User talk:Mouser

Speaking of text wrapping...

Maybe this is just because I don't know enough about wikipedia markup... but is there a way to put a max width on content in these pages, so that people with apple cinema screens and fullscreen browzers can still read without monster line lengths? I'm hoping I don't have to embed a table with fixed width in every page I want that to happen on... --Mouser 15:19, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Hey

Welcome to Wikipedia, Mouser.

I'm tempted to start an entry on Mouser Week to see how long it would last.

--Ben Brockert 15:13, Jun 24, 2004 (UTC)

• Hey Ben, Thanks! How'd you find me?  :) Mouser 17:38, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

• The urban exploration entry is in my watchlist, which I check about once a day, so I saw your edit to it. (I need to finish my revision of it, by the way.) The chances of there being more than one person calling themselves Mouser who know both UE and MIT seemed pretty slim.

Do you ever get back up north? --Ben Brockert 23:36, Jun 24, 2004 (UTC)

• Aah, I guess that makes sense. That was my first change here. Fortuitous, I guess. I haven't been back to Minneapolis since "Mouser Week 2" but it seems likely that I'll be going there probably sometime this autumn.

• Not much has changed. The goofy small train line may actually open at some point. To completely change topic, do you have permission from the author to use the text from this page? --Ben Brockert 22:28, Jun 25, 2004 (UTC)

• Aah, now that's funny. If you check the 6.270 page's edit log, you'll see my reference to having written that copy myself. I made the 6.270 webpage and that was just something I wrote up way back then. Whoever this person is, they just copied it for their personal 6.270 website. I'm calling my lawyer. Mouser 13:49, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)

• Huh. Good to know it's yours, bad to know you got ripped off. --Ben Brockert 01:19, Jun 29, 2004 (UTC)

• Jedi care not about such things. How long before all this indenting gets out of hand? Or has that already happened I wonder? --Mouser 18:19, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)

• Indenting is the Godwin's Law equivalent for Wikipedia. When a discussion has gone on long enough that the text is wrapping at the single word, the discussion is officially over. --Ben Brockert 22:25, Jun 29, 2004 (UTC)

• How do ya like them apples?? --Mouser 14:54, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Boston is calling...

Hi there, we're planning a Boston meetup on Nov 20 or 21. If you, quite randomly, happen to be back in Beantown then, come join us! +sj+ 07:07, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Playfair

Good work on Playfair cipher, thanks! What are four-square and two-square ciphers? — Matt Crypto 20:09, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I liked what you added to the history of Playfair, the pictures make it a much more accessible article. I went ahead and put up a page for Four-square ciphers and I'll get a two-square one up soon as I can. They're both sort of derivative of the Playfair, as no one really ever uses them on account of their being more work to encrypt and decrypt and not significantly more secure.  :) --Mouser 23:12, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Nice work, that explains it quite clearly! Any idea who came up with the scheme? — Matt Crypto 23:38, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

None. It was just covered in that same army cryptanalysis field manual that I quoted in both articles. I'll look around for other examples. Mouser 00:41, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Hi! Your work on these ciphers was noted in a new "project digest": Wikipedia:WikiProject Cryptography/February 2005. Thanks! — Matt Crypto 13:25, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Alaskan peak/subpeak rule

Hi. Regarding the fourteener article and the prominence criterion for subpeaks: the president of the Mountaineering Club of Alaska says that the official club rule is 500 feet prominence, and that he has never heard of anyone using 200 meters (which seems to have been your contribution a ways back). He points out that, Alaska being in the US, nobody there uses meters for anything. (Sadly.) So I'm going to change the fourteener article, but if you have a good source for the 200 meter rule, please let me know and maybe we can work out the discrepancy. Cheers from a fellow M.I.T. alum -- Spireguy 19:56, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Yeah I'm on the prominence e-group too. :) I was about to come change that. I'm not sure where the 200m thing came from; if I put that in an earlier version of this page, it's only because I copied it from somewhere else in Wikipedia. I think Steven represents a considerable authority on this and we can change it. I'm going to go ahead and make the change and see if anyone whines. :) Mouser 20:00, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks a bunch -- Spireguy 01:38, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Neenah Wisconsin

Hello! I googled up "sewer lids Neenah Wisconsin" and got you, so I thought best to ask you.

As ridiculous as it sounds, I've been on a quest to find information on sewer lids. I became particularly intrigued since nearly every sewer lid I've seen in my state of Iowa is made in Neenah, Wisconsin (excluding two sewer lids I've seen outside of ISU's ROTC building that were built in Deeter). I'm to the state of thinking of going to Neenah Wisconsin myself to see where they make /all/ of these sewer lids.

But, anyways, just any information about the place would be nice. Fephisto 02:26, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Orion photo

Hi -- Thanks for making your image of Orion available on WP with a free license! I've used it in my book on general relativity at http://www.lightandmatter.com/genrel/ , on page 18. The book is under the same CC-BY-SA license as WP. You are credited in the back of the book in the book in the photo credits section, and the licensing info is listed there. Regards, Ben