Users/JessicaRockwell

violencia contra la mujer es una violacion de los derechos humanos

e-mail: <liberateothers AT yahoo DOT com> or, if it's related to the radio show: <neoisms AT yahoo DOT com>

~ feed people for free everyday!
~ bbc international news
~ sciam scientific american
~ bls bureau of labor statistics
~ hdr 2006 human development report 2006. check out cuba. same life expectancy as the u.s., 98% literacy rates, #50.... and all that with u.s. economic sanctions!
~ architectural styles of deconstructivism. more examples
~ robots/ai incl: transhumanism, posthumanism, nanobots, cyberpunk, etc. isaac asimov, octavia butler, and kathy acker.
~ dymaxion maps 20-sided map. less distortion of relative size of areas. no political lines. no north/south.
~ Workers Vanguard

solidarityi don't care much for animals but i don't eat them

She is the host of Neoism.

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Edits	Pages Created	Files Contributed	First Edit Date	Last Edit	Last Page Edited
991	106	42	2007-04-02 04:05:18	2009-11-20 07:34:56	UCD May 1, 2007: Day of Action

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Hey Jessica, when I do a search for "students take action" i see that page as the top result, under "Title Matches." It doesn't really match highly in the "Full text" area because the page itself has the words "students" "take", etc, but they all have their first letter bolded, which tricks out the wiki. I hope I answered your question! —PhilipNeustrom

2007-04-04 17:08:15 Okay, things should be good now with searching! The "social-ism" and "social-ist" thing you mentioned to me won't be fixed for a while, but all of the pages on the wiki should be find-able through searching, now! —PhilipNeustrom

2007-04-06 19:28:11 Take a look at my comment on UCD May 1, 2007: Day of Action/Talk. Once you see it, feel free to delete the whole thing. —DavidGrundler

Moved from elsewhere.

2007-04-07 09:06:22 please direct me to a wiki link that pertains to the use of Latin@ or Latinx on the wiki. xie xie ni. —JessicaRockwell

What do you mean?
No, I am just conforming the article to proper English grammar. ~Dave

Discussion regarding this topic should be located here. i sent you a comment on your user page asking for your reasoning as to why you oppose the use of latin@/latinx. and since the discussion on your userpage was related to what we are discussing on this page i copy and pasted comments from your userpage onto this page. please do not remove arguments, even if they're taken from your userpage. with that, i will once again repost the discussion between dave and i regarding the use of latin@/latinx en vez de decir Latino as is on his userpage. it will help to clarify my response.

(repost due to deletion) {What deletion? I don't recall deleting anything.}

2007-04-07 08:55:46 hello David, is there a wiki link explaining the rules regarding why Latin@ and/or Latinx can not be used? xie xie ni. —JessicaRockwell

No, I just prefer to stick to the customary rules of English and Latin grammar. And I hate those stupid cute ways that people abuse the language in an effort to be 'politically correct' or some other nonsense. ~D (as taken from Dave's userpage)

my response: do you recognize that English and Spanish (among others) have the male/masculine as representing all people? why do you think this is? just as you hate how people abuse the language to make it "politically correct", I hate how the dominant class manipulates language to maintain their position of power. but fighting against the oppressors is ridiculous, as I'm beginning to gather from statements here. tell me, what do you do that helps to end the oppression of people? (I'm hoping we can at least agree that people are oppressed). —JessicaRockwell

You see it as a means of oppression, I see it as the more logical reasoning, the only important sex is female, so thus it is the only specified sex in English, that is how I see it from a development standpoint anyway. I agree, people are being oppressed, I don't agree to the reasons, means, et cetera of how, why, et cetera they are being oppressed. You promote communism, and speak against a dominating class, to me that seems rather in contradiction as any communist system requires a central means of organization, but this is digression. I do not see how adhering to the conventions of the English and most other Latin and Germanic languages promotes any sort of oppression; please, tell me how we get from pronouns to oppression. ~Dave Poole {It doesn't matter what I do, that is unimportant to the argument.}

where have i promoted communism? i promote a socialist holiday and i promote the end of racism and sexism among other things. does that make me a communist? class can be viewed as many things. i have not advocated the end of economic class. but yes, i have advocated the end of class based on sex and race. do you at least see how in this society/economic system race, class and sex are all intertwined? —JessicaRockwell

— Yes, but by principles it is returning to a state where inequality is based on a meritocracy. I don't promote there to be class differences caused by anything beyond ones own free will, though there are times which someone of a given natural ability or attribute is needed (women have the ability to give birth, men tend to be better at lifting stuff with their arms) and statistics will reflect that (men do not give birth, few women have jobs lifting stuff with their arms, those that do have worked hard for it). I believe that people are born to a status and they should have the ability to pursue anything they wish, men can desire to give birth, and women to lift heavy things, and some may accomplish this, but sometimes one is simply unfavored for a position by their birth, in truth, numbers and profits rule most economic decisions. I prefer systems to be inhuman. But I digress, far more than I need to; I apparently brought communism into the discussion, I think it had to do with something on the far past page {I am too lazy to look it up}, perhaps the use of the word imperialism. They are all related only by societal constructs, and promoted solely by the same constructs. If you want to change society, please feel free, the drum has been beaten since the civil rights movement, there is no disagreement on how things should be, I find it silly to protest and ask for change that is happening with each passing day, albeit at a slow rate as there is an overturning of ideas in the generations; people need to be patient, think beyond their own lives, and stop being so myopic. (Yes I am being a jackass) ~Users/DavePoole

