User: Furrykef
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My name is Kef Li Eric Marcus X Schecter -- or if you insist, for some bizarre reason, on the boring name on my birth certificate, Kevin Lee Fields.
Although my username appears as 'Furrykef' in most MediaWiki-based wikis like Wikipedia, it is properly 'furrykef', all lowercase, except in reference to my AOL Instant Messenger name, which is FurryKef (because I wrote it that way when I got my username, before adopting the all lowercase version). It also appears as FurryKef on CamelCased wikis.
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Wiki stuff
- Creator and maintainer of a small number of Wikipedia articles:
- Creator and maintainer of three wikibooks:
- Currently sysop at Wikibooks, and PTWiki, the wiki for the Power Tab Archive
- Occasional lurker/editor of the Homestar Runner Wiki and C2 Wiki (a.k.a. Ward's Wiki)
On Wikipedia I usually lurk, fix typos/grammar/markup, create redirects, and post on talk pages. Rarely do I heavily revise an article or start a new one. I guess that makes me an unsung zero. ;)
But most of all I end up correcting typographical errors. Nearly every page I read has a typographical error, confusing wording, or other significant defect in it. It is getting very tiring amending these. If you are reading this, I urge you to learn to spell. Arrrrgh.
Toy wikis
These are little wikis I have created. One lesson I learned: don't use swiki.net. Much of their stuff is broken (e.g., invites to private wikis, making private wikis useless) and they don't give a crap about their users. :(
- siboot - we're remaking Trust & Betrayal: The Legacy of Siboot!
- radsoft - radical software development
- gameinfo - down with GameFAQs! ;) I have decided to post my game guides here instead.
Non-wiki stuff
- My LiveJournal, which is here (warning: may include strong views, strong language, and weak reasoning)
- The Power Tab Archive (PTA) - I currently write guitar tabs for the PTA and used to make lots and lots of posts on its forums. (Now I just make occasional posts on its forums.) I also make/edit lots of stuff on its wiki (see above in "Wiki stuff"), but I've been taking a sabbatical from most wiki editing other than Wikipedia.
Briefography
Who?
I am Kef Li Eric Marcus X Schecter, alias furrykef, born April 17, 1984. The 'furry' part of my handle refers to the fact I am a so-called furry. Despite everything you are likely to have ever heard about furries, many are quite normal people. I think. I'm not. ;)
Hobbies
Drawing (especially naughty pictures), composing/arranging music, playing the guitar, designing computer games, programming, playing poker (Texas hold 'em, Seven-card stud), making too many wikilinks
Religion
Zen Buddhism — but it's really more a philosophy.
Programming languages
Note that I typically judge how much I know a language based on my grasp of its syntax and semantics, not its standard libraries. If I have to write Java code, for instance, I'll probably spend a good amount of time looking up standard library classes and objects, but I still consider myself proficient because knowing the syntax and semantics are usually all that's necessary to grasp anything needed in the standard library.
- Know it like a book: C, C++, Java, Python, QBASIC, Visual Basic
- Some experience: Assembly language (x86, Z80, 6502), Pascal, Perl, Ruby, Smalltalk
- Considering learning: Haskell, Lisp, Scheme (at least one)
- Not learning but could probably learn in a day: D, PHP
- Don't wanna learn: Brainfuck, INTERCAL, l33t, Malbolge, Shakespeare
Whatever language you can throw at me, though, I can probably learn it. (Except the "don't wanna learn" languages and similar. I'm not even gonna touch those.)
Current projects
- Project: FurryRPG, a massively single-player offline RPG. Yes, a single-player role-playing game. Remember those things?
- Project: Siboot3, a remake of Trust & Betrayal: The Legacy of Siboot
Also I seek to revise software development processes. For this reason I created radsoft, the wiki on radical software development. If it ever blossoms into anything, it might become part of the C2 wiki. Probably not.
- Kef
