Users/JabberWokky

—— Somewhat out of date and out of state ——

Evan Edwards, well known as JabberWokky (I get regular postal mail addressed to JabberWokky, I'm registered to vote with the ID JabberWokky, and my wife calls me Wokky). I can be identified thusly: A rather large fellow of Scot-Irish ancestry. Long red-brown hair (only visibly red in good sunlight), a very full beard. I always wear black jeans and either black sweaters (winter) or Hawaiian shirts (summer). Often you can see a bronze Hand of Eris pendant around my neck. In winter (and sometimes in summer), I wear a large black trench coat. My laptop, frank, is a Dell Inspiron 9300 and very tied to my home network. I'm friendly, meaning I only bite if you're cute and ask nicely. One easy identifier is my black hat, technically an outback hat, which is somewhat like a large fedora. It sometimes has my band of pinbacks on it.

Ah, Love! could thou and I with Fate conspire


To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire!


Would not we shatter it to bits — and then


Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!

— Rubaiyat of Omar Khayy�m, (trans: Edward Fitzgerald)

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Note that Sarah is in the Doctorate program at Penn State, and so I'm in exile from Davis until 2009ish. Between family and friends, we've been making back to visit once a year, usually around the holidays. Why am I so involved in the Wiki? Davis was our home, and we're hoping for it to be again. Sarah will be a professor of chemistry, we like small university towns and we already know we love Davis. In the meantime, if you manage to find yourself in Central Pennsylvania, drop a line and we'll show you around.

We got married on June 2nd, 2007.

Likely a sockpuppet for David Poole, like most other users on the wiki. Of course, it is also documented fact that he is Jason Aller, so perhaps Jason is also a sockpuppet. Regardless, he prefers, being a Henson fan, to be referred to as a "sockmuppet". He is in full favor of, and thinks it would be "spiffy keen" to see some DavisWiki fanfic. His attention to detail is appreciated, as the wiki keeps informing him.

A note about the name: Yes, people call me Jabber, Wokky and JabberWokky in real life (including my SO, who tends to use the more popular "Wokky"). Yes, it started life as a reference before the web existed, and it started out intentionally misspelled. I camelCap it for ease of use. I get magazines sent to "Wokky, Jabber", and have gotten credit card offers to Mr. Jabber Wokky. Yes, people call me Evan as well. Note that as long as this account has existed, the redirect EvanEdwards has existed. In 2006, I officially voted using it, having registered as a voter using the name. Cheap Thrills is more than a Big Brother album. Woo.

Minor interesting facts:

• Last Macintosh was a II LC. Last used Windows in 1998.
  

• His first computer was in the days when building your own meant a bit more than simply ordering parts.
  

• Used to host a science fiction radio show, is perpetually thinking about starting again.
  

• Drinks iced coffee, having discovered that it is far more likely to be decent than tea. Prefers Kona.
  

• Has been looking for a good barbeque place ever since he moved to California.
  

• Has discovered waiters give him a blank look when asked "what kind of barbeque is it?"
  

• His favorite is Carolina style, but a good Georgian, South Carolina or St. Louis is good too. Texas BBQ is different.
  

• Has lots of interesting sites, a few servers, and five meese in a huge custom built mouse cage.
  

• Probably scored lower on the purity test than you.
  

• Knows that when somebody asks you if you are a god, you say "yes".
  

• Is likely not the political faction you think he is.
  

• Filks, but only occasionally in public.
  

• Knows about that Society thing with the people in armor who go camping, but again, not locally ("Vivat Trimaris!")
  

• Is in Trekkies II, but is much more happy about the pretty good scene with his SO in an Orion Slave costume that he made (and she so excellently filled out).
  

• Enjoys building stage props and furnature.
  

• Owns an original shooting script, Susan Sarandon's audition photos and the collectable card proof sheet for the Rocky Horror Picture Show. His office is full of Rocky collectables.
  

• Can be considered goth for values of goth that include Edward Gorey, Poppy Z., Souxie and gargoyles.
  

• Can also be considered goth for values of goth that include Ostro and Visi. "Ask me about my sack!"
  

• Is not generally considered goth.
  

• Has a near legendary stash of "stuff" in Pennsylvania, including:
  

• Full size MAME cabinet capable of taking four JAMMA boards (currently ripped apart again; it's being transformed into the "Rocky Horror Arcade Show")
  

• More books and movies than you can shake a stick at - or fit in a 10' truck.
  

• Original RHPS shooting script, as used on set, original Columbia doll used in the 10th Anniversary poster, original photos used to audition Susan Sarandon (yes, a wiki is forthcoming)
  

• Everything White Wolf put out for the World of Darkness up until 3rd edition started coming out.
  

• SubGenius devival gear.
  