2007-04-07 21:54:06 question regarding wiki: are people suppose to ask a question and sign their question with their sig in the middle of the main page? it seems as though it should be added towards the end, no? —JessicaRockwell

Quick, solvable questions can go inline with the text, in general, but there are no set rules. —BrentLaabs

Just to note, you seem to have this attitude, "if you are not with us, you are against us", and I am pretty sure I have heard that before. ~Users/DavePoole

2007-04-08 10:47:29 Howdy, Jessica. I was curious if you invented the construct latin@. I keep a notebook devoted to graphemes, glyphs and notations, and I've never seen it (not surprising, my interests mostly lie in historical writing forms), nor can I find many references to it, although that may well be because it seems to not work with Google or most other search engines. Do you have a citation for usage? Incidently, the form latinx (or at least the x part) is a classic synthetic construct used during the middle ages as a generic or unknown sex in written documents. —JabberWokky

hey, it's cool you want to know about the use of latin@. i did not come up with this construct, but have seen it used throughout the spanish-speaking community. i did a google search for latin@ and i got a whole bunch of hits. as for latinx, and the use of x for the neutral, here are some pages that include it. i remember the first time i saw it was when i was in chile on march 8, international women's day. good times. —JessicaRockwell

Yep, latinx is a classic construct hundreds of years old, back when language was more fluid because it was always handwritten. There are a whole slew of abbreviations and notations that have been lost post-typesetting (þ are lost to þe æther). My other computer is a fountain pen. ;) The latin@ is an interesting new form, after the invention of the typeset word, and likely post-computer (as the @ symbol didn't settle into an "a/o" appearance until the past several decades, and that form wasn't really seen outside English until the computer age pushed it into all languages with the use of email addresses). It might have become common quickly, but the symbol use indicates it is new; at least in the timescale of language use (when I say "new", I mean in the last couple decades). It could also be the adaptation of a prior handwritten notation. What year were you in Chile? (On a side note, I had wanted to visit Patagonia for my honeymoon, but we are saving for a camper van to do an cross American trip in the future and look forward to going down through Chile on the way around to the Patagonian steppes). —JabberWokky

i didn't know the history of x. it's good to know. yeah, the @ for words is new. with computers and cell phones languages are changing. it's interesting because it seems like in english we abbreviate phrases such as "brb", "omg", etc. i could be totally off on this, but it seems like in spanish they change words as opposed to phrases. so instead of typing "que" they'll type "k". and instead of "por que" they'll type "p k". and this has transferred to things they write by hand as well. people are willing to change for efficiency. it would be cool if qwerty keyboards became obsolete, but i don't think that'll really happen. i was in chile last year. it's definitely not common for people to write herman@/chicanx and a major difficulty is to know how to pronounce the latinx. but the point of why people choose to write it as such should be clear. —JessicaRockwell

The @ was in use in Mexico when I was there in 2004, the Chican@ Studies folks and classes at UCD use it (though not formally on the program website or in the general catalogue), and I've seen it used in much print literature. I use it, too, when typing or hand-writing because it's easier than a/o or o/a. —AlyssaNelson

Alyssa, thanks for including this info. Es bueno saber k hay otras personas en el wiki k usan "@". has visto el uso d "x" tambien? zai jian. —JessicaRockwell

Please don't edit things in brackets. Those are macros and they break when you try to change the "language" contained in them. —WilliamLewis

Can you explain this more? i don't know what you're referring to. I'm new to this community and would appreciate more specificity. perhaps a link to where i did this? merci!!! —JessicaRockwell

When a page says [[comments]], that is not an actual word, it's a macro. [[Comment]], [[Comentarios/Preguntas]] [A Comment]] or [[Proposals]] won't work, that's not the name of the macro. Think of it as a proper name, it's a fixed name in any language. I don't call you Yiskah, and if I to say hello in Spanish, I'd say "¡Hola, Jessica!", (not translating the "Jessica") because your name is a proper noun. "Comments" might happen to be a word, but in the context of the macro (the part between double square brackets), it is a proper name (or technically, a syntax). —JabberWokky

[[Comments(Proposals)]] will change the text though. See Help with Macros. —BrentLaabs

This does raise an interesting question about internationalizing in regards to macros.. I guess people don't need to know the word to understand the function, just a proper noun. Perhaps you want to go to wikispot in order to make a Davis Wiki en esp. ~Dave

It's an old old, fairly interesting question. I program heavily in two computer languages (well, an API and a language) invented by Portuguese and Hebrew speakers and use a desktop written by a group that often converses in various European languages. The first uses Portuguese terms, and I have no problem with it, a command is a command, no matter what language it is. It's fun learning terms in other languages. The second uses odd conventions from time to time that I later learn are because they make more sense to the grammar conventions of the native language of the creator. Pretty neat. There are even a few Klingon programming languages made just for the thought experiment. It would likely be a good idea to have an macro aliasing system tied to an i18n database down the road, hopefully about the time another coder joins Philip in his work. It, like pretty much everything in a volunteer situation, is constrained by somebody who has the skills actually doing it. I'm replying here just to let Jessica know that it is a very variable item; there are a ton of pressing things for Philip to do, but if a new coder or three joined the project, translations of macros would suddenly become more viable. Limited resources: the bane of all community groups. Pretty nifty idea, however. Traditionally, however, the language for computer commands are static, and you just know that konsole is 'console' in German and krita is 'pencil' in Swedish. My desktop is full of the languages of those who wrote it. :) —JabberWokky

2007-04-15 20:20:47 Right Now, My Camera is in Dallas Cole's car, but as soon as I get it back, I'll post pics that night. —MaxMikalonis

2007-04-21 23:45:02 does anyone know about rules during the 60's (?) discussing how schools had to be built in a way so as to disperse the student populations to prevent agitation on campuses? —JessicaRockwell

I don't have a whole lot of background, but you can always start here: Free Speech Movement —BrentLaabs
I did a bit of looking into this for UCI, which was built around this principle. I am not quite sure if this was an actual requirement so much as a common thought during the time, having another Kent state shooting, riot, or general mayhem (original meaning) on campus is a terribly bad thing. However, despite UCI's design to have no 'natural meeting place' for such an event to occur, it still happens, I remember the nice last few protests there, it was so terribly funny. It is more a matter of coordinating students so they are not all in the same place at once, however this directly conflicts with the need to gather people about to maintain a sense of community, which is lacking at UCI it seems, so it is all in the air really, more hit and miss. Davis clearly isn't built in such a manner, anything I could help with regarding this? I would be happy to ask my historian friend down south about any of this. ~DavePoole

2007-05-02 21:49:24 The demagogy is disrespectful and not appreciated... —DavidGrundler

2007-05-02 22:14:33 I deleted your comment the first time because you didn't bother to sign it. —DavidGrundler

2007-05-03 00:06:11 Sadly, there is no information here about the person, only a log of some debates.. —DavidPoole

What on Earth are you talking about? And why do you end your sentence in two periods? —BrentLaabs
is this facebook? —JessicaRockwell
no, but typically a user page does describe the user as they appear in the community. Eh, I just thought it was rather filled with debate, that is all. ~Dave

well then i guess my lack of personal info tells you something about me. i'm not the typical user. = P —JessicaRockwell

Becoming a wiki member is like getting a phone through a service that you can't have an unlisted number with. Once you join the system, you must be contactable and deleting your number out of the self-editable phone book will only result in someone else adding it right back again! —WesHardaker

i don't get it. —JessicaRockwell
i do. —BrentLaabs

then plz explain it. —JessicaRockwell

This is a community of friends, real people doing real things who care about each other. There are real people here, people who can get hurt, people who help each other, people who care, and people who can really get to know you and become part of your life. You aren't a "user", you're Jessica, a person who has a great deal of passion about her beliefs. You're a vibrant part of our community here, and we want to get to know you. You are sometimes very distant in your relations to the fellow people here in the wiki community, and yes, that is atypical. But you aren't a "user"... you're Jessica, and we'd like to get to know you. —JabberWokky

2007-05-03 10:36:12 Hey, Jessica, I'm going to try and resolve the edit conflict by taking it back a couple versions and then picking through your and Steve's edits to add them back in. If I mess up, it's completely my fault and also completely not intentional. Feel free to correct or fix any changes I make on your behalf as I try to piece everybody's edits back together. :) —JabberWokky

2007-05-03 11:30:16 Hey Jessica, sorry you hit that weird bug with your images. I can reproduce the problem on my own computer so I'm going to hunt it down now. :) —PhilipNeustrom

Thanks for finding the bug Miss Rockwell, it could have been bad later to have something that potentially.. well bad.. come up later, sorry for all the confusion in the matter. ~Users/DavePoole

2007-05-07 07:02:30 It might be a good idea to remember that using slang such as "texting speak" excludes and creates a hostile environment to those who don't understand it. Many people above 30 don't know or care to learn to decypher such messages, and you're (unintentionally, I presume), being less inclusive when you add comments in that form. Keep in mind that Davis includes people of all ages and backgrounds, and you shouldn't have to be "up on the street slang" of the current youth to be able to read a good point about REAL ID. I'm not telling you not to (your comments are whatever you want to add), I'm just pointing a perspective that you might not have considered, as you don't seem exclusionary, ageist or elitist by nature. —JabberWokky

i'm glad you're pointing this out. i need to think about it. —JessicaRockwell

2007-05-08 22:01:08 A potential way to figure out how many women have run for Pres/VP of ASUCD could be to ask the aggie newspaper if they have an archive that's easily searchable dating back longer than the past few years. I'm assuming that if not an electronic format, that there would at least be paper copies at the library. Of course, that wouldn't tell how many women had expressed interest in running who were denied by their Slate's leadership, but it'd be a start at least. —JoseBleckman

hey joseph, thanks for the response and the lead. your point about slate's denying women the chance to run is an excellent one and is important to keep in mind. i, myself, hadn't yet considered that. —JessicaRockwell

