CopaceticOpus

A copacetic penguin, who is *not* Opus due to copyright restrictions.

About Me

My name comes from Copacetic, one of my favorite words, and from Opus of Bloom County. I'm most interested in comedy, technology, and language.

I don't know User:GrowlyGenet but I found that person's user page to be a very helpful template. Thanks, random person!

Pages I Have Edited

Umph - This product didn't have an existing page, so I created one. I wish I didn't need to use caffeine, but due to my insomnia it is inevitable. Umph is my preferred caffeine delivery mechanism when I am feeling very tired at work.

Penguin Mints - I added a summary of the caffeine content (and other active ingredients) in their products.

The Hartford - Added Aetna, Inc. to list of competitors.

List of notable wagers - Removed redundant reference. Article was orphaned, so I linked to it from the Pascal's wager and Gambling pages.

Deleted Article 1: List of films in which an attempt is made to guess a password

This is a very common movie convention which I felt was worth tracking. Unfortunately, others did not agree! Some people thought it worthwhile, some people didn't, and it got deleted without my knowledge that it was even under debate. I was able to recover a version of the list using Google. Gee thanks,that really makes me feel excited about contributing.

Article Content

Making an attempt to guess a password is a movie cliché. In modern movies, the attempt is typically made at a computer terminal by a heroic character under pressure to access a system or uncover a critical piece of information. However, password guessing scenes predate the computer and can take many forms.

In most cases, the character succeeds in three guesses or fewer. This is only possible because a weak password was chosen. Still, the ease with which the character guesses the password is often criticized as being unrealistic.

Movies featuring an attempt to guess a password include:

Horse Feathers (1932)
WarGames (1983)
Fortress (1993)
Jurassic Park (1993)
The Net (1995)
GoldenEye (1995)
Independence Day (1996)
Batman & Robin (1997)
Swordfish (2001)
Klatretøsen (2002)
National Treasure (2004)
Superman Returns (2006)

Deleted Article 2: List of wagers

Apparently this interesting and enjoyable list didn't cut the mustard either. Again, I recovered the article from Google.

Article Content

Gautama Buddha's wager in the Kalama Sutta
Wager between Yudhishthira and Shakuni in the Mahabharata
Pascal's wager
St. Petersburg paradox
The man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo
Wager between John Pierpont Morgan and Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale on whether a man could walk round the world and remain unidentified
Wager between Julian Simon and Paul Ehrlich in 1980 on whether the inflation adjusted price of natural resources such as copper and nickel would be higher or lower over the next decade.
The annual Nenana Ice Classic, when the inhabitants of Alaska bet on when the ice will break on the Tanana River.
Wager on Black hole information paradox: Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne against John Preskill (the wager)
The Carr-Benkler wager is between Yochai Benkler and Nicholas Carr over whether Internet content in the future will be provided by volunteers as in the Wikipedia model; or provided by paid workers as in traditional news media such as CNN.
Fictional wager by Mortimer and Randolph Duke on the fortunes of Louis Winthorpe III and Billy Ray Valentine in the movie Trading Places.
Fictional wager in Around the World in Eighty Days

Self Categorization

This user is male.

UIUC

This user is or was a student at the University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign.

gk

This user is a geek.

This user is a Pirate. Arrr!

X

This user is a member of
Generation X.

INFP

This user's MBTI type is INFP.

This user does not smoke.

This user is right-handed.

兔

This user was born in the year of the Rabbit.

Grrr! Brains! Brains!

Personal Interests

XD

This user is interested in comedy, and may enjoy writing or performing it.

This user is interested in linguistics.

This user enjoys cooking.

This user enjoys photography.

This user enjoys comics.

This user drinks beer.

This user believes in the existence of Zoom Zoom.

This user can drive.

HW

This user enjoys collecting (or playing with) Hot Wheels cars.

This user's favorite color is green.

This user knows that 42 is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

Linguistic Preferences

its

This user understands the difference between its (of it) and it's (it is or it has).

…in.

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something that this user is okay with.

A, B, and C

This user prefers the
serial comma.

~~they~~
he or she

This user considers the singular they to be substandard English usage.

to¦go

This user chooses to sometimes use split infinitives.

man-
kind

Regarding gender, this user prefers the vernacular, not what is politically correct.

to
too
two

This user thinks that too many people have no idea how to use words that they should have learned in grade two.

less & fewer

This user understands the difference between less & fewer.

their
there
they're

This user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they're worse than their own children at spelling!

your
you're

This user thinks that if your grammar is incorrect, then you're in need of help.

. The

This user does not put two spaces after a full stop.

,

This user fixes comma-splices; they are annoying.

’s

Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice.