I do not exist, therefore I can not be found in many places, including those in which you might think that you see me. Of course, if you think that you don't see me, that might well be me, and you may have caught me in the act of not being there. Or not.
I am not ![[WWW]](http://wikispot.org/wiki/eggheadbeta/img/sycamore-www.png){kind=small}
The Stig.
I am not Michael Knight.
I am not René Descartes.
I am not a diety.
I am not Fake Steve Jobs (who apparently no longer exists!)
I am not a member of the Campus Crusade for Chaos and Confusion, which itself does not exist.
I am not a number, I am a human being.
I am not an imaginary number.
I am not here (although you are).
I am not the very model of a modern major general.
I am not editing this page right now.
I am not alone.
I am not in the Campus Crusade for Creative Computation, which does not yet exist.
I am not doing all this before, and yet I will do all of it again (and again (and again (and again))).
I am not in a maze of twisty passages all alike. It is not dark. I am not likely to be eaten by a grue.
I am not who you think I am. No, not them. No, not them either.
I am not a bench.
I am not Alan Smithee
Je ne parle pas français.
Je pense donc je ne suis pas.
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2007-10-02 11:22:59 i agree you don't exist. solipsism says it! i especially liked talking to you about that one subject. tomorrow's the meeting. i definitely won't see you there. chao! —JessicaRockwell
2007-10-06 10:57:17 You're right! You didn't see me there! Perhaps you don't exist either. My schedule is kinda wacky, being a nonexistent person, so sometimes you will not see me there, and sometimes you REALLY won't see me there. But you really should give me a more real-time method to contact you, as the Wiki is not a good way to let me know where you will be tomorrow, since I may not look at it until many days later.
-See you (or not) soon... —IDoNotExist
2007-10-06 16:07:02 my e-mail address: jnrockwell(at)ucdavis(dot)edu —JessicaRockwell
2008-01-06 09:09:33 The trick to Bargain Barn is to only make a bid of what you think the item is worth. Each department sets its own asking prices and some of them are very proud of what they are selling. Most of the time though if an item doesn't sell at the asking price the accepted bid will be much more reasonable. —JasonAller
2008-01-06 14:04:04 I've bidded down items to 35% of list price at the bargain barn. The longer the item is there, the more desperate the departments selling the items get. If the items are overvalued, nobody will buy them and the accepted bids for them will get lower and lower. —WilliamLewis
2008-02-11 10:01:23 Hey! I am currently in another state looking to move to Davis in July! I have a dog and cat and saw that you preferred another apartmen complex to Stongate Village Apartments - may I ask which one? I am tying to find a place to live w/o ever being able to visit! ROUGH! —Kristi
2008-02-11 10:42:16 Hey, Kristi. Check out The Trees. They are very popular with people with pets, and are the home of many pet owning vet students. The complex I wound up choosing does not take dogs, so far as I know, although there are many cats here, as well as a VERY large rabbit. —IDoNotExist
2008-02-29 03:01:36 Yeah... if they add it again, I'm going to talk with them about it. I'm guessing there's some kind of reason on both sides. Mine is simple: the top image should represent the subject so you can mentally identify "okay, that's what we're talking about". A logo doesn't really do that if you're apartment shopping or trying to remember the name of an apartment complex somebody lives at. A photo does help. Maybe they changed something and want it down because they repainted or some other action where it doesn't represent the current state, but generally the wiki method is to mark it as outdated and use it until somebody provides something better. (And now that I've written that all out, I'll cut and paste it to them if it is needed). —JabberWokky
2008-03-10 20:07:29 Dominant violin strings are not the best. Are the strings for you? (Do you play?) I personally don't really like Watermelon Music, but I'm also an Ifshins snob. They just moved to El Cerrito if you were a serious player and wanted to get some great help. But as far as Watermelon having Dominant, I believe they do. —MichelleAccurso
2008-03-10 21:09:06 I would like to say that quantifiers, especially universal ones, would be nice for your page. Then again, to say that for all things, that they are not you, doesn't necessitate that you don't exist, simply that you are out of our domain.. somehow.. always, maybe a worm hole can bring you back? maybe you are Micheal Criton? Maybe you are stuck in quantum superimposition... or maybe you are just Max Headroom.. but I wonder, what do you mean when you say exist? —DavidPoole
2008-03-10 21:59:55 Michael Crichton? Blech. Bad, plotless, pseudoscientific writing designed to cause fear in whatever the latest technological trends are.