Saw your comments, it is an interesting pattern, I looked at past senate tables and for the past few years it has been about fifty fifty (more males seem to run, but for the slates it is about fifty fifty) I know in L.E.A.D. we have talked about this, It would be interesting (not to mention important) to see why there hasn't been more diversity in the executive. Andrew

yeah, i brought it up this last election to the lead ppl when they were campaigning. it seemed that what i was saying was news to them. i also had some ppl running tell me that if names are too feminine they'll change them. tho i'd like to see more evidence than anecdotes. i also find it interesting that the only woman to win of the last 11 elected presidents was on the focus slate. i thought lead was suppose to be the more progressive group tho it'd be interesting to analyze the racial/ethnic data of the positions and not just gender.—JessicaRockwell

2007-05-09 01:18:41 Why do you insist on adding the comment macro that way and such? —EdWins

because i don't see why there's only one acceptable way of doing it —JessicaRockwell

2007-05-11 18:48:19 You were interested in wikis that use other languages... so check out accountablesarko. It looks like the wiki name got cut off by a character limit, but it is non english content and political in nature. —JasonAller

thanks jason for the info. i don't understand, however, why the functions are still in english. doesn't it make more sense for it to be in the language of the content? ex: "recent changes", "front page", "search", "tips", etc are in english when i think they should be in french.

The users of each wiki can change all of those things at this point except search. —JasonAller
You've been changing bits of Davis Wiki to other languages. Why shouldn't a French page have mixed language if you think Davis Wiki should have mixed language? Personally, I value accessibility and openness above everything else, and I think the French wiki should be all French, and the functional parts of Davis Wiki should be all one language (or a set of multiple translated sites operating in parallel, but not mixed languages within the same site). Your mixed language comment bars jar the same way the mixed language search is jarring on the French site. I'm not saying you can't or shouldn't do it, but I think you can now see why some people dislike it in the same way you dislike the English mixed into that French wiki. There are, of course, plenty of places where other languages are appropriate on Davis Wiki (quotes, statements in a different language, names of groups, documents, etc), I'm solely talking about the functional bits (like comment prompts) that are out of place in the same way an English search or "Recent Changes" tab is out of place on in that French wiki. —JabberWokky

Actually, Jason, the name hasn't been truncated; that's just the common nickname for Sarkozy. His opponent (Ségolène Royal) is known as Ségo.

kate, i'm glad you provided this correction. = ) sarkozy's not having an easy time it seems. i still can't believe he won! (btw, were you in agasa?) —JessicaRockwell

2007-05-11 22:44:43 Now that the accent bug has been fixed can you help to rename pages like Accion Zapatista to Acción Zapatista? Leave the non accented page as a redirect to aide in searching. —JasonAller

2007-05-14 20:35:21 Thanks for the comment and starting my page. (: —HeatherFlood

2007-05-23 16:27:10 Hey Jessica—good meeting you today at the protest and good job! —DavidGreenwald

2007-06-04 02:39:20 Nice to virtually meet you. Thanks for the grammar edits on World of Davis Game and thanks for the time I spent wandering this page. Dymaxion Maps are sweet - I have one folded into a globe at work and it's neat to see more about it. Great discussion on loaded terms with the whole Latin@/x bit. —AlexMandel

nice to meet you as well. the game sounds like a good way to get people aware of other cultures. yay for dymaxion maps! i'm quite jealous you have one. if you ever come by maps and/or globes of any kind that you want to get rid of, plz let me know. —JessicaRockwell

2007-06-06 19:24:04 Focus is the key to making forward progress. It helps keep you on topic and moving in the right direction. —JasonAller

2007-06-06 19:30:17 Jessica, will you go out with me? -brianbarbera

2007-06-08 10:29:30 If you call me occidental, I'm liable to kick your butt. :-P —WilliamLewis

Hi william. i don't know if your comment is a joke or a pseudo-joke. (as this is in relation to the edits on the Yolo County Jail page). but as there is at least one person that has expressed face-to-face their desire for me to explain why the use of oriental and hispanic is offensive i will reply to your comment in a serious manner. and perhaps we should start a talk page for terms on the wiki that may be offensive to people.
Ok, so i think it's important to remember that occidentals gave themselves that label and gave the non-occidentals the label of oriental, which refers to the east. oriental is an antiquated term stemming from colonialism and eurocentricism. when the occidentals said east, to what were they refering? east of europe.
Asia, on the other hand, does not put a certain group of people in the center. it is a neutral term.
Furthermore, we are writing in the daviswiki. davis, ca is located in the united states. asia is west of the united states. so why the heck would we even be using oriental to refer to asians? it is completely inaccurate. again showing the eurocentricism and why the use of asian is accurate.
The usage of oriental has also been negative, referring to exotic and strange. it is my understanding that some see the use of oriental when referring to people as equivalent to the use of the n-word.
Even if you weren't to agree with the points above, there is the issue of identity and labels. those who advocate using asian and doing away with the use of oriental are not coming from a place of hatred. they are wanting to label themselves rather than use the label of colonizers and eurocentrics. if a group of people that is not hateful wants to call themselves a certain thing, why would one oppose it? seriously, respect people's choices. now, one could argue that i should respect people's use of oriental, but seeing as how it stems from a place of ignorance and hate, i see no need to be ok with it and will promote instead the use of asian. —JessicaRockwell

