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Introduction to Woozles

A woozle is a phenomenon caused by obsessively following one's own footsteps while thinking you are covering new ground. The presence of a woozle generally can be taken as an indication that you have become too focused on your immediate task and need to take a look at the larger picture in order to see where you have gone wrong.

Introduction to This Woozle

This particular woozle, now legally known as Woozalia Nicola Jadzia Rayner Staddon, can be contacted via various methods listed here, and is commonly found in Durham, NC (where she lives with her hypertwin, Harena) and various places on the internet.

Woozle is now switching to first person for the rest of this page. Do not adjust your sets.

Pages

Administrivia

Woozle's Personal Emo Tech Blog (an experiment)
the Woozle category contains many pages and subcategories

Creative

People I've written about:

Jenny: writing about our ghost friend
Tigger: our other ghost friend
Shannon: our latest late friend; no ghost as far as I can tell

There's a lot of other writing on Woozalia.

Other stuff besides writing:

MoG, a band I was in
Music recordings are at Woozalia
art: I do visual things sometimes

History

/school: report cards and stuff

Other

Mine bio-offspring (pictures and such) works in Atlanta and performs all over the place with two different bands (Saline and Scooterbabe).
I'm not related, as far as I know, to these folks (2009-11-13 news item) or to Stanley Staddon of Zimbabwe
/drafts: a place to keep drafts so I can show them to people (not used recently)
my internal/notes page, most of which probably won't mean anything to anyone else
/to do

Terminology

"Woozle" can also mean:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10502556.2015.1092349 "The process of misrepresenting the research in ways that create myths and misconceptions has been referred to as woozling."

