User talk:Furrykef

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Hi from me too :) Re your additions at Homestar Runner, please try and keep a Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, otherwise, great edits :) Keep contributing Dysprosia 06:18, 24 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Hi there Furrykef. I noticed your work on fingerpicking, and the guitar wikibook (good work by the way!), so was wondering if perhaps you can answer a question for me... I fingerpick, but seem to have taught myself an unorthodox style in which I use my pinky finger for the 1st string (thus my ring finger for 2nd, middle for 3rd, index for 4th and my thumb for 5th and 6th). I somehow got it into my head when I was learning that this would be more efficient, as with all fingers in use I might be able to one day do some more complex picking... Hmm.

Have you heard of this style of picking before? Do you know why the pinky is not usually used? --Chopchopwhitey 02:06, 22 May 2004 (UTC)

This is actually very close to the way I fingerpick (at least when I play "Money for Nothing", the song I play most often as it's the first I learned), though I'll pick differently for different songs based on what strings I use most often, whether or not I use the whammy bar, and whether or not I'll need to do any tapping. I think the pinky is often unused because it's easier to play properly if the hand is supported, which is what the pinky is doing. There are lots of other places the pinky can be placed if you need to use the first string but don't want to pluck it with the pinky...e.g., the pickguard, the side of a pickup (the way I often do it on a Les Paul for some reason; wish I actually owned one), or gripping the side of the whammy bar (my favorite "alternate place" for it since it can open up a world of techniques). --Furrykef 04:20, 22 May 2004 (UTC)

I'll just butt in and say it's pretty common among people who do a lot of hybrid picking when they do straight finger picking. -- Jim Regan 04:23, 22 May 2004 (UTC)

Wow. People would read this thing without having something in mind to post first? --Furrykef 07:46, 22 May 2004 (UTC)

Read what? I saw no articles mentioning hybrid picking. (I added some, along with some info about thumb and finger picks to the fingerpicking article). -- Jim Regan 08:22, 22 May 2004 (UTC)

I meant my talk page. :) --Furrykef 08:38, 22 May 2004 (UTC)

Well, I'll just play dumb and say you didn't specifically mention hybrid picking :-P I'll blame insomnia while I'm at it too. And the phase of the moon. And... -- Jim Regan 09:13, 22 May 2004 (UTC)

Thanks guys... good to know I'm not out there on my own in a world of strange and unfortunate fingerpicking. So now my new question is: what's hybrid picking and what's straight finger picking? --Chopchopwhitey 07:52, 22 May 2004 (UTC)

Well, I added some info to fingerpicking, but in brief hybrid picking means using both a pick and fingers. -- Jim Regan 08:22, 22 May 2004 (UTC)

Nice work, Jim...I think now my user page needs a section called "Articles I created but am no longer the primary contributor to" ;) --Furrykef 08:45, 22 May 2004 (UTC)

Pfft. If that doesn't include all of them after a while, you might want to pinch yourself :-D -- Jim Regan 09:13, 22 May 2004 (UTC)

Good work on Civilization

I may add something on Civ I, II, CTP one day; and Railroad Tycoon (original version). Robin Patterson 20:14, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia:General complaints#Broken msg's

Whoah! that looks like a genuine bug! Have you reported it on m:MediaWiki feature request and bug report discussion? Or better yet, source forge... --ssd 02:54, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure it's fixed by now... --Furrykef 07:36, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Yup, looks fixed. That was quick. :) --ssd 12:39, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Hey there! I saw you'd made a nice WikiBook for Civ, and I wrote a draft article in the Strategy section of SMAC here (http://wikibooks.org/wiki/Civ:SMAC_Strategy), hope you like it :) --Lone Isle 11:10, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)

How to input a macron

Hey Furrykef. At Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_for_Japan-related_articles, we decided that {{o}} etc. should not be used to produce a macron. WhisperToMe 18:25, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)

~~Re: Bivalence and related laws - are you sure that logics which reject bivalence also allow (P & -P) to be true? I don't see that this follows... Evercat 17:24, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)~~

Sorry, I've thought about it more properly and you're obviously correct... :-) Evercat 17:56, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I admit I had made my original edit in haste when I shouldn't have. Now I have taken the time to treat the matter more properly -- by entirely rewriting the section. I'm not "done" with it (but you're free to edit it in the meantime), though I may forget and never come back to it. I plan on drawing a nice little diagram to help show the point further. - Furrykef 21:13, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)

User:217.43.78.52

You listed this user's userpage for speedy deletion, saying he had an account now. What's the account? Snowspinner 20:07, Sep 13, 2004 (UTC)

DominicF - Furrykef 09:17, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Edits to poker pages

Thanks for correcting the typo on Chris Moneymaker. Your edit to Amarillo Slim was confusing though, as you changed the link from 2004 to As of 2004, which is a redirect to 2004. CryptoDerk 22:29, Sep 16, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for explaining the reason for the change. I'll be sure to do that in the future as well as go back and do it to the other poker articles. CryptoDerk 15:36, Sep 17, 2004 (UTC)

