Welcome!
Hello, my name is Woodhousii. I've never been good at introductions but there's no better place to practice than here and now. I'm passionate about learning and the spread of information. If I could, I probably would've been a History or Linguistics or Psychology Professor. I consider myself an autodidact (lit. self-learner), or what some people call a polymath, rennaisance man, or jack-of-all-trades. I don't consider myself anything spectacular but I am very passionate about learning as much as possible about as much as possible. There's a lot of things I wish I could be, but I make do with what I have.
I am mentally disabled, I have a Severe Mental Illness. My illness doesn't effect my ability to learn but it does effect my ability to distinct between thought, fiction, and reality.
I am very enthusiastic about linguistics and languages, learning, education, metalearning and metacognition, neurocognition, martial arts, eastern philosophies/religions such as Buddhism, Tao/Daoism and energy work, Confucianism, and inner Feng Shui, psychology, technology and programming, hacking and cybersecurity, 2D animation, 3D modelling, game development, and minecraft.
Fun little task, try to rewrite that without using the Oxford comma and without sacrificing understandability.
So, I bring you here today, my humble humans, to encourage you to interact with my educational projects, my (non-AI) traditional art, and my mindless ramblings.
What am I Working on?
For starters, this website. I'm working on making this fully functional. You may notice that PLENTY of these links lead to nowhere. Some day, (hopefully) soon, they'll lead to more interesting pages
The Library of Alexandria Project
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... is a full recreation of the City of Alexandria during Ptolemaic Control, or roughly 320BCE to 25BCE, ending with the ruling of Cleopatra VII. This time period is also the peak of the usage of the Library of Alexandria. The recreation will include all known and theorized books to be in the library. This recreation is being done in Minecraft, will be downloadable as a map with a modpack, or, hopefully some day, joinable as a server.
This is a project that I have been working on in some capacity for over a year, with most of that year being doing research and studying Alexandria, and 30 days and counting, of it being purely building.
Most Recent update:
The Heptastadion (bridge) is 1/3rd of the way done
IMPORTANT NOTE: The location and construction of the library is still unknown, where it is placed and how it is built in the recreation is based off of literary and archaeological findings as well as the buildings of similar greek libraries from the time period. A lot of builings, such as residential buildings or houses, may be subject to some creative freedom due to the limitations of Minecraft.
Obsidipedia
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... is a encyclopedia, or in internet slang, a wiki (popularised by wikipedia) useable without internet connection through Obsidian or another .md reading file manager. It is made using Obsidian but, if preferred, Obsidian is not required. Though the large majority of the files are .md files, it also includes PDFs and other book and paper formats, PNGs and other image formats, webpage backups, and other file formats for the purpose of being able to access the (copyright free) sources without need to access the internet.
This is not a direct 1 to 1 with wikipedia, while wikipedia is a fine resource to learn about a variety of topics, Obsidipedia differs in that it focuses on teaching you the HOW instead of the WHAT. For example, the page for Spanish will prefer to offer information and resources on learning spanish over the history of the spanish language, though there will still be a page for the history of Spanish, if not also included on the page for Spanish itself.
Most Recent Update:
Obsidipedia was accidentally deleted while switching OSes to Linux Fedora. Currently, it is being rebuilt from scratch. Proto-language pages were created and are currently being built. Progress is slowed in preference to work on the Library of Alexandria Project.
