I'm exiting an indulgent period of my life...and I know it is and was that, but gods I'm just so fond of what it was.

That makes me miss the cucumber I had.

It sounds like "Aisle 31", but it's not.

Why do people like this have a wikipedia page?

From article:

Quote:Vincent Christopher Vannicola (September 8, 1932 – March 19, 2026) was an American electrical engineer.

Vannicola was born in New Haven, Connecticut on September 8, 1932, the son of Romano Vannicola and Mary Nuzzo. He attended Wilbur Cross High School, graduating in 1951. After graduating, he attended the University of Connecticut, earning his bachelor's degree in physics in 1956. He also attended Syracuse University, earning his master's degree in electromagnetics in 1968 and his PhD degree in signal processing engineering in 1982.[1]

He worked as a engineer at General Electric in Utica, New York, and was a signal processing engineer for the Air Force Research Laboratory until 1996.[1] In the same year, he was named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, "for technical contributions to radar signal processing theory and practice".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenzo_C._Vannicola

And that's pretty much it. I mean, aren't there like standards of who gets an entry in an encyclopedia?

(March 22, 2026 at 10:38 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: I mean, aren't there like standards of who gets an entry in an encyclopedia?

Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability

That page, IMO does not meet the standard.. I've seen pages like this get removed, eventually.

(March 23, 2026 at 12:23 am)Jackalope Wrote:

(March 22, 2026 at 10:38 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: I mean, aren't there like standards of who gets an entry in an encyclopedia?

Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability

That page, IMO does not meet the standard..  I've seen pages like this get removed, eventually.

It's kinda fun when things slip past the editors, though. While it was going on, I found Stormy Daniels' Wikipedia page. No problems - clearly - with the notability standard, but it ended with the sentence, 'I would tap that so hard.'

Boru

At the time when I signed up for this forum, I actually kind of enjoyed being alive. Not a whole lot, but it was better than nothing. The last couple years have crushed my spirit....I had to be put on a very powerful anti-psychotic just to cope with my sad reality. I really don't have anything left at this point, not even my dachshund. I have to wonder if the people around me had any idea how much I was suffering, or if they just couldn't imagine it at all. Either way, they weren't of much help. In fact, their involvement might actually have slowed down my progress. False promises, gaslighting, misguided moral imperatives....Some of them even said it would get better. It never did. If anything, things in my life are in a worse state than ever before. I tried, I did everything I could, everything I was supposed to do, I gave it my all....And I am still not having a good time, nothing even resembling a good time.

(Yesterday at 6:45 pm)Ahriman Wrote: At the time when I signed up for this forum, I actually kind of enjoyed being alive. Not a whole lot, but it was better than nothing. The last couple years have crushed my spirit....I had to be put on a very powerful anti-psychotic just to cope with my sad reality. I really don't have anything left at this point, not even my dachshund. I have to wonder if the people around me had any idea how much I was suffering, or if they just couldn't imagine it at all. Either way, they weren't of much help. In fact, their involvement might actually have slowed down my progress. False promises, gaslighting, misguided moral imperatives....Some of them even said it would get better. It never did. If anything, things in my life are in a worse state than ever before. I tried, I did everything I could, everything I was supposed to do, I gave it my all....And I am still not having a good time, nothing even resembling a good time.

You should probably speak with whoever is prescribing the anti-psychotic and let them know that you aren't doing well on it.

That's all I've got.  I have tried with you in the past and been burned.  I can't expend any more energy on someone who doesn't seem to notice the effort.

Get professional help.  None of us here can help you until you help yourself.  At this point, helping yourself sounds like asking the right people for assistance.

^Couldn't have said it better.

Boru