maybe the standard should be changed, but until then there is not much point in changing a standard that works pretty well for most people. [WWW]General Turgidson was crazy after all. It is true that the the administration could do bad things by changing water safety standards, but I think it is more likely that they would discretely poison the water than publicly. —NickSchmalenberger

2006-12-02 15:37:53   You may want to incorporate the info on why SAM moved into the SAM page? —PhilipNeustrom

2006-12-02 19:02:37   I am pretty sure, almost positive that next years academic calander will be different and breaks will be longer. School should start on Monday's for Winter and Spring quarters. But I am not 100% Sure yet and I am graduating this year. —MichaelMolnar

2006-12-04 15:36:49   The term "last place vote" is ambigious in the current ASUCD balloting system. Consider an election with 20 candidates in it. On a ballot with 20 candidates selected, #20 got a last place vote. On a ballot with only 2 candidates selected, #2 got a last place vote. —WilliamLewis

2006-12-05 22:53:03   what's up with the occasional removal of your comments? —ArlenAbraham

2006-12-07 05:48:25   was all the deleteting orchestrated just so you could show off the name departed? :-) —CraigBrozinsky

2006-12-10 14:57:47   Hehe, thank you for that link. Actually very funny. He had to do a fair amount of cyber-stalking/googling to find all that info out, unless he actually knows the real Jeff. I met Jeff freshman year and thought his name was kind of cool. I didn't like him much. Don't think he's gay though. —JeffSpeckles

2006-12-10 20:38:51   I saw you were added onto the ACT page for a bit. If you're interested in getting involved send me an IM. —JosephBleckman

2006-12-12 18:57:04   Only thing is, you've got to be a UCD student to write the bill, so you may have to draft it and then have laabs actually go through it all. —MaxMikalonis

2006-12-15 10:36:05   Your addition to Steve O's entry was all proof, no point. I have no idea what you were trying to get at. If it's valid, might I suggest simply stating the conclusion rather than fragmentary evidence leading to an unstated conclusion? (I only read the shorter version after you chopped it down, but I wasn't quite sure what you were trying to say). —JabberWokky

2006-12-18 14:21:24   Would you mind attributing your comments when you insert them into a given page? Unattributed comments lack credibility and confuse anyone who's not religiously following the change log. Thanks —GrahamFreeman

2006-12-21 12:46:05   Zogm Fox and Shell in half-dollar sized form look soooo cute! Thanks for cleaning Jasons page >_< —StevenDaubert

2006-12-31 13:21:18   I wasn't sure of the spelling because I don't know what the original poster actually meant, but I know there is a dealership in Sacramento named Maita. See [WWW]http://www.automotive.com/toyota/20/california/sacramento/sacramento/index.html. So unless we get confirmation from the original poster, I think it should say Maita. —NickSchmalenberger

2007-01-16 01:32:16   Thanks. But I don't get the IKEA link? What's the story there? Ah, nevermind, got it. Edited to high hell, yet the Nazi ties remain. Yeah. —JeffSpeckles

2007-01-16 01:52:34   Oooh, we're cross posting. How cool. Go to bed. It's 2 am. :P —JeffSpeckles

2007-01-19 19:18:27   I agree with ElleWeber also about the Redwood Tree Apartments, so I would like to know if you think that was similar to some of the things I objected to on the Northern California page. Thanks. —NickSchmalenberger

2007-01-28 16:49:30   Thanks. I was not really sure about that entry. I have no real interest in the actual subject, but I was getting more and more curious about the deletions and reversions. —JabberWokky

2007-02-08 02:51:56   I'll have you know that a) your breaking links in the wiki and b) I had a good reason for that one... I just cant remember why cause ridiculously tired —StevenDaubert P.S. I know the broken links have been removed, I was just trying to jest for some reason cause

2007-02-11 15:34:48   There's the one remaining point I'm not sure of. Otherwise, I think I integrated all the points in the entire chunk 'o comments into various entries around the wiki. —JabberWokky

2007-02-12 06:26:30   Heh... yeah, I "got" your edit *after* I started demonstrating. Which is why those are such a pain in the ass. :) At least I can now use your entry history as an example of what *not* to do when showing new editors. War over, shake hands and declare peace! —JabberWokky

2007-02-12 20:22:47   It's geocities. There are probably severe storage and bandwidth limitations. I might have the first issue on my HD somewhere, so I'll upload that if I can find it. —WilliamLewis

2007-02-13 13:39:58   so are keywords not allowed or what? i liked them —EdwardWalsh

2007-02-16 22:30:13   Thanks, I'm hoping it ruffled a few feathers. —KarlMogel

2007-02-19 09:30:32   I'm not sure about adding accusations only backed up by his School Government Political Rival. —JosephBleckman

2007-02-19 10:45:21   While I posed it on the wiki, I was not the one who brought the complaints to SJA. Other people complained and thats how he got kicked off of facebook. If you look at the "Davis Enfarcer" most of the pics are taken from facebook or wiki, most likely without anyone's consent. —JamesSchwab

