User:Hotfeba

A "feba" is a military map reading term, standing for "forward edge of battle area", a final coordination line for adjacent ground units in an organized assault. The adjective "hot" refers to any area of operation where enemy personnel are present and engaging friendly forces. I used "hotfeba" as a

I have a Certificate in Computer Science from Coleman College dating from the early 1980's. Major emphasis was in

Returning to old stomping grounds where I could always play the big fish in a small pond ("He's a professional student without giving up his amateur standing"), I entered the legal assistants' major at City College and interned as a clerk for a Chapter 13 Standing Trustee for the United States Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of California. While also tutoring at the City College English Writing Center, I was a shelver at the San Diego County Public Law Library where I assisted in the library's transition to a Millennium system for collections management until early 2002.

At present, my main interest in education is in developing a thesis of mass martial arts (not a set of individual fighting techniques) based on ethnic characteristics of an American subculture that does not enjoy much empathy from a certain congressman from Colorado; this thesis is being heavily influenced by FEMA's principles of Comprehensive Emergency Management. I also am interested in the analysis of the union of computers and humans into wikii as living systems, and some work may later appear in an academia wikijournal as a result. I have not been a dues-paid member of Mensa International for some decades, but I fully support its three stated purposes, especially to the extent that they are realizable through the existence of the Wikipedia as a living system.

Employment

Who, me? Employed? Ha, ha, ha, ha... very funny!... Ha, ha, ha (gag)... ha, ha (choke... thud).

See previous quote about being a professional student.

If I am doing anything resembling employment, it is dabbling in

No matter how unemployed I am or over-qualified I may become, I will never accept the title of administrator or bureaucrat within this Wikipedia, even if it pays in piles of platinum.

• I have no interest in herding cats.

Besides, there are plenty of administrators around already and more added each week

formally nominated and approved, or

just old school self-breveted

Among the self-breveted are those who are patrolling (see definitions of

WP:CIVIL

and prevent this form of trolling from taking place, instead using these individuals as vandal suppression units without regard to any biting they may do against new users and editors.

• I have no time to become a prison guard, although in my state, they do have a really powerful public employee union. See analysis of self-breveted administrators above.

• It is much more satisfying to tutor students and see the joy of understanding in their faces. In person. In real time. The Wikipedia may be a living system, but it is not life, either with or without the indefinite article.

No, I am not "employed" at tutor.com either. You can guess about what kind of help students get there when they are charged $35 an hour for tutoring, but only $10-$12 actually gets to the tutor. Well over 60% take by the Man for a business that only exists on the Internet - wow, that's a profit margin!

Conditions of pseudo-work

Some personal policies and guidelines I observe here in Wikipedia-land:

• I do not have a problem with external links in articles when the probability of having an article full of dead red links to non-existent articles is fairly high. Merely placing internal links to entries in a section at the end of an article for external links seems kind of inefficient.

I KNOW that some of us insist that Wikipedia is separate and apart from the rest of the Internet... which appears to explain why most of the rest of the Internet users who are not Wikipedia users consider us to be touched with some sort of plague.

• If somebody reverts something I've edited, then that somebody gets the last word. I'm not taking pseudo-working for free so seriously that I'm going to get into an edit war over language.

Getting reverted usually means I did not add a credible, verifiable reference, and that's my bad.

• Subjecting somebody else to a formal dispute resolution process when the fault lies in one's own failure to follow accepted mandatory Wikipedia policies will most likely make me disregard the previous personal policy, especially when one has called for and then ignored my supported comments on an article in question, and then thrown up the NPOV tag.

See Wikipedia talk:Requests for mediation/3rd US Infantry

Plan

"Plan? There ain't no plan..."

Projects

Currently or recently looking at, where alphabetic sort order is not significant relative to prioritization:

• Emergency Management Institute

• German General Staff before World War I (under Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history)

• logic dictionary stubs

• mySandbox

• National Response Framework

• National Strategy for Homeland Security

• San Diego Reader (hoping to add information without too much conflict as a Reader blogger)

• Transaction logic

• Wikipedia:Missing science topics

• Wikipedia:Requested articles/mathematics

Please note that I will not maintain this as complete, as I will edit on the fly if I believe that a wikification is possible, or that a wikified addition of information appears to offer more usable information to users.

