User talk:Vespine
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[edit] 420
Were you thinking of 420, and not 210? (Though, 420 is an ironic number if you really have been smoking something. O_o) - Rainwarrior 04:45, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
- Yes. Good pick up, wonder how many other people saw it! I thought I was pretty quick;) Vespine 21:14, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cube of flesh
hey. The cube is to be sent into space to save the earth from being liquified and sucked out. Since it starts with a genocide i guess it is that kill 3 people to save 5 dilemna. - Keria 18:40, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
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Thank you, reposted at bottom of section. Vespine 00:31, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Present for Dad
I suspect your question may be removed because it's "not encyclopedic", so I thought I'd better respond here, instead. Does he like sports ? Get him tickets to a game. Does he like movies ? Take him to see one. Does he like to eat out ? Take him to a restaurant. StuRat 01:15, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Request for removal of RD comment
Hi, can you please see Wikipedia_talk:Reference_desk#Lines_I_suggest_be_removed. If you would remove the lines in question, I would be appreciative. -- SCZenz 06:03, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
- I restored your comment after Admin:SCZenz deleted it, then User:Hipocrite deleted it again. StuRat 19:43, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Merry Christmas!
Thank you, if you don't mind I have toned down your post here.
As I don't even know who you I think this is fair. Vespine 04:14, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] I wonder...
...did you get your username from where I think you did? 68.39.174.238 08:33, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
- I don't think so. People have asked me before if it is something to do with Bjork or Starwars, but it wasn't. I was interested in the latin names of animal classes or whatever it is called, you know, canine and feline and all those, so I made collected a big list of as many as I could find and vespine was my favourite so I've been using it as a user name.. What did you think it was from?
[edit] Simulator sickness
Thanks for the pointer. I was wondering what that was called. :) --Brad Beattie (talk) 03:19, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Muslim extremists
I saw your comment on the reference desk, the one that turned into a major war. It sounds like you want to sympathise with Muslim people, but you are worried that dangerous extremists seem to be in power in many Muslim countries. I found that my understanding of the situation in Iraq has greatly deepened by reading Iraqi blogs, like the well-known Riverbend, Konfused Kid, a college student and heavy metal guitarist, and Sunshine, a 14-year-old girl. It's reassuring to know that despite the despicable extremists you hear about on the news, many Muslims are people like you and me who hate terrorism and want peace. --Grace 20:51, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
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- Thank you for those links, I'll definitely have a look through them. I'm not sure I've had an issue sympathysing with 'the plight of the people', I know there are millions of innocents in the middle east all living lives doing the right thing, looking after their families and just trying to get by, I haven't had a problem with that. I guess my issue is the opression in my motherland was caused by the communists, it's a little more cut and dry. Yes there are noble and ideological communists that think communism is really the best system of government, but we've pretty much proven now that it is not and in a nutshell that commies are bad, leads to opression, inequality, secret police, etc... But in this case, several prominent Muslim leaders are evil manipulative vengful inhumane monsters but there are still millions who also call themselves muslims. Of course, there are people of every faith who are (for the sake of this conversation) 'evil', but they aren't openly so and in power. Anyway, the way I'm going is just making it more and more obvious that it isn't clear in my head anymore about my attitude towards the region. I've got more thinking to do before I can really keep discussing this. Vespine 21:35, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Python "Most Common Word" Programme
Hi there I read that you've written a word counter as your first programme on reference desk. I am trying to learn python is well but can't really think of a purpose for one and I would like to see the source code of your programme as I am quite interested in it. --antilivedT | C | G 10:37, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
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- Hi, I use IDLE from http://python.org/idle/. The program is below heavily commented:
The caveat is the input text file needs to be very clean, one word per line and no punctuation. I found that NOT too hard to do using a combination of notepad and MS Word. Also, this means it isn't 100% accurate, especially with words that have ' like isn't and hasn't.The input is a file named text.txt in the same folder as the program, the output is a file called orderedlist.txt in the same folder. This was all really obvious to me but obviously may not be to you, feel free to ask if anything needs explaining. You'll need to paste this into a text file and rename it to a *.py file. Lines that start with a # are comments and are not necessary for the code to work. If you can't figure out how to do it, let me know what the text is you are trying to analyse and I'll run it for you. Vespine 00:40, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
# This program takes a file (text.txt) and counts how many times each word appears.
# The text file has to be formatted so each word appeard on a new line,
# with no formatting, capitilsation, punctuation, etc.
# This isn't too hard to do with word/notepad using the 'replace' tool.
# It writes the results, in order of frequency to a file (orederedlist.txt).
# I used it on Mary Shelly's Frankenstein,
# total words = 75352
# total unique words = 7278
# most used 3 words = 4191-the 2974-and 2850-i
# And the results are VERY quick, about one second to complete, so I'm very happy.
# Manualy creating the word list from the complete text took way more time:)
# Programmer comments are indented like this.
# Testing/debugging code is commented out without indent, like the below.
# This was my very 1st python program so it took some debugging to get working properly.
#print "text file word counter"
# It is not recommended to uncomment debug code for large word list (>50) files.
#---------------#
#-----START-----#
# create lists
list = []
numlist = []
# append every line in text file into a list called 'list'.
in_file = open("text.txt","r")
for line in in_file.read().split('\n'):
list.append(line)
in_file.close()
# print total number of words in list/file to screen.
print "total words = ",len(list)
# create variable total_words
total_words = len(list)
list.sort()
