User talk:Larry V
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[edit] Long-Overdue RfA Thanks from Alphachimp
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Thanks for your support in my not-so-recent RfA, which was successful with a an overwhelmingly flattering and deeply humbling total of 138/2/2 (putting me #10 on the RfA WP:100). I guess infinite monkey theorem has been officially proven. Chimps really can get somewhere on Wikipedia.
With new buttons come great responsibility, and I'll try my best to live up to your expectations. If you need assistance with something, don't hesitate to swing by my talk page or email me (trust me, I do respond :)). The same goes for any complaints or comments in regard to my administrative actions. Remember, I'm here for you. (Thanks go to Blnguyen for the incredible photo to the right.) alphaChimp laudare 01:29, 4 September 2006 (UTC) |
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- Thanks buddy. alphaChimp laudare 01:29, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Re:Michael Hertz Associates
Thanks for the message - I wrote the article this weekend (Michael Hertz Associates) based on a bit of text and some URLs he emailed me, and told him you'd look it over when you had some time. I've done pretty much all I can do, and I think he may do a little editing himself – I encouraged him to only make minor revisions and to resist the temptation to turn it into a moving tribute with Busby Berkeley-type choreography and dancing girls. ;-) I hope it works out where you can work with him – he seems like he has a lot to share. Thanks again - Baseball,Baby! balls•strikes 05:38, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] MORE Subway Changes
These subway vandals are back. A new IP user has vandalized the B and D articles. This is starting to get dumb. Can you do something about them? --Imdanumber1 ( Talk | contribs) 22:33, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The return of User: Samstayton
Hey, if you want to entertain yourself, check out the recent edits by User:Samstayton. Apparently, he has returned from his hiatus to "fix" Wikipedia.
[edit] WP:NYCS
Hey, I hope you haven't left WP:NYCS. The contributions are slipping. We are also short an editor (Marc Shepherd left a couple of weeks ago). I know that you are an admin now and have to be active at other places, as well as being busy in real life, but WP:NYCS is going to need all the help it can get. --Imdanumber1 ( Talk | contribs) 13:46, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Protect your userpage.
If I were you, I would protect your userpage. This will make it impossible for IP users to vandalize your userpage, and really, who would want to edit a person's userpage anyway, except their own? --Imdanumber1 ( Talk | contribs) 02:06, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Subway table
I know you said, "if it aint broke, don't fix it", which was your response to the table I created a while back. I have to agree that that table wasn't so great anyway. But I am back with a new table. I know what you said, but this time, it's totally different. I've created a brand new table for subway services, and I have already got support from Pacific Coast Highway and the late Marc Shepherd (Marc left a couple of weeks ago). I would like you to view the WP:NYCS talk page or my sandbox subpage I created sometime ago to see a draft of my table. With the help of PCH, I am working on the table so it can benefit everyone. I would like you to view it too, and state your opinions on it. This table looks certainly better than the last one I offered, and I hope you like it. --Imdanumber1 ( Talk | contribs) 02:32, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
P.S. I know that as a sysop you have to work in other places of Wikipedia, but WP:NYCS is going to need all the help we can get, especially since anyone is hardly contributing there except me (it is getting lonely there). If you ever have any free time, feel free to come back to WP:NYCS and make some contributions.