• Knows many many languages of a code type, and has written a mail editor in Intercal, and won obsfucated C contests. Prefers PHP as an interpreted language and likes Python. Feels very much at home in C (and is suspicious of those Bjarne blasted concoctions that came after). Likes SPL and Lua.
  

• Likes Guinness, especially since other stouts are so rare.
  

• Has missed two (2) Whole Earth Festivals since he moved.
  

• Has written a few homebrew RPG systems, and likes Marvel, Storyteller, Palladium and many many more. Ranks AD&D in decending order as they have come out (First is 1st, etc). Was ST for a large, full WoD game.
  

• Can make babies cry when he merely opens his violin case.
  

• Enjoys learning to home build homes. Frame houses, wattle and daub and Mike Oehler turn him on.
  

• Can cook. Before Food Network made it trendy to deglaze.
  

• His home network consists of frank (Dell laptop), crim (Toshiba Libretto 110ct), riffraff (4U rackmount), magenta (MythTV install), scott (MAME), betty (Tosiba laptop), ralph (Apple TiBook) and janet (Celeron box in the corner). His work systems are tim-01 to tim-10, ramon, ritz, nell and the less than spectacularly named op03.
  

• Takes it as a personal failure and genuinely feels bad when somebody exits the Wiki in a huff. He feels bad and wonders what went wrong and if there was anything he could have done to make them happier or fix what had made them upset.

...and lastly...

• Misses the hell out of Davis, and hopes to someday return with the woman he pursued.

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Often plays around with stuff (like the Wiki!) to break it. Then drinks more iced coffee in triumph. THEN fixes it. — tar zxf

• Note that I now often drink iced Cafix as well.

• ¹ This means a picture that does not (unlike the ones posted here):
  

• Look like I'm choking someone.
  

• Occlude my face with a cameraphone.

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Amazing Value!

Now you can purchase your own jabberwokky at amazon.com!

Wiki Classics

Remember...?


• JeromeJohnson
  

• The furor over papasan chairs on the wiki?
  

• SaulSugarman
  

• Greatest. Edit. Ever. The fact that this just went multigenerational says more about the wiki being a real reflection of the community than anything else ever will. The very real line of human life that we are all stepping through and weaving together is laid clear and real here. Like an overheard comment while watering your lawn, or a chance chat with a neighbor while in line at the bank, this is the fingerprint of human experience — a moment of pure life — caught on the wiki.

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KDE and the Wiki

Konqueror Web Shortcut for the Wiki Search:

http://daviswiki.org/FrontPage?text_new={@}&action=inlinesearch&button_new.x=0&context=40

Konqueror Web Shortcut for the Wiki:

http://daviswiki.org/{@}

Go to Settings, Configure Konqueror, Web Shortcuts and paste the above line and pick a shortcut. I use dw. Then you can use URLs like dw:JabberWokky to either jump directly to an entry or to search for the term.

Where to Hide a Dead Body on the Wiki

The Wiki provides a rich and cluttered environment ideal for the surreptitious disposal of formerly living entities. These FLEs can be placed in a wide variety of entries including, but not limited to:

• One of AlphaDog's many botany oriented entries
  

• Woven into one of ArlenAbraham's theories about the wiki
  

• Inside the Mystery Picture of the moment
  

• Note that this has nothing to do with Pluto's Mushrooms of the Moment and cannot be considered a claim or attack on any trademarks held by PlutosCorps.
  

• Brought to a Wiki Gathering, preferably set to some Oingo Boingo music.
  

• Dumped in the trunk of TarZxf's dusty "Wiki Dude" diesel Jetta
  

• Somewhere in the Friends Urging Campus Kindness Platform, between the staplers and the countback amendment. No one will ever read something that ridiculously long.

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Ah, but a man's grasp should exceed his reach,


Or what's a heaven for?


— Robert Browning, "Andrea del Sarto"

Random Wiki Nonsense

Ten Random Links

Five Random People

• CathyWoolery
  

• DylanKann
  

• KennethWaters
  

• GennaCarnes
  

• KenjiYamada

Non Random Cool Entries

• European White Birch

JabberWokky's Statistics

Edits	Pages Created	Files Contributed	First Edit Date	Last Edit	Last Page Edited
13074	793	559	2004-12-07 12:55:08	2009-11-23 04:45:18	Anarchy

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Someone who keeps aloof from suffering
is not a lover. I choose your love
above all else. As for wealth
if that comes, or goes, so be it.
Wealth and love inhabit separate worlds.

But as long as you live here inside me,
I cannot say that I'm suffering.

— Hakim Abul-Majd Majdūd ibn Ādam Sanā'ī, trans. Coleman Barks

Deleted Talk Pages

On 8.24.05 I cleaned out some Talk pages for entries that had become stable. Since the format for Talk pages has changed, here are the "missing entries":

• Talk:Traditions
  

• Talk:Ben & Jerry's
  

• Talk:Ari Kalfayan
  

• Talk:Gender and Sexuality Commission
  

• Talk:Davis Players Society.
  