2007-02-19 13:04:30   Interestingly enough, it turned out to be true, didn't it? Or at least mostly. I don't think it was a coincidence that people said "hey, he's trying to take pictures off facebook to get people in trouble", to which he replied it was a ridiculous lie and that he'd never do such a thing. Then several months later, some pictures show up. Even if the picture was from the blog and not facebook, he himself admitted it was taken down so he had to have it saved for *months*. Beyond creepy, but that means he pretty much saved it around the same time he was accused of conspiring to do it, which is again, more than coincidental in my opinion. —EdWins

2007-02-19 13:05:33   Second, I saw stuff like that myself, so I don't really doubt the stuff he did on facebook. On early Christian Slate stuff (he deleted the posts later) he'd write stuff about finding out one of LEADS candidates and how they need to 'extinguish her campaign before it can begin' and spread the word and take action, etc. That was like back in May or June, long back. I remember thinking it was loony when we had that AIM conversation, because he was obsessed with facebook groupss and seemed to think that everyone in the group must be a dedicated member. —EdWins

2007-02-19 13:07:59   The best part is, the person whose campaign he wanted to extinguish before it started is also the most likely to win this election. —JamesSchwab

2007-03-02 18:01:47   You have the cutest pets! :) —LisaSands

2007-03-04 07:02:27   Ono Teriyaki was already in the Woodland restaurants list. Hawaii's part of the US, last I checked. ;) —JabberWokky

2007-03-04 08:17:25   I disagree (is Louisiana not part of the US, as it has unique French influence?), but I will certainly bow to Duke's decision as being best informed. —JabberWokky

Didn't a Superior Court just rule that pitas aren't sandwiches? The "[WWW]single piece of bread" ruling seems to apply here. ;) —jw

Nice on Columbus Day. —NickSchmalenberger

Okay, I was just curious. It's crummy you feel that way! —PhilipNeustrom

I've felt similar things. I was recently told that I'm hated at a certain restaurant in town because of my comments. I would stand by my comments in person as much as online, but it felt kind of creepy, especially since its a place I continue to go to. Anyway, check out my edit on Importance of using your RealName. Does that sound like a reasonable thing to tell people given your experience? —CraigBrozinsky

2007-04-11 22:42:19   "may 1" has a space, may1 doesn't. —ArlenAbraham

2007-04-15 18:37:27   the HEP page looks awesome!! so much more organized. me gusta especialmente los links in the top right corner. sweetness! —JessicaRockwell

2007-04-18 10:46:33   pita pit used to be cool before it got lame, I got some seriously massive pitas. Double meat and a ton of grilled veggies used to leave me uber stuffed. Post Script: Button bulking up is so awesome —StevenDaubert

2007-05-03 14:38:13   it's nice to know some people want to actually make the wiki a better place! —JessicaRockwell

2007-05-03 19:38:44   the edit count is a meaningless metric, such as writing five edits just to make a comment in reply, it just merely reflects the amount of time I waste here. —DavidPoole

2007-05-04 12:54:47   Ed, it might be nice to maintain a history of past performances on the Davis Musical Theatre Co. page... —DavidGrundler

2007-05-08 00:52:13   looks like Ed, wins

<3

buttons is uber cute, but then again you knew that —StevenDaubert

2007-05-16 22:08:23   Hey Ed, how about we leave the California Aggie stuff off personal profiles until the situation is resolved. No point linking information like that to peoples' profiles yet, especially since it is an internal situation that's become pretty public. Thanks. —MichaelSteinwand

2007-05-16 22:12:04   Those aren't their personal pages. TaliaKennedy would be her userpage. Users/TaliaKennedy actually. Talia Kennedy, with a space, is her public figure page. Just like RobRoy his personal page, and Rob Roy, his public figure page which he generally does not edit/touch. Same thing can be seen with SteveOstrowski vs Steve Ostrowski. These two people don't have userpages here; they do have two pages about them being public figures/names. —EdWins

2007-05-16 22:17:09   Got it about the profile distinctions. Still, I don't think it should be one there until the situation is resolved. —MichaelSteinwand

2007-05-16 22:21:31   While it's not a resolved issue, what was posted on both is (allegedly) factual knowledge. A letter was written, this is what was in the letter, this is what's happening. I think the info on Peter's page is very appropriately written, I agree Talia's isn't the best. The quoting of the letter is likely unnecessary. Go ahead and feel free to edit it with tact :) We're all "equal editors" on the wiki. The main goal of the wiki however tends to be compromise: rather than removal, people edit back and forth, or make a talk page until a suitable compromise is mage. —EdWins

2007-06-26 13:35:26   jw was just removing tons of nonsense from a night of lighthearted, intentional chaos (aka, the wikilolercaust of 2007). Michelle and Nick (and apparently his gf, too) want it to stay. Brent and I think that it's funny. I don't think jw particularly cares. —WilliamLewis

