User talk:Etothex

To Etothex, Greetings.

In re the US History textbook: After Chapter 20 ("Eisenhower, Civil Rights, and the Fifties,") I consider that further chapters need to be added. But the question is- where should the line be drawn? I think that we can have one Chapter on the Vietnam War and the Seventies, and another on Reagan, but that we should end there. Everything after that seems to be too recent to be included. What is your personal opinion, if I may ask? Thanking you, Lord Emsworth 22:23, 4 Oct 2003 (UTC).


 * Sure. I know lots of history books stop at Pres. Carter/Reagan because of several reasons, but maybe we could even get into the Clinton administration a bit. Definitely stop there, though. Current events haven't quite 'aged' enough yet. I just stopped at Eisenhower because I wasn't quite sure what to title them. I mean, I could say "Chapter 21: The Vietnam War and the Sixties", but that suggests everything happened in the sixties and that's just not true. Etothex 07:47, 5 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Hey :) Great start on Vectors! I'd just ask one thing, don't use $$\cdot$$ for multiplication, since that could conceivably be confused with the dot product later. Writing a product without the dot is still pretty clear :) Thanks Dysprosia 08:51, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)


 * Oh, sure. I'd written it when I was pretty sleepy and too lazy to look up the correct tex syntax for vectors, so I just wrote it out and didn't even think about dot product. :) I might add on trig later, if I feel like drawing some more diagrams. Etothex 02:09, 11 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Just another point, you don't need to variables to get x; you can just go x - if you didn't know already :) Dysprosia 11:13, 14 Oct 2003 (UTC)
 * Hmm, yeah. :) I did it because of the option in prefs for how to display tex syntax, as PNG or text. I've got a small monitor and even on 800x600(versus 1024x768) the text is small...So I kinda like it when I can turn on PNG when I need it. I don't know if anyone else uses this, but I find it convenient. I can switch back if it doesn't work, but otherwise, I'll just keep on doing it. Etothex 23:36, 14 Oct 2003 (UTC)


 * Oh cool! I never really realized that you could do that; it's just easier when I type to just hit ' four times, I'm a lazy typist - I don't see any other real problem with it :) Dysprosia 03:21, 15 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Vocabulary Project
Hi Etothex, since you started the wikibook on German I thought you might be interested in a learnign project I am starting, especially for vocabulary. Please check my page and let me know what you think about it. Get-back-world-respect 19:49, 6 May 2004 (UTC)