User:Kwill

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My name is David Seaward, although I usually write it d@vid to distinguish myself from the large amount of Davids I know; kwill is my regular online nick.

I'm a developer at open box software in Cape Town, South Africa. My major hobbies are reading (mostly science fiction, fantasy and comix - where comix does not equal superheroes, but any sequential art) and roleplaying games, particularly LARPing. I was briefly Chatelaine for the Shire of Adamastor, the Cape Town branch of the Society for Creative Anachronism. (Hmmmm... so the Adamastor article is a stub, ay? And I didn't know that Chatelaine implied being female until I made that link! In the SCA the Chatelaine is concerned with newcomers and public relations.)

(All these topics are well-covered on the Wikipedia, but I'm finding obscure nooks to write about! :)

I worked at a bookstore for two years and I have some ideas about including bibliographic data in book articles. Some day I'll get round to discussing them.

I am embarrassingly monolingual, so I won't be contributing to Wikipedia in Zulu, Afrikaans, Xhosa or other interesting languages.

Unfortunately I haven't had much time to contribute much, but I've done a ton of research! (A wiki is more in line with my random access tendencies, so I've at least contributed more than a solitary article on roleplaying as I did back on h2g2.) I used to think Wikipedia is the absolute shiznitz, till a friend pointed me to the Vampire watermelon. I still think it's the schiznitz, but now I read with caution.

[edit] Other community-based sites I frequent

I don't always frequent them frequently, though, and contribute once in a blue moon.

Interesting fact: The idea of the moon being made of green cheese is not as absurd a notion as you might think. "Green" used to (and in some contexts still does) mean "fresh", and mediaeval recipes would often call for "green cheese". The moon does generally look a pasty yellow, just like fresh cheese.

[edit] Contact

[edit] Old links I keep around for nostaligic value

  • The Forge indie roleplaying design & actual play, I used to read it twice daily, now I don't have time (sniff)
  • dmoz (I used to edit the African Roleplaying and Conventions categories there)
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