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Vorticity is one of the admins around this place. You can blame him for all of the errors that were made in importing from TV Tropes. He's a professional programmer, specializing in Perl, and he's a real booster of the Perl 6 language.

Vorticity is a Southern Californian meteorologist. And no, it's not Always Sunny in California. He got his degree from California University, California, Eagle Land -- Arnold Schwarzenegger's signature is on his diploma.

His real name is Brent Laabs. A Google search suggests the name is unique... that whole list is his ridiculous exploits.

Vorticity got into this whole wiki editing in college, where the town has its very own wiki, daviswiki.org. Since he hates The Facebook, Davis Wiki still has his profile page.

His personal website is at brentlaabs.com.

Favorite Works

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Television
- Comedy: Modern Family, Sports Night
- Drama: Borgen, Twin Peaks (B5 & DS9 are runners-up)
Anime
- Comedy: Azumanga Daioh, City Hunter
- Drama: Revolutionary Girl Utena, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
Manga
- Comedy: Yotsuba&!, Urusei Yatsura
- Drama: Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, Kimi wa Petto
Comics
- Comedy: Disney Ducks Comic Universe
- Drama: Tintin
Film
- Comedy: Dogma
- Drama: um... Toy Story 2?
Radio
- A Prairie Home Companion
Tabletop Games
- RPG: Alternity, Dungeons & Dragons
- Board: Ticket to Ride, Alhambra
Animation:
- Comedy: DuckTales, South Park
- Drama: Teen Titans was good but... Animation Age Ghetto is in effect.
Web Comics
- Comedy: Irregular Webcomic, xkcd
- Drama: Erfworld, The Order of the Stick
Fanfic
- Crossover: Undocumented Features, Drunkard's Walk
- Source only:
Video Game
- Console:Chrono Trigger
- Arcade: Dance Dance Revolution
Text Editor
- vim (suck it, emacs), Text Wrangler.app

Tropes that apply to Brent:

Belligerent Sexual Tension: The relationship between me and my current not-a-girlfriend.
Edit Warrior: Veteran of the Edit Wars over on Davis Wiki, though I've been told that less than 6% of my over 5000 edits were reverts, so not that bad. (For users of this wiki, take that to mean that Edit Wars are not all that bad -- refusing to compromise is the actual problem for most Edit Warriors.)
Failed a Spot Check: constantly
For Science!: Science is always a valid reason for all sort of social experiments, right?
If It's You It's Okay: With a college friend, though he sadly has an Incompatible Orientation, so we're still Just Friends
The Lancer: My most comfortable position is in helping someone else get to the top, and giving them What the Hell, Hero? speeches when they need it. I am not comfortable being the lead administrator of this site, but here we are. I hope this means I'm just more open other people's input, and I'll grow into The Hero.
Newspeak: I'm fluent in it due to my participation in the Inner Party of the Students for an Orwellian Society (at UCD)
- Orwellian Goodthink: Playing the Strawman Political at the Whole Earth Festival was just too much fun. Naturally, the Objectivist club thought we were serious.
Occidental Otaku: My telecommuting job just enables my anime addiction.
Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Maybe he would have actually gotten a degree in grad school if he weren't involved in other fields.
Playful Hacker: Suspended in high school for "hacking", for walking through Swiss Cheese Security and literally using MS Paint to add a hammer-and-sickle to a find-your-career program's splash screen. My language of choice is Perl 6, where I contributed a bit to the IO system of the Rakudo compiler, though I use Perl 5 the most for my day job.
Principia Discordia: Made a pilgrimage to Emperor Norton's grave on 5-5-05.
Pungeon Master
Spoony Bard: I tend to avoid specialization and sing tenor. And play Bard Player Characters too often.
Smart People Wear Glasses: Well, book smart, anyway.
- Adjusting Your Glasses: Type 3. Make of that what you will.
Student Council President: Well, more like vice president (for external affairs) in the Grad Student Association, but in the undergrad association, he was more like The Man Behind the Man
- Absurdly Powerful Student Council: UC Davis' ASUCD runs the city bus service, and that's not even half the budget.
- All Elections Are Serious Business: *sigh*, too much student government stuff, in addition to running polling places for City Council elections.

