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piranha

about me

email: piranha@gooroos.com

hi. i am piranha (pronounced pi-RUN-ya). i know you prefer UseRealNames, but i thank you kindly for not forcing it on me. i believe trust is earned, not contained in a name, and i will endeavour to earn yours since you give me this space. i have not used my given name in 30 years, and i am a little strange when it comes to names; i have several i consider real, but other people who don't yet know me seem generally not to understand. little wry grin. names i consider real to me at this time are piranha, alix, and pleonastic. i'm trying to use AlixPiranha over on the TaoRiver Wiki Hive, but it looks really odd to me, not like "me" at all. sorry. :/

[de]hallo. ich bin piranha (sprich pi-RAN-ja). ich weiss, dass ihr UseRealNames bevorzugt. ich danke euch dafür, dass ihr mich nicht dazu zwingen werdet. ich glaube, dass vertrauen erworben werden muss und nicht am namen hängt. ich will mich bemühen, das eure zu erwerben, da ihr mir hier raum gebt. ich habe meinen zugegebenen namen seit 30 jahren nicht verwendet - ich bin ein wenig komisch, was meinen namen angeht. ich habe mehrere namen, die ich als "wirklich" betrachte. andere leute, die mich nicht kennen, verstehen das oft nicht * kleines trockenes grinsen *. namen, die ich zur zeit als "wirklich" ansehe, sind: piranha, alix, und pleonastic. drüben auf dem TaoRiver Wiki Hive versuche ich AlixPiranha zu verwenden, aber es erscheint mir echt fremd - überhaupt nicht "ich". t'schuldigung. :/

my portrait is a picture of the real me. i'm in general very open with things that are mine to be open with (i am also a strong believer in the right to privacy). the following websites are where i am present on the net:

piranha's tank – my livejournal userinfo

photographs – am slow in uploading, but at least something is there

my profile on orkut – membership required. temporary; i am not a big fan of social software of this type.

gooroos software – my company; we write customized plugins and scripts for Alias's high-end 3D animation product Maya.

here's my FOAF file and here you can explore the FOAF world with the FOAF Explorer.

i am "pir" on the #wiki, #wiki-de, and #onebigsoup IRC channels. see WikiChannel to find out more.

2005-08-19 – alas life has had other plans for me, which is why i've been absent for so long. planning to return, however.


most of my activity has not been on the web, but on usenet. google will find roughly 12,500 articles (good grief!) by me. and that's only since i bought my own domain. i co-administer the big-8 of usenet, and the moderation database for all moderated newsgroups on usenet.

[de] der großteil meiner tätigkeit findet nicht im web, sondern im usenet statt. google findet ungefähr 12,500 artikel (puh!) von mir. und das erst seit ich mir eine eigene domain gekauft habe. ich bin einer der manager der big-8 im usenet und der moderatoren-datenbank für alle moderierten newsgroups.

i am brandnew to wikis, but i love the concept. i've been a member of online communities since the early 1970's when i first encountered PLATO, and i am very much interested in adding a lot of the information i've accumulated over the years to the corpus of the PublicDomain. i'm a strong believer in the gift culture, in sharing information, in teaching each other. and the better we can interconnect the multitude of public fora now in existence the happier i'll be. i'm a systems analyst / programmer by trade, i support the open source movement, and i hope that i can use my expertise to help build something interesting.

[de] ich bin brandneu in wikis, aber ich finde das konzept großartig. seit den frühen 70ern, als ich zum ersten mal auf PLATO stieß, bin ich ein mitglied von online-gemeinschaften. ich bin sehr daran interessiert informationen - die ich über die jahre angesammelt habe - in den korpus der PublicDomain einzufügen. ich bin fest überzeugt von der geschenkkultur, davon, dass wir informationen miteinander teilen sollten und uns gegenseitig lehren sollten. wenn es uns gelänge, viele foren im netz miteinander zu verbinden, so würde mich das sehr glücklich machen. beruflich bin ich ein systemanalytiker / programmierer, unterstütze die open source bewegung, und hoffe, dass ich meine erfahrung dazu verwenden kann, mithelfen, etwas interessantes zu errichten.

i speak english, dutch, german, some french, a little swedish, a wee bit of russian, and have just started to learn japanese, and seeing a number of pages here translated into different languages has just added to the notion that this might be a good place for me. i view myself primarily as a citizen of the world, not as a member of just one nation state.