2007-06-29 21:07:43   Great idea! (and I said so on the Sacramento Restaurants/Talk page, too). Thanks for thinking of it. I hope others go for it. —CovertProfessor

2007-07-09 09:24:41   Why do you remove comments? —CharlesMcLaughlin

2007-08-07 22:46:09   My humor is unappreciated in its time. :( —JeffSpeckles

2007-08-14 13:10:17   Thanks for the suggestion ,but as of now I am in the process of creating an individual website. I was not aware a year ago when i started my davis pet sitting site what the wiki rules are, but now know. —ElizabethBarthel

2007-08-17 23:02:30   "ascud court cases don't concern most of davis. or most of ucd tbh"

My point exactly... So why have it on DW? —StevenDaubert

2007-08-17 23:12:46   Ed Wins, Steve looses. I didn't see the Steves edit. —StevenDaubert

2007-08-18 15:59:07   Definitely! I was there a few months back and it was a real crowd pleaser. —CraigBrozinsky

2007-08-24 14:04:40   thanks for cleaning up my code. still getting used to non-html links. —PxlAted

2007-08-25 00:03:30   Politics is always a game, the only thing varying are the stakes. —MaxMikalonis

2007-08-29 13:51:21   Thanks for the grammar and clean look edits. Never been my strong suit —CraigFergus

2007-08-31 09:20:46   SO definitely did not erase old chalkings. During the last Winter election the candidates were chalking wellman. They saw steve going classroom to classroom. Mysteriously after steve would leave a classroom the new chalking would be gone. He seemed to come to campus at 6am just to erase our chalking as he wouild not chalk for anything. At this point I dont care, except only for the fact that he tries to take it off his page stealthily. —JamesSchwab

2007-09-02 12:37:57   Done, right after I carve my face, Mt. Rushmore-esque, into the Social Sciences building. —JamesSchwab

2007-09-03 11:32:31   I may have just accomplished the impossible - held up a mirror to SO and eventually, he left the wiki - no edits in the last day! I wonder how long it will last? —KarlMogel

2007-09-06 11:22:36   Oh yeah, I'll check that pizza place out! And I'm glad you read my comments— they were reverted at about 5 in the morning so I thought no one saw them :-) —CraigBrozinsky

2007-09-06 18:03:22   Actually there is not yet a standard for comment archive names. —JasonAller

2007-09-09 13:51:13   Thx. —KarlMogel

2007-09-09 13:58:31   Thanks for the editing help/clarification, Ed! PS: I'm loving all your furry (and not so furry) friends!! —CoreyDeRoo

2007-09-09 17:08:13   Yeah, I thought it was some new game of Steve's. (Get people to back off so he can have his way for a little while) It's weird when he actually creates talk pages, or "petitions for deletion" on my question page. I think I'll just get out of the argument because unless you follow it closely, its hard to see what's happened due to the convoluted history. —KarlMogel

2007-09-12 01:56:42   I live around 18th and L streets...I'm loving it! —JamesSchwab

2007-09-12 14:09:29   Aw well thanks for the info! Fortunately this all happen about two years ago....and yea it actually took them six months to give me back my deposit... and that was after a lot of fighting.... i probably should have received double my deposit for all that time and stress.... but i didn't make a big case out of it. Which apartment complex are you living in now that is giving you the same problem? —WeMo

2007-09-15 23:13:32   Yeah I just noticed the reddingRedding Wiki too. Let him have his fun for a little while. Banning people he doesn't like from his wiki will make him feel like a big ruthless emperor. He's convinced that people are out to get him, and we only gratify him by even stepping foot over there. Watch in wonder as he keeps trying to fill "the Davis Wiki hole" with still more attempts at reclaiming his former glory. —KarlMogel

2007-09-21 14:47:56   Whats going on in the redding wiki? I have been banned from day one and can't see anything. —JamesSchwab

2007-10-02 18:40:06   Nice spelling of common. Ugh. —EdWins

2007-10-03 21:42:04   Your edit on the wiki BBQ page had me all excited for another one, until I saw you just edited a link. That was an extreme let-down. Thanks a lot!! Hey I haven't seen you since the FIRST BBQ! How's it been? —MichelleAccurso

2007-10-09 11:37:29   I prefer the whack-a-mole game to the revert wars. Why Steve has to pull other people into this is beyond me. I wonder, who does he think he's fooling with these games? —KarlMogel

2007-10-23 23:51:56   Thanks for editing the Bio Brew page, it looks a lot better now. It still maintains all the information and it's free of bias or unnecessary information. =) —ThUn

2007-10-23 23:58:31   I was able to eat food in circuits and physics labs. I wasn't able to eat in chemistry labs. I figure since bio is in the name of the establishment and there are plenty of labs outside bio that allow you to eat in them, it's appropriate to word it like I did. —WilliamLewis

2007-10-24 00:00:39   LOL. The funny thing is that we make more business than even Brenans in the SILO. haha. Our rivals, but yeah I think you were the original page creator. I was wondering, it's not possible for you to make it so that the page can have public comments can you? —ThUn

