User:Mindspillage
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Greetings! You've reached the user page of Kat Walsh, otherwise known as Mindspillage. I am a law student, a classical musician, and a member of the Wikimedia Board of Trustees.
I'm currently living in Herndon, Virginia (just outside Washington, D.C.) with my significant other, in my second year at George Mason University School of Law with a focus on technology and internet law, copyright, patents, and economics. As one might guess, I'm most interested in the legal issues surrounding free content, free software, free speech, and the public domain, and how technology can best enable the free exchange of knowledge.
I graduated from Stetson University in DeLand, Florida with a B.A. in music and a minor in mathematics. I worked for Wikia, Inc. as Community Support from February to August 2006, after a stint of tutoring music theory, transcribing music, and playing in various non-notable orchestras. I still think I would like to be a freelance genius when I grow up.
Meeting of the Minds
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- Talk page: here
- E-mail: kat@mindspillage.org, kat@wikimedia.org
- (G)AIM: mindspillage
- IRC: mindspillage (here), mind|wandering (not here)
- Generally in #wikipedia and #wikimedia. Private messages are more likely to get my attention than asking in a channel.
- Phone: given on reasonable request
Multiple intelligencesA few of the hats I wear on Wikimedia:
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Pieces of mindOccasionally I like to blather on about Wikipedia rather than do anything constructive...
I follow the one-revert rule as well as 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)
"To enjoy freedom, [...] we have of course to control ourselves."
-- Virginia Woolf
"You're entitled to your own opinions. You're not entitled to your own facts."
--Daniel Patrick Moynihan
enjoy yourself / be a catalyst / reduce temperature / don't stuff beans up your nose / beware of the tigers, closely related to defending against passion / fighting is boring / control yourself / prefer the soft response / sometimes you have to resort to St. Benedict's Rule / critics are your best friends / fix broken windows / moderating conversations in virtual space / why a group is its own worst enemy / knowledge access as a public good
(and please, feel free to suggest interesting philosophical musings to me on my talk page)
I recognize that this user page belongs to the Wikipedia project and not to me personally. As such, I recognize that I am expected to respectfully abide by community standards as to the presentation and content of this page, and that if I do not like these guidelines, I am welcome either to engage in reasonable discussion about it, to publish my material elsewhere, or to leave the project.
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 / Come Out / Concert band / Concerto in E-flat (Dumbarton Oaks) / Daniel Dorff / Daniel Read / David Darling / 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 / John Crowe Ransom / Judith LeClair / Judith Sargent Murray / Jurriaan Andriessen / Keiko Abe / Lexical definition / Lili Boulanger / Luigi Dallapiccola / Madeleine Dring / Metastasis / Michala Petri / Miller Puckette / Modulation / Multiphonic / Ostensive definition / Paul Redmond Michel / Persuasive definition / Precising definition / Rebecca Helferich Clarke / Ruth Gipps / Squonk Opera / 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 / Thomas Hastings / Wind quintet / Zarzuela
Of sound mind
You can hear me in these recordings:
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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 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. - Problems playing the files? See media help.
Spilt ilk
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 Wikipedia instead.) I will exercise final judgment on which changes I keep, of course... Random acts of poetry encouraged!
- My mind, spillage.
- My mind, wandering.
- Constance, Dale, Fern--
- women I will never know.
- Poetry, the art form I will never be good at.
- 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 Wikipedia spill forth with bounty.
- Welcome to Wikipedia. May you spring forth and prosper!
sɪzlæk [ +t, +c, +m ] 09:46, August 11, 2005 (UTC)
- A haiku:
- Mindspillage, admin.
- Mindspillage, arbitrator.
- A spill of a mind.
Mindspillage - a grand canonical ensemble of thoughts. May the partition functions unite! --HappyCamper 01:01, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
- There was a young lady Mindspillage,
- Who from Wikip'dia did pillage
- All the things that one can
- This poem don't scan.
- She lives in the Wikian village!
- [[Sam Korn]] 21:50, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
Here's a little poem (Sung, more or less, to the tune of '"The Shadow of Your Smile"), my holiday gift to you.
- The spillage of your mind I find refined
- The hat upon your head is black not red
- The head beneath your hat
- Spills forth the thoughts of Kat
- Never to be maligned
- The spillage of your mind
Paul August ☎ 20:28, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
Here's a contra-haiku for you:
- One place to hear a
- contrabassoon contribute:
- Brahms' First Symphony
Another haiku, poles apart from David's above (at least it's at the opposite end of the compass), and I think "Rite" in this usage counts as a kigo:
- Aerial, alone,
- opening Stravinsky's Rite
- your instrument soars.
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- माईन्डसि्पलेज -- िमस्ट्रैस आफ़ िडबौक्री (That's Mindspillage in Devanagari) --Nearly Headless Nick 10:20, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Ink spilt for a spilled mind... they pondered the possibilities. --wpktsfs (talk) 04:21, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
Brain droppings
- To-do list, which just serves to remind me of stuff I meant to get to some day...
- Sandbox, for odds, ends, and protospillage
