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The Mind's I

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 a recent graduate of 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. (Don't ask me what I'm doing in the short term, though.) 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 categorization. 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 (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.

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. If you need assistance there, just ask; either talk page works.
In October 2005 I was appointed to the Arbitration Committee. My term expires in December; I am not yet certain whether I will seek a second.
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.

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Pieces of mind

Occasionally I like to blather on about Misplaced Pages rather than do anything constructive...

It's really pretty simple:
- remain neutral - - don't be a dick - - ignore all rules -
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Use common sense: a meta-rule that goes hand-in-hand with meta:Don't be a dick and Misplaced Pages:Ignore all rules, and supersedes all others. It should be in the Misplaced Pages 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 Misplaced Pages: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 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)

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 / Concert band / Daniel Dorff / Daniel Read / 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 / 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 Clarke / Ruth Gipps / 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 / The Stone Guest / 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.

Spilt ilk

I award you this barnstar for all your vast help to the Wiki. Redwolf24 (24 yours?) (Complete with a signature spoof.)

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 Misplaced Pages instead.) I will exercise final judgment on which changes I keep, of course... Random acts of poetry encouraged!

[[Image:Afrikanischer strauss.jpg|thumb|right|I hereby Ostrichcize you! ; - ) -- Essjay · Talk

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 Misplaced Pages spill forth with bounty.

Welcome to Misplaced Pages. May you spring forth and prosper!

sɪzlæk 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)

Spill containment

I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

Multi-licensed with the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License versions 1.0 and 2.0
I agree to multi-license my text contributions, unless otherwise stated, under Misplaced Pages's copyright terms and the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license version 1.0 and version 2.0. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use my contributions under the Creative Commons terms, please check the CC dual-license and Multi-licensing guides.

Brain droppings

Because I never remember my IP address when I need it, it is here, for my own reference: 24.165.233.150

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

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