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.
If ‘Bartels’ is spelt differently, then all bets are off.
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,
and I've lived there most of my life,
with these exceptions in southern California (also in the USA):
- Pasadena, from 1993 to 1996 and in 1998;
- Riverside, from 2000 to 2006;
- Upland, from 2008 to 2010.
I'm now back in Lincoln.
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;
- I finally have
a Facebook page.
- 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.
Go back to my homepage.
This web page was written between 2007 and 2012 by Toby Bartels,
last edited on 2012 January 23.
Toby reserves no legal rights to it.
The permanent URI of this web page
is
http://tobybartels.name/identity/.