Talk:Jay Maynard

message: After reading Wikipedia:Autobiography, I've decided to let this page stand as is and let others add text. I'll make no apologies for adding myself to the Internet phenomenon page, as I feel I certainly qualify, and creating this page as a stub from that was logical, but I'll abide by the general Wikipedia prohibition on autobiography. Jay Maynard 03:02, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Worked for me just now. Jay Maynard 11:18, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikipedia:Autobiography

message: This link is not dated, but http://abc.go.com/primetime/jimmykimmel/datetronman.html offers a chance to "Enjoy a date with the Tron Guy, compliments of Jimmy Kimmel Live".  Is this offer still open, or is this just a lingering cobweb on the site?  RFerreira 00:36, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a lingering cobweb, and I'm mildly surprised it's still there. That offer ended in late 2004. Jay Maynard 14:37, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Win a date with Tron Guy

message: Recently, Tron Guy was in a video at http://wearetheweb.org/ supporting net neutrality, along with several other internet "celebrities", including Peter Pan Guy, Kitten-playing-White-Stripes, the thing that likes the moon, the pair of college students who lip synched N'Sync, etc. --64.24.181.98 18:12, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Personally I think that page was created by the Ted Stevens fan club - David Gerard 14:48, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, it was commissioned from an Internet ad agency, Space150. I would think it's notable enough to rate discussion here, but I'm not going to write it myself. - Jay Maynard 16:00, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Seeing as we have articles for Randy Constan (Peter Pan) and Tron Guy, I may as well complete the internet celebrity trifecta and create an article for gemsweater queen Leslie Hall.  It was nice to see you supporting such a noble cause.  RFerreira 22:01, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks...I didn't know who Leslie was before hearing about the video project, but she definitely appears to have her own following, as evidenced by a Google Blog Search for the video. (I've got one for myself feeding my LJ friends list, and the comments there are about evenly split between listing me, Leslie, and Randy as the name they were most familiar with.) Jay Maynard 22:10, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  We Are the Web 

message: I really think this article needs a picture of Jay Maynard the regular human as well as of TronGuy. Jay, got any work-style photos you wouldn't mind GFDLing? - David Gerard 14:50, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not yet, but I'll take one when I get back home and upload (and GFDL) it. - Jay Maynard 15:47, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

text: There's a lot of normal and costumed pictures of him on the internet.  It's intesting that the current picture on this article is covering the most noticeable part of the costume with his leg.  Are you ready for IPv6? (talk) 13:40, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Normal pic 

message: I thought he was mentioned for his Usenet (and other fora) presense over 20 years, or the free software he has written.  I never heard of this "tron guy" stuff before visiting this page.  I think at least his software should be written, to show that he has contributed something more substantial than a 15-minuttes-of-fame joke to the world.--Per Abrahamsen 11:01, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Usenet and Software 

message: # Forbes.com has a list up of its Web Celeb 25...I wasn't on that list, but did make a sidebar list of the Unintentionally Famous.
# Web Junk and VH1 have a list of the 40 Greatest Internet Stars. (Vote for me! :-)
-- Jay Maynard 13:23, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A couple of more links from mainstream media 

message: Latest Tron Guy round from this picture parodying the Apple "I'm a Mac" TV ads. Seems to be making the rounds. Odd, I've gotten two TRON GUY forwards this week, out of the blue. --Allen Huffman 05:09, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  I'm a Mac. I'm a PC. I'm Linux. 