What is wrong with Europe being the center of the universe, so many maps make it so? Also to note, Asia is still also to the east of the United States, just as it is also West of Europe, additionally it lies distantly to the South or North of both places. Lastly, are Russians Asian? if not, why? I mean, they are from Asia? I don't mean to simply argue, and I don't mind people changing the term used, I guess I worry about people taking the issue more serious than need be, I mean, it is not the word mattered but what is meant by it. But then what can I say, I am hardly ever hurt by words and cannot really think of anyone who has been, so I lack the entire personal experience in the area. As a last note, why refer to it as the n-word, given the nature of the discussion I don't see how anyone can be harmed by saying nigger, not to offend any black peoples out there. ~Users/Davepoole

I'd like to point out with David's comment - Asia does not lie distantly to the North or South of Europe and America. You cannot go farther south than the south pole, nor farther north than the north pole. I think you mean that you can go around the world north or south and you would hit Asia, however, once you pass the poles you're going a different direction. Thus, if you go north, once you pass the pole, you have to start going south to hit Asia.

I think it is important that people identify themselves, whatever category they fit in, if they choose to make a distinction. "Oriental" is no longer acceptable to refer to people, although it may still be used to describe styles. Here's food for thought when it comes to such things - if you really believe that the word doesn't matter (just the meaning), then there should be no reason the word cannot change as people see fit. It is strange to maintain the idea that the word doesn't matter, yet defend its usage. - KarlMogel

Point taken, I didn't think I was defending the usage as much as just saying that people seemed to focus too much on the word choice rather than the intended meaning. As for all intents and purposes, as a public forum we should try to keep things most enjoyable by the general public, if people are offended by one word and not another, then it should be of course considered. Unless there is a historic reason, or something like that, there is little reason to use a word that is offensive. However, if such a word is used, should people really take offense? As far as the north south thing, yeah, I didn't think of the fact that they are axial directions and thusly are relatively up and down, rather than around. ~Dave

Should they? Perhaps, perhaps not. Would they take offense to the term 'Oriental'? I believe a signifigant amount of people would - likely due to its historical usage during eras in which Europeans promoted their constructed image of 'The Orient' as being strange and different and backwards. Usage of the term can stir up those old connotations, which many find insulting. —JoseBleckman
Dave and Karl, i don't know if you noticed the last link on my profile, but if you haven't already, you may want to check out the dymaxion map: "The Dymaxion map has no 'right way up'. Fuller frequently argued that in the universe there is no 'up' and 'down', or 'north' and 'south': only 'in' and 'out'. Gravitational forces of the stars and planets created 'in', meaning 'towards the gravitational center', and 'out', meaning 'away from the gravitational center'. He linked the north-up-superior/south-down-inferior presentation of most other world maps to cultural bias. Note that there are some other maps without north at the top." —JessicaRockwell

World maps that don't have north as up show a blatant disregard for the Right hand rule.

Interesting, I shall look into it, seems like a fun idea. ~Dave

"What is wrong with Europe being the center of the universe, so many maps make it so?" dave, do you still accept the ancient greek geocentric theory of the universe or are you a religous fundamentalist? if ANY map shows earth as the center of the universe, there are some major problems with it. so if europe is the center of the universe you know right away that the map is completely bogus.

Just to note, I was more making amusement of the matter, also, if you redirect a coordinate system you can always say a square is circle, or up is down, black is white etc. As far as I am concerned, I am the center of my universe (I am more someone who makes muse and mockery for personal bemusement, I do not mean to offend, but perhaps in taking what I say from a musement perspective, you may find yourself a chuckle or two?). ~Dave

look, i've dealt with ppl from stormfront white nationalist community so how the heck am i suppose to know if you're a troll or not. how bout you save your comments for either positive feedback or serious critiques. —JessicaRockwell

2007-06-20 13:36:41 Long live the Blue page! —CovertProfessor

2007-06-23 06:57:28 cbt —BradBenedict

2007-06-27 08:51:45 It technically opens at five thirty, I have gotten donuts at five twenty before, generally I don't mind waiting a few bits for getting delicious donuts.. which I now miss dearly. —DavidPoole

2007-07-03 14:41:28 Thanks! But I only added a few tidbits about Sonoma County, the rest was already there... —GarrettGallegos

2007-07-08 19:10:09 good idea! i programmed this script in a directory called "revert_count." you think i would have thought of that already :-). it'll take a couple of hours to collect that data, but i'll post it as well as the spreadsheet! —CraigBrozinsky

2007-07-10 11:35:31 Jessica, thanks for all your efforts and energy directed toward social justice issues. I'm particularly impressed at the relatively substantial discussion that your "Women on Davis Wiki" page triggered - it made for a notable positive contribution to the Davis Wiki. —GrahamFreeman

2007-07-11 14:29:32 Jessica, what do you think of moving the ["Women on the Davis Wiki/Talk"] page to a new Gendered Pronouns on the Davis Wiki page (or, something like that — my name isn't too catchy). Right now, the discussion on the talk page seems like a separate issue rather than a "Talk" page. I'd do it myself, but I'm not really sure how. —CovertProfessor

