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Hello! I started here in September 2005, with this cricket edit. The kilikiti page came next, and by then I was dreaming in wikipedia entries (I don't recommend it). The dreams have stopped, but I still spend far too much time here. I also occasionally edit Wikitravel (see my userpage there) and Wikinews (see my userpage there).

I was a very active editor from 2006-2008.


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This user is no longer very active on Wikipedia.

 


If you'd like to contact me, leave a message on my talk page by clicking here and I'll respond to you there.
You can see all my contributions (chronologically) here, and you can see them analyzed here.
Unified login: Eitch is the unique login of this user for all public Wikimedia projects as well as Wikitravel.


Wikipedia editors: You may find this list of wikitext reminders I've made useful. Wikipedia does have a more comprehensive guide, but I find this short list handier. If you'd like to use my "this is a user page" and "this is a user talk page" banners on your own pages, instructions and the templates are here.


Wikipedia Recommendations and Activities

WP is particularly well suited for...
  • trying to memorize the system of English units (though I don't think I'll take on the volume systems)
  • learning traditional games of abstract strategy from around the world (while I'm by no means a serious player, there have been periods when I've seen everything around me in terms of Go) -- see also the full list of pages in the "Abstract Strategy Games" category; the traditional board games subcategory contains (with the exception of Kubb, which is traditional but not a board game):
Alea evangeliiAlquerqueBagha-ChallChowka bharaDaldøsFanoronaFive Field KonoJungleKubbMak-yekMancala gamesPong Hau K'iPulijudamSurakarta
Chess-related JanggiMakrukShatranjShogiSittuyinXiangqi
Go-related Go variantsGomokuKo shogi
Morris games Three Men's MorrisSix Men's MorrisNine Men's MorrisTwelve Men's Morris
Highly recommended articles
Things learned here that have stuck
(more recent)
  • The sadly boring story of how AC/DC got their name
  • Dada
(older)
Areas of relatively significant contributions (past and future, chronologically)

As of 4 November 2024, I have made over 1500 edits on Wikipedia.

To-Do list

If you like you can look at my more complete To do list (really just so I don't forget)

With Wikipedia, Learn What I Know

Work-fun

Away from the computer, some academic interests of mine are the biological basis of psychopathology (especially bipolar-spectrum and schizo-affective disorders) and psychopharmacology, and the relation sleep has with the former. Related areas I'm interested in are the perception of time; conceptual metaphor; emotion; addiction; and embodied cognition. I'm also interested in educational theory education, how we learn and how best to teach --specifically, how best to present (such as in a PowerPoint presentation) information visually,-- the use of graphic novels in education, and related issues of the mind. I've also done work in simulation semantics (for now, get a general inkling through cognitive science, simulation, and semantics).

Book-, art-, hobby-, and music-fun
I'm currently reading Stuart Kauffman's Investigations, a greatly simplified version of the premise of which is that life is an emergent property of collectively autocatalytic, organized groups of autonomous, working individuals, that this can be used as a tool for approaching astrobiology, and that economics works in the same way, making these principles fundamental to a broad range of systems. (Note: I haven't touched Investigations since September 2006. Still, it's pretty cool.)
Various
Buying books online
This is what I've found by testing all of the booksellers listed in WP's list of book sources:
  • AddAll, a price-comparison site, finds the best prices. They have the best results display: they list the results by the total price, but also give you the book cost / shipping cost break-down, tell you the shipping speed, and let you save books to a "memo list" of books you're interested in.
  • ISBNdb usually comes up with the same or worse prices than AddAll. But it has three great features no one else has: "Price History" shows you how the average price, or the price at specific book sellers, has changed over time; "Books on the same shelf" lists books with nearby Dewey decimal classification entries; "Similar books" seems to list books related by keywords.
Cloudspotting