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 It's just a few years out of date is all.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.