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-Vorticity is one of the admins around this place.  You can blame him for all of the errors that were made in importing from [[TV Tropes (Wiki)]].
+Vorticity is one of the admins around this place.  You can blame him for all of the errors that were made in importing from [[TV Tropes]].  He's a professional programmer, specializing in Perl, and he's a real booster of the Perl 6 language.
-Vorticity is a [[So Calization|Southern Californian]] meteorologist. And no, it's not [[Its Always Sunny in Miami|Always Sunny in California]].
+Vorticity is a [[SoCalization|Southern Californian]] meteorologist. And no, it's not [[Its Always Sunny in Miami|Always Sunny in California]].  He got his degree from [[California University]], [[California]], [[Eagle Land]] -- [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]'s signature is on his diploma.
-His real name is Brent Laabs.  A Google search says the name is [[One Steve Limit|unique]]... that whole list is his ridiculous exploits.
+His real name is Brent Laabs.  A Google search suggests the name is [[One Steve Limit|unique]]... that whole list is his ridiculous exploits.
-Vorticity got into this whole wiki editing in college where our town has it's very own wiki, daviswiki.org.  Since he hates [[Facebook (Website)|The Facebook]], Davis Wiki still has his [http://daviswiki.org/Users/BrentLaabs profile page].
+Vorticity got into this whole wiki editing in college, where the town has its very own wiki, daviswiki.org.  Since he hates [[Facebook|The Facebook]], Davis Wiki still has his [http://daviswiki.org/Users/BrentLaabs profile page].
+His personal website is at [http://www.brentlaabs.com brentlaabs.com].
+== Favorite Works ==
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+* [[User:Labster/sandbox|Edit his sandbox, instead of your own.]]
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+* Television
+** Comedy: [[Modern Family]], [[Sports Night]]
+** Drama: [[Borgen]], [[Twin Peaks]] ([[Babylon 5|B5]] & [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|DS9]] are runners-up)
+* Anime
+** Comedy: [[Azumanga Daioh]], [[City Hunter]]
+** Drama: [[Revolutionary Girl Utena]], [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]
+* Manga
+** Comedy: [[Yotsuba&!]], [[Urusei Yatsura]]
+** Drama: [[Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou]], [[Kimi wa Petto]]
+* Comics
+** Comedy: [[Disney Ducks Comic Universe]]
+** Drama: [[Tintin]]
+* Film
+** Comedy: [[Dogma]]
+** Drama: um... [[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 2?
+* Radio
+** [[A Prairie Home Companion]]
+* Tabletop Games
+** RPG: [[Alternity]], [[Dungeons & Dragons]]
+** Board: [[Ticket to Ride]], Alhambra
+* Animation:
+** Comedy: [[DuckTales]], [[South Park]]
+** Drama: [[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]] was good but... [[Animation Age Ghetto]] is in effect.
+* Web Comics
+** Comedy: [[Irregular Webcomic]], [[xkcd]]
+** Drama: [[Erfworld]], [[The Order of the Stick]]
+* Fanfic
+** Crossover: [[Undocumented Features]], [[Drunkard's Walk]]
+** Source only:
+* Video Game
+** Console:[[Chrono Trigger]]
+** Arcade: [[Dance Dance Revolution]]
+* Text Editor
+** vim (suck it, emacs), Text Wrangler.app
 == Tropes that apply to Brent: ==
-* [[For Science]]: Science is always a valid reason for all sort of social experiments, right?
-* [[California]], [[Eagle Land]]
-* [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]'s signature is on his [[California University]] diploma (from the pepper spray one).
-* [[Newspeak]]: Brent is fluent in it due to his participation in the [[The Ministry of Truth|Inner Party]] of the Students for an Orwellian Society (at UCD)
-** [[Insane Troll Logic|Orwellian Goodthink]]
-* [[Omnidisciplinary Scientist]]: Maybe he would have actually gotten a degree in grad school if he weren't involved in other fields.
-* [[Absurdly Powerful Student Council]]: UC Davis' ASUCD runs the city bus service, and that's not even half the budget.