Other naming options might include ["Wiki Community/Women"] or ["Wiki Community/Pronouns"]. This would incorporate into the existing structure of discussion pages about the wiki. —JasonAller
i think it's a good idea to move it. before i make a new page, are there any other titles you might have thought of? —JessicaRockwell

2007-08-12 13:41:13 Wow, that's pretty bad. I think Ingrid's writeup is 100x better than Michael's—his seems targeted at people who have already seen the movie seeing as he glosses over a few key assertions made by the DVD/book. Remember our China/Cuba conv.? Check this out. —ArlenAbraham

2007-08-12 18:31:35 Get http://www.maxim-ic.com/getds.cfm?qv_pk=1555&ln=en or http://datasheets.maxim-ic.com/en/ds/ICL7612-ICL764X.pdf

—SteveDavison

2007-08-13 17:01:31 switch-o change-o —ArlenAbraham

2007-08-17 21:26:50 FYI the KDVS signal can get as far as 50 miles away from the MU - through Sacramento, up into Grass Valley and parts of the Sierras, and as far as Fairfield. —ElisaHough

2007-08-28 12:01:53 Where should the page about Mark Chang be linked from? —JasonAller

2007-09-05 22:33:06 No sweat — glad to help. —CovertProfessor

2007-09-06 15:17:09 what's going on at the ex-turtle? also, did you listen to empire nation today? totally sucked again. two anti-abortionists gabbing on and on and on. —PxlAted

2007-09-07 02:13:29 hi jessica, Nice to see you are continuing to work for what you believe. I miss having our conversations and I hope to see you in Davis some time. —SolomonBothwell

2007-09-10 23:14:20 Hi Jessica, That US vs. North Korea World Cup game is happening at 2am rather than 2pm (unless you're hoping to avoid hearing the result for 12 hours). —JimEvans

2007-09-11 07:51:41 Hi Jessica, that's because we can't remember who we've told and who we've not told. We thought that Jeff the station manager knew, but he didn't find out until a month later. That show apparently replayed over and over again and he didn't catch it! I haven't said anything online yet, because I haven't uploaded the show yet - it needs some heavy editing (interview/debate with Ken Miller and PZ Myers cam through fuzzy), but when I upload it I'll be sure to send announcements everywhere, including on the wiki. Hey how come you didn't say you had a radio show - I had to find out through the wiki! :) —KarlMogel

ah, ok. when you get the show online i'd really like to hear it. as for my show....hmmm, i dunno. guess i want to get better before you listen to it. mhmm. in reason and posthumanism, —JessicaRockwell

2007-09-11 22:12:12 Post-humanism, eh? Only a Cylon would say that. —KarlMogel

it's the genetically engineered food! it made me into one! —JessicaRockwell

2007-09-11 23:55:33 Thanks! I was happy to see that progressive activism was not dying at UCD and very happy to defend. Keep up the great work. —JamesSchwab

2007-09-12 08:21:00 Yes, and I'm controlling your mind with GE canola oil. Muh huh hah hahhhhh! —KarlMogel

2007-09-13 16:05:56 Thanks! I will add more as my memory serves me. —JamesSchwab

2007-09-13 22:19:16 Thanks for reorganizing those pages, Jessica! —CovertProfessor

2007-09-20 21:24:55 RE: events_board neoisms domes talk: Don't you mean 8:40AM instead of 8:40PM?

—SteveDavison

2007-09-21 10:57:59 hey we're coming to Davis today - call us and lets see if we can meet and say hi! We'll try to call you, too. —KarlMogel

2007-09-21 15:11:45 We tried calling you today - just give us a call when you have time! —KarlMogel

2007-09-21 18:08:11 Thanks for Posting the Rollerderby Bout! Come say hi to me if you get a chance. —JohnnyRainbow

2007-09-23 10:41:32 Jessica, I think someone is pulling your leg with regard to the Homeless et al group. —Graham.Freeman

it may seem that way, but i have spoken with the coordinator and it is a real organization. i'll be covering the group in context of homelessness on my radio show—friday, october 19. so check it out! on another note, it's nice to know someone cares as to whether i get screwed over or not. = ) —JessicaRockwell

2007-09-23 14:24:59 Weird... That wasn't me. It looks like they just Google and put whatever up on their site. Sigh. —JasonAller

2007-09-27 18:16:42 Is there a lot of value in redirects where the title of the redirect is a subset of the page that it is pointing to? Maybe I'm missing the value of pages like Olson that points to Olson Hall. —JasonAller

the redirects i did yesterday were all things i had linked to from the events board but didn't have redirects. it's a pain to have to look up each word individually. maybe there's another way? did i see you by jamba juice yesterday during lunch or was that someone else? —JessicaRockwell
At lunch it would have been someone else. I did get a great drink there this morning. Thanks for explaining the reason for the redirects. I won't delete them then. Oh, and when I'm building an entry for the events page I open another window and use the search feature in the other window to get link names correct.—JasonAller

your idea about the second window can be useful. but laziness and not having good internet access calls for drastic measures.

