User talk:Atlant/Archive 6
Some "talk" is archived
- Discussions from before August, 2005 can be found at User talk:Atlant/Archive_1
- Non-current stuff from before January, 2006 can be found at User talk:Atlant/Archive_2
- The various old ACLU-related "discussion" can be found at User talk:Atlant/Archive_3
- Non-current stuff from mid-January, 2006 through mid-May, 2006 can be found at User talk:Atlant/Archive_4
sorry
for stuffing the battery page - mt internet went down during a save I have fixed it at an internet cafe: chad
French
Bonjour Atlant! I've just come across your message (from late 2005 I think) saying that you are learning French. If you need any help or have any questions, please feel free to contact me. I am very familiar with the problems of anglophones and their lexicon in the apprehension of French, that is to say, I can probably tell you how/why something is said in a particular fashion. Hope to hear from you! I am glad to see that you are not taking the Bill O'Reilly approach of hating the French. If you ask me, I think he has an inferiority complex (he has no culture). --Aquarelle 13:36, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
- My principal problem is that I'm still somewhat afraid to actually speak French, although last fall I spent some time with a private tutor who helped me a great deal with both pronunciation and grammar. The key for me will be when I finally believe that I have enough of a critical mass of the language to not fall flat on my face as a fool. I'm getting close; among other small victories, I'm registered and have actually made one or two sensible edits in the .fr Wikipedia.
- I am glad to see that you are not taking the Bill O'Reilly approach of hating the French. If you ask me, I think he has an inferiority complex (he has no culture).
- An unfortunately large number of Americans seem to be "ignorant and proud of it", willfully maintaining that ignorance of the fact that there's a whole world out there and things to experience besides what they see on their TV sitcoms each night. Sadly, right now, they seem to hold sway in this country, much to our (and the world's?) long-term detriment. Speaking for myself though, I've enjoyed all of my travels around the world including my three trips to France, and my wife and I would be very happy to go there again; she's been showing me a lot of Internet travel sites in a sort of "nudge-nudge" fashion and I hope to accommodate her soon. This time, she wants to stay down nearer the Seine; last time we stayed up on Montmartre. (One of the photos in the Montmartre article is mine as are all of the photos in the .en version of Canal Saint-Martin.) We'll probably get back to Montreal before that though; it's a little close to New Hampshire than is Paris.
- Thank you for writing! I've noticed your name around Wiki, so I'll keep you in mind if I ever get brave enough. ;-)
Locking LocalTalk
Nice edit on LocalTalk. But are you sure the Apple ones were locking? All the Apple connectors I saw used a miniDIN. While they didn't exactly jump out of sockets, they didn't "lock" either. Maybe it would be better to say the PhoneNET ones offered more resistence? --Steven Fisher 01:45, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- But are you sure the Apple ones were locking?
- Pretty sure. The Mini-DIN-3 connector wasn't exactly standard. IIRC, it had a little latching tab that was automatically depressed when you pulled back on the body of the connector. I still have Apple LocalTalk boxes and cables, Farallon PhoneNet boxes, and some Belkin PhoneNet knock-offs; if I can remember, I'll shoot some pictures and add them to the article.
- Pretty sure is good enough for me! --Steven Fisher 21:44, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
remorse
Your recent edit of a Tom Swiftie (to read "He's dead", if I got it right) is cool. What it had had was palindromic, however, which fit the pun on "remorsefully". Can you do a Morse palindrome which makes appropriate sense? That would be the best. Otherwise "He's resurrected" or "He's come back" might be better than "He's dead", do you think?
You might discuss it on the Swifties talk page, too. --Lavintzin 20:51, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
- Ahh, okay. I changed it when the original Morse didn't make any sense. Howzabout the ever popular "Madam I'm Adam" palindrome? (Well, palindrome 'cept for the apostrophe.)
- Then again, "He's dead! He's dead!" might be even more obvious.
- He's dead. He's dead." is what I ended up implementing.
Bptdude and Stirling Engine discussion
Hi. I wanted to let you know that I have unblocked Bptdude (talk · contribs) who I blocked earlier today for removing comments at the Talk:Stirling engine page. Apparently, those comments were placed by him in the article and moved to the discussion page by another editor (Lumos3). Bptdude felt that he didn't need to keep those comments around, and blanked them from the talk page. He's relatively new, and didn't realize that not using edit summaries and continuing to remove them would look like vandalism. So, you were all doing what seemed right...and he was doing what seemed right, but I just wanted to explain the situation to you all. Hopefully I've set him on the right track and you all can continue to create a great article. Thanks! Syrthiss 22:04, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks! I'm not surprised it was something like that (and that's why I tried to write my first "warning" in a more-advisory tone. The thing that made me wonder, of course, was that Bptdude never replied to any of us, but perhaps he hadn't realized that he could?
- In any case, thanks again for making things right!
- I think thats exactly the case, that he didn't know he could... or didn't know enough to check the edit summaries in the history... and that some of the warnings were placed on his userpage, not on his talk so when DV8 2XL copied them over to his talk it appeared he had been seeing warnings for several days instead of ~1. Cheers! Syrthiss 12:06, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
Vandalism
Why does your userpage get vandalized so frequently? --NEMT 18:18, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
- Because I spend time doing Wikipedia:Recent changes patrol and the vandals don't like to be called on their actions.
- On that note, thank you so much for patrolling the Vermont towns recently - these have become a common target as of late so thanks for helping set them straight! H0n0r 03:09, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
- You're welcome. What Wiki really seems to need is a filter that automagically catches kids editing for kicks during study hall. ;-) That's where most of the completely silly potty and penis stuff seems to come from. And it's not just Vermont kids, either. Kids worldwide are all apparently amused by the same things. (Wot a shock, ehh?)
- I take offense to that, I'm 21 and when I vandalize pages from the comfort of my own home with great amusement. --NEMT 17:31, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
- How nice. And I see you just vandalized another page. Do we really need to go through the whole rigamarole of warning you, etc. before eventually writing you up on WP:AIV? Or could you just behave yourself?
- I'll have you know I vandalized Bashar al-Assad days before I ever commented here; and I have no plans to stop informing the world of his many appearances in Stately Autocrat and similar publications any time in the future. --NEMT 23:09, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
Re: Ground or Common?
The term 'reference' for the circuit common has a lot going for it. On the other hand, it does have three syllables. I teach an introductory EE course to non-EE majors and I just covered the node voltage analysis technique where step 1 is: "Select a circuit node to be the reference node - the node to which all other node voltages are referred to". Alfred Centauri 23:37, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
- Select a circuit node to be the reference node - the node to which all other node voltages are referred to.
- There you go! (Also three syllables ;-) )
- Thanks for writing back!
Packistani A-bomb
I have put this article up at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Packistani A-bomb. Your opinion on this matter would be appreciated.--DV8 2XL 02:37, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
- Done -- thanks for letting me know!