Exist: to be. Or not to be. Perhaps that is your question? —IDoNotExist
2008-03-25 10:18:01 Good idea! The templates are edited and managed just like any other entry. I added a "Non Food Features" field to the Restaurant template, but it could be tweaked. —JabberWokky
2008-03-25 12:19:21 You mean like the map button at the top of any entry with an Address() macro? See most of the restaurants and business entries for examples. This kind of backend stuff is best discussed at 
the hub, but I can tell you that the idea about database fields isn't easily done with the current setup. If you didn't know, I write wiki software too, but not the software that runs DavisWiki. Mine is much more oriented to commercial use (newspapers, etc), and does the kinds of things you're talking about, pulling from databases, etc. It's also, as a result, more complicated (I'm working on methods to simplify it for community use, but it's tough to have both). Part of the success behind Davis Wiki is the simplicity, so there's a fairly high inertia to anything that makes it more complex (it has to have a serious benefit). —JabberWokky
2008-03-31 18:15:11 Today is Caesar Chavez Day in California and a couple other states. I'm trying to do more holidays, especially local ones. Somebody needs to find City of Davis declared days. I seem to recall them declaring at least a couple commemorative days. Everybody knows the big national ones; I'm trying for some of the more local and minor ones (starting off with the state holidays like this and Juneteenth). —JabberWokky
2008-04-06 17:02:04 Upload the file to the Apartments page. Other people can update it by replacing the file, at least for now. —PhilipNeustrom
2008-04-06 17:07:03 Nifty apartment map. Have you considered making it a collaborative map? I need to try to import some kml into a shared map. —JasonAller
2008-04-06 17:11:50 Google Docs will let you share an Excel file. It work very well. Let me know if you need help getting going. —JasonAller
2008-04-06 17:21:06 Sure, just upload the file here. —JasonAller
2008-04-06 17:31:18 can you upload it as a regular excel file? —JasonAller
2008-04-06 17:38:33 How about .csv? —JasonAller
2008-04-18 21:35:21 the outside plastic things at burger and brew roll up, and I think thats how there gonna make the semi outside seating cool... It was an outdoor patio before the remodel... —StevenDaubert
2008-04-19 00:08:22 turn the fans on high?
I dunno, I usually take out anyways! —StevenDaubert
2008-05-16 19:51:51 Visit Wiki Spot to learn more about the software that runs Daviswiki. —JasonAller
2008-05-16 20:10:01 (See Jason's comment for info on Wiki Spot) Some people have successfully installed and are very happy with it. It really depends on what your goal is. If you want to have a private wiki for your own personal use, there are editors (applications that run on your computer) that are wikis. These are typical applications that are easy to install and set up. 