2007-10-24 00:02:53   That guy that keeps editing the page is like tearing apart every little thing he can find wrong with your edit. He really hated my change so badly and I guess he just really likes the old version better, but that one really does not represent the cafe as it is nowadays. >_< —ThUn

2007-10-24 00:10:12   Nah... my physics and circuits labs were in Roessler and Kemper, respectively. —WilliamLewis

2007-10-24 00:31:02   Thanks for opening the comments box. Now Bio Brew can actually get public posts. =)

Thank You!!! —ThUn

2007-10-24 19:37:14   I was wondering how long the :Archive would stick around. No worries deleting it, it was just a neat last remnant of that earlier naming format. —JabberWokky

2007-10-30 18:37:06   Great edit! —JasonAller

2007-10-30 21:07:13   i didn't quite understand what you were saying about the hiv pages. are you agreeing with dave or do you think there should be two separate pages? —JessicaRockwell

2007-10-30 21:54:17   [WWW]Sometimes trolling can be fun! Get in on the action more often! —WilliamLewis

2007-11-01 09:04:34   I was more referring to [WWW]this. There's a wee bit of professed ignorance with the intent to poke fun at the group, which is perfectly fine if everybody knows it is a joke. Halloween always sucks up my time each year, so it was more of a overall comment about the last few days worth of edits of the aforelinked type than a specific comment. My impression reading through all the edits at once is that there was a friction inducing combo of mock ignorance (Gee, I don't know what you mean by drug free... coffee is a drug!), and an overly serious response to the mocking. Of course, I was also a bit tongue in cheek in the comment myself. —JabberWokky

2007-11-08 14:34:19   That was nicely handled. I had bookmarked that during the work day to come back to when I had time. —JabberWokky

2007-11-09 21:51:47   Genetics! —KarlMogel

2007-11-14 18:11:44   President Ronnie needs your help! Edit the Wiki! Watch out for ninjas! —JabberWokky

2007-11-14 18:49:00   Edwin, Dreyer was apparently sent to SJA, and I am sure it will take some time for them to resolve the situation. We might have to wait until after an SJA decision before writing anything on the John Dreyer page. —PaulAmnuaypayoat

2007-11-14 18:51:46   SJA doesn't issue decisions in writing to us — all of it is private. And since the Aggie isn't covering it, we must be the source on this issue. Right now the Aggie is too afraid it might seem partisan if it covers only one side's problems — but then, that's because only one side has scandals. —BrentLaabs

2007-11-17 11:42:00   Did you try to contact Cali and Monkeybanana? Also, it would be a good idea to stick the note right under their comment rather than at a random point in the comments (which it will be when somebody next adds a comment and it is no longer at the bottom). I just happened to catch Jessica(numbers)... if you see other hit and runs, it might be a good idea to send them a message (aka comment on their user entry) in case they are active on the wiki as readers and only made the one edit. I give it a roughly a week for a reply. —JabberWokky

2007-11-20 01:56:36   After reading your Habit Burger rant I must suggest that you try Tommy J's. It is sooooooo much better. —RobRoy

2007-12-03 08:55:03   I do need to get some current photos taken. We're currently in a colony decline phase with older mice, one who is on a "quality of life" watch with a large inoperable tumor. As soon as she passes, we're going to bump the number up to six and move them back into the two tiered cage. —JabberWokky

2007-12-07 02:57:49   There is one employee at Sophia's that worked at Fuzio 6 years ago. The comment was outdated. —JeffSpeckles

2007-12-07 11:30:26   I'm a little biased since I worked with Tom Jobst (Tommy J), but his burgers are one of the best in town. —JamesSchwab

2008-01-28 07:02:40   Hey Edwin, good job on getting noticed (and pampered) by the graduate programs! This time last year, all of a sudden I started getting emails, two were within hours of each other, and before I knew it I was headed to New York, Illinois, and Florida. (Davis also invited me, but all I had to do was ride my bike across town.) They really make it hard to say 'no' when they accept you. Good luck and get ready to talk about what you want out of a scientific career - the places where I was the most enthusiastic and talked to the most people accepted me, so let them know you want to be there! Good luck, Madison is in the melt part of the snow-melt cycle that lasts all winter. —KarlMogel

2008-03-02 14:44:07   I just read your cable story, once again it seems that Ed Wins.

I did something very similar to that w/ them a couple of times —StevenDaubert

2008-03-06 19:45:54   I'm really not the one to ask, but I'll try to help.