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 ==Introduction to Woozles==
-A [[wikipedia:woozle|woozle]] is a phenomenon caused by obsessively following one's own footsteps while thinking you are covering new ground. The presence of a woozle generally can be taken as an indication that you have become too focused on your immediate task and need to take a look at the larger picture in order to see where you have gone wrong.
+A {{l/wp|woozle}} is a phenomenon caused by obsessively following one's own footsteps while thinking you are covering new ground. The presence of a woozle generally can be taken as an indication that you have become too focused on your immediate task and need to take a look at the larger picture in order to see where you have gone wrong.
 ==Introduction to This Woozle==
-This particular woozle can be found in [[Durham]], NC and various places on the internet. More contact info (including mailing address and instant messaging) is [[Contact|here]].
+This particular woozle, now legally known as Woozalia Nicola Jadzia Rayner Staddon, can be [[contact|contacted via various methods listed here]], and is commonly found in [[Durham]], NC (where she lives with her [[hypertwin]], [[Harena]]) and various places on the internet.
-(Woozle's internal/notes page is [[User:Woozle|here]], but most of it probably won't mean anything to anyone else.)
 Woozle is now switching to first person for the rest of this page. Do not adjust your sets.
-==Projects==
+==Pages==
-===Commercial===
+{{box/note|'''Administrivia'''
-My commercial projects include:
+* [[contact]]
-* [[vbz.net]], an online store which is operating but under reconstruction.
+* {{l/sub|public key}}
-* Various computer services which will eventually have a web site of their own:
+* {{l/sub|projects}}
-** On-site computer service (including Windows and Linux)
+}}
-** Web site programming (MediaWiki, MySQL, and PHP a specialty)
+* [[/blarg|Woozle's Personal Emo Tech Blog]] (an experiment)
+* [[:category:Woozle|the Woozle category]] contains many pages and subcategories
-I'm available for more work in either of these areas, though my time is currently more limited than I like -- mostly due to time spent on [[Josh]], Harena's autistic teenaged son. We are making progress in this area and I'm hoping that my time will be significantly expanded by this summer (I'm writing this in January 2008).
-===Community & Discussion===
-My non-commercial / community-related projects include:
-* [[HTYP]], a wiki-based online "directory of everything" and "technical manual for the universe"
-** [[HTYP:User:Woozle|My user page]]
-* [[Issuepedia]], a wiki-based site for discussing and documenting public issues (including [[Issuepedia:Durham, NC|local ones]]) and [[issuepedia:User:Woozle/Position Statement|personal opinions]]
-** [[Issuepedia:User:Woozle|My user page]]
-Both of these sites are advertising-free, with no registration required to edit. (I wrote my own [[htyp:SpamFerret|spam filter]] from scratch so that I wouldn't have to restrict editing in order to prevent [[htyp:wikispam|wikispam]].)
-* [http://www.intensedebate.com/people/Woozle My comments] on IntenseDebate, the forum service used by [http://change.gov Change.gov] &ndash; i.e. you can see all the comments I made at Change.gov by going to that link.
-** I also installed IntenseDebate on [[Issuepedia:project:IntenseDebate|Issuepedia]] as an experiment; it will probably turn out to be more useful as a source of ideas for debate software than as actual software to use
 ===Creative===
-* I write and record music. I've also been in a couple of bands which didn't go anywhere but recorded some stuff maybe worth listening to.
+People I've written about:
-** My original recordings are [[Woozalia:Main Page|here]]
+* {{l/sub|Jenny}}: writing about our ghost friend
-** Recordings from my first band, MoG, are [[MoG|here]]
+* {{l/sub|Tigger}}: our other ghost friend
-** A couple of other musical projects are not yet online
+* {{l/sub|Shannon}}: our latest late friend; no ghost as far as I can tell
-** Some other not-really-musical recordings will be available [[Woozle's Audio Weirdness|here]] soon
-* [[Clarence the Rock]], a comic I drew on my computer in 1992 or so (using Windows 3.0 and Microsoft Paint!)
-===Opportunities===
+There's a lot of other writing on [[woozalia:Me/writing|Woozalia]].
-There are a number of things I'd like to be doing but lack one or more critical elements.
-* '''Recording studio''': I have enough equipment to set up a small but income-generating recording studio; I lack the space, and I also wouldn't have the time to run it on a daily basis (at least until the [[Josh]] situation improves). I could, however, help get it set up and put some time into technical maintenance.
-* '''VBZ expansion''': I ultimately want to make [[vbz.net]] easier to run and hand over its daily operation to someone else; eventually I'd like to see it move into a physical storefront, and expand from there. I would also like to offer more work by local artists and musicians, as this is why I got into online retail in the first place.
-===Other Places===
-You can also find me at:
-* [[wikipedia:user:woozle|Wikipedia]] et al.
-* [[issuepedia:user:woozle|Issuepedia]]: political/philosophical positions
-* [[htyp:user:woozle|HTYP]]: product reviews, software
-* [http://lesswrong.com/user/woozle LessWrong]: discussion about rationality
-* [http://www.bjaodn.org/wiki/User:Woozle BJaoDN] (mainly for the purpose of communicating about wiki vandalism)
-* ''probably other places I can't think of at the moment''
-==Family==
+Other stuff besides writing:
-* There are pictures of my daughter [[Anna Nikola]] [[:category:Anna Nikola|here]]; she lives in [[Athens]] with her mom.
+* [[MoG]], a band I was in
+* Music recordings are at [[woozalia:Music|Woozalia]]
+* {{l/sub|art}}: I do visual things sometimes
+===History===
+* [[/school]]: report cards and stuff
+==Other==
+* [[Anna Nikola|Mine bio-offspring]] ([[:category:Anna Nikola|pictures and such]]) works in Atlanta and performs all over the place with two different bands (Saline and Scooterbabe).
 * I'm not related, as far as I know, to [http://www.staddonfamily.com/about/ these folks] ([http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/13/AR2009111303900.html?hpid=sec-religion 2009-11-13 news item]) or to [http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/zimbabwe/content/story/335560.html Stanley Staddon of Zimbabwe]
+* [[/drafts]]: a place to keep drafts so I can show them to people (not used recently)
+* my [[User:Woozle|internal/notes page]], most of which probably won't mean anything to anyone else
+* [[/to do]]
+==Terminology==
+"Woozle" can also mean:
+* https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10502556.2015.1092349 "The process of misrepresenting the research in ways that create myths and misconceptions has been referred to as woozling."