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—— Somewhat out of date and out of state——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

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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 Khayyám, (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 roughly March 2010. Between family and friends, we've been making back to visit every two years. 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 State College, Pennsylvania, drop a line and we'll show you around. If you are looking to become a grad student here (or move here for any other reason), contact us with any questions you might have. Penn State is much larger than UC Davis, but it is an ag school, and you'll see similar traits but with greater resources (important for grad students) and with an East Coast flavor to the population.

If you know of a good research University that has a chemistry program and is in a town similar in tenor and tone to Davis, let us know. We're looking now (we started our "where will we live the rest of our lives until Sarah is emeritus, and I'm playing Santa Claus at the Farmer's Market" quest on June 2009). Other than Davis, Chapel Hill and Berkeley are in the mix.

We got married on June 2nd, 2007.

Alternate universe version. Note the lack of beard, indicating this is the 'Good Universe' JabberWokky. 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 and 2008, I officially voted using it, having registered as a voter using the name. Cheap Thrills is more than a Big Brother album. Woo.

Yes, he can lose his patience on and with the wiki. ;-P

Minor interesting facts:

• Is in the process (2008-06) of registering as a fancy mouse breeder for lineage registration.
  

• 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 furniture.
  

• 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 (successfully).

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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?
  

• Hitler and Nazis becomes a legitimate topic of conversation on the IKEA entry.
  

• 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.
  

• Graduate Tutorial Services — one guy posts the story of how he was annoyed during his interview, nothing happens for two weeks, and then a bunch of people start signing up and jumping all over him, mostly with new accounts, all within the span of a few hours. Flashmob a la wiki?
  

• Bistro 33 — A great example of how chaos became a useful entry.
  

• Real Computers — Not understanding the wiki.
  

• When SteveDavison not only tracked down a spammer, he found a webcam in their office!

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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

• ScottMiller
  

• JohnMolina
  

• MariSherbert
  

• JasminCamacho
  

• DougWalter

Non Random Cool Entries

• European White Birch
  

• I Hate Davis — in which the "campus landscapers" are called in utter and delicious ironic humor, the gender specific "sexist bastards".

JabberWokky's Statistics

Edits	Pages Created	Files Contributed	First Edit Date	Last Edit	Last Page Edited
13011	788	553	2004-12-07 12:55:08	2009-11-07 21:52:58	users/jimstewart

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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?

Jason uses high technology while maintaining his simian roots. Or branches, as the case may be.

Don't know what bulldada is? Ask Google.

Davis as an Image

Davis Wiki as an Image

(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. —JabberWokky)

• 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.

• How do you follow all the changes? Even on other wikis?
  

• Wiki Spot has a ton of really nice tools. Figuring out how to use them is easy, and they tend to adapt well. I hit the Interwiki Recent Changes at least once a day. If I am spinning through them just checking, I can usually handle a whole days worth of changes across Wiki Spot in about 45 minutes. Usually I zip through at the beginning and end of the day and then hit the RC randomly throughout the work day. When I'm really busy, the wiki drops out of my life... I like it and all, but family and work come first. Usually it can get squeezed in. I open each change in a new tab (I use Konqueror, coming soon to Mac and Windows), usually in blocks of about a dozen, and then read through them all. I bookmark ones that need heavy work (phone calls, research, etc) for when I have time.

• Why do you welcome people to the wiki?
  

• I try to do it for people's first edits. That way they feel there is somebody on the other end who noticed and appreciated their contribution. This has absolutely nothing to do with the wiki; if somebody shows up at any of the hobby or volunteer groups I'm involved in, I walk up to the new people, shake their hands and welcome them to the group. Everybody who steps into a new group of people does so with some amount of trepidation and uncertainty, and it's just the polite thing to do to welcome them. I encourage everybody active on the wiki to do the same: encouraging people to use the wiki should not end when they sign up.

• Why do you say entry sometimes and page other times?
  

• It's actually logical, believe it or not. It's also subtle enough so it doesn't matter at all, but for those following along with the home game, here's the terminology I use: The entry is the actual part of the wiki the editors edit. You edit an entry, which is the content of the box when you're editing, and the content when you save it. The page is the entry plus the rest of the visible items: the tabs, the wiki logo, the Copyrights and Donate links at the bottom of the page and your account information in the upper right hand corner of the page. On the other hand, in the upper right hand corner of the entry there might be a photo of a puppy. It really doesn't matter much in communication, but I've found that defining precise terms is a handy way to help frame your thoughts.

