The Mind's I
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Greetings! You've reached the user page of Mindspillage, otherwise known as Kat Walsh. Note: if you've ever encountered another "mindspillage", it's almost certainly me; a "Kat Walsh" encountered elsewhere may or may not be.
I'm a recent graduate of
Stetson_University in
DeLand,_Florida, with a B.A. in
Music and a minor in
Math, concentrating on
Discrete_math and
Music_theory. I am a
Bassoonist and
Contrabassoonist,
libertarian,
extropian Transhumanist,
INTP,
Quiz_bowler,
agnostic atheist, and
Geek. I want to be a freelance genius when I grow up, but I'm looking to be a career academic, playing bassoon on street corners and having people pay me to go away. (Don't ask me what I'm doing in the short term, though.) I love 20th century classical music, as you can tell from my contributions, and I am a stickler for correct spelling and punctuation; sometimes, however, I love commas and semicolons, not wisely, but too well. Other interests include
Cognitive_science,
Logic,
Philosophy,
Science_fiction, and categorization. Also, my
significant other was sucked in, after getting tired of me paraphrasing "
sofixit" all the time when he asked me to go change something.
You can email me by the sidebar link (which goes to mindspillage at gmail dot com), send an IM via AIM to LucidWaking, or leave me a message on my talk page. I am almost always in #wikipedia (as mindspillage when I'm around paying attention, and mind|wandering when I'm not). If you /msg me I'm likely to see it and return sooner. If I've blocked you, or an IP address you edit from, I will have your talk page (which you can still edit) on my watchlist, so you can reply to me there, though obviously that might take a little while. If you need my attention in a hurry, you can try getting hold of me at the [irc://irc.freenode.net/wikipedia #wikipedia]
IRC channel.
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Multiple intelligences
A few of the hats I wear on Wikimedia:
*Editor. First and most important.
*I am an
administrator here. Please feel free to ask me for admin help, or if you just need the ear of someone who ought to know what's going on.
*I am an administrator on
meta. If you need assistance there, just ask; either talk page works.
*In October 2005 I was appointed to the
Arbitration Committee. My term expires in December; I am not sure whether I want a second, but I'm
running anyhow.
*I also
handle emails that come in to info-en@wikimedia.org as well as permissions@wikimedia.org, so you might see me doing strange things on behalf of people who've sent messages. If you'd like to help out, drop me a note, please; preference given to longstanding users who are friendly and clueful.
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Pieces of mind
Occasionally I like to blather on about Wikipedia rather than do anything constructive...
{{User:Seth_Ilys/Trifecta}}
*
Use common sense: a meta-rule that goes hand-in-hand with
Meta:Don't_be_a_dick and
Wikipedia:Ignore_all_rules, and supersedes all others. It should be in the Wikipedia namespace as policy, but it would just turn into something that made no sense and was overrun with rules.
*
On the use of admin rights: why I am conservative about using them, and you should be too.
*
The value of mergism: why I am a
mergist, as posted to WikiEN-l.
*
Disputes are never solved by escalating them: a few paragraphs I thought were nice until I reread
Wikipedia:Civility and saw that
Anthere had already said most of what I wanted to say already.
*
How to win an argument, on meta, after long observation.
*
Meta:Polls_are_evil, after having been egged on by
Kim Bruning to write something better than the sad stub that was there.
I follow the
one-revert rule as well as the the
policy trifecta (shown neatly in a little box to the side, as arranged by its originator,
Seth Ilys). I'm a strong believer in the
simplified ruleset as a guide to almost any sticky situation. And I'm a strong believer in consensus and the supremacy and necessity of good judgment, over all.
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Kept in mind
"''The cultivated person's first duty is to always be prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.''"
