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# Koyaanis Qatsi

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A few things I've contributed to significantly: Schizophrenia, Dave Brubeck, Ingmar Bergman, Joel and Ethan Coen, Digital Video, The Thin Blue Line, Stephen King, and Amazing Spider-Man. Mostly I play in film, though sometimes in literature, and sometimes just "[[Random Page]]" and canonize names or copy-edit. I've also done a lot of cut-and-paste work in Countries of the World. All of these entries are of course completely open for revision, refactoring, removal, etc., and if you can improve them or expand them then please do so.

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Welcome, Koyaanisqatsi.

I saw the movie Koyaanisqatsi over 10 years ago now. I'm still dizzy. :-)

Thanks for the welcome; I'm glad to have found the resource.

Does the repetitive process of copying World Factbook data give you a similar feeling to watching the film Koyaanisqatsi? *grin* When I was cutting and pasting this stuff, I felt dizzy after awhile, in the same way as watching the film. :-)

Ha. No, it doesn't make me dizzy; in small doses it's just something to pass the time with while waiting for people; in larger doses it's something easy and worthwhile that helps overcome insomnia. I have to admit that I take greater pride in the Ingmar Bergman entry than in the rest; I think I'll start reading up on Martin Scorsese and Joel and Ethan Coen to beef up those two pages. (I share a fondness for The Big Lebowski, and just watched it again last night, in fact.)

The dude abides.

;:-) I just keep imagining you cutting and pasting while chanting Koyaanisqatsi.

:-) No, Koyaanisqatsi is just a movie I identify strongly with. (I could have called myself the Bicycle Thief, but that sounds too much like a violation of the fifth amendment.) ;-) I didn't go with my name because I'm an information junkie; as a result I've developed a great respect for privacy: once any bit of information is out in print or online, it can reproduced and collated infinitely, all without the careful judgment that typically goes with sharing some bit of information with a person, in person. In the entry I wrote about Ingmar Bergman, I wrote about the way he works because it is his work that I'm interested in; I expect to do the same for the other entries, though I would not mind if others added biographical details. I personally tend to see them as relevant only when they've had an obvious effect on the work. I don't mind being personable, I just feel that online, people get lost among the data. Suffice it to say I have no intention of becoming a celebrity. :-D

You know, it just occurred to me that since the CIA World Factbook does come out each year, much of the work I've done so far would have to be redone next year. I hope someone is working on that Perl script. :-D

Now I'm curious as to whether there's any way to turn the autolinking off. Sometimes it's inappropriate, as in "Randle Patrick McMurphy?": since I did not put the name in brackets, the site automatically wants to create an article called "McMurphy?." I've tried the six apostrophe trick, to no effect. Will the autolinking eventually be removed?

I would like to see that removed eventually as well, but for now, you can do it ThisWay. --LDC

Thanks, LDC. --KQ

Hey, KQ, thanks a lot for finishing up that wikification of my text. I didn't notice that you'd finished. Anyway, thanks again, it looks a lot better. It still needs a lot of work wikifying (breaking into chunks, making less colloquial, and de-opinionating). I wish I had the time to do it. Maybe I'll take some time, do it for 15 minutes a day... --LMS

  Well, I think it's only slightly too colloquial, but that's of course just my opinion. I like a certain amount of informality in discussion, and I think subjects should generally be presented as simply as possible. (I can see the troops gathering on the horizon against my "dumbing down" of edcuation....) :-D

Thanks for cleaning up my birthday page (November 24)! I'm getting the hang of the format now. -- Claudine

You're welcome. Glad to be of help. I think it was [Paul Robinson]? who started the date entries; he set up an example at Historical anniversaries/Example and I've just been following it. Unfortunately the link to it was deleted; I guess I must have done that in one of my many edits on the main page. --KQ

do underscores turn up in a search for "\[[a-z0-9/]+[^ -^a-~\n-][a-z0-9/]+\]" when they aren't linked? no.
in brackets when not linked: [_] no.
when they are linked: yes.
math symbols: no
foreign characters: no.

If you have a message for me, can I suggest you add a pointer on my page drj. This re BCPL/Talk (where you said "message for drj" in the change log comment. Anyway, I've read what you have to say and done some editing back in. --drj

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