Sycamore requires setting up a web server, database server and configuring the software. If you're comfortable with that (or just like tinkering), it isn't terribly difficult. —JabberWokky
2008-05-17 01:04:09 I'd kick the discussion over to the Wiki Spot FAQ. There aren't really any zealots on Wiki Spot at this point who will try to "sell you" a solution: we're all pretty realistic about the fact that there isn't a "one size fits all" solution. Moving the discussion there would get more eyes on the question. —JabberWokky
2008-05-31 21:20:09 Watermelon has Dominant, Vision, Infeld Red and Blue, and the major Pirastro products. —BuyLocal
2008-07-22 16:22:25 I am overly cautious about posting on the main page. Where would be a good place to do that? —SunjeetBaadkar
2008-07-22 21:14:18 You mentioned posting the Wiki BBQ I'm trying to plan on the front page, but I wouldn't know where to put it. —SunjeetBaadkar
2008-07-24 00:51:04 Don't forget to archive old pics when you add a new one :) —BrandonBarrette
2008-07-24 14:22:23 Yes. Such things should go to Bug Reports. That said, it just sped up for me. How about on your end? —JabberWokky
2008-07-24 15:11:24 Barbaric yalp :-P I chuckled when I read that. I'm considering asking my students to call me "O Captain, my captain" —BrandonBarrette
2008-07-31 00:34:36 just put up my mystery pic but it's now gone. do u have any ideas? —BaaaamBi
2008-08-06 13:44:49 You really should be commenting about those issues at Project Sycamore. I don't really have much to do with the coding of Sycamore (the underlying software that runs Davis Wiki). That said, there is a planned roadmap for the future which does include smarter parsing and storage and thus presumably a more intelligent search. —JabberWokky
2008-08-07 09:16:08 I don't know. Bob sounds more like a water diversion canal than a bridge. But parents back then had strange ideas about naming their babies... —TheAmazingLarry
2008-08-09 01:40:20 Mm, much of the sccc stuff makes me wonder how many folks around town have a concealed carry statistic, that really should be a public figure.. —DavidPoole
2008-08-14 15:31:15 Re: link — I think you may have to upload the image to the page? I didn't see anything with that name listed in the files area (Info -> Files) —PhilipNeustrom
2008-08-14 22:39:15 What do you think of the name the species answer? —StevenDaubert
2008-08-15 00:34:57 ¬_¬ —StevenDaubert
2008-08-17 10:35:06 I noticed the "scroll up and down" illusion, thought about commenting on it, but decided it was probably too specific to mention (i.e., that people wouldn't be able to reproduce it without WAY more explanation that it was worth). Neat effect, though. —JabberWokky
2008-08-17 15:27:04 I seldom use the comment function... even when it looks like it, I often hit edit and use a macro on my home system to autoinsert the date code. Hang on... this is via your comment... —JabberWokky
2008-08-17 15:28:16 It posted and your page came back in something under two seconds. I started a timer on my Palm and I couldn't even time it it was so quick. A single test, but I'll keep an eye out and see if I notice. —JabberWokky
2008-08-17 16:19:49 Looking at the server graphs, there was a period of higher cpu usage and an odd spike in memory usage. It's quite possible I just happened to catch your message right after it ended. —JabberWokky
2008-08-18 08:24:51 Jason is cleaning up things left over when Wiki Spot was launched. Prior to that, all the user entries were like /BobDobbs, and afterwards they were /Users/BobDobbs. To make the existing links to user entries work, they were automatically renamed and a redirect put in. Jason is cleaning that up by changing all the ["BobDobbs"] to ["Users/BobDobbs"]. Some people think it's unneeded, but it's one of those little tasks that makes things more simple for new users (since new users had examples of signatures that didn't work for their new accounts without a redirect). Basically, the structure of the wiki underwent a massive change and there was a hack put in place. Jason's cleaning up the hack. —JabberWokky
2008-08-18 11:52:45 I think there's no reason to worry if not everybody likes the use of hints in the Mystery Picture game. There's probably no aspect of the wiki that everybody agrees on. Also, I agree that the halving-the-city questioning technique isn't very fun. Questions should be used only as a very last resort, after all hints have been exhausted, and even then, only yes/no questions should be asked, and only to confirm a genuine suspicion of the object's location. —TheAmazingLarry
2008-08-19 18:43:30 It was so nice of you to exist yesterday! —CurlyGirl26
2008-08-22 13:12:07 I am not a number! I am a free man!!! —JabberWokky
2008-08-25 23:34:37 May I suggest that you add to your list: I am not a pipe See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images it is the source of a famous discussion of reality, representations of reality, and art. And Magritte is just cool. —NotTires
2008-08-29 00:09:56 I don't know if you've ever seen my "burma shave" messages strung out on the RC, but I've always liked them as fleeting patterns: after they are broken up into the edit histories for the individual entries, you can never read them again. —JabberWokky
2008-08-31 00:17:36 Hope you have a good trip. I did end up seeing my dad. I didn't get there until rather late, but better late than never. He actually arrived in Sacramento so I didn't have to go far. I wanted to see him before he left again. —CurlyGirl26
