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What matters in being loyal or just is that you do fulfil the charge, in a wine-feast that you do enjoy, in mourning that you do grieve, in serving parents that you do please them. To the glory of fulfilling the charge you can pick your own route; in serving parents, if you do please them they won't raise difficulties about how you did it; in the wine-feast, if you do enjoy you won't be finicky about the cups; in mourning, if you do grieve no one quibbles about the rite.
The rites are what the custom of the times has established. The genuine is the means by which we draw upon Heaven; it is spontaneous and irreplaceable. Therefore the sage, taking Heaven as his model, values the genuine and is untramelled by custom. The fool does the opposite; incapable of taking Heaven as his model he frets about man, ignorant of how to value the genuine he timidly lets himself be altered by custom, and so is an unsatisfied man. What a pity you were steeped so soon in man's artificialities, and are so late in hearing the greatest Way!
- Zhuangzi, trans. A.C. Graham
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Favorite authors
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- Terry Pratchett
- Henry David Thoreau
- Isaac Asimov
- Tony Hillerman
- Douglas Adams
- Charles Dickens
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Philosophies to live (and edit) by:
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| If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. |
| -Isaac Asimov |
| The universe is wider than our views of it. |
| -Henry David Thoreau |
| To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. |
| -Henry David Thoreau |
| As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it. |
| -Albert Einstein |
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A little information about me:
- I am 19 years old.
- I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, in fact in Lafayette, California (it's a wonder of Wikipedia that an article exists for a little town).
- I moved to Scottsdale, Arizona (Phoenix area) a few years ago.
- I am a student at Reed College, majoring in history.
In Wikipedia
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- I am currently a member of the Arbitration Committee. (my candidate statement)
- I've been known to sporadically haunt the TL, FLC, WP:RFPP, WP:AN, and a few other admin/dispute pages, among others.
- I also used to run a bot to transwiki dictionary definitions to Wiktionary. The software upgrade killed it. But I encourage everyone to get Cryptic's transwiki script and do their part. And please see if you can help out the transwiki log.
- On July 24, 2005 I was made admin. (Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Dmcdevit). As always, if you need admin help or just plain Wikipedia help, don't hesitate to ask. I am friendly.
- I am the same as es:User:Dmcdevit, wikt:User:Dmcdevit, and meta:User:Dmcdevit, though my talk page on this project is the best place to contact me.
- Subpages are in no particular order: /Things to look at, /Help desk funnies, /IP blocking, /Workshop, /Important missing articles, /Proposal for desysopping, /Chile politics
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If you would like to vandalize, please do so in the specified area, and in the form of: psychohistory.
This page has been vandalized... I don't know. Something like "more than 20 times." count yourself if you like. (60 times --Woohookitty(cat scratches) 09:02, 30 October 2005 (UTC))
Please direct all vandalism below this line -- Management
My first userpage preserved for posterity: (Sign below! Let's see if anyone does read this.)
5uy57y653tu478weuryf35huiw4jkyu6gtui5rhyt6iu5yhuuig4ywgit24t5iufAint 23:32, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
Well hello.
I don't really have anything to say, but having a red link for my name was getting annoying. It doesn't really matter what I say here, though, because I can't imagine anyone is ever going to look at my page. Except me really, but only now that I am writing it. So, hi me. Bye me.
- You're wrong. ;) --Eleassar 20:13, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- P.S.: How long did you have to wait for me to write on your page?
- Oh I just noticed it, YAY! Only about a couple of months :) --Dmcdevit 04:46, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- I read it :D -Towel401
- ME TOO! · Katefan0(scribble) 23:36, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)
- I read it too! And welcome aboard the Cleanup Taskforce! — Knowledge Seeker দ 08:23, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- I woz 'ere Brookie:the wind in the grass 11:38, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
- Read? I can't read! Dalf | Talk 07:54, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
- Anyone who transwikis as much as you do is definitely going to be noticed. :-) SWAdair | Talk 10:07, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
- Even I, who's practically 'never' on en:pedia, found your page :) \Mike(z) 09:31, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
- Looks like I'm joining quite a party here, hope you don't mind me fixing a typo. Rje 10:36, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)
- Good luck for Hum 110 - sounds interesting. muriel@pt 30 June 2005 18:17 (UTC)
- I signed as soon as I figured out how too. You were the second person to help me on wiki topics, and only by seconds on the clock. Good work and I appreciate the excellent editting.Hamster Sandwich 07:09, 17 July 2005 (UTC) P.S. (I may have written you an erroneous message when I was floundering around as an IP address.)A-HA! It IS me! I just typed the "~"s ! Damn! Thanks for fixing The Reuther page! Hammy Sammy.
- Jūzeris was here and just filled the space to see who doesn't mind being number 13. :) 10:19, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
- <<— There, see, so much for superstition, I haven't even gotten hit by lightning or a truck or anythi—*gets hit by falling llama, and no not the lightweight Dalai variety, we're talkin' 'bout 60kgs of seriously ticked-off camelid here...* GarrettTalk 11:34, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
- I look at the user pages of wikipedians who edit articles on my watchlist, this one requested signing, so i sign --fpo 22:59, July 23, 2005 (UTC) Oh, I found this through the list of golf courses vfd page --fpo 14:50, July 24, 2005 (UTC)
- (To Rje:) Oh, a party! A good occasion for me to don my best sig for a change. — Sebastian (T) 05:48, August 2, 2005 (UTC)
- I wish I had a pretty signature like that. Maybe one day....EvilPhoenix talk 07:51, August 5, 2005 (UTC)
- As a fellow (temporarily ex-) Reedie and awardee of the janitorial medel, welcome! Good luck at Reed! JesseW 19:57, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
- Vandalise? What do you think I am, some kind of hooligan? ;-P --IByte 13:17, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
- I didn't know you had a club! OK. You have a club and I'm at 9,877 edits in 8 months. I think we both need to be put out of our misery. --Woohookitty 11:39, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
- Vandalize? What's that? :P Titoxd 22:35, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
- EVERYONE reads your user page. And don't you think it's odd that you can be in Oregon and Arizona at the same time? --EVERYONE 13:23, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
- 59 vandalisms, in case you're interested. Ingoolemo talk 05:03, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
- Let me do my tribute to fishnet stockings... Are we having fun yet? Fish-net-fish-net-fish-net-fish-net-fish!! [1] paul klenk 07:13, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
- With my entry here, you've now got one reader for every hour of the day. Take your pick wisely for even wikipedians need sleep! Thryduulf 07:41, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
- Thryduulf, I don't know what planet you're living on, but my planet, Fishnet, we have thirty hours in a day. We have it all over you. We typically sleep for 6, leaving a full 24 hours to read one comment on this page each hour, except for the last two... and any other comments after... (?!@#%!!!) Damn, now I gotta find a new planet. paul klenk
- Because all the cool kids are doing it. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 08:24, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
- No Stewart Adcock 21:52, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
- Yes the Portland/Scottsdale thing puzzled me too. But when you live in Scottsdale and go to Reed you might also be able to afford that jet set life! Khiradtalk 23:49, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
- Delete. Vanity. --Kwekubo 20:22, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
- AHA! I noticed this immediately, as you can see from the placement and date of my signature!--Scimitar parley 22:33, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
- Hi, I'm an user from Catalan wikipedia (I'm Barcelona there). I founf you thanks to Systemin Bias Project. If you want something about Catalan, I can help!
- --Ryan Delaney talk 00:58, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
- I have to thank you for fixing up that NFL champions article. Not that it's my article, at all, but I nominated it and the main criticisms (both by myself and other users) were that the pictures cluttered and the tables didnt line up. I could fix the pictures, but i dont know anything about coding past what i can steal from previous edits, so I was unable to find a place to determine width (presumably because it used a template). In any case, serious thanks are in order.jfg284 20:58, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
- Such a poll breaks WP:BEANS in some way. Redwolf24 (talk) 03:32, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
- Dude, you're on my official list of Respected Wikipedians. Did you know that? The Literate Engineer 02:14, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
- Better late than never. Paul August ☎ 19:19, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
- Another Beckett quote, because I like it: "The sun came up, as it must, on the nothing new." Filiocht | The kettle's on 10:21, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
- If an infinite number of monkeys can type poetry, someone can find this page! xaosflux Talk/CVU 03:26, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
- Saying hi εγκυκλοπαίδεια* 17:54, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
- Hey. Posterity here. You may close the page now that I have see it. Prashanthns 12:17, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
- Merge userpage into Embarrassment page -- ActiveSelective 07:32, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
- I didn't find this page, and haven't read anything on it. But I'm voting support anyway. – Quadell (talk) (bounties) 16:13, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
- Figured I'd vandalize some more (if you can name what country this is from, bonus points to you):
Ó, guð vors lands! Ó, lands vors guð!