• Why do you give people your phone number (or email)?
  

• There are two reasons: first, learning to communicate on the wiki is tricky, and sometimes people assume too much of a new editor, either by assuming that they "get" the wiki, or that they are able to respond. (Every so often I get emails from people who were left messages at their user entry that they clearly did not get). The second reason is that there are people who are just poor communicators in a written forum, especially when it comes to tone, something that tends to get worse when everybody starts getting frustrated. Being able to hear a person's emotional affect is quite important to actual communication. I will tell you that after years of leaving my number all over the place, I have never gotten anything but constructive calls from people who were either upbeat or were frustrated and scared, but quite grateful for my reaching out to them and honestly looking for help. I've placed a couple calls to some angry people, but all my inbound calls have been positive in nature. I have a feeling that if somebody actually wants real resolution and answers, they will call, and if they are just angry jackasses playing a game, they don't want to escalate it past the internet — where they feel powerful — into the real world full of actual people. The first thing I always explain is that I am a volunteer editor, just like they are, and I have no special control over content, just lots of experience with what tends to work and what doesn't. If you're in a situation where you can receive calls and talk for a few minutes with somebody, you can do the same thing, too. We're all volunteers here.

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Wikispotting

Davis Wiki and Wiki Spot on the internet, grassroots style:

• A Yelp review noting that "Reviewing anything in Davis is basicly redundent since nearly everything in or near Davis is listed in the comprehensive Davis Wiki".

Neat WikiSpot Wikis

• splitter — Niche work.

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!
  

• May this never happen here.
  

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Comments:

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• For old comments, visit the archive
  

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2009-07-08 10:39:34   Hi! Thanks for helping refine the ASUCD Environmental Policy and Planning Commission DavisWiki Page. I appreciate your help very much! —irregularadverb

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2009-07-08 13:05:09   hey jabber, thanks for helping me use this wiki. I want to contribute, I'm just not very technologically advanced. —BryceH

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2009-07-14 23:17:01   Oh my gosh, I remember you! —CameronMenezes

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2009-07-16 13:07:57   In the future please delete my changes instead of writing rude comments in their place if you feel the need to be so disagreeable. I dont understand what is worng with stating that DAIGNOSTICS ARE FREE under the free computer services section. It is a free computer service. I dont understand why this logic escapes you. Furthermore, I am not some an anonomous person. My name is Brian Tangney and I am the owner of Real Computers. Do you want me to post a picture of myself and use wiki as a myspace as you do? My wiki page is stricktly for business. Please be more professional in the future. —RealComputers

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2009-07-16 13:27:03   is a computer diagnostic not a service? Do you not have to pay for a computer diagnostic at other computer shops? Knowing whats wrong with a computer often enables people to fix the problem themselves. Actually quite often. —RealComputers

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2009-07-16 13:48:43   As stated, only diagnostics are free. A computer diagnostic is a service, one which you almost always have to pay for. I do not understand your problem with this. Can you exlpain why you are so against having free diagnostics under the free repair and support section? Just the other day I got a call from a guy with a broken laptop monitor. He wanted to do the repair himself but did not where to start. I gave him some advice, told him how to identify his laptops model number aswell as informed him on how to get a new one and what parts he should make sure are included. He was greatful and the service enabled him to get his own repairs underway. I did not charge him. Again, a diagnostic is a service, and I will offer free "supprt" or advice in the same sense as a free diagnostic. I dont know how to make it anymore clear. A diagnostic is clearly a service that enables users to repair their own machines, and I do it for free. —RealComputers

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2009-07-16 13:50:59   If you want to be technical about it, the support or service is free but not the repair. The section is called free repair and support. I ofer free support. —RealComputers

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2009-07-16 13:55:05   you seem to be bothered by my presence on wiki. Maybe you should back off and wait for the everyday users of wiki decide weather a free diagnostic qualifies as a free computer service or not. —RealComputers

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2009-07-23 09:16:32   Already done. Yet another example of why we need a global IP ban. —WilliamLewis

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2009-07-23 14:28:46   Sexual advertising is illegal, and I'd rather not see the wiki dragged into a legal issue. —Jteeples

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2009-07-23 14:39:57   A fine line. A fine line... —Jteeples

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2009-07-23 20:25:50   You are correct, I realize that I was thinking of prostitutional advertising. I will attempt to think more thoroughly when I post, but that is, after all, what the revert button is for {Insert smiley here} —Jteeples

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2009-07-28 09:06:35   Could you restore the DMUG and LUGOD listings on the Computer repair page? It's kinda unfair that they get delisted over a completely unrelated matter. —WilliamLewis

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2009-07-28 09:07:12   indeed

—RealComputers

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2009-07-28 12:57:57   though I do not think there was anything wrong at all with the listing I had made, I'm done dealing with this issue. You can unlock the computer repair page. I will not revert it to it previous state. —RealComputers

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2009-07-28 15:38:44   Thanks! —ElleWeber

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2009-07-29 01:35:24   That strikes me more as a wingless variety of dragon than a troll... —IDoNotExist

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2009-07-29 01:43:44   Alas, I don't have a troll. But I do have a real life gnome photo that I might upload some day... —IDoNotExist

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2009-07-29 01:58:35   Ugh... —IDoNotExist

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2009-07-29 02:02:56   Your first pun was much much shrouder. —IDoNotExist

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2009-07-29 15:41:03   Can you unlock the computer repair page, or at least remove the red box at the top? I am not going to try to add a listing in the free section. —RealComputers

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2009-07-30 10:26:33   Are you ever going to remove the caption at the top of the computer repair page? That issue is dead and gone. I have said over and over I'm not going to make any listing or do anything to that page. Is there a reason why you are ignoring me? —RealComputers

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2009-07-30 20:07:31   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

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2009-08-02 12:06:49   Is it just me or is the wiki responding extremely slowly today? —IDoNotExist

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2009-08-03 11:25:54   Not a problem. Didn't think you were. :-) —IDoNotExist

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2009-08-03 11:42:41   Things seem to be calm. Can you remover the red box from the computer repair page? —RealComputers

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2009-08-05 18:23:47   Welcome to the wiki. BTW, I have to scroll down like 5/6 of the way through the page to hit your comment bar. Odd. —WilliamLewis

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2009-08-06 13:23:04   I am having an issue. I would appriciate some help. User JimStewart has decided to start leaving comments about things that have nothing at all to do with computer or Real Computers the business on the real computer page. He seems to be unhappy that I restored something he deleted earlier on the computer repair page, which was an edit by williamlewis. I am not asking you to get involved in that, but I think its not appropriate for anyone to leave comments that have nothing to do with the services performed by a business on a business page. I feel, judging by the past, that JimStewart could easily start leaving more comments on that page and I dont want to start an edit war. A simply suggestion from you to him that he leave such comments on a different page, like my user page, would go a long way, asuming you agree that such comments should not be added to a business page. —RealComputers

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2009-08-06 13:28:09   Yes he is free to edit whatever he want, however that was the result and of a long and drawn out edit war in which many people agreed that the best solution was to have the listing as it is now. Either way, I care more about keeping comments that have nothing to do with business off of business pages. —RealComputers

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2009-08-06 13:29:59   When I made a wiki account, I did not realize that it would have been better to use my real name at the time. I just wanted to make a business listing. I would have choses a different user name if I had been more familiar with the wiki. —RealComputers

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2009-08-06 13:32:12   You have offered to help me determine what is appropriate for wiki usage in the past .. I am trying to take you up on that. Do you think it is appropriate for people to write comments on a business page that have nothing at all to do with the business? I know I have made some people not like me in the wiki, not on purpose, but I am just trying to do what I think is right here. —RealComputers

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2009-08-06 13:40:02   Im sure JimStewart did not comment on the business listing on accident, since he refered to me as the owner or real computers. I do think that having my user account under this name does help when I am actually talking/commenting to someone about computer repair, But I would be happy to change it if people have an issue with it. Thanks for the brief help. Also, I simply just dont think that the listing there is advertisment like, I think it just describes the main services offered, which is what the short descriptions are supposed to do. —RealComputers

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2009-08-06 13:46:19   I may really need your help now. As I feared this is probably going to start an edit war. JoePomidor has taken it upon himself to preserve the personal comment that JimStewart has left. Can you lock the real computer page for a few days or something, without any non-relevent comments on it? —RealComputers

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2009-08-06 13:47:34   Hey...are you going to be returning to Davis any time soon? Just curious. :) —IDoNotExist

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2009-08-06 13:49:23   Jabberwokky .. are you trying to tell me that you think that comment was more than a personal attack? Lets be real for a moment. JimStewart is one of the people who I may have offended unintentionally during some edit wars. You cant honestly believe that his motives are to help the wiki and not to just hurt me, can you? —RealComputers