Philip is working on something that you might want to check out in a bit. But if you need to divvy up the vote now,

[WWW]http://stv.sourceforge.net/

You might have to figure out the blt files on your own, though. I've only dealt with ASUCD elections and they use a program called StoveTop that uses a slightly different file format with the same extension. Check out the blt files on [WWW]http://elections.ucdavis.edu and leave out the stuff about slates. Should work, otherwise. —WilliamLewis

2008-10-13 21:54:17   You are right in theory. In practice — in the real world — rare burgers from a clean grinder are safe and quite available. Many large corporate owned companies knowingly and intentionally serve rare burgers, some ground on the premises. Many high end restaurants serve them rare. If it were an actual issue, either they would stop (due to liability and their reputation at stake), or we'd be seeing them in the news. As for home cooking, if I'm the line cook, I'm comfortable with making a patty with my (washed) hands, as I'm going to be then eating the burger with those same hands (and slicing all the buns with my hands and then handing them to people). You can certainly argue theory and cite all kinds of suggested food practices, some even from various health departments (suggestions, not regulations)... but simple empirical observation shows that many restaurants serve rare burgers and people are not (in significant numbers1) encountering health issues because of it. —JabberWokky

2008-10-13 22:31:49   And by the way, I'm just jawing about this, not trying to be a "rare activist" or trying to convince you that "you are wrong and I am right". It's just what I've noticed and read about after travelling in circles of people who order most things without feathers, claws or snouts rare. The only reason it came up was the fellow who made the Burgers and Brew comment. There's no real aggressive debate or evangelicism on my side... I'm converting 5 gigs of clipart to png, and I'm just replying mostly to kill time as my laptop grinds away on them. The only real point I wanted to note was that the definition of Rare/Medium/Well has changed over time, and it's not an actual health code regulation (despite some restaurants citing it as such) that ground beef be cooked to medium (although it's in many food safety suggested guidelines). I actually think this has already come up somewhere on the wiki sometime in the past (or maybe I'm thinking of shoeless, which has similar "it's against health code" spurious claims). —JabberWokky

2008-10-13 22:35:32   Found it on Applebee's. Amusingly the same documents that say that ground beef should be fully cooked also note that all seafood should be fully cooked... which would present a problem to many local eating establishments. —JabberWokky

2008-10-29 11:03:13   Sure! —JabberWokky

2008-11-01 18:06:09   Thanks, maybe we should move it to a page about Sagebrush lizards? That was taken on South Campus. —JasonAller

2008-11-19 16:34:39   note to self: Trost of 'MILLER, OWEN & TROST' wikipage here for his local stuff, and one for the law firm on sacwiki. —EdWins

2008-11-20 14:47:33   I not saying that there is anything wrong being done here... just that I think most people advocating making the public information highly visible really don't understand the full social ramifications. Or at least I don't see it in the discussions that have appeared here on the wiki. —JabberWokky

2008-12-14 01:03:40   Christmas == solstice celebration, they are one and the same even thought they are days apart. Christ mass is just what the church told the people to celebrate in lieu of the solstice. —StevenDaubert

2008-12-14 11:37:14   So you didn't read what I said? —StevenDaubert Clarification: it's not about apples or oranges or square rectangles, it's about the history of Christmas and how it got shaped into what it is today, I have been meaning to add something akin to what I did for quite some time, I'm just on the head more now that we are in the thick of the season. It's not strictly a Christian celebration, and they did indeed supplant the traditional celebration of the northern European cultures...
Thanks for helping with the reorg —StevenDaubert

2008-12-14 21:03:10   I was waiting for after Christmas for the great review cleanup. Guess you ripped that wrapping paper off a bit early. ;) —JabberWokky

2008-12-18 07:40:37   I just tend to use the noodles and toss anything else that came with them. I chop some fresh veggies and toss them in a wok, then when they are getting cooked, some water and then the noodles. Technically that is how they are supposed to be used (well, with the packet, but that's a little salty for me). See the front, and how it says "serving suggestion" and is full of fresh vegetables? When I used to have an office in downtown West Palm, I used to bring little containers of chopped up veggies from that morning and cook them for lunch with ramen. Vegetables, water and noodles aren't exactly twinkies. —JabberWokky

2008-12-21 09:32:56   I'm moving the solstice back, I had meant to offer a counter to the typical christian viewpoint that was inserted into the page at it's very early inception —StevenDaubert

2008-12-21 12:27:05   Everything I've said is true, find out for yourself if your really care and aren't just trying to pick nits. —StevenDaubert

2008-12-21 12:48:53   Do you have any idea where the idea for hanging Christmas lights came from? —StevenDaubert

2008-12-21 17:20:38   Ah, no worries. I misread the history then. My concern was that content is either worthy of being on the entry or not. Treating the comment section as a dumping ground for bad content is a bad idea for several reasons. I actually don't mind having the whole chunk deleted (if that were the issue, I would have restored it and started a discussion). It even agree that it was getting a bit top heavy re: the general subject, thus pushing the Davis specific stuff down. —JabberWokky

2009-01-09 16:04:18   Hah, yeah, I'm just sitting at my comp waiting for the Windows 7 beta to drop, so I don't have much better to do than closely monitor the recent changes page. —JoePomidor

2009-01-22 17:15:59   You have taken some nice pictures. Sorry to hear about your format on the SD card. I should be able to help you as long as you didn't shot more picture on the card. — Haiyong Li davisdatarecovery@comcast.net —HaiyongLi

2009-01-28 02:49:23   "students bringing horses with them actually is uncommon." Thanks for pointing out the obvious :) —PhilipNeustrom

