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Contents 1 Good Bio; 2 Changed/added archive.org links rather than CoralCDN links 3 Removed Personal Nerd Fluff 4 Why the 'Personal Nerd Fluff' Stays 5 External link 6 Kibo as in "eye-bow" 7 Supertaster statement 8 Page title 9 Dumbest thing on Wikipedia? 10 "knack"? 11 Lifted from the Jargon file? 12 Website/blog 13 Organization

[edit] Good Bio;

Such a well written piece, on someone who sounds intriguing. I have never heard of the man, but anyone who designs typefaces is brilliant as far as I'm concerned. The piece is well timed and paced. Just long enough for an encyclopaedia entry. Some, I find go on much to long, but here the article says exactly what needs to be said and then is finished. Ten out of ten I say. Five gold stars. --Tapsell 20:41, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Changed/added archive.org links rather than CoralCDN links

The version on CoralCDN changes as the page changes, therefore linking to the CoralCDN version (nyud.net:8080 or :8090) only shows the geocities bandwidth used up version. Why not just link only to the CoralCDN version next month, or whenever geocities restarts the bandwidth allotment? Or is the version on archive.org better? Also There's like three versions on archive.org, would someone else figure out the diff, or add links to all the different versions, or link to his sig directly on google groups? Family Guy Guy 18:47, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removed Personal Nerd Fluff

Kibo is the nickname, username and e-mail address (kibo(AT)world.std.com or kibo(AT)kibo.com) of James Parry (b. July 13, 1967), a Usenetter known for his sense of humor, various surrealist net pranks, an absurdly long .signature, and an uncanny, machine-assisted knack for joining any thread in which his nom de guerre is mentioned (to "kiboze"). His exploits have gleaned him a multitude of enthusiasts, who celebrate him as the head deity of the joke pseudo-religion kibology, centered on the newsgroup alt.religion.kibology.

James Parry grew up and lived in Schenectady, New York before moving to Boston, Massachusetts about 1990, where he lives today. He initially was a Computer Engineering major at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY, but when he moved to Boston attended Emerson College, where he studied videography and graphic design. At that time, he also worked as a typeface designer and for the world.std.com internet service provider, whose praises he sings on his website (in a rare moment where he is not being outrageously tongue-in-cheek). He has a great artistic eye for typeface and developed several fonts in use today.

Many assume his nickname is derived from the acronym KIBO, although Parry himself has repeatedly denied this. Another rumor has it being short for King Body, a pseudonym he very briefly used on computer forums as a freshman at RPI in the mid-1980's.

Kibo is a supertaster, and has prosopagnosia. He frequently dyes his hair, which as of late 2004 is bright orange. Kibo likes bacon, but greatly dislikes cheese.

[edit] Why the 'Personal Nerd Fluff' Stays

Because silly as it is and sounds, all of this is true! There was even an article/interview in Wired magazine several years ago about it all.

I went to RPI the year and a half that Jim "Kibo" Parry went there and used to visit him in Boston a lot, that is how I was able to write all the stuff in the Wikipedia entry about his college days and quantify his work in type face design and with world.std.com (he may still work there, I've only corresponded with him very occasionally in the last 5 years or so). If you go to his website (since this was 7 years ago it is probably in a very obscure part) and look hard enough you will actually see a brief "tribute" section to my wedding which he attended; it is likely the only part of his weird and crazy website other than his world.std.com praising that isn't tongue-in-cheek and is actually serious. If you can't find it go to Google and type in the search "Happy Honeymoon Harry and Lisa" and it will come up. I am amazed to see that he is actually famous enough to be a Wikipedia entry but three cheers to him! Hairymon

It may well be true, but there are thousands of geeks with their own geeky foibles out there. Do they belong in encyclopaedias?