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2009-08-06 13:51:41   Well you are an admin are you not? But I will not ask you for any further help at your request. —RealComputers

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2009-08-06 13:54:07   Well I do care. I will not stand for personal attacks on my business page. If people want to insult me, fine, but not on the real computers page. —RealComputers

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2009-08-06 14:04:26   Yes they have the right to, but that doesnt mean that unrelated business comments/personal attacks belong on a business page. I am not debating that they have the right, I know they have the right, just as I have the right to disagree with comments that have nothing to do with real computers being on the real computers page. —RealComputers

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2009-08-06 15:37:59   Can I ask you for a quick opinion on a non-argumentative issue. I am trying to get a better grasp of what these business pages are supposed to be like. It has been suggested that the real computers page "sucks" and so I went and took a look at all the other computer repair pages and found that the real computers page seems to be more informative than any other. I figured that was a good thing but maybe the point is not to be informative about specifics? —RealComputers

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2009-08-08 13:29:51   Hah! Or perhaps I should ask if fluffers fold? Either way, I'm not into starch. —robinlaughlin

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2009-08-10 16:04:04   Yeah, the number certainly caught my eye. Since I moved, I've been zippin' around LA on a Honda Metro. A lot of fun, but it's essential for my sanity. I'll weep if splitting lanes ever becomes illegal in CA. —EdWins

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2009-08-19 14:14:33   I believe that if someone is a clear sockpuppet you should just delete all their comments. —PhilipNeustrom

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2009-08-20 12:59:09   Could still be useful to have that information all in one place. Also, looks like Chemistry lists 1.5 research groups, but they are a huge department. I can't imagine that that's their whole research program! —IDoNotExist

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2009-08-31 13:28:33   My chubby little dwarf hamsters used to have the cutest pounce, the times we treated them to live foods (crickets, mealworms). —EdWins

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2009-09-02 08:52:37   Right, pages belong to the community, not to the wiki... that sounds better. —CovertProfessor

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2009-09-05 08:36:23   I don't think you're going to like my next edits to the page, though. —WilliamLewis

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2009-09-14 21:55:52   seed-000.png seems to be awol! —CovertProfessor

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2009-09-15 11:10:21   Hmm, ok — I cleared my cache and the cute seed reappeared. Sorry for the trouble. —CovertProfessor

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2009-09-15 14:29:18   I love your comment on the CCCC page, although I am astonished that it hasn't collapsed under its own weight into some kind of black hole of comment-ness. —JoePomidor

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2009-09-16 20:23:40   The current situation occurring with the dog trainer brings up a question I meant to ask a while ago. A friend of mine is a business owner and did not want her page up at all. She was looking into getting it removed but didn't want to start any sort of issues. At the least, she'd prefer to not have a comments page. How can she go about making this happen? —SunjeetBaadkar

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2009-09-17 11:49:34   I added information about real computer being unaffiliated with other stores and basically restated what your comments on the page says. Can you please remove your comment? I feel it is very out of place and that it is information that no one needs. —RealComputers

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2009-09-21 20:12:21   I figured as much after looking at some ips, I was gonna let you know tomorrow but your fast —StevenDaubert

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2009-09-21 23:32:31   I just wanted to stop by and thank you for all the hard work you're doing keeping the wiki flowing smoothly. I figure you don't do it for praise or anything, I just wanted to let you know that many people appreciate it. Myself included. —MasonMurray I concur wholeheartedly with the previous statement —StevenDaubert

• Thanks. We're all in it together, and everybody adds what they can (with only a very few exceptions over the past years). :) -jw

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2009-09-22 15:06:09   Thanks! I'll put each map with their respective areas and such once I'm satisfied enough :-) These were the kinds of maps I would have loved to have had during my apartment hunt in Davis. —RyanMikulovsky

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2009-09-23 03:27:31   Books are nice, but isn't the sign in front of the building inherently more authoritative? Maybe there is some cartography cabal of ucd eggheads who are plotting to correct the sign someday soon? :) I think its especially funny whatever the consensus becomes here on the wiki, that its our very own picture contradicting us. I guess thats life with wiki... —NickSchmalenberger

