User:Eitch

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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).

Click to see: How I approach Wikipedia -- How I approach editing -- Languages I speak  


Contents

On Wikipedia

WP is particularly well suited for...
  • 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):
Alea evangelii • Alquerque • Bagha-Chall • Chowka bhara • Daldøs • Fanorona • Five Field Kono • Jungle • Kubb • Mak-yek • Mancala games • Pong Hau K'i • Pulijudam • Surakarta
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

Highly recommended articles

Things learned here that have stuck
(more recent)
  • The sadly boring story of how AC/DC got their name
  • Dada
(older)

Areas of relatively significant contributions (past and future)

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

Off Wikipedia -or- Learn What I Know

Work-fun

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).

Book-, art-, hobby-, and music-fun

What else?

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.

External Links

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