User:Mindspillage

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The Mind's I

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Kat in the hat, if you will...

Greetings! You've reached the user page of Mindspillage, otherwise known as Kat Walsh. Note: if you've ever encountered another "mindspillage", it's almost certainly me; a "Kat Walsh" encountered elsewhere may or may not be.

I'm currently living in Herndon, Virginia, after graduating from Stetson University in DeLand, Florida with a B.A. in music and a minor in math, concentrating on discrete math and music theory. I am a bassoonist and contrabassoonist, libertarian, extropian transhumanist, INTP, quiz bowler, agnostic atheist, and geek. I want to be a freelance genius when I grow up, but I'm looking to be a career academic, playing bassoon on street corners and having people pay me to go away. (In the short term, I'm working for Wikia as Community Support... until I go off to George Mason for law school in the fall!) I love 20th century classical music, as you can tell from my contributions, and I am a stickler for correct spelling and punctuation; sometimes, however, I love commas and semicolons, not wisely, but too well. Other interests include cognitive science, logic, philosophy, science fiction, and poetry. Also, my significant other was sucked in, after getting tired of me paraphrasing {{sofixit}} all the time when he asked me to go change something.

You can email me by the sidebar link (which goes to mindspillage at gmail dot com), send an IM via AIM to LucidWaking, or leave me a message on my talk page. I am almost always in #wikipedia, #wikipedia-en, and #wikimedia (as mindspillage when I'm around paying attention, and mind|wandering when I'm not). If you /msg me I'm likely to see it and return sooner. If I've blocked you, or an IP address you edit from, I will have your talk page (which you can still edit) on my watchlist, so you can reply to me there, though obviously that might take a little while. If you need my attention in a hurry, you can try getting hold of me at the #wikipedia IRC channel.

Multiple intelligences A few of the hats I wear on Wikimedia: Editor. First and most important. I am an administrator here. Please feel free to ask me for admin help, or if you just need the ear of someone who ought to know what's going on. I am an administrator on meta and Wikinews. If you need assistance there, just ask; either talk page works. In October 2005 I was appointed to the Arbitration Committee. Then I was mad enough to run for re-election voluntarily, and got appointed for another term, which will last until December 2008. I also handle emails that come in to info-en@wikimedia.org as well as permissions@wikimedia.org, so you might see me doing strange things on behalf of people who've sent messages. If you'd like to help out, drop me a note, please; preference given to longstanding users who are friendly and clueful. (Oh, for that matter, along with Sannse I am part of the m:communications committee doing External Communication... which means, pretty much, that I do the same thing as before, only sometimes we have meetings to figure out what the other hand is doing.) I do the odd bit of Track II diplomacy, too informal even for the medcab, at which I am only marginally successful, but at least there is a margin. And, of course, this one:

Pieces of mind Occasionally I like to blather on about Wikipedia rather than do anything constructive... Use common sense: a meta-rule that goes hand-in-hand with meta:Don't be a dick and Wikipedia:Ignore all rules, and supersedes all others. It should be in the Wikipedia namespace as policy, but it would just turn into something that made no sense and was overrun with rules. On the use of admin rights: why I am conservative about using them, and you should be too. The value of mergism: why I am a mergist, as posted to WikiEN-l. Disputes are never solved by escalating them: a few paragraphs I thought were nice until I reread Wikipedia:Civility and saw that Anthere had already said most of what I wanted to say already. How to win an argument, on meta, after long observation. meta:Polls are evil, after having been egged on by Kim Bruning to write something better than the sad stub that was there. I follow the one-revert rule as well as the policy trifecta (shown neatly in a little box to the side, as arranged by its originator, Seth Ilys). I'm a strong believer in the simplified ruleset as a guide to almost any sticky situation. And I'm a strong believer in consensus and the supremacy and necessity of good judgment, over all.

Kept in mind

"The cultivated person's first duty is to always be prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia."
-- Umberto Eco (stolen blithely from User:Antandrus)

enjoy yourself / be a catalyst / reduce temperature / don't stuff beans up your nose / beware of the tigers, closely related to defending against passion / fighting is boring / control yourself / prefer the soft response / sometimes you have to resort to St. Benedict's Rule / critics are your best friends / fix broken windows / [http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/006036.html#006036 moderating conversations in virtual space]

(and please, feel free to suggest interesting philosophical musings to me on my talk page)

