The Internet is the last bastion of true free speech.
Wikipedia embodies
other attacks
.
I like to learn, and I wish more people did too.
general stuff about me
I find profound joy in reverting
spam. I mean, it's kind of like walking down a street, seeing a badly-graffitied wall, and being able to magically wave a magic wand to make it go away. I encourage everyone to check out the recent changes
portion of the site and do the same.
I especially have an interest in
AI and finding ways to automate that and other tasks using heuristic
analysis.
I sometimes suck at
wiki-pretty
... or, witty, if you will... then please, please correct me (and my bad puns, while you're at it) :P.
If you don't know me intimately, you'll think I'm
extroverted
. I'm not really this nerdy in real life. Well, then again, I suppose it depends who you're talking to. :P
If you saw me in real life, you would probably assume I'm the type of person who would use his cd tray for a cup holder. Wait a second... *looks at his tower* Yep, yep, you'd be 100% correct on that one. Since my old sony dvd-rom quit working, I actually do sometimes use it for a cupholder. Obviously I yanked the power cord out and used the ide for other things, but it does still look funny to see that in an otherwise stereotypically nerdy setup of two monitors, stacks of papers with "gibberish" written on them, and "guts" hanging out of my box's open case.
I've never been much of a gamer-- I've always much more preferred to metaphorically help write the game itself.
I like bulleted lists, but I try not to use them elsewhere because the {{prose}} tag and I are friends, and I try not to make it angry or it might find its way back to me. :P
My
perpetually funky
. It's like my body is set to a 25 hour cycle that invariably ends up always making me gradually stay up and sleep in later-- all over the course of a few weeks. It's annoying, to say the least. Maybe it's because I'm of Romanian descent and I was originally a vampire or something. I do have a weird thing for necks. :o[...
If you have any questions, I'll try as best as I can to answer them. Either check out
The 24 hour rule — basically a restatement of AGF, but for those who think things must always be immediately dealt with.
contact me
Add stuff to my talk page. Just be sure not to remove anything; otherwise, you might make somebody else sad that you deleted his/her comment. :(
E-mail me. Also works, but you're less likely to get a response back from there because I don't like responding to emails-- I do enough of that when I work. :P
IRC: slakr@freenode. My preferred method of two-way communication-- if I'm active, at least. :D
#stressed. My personal channel. If I'm not there, just leave a message. Beware, I or others may be testing random things there, so you temporarily might not be able to get in.
"OK, so we can at least tentatively conclude that Net access reduces rape. But that's a far cry from proving that porn access reduces rape. Maybe rape is down because the rapists are all indoors reading Slate or vandalizing Wikipedia."
This user is NOT known for taking himself too seriously and tends to use humor and emoticons to lighten overly serious conversations. :D
This user is a WikiElf who wishes he had pointy ears.
vandals think that this user is a closeted homosexual, but this user just laughs because the poor vandals are simply in denial
.
This user believes edit counts mean nothing and instead gauges the numerousness of his edits by comparing how pale his skin is to how tanned it should be.