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.

[gafennec.livejournal.com]

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

;>

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

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

[spaceroo.livejournal.com]

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

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

[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.