2008-09-06 14:49:23 Celerity is a common term in certain circles due to it being used as a class of supernatural powers (relating to speed and dexterity) in the World of Darkness games1. As a result, I always think of vampires when I see it. :) —JabberWokky
2008-09-09 19:12:19 I got some celerity a couple days ago, it helped my own those pesky space marines cause I moved 33% quicker —StevenDaubert
2008-09-23 20:04:44 We're in northern California for a week and a half for a family wedding. Sarah's still got at least 18 months left before we move out of Pennsylvania. We're doing the family thing in the Bay area this past weekend and first half of the week and heading up to Sacto/Davis for the latter half of the week and this coming weekend. —JabberWokky
2008-09-24 13:05:49 This week I will not be having any coffee, bagels or donuts. Well, maybe coffee, but it will be of the German variety. I will certainly be found at future days of coffee, bagels, and donuts once I get back to my homeland. —StaceyEllis
2008-09-26 18:38:47 Hey, a nice way to do the Presidential Debates entry is to use the Event Board and add a public place to watch the debate (one of the restaurants with TVs) or something like that. An entry to list the locations then could be cross-linked. Not everybody uses LiveJournal, and as people in Davis are voting, and the debate is broadcast here, it kind of makes sense to list resources for those who don't have televisions. One of the bars or cafes with televisions may be planning on having it on. For UCD students, knowing if they are going to be shown publically on campus would likely be useful. ![[wikipedia]](http://wikispot.org/wiki/eggheadbeta/img/inter.png){kind=small}
Here's a list of the upcoming ones. —JabberWokky
2008-09-29 20:58:11 You would be surprised how much signal you can hide in that much noise. :) —BrentLaabs
2008-10-04 14:13:57 Unfortunately this weekend is too busy and isn't going to work out. However, the plans I had with my boyfriend next weekend fell through, so if you (and the other said party who wants to meet me) are available, I propose a gathering then. —StaceyEllis
2008-10-05 21:09:53 Saturday should work just fine. Details to be worked out at some point between now and then, I assume. —StaceyEllis
2008-10-10 09:57:39 Thank you! —CurlyGirl26
2008-10-18 10:43:38 Hey, I'm sorry. I effed up last night. Let's get together soon. —CurlyGirl26
2008-10-26 13:09:40 new place is quickly —StevenDaubert
2008-10-29 17:03:06 Hi IDoNotExist. I am astonished to be talking to one who does not exist, but then, you spoke to one who is covert, so I guess logic is just out the window at this point.
You had asked, "I'm wondering what your thoughts are on life as a professor. How is it different than you might have expected? Do you get to spend as much time as you would like on your research? What suggestions do you have for the future professors out there?"
Well, I could go on and on, but I'll give you what comes to mind first, and feel free to ask more questions if you have them.
I like being a professor quite a bit. It is extremely rewarding to be able to expose students to things that they may not have come across before, and to get them to think about them. I also enjoy researching; it's wonderful to have a community of people to share ideas with, since most people don't have a background in the sort of work I do. Service... well, that's less exciting, but it has its moments. :-)
One thing that is different from what I expected is how little time I have. I always wondered why my professors seemed so busy — now I know. Basically, there is an infinite amount of work that you could be doing, and a lot of it you would really like to be doing. But it's nice to have a life, too. So, you have to learn how to be satisfied with the amount of work you are getting done and still be satisfied with your non-academic life. It's a balance I am still striving to achieve. So, do I have enough time for research? Enough to satisfy the powers-that-be, yes. Enough to do everything I want to do? No, there are things I am dying to do, projects on the pile that I may never get to. But I guess it's better that way than to have nothing I want to do. :-)
Suggestions for future professors... hmmm... One is, know what you want in terms of a balance of research and teaching, and try to find a university that has a good fit. But accept that jobs are scarce, and so you may not be able to find your ideal job, initially or ever. Another is not too put too much time into your lectures (it's a mistake almost every new prof makes) — you realize that there's only so much you can get across in a lecture, and that after awhile there is a real diminishing return in the amount of time you put in. Yet another is to go to conferences (never too early to start) and make friends. This doesn't mean suck up to the big names in the field (though many try that route), this means get to know people working on subjects you are interested in. It will pay off in multiple ways. And for my last suggestion... learn how to say "no" to things that won't help you (you especially don't want to agree to too much service work when you're starting out) and "yes" to opportunities that allow your name to be known and get you to meet people in your field. Sounds simple, but the "no" part is especially hard.
