UserWiki:Labster

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

 * 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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