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2009-09-23 04:02:25   Seriously though, we have often made decisions on the wiki to rename a page based on a sign in a picture on the page. If the sign is maintained by an authority on the topic of the page (business owner, university administration) then it is authoritative information on the topic. Which doesn't mean anybody needs to pay attention or care about the authority as such, so we should ultimately explain the whole issue and let people decide fully informed. —NickSchmalenberger

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2009-09-23 08:09:38   Actually the fact that they were able to address me by name while hiding behind a pseudonym and only added profanity sort of proves my point. —JasonAller

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2009-09-23 19:15:16   thanks, i'll get some more photos up when i finally decide to bring my camera back out with me. —guero

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2009-09-25 14:58:22   I wanted to post this on the correct page for developers, but I can't remember what the page is called. This is a method of reducing the impact of malicious users like the ones we've had recently...

Perhaps each time you get reverted by a gnome, you lose the ability to edit for some amount of time. That time starts very small, but doubles each time. Over time, if you are good and don't get reverted, your penalty gets reduced. If you start a revert war and get reverted by gnomes frequently, you'll automagically lose your editing ability for quite some time, and the revert war will die almost immediately. —IDoNotExist

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2009-09-25 23:18:30   Hmmm...you might be right. But wouldn't a gnome who reverts maliciously themselves be reverted, or become degnomified? The penalty system requires trust in a small number of people who have known non-malicious behavior. Someone who violates that trust would rapidly not be considered worthy of the penalty producing power. —IDoNotExist

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2009-09-26 06:25:23   Hmmm...you could call it something else then. Something that refers to people who have proven themselves trustworthy over time. Snapes or Griffens, perhaps. ;-) —IDoNotExist

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2009-10-04 16:07:38   Why no, I hadn't heard of "Blackmore's Night" but thanks for the tip. —DougWalter

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2009-10-06 11:38:30   Aha. So that's where I should put such sightings. Excellent! —RyanMikulovsky

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2009-10-06 16:51:15   Hi Evan, do you have any leads for web design work for a small business in Davis? I've got someone who has three CDs of web info./pics/files that never made it onto a webpage, and he'd like to get it up and running. Have domain name. Need new web host. Suggestions? —TimQuick

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2009-10-07 12:03:05   Thanks Evan! OK, I called Bill Kendrick - looked him up in phone book 'cause no contact info. on his Wiki profile, hope I got right number. Will take suggestions if you have any more. BTW, love the alternate universe version sock puppet on your user page - makes me laugh every time. —TimQuick

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2009-10-07 18:12:56   We tryed to hyper link the portfolio we just uploaded to our website at www.urban-body.com and we dont know how to do it. Example.. when you click on Jordan Mitchell portfolio, we want it to take you to jordan's portfolio on the urban body website. Thanks! —UrbanBodyStaff

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2009-10-12 23:12:38   Perhaps this page should be black holed, too? It seems a bit beyond fair use quotations. —CovertProfessor

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2009-10-13 15:57:02   I understand. —CovertProfessor

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2009-10-18 16:51:33   Well, I got it 2-3 weeks ago, before seasonal flu had hit. It started with a rapidly developing fever (which eventually peaked around 103), and also body aches and general fatigue. I talked to an advice nurse through Kaiser, and she said that it was basically assured it was swine flu. They are actually discouraging folk from coming in, unless it's an emergency, so I have a feeling that the incidence rate is grossly underreported. —JoePomidor

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2009-10-28 11:20:00   I have a business license. Also, please dont remove info about price matching. I have sent comments to the user who left the comments about licensing on the RC page. If he for some reason feels that his comments need to be displayed even though RC despite the fact that I have a business license for real computers, let him voice it himself. —RealComputers

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2009-10-28 11:29:41   You dont have to like me but please erspect my right to remove comments that are state un-true idea directed to hurt my business; especially if they are left by a random person and not someone who has been a customer of mine. I have a business license. If you dont believe me I can prove it to you. Preserving comments that say that I do not have a license is not only confusing but mean spirited and i think you already know that. I'll ask you to do the same as I asked covertprofessor, please stay out of events that have to do with me as much as possible. You dont need to protect people comments or edits without even giving the origional author a chance to do it themselve. You take the control away from the users and that is just not ok. If the user wants his comments maintained, he will indicate. Since they are untrue, I imagine that he would mine and if he does then he is perserving untrue comments purely to try a belittle my business. —RealComputers

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2009-10-28 15:56:24   THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEESH! —AdobeManagement

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2009-10-28 16:00:30   What do you think of the pics i added? —RealComputers

