You really know how to dance

[austin_dern]

This has the potential to overwhelm my next few days, but it proved pretty interesting for tracerj and jakebe, so it's only fair for me to pass it along:

``"Reply with a message and I'll tell you something (or many things) I adore about you. Then post this in your journal.''

The library has a wonderful service, sending out e-mail notices of overdue books the day they become overdue. Return them or renew them (online) that day and there's no fine. Today I had 24 books turn overdue (I hoard books). They sent three e-mails, ten listed in the first two and four in the third. This is what happens when you hard-code numbers in your for loops.

Trivia: Royal Astronomer George Airy masterminded the plan, put into effect in 1852, of sending Royal Observatory time signals out on telegraph lines to synchronize clocks in England. Source: Time's Pendulum, Jo Ellen Barnett.

Currently Reading: The Best Science Fiction Stories of Brian W Aldiss, Brian W Aldiss.

Comments

[tracerj.livejournal.com]

You needn't respond, really. I just wanted to say that it's been forever since I've been to a library, but I sincerely hope that when I do again find myself going, I hope they have the same thing with the e-mailed reminders. Even if it is silly that they have the hard-coded loop limit.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

It occurs to me the library limits undergraduate borrowing to ten books at a time, and I think only recently raised the limits for graduate students and faculty ... so the ten might be a more reasonable hard-coding of a number. It's just a few years out of date is all.

Anyway, what I really adore in you is that you make music. It's not just something that I envy, the way I envy spaceroo or rain_luong's talents; I'm confident that if I practiced a lot more I'd be able to do as well (if not as creatively) as they can. But creating music is qualitatively different; I don't even know how to think in those terms, while you do, with apparent ease. I'm amazed by it.

[tracerj.livejournal.com]

Aw, flatterer. I try to make music. Sometimes I manage it. *grin*

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

It's music certainly. I may not be all that clever but I know the difference between, like, a State Anthem and that CD you were selling at Anthrocon that rcoony bought and I somehow fumbled trying to buy.

[gafennec.livejournal.com]

Colour me courious, but don't expect to see this in my LJ. :)

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine there's any surprise here. I adore your cheer, your happiness and even giddiness, that's so thorough it seems like it never falters. It's always easy to feel better around you.

;>

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

People seem to be cutting ya some slack thus fahr.... *ruffle*
*wingwaves and then furpats* :D

Re: ;>

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Yeah, go figure ... well, it does make the afternoon a little easier having fewer people to answer, at least.

In you it's the easygoing playfulness you have. I try to be playful, but it's just not so natural for me.

[spaceroo.livejournal.com]

"... Then post this in your journal."

Somehow, I don't think I'm up to sticking this in my journal.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

You never know ... it might be fun.

And you are a kind person, a fantastic artist, and exactly the right person to watch eye-gougingly bad cartoons with.

[logan-pendan.livejournal.com]

Don't know what you might say about me, but I'm always amazed at the astoundingly obscure little tidbits of trivia you find.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks. I adore your characters, and the ease with which you spin them out, and get them into interesting situations.