User talk:Derek Hodges/Archive 1

Tasks: start a new article • add basic, wanted or requested articles • add definitions • add metadata • edit new pages

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Thanks for bringing over Elizabethan Religious Settlement

I hope I didn't get in your way in putting the subpage's template into the Elizabethan Religious Settlement page. JesseWeinstein 14:13, 16 January 2008 (CST)

Novel article

Alright Derek-- At your prompting, I have hacked out a section on Western antecedents of the novel. Let me know what you think; it's about all I got on the ancient novel for now.

I might also chip in on the section on Jane Austen. It's been a while since I have done anything with Austen scholarship, but I'll try to contribute something.

Do you know Auden's "Letter to Lord Byron", specifically the part about Austen?

You could not shock her more than she shocks me;
  Beside her Joyce seems innocent as grass.
It makes me most uncomfortable to see
  An English spinster of the middle-class
  Describe the amorous effects of 'brass',
Reveal so frankly and with such sobriety
The economic basis of society.

Somehow, I can't get the formatting right, but whatever. See you around, Brian P. Long 19:00, 25 April 2008 (CDT)

Definitions

Hi Derek--thanks for the definitions--but please see CZ:Definitions; there should be only one sentence (or period, anyway) per def. --Larry Sanger 22:08, 17 May 2008 (CDT)

Helicopters

Ah, it turns out that helicopters generate lift from forward motion too; if you can taxi one down a runway, you can take off with a heavier load than if you have to take off from a fixed location. Odd factoid of the day... :-) J. Noel Chiappa 12:41, 21 May 2008 (CDT)

Apples

I've been trying my hand at a complex disambiguation page MAC, and I used Mac as a form of apple fruit. Are we consistent? Howard C. Berkowitz 14:34, 27 May 2008 (CDT)

Apples

Is there to be a disambiguated apple for the one that bonked Sir Isaac? (I've always cherished a cartoon where he's sitting under a tree, is bonked, raises a hand and declaims the law of gravity...then gets bonked again and goes ???)

As to Newtons, definitely disambiguate. Aside from Sir Isaac and the unit, does there need to be further disambiguation between fig newton (food) and fig newton (energy delivered by the impact of a reference fig, at terminal velocity in a 1G field)? As my first signed article, under compartment control system, it is my hope that some humor disambiguates CZ from WP.

Howard C. Berkowitz 15:10, 27 May 2008 (CDT)

Derek, could you fill me in on the definitions story?

Hey Derek, I see that you are really involved with the Definitions project. When did the definition project begin and how is it going to be useful in the future? Tom Kelly 20:23, 1 June 2008 (CDT)

I personally am awed by your dedication to the definition stuff! Way to go! J. Noel Chiappa 08:22, 2 June 2008 (CDT)