Who am I?

As far as I can tell, I'm the only ‘Toby Bartels’ (or ‘TobyBartels’, or with varied capitalisation) on the Internet. If you know one and want to check whether it's me, then you can either ask me or check here. I have gone by ‘Tobi Bartels’ and ‘Tobias Bartels’ in the past, but these names on the Internet (or elsewhere) rarely refer to me. Of course, there's no telling what names other people have used to refer to me.

For my physical presence, I was born and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska, in the United States of America. I attended school in Pasadena, California (also in the USA), from 1993 to 1998, and later in Riverside (also in California), from 2000 to 2006. Since 2008 August, I'm in Upland (again in California). Of course, I've been in other locations briefly from time to time, but I've never lived anywhere else. You could also try to recognise me from these pictures.

Here is a (very incomplete) list of my online locations:

• Dr. Math, in the late 1990s, as ‘Doctor Toby’ (a name which is by no means unique to me);
• Dudley's Dungeon comments since 2007, on the original site, on the straight replacement, and on the ‘New, Improved’ replacement;
• John Baez mentions me a lot, since I was one of his graduate students;
• the n-Category Cafe, since 2006;
• the Sluggy Freelance forums, before the current ones existed;
• USENET (mostly on sci.math.* and sci.physics.*), between 1995 and 2003;
• Wikipedia (mostly the English one) and other Wikimedia projects, since 2002;
• Wanderlost (about Sheldon the pig) comments on Modern Tales and on its own site;
• the World RPS Society forums, before the current ones existed.

If you know or suspect any omissions (and there are many), then please feel free to ask me or remind me! I usually don't put something on this list unless somebody asks about it or I suspect potential confusion.

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This web page was written between 2007 and 2010 by Toby Bartels. Toby reserves no legal rights to it.

The permanent URI of this web page is http://tobybartels.name/identity/.