In my write mind

Started or rewritten: Aaron Jay Kernis / Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do / Albert Szirmai / Alexandre Tansman / Alvin Etler / Amanda Borden / André Jolivet / Bart Conner / Andrey Rimsky-Korsakov / Bassoon sonata / Cat and Girl / Closely related key / Come Out / Concert band / Concerto in E-flat (Dumbarton Oaks) / Daniel Dorff / Daniel Read / David Darling / David Del Tredici / De Leon Springs State Park / Doctor Fun / Double reed / Eugène Bozza / Extensional definition / Francisco Mignone / Frederick Fennell / Gordon Jacob / Hugo Wolf / Intensional definition / Jan DeGaetani / Jean Françaix / John Barnes Chance / John Crowe Ransom / Judith LeClair / Judith Sargent Murray / Jurriaan Andriessen / Keiko Abe / Lexical definition / Lili Boulanger / Luigi Dallapiccola / Madeleine Dring / Metastasis / Michala Petri / Miller Puckette / Modulation / Multiphonic / Ostensive definition / Persuasive definition / Precising definition / Rebecca Helferich Clarke / Ruth Gipps / Squonk Opera / Stipulative definition / Susan Nigro / Terry Riley / Theon of Smyrna / Theoretical definition / The Stone Guest / Vampire number / Vincent Persichetti / Vittorio Giannini / Vocalise / William Bergsma / Willson Osborne / meta:How to win an argument / meta:Polls are evil

Other significant contributions: Bassoon / Contrabassoon / Daniel Gorenstein / Gadsby / Handstand / Iannis Xenakis / L. Neil Smith / List of web comics / National Institutes of Health / "Old Folks at Home" / Quintet / Robert M. Pirsig / Stetson University / Steve Reich / The Mind's I / The Rite of Spring / Thomas Hastings / Wind quintet / Zarzuela

Of sound mind

You can hear me in these recordings:

• "Tu pauperum refugium" from Magnus es tu, Domine, by Josquin, as performed by bassoon quartet (or, rather, one bassoon in four tracks).
• Multitracked viola quartet, in a bit of improvisation to demonstrate the sound of the instrument in ensemble.
• A minuet excerpt from J. S. Bach's cello suite #1, performed on the contrabassoon.
• Technical examples of bassoon playing, including range, tone across registers, chromatic scale, articulations, dynamics, trills, pitch bending, and the reed played alone. (And note that when you listen to the "articulations" example, the display window in your media player will identify one of the articulations as "slured". Make that "slurred".)

Spilt ilk

This page is not protected: you can edit it. Particularly if you want to fix typos and links, or if you feel inclined to exercise your mad layout skills, or maybe even give a testimonial. (Geogre asked for sonnets, which was a stroke of genius; alas, I am not so brazen as to steal the idea.) I don't own this page. (As it happens, there are pages elsewhere I do own, and I leave them dormant to work on Wikipedia instead.) I will exercise final judgment on which changes I keep, of course... Random acts of poetry encouraged!

My mind, spillage.

My mind, wandering.

Constance, Dale, Fern--

women I will never know.

Poetry, the art form I will never be good at.

func(talk) 19:09, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Mindspillage. The spillage of the mind.

This is the creed of the Wikipedian.

May our minds spring forth with our most cherished knowledge

And may I share the bounty of my wisdom to slake the thirst of curiosity among the people

Join our community, our world.

We are Wikipedians. May the mind of Wikipedia spill forth with bounty.

Welcome to Wikipedia. May you spring forth and prosper!

sɪzlæk [ +t, +c, +m ] 09:46, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

A haiku:

Mindspillage, admin.

Mindspillage, arbitrator.

A spill of a mind.

Ral315 W_S 08:35, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Mindspillage - a grand canonical ensemble of thoughts. May the partition functions unite! --HappyCamper 01:01, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

There was a young lady Mindspillage,

Who from Wikip'dia did pillage

All the things that one can

This poem don't scan.

She lives in the Wikian village!

[[Sam Korn]] 21:50, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Here's a little poem (Sung, more or less, to the tune of '"The Shadow of Your Smile"), my holiday gift to you.

The spillage of your mind I find refined

The hat upon your head is black not red

The head beneath your hat

Spills forth the thoughts of Kat

Never to be maligned

The spillage of your mind

Paul August ☎ 20:28, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Here's a contra-haiku for you:

One place to hear a

contrabassoon contribute:

Brahms' First Symphony

David Brooks

Another haiku, poles apart from David's above (at least it's at the opposite end of the compass), and I think "Rite" in this usage counts as a kigo:

Aerial, alone,

opening Stravinsky's Rite

your instrument soars.

Robert

माईन्डसि्पलेज -- िमस्ट्रैस आफ़ िडबौक्री (That's Mindspillage in Devanagari) --Nearly Headless Nick 10:20, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

I am Mindspillage!! --Jaulwood 14:31, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

No you aren't. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 14:32, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Spill containment

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Brain droppings

• To-do list, which I may or may not use as a guide to what I'll work on next
• Sandbox, so I don't actually have to remember said IP address quite so often