User:Kwill
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My name is David Seaward, although I usually write it d@vid to distinguish myself from the large amount of Davids I know; kwill is my regular online nick.
I am majoring in Computer Science and English at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. My major hobbies are reading (mostly science fiction, fantasy and comix - where comix does not equal superheroes, but any sequential art) and roleplaying games, particularly LARPing. I recently became Chatelaine for the Shire of Adamastor (http://www.adamastorshire.co.za/), the Cape Town branch of the Society for Creative Anachronism. (Hmmmm... so the Adamastor article is a stub, ay? And I didn't know that Chatelaine implied being female until I made that link! In the SCA the Chatelaine is concerned with newcomers and public relations.)
(All these topics are well-covered on the Wikipedia, but I'm finding obscure nooks to write about! :)
I worked at a bookstore for two years and I have some ideas about including bibliographic data in book articles. Some day I'll get round to discussing them.
I am embarrassingly monolingual, so I won't be contributing to Wikipedia in Zulu, Afrikaans, Xhosa or other interesting languages.
Unfortunately I haven't had much time to contribute much, but I've done a ton of research! (A wiki is more in line with my random access tendencies, so I've at least contributed more than a solitary article on roleplaying (http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A134795) as I did back on h2g2 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/U35496).) I used to think Wikipedia is the absolute shiznitz, till a friend pointed me to the Vampire watermelon. I still think it's the schiznitz, but now I read with caution.
Other community-based sites I frequent
I don't always frequent them frequently, though, and contribute once in a blue moon.
Interesting fact: The idea of the moon being made of green cheese is not as absurd a notion as you might think. "Green" used to (and in some contexts still does) mean "fresh", and mediaeval recipes would often call for "green cheese". The moon does generally look a pasty yellow, just like fresh cheese.
- CLAWsite (http://claws.uct.ac.za/)
- Me on the CLAWs tiki (http://claws.uct.ac.za/clawtiki/tiki-index.php?page=d@vid)
- The Forge (http://www.indie-rpgs.com) indie roleplaying design & actual play
- Universalis Arena 3 (http://wiki.trmfineart.com/bin/view/Unigame/WebHome) A wiki-based storytelling game, based on Universalis, which was created by two regular Forgites (I haven't had time to contribute much)
- dmoz (http://dmoz.org/) (not so frequent, but I edit the African Roleplaying and Conventions categories there)
Contact
- inkwell.za.net
- kwill@mail.com (mailto:kwill@mail.com)