[de] ich spreche englisch, niederländisch, deutsch, etwas französisch, ein bisschen schwedisch, ein noch kleineres bisschen russisch, und ich habe begonnen, japanisch zu lernen. als ich gesehen habe, dass hier eine anzahl von seiten in unterschiedliche sprachen übersetzt worden war, liess mich das denken, dass hier der richtige ort für mich sei. ich sehe mich primär als weltbürger, nicht als ein mitglied einer einzigen nation.

my motto is: embracing the power of "and", since i am interested in just about everything, and think there are usually not just two but several sides to each story. :)

all my contributions on CommunityWiki are hereby placed in the PublicDomain unless otherwise indicated.

what does that mean? it means that i don't concern myself with my own copyright on wikis, that i don't want to worry about it, don't want to talk about it endlessly, don't want to defend it, don't want to attach conditions to it – i just want to give my stuff to the corpus of human knowledge. i realize this is not really helpful unless somebody can figure out which text i wrote, and i am not going to indicate that on each page (i think that would feel slightly rude to me, to go against CW's stated licenses). i am using this notice mainly as a flag to indicate my attitude about text i write on wikis.

practical goals

i am particularly interested in creating a facility to allow a person to log everything zie write anywhere (usenet, IRC, LiveJournal, any wiki, online diary, any blog, IM) and store it in a database on zir home machine from which zie can easily feed (parts of) it back out (depending on some as-yet-to-be-determined markup) to whoever would like to see it.

musings

it's very interesting to me how very differently i react to the "atmosphere" of different wikis, what things encourage versus deter me from participating, what things confuse me, what rubs me the wrong way, what delights me. a lot of those things are very subtle.

useful links

to do

write down thoughts about plain talk for FormOfWriting

my wiki connection tree

what is this? an experiment of sigi and MattisManzel, connecting people who care about wiki. how is it different from FOAF? sigi says FOAF is like a meadow while the connection tree is like, well a tree. :) that's about all i understand of it, but i like the way it looks. see WikiFolks and WikiDe:VerbindungsBaum.

*piranha **mattis ***sunir ***christophe ****anthere *****yann ****arnaud ****bayle ****florence ****heather ****karl *****charles ****laurent ****luc ****pierre ****seb ****serge ****sylvie ***helmut ***luigi **sigi ***karlos ****martin ***marti **lion

comments and messages

Welcome to CommunityWiki, Alix! – BayleShanks

Welcome Alix. They have real frightening teeth. Interesting to watch through the glass of an aquarium. But I wouldn't even hold my hand over the waters surface - do I know if they attack jumping? Maybe a good name for a boxing champion. I look forward to see your teeth here. And thanks for the compliment on multilingual.

Bienvenue Alix.

[fr]toujours intéressé pour développer le WikiAquarium ;)

[en]thank you, Bayle. the seahare is amazing; i've never seen one alive. [de] danke, Mattis – ich beisse nicht zu hart solang jemand es nicht verdient :). [fr] merci, Christophe; je visiterai bientôt. ;)

wow, i love the language stuff, and how easy it is to read contributions here. that's just really exciting. bounce.

Sunir – wave. talk to me anytime.

they're fun to hold, too. this page has a another pictures of it.

Welcome, Piranha! It's great to see you here. :)

Piranha, excellent German intro, few mistakes, I'm pretty happy to know you speak German this good. It has been little things in German going on here since Helmut Leitner and the bunch of other German speakers left shortly after Community was created.

thanks for the welcomes, and the compliment – it's been a looong time since i last spoke/wrote german, i feel incredibly rusty. it'll be good to translate some of the core pages here, which i'll start with after finishing this one.

[en] .. and now that 64-bit address spaces are possible, it's theoretically possible to do away with file systems and just have all objects accessible by their adress. (personally i think we may need 128 bit for this but still…)
[de]http://www.wikiwiki.de/newwiki/pmwiki.php/Wiki/DasDateienProblem was hälts du davon? --sigi

Hallo piranha! Ich habe mir die Freiheit genommen ein wenig an Deiner deutschen Übersetzung zu feilen. Jetzt entspricht es eher dem was ich als Deutschsprachiger vom englischen Text erwarten würde. Ich habe mich bemüht ein wenig von Deinem Stil zu erhalten, aber leider verliert es dabei trotzdem viel des Charakters. Schmeiss es ohne schlechtes Gewissen weg, wenn's Dir nicht gefällt! – DavidSchmitt

hey there, David! nice to see you here! no, i don't mind at all, i really appreciate the corrections, style can come later. thank you! however, i have one request – it's not very wiki-like, but i would learn a lot better if y'all didn't change the translation i wrote, but put your changes into a copy right beneath. i've tried to track back through revisions, but that's complicated, especially if there are several ones in a row. alas i don't have an eidetic memory :). i'll do the integration myself after seeing where your translation differs from mine. would you mind?