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2009-10-29 00:06:34   nice poem on the featured page — an original? —TimMatthiessen

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2009-10-30 19:32:24   Sorry, I didn't see that you had banned him when I typed up my comment. I'll be surprised, though, if a 24 hour ban is enough. I really do think that he needs to be educated about what the wiki is for. But as you know, multiple people (including you) have tried to explain it to him multiple times. I don't know if he just doesn't get it or if he gets it and just doesn't care because his business is all that he cares about. This is the basis for my suggestion to give him some time to show that he gets the idea of the wiki without being allowed to edit the computer repair pages (though the sockpuppeting today was not promising in that regard), similar to the idea of putting him on probationary status. —CovertProfessor

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2009-10-31 17:39:21   Cute! —PhilipNeustrom

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2009-11-01 11:33:29   I like that noborder look. Is there a way to do text flow around an image? That could make the wiki really professional looking... —IDoNotExist

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2009-11-02 08:24:32   Why did you delete your nice comment on the ILD page? —CovertProfessor

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2009-11-02 09:27:24   Just in the interests of being precise, everything is copyrighted on the wiki. If it weren't, our licenses wouldn't work and people could do whatever they wanted with the content. —WilliamLewis

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2009-11-02 09:51:47   To me, what makes Davis a "small town" is that when I meet someone new, that person generally knows other people I know, or I soon find out that I run into that same person elsewhere. While it's hard to get used to if you've never experienced it before (and I never had), overall I find it quite nice. Being a small town has its positives and negatives, just as being a large city does. Personally, I hate large cities. —CovertProfessor

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2009-11-02 09:57:21   Hi Evan, I asked another administrator to archive the comments as all are references to previous management and are not pertinent. Are you able to archive them? If so, please do so. Thank you. —sritern

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2009-11-02 13:40:31   Hi Evan, I asked another administrator to archive the comments as all are references to previous management and are not pertinent. Are you able to archive them? If so, please do so. Thank you. —sritern

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"2009-11-2 22:17:59"   "Jabberwokky"? That looked so off-"k"ilter, and just weird, I've bestirred myself to let you know you've misspelled "Jabberwocky" (a poem about the "Jabberwock" actually—why you would nickname yourself for a poem about a burbling monster with eyes of flame is material for another comment) as in:

"`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borogoves,

And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!

The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!

Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun

The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:

Long time the manxome foe he sought —

So rested he by the Tumtum tree,

And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,

The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,

Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,

And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through

The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!

He left it dead, and with its head

He went galumphing back.

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?

Come to my arms, my beamish boy!

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'

He chortled in his joy.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;

All mimsy were the borogoves,

And the mome raths outgrabe."

—Sredni Vashtar

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2009-11-03 11:22:08   What's your Kibo number? —CovertProfessor

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2009-11-03 15:37:26   Sure, I'm glad to help. —NickSchmalenberger

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2009-11-06 07:33:46   That guy spammed with 335 edits, but not to me :( I'm not interesting enough?! —EdWins

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2009-11-06 08:11:23   I do wonder why spammers are such bad programmers. Do they think that everyone's (names) should be surrounded by parentheses? —IDoNotExist

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2009-11-06 08:19:47   Ugh. Thanks for cleaning up that mess. —CovertProfessor

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2009-11-06 10:33:54   Thanks, for cleaning up the spam. I saw a long list of edits and wonder what was going on. —SimonFung

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2009-11-06 11:03:34   Thanks for cleaning up my page. I hadn't checked it in awhile. —BrookeB

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2009-11-06 22:12:55   Thanks for the revert. Although Jessica did sound convincing :P —BrandonBarrette

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2009-11-07 18:19:14   Eh, not really — I've just been paying attention to recent events and wanted the wiki to reflect what had happened a little better. But it's an excellent idea to have a "growth" page — obviously, an important issue here in the past and future, and I'll think about whether there are links to add. —CovertProfessor

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2009-11-07 19:56:43   Yeah, you said "judicial action," so I figured this was fair game. I also figured that any peripheral development in Davis would be controversial. :-) —CovertProfessor

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2009-11-07 20:05:08   Gotta go now, but found all kinds of good stuff here and here. —CovertProfessor

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2009-11-07 21:17:53   I redirected the url http://www.maceranch.com, which I own, to http://daviswiki.org/Mace_Ranch. I presume it won't be a problem. —JimStewart