RPGeek@Everything2.com

Homenode image: Mt. Tsukuba with KEK (the Japanese particle accelerator lab) in foreground, May 15, 2008.

I'm the leader of the VideoGames and e2music usergroups; if you're a gamer or a music nut please /msg me to join...

Progress on my video game playing/noding project:
Games: 22/71, Nodes: 4/26
Current games I'm playing:

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (GameCube)
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Nintendo DS)
Star Ocean: The Second Story (Playstation)
Jak II (Playstation 2)
Space Channel 5 (Dreamcast)

Now you can email me; droberge@gee-mail.com, but please note that that isn't how you spell 'GMail'.

Recently Revised Nodes

nForce (May 15/08)
CP Violation (May 15/08)

All of my writeups are copyright D.G. Roberge and ~~some~~ all of them are released under Creative Commons licenses. See the list at the bottom for more details.

My political compass reading is (2007):
Economic Left/Right: -6.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.85
My political compass reading is (2002):
Economic Left/Right: -6.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.23

Writeups:      179  XP:            6607  Karma:             17  :                   
Max Rep:       115  Min Rep:          7  Total Rep:       4317  Ave Rep:       24.12
Max Upvotes:   116  Min Upvotes:      9  Total Upvotes:   4538  Ave Upvotes:   25.35
Max Downvotes:  16  Min Downvotes:    0  Total Downvotes:  221  Ave Downvotes:  1.23
Max Votes:     117  Min Votes:        9  Total Votes:      221  Ave Votes:     26.59
Max Cools:       5  Min Cools:        0  Total Cools:      205  Ave Cools:      1.15
Node-Fu:     36.91  WU Node-Fu:   35.57  Median Rep:        28  Rep Mode(s):      14
Merit:       21.35  Merit Range:  15-28  Devotion:     3821.50  Addiction:      1.43

Write Ups With The Highest Reputation
4C! (115) Mozilla Firefox .(1
3C! (85) OK Computer .(2
4C! (80) The Bends .(3
4C! (72) KDE .(4
1C! (61) catting weird things to /dev/audio .(5

Write Ups With The Lowest Reputation
1.) equivalence class (7)
2.) Atog (8)
2.) Precis F. Newman (8)
2.) GVRD (8)
3.) White Light Rock & Roll Review (9) 1C!
3.) Zinf (9)
3.) Action Pact (9)
3.) Socket 478 (9)
3.) AMD 760MP (9)

Write Ups With The Most Up Votes
4C! (116) Mozilla Firefox .(1
3C! (90) OK Computer .(2
4C! (82) The Bends .(3
4C! (73) KDE .(4
1C! (68) catting weird things to /dev/audio .(5

Write Ups With The Least Up Votes
1.) Action Pact (9)
1.) Socket 478 (9)
1.) AMD 760MP (9)
1.) GVRD (9)
2.) df (10)
2.) GQview (10)
2.) White Light Rock & Roll Review (10) 1C!
2.) Zinf (10)
2.) Atog (10)
2.) Precis F. Newman (10)
2.) equivalence class (10)

Write Ups With The Most Down Votes
2C! (16) Prosenoder's Cup 2007 .(1
(9) April 9, 2004 .(2
4C! (9) My life may no longer be my own .(2
1C! (7) catting weird things to /dev/audio .(3
(7) The Queen of England uses Linux! .(3
(7) Ancestral Recall .(3

Write Ups With The Least Down Votes
1.) lepton number (0) 1C!
1.) Nintendo Entertainment System (0) 5C!
1.) oscilloscope (0) 3C!
1.) Zsnes (0) 2C!
1.) neutrino (0) 2C!

