User talk:Tixity

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Hello Tixity, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions on Orthodox liturgics and the Paschal cycle. I am an Anglican priest, and have started WikiProject Christian liturgical year — we could do with some input about the Orthodox liturgical year. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Gareth Hughes 21:22, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Russian

I have noticed your prolific edits in the field of Eastern Orthodox liturgics, and have come across so many that I thought you were a bot (an example, July 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics))! Just thought I'd let you know that Russian links to a disambiguation page, so it's best to use "[[Russia]]n", so readers will go straight through to the article Russia. We are trying to fix up links to disambiguation pages at Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links. Keep up the good work! --Commander Keane 13:20, August 26, 2005 (UTC)

Daniel Lanois

Dude: its "lan wah" not "luh noise," and I have one of his CDs: it is dank. I will make sure to burn it for you.

When do you return to Chicago? It sucks that we're no longer roommates, but let's hang out when you z back to Poopstowne.

Chicago

Well, you can always stay in the apartment if you need somewhere to stay or want to come early.

I think you'll be fine for moving into the dorms, but the door is wide open if not.

The Dylan intro

You've been scammed. The text JDG proposed is taken verbatim from the Encyclopedia Britannica. Monicasdude 22:41, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Butt Pee

Your compromises are always superb. Anus 23:43, 7 February 2006 {CST}

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Michelson

You have one of the shortest talk page of any old-time editor I've seen. I guess that's a sign that your edits have been unopposed. Bully for you. Regarding Albert Abraham Michelson, I'm not sure why you deleted that bit. Anyway, best wishes, -Will Beback 10:18, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Very interesting. Thanks for watching out for that kind of trouble. I see that the entry has remained the same since first added, here], in August of 2005. Perhaps your pal modified some other article? Cheers, -Will Beback 21:01, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Buckets of Rain

I made a comment over here concerning your question. I basically feel that all songs by Dylan are notable, just like all works by Mozart and all of Shakespeare's writings. Note that the policy is still in a proposed stage and will likely look different than it is now if and when it is implemented. youngamerican (talk) 14:42, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Sara Dylan

I like your version of the article, it's now the way I wanted it in the first place, but I was out-gunned! Cheers, Lion King 13:51, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Illegal Immigration to the United States

Thanks for reviewing the article and making your comments. These POV tags are a nuisance, as they are easily placed, and difficult to remove. Wallie 23:01, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Invitation to join Wikipedia:WikiProject Eastern Orthodoxy

Hi there! I've noticed that you've edited articles pertaining to the Eastern Orthodox Church. I wanted to extend an invitation to you to join the WikiProject dedicated to organizing and improving articles on the subject, which can be found at: WikiProject Eastern Orthodoxy. This WikiProject was begun because a need was perceived to raise the level of quality of articles on Wikipedia which deal with the Eastern Orthodox Church.

You can find information on the project page about the WikiProject, as well as how to join and how to indicate that you are a member of the project. Additionally, you may be interested in helping out with our collaboration of the month. I hope you'll consider joining and thank you for your contributions thus far! —A.S. Damick ^{talk contribs} 18:09, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Bob Dylan

		The Editor's Barnstar
		It takes extraordinary good sense to think to move a controversial section of a major article, like you have done with Bob Dylan, and revise it. Probably why it never occurred to me. I believe all the parties involved, and wikipedia itself, owe you this slight recognition for your very good judgement in this matter. John Carter 01:10, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Regarding the discussion involving Bob Dylan and the List of notable converts to Christianity.

It would seem that Bus stop has nominated the article for deletion. It's now listed on the Afd page.

Please, if you haven't yet, take a look at the AFD page. I've tried to counter Bus stop's misrepresentation of the argument (he's said that we are currently using "Flimsy sources", so I went along and copied and pasted the 14 sources currently listed for Bob Dylan's entry so that anyone viewing can clearly determine what is "flimsy"). I somehow doubt that Bus stop even stopped to notice that I've had 2 respected biographies at the top of the ref list for days now, and I just added another one (the text of which I've transcribed here). If you feel have time to participate in the discussion, please feel free to do so.--C.Logan 08:48, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Shoreland Hotel

Tixity,

My great grandmother lived in the Shoreland Hotel, and so did several other aging female relatives and inlaws. My dad has several wonderful stories about the place, and I had been wondering what had become of it. My great grandmother first moved to the Shoreland about 1945, after her husband died. My father describes an apartment full of hideous tshotchkes and bric-a-brac.

The Shoreland Hotel was very glamourous when it opened in the 1920s, but it started to decline in the depression years. It filled up with mostly older German Jewish couples and widows. Hyde Park and South Shore were German Jewish neighborhoods. One of my great-great aunts who lived there was said to be such a nymphomaniac that she had a line of men outside the door. When other residents complained, the hotel management tried to kick her out. My grandmother's older brother had to sooth feelings to keep her there. When the population of German Jews no longer produced enough widows to keep the place full, they started moving Russian Jews in. That was controversial! --Metzenberg 05:25, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Haha, that's some incredible stuff. I didn't even know it was an apartment building like that, I thought it was a hotel, but that was probably longer ago. It's always good to know the interesting history of this place though. It's unfortunate that it won't be a dorm in a couple of years. But at least I'll be able to say I spent all my four years at the University of Chicago living in the Shoreland. Tix 19:44, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Both the word apartment and the word hotel acquired different meanings during the 20th century. There has been semantic change in these words. There wasn't as much of a distinction between an apartment building and a hotel the 1920s and 1930s as there is today. A hotel had a domestic staff and provided more services. A smaller building with just a few units was called a tenement, not an apartment building. At the time, people who could not afford to own a home or live in an apartment or hotel lived in boarding houses or rooming houses. They had weekly rents, not monthly. A family that owned a home or rented an apartment might take in boarders or roomers to make ends meet. People didn't own as much stuff. In a rooming house, you might rent just a bed and share a room. If you had an apartment of your own, you were fairly wealthy. Typical apartments often had a servant's room behind the kitchen. Before my great-grandmother lived at the Shoreland, as a widow, she and her husband lived in an apartment on the second floor at 51st and Ellis (southeast corner). You can see the building today. It is now a nice condominium. Apartments started out as a high end alternative to "tenements" in late 19th century cities. Tenements were often shared by more than one family, or by several generations within the same family.

Your dorm, the Shoreland Hotel, was not a hotel in the same sense that the Hyatt or Sheraton are today. The phenomenon we have today of big hotel chains and travelers did not exist in this time. There were many fewer inter-city business travelers. Hotels were often for longer term guests, who might live in them for many years at a time. By living in a hotel, they enjoyed a comfortable life without having to manage their own domestic servants.

You might be able to find a good social history or architectural history that explains all of this, and use it to provide an article for Wikipedia, and perhaps to improve articles like the one about the Shoreland Hotel. People often don't understand that the meanings of words change over time, often very rapidly. That is the point I was making about the phrase born again, by the way.

My father's entire family (grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins, second cousins) lived within about a one to two mile radius of where you are living today, as of about 1930. Both of my grandparents attended the University of Chicago. My grandmother was a second cousin of Richard Loeb, and I know a great deal about the Leopold and Loeb case. Check that one out.

I live in Evanston. I often show friends the Hyde Park neighborhood, pointing out various historical sites. I recommend a good course in American social history.

Share my stories with your fellow students. Many people in my family attended the U of C. Cheers. --Metzenberg 22:28, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Source for Eastern Orthodox liturgics (daily calendars)

Hello, Tixity. What is the source reference for all the Saints information? It needs to be added to the articles. Thanks. Kenatipo ^speak! 16:00, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

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