# first debug code is below, uncommenting these using large lists is not recommended.
#print list
checking_word = 0
previous_word = checking_word - 1
while checking_word <= total_words - 1:
#print "checking word", '"',list[checking_word],'"', checking_word ,"of" ,total_words
# reset count for each word.
count = 0
next_word = checking_word + 1
# counting routine loop
# This section only counts words that are actually repeated.
if list[checking_word] == list[next_word]:
# I realise now the above 'if' may be redundant, but it works so...
while list[checking_word] == list[next_word]:
count = count + 1
checking_word = checking_word +1
#print "counting -",count
# The below appends a final entry to the list after all items are counted.
# just so the counting routine doesn't crash.
if checking_word + count == total_words:
#print "total reached"
list.append("end")
# This line was debug code.
if list[checking_word] != list[next_word]:
# had to add something for the next line so that the program
# would not expect another indented line.
comment = 1
#print "check end"
# Uncomment the below to see resulsts print live to screen.
# Again, not recommended for large lists.
#print "result" ,list[checking_word - 1], count
entry = count ,list[checking_word - 1]
#print "entry",entry
# This adds the 'result' into the second list "numlist".
numlist.append(entry)
# More debug code
#print "list update" ,numlist
if list[checking_word] != list[next_word]:
comment = 1
#print "LOOP FINISH"
# This section adds words to the list even if they are not repeated.
elif list[checking_word] != list[next_word] and list[checking_word] != list[previous_word]:
#print list[checking_word] ,1
entry = 1 ,list[checking_word]
#print "result" ,list[checking_word], 1
#print "single entry",entry
numlist.append(entry)
checking_word = checking_word +1
#print "list update",numlist
else:
#print checking_word
checking_word = checking_word +1
# Message that counting and listing has completed.
print "numlist created"
numlist.sort()
print "total unique words =" ,len(numlist)
#print numlist
# Finally the output phase.
out_file = open("orederedlist.txt","w")
for line in numlist:
t = line
#print t
# the below turns the numlist output (tuple) into a string
# so that it can be written into the file.
line_str = ' '.join([str(e) for e in t])
#print "string" ,line_str
out_file.write(line_str)
out_file.write("\n")
out_file.close()
print "complete"
[edit] Your pretty cool
I did a quick check on some of your stuff and well you seem pretty cool =) well hope to see ya out on the wiki pagesMaverick423 16:58, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
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- Mum? Is that you?? I told you to stay off my user page! ;) Thanks, that's nice of you to not only say, but be bothered to write:) See you around. Vespine 01:07, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Apology accepted
Threading can be highly complex at times, hence my bewilderment rather than screaming and yelling at you :). Actually there are very few human conditions that make the person abnormal, it's a highly pejorative word. even a 1% sample of the population having a particular state is normality, it is just not majority. This normal spectrum includes ailments like Sickle Cell Anaemia which give immunity to Malaria, but cause other unpleasant effects.
GLBT folk are stuck with their orientation and other issues in the same way that heterosexual people are stuck with their orientation and other issues. I suppose one could say "Except in the US Bible Belt", though. Fiddle Faddle 17:01, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
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- Hi Fiddle:) Umm, I'm not sure if we're still understanding eachother here, did you read my other posts to that thread?? I was on your side from the start, I was arguing with the OP who used normal as the antonym for gay, yeah? That was me that started the argument;) Anyway, it's all good, and I didn't know SCA gave immunity to Malaria, that's interesting:) Have a great one, and thanks for clearing that up without going nuts at me.:) Vespine 21:14, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
- I must admit I got wholly lost in that thread, and I suspect a good many other people did too. Whoever started that thread had a slight odour of troll about them I thought. I never go nuts. Life is too short :) Fiddle Faddle 01:23, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
- Hi Fiddle:) Umm, I'm not sure if we're still understanding eachother here, did you read my other posts to that thread?? I was on your side from the start, I was arguing with the OP who used normal as the antonym for gay, yeah? That was me that started the argument;) Anyway, it's all good, and I didn't know SCA gave immunity to Malaria, that's interesting:) Have a great one, and thanks for clearing that up without going nuts at me.:) Vespine 21:14, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Reference desk comments:
Although I suspect it is good natured, your excessive crude & profane language at the reference desk would be unacceptable on another's talk page & could be generally be considered rude to other users, especially newbies who come to the reference desk for help. It would be appreciated if you could "tone it down" a little, as your replies are a great asset to the wikipedia community & it would be a shame if they were tainted by crude language. In my experience, swearing is only used if the person cannot find another suitable word to express their feelings & swearing can almost always be avoided to express a point of view. I hope you will take my advice & continue contributing to the reference desk... :) Spawn Man 04:09, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
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- Yeah I know you are right, but I only used the word dick which was already used by the OP, I was using it in a way to tease the OP about his use of profanity... Oh yeah, and there was a "fck" in one of my posts too, I suppose that's not necessary.. Ok, no, fair enough, you are right, I don't think I've had enough coffee today, I don't usually dwell that low... Thanks for the polite way you approached this... Vespine 04:37, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
- I found the msg a little poor-taste, but that was more than offset by the fact that you refrained from making any of the more obvious "pussy" jokes. DMacks 05:02, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
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- Thanks for taking it so well Vespine... If only I was an admin my powers may be used for good & not eviiill!!! ;) Spawn Man 05:25, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Melbourne Street artists.
Hey Vespine, thanks for then interest. I actually live in Canberra, but do a lot of work on Melbourne street art articles. I'm sorry I can't help you, you can ask at Wikipedia:WikiProject Melbourne though. Good work so far, cheers, Dfrg.msc 05:05, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Blocked from editing
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Poo! autoblocked because of an IP range... That's balls. Vespine 22:32, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
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- Yay:) thanks! Vespine 01:01, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
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Stupid templates. I pulled the question because it was asking for a prognosis. Your reply got caught in the net, too. Just a heads-up that it happened. No big deal. --Milkbreath 13:33, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
