Khym Chanur

I currently live in Berkeley, California, where I grew up. Politically/philosophically, I am primarily libertarian.

Instant messaging:

• AIM handle: Khym Chanur
• ICQ number: 132152059
• XMPP handle: Khym_Chanur@jabber.org

Wikipedia articles of Interest

• The whole Sollog kerfuffle is rather amusing, especially the talk page, where Sollog and/or his supporters engaged in edit wars, accused Wikipedians of hate-crimes, threatened lawsuits, and claimed that a court has ordered the article to be deleted (by a "court" which is part of Sollog's religious organization). I'm soooo tempted to poke Sollog with a pointy stick to get him to personally threaten me with a lawsuit, but that would be rather immature.

I did poke a user claiming to be Sollog (User:Sollog), but the consensus is that it's a regullar Wikipedian pretending to be Sollog, so I'm just playing along...

Quick Reference

• MediaWiki custom messages, MediaWiki custom elements, MediaWiki namespace, Wikipedia:Article_series
• Wikipedia:List of articles frequently visited through Google
• Wikipedia:Press coverage

Interests/hobbies

• Computers
  • Spam fighting
  • Open Source computing
  • The game Nethack and its variants
• Anime and manga
• Reading and writing, especially fantasy and science fiction

Favorite authors

• Steven Brust
• C. J. Cherryh
• CLAMP
• Glen Cook
• Neil Gaiman
• Terry Pratchett
• Rumiko Takahashi

Favorite fictional series

• Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series
• Babylon 5
• Card Captor Sakura
• The Chanur Novels
• The Dark Tower series
• The Discworld series
• Fruits Basket
• Inu-Yasha
• Love Hina
• Magic Knight Rayearth
• Ranma 1/2
• The Sandman
• The Tick
• The Vlad Taltos series
• The X-Files

Other projects

• The SpamAssassin spam filtering, on which I'm a coder.
• The Icesus MUD, on which I'm a coder and low-level admin.

External links

• The Spamassassin home page
• The Icesus MUD homepage
• Fandom Wank, where we mock fandom stupidities.

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