Ok, that's it for now. —CovertProfessor
P.S. Oh, I forgot to mention one thing. Even though you work a gazillion hours, you are the one who is in charge of them, and you are more or less you're own boss. I'd much rather have it that way than work a 9 to 5 job any day.
2008-10-29 17:37:59 I think I'm talking to myself? But I can't see myself, so I'm not sure.
"I'd not heard about the service component before. What is it?"
On the department level: committees, advising, chair (avoid if you can!). At the college/university level: more committees. Beyond the university: refereeing for journals, being involved in the work of societies, donating time to things related to your area of specialization. No one gets tenure becaue they did a lot of service, but everyone has to do some of it. It's remarkably easy to get sucked into too much, so again, learn how to say "no." (As in: "I'd really like to, but I have this big project I'm working on" — everyone expects that your research will come first, especially as a new faculty member).
"I've seen many profs working very very long hours up until they get tenure. How long does tenure take to achieve? What makes someone well qualified for tenure? What makes them unqualified? Is it all about being able to bring in funding?"
Generally 6 yrs, though it can vary from univ to univ. Requirements for tenure also vary from univ to univ, and from area to area. It's a good thing to try to find out (stealthily) when interviewing for a job. There's much more emphasis on bringing in funding in the sciences than in other areas, but in general, the main thing is publishing in peer reviewed journals. You usually need to have at least decent teaching reviews, too, though again, that depends on whether you're at a more research-oriented univ or more teaching-oriented (which would usually have lower expectations for #s of articles published). Some areas expect a book.
"I've also heard much of politics being a big thing among professors - fighting for lab space, funding, and whatever else professors fight over (what DO they fight over?) How do you handle the politics? What causes it? Can it be avoided?"
I don't think we're any more or less political than anyone else, but there can be infighting when there are perceived unfairnesses. You can have people thinking they are big shots and deserve more than everyone else. A congenial department is worth its weight in gold. Try to get a sense of that when you interview if you can. And if you're untenured, just try to stay out of it. Focus on your research and teaching, be polite to everyone, and keep your mouth shut (I wasn't very good at the latter, but it's good advice nonetheless). —CovertProfessor
2008-10-29 18:17:12 "If a professor talks on the wiki, but can't hear themselves, do they make a sound? How do your grad students find you, being so covert? :-)"
I am like batman — right in front of your eyes, but you don't see my true identity. :)
"How hard is it to get grants?"
There's no universal answer — it depends on who you're applying to. It's hard. You really have to know your audience and tailor to them (e.g., if they are not specialists in your field, you have to write in ways that are understandable to them). You have to dot all your i's and cross all your t's. Grant apps are a real PITA, to tell the truth.
"What makes for a good prof. applicant?"