Current favorite article: The Man

Can't approve deleting that page without also deleting this and everything under it as well.

Personal sayings

Don't let a degree get in the way of your education.

Don't let education get in the way of understanding.

Don't let misunderstanding get in the way of living your life.

(Also see above quote about knowing how to tutor the lowest level math course offered on campus.)

Observations from Life

• In defining a user, it was always appropriate from the earliest of days pre-dating any wiki to share programmer wisdom with one's newer peers, so I uphold the ancient tradition of the sixtyfourth degree datamasons as follows, precisely because Wikipedia editing is a subset of interactive real time programming over a globally distributed computer network over a finite but variable learning curve, and the rate of change of the rate of change of that curve, that is to say its derivative to the second degree, is often a number less than one.

• GIGO
  .

• Speedreading
  helps. Proofreading hleps better.

• Build a system that even a caveman can use, and soon only cavemen will be using it.

Prime example: selected wiki edits of the entry for current President of the United States.

• It is possible to throw too many programmers at the problem.

Prime example: current discussion on stub naming, showing a good reason to go off somewhere else, start up a mirror, and mung its categories until personally satisified with the result.

See above observation about the rate of change of the rate of change of the standard wikipedian editing learning curve.

Also see

WP:FAIL

.

• Sun Wu Tzu's Thirteen Chapters are applicable everywhere. If you can't see it, don't be surprised to find somebody using those teachings on strategy and deception on you.

Self-defense in the college classroom against a lone mad shooter is not optional to maintain the lives of students in the class.

• A person who categorizes herself or himself with little boxes on a user page should not be surprised when stereotyped into little boxes by others.

A person who publishes only Wiki newsletters as a user page should expect that page to be valued somewhere between bird-cage lining and fishwrap; otherwise, we know who has irritated the vandals as a hobby B)

• Reading is fundamental, especially of sources not necessarily found on the Internet. It is helpful to live in a city with relatively predictable public transportation and with many accessible university campuses. Unfortunately, this may require one to actually get up and leave one's own personal desktop computer. Fortunately, gameboy can help kill the time while in transit, which is probably why the i-phone was invented.

It pleases me to no end that ISBN tags can be used ANYWHERE AND EVERYWHERE here...

• Academic rigor in writing and editing the Wikipedia is not optional. Without it in the least part of it, all of the Wikipedia won't be worth the blank compact discs it's burned on.

See first observation or

WP:FAIL

.

Rigor does not equal rigor mortis; for those believing it does, see

WP:FAIL

.

There are consequences to lack of rigor, inspired by recent encounters with a prison guard.

• A wikipedia definition in one sentence: A wikipedia is the sum of all users and computer components that describes a stored state of the subject wikipedia at a given time, where each term is the state of the individual user or computer component multiplied by the matrix of
  Gödel numbers
  of the data strings of each input, processing, and output transaction handled by the subject wikipedia system component.

A short equation:

WP = MUD

A short proof: If not(WP = MUD), then not(exist(TROLL)). But (exist(TROLL))* ${\displaystyle \to }$ exist(TROLL), so WP = MUD.

See also User:Hotfeba/WPMUD

• Model Motto - Wikipedia:
  CliffNotes
  of the Internet

First appearence?

Surveillance

The United States Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation know how to contact me (sorry: no information on previous national agency checks can be made available over non-secure modes of transmission, and that is precisely what the Internet is, claims of shtml and encryption advocates notwithstanding), and DOJ sends notices frequently. I am not kidding. Hackers and identity thieves, be forewarned.

Disclaimer

As any decent hacker or

template

Thanks for working on tagging those logic articles. I did a few, but then I got this bot to do it for us. It will tag everything in the categories we choose. Ooops wrong bot. I meant:Wikipedia:WikiProject Logic/Categories not Wikipedia:WikiProject_Logic/New_articles Gregbard 23:49, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Cool. The only reason now for keeping my list page is historical/hysterical. Otherwise, tagging did force me into actually looking at the articles, something still to do in order to offer comments on ratings. Hotfeba 16:27, 20 July 2007 (UTC)