WikiDe? performs better now. Martin switched some cachestuff off. It still hasn't but 128 MB Ram. I'm pretty positive Martin will soon put more, so that we can fully use it. I like the new PmWiki version. I even finally understood the clusterstuff!

Hi piranha! yes, if you could take the image I put on my page and shrink it that would be fab! or the other picture at http://markdilley.blogspot.com. Thanks, MarkDilley

RSS from my journal

2008-08-30

  • 06:42 UTC i call you mellow yellow

    common tansy (tanacetum vulgare). not native to BC, classified as a noxious weed in some regions. it's all over the place here.

    walklog:

    8-29 long mailbox loop, 2.45 km. obligation walk; didn't even take the camera. at least i went outside, eh. it was lovely today; cool and with a strong breeze, but i slept most of it away because i am in night owl mode again. *feh*.

2008-08-29

  • 04:40 UTC nuts

    hazelnut (corylus avellana) probably; not native in BC (but grown commercially in the fraser valley). i like the involucre on these better than on the native beaked hazel (corylus cornuta), because it is nicely cut and leaves the nut showing. it'll look even better once the nuts are brown.

    walklog:

    8-28 long mailbox walk, 2.45 km. at least i got my lazy butt outside today because it did not start raining the moment i set foot outside. yay. also, got part of my book shipment from chapters (yay, books!), which means i'll disappear right away into my room again. will document the haul when the rest of the order arrives.

2008-08-28

  • 07:56 UTC symphony in red

    canna lily, no idea what cultivar since canadian tire didn't tell me.

    recovered from the tach event, but didn't do much today. largely this is the paramour's fault because zie sent me an invite to a new video blogging site that's being built to have a more social and more discussion-oriented atmosphere than youtube (they call it vlogging, OH JOHN RINGO NO). and it looks interesting; i've watched videos most of the day.
  • 05:18 UTC as you may have noticedi've renamed this journal to get somewhat back in line with my older net presences. :) note the placement of the underscore.

2008-08-27

  • 05:47 UTC what's left

    of a thistle head.

    tachycardia attack last night, lasted from 03:20 til 09:30. i jinxed myself by thinking earlier in the day that it had been almost 3 months since the last one, and maybe... yeah, well, if wishes were horses. but it wasn't particularly fast to start with, and the bloodpressure never went sky high either; worst was right after it started with 156 / 110 @ 132 bpm.

    the best part is that i am no longer incredibly scared. in fact i am so little scared that i can fall asleep while the ticker is still in arrhythmia. one of these days i'll just go "fuck this" and hike backcountry again. also, portable defib/cardioversion units are becoming less and less expensive. just gonna train the paramour, *wry grin*.

2008-08-26

  • 05:24 UTC a sagan of spores

    lady fern (athyrium filix-femina).

    took the paramour out to eat our usual at smitty's (santa fe chicken quesadilla), which is yummy, except that i wish they'd use another cheese than the generic orange stuff they're slopping on it.

    after that we wandered around the southgate area to look at the new assisted living campus that's about to open, and to check out what's happening in the mall. and bought some bread.

    excitements R us.

2008-08-25

  • 06:52 UTC totally not gross!

    my new echinacea, this being the only bloom, fading, but still impressive. it's the cultivar echinacea big sky (tm) 'summer sky'. i don't usually buy patented plants because "propagation prohibited" pisses me off, but hey, this one needed rescueing.

    i guess yesterday's energy burst was borrowed from the future. and it was nice and cool even, while i slept the day away.

2008-08-24

  • 04:40 UTC moving v-e-r-y slowly

    some of you thought the previous picture was a slime mould. it wasn't, but this is a slime mould, the scrambled egg slime (fuligo septica) probably. to doubly tie it to the previous post, this slime is also sometimes called dog's vomit slime, especially in the later stages when it turns more brown and differently textured. allegedly some people in mexico eat it, though considering they call the dish "caca de luna" i am not so sure whether that's not a rural myth for gringos.

    no walk today. 'twas a nervous energy day, with random bursts of short-lived energy, which i actually put to good use by doing loads of tiny chores around the house and yard, and consequently feel rather accomplished.

    yesterday's photo is a closeup of fermenting cream on top of a thin leftover layer of coffee with cocoa. not quite 4 months old, BC -- after 4 months it would have all dried out; this is less than a week old.