2009-02-01 14:12:04   a) you need a comment archive b) were not wikipedia, just delete the page and unlink it yourself! ( your proposal is spot on though, other people have jokingly pestered me when I "NFD" ) —StevenDaubert

2009-02-02 15:49:57   Hey Ed, I'm wondering if you'd mind if I moved your review of Cal.net MDL service to a possible future "Talk" page. Cal.net hasn't offered MDL service in quite a while, and has since merged with another provider as of 2008 and has improved service and support from Cal.net's 2001-2002 age. However, since I was never a big fan of the MDL service offering as it was I'd like to keep it for future reference IE I can point it out to my bosses and go "Hey, look at how horrible this was for our customers, lets never ever do it again". I'd like to clean up our entry a bit but since I'm A) an employee and B) in management I figured I'd check around first. Thanks in advance! —ChrisThompson

2009-02-03 13:51:36   Thanks for the cleanup of the Cal.net page! I honestly believe we've improved for the better, minus a few recent mishaps here and there that happen with any service provider working with AT&T. If it helps at all, I do use some of the old MDL router support calls as a training tool to show new techs how _not_ to handle a router support call (ie no, go away, thanks for calling = bad). —ChrisThompson

2009-02-05 15:36:16   That's some savage gnomin' there —StevenDaubert

2009-02-08 22:32:17   Thanks for quoting the reasons for the Wednesday closures from the Davis Farmers Market website. I didn't know my paraphrasing would've caused so much dispute. —LillianChow

2009-02-12 16:25:30   I seem to remember a discussion way back that pretty much supported what I did. I've been doing this for awhile... I'm surprised you haven't seen me restore full comments before. In any case, I think it's silly that people are so interested in stifling the opinions of others, especially when they are attributed, when anyone says something that can be construed as racist. —WilliamLewis

2009-02-15 13:34:51   Thanks, Ed! I try.

I worked for SADVC in several capacities before law school. When did your girlfriend work there? It's entirely possible that we worked together.

And btw—you were wise to choose Biotech. I majored in Genetics and all of my old lab colleagues are telling me that my degree is now obsolete. :) —CurlyGirl26

2009-02-25 11:37:11   Teh Google careth not. (delete after reading if you wish) —WilliamLewis

2009-02-25 11:41:46   The Cyrillic "а" is probably a better substitute. —WilliamLewis

2009-02-26 21:42:44   What do you think can be done to make it easier to break into this wiki for new users? I'd love to hear any suggestions. —JasonAller

2009-03-10 19:08:52   Just to clarify, so we don't go back and forth on this... "dog psychology" does involve becoming dominant over your dog. What Dr. Bain and I disagree on is how aggressive they are in having the owner be dominant over one's dog. Fair enough, that's reasonable disagreement. But those *are* their methods!! —CovertProfessor

2009-03-10 20:57:03   Well, as I said, what they call "dog psychology" involves being dominant over your dog. When they came to our house, they told us that the following things would let our dog know that we were dominant: walk in the house before your dog, don't let your dog sit on the furniture, teach your dog to "down-stay" and do long down-stays (e.g., a half hour every day), make your dog wait in a stay before it eats, always eat before your dog eats, teach your dog to heel, etc., etc. Of the things that they did might make people uncomfortable: they did have us do "leash corrections" while the dog was on heel (a jerk on the leash), they did push the dog down to initially show it the down position, and they did recommend a prong collar, which we didn't use and they didn't give us any flack for. Obviously, I can't deny Dr. Bain's or others' experiences, and maybe other people's dogs were more aggressive and so the trainers got more aggressive with them than they were with our dog? Or maybe some of the trainers are more aggressive than others? But it is simply a fact that praise is part of the training... you can see it on their website. Dog does something "wrong," yes, you correct it, perhaps with leash and certainly with a firm "no." Dog does something "right," you tell it "good dog" (or whatever) and pet it or scratch it. That is what they told us to do. (They are against using food or clickers as positive reinforcement). Look, I have no connection with these people (I guess you'll just have to take my word for that) — but we had a very good experience with them, as did my friend who recommended them. So, I think others can read my comment on the page and read Dr. Bain's, and decide for themselves. —CovertProfessor

2009-03-10 20:57:37   Anyway, I tried a new revision to the page; hopefully, it will be satisfactory. —CovertProfessor

2009-03-10 23:46:03   *Phew*! —CovertProfessor

2009-03-15 10:24:28   Your attempt at compromise was a valiant one, but it seems it was rejected. Thanks for trying. —JasonAller

2009-04-02 17:52:45   Are they charging a fee? I saw no note of it... and the two (minimum purchase versus a surcharge) are two very different acts which fall afoul of completely different rules. It's also illegal to serve horse meat, but I don't believe they are. —JabberWokky