Vér lofum þitt heilaga, heilaga nafn!
Úr sólkerfum himnanna hnýta þér krans
þínir herskarar, tímanna safn.
Fyrir þér er einn dagur sem þúsund ár
og þúsund ár dagur, ei meir:
eitt eilífðar smáblóm með titrandi tár,
sem tilbiður guð sinn og deyr.
Íslands þúsund ár,
Íslands þúsund ár,
eitt eilífðar smáblóm með titrandi tár,
sem tilbiður guð sinn og deyr.
Ó, guð, ó, guð! Vér föllum fram
og fórnum þér brennandi, brennandi sál,
guð faðir, vor drottinn frá kyni til kyns,
og vér kvökum vort helgasta mál.
Vér kvökum og þökkum í þúsund ár,
því þú ert vort einasta skjól.
Vér kvökum og þökkum með titrandi tár,
því þú tilbjóst vort forlagahjól.
Íslands þúsund ár
Íslands þúsund ár
voru morgunsins húmköldu, hrynjandi tár,
sem hitna við skínandi sól.
Ó, guð vors lands! Ó, lands vors guð!
Vér lifum sem blaktandi, blaktandi strá.
Vér deyjum, ef þú ert ei ljós það og líf,
sem að lyftir oss duftinu frá.
Ó, vert þú hvern morgun vort ljúfasta líf,
vor leiðtogi í daganna þraut
og á kvöldin vor himneska hvíld og vor hlíf
og vor hertogi á þjóðlífsins braut.
Íslands þúsund ár
Íslands þúsund ár
verði gróandi þjóðlíf með þverrandi tár,
sem þroskast á guðsríkis braut.
Mike (T C) 05:42, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
Got llama? --Jaranda wat's sup 06:23, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
- That's so easy! It's Icelandic. I hope. OMGWTFLOLVANDAL!!!! NSLE (T+C) 10:52, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
- Ding ding ding we have a weiner, I mean a winner. Mike (T C) 02:26, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
- I like cheese. Really! Just a note that anyone who wishes to kidnap me and make your work slave, your applications are due in 24 hours. Thanks! --D-Day(Wouldn't you like to be a pepper too?) 20:22, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Kim Jŏng Il Changgunŭi norae (Sin Un Ho & Sŏl Myŏng Sun)
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Paektusanjulgi naeryŏ kŭmsugangsan samch'ŏlli
Changgunnim nop'i mosin hwanhosŏng ullyŏ kane
T'aeyangŭi wiŏp pinnaesin inminŭi ryŏngdoja
Manse manse Kim Jŏng Il changgun
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Taejiŭi ch'ŏnman kkotto kŭ sarangŭl chŏnhago
Tongsŏhae p'urŭn multo kŭ ŏpchŏk noraehane
Chuch'eŭi ragwŏn kakkusin haengbogŭi ch'angjoja
Manse manse Kim Jŏng Il changgun
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Kangch'ŏrŭi tamryŏgŭro sahoejuŭi chik'iyŏ
Nae nara nae chogugŭl saesange ttŏlch'isine
Chajuŭi kich'i nop'i tŭn chŏngŭiŭi suhoja
Manse manse Kim Jŏng Il changgun
- vandalism++ BigNate37 02:30, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
- Thank you for helping me on Wikipedia. =D For that I praise you, lol! vAnDaLiSm SuCkS eGgS!!! --I dont like vandalism, but it gives me something to fix on Wikipedia!! Yay! 20:02, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
Vanity
Awarded to a fine member of the Wikipedia community (Mindspillage)
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Barnstar, awarded by User:Zora to Dmcdevit for being a notorious iconoclast and zealot in reverting POV edits!
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For many, many reversions and deletions of vandalism. Ingoolemo talk
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the original, unabridged barnstar goes to Dmcdevit for his vast contributions to Wikipedia. Redwolf24 (talk) 03:29, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
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This WikiMedia for janitorial services is awarded to Dmcdevit for his transwiki work (Weyes)
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The Sandwich of Exceptional Excellence (Potato Salad of Congeniality cluster, 1st. class) In Panis, Veritas (Hamster Sandwich)
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The Mouldy Sandwich for fetching a precious token out of the deletion log for User:Mareino
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This user is approved by Anirudh. Its a big honour for him *wink*wink* |
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