Phil Hellmuth

Convention is to use the most common name for a person. Phil Hellmuth is the most common name, and we have no articles that would otherwise get in the way of the article being named according to convention. CryptoDerk 07:27, Sep 27, 2004 (UTC)

Speedy deletion

I disagree with this point of view because admins and RC Patrol need to know the full history of a particular IP address should any vandalism continue. Deleting anon user talk pages should be the exception rather than the rule. This I have brought up for discussion at Wikipedia talk:Candidates for speedy deletion but I have yet to receive a definitive answer. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 08:04, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Hello, just thought I would let you know: yes, the Planck quote on Structure of Scientific Revolutions page had a typo in it, I double checked and your correction is correct. --Fastfission 13:22, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

NAMBLA

As I saw that you edited Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal I would like to invite you to help with conflicts in the article about the "North American Man/Boy love organization" as well. Get-back-world-respect 20:26, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I think I only happened across the page and corrected a typo. I don't really want to get involved with NPOV conflicts and whatnot. - Furrykef 22:01, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit&section=new)| talk)

Calm down

hey:

Regarding your most recent edit-comment on Super Mario World, there's no reason to get angry over vandalism, as long as the wiki policy stands, it will happen.

If you get angry, they will only find it amusing and keep up that practice, tho it doesn't mean if we leave it it will stop.

However, i do find that the wiki policy in anyone can edit to be both a strength and a weakness, as vandalism will surely stain the credibility of any page.

In the meanwhile, we'll just have to revert those vandalisms. LG-犬夜叉 09:32, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)

I wasn't angry, just annoyed. I seem to be getting annoyed too much here at Wikipedia lately; many of my latest edit comments aren't very nice, which is why I've been leaving the summary blank much of the time (even though I'm not supposed to). - furrykef (Talk at me) 10:36, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

As of

I was reverting the misinformation that Deeceevoice had inserted into the article. Your nit-picking minor change got caught in the crossfire. Too bad; no need to go postal over it. -- CYD

Just making sure. It wasn't the first time I had such a link undone. - furrykef (Talk at me) 04:54, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Melanin & superconducitivity

Hey. It was an inadvertent slip, which I've corrected. In describing Melanin Theory in black supremacy, I inadvertently used "superconductor" in place of "semiconductor." See the article's discussion page. deeceevoice 13:01, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Creatures Wiki

Hi there! I ran across your Creatures 3 guide (http://riters.com/gameinfo/index.cgi/PC_2fCreatures3_2fGuide) - we've set up a Creatures Wiki (http://creatures.wikicities.com/) that's going well - it's currently the Featured Wiki over at Wikicities (http://www.wikicities.com/) - and I was wondering if you'd like to contribute anything to it. We don't have much in the way of "user guides" right now, so I think your input would be valuable, if you have the time to spare. :-) GreenReaper 23:24, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Compiler metaprogramming example

Hmm, that's a bit sneaky, first editing metaprogramming to change the context of the link and then submitting the linked page to vfd :-P Especially since I'm sort of on forced wikivacation due to the extreme slowness of the wiki.

Hmm, perhaps it just looks that way. Either way it's fine by me, just, well, sneaky perhaps. :-P

Anyway, I've now replied to your comments on talk:Compiler metaprogramming example, though perhaps running this discussion per email or irc and then reporting back on the wiki might be more productive, since it's still extremely slow for me.

I hope to hear from you soon!

Kim Bruning 21:02, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Game wiki

Wouldn't you know, I just got done entering about 50 NES games into Wikipedia, and now I find out about the game wiki. Hmm, is there any way the two wikis can benefit each other? i.e., how to avoid accidental duplication of work? Rad Racer 04:11, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Well, of course Wikipedia can cross-reference the game wiki through "external links", and already does so for a couple of the games. To link to a gameinfo page, just use the form [[Wikicities:c:games:NAME OF PAGE]] -- a bit contorted, I know. I wouldn't worry too much about accidental duplication of work, since an encyclopedia and a game site will tend to have a different focus on the article. - furrykef (Talk at me) 04:36, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

SNES Shadowrun

Hi. I appreciate your help in the article I was working on. First off, I didn't know how to do the bulleting thing you did. I was using the BR tage. The asterisks are much nicer. ALso, I wanted to put the spoiler warning but I didn't know how to do that, although I had seen it done before. Thanks. Perhaps the article is a bit... extensive, but I wanted to create it like this since it was one of my favorite games and I have found very few sites out there that contain a good amount of information on the game. That game sure was ahead of its time, and I hope that other Shadowrun (SNES) enthusiasts can get something out of this. Perhaps I will write a walkthrough at the end. Once again, I appreciate your help with it. I wouldn't have been able to figure out the formatting, etc on my own! Ernie.

PS: Is the game Wiki new? Can my SNES Shadowrun article be copied and/or transferred over there?

