User talk:65.49.77.82

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And read this: Wikipedia:Vanity page  ;-) - Omegatron 16:32, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC)

I'm very sorry that you find my additions to Steve Mann problematic. I will admit that some of them have been negative, but I was trying to strike a balance since there were additions by User:Glogger who I believe is Steve Mann himself (and you may be also, I don't know). I have no problem with your recent edits to the article. I didn't know that those publications had called him the first cyborg, or that he didn't like the term. Thanks for making the corrections. We're all working towards the same goal here, an accurate and unbiased encyclopedia. moink 03:02, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

OK. Thanks for contacting me. I wasn't sure who you were; I was going to email you to find out more about if I've upset a past student but I wasn't sure how to find your email address in Wikipedia. I try to give my students as much recognition as possible and often they appear as first authors on many of our publications, and also I loan out alot of equipment to students, since I have more than 25 wearable computers for loaning out, along with lots of other systems. I hope that there was not a past mis-understanding that you or another student had a problem with. I'm not sure if you're a former student, or a friend of a former student (I saw you were called Teresa and I don't recall having a student by that name).

I hope I'm not POV on the article someone wrote about me, but I just wanted to correct a couple of things that I felt were wrong, like authorship on papers, loan of equipment, and the term "cyborg" which I really don't like (even though alot of people call me "world's first cyborg" or whatever), because the term is more used in science fiction, and it often puts people off, or distances us so-called "cyborgs" from other people. I don't recall referring to myself as a cyborg per-se, although, in my book, I kind of jokingly refer to myself as a "cyborg luddite" (partly out of hate for the term). It was my book publisher (Randomhouse Doubleday) who came up with the title "Cyborg..." because they thought it would "connect" with people, but I still wonder about that.

As for logging in, I'm using outdated equipment (old wearable computer system, and 20 year old TTY kind of interface sometimes with a 30 year old keyer) so it's onerous sometimes to login. Sometimes if I can get a graphical user interface going, I do login, e.g. to upload images.

Also I tend to make small changes in case my radio link goes down and I lose the changes, so I often have to do whatever is minumum effort (make a small change, save, make another small change, etc., until my system crashes). I hope that's OK (i.e. small edits here and there without logging in).

I like to always have Wikipedia at my beck and call, so when I happen to think of something I can look it up and if it's not there I can add it. Since my right eye is a camera, I often look at things and put them on Wikipedia, e.g. I got a nice picture of a 3 pole switch just before sunset, and the nice long shadows made it really clear and easy to see how it worked, so I thought because of its epistimological value, it would make a great upload.

Since Wikipedia is so useful as a tool for thinking, I feel I owe it to the community to give something back, which I try to do with contributions in the area of electrical engineering.

In some sense if everyone were wearing a computer all the time, and plugged into Wikipedia, the whole world would (or could) merge into some sort of collective stream-of (de)conciousness, and in a way, it's great that we can resolve any misunderstandings by "connecting" through an interactive media like this.

20 years ago, using wearable teletype and old ham radio keyers, I'd have never envisioned it this easy to interact continuously with a relatively large and temporally asynchronous community.

Best regards.

Let me know how the transition was from Toronto to MIT. Cool picture on your site (by the lack of leaves on the trees in the background, it must have been cold --- perhaps a Canadian winter...).

--Steve

Wow, that was quite a long and well-thought-out response. I'm impressed that you're so willing to talk with me despite our rocky start. No, I have never been a student of yours, though I'm good friends with a couple of students who did undergraduate research projects with you. I won't tell you who they are since I don't have their permission. I've met you a couple of times, seen a presentation you made (you showed a film of your sousveillance, as I think you call it, and you arguing with various retail people about their stores' cameras) and I once even tried on your glasses.
I should actually apologize for my previous edits. I was a bit bitter on behalf of one of my friends. It was unfair of me to put his and my other friend's unsubstantiated opinions/gossip into the article as fact. I'm not going to re-add that stuff, though I am keeping the article on my watchlist and I may closely watch your edits for POV.
Not logging in is fine; there's no requirement to log in. Though we like to know when people are editing articles about themselves, just because people would like to look at the edits more closely. As you might imagine, we get a lot of people on this site who write glowing articles about themselves. The multiple small changes are fine too; some people might find it annoying, but your explanation is a good one and it doesn't bother me personally.
And I really like MIT. It's better funded than U of T. Administrative people who aren't way overworked are friendlier. I even get the trash taken out of my office more often than I did at U of T, these things make a difference. How did you find the opposite transition? moink 04:41, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
By the way, do you have a static IP? moink 04:51, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Yes, I found the admins at MIT can be very wonderful if you "connect" well, but I also find our admin staff here in Toronto can be great too. I think it's a matter of coming to a mutual understanding. I really like our present admin, Rosanna, and she also really likes our research, and gets along great with all our students.

I found the transition quite easy because I'm from Canada originally (from Toronto, in fact), so it was like returning home, flashbacks on my eyetap of what it was before quite similar, but a few places I liked were gone, like the antenna tower with a tree growing in the middle of the tower, etc., were replaced by new buildings.

My IP address is pretty well fixed, it hasn't changed for a long time, and I use simple commands like ifconfig and route, but there's no guarantee that it would stay the same over the years. I guess if I keep paying my bills, hopefully it will stay the same.

I spend most of my time trying to help my PhD students and Masters students, especially the students who have been with me for undergrad thesis plus Masters plus PhD, and with a new daughter being born, I have to spend time with her, so that leaves less time to spend with undergrads who come and go each summer, or term, etc..

I hope I haven't "dissed" any of the undergrads, and I'd welcome constructive criticism as to how I might be a better mentor for them, or at least as much thoughts, ideas, suggestions, etc., as you might have without revealing the identity if he wants privacy, or maybe he'd be willing to come forward especially if he's already graduated. Certainly I'd like to learn from him on what I might do better with undergraduate students, especially since I now have a large number of undergrads in our EyeTap Personal Imaging (ePi) lab.

--Steve

by the way, you don't have to use CamelCase on wikipedia. [[a page title with spaces]] works just as well. 24.123.221.2 03:09, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. Actually there seems to be a close connection between space and underscore character. Also, there seems to be a tendency to capitalize the first letter of the first word in a multiword entry (with words delimited by spaces), but the other words are sometimes capitalized and sometimes not... Perhaps there's a convention I should be following...

Yes. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization) - Omegatron 16:29, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC)

Can you sign your additions to talk pages by typing -~~~~, please? Of course, it would be better if you registered, but linking to your anon page is fine. - Omegatron 16:17, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC)

Shouldn't your additions to chirp just be included in the chirplet transform article instead? - Omegatron 16:29, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC)