User talk:Wetman/archive3Mar2004
I log in as Wetman because that's my handle at various aquarium bulletin boards. I maintain a website, The Skeptical Aquarist at http://www.skepticalaquarist.com but my interests are wide-ranging: neo-Darwinism and glaciations and Minoan culture and Greek mythology, the history of design and New York City (born and bred in that briarpatch, Br'er Bear). The transmission of Classical culture and English country houses and archaeology... The history of daily life interests me more than battles, folklore more than religion, cult history more than philosophy; Popes as European princes and patrons are more interesting to me than minutiae of theology. I'm a secularist, a humanist, a realist, a third-generation Stoic Epicurean. I avoid fiction but love Tolkien... I read Marcus Aurelius from time to time, or Urn Buriall... I tend to read Apocrypha more than straight Bible books, paleontology more than either. I subscribe to Natural History and Scientific American ...they send me Harvard Magazine...
I tend to write on small topics, because the big topics are too hard to grasp in wikiform, it seems to me. But I got a little carried away with Orion (mythology) eh.
Wetman.
Thanks for your work on Accademia dei Lincei--I don't speak Italian and would probably have been reduced to trying to make sense of a Google translation based on my knowledge of Spanish.Vicki Rosenzweig
Just a note to say that I appreciate --- and enjoyed reading --- your additions to Seven Sleepers -- Smerdis of Tlön
Hey-- great work on New York, New York. Just the right touch. JDG 02:44, 21 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Hey, Wetman, when you add comments to the Talk: pages, could you kindly add your name at the name so people have an identity to go with the opinion? (Adding three or four tildes -- the character that looks like this ~ -- will do the trick.) Like you, I'm puzzling over the article Sea Peoples, & when I read your opinions in the Talk: section (which I agree with for the most part), your anonymity weakened your argument. -- llywrch 01:34, 23 Sep 2003 (UTC)
(Thank you Llywrch, I'm still a newbie here. ``` my tildes are just tildes) User:Wetman
Hello Wetman,
I don't quite get your statement at Talk:List of islands of the Republic of China. You can sign your name with ~~~~. Cheers! --Jiang 00:12, 2 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Golly gosh thank U Wetman for T.B. Lib. commentNorwikian 11:22, 5 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Very witty comment Wetman on Goodness. :) Won't you tell us even a little bit about yourself on your own page? TonyClarke 22:20, 17 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Hey, Wetman: Cute comment on Dispute over the name Sea of Japan. The issue may seem trivial or even ridiculous to you, but it is a highly emotional and divisive issue right now among many Koreans and Japanese. The debate has spilled over into English because English is the lingua franca of the modern world. Don't trivialize something for others simply because you personally don't care about it. --Sewing 17:46, 22 Oct 2003 (UTC)