User:Eitch

Hello! I started here in September 2005, with this cricket edit. The kilikiti page came next, and by then I was dreaming in wikipedia entries (I don't recommend it). The dreams have stopped, but I still spend far too much time here. I also occasionally edit Wikitravel (see my userpage there) and Wikinews (see my userpage there).

I was a very active editor from 2006-2008.

Wikipedia editors: You may find this list of wikitext reminders I've made useful. Wikipedia does have a more comprehensive guide, but I find this short list handier. If you'd like to use my "this is a user page" and "this is a user talk page" banners on your own pages, instructions and the templates are here.



Wikipedia Recommendations and Activities

 * trying to memorize the system of English units (though I don't think I'll take on the volume systems)
 * learning traditional games of abstract strategy from around the world (while I'm by no means a serious player, there have been periods when I've seen everything around me in terms of Go) -- see also the full list of pages in the "Abstract Strategy Games" category; the traditional board games subcategory contains (with the exception of Kubb, which is traditional but not a board game):
 * {| class="wikitable"


 * colspan="2" | Alea evangelii • Alquerque • Bagha-Chall • Chowka bhara • Daldøs • Fanorona • Five Field Kono • Jungle • Kubb • Mak-yek • Mancala games • Pong Hau K'i • Pulijudam • Surakarta
 * width="83" | Chess-related
 * Janggi • Makruk • Shatranj • Shogi • Sittuyin • Xiangqi
 * Go-related
 * Go variants • Gomoku • Ko shogi
 * Morris games
 * Three Men's Morris • Six Men's Morris • Nine Men's Morris • Twelve Men's Morris
 * }
 * Morris games
 * Three Men's Morris • Six Men's Morris • Nine Men's Morris • Twelve Men's Morris
 * }
 * }


 * Cloud types
 * The listing of Wikipedia's Featured Pictures (with links to the thumbnail listing, and the list of featured pictures with an aspect ratio suitable for wallpaper)


 * (more recent)
 * The sadly boring story of how AC/DC got their name
 * Dada


 * (older)
 * Turkish delight
 * trivium
 * Amazon
 * corpusants
 * Elizabeth Ann Seton
 * Ong choy v. water hyacinth

As of, I have made over 1500 edits on Wikipedia.


 * Kilikiti
 * Contra dance (mostly 2006-7. I really got started with this addition, which increased the article's by half)
 * Simulation semantics
 * Fiddle (and Irish fiddle and List of fiddlers)
 * Ultimate frisbee teams and associated articles
 * Elizabeth Ann Seton
 * banjolin; mandolin-banjo
 * Black Tambourine
 * Amiina
 * Traditional board games (category)
 * List of mancala games
 * Trobriand cricket
 * Association of Polar Early Career Scientists
 * Many by-genre and by-nationality fiddler categories
 * Neurobiological factors implicated in schizophrenia (e.g., adrenergic, cholinergic, glutamatergic, and serotonergic receptors; the G proteins they're coupled with, and G-protein activated factors such as BDNF, adenylyl cyclase, PLC, PKA, and so on) — these are mostly copy edits in the course of my reading

To-Do list
 * If you like you can look at my more complete To do list (really just so I don't forget)

With Wikipedia, Learn What I Know
Away from the computer, some academic interests of mine are the biological basis of psychopathology (especially bipolar-spectrum and schizo-affective disorders) and psychopharmacology, and the relation sleep has with the former. Related areas I'm interested in are the perception of time; conceptual metaphor; emotion; addiction; and embodied cognition. I'm also interested in educational theory education, how we learn and how best to teach --specifically, how best to present (such as in a PowerPoint presentation) information visually,-- the use of graphic novels in education, and related issues of the mind. I've also done work in simulation semantics (for now, get a general inkling through cognitive science, simulation, and semantics).


 * Authors I recommend: Brautigan, Helprin, Joyce, and Eco;
 * Artists I recommend: Schiele, Pollock, Gorky, Escher;
 * Music I enjoy: The Glove, Gillian Anderson, Talking Heads, Sigur Rós, múm, Do Make Say Think, G.U.R.U., Devon Sproule, Danny Schmidt, Charlie Parker, The Strokes, fiddle music of many sorts, The Cure, Joy Division, The Flaming Lips, Modest Mouse, Velvet Underground, The Nields, Four Tet, Autechre, Railroad Earth, Turkish religious music (topic 3.3),...
 * I'm a contra dancer, and a fiddler with an interest in New England fiddling, Québécois fiddling, Cape Breton fiddling, and Irish fiddling (rougher old Donegal styles in particular -- more the old dance styles than, say, the nearly-as-old Teelin style).


 * I'm currently reading Stuart Kauffman's Investigations, a greatly simplified version of the premise of which is that life is an emergent property of collectively autocatalytic, organized groups of autonomous, working individuals, that this can be used as a tool for approaching astrobiology, and that economics works in the same way, making these principles fundamental to a broad range of systems. (Note: I haven't touched Investigations since September 2006. Still, it's pretty cool.)