Again, varies from field to field, but you want proof of good research done (ideally, with some papers published). Some fields expect you to postdoc, some don't. You'll want to have people write letters for you who can really speak to your research abilities and contributions — ideally, not just your advisors, but people well known in your field. Evidence of good teaching if you're applying to a more teaching-oriented place. —CovertProfessor
2008-11-10 08:45:28 Sorry, you caught me at a busy time. Er, I suppose you actually didn't manage to catch me, since you know, I was so busy. I'm sorta lame like that. See you Friday for bagels, I assume..... —StaceyEllis
2008-11-20 08:37:07 Bagels are more important than anything. Including bagels. —StaceyEllis
2008-11-20 20:05:12 Bagels from Chico are better than bagels from Davis. —RyanMikulovsky
2008-11-20 22:10:37 I'm quite happy that my bagels have caused this interwiki feud. How fun to watch the wikifolk debate the merits of so many delicious bagels! Mmmmm...bagels... —StaceyEllis
2008-11-22 16:47:36 Where should Davis Grid Computing Cows be linked from? —JasonAller
2009-01-07 13:53:09 IDogNotExist? —SunjeetBaadkar
2009-01-13 23:52:18 Human beings exist therefore you are *NOT* a human being. —Michael777
2009-01-15 00:08:28 Also note that Sara Kohgadai (who appears to be anti-gun) wrote in an editorial in yesterday's Aggie, something along the lines of having a gun giving one a rush of confidence (I don't recall the exact wording). —BrendanChan
2009-01-23 19:00:26 You've made your position abundantly clear on Students for Concealed Carry on Campus/Discussion; how about making some edits that improve the wiki now? —JasonAller
2009-01-31 21:54:37 you have photo, please send —StevenDaubert
This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious as to just how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it. It looks so ordinary and plain that you would think nothing was wrong about it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is highly unusual though. Study it and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out. Try and do so without any coaching!
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'Many' instead of 'may'—JoePomidor
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The paragraph does not contain the letter e. —IDoNotExist
2009-02-25 21:26:11 We really need a good page to link to about sockpuppets. Care to create it? —JasonAller
2009-02-25 21:53:16 Check all the pages that had the text [[Include(Sockpuppet)]] on them. ;) —JasonAller
2009-02-25 22:00:20 Hey, you might not want to mess with Sockpuppet.... it's an include. —WilliamLewis
2009-02-28 16:03:30 Haha, yeah, I was wandering around checking spelling, then I found the All Pages page, so I've been working my way down that. —JoePomidor
2009-03-13 19:26:00 i love that you know about "The Stig" —alismoghaddam
2009-03-21 08:28:16 To some I'm an "honorary" geographer. Also, I joined GLOBAL without realizing it. —RyanMikulovsky
2009-03-21 09:11:06 My current apartment lease ends July 12. So I'm hoping to at least have my things in Davis before then (probably storage). I haven't quite figured out what I'm going to do between then and September, when most leases begin. —RyanMikulovsky
2009-04-07 23:05:54 People would so know who you really were if you indeed existed. —WilliamLewis
2009-04-19 20:35:02 Now that the comment has been killed how about if you handle the Welcome to the Wiki for pnip? —JasonAller
2009-04-25 09:33:18 Hey hey hey hey
what are you doing?
hey hey we should totally hang out sometime!