2008-08-23

  • 05:18 UTC this is sorta representative of my mood today

    i don't think anyone will be able to guess what this is (it's slightly gross).

    walklog:

    8-22 long mailbox walk, 2.45 km, 0:41.

    nothing even vaguely exciting happened today.

2008-08-22

  • 05:44 UTC mystery succulent

    the joy of looking at plants at canadian tire is that they're ever so informatively labelled: cactus, succulent, tropical foliage, fern. i'm guessing this is a pachyphytum.

    walklog:

    8-21 short mailbox walk, 2 km.

    lots of errands today: canadian tire for an umbrella dryer, london drugs for a video card for the paramour, wholesale store for some groceries and memory foam mattress pads (unsuccessful, not in stock in the size we need), food country for the eggs i forgot at the wholesale store, and a couple plants that needed rescue (a galliardia and an amazingly sunset-coloured echinacea).

    when i got back home, the power was out, and stayed out for a while.

    and now i have fresh sourdough bread, brie, and cherries. and ebooks to read before i sleep.

2008-08-21

  • 07:08 UTC surface tension is a wonderful thing

    water striders (gerridae) are fascinating.

    rain rain rain. nice rain. i stayed inside and listened to the sound on the grape leaves outside the window. and then the network was flakey (not at our end this time) and that's why the picture is late.

2008-08-20

  • 06:19 UTC i name you "viviane"


    productive errands today -- recycling (for refund) to ladysmith, bought new toothpaste at the health food store there (green apple flavour -- i HATE most regular toothpaste in north america; it is too ... sharp), then onto harewood to drop off the bag of clothes i had sorted for the diabetes foundation (who didn't pick them up).

    there is now room in the truck for buying straw and topsoil.

    rain! heat all gone. finally this feels like home again.

2008-08-19

  • 02:36 UTC ready for takeoff

    terrible picture, quality-wise, and i had to doctor it to get to this level -- the barn was dark, and there's never room for a tripod so i didn't bring one. but the airplane ears were so awesome, i have to show it. (i also took a couple of headbutting pics, which came out equally bad.) young goats are some of my favourite animals.

    walklog:

    8-18 short mailbox walk, and puttering around the neighbour's yard and the lower pad to take pictures of weeds and rescue a few douglas-fir seedlings. 2km or so.

    the heatwave is breaking, and it's looking like rain. i actually did a fair bit of work in my room; sorting out recyclables, putting a load in the truck to take to the depot tomorrow.

2008-08-18

  • 05:17 UTC belgians

    chocolate, beer, and draft horses -- love 'em all.

    every year at the fair i want to do something with horses again; it's been too long.

    walklog:

    8-17 VIEX ~ 5km. man, we keep breaking heat records. it was more humid today than yesterday, so it felt hotter. luckily i see the forecast has the heatwave break and bring us rain next week.

    when i walked in, the "songbird" contest had started, which i usually avoid because it features too many teenage girls with shrill voices who don't quite hit the required pitch at all times. but this time there was a young person singing elton john's crocodile rock and did a great interpretation of it, with a strong, clear voice. i sat through all 6 songs. turns out he was last year's 14-yr old winner. wow. impressive voice.

    the fair seemed to have fewer animals than last time i went, but more heritage crafts -- a mr hillmark had some gorgeous small boats on display, and there's apparently a new needlecrafts store in town, and there were several people spinning (oh, i saw the most excellent wheel -- a fold-up travel wheel from ashford -- want).

    i collected information from the weavers & spinners guild, the photography club, and the local hobby club of which we were members a couple years ago; i want to get back into doing more lapidary, want to pick up silversmithing, and they now do pottery as well. we'll see how much of this i'll follow up on, *snrk*, but at least the mind was willing today.

2008-08-17

  • 04:43 UTC we have a washer!


    i am totally thrilled. the nearest laundromat closed a while ago, and ever since i've been lusting after a washing machine. but we don't have room for a regular-size one, and i've been on the lookout for one of danby's small models but couldn't find one in town. well, yesterday, while trying to buy a new DSL modem since ours is giving up the ghost, i saw this little cutie at london drugs. (no luck on the DSL modem, and i have a rant ready about the morons at telus.)

    today we went and bought it.

    now i am doing laundry, and i am a very happy camper. it can do 4kg of dry laundry at a time, which is just about perfect for us. it has little casters so we can roll it out of the way, and it can either be hooked to a proper hot/cold water outlet, or to a faucet. i hooked it to the kitchen faucet. it's so quiet!

    tomorrow or monday i'll buy one of those 50m umbrella dryers and dig a hole in the yard to install it.

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