[edit] Massachusetts
So how is it in Mass.? Too bad you moved out of New York. I plan to go to NYU, and never leave New York. However, it's good to have you back, and I hope you can still contribute on a regular basis. --Imdanumber1 ( Talk | contribs) 14:14, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] 0.999... != 1
Look, an integer is not a decimal. A decimal is not an integer. Mathematic proofs are irrelevant and irrespective to reality. 0.999... will always be 0.000...1 off from 1. Your revert of my edit marks you as pretentious, pedantic, and altogether unpleasant. In short, there is a good chance no one but those who hate you will come to your funeral, and many, many people will attend it.--ttogreh 23:54, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
- Reality is representative of reality. Everything else is an abstraction; an allegory meant to aid in our movement through reality. Integers, decimals, binary, octal, base 10, hex... none of these truly exist. They are thought constructs meant to help real problems get real solutions. As such, the intellectual concept of an integer is not the same as the intellectual concept of a decimal. Do you understand? Mathematics does not dictate reality; reality dictates mathematics. --ttogreh 00:10, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
ttogreh: I can only assume that you are actually just using your account to troll, and aren't thinking clearly about what you are saying. 1/9. = .11111..., 8/9. = .88888.... 1/9 + 8/9 = 9 / 9 = 1. We know that this final statement is true, for any reasonable definition of addition of fractions. That said, for .9999... to not equal one must be a failure on the part of using a decimal notation. -- mmt
- I am not a troll. I truly believe what I say to be true, and as such, I find it very hard to take your pedantry seriously. However, that said; you are making my argument for me. All recursive decimals from 0.111... to 0.999... are failures. They are an exposure of a human flaw in abstract thought. 1/9 != 0.111... because recursive decimals do not end, while integers do. "Might as well be" is not "exactly equal", and it will always be this way. I sincerely do not understand why you cannot concede this.--ttogreh 22:05, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
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- You hit all of my points, save one; that "might as well be" is not "exactly equal". I find this quite telling. Mathematic proofs are irrespective to reality, and I can use 0.999... to represent 1 when calculating something, but that does not change the fact that recursive decimals are no where near as elegant as integers, and that 0.999... and 1 are two different things. Elegance matters. --ttogreh 04:53, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
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- You know, I have to say, if my beliefs and musings were obviously untrue and without merit, you would ignore me. I am just text on a screen to you. Yet, you continue to defend a cognitively dissonant mathematical assertion that has no substantive relevance on reality against the musings of a complete and total stranger. This leads me to suspect that one of these two things is true about you; your grasp of reality is dependent on mathematic theory, or you simply cannot let even the smallest thing go, marking you as an irretrievable pedant. Perhaps you should ask yourself why my assertions bother you so. That said, 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 = 1 != 0.333... + 0.333... + 0.333... = 0.999..., always, and forever.--ttogreh 06:58, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
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Forgive this one trespass. Consider two iron bars one meter away from one another. Halve the distance between them. Halve it again, and again, and again. According to mathematics, the two iron bars will never meet because the distance between them can always, and forever, be halved again. In reality, the iron atoms of the two bars will eventually become so close that atomic force will physically prevent both bars from getting any closer than they already are. Think about that. There will always be another nine. Even if the difference between 1 and 0.999... is infinitesimal, the difference can never be removed! Humans are flawed; why should our math be perfect?--ttogreh 09:25, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bowling Green (IRT Lexington Avenue Line)
Hi Larry, There's a stub article about the Battery Park Control House. This needs to be moved to something like Bowling Green IRT control house - do you know the right title to use? This could be kept as a separate article, with a little more detail and a new photo added, as part of the Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places - it is (or they are) a beautiful building. If separate, can link to it with {{Main|Bowling Green IRT control house}} from the existing article that mentions it as the "headhouse". Or do you think the article is better as a Mergeto Bowling Green (IRT Lexington Avenue Line)?
P.S. May I suggest some reference to the entrance "characteristics" to be included in the Infobox NYCS for each station? This is a great entrance, while others are little more than a door in a wall, etc., &tc. Perhaps general categories to help people identify the entry - curb, exit only, sidewalk/building, dedicated building entry (interior), control house …. For your consideration. The subways are actually very cool in general, and the new station they're building downtown especially. The articles in the Project help to see that. Thanks —Dogears (talk • contribs) 16:20, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Aaron Gray
Thank you for moderating the AfD, a civil result, yet inconclusive, result was achived. Can I ask that in the future the Edit summary (when removing the AfD tag) include the results of the AfD? This way future editors may have find a clear trail. Including myself. :) --meatclerk 20:58, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] User Page
Wow......just wow. I came here to tell you that you should think about fixing your user page because it streches out when other people view it and saw this. My head just exploded!--Jersey Devil 06:51, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
- Yeah, I just meant that your user page doesn't seem to be properly formatted (like for instance how things look like when you do ). And it stretches out rightward because of that.--Jersey Devil 07:21, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
- Oh wait *slaps self on head* ...you specifically say that that is a template area! My mistake.--Jersey Devil 07:24, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