Brent pointed out Talk:Cost Plus World Market and Wiki Court.

I left a few that were newish or active.

Deleted by ES on 2005-12-5

• Zachary's Pizza/Talk

Wiki Bulldada

Did you know Mike and Philip's ancestors worked together as innovators?

Don't know what bulldada is? Ask Google.

(Not so) FAQs

• Why do you sometimes make lots of tiny edits on a single entry, seconds apart?
  

• When I'm doing massive reformatting or rewrites about something I'm confident about, I'll make them in one big chunk. When I'm editing a controversial entry or something with finely grained points, I will make them sequentially as small edits, adding a comment about each. That allows somebody to go back through each edit individually. It makes it harder to hide an minor edit inside a major edit... and if it's controversial or has many specific facets, it should be as open and fully disclosed as possible. Basically, I'm allowing people to dispute a specific part of the edit without feeling like they have to revert all the parts of the edit. You can see each specific edit laid out, commented upon, in the history. I'll also add comments for the reason behind the edit, strike out text and then follow it with an edit that deletes the comment and stuck out text. Atomic editing.
  

(and because I'm trying to increase my edit count —bl)


(hey, if I wanted that, I'd do it every time rather than once every several months. Besides, I have little problem making a half dozen edits on different entries every morning, and that satisfies my "I've done something for the wiki" itch. —jw)

• It's midnight and you haven't changed the wiki logo back from (or to) the holiday logo.
  

• Yup. Look for them to be changed between 3am and 4am. Note that they might show up longer on your computer until you refresh.

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Stuff to work on

• Davis Visitor's Guide
  

• NacSki

Stuff for You

• But soft, what shirt on yonder bicyclist sits? — Bike? Like the Bard? Ta da!
  

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For old comments, visit the archive

Comments:

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2007-10-12 09:02:00   I agreed with Jessica that id didn't quite seem like the work of CCCC. Just because it says it's from them doesn't mean it's true. that's all. —PxlAted

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2007-10-13 02:04:05   why are you editing the GO page? —EricFriedman

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2007-10-14 23:27:58   Perfect! —CovertProfessor

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2007-10-17 11:47:20   -3 pun. Nicely done and subtle, but definitely a forehead slapper. —EdWins

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2007-10-24 19:39:28   Thanks for your gracious comment and explanation. If I actually placed one of the photos in question on the page I'm afraid it might give folks grounds to take legal action. I hope that by simply linking to an otherwise copyrighted photo I won't get into trouble. (Not that any of the parties in question would let me take their photo, anyway! :-) ) —RichLindvall

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2007-10-26 11:23:55   wtf...... WTF?!?!???! —WilliamLewis

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2007-10-30 12:05:34   nice logo. —PxlAted

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2007-11-01 08:23:21   But... Greg is *in* the group. (Yes, he's obviously teasing and it's semantics, but I thought saying "their" game was funny). —EdWins

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2007-11-02 20:26:15   Thank you for your positive comment on the "Recovering From Spiritual Abuse" page. I may take you up on your suggestion to start a Wiki with that topic. As the saying goes "run it up a flagpole and see if anybody salutes!" I appreciate your involvement with Davis Wiki, even from far away Pennsylvania! Go Nittany Lions!!! —RichLindvall

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2007-11-04 15:40:44   very interesting... Another awesome peeve NIC card

<3 —StevenDaubert

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2007-11-08 20:10:56   "Delightfully unexpected" What a great phrase! Sounds downright "serendipitous!" When we left Davis we were searching for a similar non-freezing climate, except in the northwest. Narrowed it down to Corvallis or the Palouse. We ended up in Corvallis since it was only a day's U-Haul drive away, and the climate is milder. Still, the Palouse is intriguing—with two major universities only 8 miles apart (WSU & U of I)and the nearest freeway some 50 miles away! If I had another life to live I think I'd like to live in Moscow, Idaho. (Home of the U of I "Vandals"—isn't that a great mascot!?) Thanks again for your encouragement from far off Pennsylvania! —RichLindvall

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2007-11-11 11:14:38   The Dennys stopped allowing studying in 1999, and shortly thereafter, it closed. —FeralFeline

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2007-11-11 18:11:00   Nice addition (the birch one..) I just saw that randomly earlier and had a good chuckle. —EdWins

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2007-11-14 15:53:41   I get it. I was confused because I rarely view the wiki unauthenticated and missed the benefit of the macro since to me it appeared plain as day email in the browser which I know spam bots can read. Thanks. —AlexMandel

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2007-11-14 18:06:48   I could study for my GRE, or I could go around replacing all the seeds with an alternate version.