2009-04-22 15:29:20   Thanks for the offer! I mostly added those comments because it really bugs me to see people trying to expound an extreme view in one direction or the other, so you might see me doing a lot of edits to call people out on the crap they're trying to spread around. It annoys the hell out of me to see people making comments like that when two or three minutes of internet research can easily prove it one way or another. Makes me glad I'm an engineer, since I've had some bad experiences in courses like American Studies or Sociology. —JoePomidor

2009-04-23 07:00:38   I have a nasty flu and just woke up after 17 hours of sleep. I'm pretty sure I wasn't exactly at the top of my game either. I just typed a sentence and deleted it... when I'm less groggy, I'll try to make my specific point (which is along the lines of Philip's edit comment: if there's no issue anymore, and they couldn't really use it anyway, there's no real need to act). Go figure — I've had spotty internet for 2 weeks, I get that fixed, and now I have a flu. —JabberWokky

2009-04-23 22:55:37   What's the name of the turtle rescue in the east bay? I've two turtles that (though well cared for) are becoming too large for their tank. That, and they're females so may need to have a nesting area so they don't become gravid. Thanks! —TheoPaaske

2009-04-28 11:12:44   I do not wasnt a link to my business on my personal wiki page because people dont seem to be able to stop messing with me and I dont want that to interfer with my business. I terms of linux support, it would depend in the actual issue. There is no such thing as linux support really but you should tell him to give me a call because there are likely lots of solutions to his problem. —RealComputers

2009-04-28 11:14:42   once people stop messing with me I will have no problem with links on that page —RealComputers

2009-04-29 14:50:20   that seems pretty likely, but i cant think of anything else to do about it besides the obvious path —JoePomidor

2009-04-29 15:33:54   I've had the flu for a week. Today was my breaking point — up until a couple days ago, I'd apologize as I started calls and explained that I had a flu (I had a raspy voice Friday and Monday, and I've still got a bit of a burr and cough a few times during calls). Sometime a couple days ago, I started getting a pause on the other end and uncomfortable silence when I said that. I can now explain that I got it from my wife who was sick before Swine flu appeared in about 20 seconds. :-) I'm just hoping bacon prices go down because of this. Yum. Bacon. —JabberWokky

2009-04-29 15:43:40   What kind of upsets me is that there is this crazy focus on one death when 56,326 people died of the flu in the US in 2006 (most associated with pneumonia). It would be nice to see this concern raised about health in general, but it's not sexy unless it's new and has a neat name. And then everybody personalizes it as something affecting themselves. Blearg. —JabberWokky

2009-04-29 16:07:34   (BTW — yes, I like xkcd... scroll about halfway down my editor entry for a strip). —JabberWokky

2009-05-05 10:56:49   I appriciate that you are trying to help but I think that for now, having that stated there is going to hurt my business. Yes I wokred there but i never even met my boss. The time I spent there was so insubstantial that it truely is debatable weather or not I should even mention it in any situation. Also, its not like there is a list of all the computer places I have worked at so why would this one need to be listed? Having that link invites conflict. —RealComputers

2009-05-05 16:26:14   Your explination about the comments makes sense and I agree. I still do not want any links to my personal page on the real computers page. That should be acceptable as I understand that you are given more freedom to control your own personal page. —RealComputers

2009-05-07 11:45:23   My comparison was intended to attract championship milk drinkers into beer sports, of course. :) —TheAmazingLarry

2009-05-07 14:41:47   He can delete the comment if he wants to. —RealComputers

2009-05-07 14:44:33   I like your user name it always reminds me to go listen to [WWW]Succeed in Evil my favorite audio book/radio show. The protagonist (or possibly antagonist) is Edwin Windsor, Evil Efficiency Consultant. —MasonMurray

2009-05-08 15:41:32   Well written. —JabberWokky

2009-05-08 15:54:44   what are your experiments?

2009-05-08 16:01:45   Props. Awesome response to Brian. I have been observing/enjoying the drama and feel you said exactly what needed to be said! —jsbmeb

2009-05-08 16:07:49   Ha Ha, but at least you are mature enough not to get involved in the "bickering" —RealComputers

2009-05-08 16:20:45   I agree with everything you say for the most part. I can not tell if you think joes comment should stay or not but you have to understand that joe hates me. He is not trying to better the wiki for anyone, he is clearly and obviously just trying to get under my skin because he initally got mad at me for deleting the comments on my page, this whole debate started, and ever since he has simply not liked me at all. This much is obvious. Plus his comment was not true.I do not like to leave rude comments anywhere to anyone ever but sometimes I get upset when people do frustrating things day after day. It should not be alloud to leave a negative comment on any business page unless it is true or at least left by someone who was a customer. like I said before, if joe's commen is ok the it should also be ok for me or someone else to make a list of people ive slept with, because I am the owner right? which seems to be your argument. —RealComputers

2009-05-08 16:22:19   What is the goal of your experiment? sounds pretty intersting, though tedious —RealComputers

