Users/JabberWokky

     (Redirected from EvanEdwards)
InfoInfo TalkTalk MapMap
Search:    

RANDOM WIKI TIP: The wiki is not a weapon. Please don't use it solely for the purpose of making negative comments about people or organizations. Conversely, don't use it to just praise stuff. The community benefits most when you include the good as well as the bad.

jw.dw.png

chat.png Chat with fellow editors in the Davis Wiki IRC channel
[WWW]Click here to start chatting
I am an Oracle, and I demand your question!
Random Question and Answer:

Dear Oracle, why is my laptop making weird noises after I poured syrup on the screennnnnnnnn, aand wwhhyy aree mmyy kkeeyyss sstticckingg?? —TomGarberson

<
Click here to put your question to the Davis Wiki Oracle!
Phone
(814) 889-8845
Call from 4:00am to 3:00pm (Pacific)
Email
<jw.dw AT timewarp DOT org>
Location
116 Edith Street #10, State College, PA
Visitors and potential Penn State students welcome!
IRC
JabberWokky on OpenProjects, in #daviswiki
Type of restaurant
Comfort Seafood and Grill with a classy island vibe.

—— Somewhat out of date and out of state——

Evan.pngAn older photo. It's a longer, grayer beard nowadays.

gnomeEvan 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.

d6-02.png d6-03.png d6-06.png

    1. Amazing Value!
  1. Wiki Classics
  2. Proposal for a Radical Change
  3. KDE and the Wiki
  4. Where to Hide a Dead Body on the Wiki
  5. Random Wiki Nonsense
    1. Ten Random Links
    2. Five Random People
    3. Non Random Cool Entries
  6. Deleted Talk Pages
  7. one minute of downtime
  8. Wiki Bulldada
    1. =
  9. Davis as an Image
  10. Davis Wiki as an Image
  11. (Not so) FAQs
  12. Wikispotting
  13. Neat WikiSpot Wikis
  14. Stuff to work on
  15. Stuff for You
    1. =

  | _nn
  {___">

Note that Sarah is in the Doctorate program at Penn State, and so I'm in exile from Davis. We next move at the end of August 2010. At that point, she's got a short stint somewhere as a post-doc, and then the permanent faculty position search starts. 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 (which is worth living among to get a feel for different viewpoints).

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.

sockpuppet.png

ePuppet.pngAlternate 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.

artists-rendition.png

An Artist's Rendition

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 One tip he's discovered is that if a controversial or pointed reply, comment or edit is worth making, it'll be fine to type it up, read through it, then copy and paste it into a text file to read, edit and choose to post (or not) the next day. If it's really worth saying, it's going to be perfectly okay if it waits a day. That's especially important if you've been woken up at 1:15am by an alarm, and are sitting reading through Recent Changes while you wait for a database check to finish, half asleep. This comment, on the other hand should be safe. Right?

buad-image.png

An image of one of his LARP characters

Minor interesting facts:

EvanAndSarah.jpg


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


Amazing Value!

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

Wiki Classics

Proposal for a Radical Change

Here's a new proposal for the home page:

http://www.cheshirehall.net/link/a/10.01.26.16.21.52.png
 
 
 
Bizarro World               Drom's Comics and Cards
 
 
 
 

WikiFriends.png

Comic is Creative Commons By-NC [WWW]http://www.xkcd.com/

"Hey there, viewer! Do you want YOUR wiki entry to be padded out, fully documented and have an image gallery to put Picnic Day to shame? Well then, just delete it, claim you want to keep it hush hush, and watch it *fly* across the Recent Changes as an army of people update that puppy to the world's leading resource and the number one Google return!"

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:


Random Wiki Nonsense

Ten Random Links

mib.png

Five Random People

Non Random Cool Entries

JabberWokky's Statistics

Edits  Pages Created  Files Contributed  First Edit Date  Last Edit  Last Page Edited  
131877935622004-12-07 13:55:082010-03-21 09:30:30Users/JonLi


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.

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":

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

one minute of downtime

Describe that minute of downtime here.

it just occurred, and it was *terrible*

I wanted the wiki now, but I had to wait

sometimes i have to rip the band-aid off really quickly. it hurts, but it's for your own good.PhilipNeustrom

The excitement was hard to take! What would the new thing be? Would it be award-winning?? —CovertProfessor

Wiki Bulldada

karl.and.tomas.jpgDid you know Mike and Philip's ancestors worked together as innovators?

Adventures in GPSing.jpgJason uses high technology while maintaining his simian roots. Or branches, as the case may be.

Don't know what bulldada is? [WWW]Ask Google.

Davis as an Image

CityCloud.png

Davis Wiki as an Image

WikiCloud.png

(Not so) FAQs


Wikispotting

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

Neat WikiSpot Wikis

Stuff to work on

Stuff for You


Comments:

Note: You must be logged in to add comments



2010-03-20 10:17:58   Ooh, a clean slate! Time to muddy it a bit! —TomGarberson


2010-03-20 14:22:01   I did look at the changes somewhat and I've looked again. I saw that you used "Town History"; that was a good fix for the "History" link. And you edited the "People" page for keeping it as the link. I was expecting that there would be a link that would be more about the people of Davis. The Wiki Users aren't very forthcoming with information about us. You are more of an exception. —BruceHansen


2010-03-20 21:14:04   There's something to be developed "for sure".

I don't know about this procedure where a comment goes on one user's page and then that user reciprocates. One doesn't see the dialog in one place. —BruceHansen

This is a Wiki Spot wiki. Wiki Spot is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that helps communities collaborate via wikis.