Adminship

If I were to nominate you for adminship, would you accept? I've taken an in-depth look at your contributions and think you're an ideal candidate. CryptoDerk 21:29, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)

I'd probably accept, but I never really bothered asking because I'm not really sure I'm an "ideal" candidate. Most of my contributions are annoying little typo corrections (you'll notice I often leave the edit history blank, which I'm not supposed to do, because it gets tiring typing "typo" or "rm comma" or whatever time after time), and I'm not sure I set a good example. I get a little irritated at times (especially after having corrected one typo too many for the day), and one time I was all up in arms because of the way templates were being handled in MediaWiki 1.3 and I was too stubborn to change how I was using them in Wikibooks. Finally, I doubt I'd really use the powers of sysophood very much. I certainly wouldn't abuse them, though. But I'd probably just do the occasional "knock out the redirect that's in the way" kind of thing. But if you still think I'm good for it, go ahead and nominate me. :) - furrykef (Talk at me) 22:09, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations!

Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 01:45, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

FurryRPG

FurryRPG? This intrigues me. Tell me s'more about this project of yours? Almafeta 23:41, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I wish I could, but the truth is various things keep me from actually getting any work done, so there's little to tell. I do have a preliminary design document, but it's a bit out of date by now. I need to start writing up a new one. If you're interested in actually helping out in some way, perhaps I could come up with some more information. :) It's not my priority right now, unfortunately... - furrykef (Talk at me) 00:36, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks very much for writing to me. I guess I'm getting a little too trigger happy with speedy deletes. I'm new at it and am trying to get those vanity pages and other nonsense off! CoolGuy 06:40, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

4004 layout nitpicking

Just thought I'd write to explain my rationale for leaving the layout of the Intel 4004 article roughly the way it was (hence my recent rv), and to ask if it didn't look that good anyway(?):

The  -s are there to right-justify numbers for ease of direct visual comparison, as well as to make the affected lines look more tidy
The '*'-marked footnote at the sec's bottom should be parenthesized to make it clear it's a note and not a part of the sec proper

Your superscripting of the note-indicating asterisks may be (more) correct and better-looking than the way they were; I think I just used 'ordinary' '*'-s because they looked a little superscripted anyway, w/o any explicit 'nudging'. But I must admit I didn't check any other font than the one I get when I fire up my browser and use the default wkp skin. Please comment. --Wernher 04:32, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

(please just reply here on this page -- it's almost always better to keep a conversational thread in one place, don't you agree? --w)

The problem with the   thingies is that it will look different to different people and may well actually throw it entirely out of alignment depending on the font. The usual formatting practice is to not worry about aligning things like this, and I think it's a good idea to stay consistent about that. Also, I do prefer the superscripted asterisks, and I don't really see reason not to use them. So I reverted the changes back, if you don't mind. - furrykef (Talk at me) 04:57, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Nothing important, just wanted to thank you for correcting the mistake I made on the Thwomp page on here. I was the one who added the comment about "Thwimps", but forgot what game they were in.

Non-sexist language

You may wish to vote at Talk:Non-sexist_language#Actual_vote since you commented on the proposed page move. Jonathunder 04:55, 2005 May 3 (UTC)

Roaring Twenties

It is being considered for the Collaboration of the week. It has a long way to go and plenty of time but I noticed that you commented it should have it's own article in October. Falphin 00:17, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

Reply about stub change

Well, I was trying to reduce the list of uncategorized stubs last night and I found the closest stub category for some of them. Also, When I logged on after I woke up the day I wrote this reply; the C list on the category of uncategorized stubs was drastically shorter than last night. --SuperDude 14:42, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

That does not answer what on Earth the Combs Method has to do with poetry. - furrykef (Talk at me) 20:01, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

COTW Project

You voted for Roaring Twenties, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. Falphin 03:24, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Life of Brian

I swear, it's the Judean Popular People's Front:

REG: Right. You're in. Listen. The only people we hate more than the Romans are the fucking Judean People's Front.
P.F.J.: Yeah...
JUDITH: Splitters.
P.F.J.: Splitters...
FRANCIS: And the Judean Popular People's Front.
P.F.J.: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Splitters. Splitters...
LORETTA: And the People's Front of Judea.
P.F.J.: Yeah. Splitters. Splitters...
REG: What?
LORETTA: The People's Front of Judea. Splitters.
REG: We're the People's Front of Judea!
LORETTA: Oh. I thought we were the Popular Front.
REG: People's Front! C-huh.
FRANCIS: Whatever happened to the Popular Front, Reg?
REG: He's over there.
P.F.J.: Splitter!

...but I'll watch it again tonight to be sure! ;-) -- BDAbramson ^talk 21:44, 2005 Jun 1 (UTC)

Sorry, you're right. I must have glossed over the relevant portion of the transcript. I still think it makes no sense, though. ;) - furrykef (Talk at me) 21:57, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

FurryKef to furrykef in AIM

I read about your trouble with the unwanted capitalization of your AIM username. I had the same problem, mine being Jigschwaza before. However, using Gaim under Tools>>Accounts you can modify your screenname to proper lowercase glory. Though I still much prefer using Gaim to AIM myself, others using AIM now see me as jigschwaza. So, voilà! Problem solved.

I know I can change it but I never bothered to. I don't mind it. - furrykef (Talk at me) 00:09, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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