seriously
touch base now don't be a stranger
c'mon idne —StevenDaubert
2009-06-28 19:19:23 Don't forget about the little guy... —SunjeetBaadkar
2009-07-01 16:06:31 Thanks! See you around town. —RyanMikulovsky
2009-07-01 16:31:15 Not yet. I hope to have everything wrapped up by end of Friday. So I haven't completely left Chico yet. —RyanMikulovsky
2009-07-04 16:11:53 For historical comparison check out Sam's Mediterranean/Politics and the other related pages. —JasonAller
2009-07-29 01:39:55 Yes, but it is a public domain wingless dragon. :) If you have a better PD image, feel free to replace it (you know me, I'm not exactly offended if somebody changes something I did on the wiki). —JabberWokky
2009-07-29 02:01:33 Could have been worse — I was trying to stretch it into a pun about a touring motorcycle. —JabberWokky
2009-07-29 13:01:23 haha, thank you for that laugh. Great middle of the day pick me up. :) —EdWins
2009-07-30 01:21:41 If you think I am wrong then correct the info unstead of just stating that u think I am worng. This is a wiki. Use it as such. —RealComputers
2009-07-30 01:34:49 As a tech, I have encountered so many situations in which people have gotten viruses from pop-ups exactily as I describe. Literally it is one of the most common issues I see. Seriously, leave the free advise alone. —RealComputers
2009-07-30 02:18:10 I didnt touch ur comments. —RealComputers
2009-07-30 20:06:23 Concerning my computers and space flight, I don't have many details. We've provided computers to the Space Systems Division of Oceaneering for years and they will only give us general information about their use. They have told us that the computers have flown on the shuttle and ISS, running non life-critical experiments and such. As we respect our customers' privacy, I couldn't say much more that that anyway. As for the low-earth satellite application, our uflashTCP controller was used in a college low-earth orbit satellite. —JimStewart
2009-08-02 12:19:01 The server load was randomly really high (but came back down). I have a couple ideas about why this may have been but I can't disclose them for potentially-obvious reasons :) —PhilipNeustrom
2009-08-02 19:48:22 The wiki may have been malfunctioning due to having a user that does not exist. That's just not logical and could certainly cause unpredictable results ;-) —RyanMikulovsky
2009-08-03 09:16:03 (Just so you don't think I'm ignored you, I was busy away from the wiki over the weekend, and by the time I saw your comment, Philip had responded). —JabberWokky
2009-08-06 13:48:45 Possibly next Spring. If not, the Spring after that. (And that's to move back, we may visit next Spring regardless). —JabberWokky
2009-08-20 12:24:53 Research Labs are listed mostly by their department. See Chemistry, for example. —JabberWokky
2009-09-22 17:21:18 It is always possible to overlay vector data atop air photos, but it isn't always the best way of doing things. In this case, the file size would mushroom, unprintable in B&W, and the map may become too busy or unreadable. Putting labels directly into apartment footprints is also possible but because of their close proximity and often small footprints, that would become messy very quickly. Labeling all streets would also have the same impact: many are very small and close together; the map would not be very readable. The key here is that these are maps of apartments in Davis, not a straight map of Davis.
Fortunately most apartments are on major thoroughfares and their given street addresses make it clear what road they are on anyway. The aim here is to create useful maps while not making them so busy that one must really concentrate to read them. It's a difficult job in cartography to find the right balance between conveying information and good presentation. I find that many maps have too much information. So I do not plan on adding aerial backdrops, names of most residential streets, and labeling over apartments. But if you want to make your own based on City of Davis GIS library, that'd be great. —RyanMikulovsky
2009-09-22 18:14:45 You could edit openstreetmap yourself and then render maps exactly how you want them to look. —JasonAller
2009-09-22 19:07:24 Are you trying http://www.openstreetmap.org/? What browser are you using? —JasonAller
2009-09-25 13:43:39 He, who? Brian Tagney, Real Computers? I'm sure you know he's been a royal pain in the ass from day one, being very defensive about his own business and trying to promote it over the computer services. With respect to Help Computer Services, start here and work your way forward. —CovertProfessor
2009-09-25 19:22:56 The problem is that then revert will be used as a weapon rather than a positive tool to improve the content. —JabberWokky
2009-09-26 02:11:32 Ah. See, I see "gnome" as an act. Like walking. Not a "class of special people". An editor who signed up 5 minutes ago and corrects some spelling errors is a gnome in my view. It's the act of caring and tending to the garden of the wiki. —JabberWokky
2009-10-27 17:33:24 Careful. —JasonAller
2009-11-01 11:50:46 The wiki is professional? I'd prefer it look all OMG PONIES! —WilliamLewis
2009-11-04 22:56:28 I answered the question you left when you created the Media references page. There is a note there about how you can make the page you created more functional and improve the Wiki History page as well. —JasonAller
2009-11-13 06:50:34 1! —NickSchmalenberger
2009-11-16 09:53:41 Good one. —CovertProfessor
- 1Yes, I've simplified the description, but it's enough for a quick comment.
