User:AySz88

My userspace: /Sandbox, /Notepad, /Hurricane Resources | Otherspace: Java Sandbox

Hello! Call me Soup, AySz88, or Darvian, whichever you like best. I'll answer to any of the three.

My contributions begin with my first edit to Wikipedia, on April 2, 2005, to the article 2channel. Many of my edits are related to tropical cyclones, and I have also been working on a Java edit counter, Flcelloguy's Tool. I occasionally contribute to articles involving aspects of Internet culture such as Neopets or Bananaphone. I also occasionally vandal-whack or welcome users, especially if I notice good contributions in an obscure article or from an anonymous user.

Celierra, Cel or Celi is my red fox dæmon in the His Dark Materials sense. My and my dæmon's beliefs about dæmons are somewhat complicated, but they're mostly similar to the beliefs of our friends Okibi and Rookie, who have already outlined theirs at The Daemon Page at www.daemons.envy.nu. The orange ^ - ^ in my signature symbolizes Cel's presence and influence in my life, including my editing here, where she helps keep us cool and composed under any stress. Celierra has her own AIM and LiveJournal accounts, and whenever wei're around, she's online, available, and willing to talk if you need a gentler ear.

My screenname, which I have been using since my first contact with the Internet in my elementary school days, was taken from my initials, my stepdad's initials, and my birthyear. The nickname "Soup", which I have now used on many websites, derives from a comment that my screenname looks like "alphabet soup", which was said by an aquaintance from Droidarena and United Devices (now grid.org). Although I now prefer to be called "Soup", it may be less convenient for some to have to remember the nickname than to type out "AySz88", so feel free to use whichever you find to be easier.

Elsewhere on the Internet, I am: I also was:
 * AySz88 on AIM, YIM, Neopets, Droidarena, LiveJournal
 * Darvian on Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates, and
 * Darvian Fardel (and RP character Celierra Darling) on Second Life.
 * An administrator at Bridge to the Stars, a His Dark Materials fansite.
 * AySz88 at the United Devices forums.

Hm, claims to fame... I think I was the first to add the "this includes anonymous users" and "As a courtesy, unsigned posts may be marked with unsigned" phrases to the "Please sign your posts" hatnotes being copied around talk pages now, though that's not much. :p I also uploaded the first version of Image:Tropical Storm Zeta 2005.jpg which appeared on the Main Page in the Current Events section for several days, though of course I didn't make that image.

Userboxes
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Quick links
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Short-ish-term todo

 * 1) Working on Flcelloguy's Tool, WikiProject edit counters
 * 2) Confirm Image:Donnawilliams2003.jpg PD status on commons (already sent neomail).
 * 3) Fix List of records broken by the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season
 * 4) Shearwater Pottery and linked articles
 * 5) Expand red fox using various pages from Googling "red fox marking" (turns out that search is better than just "red fox")
 * 6) Copyedit List of Neopets
 * 7) Improve Hurricane Cindy (2005), Northeast U.S. flooding of October 2005
 * 8) Verify changes by 206.124.219.252, Polar low, Star Tiger at Bermuda Triangle
 * 9) Climatology info from http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/hazard/
 * 10) Merge/split/link Bijection, injection and surjection with individual articles (bijection, injection, surjection)

Missing articles

 * topping (i.e. desserts)
 * cold shower (dousing?)
 * digging
 * Sonny or Sonny (disambiguation)
 * flood stage
 * internet signature or forum signature (the concept of which some people appear to be unfamiliar with)

Weather

 * Atlantic hurricane (needs extremes by month from List of...)
 * Tropical cyclone prediction model
 * Equivalent potential temperature
 * Tropical wave
 * William M. Gray
 * Scatterometer
 * Eyewall
 * Baroclinic instability

General

 * Principles of Art (1,000,017th article)
 * Elements of Art (1,000,027th article)
 * Adam Powell
 * Poetry
 * sprinkles
 * autoionization, self-ionization of water
 * progress bar / loading bar
 * mathletes
 * Venn diagram
 * State of the Union Address
 * amigo in the Mexican day laborer sense (history/origin) ?
 * Long Walk (disambig page)
 * Kelvin water dropper

Meta-pages

 * Quick Reference:
 * RC patrol
 * Template messages
 * Template substitution
 * Template:TestTemplates, WikiProject user warnings
 * Hatnotes
 * Template:Doctl
 * Userboxes
 * Order: Quotations, See also, References, External links
 * Tip of the day
 * Policy:
 * Wiki is not paper &lt;-- the better version!
 * Summary style &lt;-- i.e. "levels of detail"
 * Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians
 * Transclusion costs and benefits
 * Humor/Trivial/Truism:
 * Don't be dense
 * Don't be a dick
 * Image:Duck knife.jpg
 * Image:Fair use icon - Movie poster.png
 * 
 * Wikipedia in the media
 * Image:Water on mars.jpg

Sandbox
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Vandalism count
(Idea stolen from Titoxd)