message: I am the project lead for the Hercules emulator, as can be seen at my home page and the Hercules project page.
The "I'm a Mac" parody was all over the web, including Digg, Fark, and Wil Wheaton's blog.
-- Jay Maynard 14:48, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources for removed statements 

message: I don't know if this qualifies as notable or not, but Wired's Underwire blog has a story on a new airplane I purchased to match the costume. The airplane itself is an Aircraft Manufacturing and Design Zodiac XLi.
If needed, I'll provide CC-licensed pictures. -- Jay Maynard (talk) 11:59, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: On one hand it probably does as it adds more to the "Jay Maynard" part of the article (ie non-Tron Guy) - the fact that it's painted to resemble Tron Guy and Jay is dressed as Tron Guy in the Wired article doesn't help matters, though.  :)  On the other hand, the article seems to note that Jay is notable for two things, being Tron Guy (primarily), and IBM mainframe work (secondarily).  Flying (as well as neoconservativism, ham radio, guns, etc.) are hobbies, but it doesn't seem like he stands out as notable in those fields, so unsure as to where it should go (but talk page is a good place for now, Jay, until we decide!) --Canuckguy (talk) 14:43, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  New airplane 

message: He is featured in the Video Game Tron 2.0: Killer App as a program. I am? Where? The game came out before the costume became famous... Jay Maynard (talk) 18:20, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tron 2.0 game 

message: TRON Girl would be a natural character for Disney to create in the upcoming Tron Legacy movie, you could sell at least 2x many action figures that way.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikip rhyre (talk • contribs) 22:41, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is there a TRON Girl? 

message: Please do not ascribe to me a viewpoint I do not hold. Hercules rejects the term "free software", and many of its developers - including me - contribute to the project on the explicit basis that it is not part of that world.
This has been hashed out at the Talk:Hercules emulator page.
Calling it "free software" here ascribes to me a view that I not only do not hold, but actively disagree with. Please don't count me as a supporter of "free software", the FSF, or Richard M. Stallman, and please don't enlist me on your side of the "free software"/open source war.
I believe calling it "free software" is argument by redefinition, and fundamentally dishonest. It's also a naked attempt to glorify a major restriction of freedom for programmers by nevertheless calling it "free", in the same vein as "War is peace". The concept of freedom is far too valuable to demean it in that manner.
As for "but it's free software anyway", the reverse argument, that "free software" is all open source, is just as valid - yet "free software" zealots reject it out of hand and say "don't co-opt our work!" Well, that sword cuts both ways.
I am not a member of the so-called "free software" movement and never will be. Please don't insult me and misrepresent my views by calling me one. -- Jay Maynard (talk) 13:22, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: You've misread the situation.  This has nothing to do with your views, and it is in no way an attempt to ascribe anything to you or to co-opt anyone.  Hercules is under a free software licence, so it's free software.  Nothing on this page says your a member of the free software movement, or that you support RMS or FSF or GNU or anything else.  On your homepage, you can distance yourself from all these things - homepages are the right place for giving your views on things.  But Wikipedia is not your homepage.  Gronky (talk) 13:43, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Saying that I manage a free software project ascribes to me the values of the so-called "free software" movement. Please stop doing it. Wikipedia is not a page to push the so-called "free software" POV, either, and that's what you're doing. -- Jay Maynard (talk) 16:03, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

text: If I say that GCC is under an OSI-approved open source license, and therefore it's open source software, RMS and his minions will descend upon me like an avenging horde. Will you stand there and tell RMS that he's wrong and he should shut up and accept his work being called by a term he despises? If not, then why should I? -- Jay Maynard (talk) 16:15, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hercules and so-called "free software" 

message: Is the section about being a fan of the Animaniacs and getting to meet the voices of a couple that important? I'm not finding much in the way of sources for it, either. Supernerd11 :D Firemind ^_^ Pokedex 04:45, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Animaniacs'' 

message: The user with the username Jmaynards is not me, and his contributions are incorrect. Out of an abundance of caution, I'm not going to revert them, though; someone else should. -- Jay Maynard (talk) 00:35, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I have reverted the unsourced contributions to which you object. Vadder (talk) 15:29, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you. -- Jay Maynard (talk) 23:16, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contributions from User:Jmaynards 

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replies: text: Checked and template set. -- Jay Maynard (talk) 14:59, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
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message: A quick Google for "tron guy jimmy kimmel live" turns up several references to my appearances there. I'm not going to add them, but would some other kind soul do so? Thanks. -- Jay Maynard (talk) 17:13, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jimmy Kimmel Live