If you actually don't know whether Kibo is notable or not, I recommend checking his mentions in the media as a start. They include Wired, the Baltimore Sun, the San Jose Mercury, Playboy, the Boston Herald, the London Times, and many others. If you can find thousands of geeks who are as notable as Kibo, please make articles about them. Factitious 17:20, September 12, 2005 (UTC)

He finally took off my "wedding" page. He had to do it very recently because my half-sister told me last month how she put my name in Google and was surprised to see that page come up. I think almost 8 years is long enough  :-) hairymon 04:16, February 3, 2006 (UTC)

[edit] External link

• Kibo's website

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[edit] Kibo as in "eye-bow"

How is this pronounced then?! It could be bow as in "bow and arrow" or bow as in "bow to pressure"! I presume the former, but this needs clarifying Bobbis 14:02, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

Although this has been changed to be clearer (one hopes), I've added the IPA to avoid any ambiguity. --moof 19:23, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Supertaster statement

While it was a wild ride paging through Kibo's signature file, what credible sources can corroborate the contents of this article? Specifically, how can one verify that Kibo is a supertaster? Can't sleep, clown will eat me 22:37, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Kibo himself has claimed to be a supertaster. The message is archived in Google Groups. [Here is a direct link.] The relevant quote is at the bottom: "Now, as far as being a supertaster goes, that's another tiny genetic difference that makes me better than the Muggles, even if it makes dark chocolate taste really nasty." I'll change the article to say that Kibo claims to be a supertaster, instead of saying that he is one. -- DocSigma 14:16, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Page title

I undid User:Cool Cat's moving the article from "Kibo" to "James Parry" for 3 reasons: 1)a look at "What links here" shows the relevent artlicles are linking to "Kibo" 2)In contexts he's well known for, I seldom if ever see him refered to as James Parry (though sometimes as James "Kibo" Parry is not uncommon). 3)There was no discussion of the move on the talk page. I'm certainly open to changes if someone sees a problem with the current title or article, but please explain moves if the reason isn't obvious, and in this case please discuss first, thanks -- Infrogmation 16:11, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dumbest thing on Wikipedia?

I nominate this... --66.82.9.82 09:56, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

You must be new here. —rodii 13:10, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Yeah! Congratulations for your new computer! Welcome to the interwebs! --Boborok 23:18, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

I nominate this, too - User: Cyberman

lol

[edit] "knack"?

Personally, I was amazed when I found out there was some guy who grepped ALL OF USENET and replied to any message mentioning his name. I would guess that anyone who started using the internet in the Google era might not appreciate how unusual this was 15 years ago -- and since that's the whole reason he gained notoriety, it probably deserves more emphasis.

Well, he grepped the directory the newsfeed was in. It wasn't some magical act of scripty prowess. A newsfeed wasn't that big, especially if you did it one day at a time. Henry Spencer tried to archive every posting that ever reached U of Toronto, bless him. · rodii · 16:55, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

He was very before his time Net-wise. As a fellow college freshman he introduced me to what was then Internet email....in September of 1985!!!--hairymon 19:31, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lifted from the Jargon file?

This copy sounds *really* familiar. If we *did* lift it from JARGON; oughtn't we credit it? --Baylink 22:17, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Erm, no, unless the Jargon file's entry has been cut down substantially over the years: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/K/KIBO.html

[edit] Website/blog

I cut this from the article: "Some net historians could argue that many aspects of his site make him the first blogger, as he gave regular updates on himself on his site (albeit tongue-in-cheek most of the time) since the early 1990's."

Kibo's activity in the early 1990s was most notable on Usenet. He was not particularly early in establishing a personal webpage (I recall a good number of Kibologists had such before Kibo), and the site never was in blog form. It postdated robotwisdom by years. I don't know anyone who has seriously tried to stretch the definition of blogging to include Usenet postings. -- Infrogmation 14:56, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Organization

I tried to organize this a bit, to make it easier to read & edit. What do you all think? Mdotley 21:00, 20 September 2006 (UTC)