2007-09-27 23:02:16 Hey Jessica, great question about the term "queer" and the intersection of class and race. It pretty much comes down to some people's unchecked white, upper-middle-class privilege leaving everyone else out of the loop. This post does a pretty good job of unpacking some of the ugly, ugly entitlement BS that goes on. If I find more definitive references, I'll send them your way.

—LizPhillips

2007-09-27 23:08:52 Hiya, Jessica! Thanks for adding the Astro club Events to the wiki. I noticed that you got confused with some of the events put on by The Davis Astronomy Club instead of our club, so I tried to fix up the pages to help with that. Will I see you at Thursday's meeting? —RachelPeters

2007-09-28 10:29:27 thanks for having the show about critical mass today. i had lots of fun. —PxlAted

2007-09-28 23:51:22 Do you know any numbers b/w one and point nine bar? —jefftolentino

2007-09-29 00:02:42 lets hear your proof. —jefftolentino

2007-09-29 00:29:13 Very nice. I remember seeing that some years ago, but I forgot how the proof went. Appreciating the revisit, thanks. —jefftolentino

2007-09-29 01:01:02 Hey Jessica, this is Kelly from KDVS. I was reading through your comments and there is a surprising amount of sociolinguistic debate going on! (As a Linguistics major this make me excited) You might want to read up on the fields of sociolinguistics and applied linguistics for more on such "issues" (I put quotes not for sarcasm but rather I wasn't sure what to call them) as gender neutral pronouns, what ethnic terms are/aren't offensive to who, etc. You also might want to contact a professor on campus by the name of Vai Ramanathan, she is VERY knowledgeable about all sorts of these kind of issues and would possibly make an excellent guest on your show. She's also SUPER nice, haha. —KellyCorcoran

2007-09-30 15:47:54 Most proofs of .999.. = 1 are circular, because the idea that ".999 = 1" is a part of the way that the real numbers themselves are defined. There are multiple ways to represent a given real number, and so "a number" in the reals is really an Equivalence class of all numbers that act the same way. —PhilipNeustrom

2007-09-30 21:52:18 Hey, Jessica. It was fun meeting you last night and chatting with you about those things that we talked about at that place where we discussed them, although I won't mention exactly where or when or what because this is a public forum. :-) —IDoNotExist

2007-10-02 14:21:07 Jessica, did you obtain permission to release the content of UCD Campus Security Report under Creative Commons licensing? (If it was already CC-By, you'll also have to add an attribution of specific source). —JabberWokky

2007-10-02 14:57:37 No, alas, it has to be completely rewritten or permission given to relicense it. You can cite figures and such, but the actual text has to be wholly recrafted, or it cannot be released under Creative Commons. The original author has copyright, and can of course release their version under Creative Commons. Since you are not the original author (and have not received permission to do so from the original author), you cannot release the copyrighted work under a more permissive license. Creative Commons allows people to make derivative works... i.e, make changes and rewrites and excerpts and include verbage in their own works. In other words, the stuff the wiki does. —JabberWokky

ah, thanks for the info.

2007-10-04 15:25:31 Your "something about bikes" event posting wins the prize for being vague. In such cases, can you provide info on what/where you heard about it, or possibly a web link? Thanks. —SteveDavison

2007-10-05 01:07:54 Did you really expect a different response from me? —MaxMikalonis

2007-10-06 10:58:33 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

2007-10-09 09:57:04 hi jessica. I had fun hanging out with you the other night. see ya soon. —PxlAted

2007-10-13 15:06:24 You're welcome! I'd meant to add something before now, but I hadn't had time. :) —NumiaCairaguas

2007-10-14 21:00:47 I haven't come across Taylorism in any of my courses but that's not to say it's not covered in the ones that I haven't had the pleasure of taking. —KirstenOnell

2007-10-26 07:40:50 Not sure what you mean, you mean the podcast? Very soon, in fact. Sometime in November. As of December I might even be on a radio station. "Stay Tuned..." —KarlMogel

2007-10-26 16:58:24 thanks for the comment —kelvinkay

2007-10-30 22:11:23 Agreeing. I think it'd be better condensed onto one page: that way you can read about both confidential and anonymous testing on the same page, and maybe make a decision. It's more useful/practical for visitors. What do you think? —EdWins

2007-10-31 07:19:57 Ariela's new blog —KarlMogel

2007-10-31 14:12:34 Thanks for posting all the great events! Great job! Ever read "The Guerilla Diary of Nestor Paz"? He was the son of a Bolivia Army general who joined the guerillas. Ended up starving to death. Quite a moving account, actually. I worked in Colombia. So many needs... —RichLindvall

2007-11-15 14:19:50 Hi Jessica, you should post Sacramento events on SacWiki.org —CharlesMcLaughlin

2007-11-18 19:00:25 What up dog! My Sociology blog is finally up. Go to http://www.sociologique.org. I just put up a little personal post about me, a post about scandalous Halloween costumes on women, and a post about anti-semitism. Karl even titled it Ravings of a Mozart-lovin' Sociology-studyin' White-lookin' Mexican Iconoclast. He did that behind my back, but I love it! :) I'm planning on putting up a new post bi-monthly, weekly at most. Ofcourse, when something good comes up, I'll make a small comment about it and link to it. I actually found a video on youtube where these guys in Baraboo, WI (30 minutes away from Madison) put two Tesla Coils on their front lawn and had it play Super Mario Bros. Hahaha. That was good. So that will go up on my blog - aaahh, the fusion of music and science. —ArielaHaro