2009-05-11 09:34:20   how do you make a new page? —RealComputers

2009-06-06 12:49:51   Yeah, I'm hoping it spawns edits to update the view. At some point that technique was dubbed the Arlen method, IIRC. It hasn't seen much use, but the idea is to highlight a questionable statement to draw in more input from more people. Some people even went so far as to make outrageous claims, something I never liked (what if nobody came by and corrected them). In this case, it's no more inaccurate than before, but now it has a nice gleaming bullseye for correction on it. —JabberWokky

2009-06-06 12:50:39   And I am SURE I don't have you tell YOU that you should feel free to slice, dice and otherwise edit the hell out of anything I add. :) —JabberWokky

2009-06-08 13:34:40   Hey! I'd be happy to tell you all about Coffee-Bagel-Donut Day. Normally we are funded for 30 weeks of the year, the 10 weeks of each quarter, not finals week and not breaks. This year we were budgeted $350 a week, which had to cover food, supplies such as cups and plates, and anything incidental that came up (I had two 100-cup coffee urns break this year, which are not cheap to replace and have to come out of the CBDD line item in the GSA's budget). Last year the General Assembly passed the budget with a small amount to keep the event going through the summer, I think $100 a week. So we scale way back for the summer, offering a much more limited selection (just bagels, no donuts, and no "extras" like fresh fruit). It was popular enough that we are doing it again this summer. Next year we got cut back a bit for CBDD, but really, it sustained fewer cuts than a lot of things in the GSA since it does serve a large chunk of the graduate population. By mid-spring quarter we were getting 300+ grad students attending each week! Hopefully this answered your question, but please do feel free to drop me a line if you have any more specific questions: <scellis AT ucdavis DOT edu>. —StaceyEllis

2009-06-08 20:10:34   Hey, EdWins, Thanks for changing my page to the Users/ format; I was wondering how to do that! BrianJKenyon

2009-06-16 22:51:15   Thanks! —DonShor

2009-07-28 15:38:32   Thanks! —ElleWeber

2009-07-29 16:56:11   Glad to be of service... —IDoNotExist

2009-07-30 10:31:51   Thank you for trying. It is sad that your helpful mediation got deleted. —JasonAller

2009-07-30 11:25:32   Hey, thanks! —JoePomidor

2009-08-10 13:34:15   Personally, I'm betting there are either two different scooters (a 150cc and a tiny scoot), or the 35mph was 3.5mph. Or it was a value created [wikipedia]unconcerned with truth. —JabberWokky

2009-09-07 00:09:10   But I <3 IDNE's comment! *whaaaaaaaaaaahhhh* —WilliamLewis

2009-09-29 21:56:16   5,000 is still a good chunk of (i'm going with the more liberal student estimates) 30,000 purported students —StevenDaubert

2009-10-27 14:32:46   The reason people react like they do to RealComputers isn't because he's a n00b, but simply because he has made it basically impossible to deal with him. All the pages about his business are crap because nobody cares about them enough to go through the considerable amount of effort it would take to get things done. I know I don't want to have to argue extensively for ever jot and tittle I add or change, especially when Brian will simply ignore such arguments anyway.

Also, wtf is up with him deleting comments from his page mid-discussion, making it exceedingly difficult to follow anything? Next time this happens, I think we need to clarify the community consensus that this is not ok and that ownership of a userpage is not absolute.
—WilliamLewis

2009-10-27 15:36:49   That was a nicely written and linked comment. True both parties could have done better. Due to recent problems with threats I felt it important that the message be conveyed that making them is not appropriate. —JasonAller

2009-10-27 15:53:22   [WWW]Nope, he still can't be worked with. —WilliamLewis

2009-10-27 17:02:32   You made a number of false assumptions [WWW]here. One, it was not a threat, but rather, letting him know that if he tried to associate me with his business that I would insist on saying that I had no association with his business and why I did not want to be associated. I'd hardly call that a threat. Two, I don't personally dislike Brian, since I don't know Brian. I do, however, dislike his behavior on the wiki and his business practices and don't wish to be associated with them. Three, it was not a legitimate integration of a comment into an entry. My original comment was not directed at Real Computers, and I want nothing to do with Real Computers, particularly a remark that appears as though I was defending the business in some way. —CovertProfessor

2009-10-29 11:00:15   Hi Ed, I am the manager as of earlier this year. The comments being made are all references to previous management and are not pertinent. Please archive them as you have mentioned. Thank you. —sritern

2009-10-29 11:13:00   Please clean my basement. Thank you. ;) —JabberWokky

2009-10-30 10:38:26   please see the talk page or computer repair before you re-add all the links i just removed. —RealComputers

2009-11-01 15:48:03   not really, that's just the wiki as a business listing mindset —StevenDaubert

2009-11-01 16:00:19   ಥ_ಥ  —StevenDaubert

2009-11-02 13:40:52   Hi Ed, I am the manager as of earlier this year. The comments being made are all references to previous management and are not pertinent. Please archive them as you have mentioned. Thank you. —sritern

2009-11-17 18:31:48   Traveling! I was working in Shanghai in September and went out to the 'stans to visit a friend and travel around a bit. —ArlenAbraham

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