Write Ups With The Most Total Votes
4C! (117) Mozilla Firefox .(1
3C! (95) OK Computer .(2
4C! (84) The Bends .(3
2C! (79) Prosenoder's Cup 2007 .(4
1C! (75) catting weird things to /dev/audio .(5

Write Ups With The Least Total Votes
1.) Action Pact (9)
1.) Socket 478 (9)
1.) AMD 760MP (9)
2.) df (10)
2.) GQview (10)
2.) GVRD (10)

Write Ups With The Highest Up Vote Percentage
1C! (100) lepton number .(1
5C! (100) Nintendo Entertainment System .(1
3C! (100) oscilloscope .(1
2C! (100) Zsnes .(1
2C! (100) neutrino .(1

Write Ups With The Highest Down Vote Percentage
1.) A Rationalist Defence of Faith (25.00) 1C!
2.) My life may no longer be my own (23.68) 4C!
3.) Ancestral Recall (23.33)
4.) equivalence class (23.08)
5.) Prosenoder's Cup 2007 (20.25) 2C!

Cooled Write Ups With The Highest Reputation
4C! (115) Mozilla Firefox .(1
3C! (85) OK Computer .(2
4C! (80) The Bends .(3
4C! (72) KDE .(4
1C! (61) catting weird things to /dev/audio .(5

Cooled Write Ups With The Lowest Reputation
1.) White Light Rock & Roll Review (9) 1C!
2.) A Rationalist Defence of Faith (12) 1C!
3.) Images and Words (13) 1C!
4.) Some Great Reward (14) 1C!
4.) AMD 760 (14) 1C!
4.) kdm (14) 1C!
4.) Linux Weekly News (14) 1C!
4.) wxPython (14) 1C!

Non Cooled Write Ups With The Highest Reputation
(32) A Perfect Circle .(1
(28) WMA .(2
(27) April 9, 2004 .(3
(27) The Queen of England uses Linux! .(3
(26) October 24, 2004 .(4

Write Ups With The Most Cools
1.) Nintendo Entertainment System (5) 5C!
1.) console RPG (5) 5C!
1.) quark (5) 5C!
2.) Mozilla Firefox (4) 4C!
2.) The Bends (4) 4C!
2.) KDE (4) 4C!
2.) New Adventures in Hi-Fi (4) 4C!
2.) magneto-optical trap (4) 4C!
2.) Vancouver Island (4) 4C!
2.) My life may no longer be my own (4) 4C!

I have spent 151 C!s on the following noders:

6 Cools: Major General Panic
5 Cools: 18thCandidate, kthejoker, unperson
4 Cools: rootbeer277, sam512, Swap
3 Cools: althorrat, bewilderbeast, libertas, mfishrules, randombit, Servo5678
2 Cools: chomps, dgrnx, drinkypoo, Excalibur, filoraene, fondue, Halcyonide, interrobang, quamaretto, redbaker, TanisNikana, The Custodian
1 Cool: Aeroplane, alphaman33, ameriwire, Amgine, amib, Angio, anyend, apelet, ariels, Braunbeck, call, carraway, CleverAlias, cole_p, Damodred, dannye, dido, donnaidh_sidhe, DylanDog, Fieari, fuzzie, gitm, gpb, ilteroi, in10se, isogolem, Jack, jclast, Junkill, Just Swing It, Little Suspicious, Lometa, machfive, malcster, Mikebert, Mo0, momomom, mr100percent, Myrkabah, N3Bruce, nanashi, OberonDarksoul, Oneiromancer, Palpz, paraclete, phraggle, ponder, prole, psychoboy_jack, r6144, Retina, rp, Saige, SansPoint, shaogo, Simpleton, Sir Norris, sloebertje, Sol Invictus, Stealth Munchkin, Taharial, Tato, tdent, technostarix, TheDeadGuy, tokki, Transitional Man, Uberbanana, Valrus, weasello, Webster 1913, wertperch, wordnerd, wrinkly, WWWWolf, zoeb

I have received 43 C!s from the following noders:

10 Cools: kthejoker
7 Cools: Servo5678
3 Cools: , unperson
2 Cools: in10se, Lometa, Palpz, rootbeer277, Stealth Munchkin
1 Cool: 18thCandidate, ariels, fondue, interrobang, Jack, jclast, malcster, ponder, randombit, sam512

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I wrote 10 writeups in 2006, 24 writeups in 2005, 44 writeups in 2004, 50 in 2003, 21 in 2002, and 15 in 2001 (that haven't been nuked). I wonder (again) if I can do better this year...

Topical index of my writeups:
Writeups marked with a * are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial licence, version 2.5. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/2.5/ for human-readable details.
Writeups marked with a + are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence, version 2.0. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ for human-readable details.
Writeups marked with a % are released to the public domain.

Video Games:
Emulation:
- DOSBox+
- DOSEMU+
- DOS 3.1+
- gnuboy+
- Mini vMac+
- SMC+
- VisualBoyAdvance+
- VirtualBox+
- ZSNES+
Music:
- Achtung Baby*
- Action Pact*
- Avalanche*
- Beautiful Midnight*
- Can't Buy A Thrill*
- Images and Words*
- In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003*
- In Rainbows*
- New Adventures in Hi-Fi*
- OK Computer*
- Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?*
- Platinum record+
- Pretty Together*
- Pretzel Logic*
- So*
- Some Great Reward*
- The Bends*
- The Fragile*
- Train of Thought*
- Transmission*
- White Light Rock & Roll Review*
- You Forgot It In People*
- Zooropa*
Science:
- 4-momentum*
- A Perfect Circle*
- central force*
- centripetal force*
- Charged particle*
- CKM Mixing*
- Classical Mechanics*
- constellation%
- CP Violation*
- CPT Invariance*
- cyclotron*
- Dirac sea*
- eigenstate*
- electron neutrino*
- equivalence class%
- Gamma*
- Gamma Ray*
- isotope*
- lepton*
- lepton number*
- magneto-optical trap*
- neutrino*
- Omega*
- oscilloscope*
- parity violation*
- particle accelerator*
- pion*
- quark*
- resonance*
- Right triangle*
- rigid body*
- sodium thiosulfate*
- spherical coordinates*
- sterile neutrino*
- Super-Kamiokande*
- superposition of states*
- Three body problem*
- TRIUMF*
Software:
- Apollon+
- catting weird things to /dev/audio*
- cfdisk+
- cp+
- Cut and Paste in X+
- desktop environment+
- disk image+
- GQView+
- JuK+
- K3b+
- KDE+
- kdm+
- KMail+
- Konqueror+
- Konsole+
- iBCS+
- Linux Weekly News+
- Mozilla%
- Mozilla Firefox+
- Mozilla Foundation+
- Netscape Communicator+
- Pan+
- rpmfind+
- terminal emulator+
- The Queen of England uses Linux!+
- top+
- window manager+
- WMA
- X Window System+
- xdaliclock+
- Zinf+
Local Interest:
- GVRD*
- Loonie*
- University of Victoria*
- Vancouver Canucks*
- Vancouver Island Brewery*
- Vancouver Island*
Programming:
- GCJ+
- JDK+
- kernel panic+
- native widgets+
- protected mode+
- Tkinter+
- wxPython+
Hardware:
- AMD 760MP*
- AMD 760*
- core logic chipset+
- GeForce2 MX*
- GTL+*
- i850*
- nForce*
- Power Macintosh G4*
- Socket 370*
- Socket 423*
- Socket 478*
- x86*
Philosophy/Theology:
Fiction:
- My life may no longer be my own*
- Serendipity can cut both ways*
- October 24, 2004*
- Prosenoder's Cup 2007 ("Day Pass")
Miscellaneous:
- line out (audio)*
- Ancestral Recall (Magic: The Gathering)*
- Atog (Magic: The Gathering)*
- dual land (Magic: The Gathering)*
- model number*
- Ping (Megatokyo)*
- April 9, 2004 (daylog)
- abiogenesis (evolutionism)+
- Ars Technica (website)*
- April 13, 2005 (daylog)
- Canadian Club (whisky)*
- A Feast for Crows (book)*
- Ticket to Ride (board game)*
- MLA (politics)*

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