-- Umberto_Eco (stolen blithely from User:Antandrus)
In my write mind
'''Started or rewritten:'''
Aaron_Jay_Kernis / ''
Ain't_Nobody's_Business_If_You_Do'' /
Albert_Szirmai /
Alexandre_Tansman /
Alvin_Etler /
Amanda_Borden /
André_Jolivet /
Bart_Conner /
Andrey_Rimsky-Korsakov /
Bassoon_sonata / ''
Cat_and_Girl'' /
Closely_related_key / ''
Come Out'' /
Concert_band /
Daniel_Dorff /
Daniel_Read /
David_Del_Tredici /
De_Leon_Springs_State_Park / ''
Doctor_Fun'' /
Double_reed /
Eugène_Bozza /
Extensional_definition /
Francisco_Mignone /
Frederick_Fennell /
Gordon_Jacob /
Hugo_Wolf /
Intensional_definition /
Jan_DeGaetani /
Jean_Françaix /
John_Barnes_Chance /
Judith_Sargent_Murray /
Jurriaan_Andriessen /
Keiko_Abe /
Lexical_definition /
Lili_Boulanger /
Luigi_Dallapiccola /
Madeleine_Dring / ''
Metastasis'' /
Michala_Petri /
Miller_Puckette /
Modulation /
Multiphonic /
Ostensive_definition /
Persuasive_definition /
Precising_definition / '''
Rebecca_Clarke''' /
Ruth_Gipps /
Stipulative_definition /
Susan_Nigro /
Terry_Riley /
Theon_of_Smyrna /
Theoretical_definition / ''
The_Stone_Guest'' /
Vampire_number /
Vincent_Persichetti /
Vittorio_Giannini /
Vocalise /
William_Bergsma /
Willson_Osborne /
Meta:How_to_win_an_argument /
Meta:Polls_are_evil
'''Other significant contributions: '''
Bassoon /
Contrabassoon /
Daniel_Gorenstein / ''
Gadsby'' /
Handstand /
Iannis_Xenakis /
L._Neil_Smith /
List_of_web_comics /
National_Institutes_of_Health / "
Old_Folks_at_Home" /
Quintet /
Robert_M._Pirsig /
Stetson_University /
Steve_Reich / ''
The_Mind's_I'' / ''
The_Rite_of_Spring'' /
Thomas Hastings /
Wind_quintet /
Zarzuela
Of sound mind
You can hear me in these recordings:
*
"Tu pauperum refugium" from ''Magnus es tu, Domine'', by
Josquin, as performed by bassoon quartet (or, rather, one bassoon in four tracks).
*
Multitracked viola quartet, in a bit of improvisation to demonstrate the sound of the instrument in ensemble.
*
A minuet excerpt from
J._S._Bach's cello suite #1, performed on the
Contrabassoon.
*Technical examples of
Bassoon playing, including
range,
tone across registers,
chromatic scale,
articulations,
dynamics,
trills,
pitch bending, and the
reed played alone.
Spilt ilk
This page is not protected: you can edit it. Particularly if you want to fix typos and links, or if you feel inclined to exercise your mad layout skills, or maybe even give a testimonial. (
Geogre asked for sonnets, which was a stroke of genius; alas, I am not so brazen as to steal the idea.) I don't own this page. (As it happens, there are pages elsewhere I do own, and I leave them dormant to work on Wikipedia instead.) I will exercise final judgment on which changes I keep, of course... Random acts of poetry encouraged!
Image:Barnstar.png|I award you this barnstar for all your vast help to the Wiki. Redwolf24 (24 yours?) (Complete with a signature spoof.)
Image:Afrikanischer strauss.jpg|I hereby Ostrichcize you! -- Essjay · Talk
Image:Ostrich140.jpg|Thanks, fvw, for the ostrich.
:My mind, spillage.
:My mind, wandering.
:Constance, Dale, Fern--
::women I will never know.
:Poetry, the art form I will never be good at.
:
func(talk) 19:09, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
:Mindspillage. The spillage of the mind.
:This is the creed of the Wikipedian.
::May our minds spring forth with our most cherished knowledge
::And may I share the bounty of my wisdom to slake the thirst of curiosity among the people
::Join our community, our world.
:We are Wikipedians. May the mind of Wikipedia spill forth with bounty.
:Welcome to Wikipedia. May you spring forth and prosper!
User:Szyslak [ +t, +c, +m ] 09:46, August 11, 2005 (UTC)
:A haiku:
:Mindspillage, admin.
:Mindspillage, arbitrator.
:A spill of a mind.
::
Ral315 WS 08:35, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
Mindspillage - a
Grand_canonical_ensemble of thoughts. May the
Partition_functions unite! --
HappyCamper 01:01, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
:There was a young lady Mindspillage,
:Who from Wikip'dia did pillage
:All the things that one can
:This poem don't scan.
:She lives in the Wikian village!
::
[[Sam Korn]] 21:50, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
Spill containment
I agree to
multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}
Brain droppings
Because I never remember my IP address when I need it, it is here, for my own reference:
24.165.233.150
*
To-do list, which I may or may not use as a guide to what I'll work on next
*
Sandbox, so I don't actually have to remember said IP address quite so often