2007-11-25 15:45:38 I think Ron Paul has some good ideas, but I also acknowledge that he has an uphill battle against Guiliani for the nomination. There has been support for him too here in NYC. I noticed that there were some supporters campaigning for him right after the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade ended Thursday morning. He definitely has a movement going. —PaulAmnuaypayoat

2007-11-25 17:52:02 Oddly enough I was in DC this weekend, and there were two separate conversations at tables next to us yesterday about Ron Paul. Today, driving back, I found a Ron Paul flier in a gas station in Maryland. Anecdotal, of course, but the popularity here seems to be fairly high. —JabberWokky

2007-11-26 23:08:35 yeah I want to know because I want to complain to/ about them. I had a car full of kids and was picking up more at the high school . I had to explain to my 4 year old what the horrible graphic HUGE pictures they had were. So inappropriate. Hopefully I can find out. I will let you know if I do. —HeatherFlood

2007-12-05 07:42:50 I only took 3 pictures and there are 23 left on the camera..so it might be awhile before you get those —CarlaIsabel

2007-12-10 00:50:50 To answer the question you left me on AIM: No, the only thing that was me was the thing I pointed out earlier. I haven't done anything in that thread since. —WilliamLewis

2007-12-24 18:04:39 hey, I tried to call but it says your mailbox isn't set up yet. wanna hang out tomorrow or the next day or the next? —PxlAted

2008-01-01 11:48:16 http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/ http://www.torproject.org/ http://scroogle.org/ —JessicaRockwell

2008-01-08 21:51:15 Un peu. J'ai habite en la France pour trois ans quand j'etais(?) jeune. I've forgotten most of it! Plus, I never was good at conjugating verbs. I'd like to get back into it, though. —robinlaughlin

2008-01-15 04:45:01 wow, girl. you got flamed to hell —fredchen

2008-03-03 01:49:09 Hi Jessica, Here are some links about Hypatia of Alexandria
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Hypatia.html
http://hypatia.ucsd.edu/~kl/hypatia.html

and here are some links about Kenji Nagai
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2547700.ece
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUST11008320070928
http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2007/09/myanmar01.html

I had a great time watching the movie with you, I hope we can talk more about this some time. —NickSchmalenberger

2008-03-14 09:39:38 Hey, great interview with Philip! I was trying to call in during the music to make sure that you were taking calls, but I guess I missed that slot due to the delay in the internet stream (also, the second phone number on the show listing is a bad number, so I had to run back upstairs and get the first number). I really enjoyed the show, and I'm glad you could run late to get some extra questions in. Thanks for asking some really interesting questions about how the Wiki grew. —Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards

2008-03-14 09:59:54 Yeah, the 530-572-2777 number gave me an "bad number" message, which I used because I didn't have to spell out KDVS on the keypad. I just double checked in my call log on my cell, and I dialed it correctly. I had punched it into my phone, waiting for a music break. When it didn't work, I then ran up, looked up the other number and called, which is why I was a bit confused if I was on the air when I first spoke. —JabberWokky

2008-06-18 20:29:10 I ran across a fun math problem the other day that you might enjoy...

Say you have to find the area between two concentric circles, in other words, the area of the larger circle minus the area of the smaller circle. You are only allowed to take a single measurement. What would you measure and how would calculate the area? —jefftolentino

I figured this one out and made a little graphic... If you know geometry don't look at the solution, it is too fun to figure out on your own. spoiler -Preston
Ha... and an even easier solution I just noticed... lol spoilersimple -Preston

Actually the easiest (although a wiseacre) way is to simply respond: "The single measurement to take would be to measure the area of the difference". I don't think that's quite the point of the puzzle, though. ;) —Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards

What method would you use to "measure the area" that only requires making 1 measurement? If you dug the area 1 m deep, poured in water, then measured the volume of that water using a graduated cylinder, then divided by 1 m, though measuring the distance to dig might count as a measurement... Similarly, using a right angle construction might count as a "measurement", but only if you used a protractor because is possible to create one using compass and straightedge. -Preston

Well, clearly all of your methods (including the ones involving calculations) are taking a measurement of the area. When I presented the puzzle to my wife last night at dinner, I said "one linear measurement between two points". And of course, responding to the puzzle with any other type of measurement is, as I freely admitted before and will restate again, a silly answer. —jw

I like how we've turned Jessica's page in to a little math forum. hahaha. Sorry Jessica. She'd given me a problem last year and thought I'd reciprocate. Anyhow, Preston's solutions were the ones I was after, and similar to the one came up with too. When the problem was presented to me, the type of measurement was left open (angles or arc lengths were also possible choices, although measuring the area directly is a bit trivial. Nice try though JW. hahaha). For me it was pretty easy to rule out what wouldn't work, but showing how to get an area from what plausible choices were left with took some thought. I liked the simplicity of the final solution though. Comes down to a couple easy theorems and can be done without calculus or trig, (though other proofs could be shown with both i'm sure) Nice work guys. -JeffTolentino