What to do, what to do. mwhaha. —EdWins

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2007-11-17 21:55:53   Thank you very much for your kind words. My name is Ariane, please call me Aree ("arrrrr-"e"). —ArianeMetz

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2007-11-20 22:00:08   It seemed inconsistent without the redirect. There were links to the original page, as well as the "users" version, and everyone else has theirs redirect appropriately. Maybe Tim got missed in the build release that set everyone's page to redirect to the users one? —PaulAmnuaypayoat

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2007-11-21 12:35:08   Thank you for your input on the matter. Apparently some other people would prefer to start a war rather than pass along 1 comment's worth of information. —PaulAmnuaypayoat

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2007-11-22 12:01:14   Where's the thanksgiving logo? —JamesSchwab

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2007-11-23 22:05:27   Jabber,

The information contained on a website that has information about me must be subject to my review. This is not a newspaper. The editors of the wiki are not trained journalists, but rather members of the public. I have not been interviwed by anyone editing my wiki page. What if someone from the Sac Bee published a story about me, without interviewing me, misquoting me, and misrepresenting me? In the real world, this reporter would be subject to a lawsuit!

The issue is that my personal page comes up under a google search, and it is available for anyone in the world to see. So, since this website is about me, don't you think that I should be able to edit a website that is exclusively devoted to me and activities I am involved in?

This is nuts. I obviously can't control what others do, but in my mind this is an abuse of wiki priveldges. Is it any wonder why the real wikipedia doesn't allow anyone to just edit a page however they see fit? Thus, they are a relatively credible source.

Anyway, if people insist on changing my page, then I will insist that the page be taken down. —EricFriedman

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2007-11-23 23:01:51   Jabber,

I would argue that I'm not a "public figure" insofar that I do not hold a public office (please see my brief in ASUCD Court Case 42-43-44.

But, that's not the issue. I've already told you that a page that is ABOUT ME should be subject to my review! Please let me know who designated the "two page policy," one for the public to edit, and one personal page. There is no difference between the two. Both are pages about a specific user.

If James Schwabs or anyone else for that matter wants to create a page called "My view on Eric Friedman," interviews me and doesn't contain any slanderous material, I would not object.

You belive that anyone who runs for an elected office is subject to public scrutiny? I do as well, and believe me, I have recieved a lot. But, this does mean that I am subject to censorship! If James Schwab wants to make comments about the page in the comments section, I think that is acceptable.

This is really insane. Who is the webmaster of the wiki? Please let me know who is in charge of this so I can discuss this matter with him or her. —EricFriedman

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2007-11-23 23:57:43   Thx. I get a little protective about local businesses, so it's good to have feedback. If that person had a user page, signed his/her name, etc., I suppose it wouldn't be unreasonable to put an entry about another theater at the Varsity page. But it just looked like a drive-by posting as it was. —DonShor

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2007-11-24 00:27:55   Mr. Edwards,

Thank you for taking the time to explain to me the way the wiki works.

Now, let me tell you the way I work. I am not community property. No one owns me but me. The page that is about me is my property. There is no other way to look to at it. Under your reasoning, becasue I hold an elected office in the UC Davis student government, it is OK for people to slander my name? This is ludicrous. I am getting fed up with this.

I completely disagree with the Wiki's philosophy and I want nothing to do with the wiki community.

I will be deleting my page. Do not recreate it. Or is this against the wiki principles? I do not want to be a part of the wiki if I am subject to slander and harrassment. Does that make sense? Do you understand?

—EricFriedman

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2007-11-24 15:52:38   Jabber,

Why do you keep on comparing the Wiki to a newspaper? The Wiki and Newspapers are not the same at all.

Newspapers have journalists that do investigative work, that research articles. While some entries on the Wiki live up to this standard (mostly business entries), many entries about individuals or ASUCD politics do not. Please show me how a website that allows anyone who signs up to edit entries is analagous to a newspaper? Newspapers HIRE their staff and editors. They allow people to submit commentary, but all commentary is subject to the editors review. Maybe, you could make a claim that the wiki is analagous to the National Enquirer. That would be the closest connection I would see.

No one at the wiki clears posts. What if someone posts something wrong? You would say that other editors would catch it, right? But, what if no one else knows if a piece of information is accurate?

Previously, someone posted an entry on my page that was just not true. How can I guard against random people posting slanderous material on my page? I'm not going to be roaming the wiki 24 hours a day. And, who do I have to compain to? No one. "The community?" Well, "the community" is mostly composed of my rivals in student government!

Do you see my point? Do you see the inequity that occurs here?

Your camparison of the wiki to a newspaper is seriously flawed and the philosophy of the wiki is seriously flawed as well.

So, I will continue to keep my account and I will continue to delete my page whenever I log on. This is the only solution I can see under these circumstances. —EricFriedman