-* [[Student Council President]]: Well, more like vice president (for external affairs) in the Grad Student Association, but in the undergrad association, he was more like [[The Man Behind the Man]]
-* [[All Elections Are Serious Business]]: *sigh*, too much student government stuff, in addition to running polling places for City Council elections.
-* [[If Its You Its Okay]]: With a college friend, though he sadly has an [[Incompatible Orientation]], so we're still [[Just Friends]]
 * [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: The relationship between me and my current not-a-girlfriend.
+* [[Edit War|Edit Warrior]]: Veteran of the Edit Wars over on Davis Wiki, though I've been told that less than 6% of my over 5000 edits were reverts, so not that bad. (For users of this wiki, take that to mean that Edit Wars are not all that bad --  refusing to compromise is the actual problem for most Edit Warriors.)
-* [[Spoony Bard]]: Brent tends to [[Jack of All Trades|avoid specialization]] and sings tenor. And play Bard [[Player Characters]] too often.
+* [[Failed a Spot Check]]: constantly
-* [[Principia Discordia]]: Made a pilgrimage to Emperor Norton's grave on [[Five Five Five|5-5-05]].
+* [[For Science!]]: Science is always a valid reason for all sort of social experiments, right?
-* [[Edit War|Edit Warrior]]: Veteran of the Edit Wars over on Davis Wiki, though I've been told that less than 6% of my over 5000 edits were reverts, so not that bad.
+* [[If It's You It's Okay]]: With a college friend, though he sadly has an [[Incompatible Orientation]], so we're still [[Just Friends]]
+* [[The Lancer]]: My most comfortable position is in helping someone else get to the top, and giving them [[What the Hell, Hero?]] speeches when they need it.  I am not comfortable being the lead administrator of this site, but here we are.  I hope this means I'm just more open other people's input, and I'll grow into [[The Hero]].
+* [[Newspeak]]: I'm fluent in it due to my participation in the [[The Ministry of Truth|Inner Party]] of the Students for an Orwellian Society (at UCD)
+** [[Insane Troll Logic|Orwellian Goodthink]]: Playing the [[Strawman Political]] at the [[Bourgeois Bohemian|Whole Earth Festival]] was just too much fun.  Naturally, the [[Ayn Rand|Objectivist club]] thought we were [[Late to the Punchline|serious]].
+* [[Occidental Otaku]]: My telecommuting job just enables my [[Crack is Cheaper|anime addiction]].
+* [[Omnidisciplinary Scientist]]: Maybe he would have actually gotten a degree in grad school if he weren't involved in other fields.
+* [[Playful Hacker]]: Suspended in high school for "hacking", for walking through [[Swiss Cheese Security]] and literally using [[MS Paint]] to add a hammer-and-sickle to a find-your-career program's splash screen.  My language of choice is [[Vaporware|Perl 6]], where I contributed a bit to the IO system of the [http://rakudo.org/ Rakudo] compiler, though I use Perl 5 the most for my day job.
+* [[Principia Discordia]]: Made a pilgrimage to Emperor Norton's grave on [[555|5-5-05]].
 * [[Pungeon Master]]
+* [[Spoony Bard]]: I tend to [[Jack of All Trades|avoid specialization]] and sing tenor. And play Bard [[Player Characters]] too often.
-* [[Occidental Otaku]]
 * [[Smart People Wear Glasses]]: Well, book smart, anyway.
 ** [[Adjusting Your Glasses]]: Type 3. Make of that what you will.
+* [[Student Council President]]: Well, more like vice president (for external affairs) in the Grad Student Association, but in the undergrad association, he was more like [[The Man Behind the Man]]
-* [[Failed a Spot Check]]: constantly
+** [[Absurdly Powerful Student Council]]: UC Davis' ASUCD runs the city bus service, and that's not even half the budget.
+** [[All Elections Are Serious Business]]: *sigh*, too much student government stuff, in addition to running polling places for City Council elections.
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