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cosmolinguistA while ago I wrote a post in which I started explaining some of the interests I have listed. It mysteriously disappeared, as stuff on the Internet does sometimes, and I didn't bother with it again, but today I've decided that it might be fun.
adding random people I put this here not only because I am interested in it but because I thought it might be good for any of these prospective random people who see my name on their "Friend of" list and think, "holly_lama"? Who the heck is that? and click on the name and see my info page. I like to steal my friends' friends and have met some cool peole in certain communities to which I belong, but as I now have something ilke sixty friends, I think I'm good and probably won't be adding any more random people for a while.
Albert Einstein This guy's just cool. I mean, if it weren't for him, we'd still believe time is constant and we live in a priviliged frame of reference (I really like that phrase, "privileged frame of reference"). He was troubled by the idea of war, and his inability to find a grand unifying theory to tie together his special and general relativity. I think a lot of people can relate to that.
astronomy I've liked astronomy ever since I can remember. I was checking books about planets out of the school library when my classmates were reading picture books and my teacher was telling me "you don't really want that book, do you?" I did. I wanted to see Jupiter and black holes and nebulae and supernovae and everything. I still do, though I don't think about it much any more. I took astronomy my first semester of college; it's still one of my favorite classes. If it were a major, I might take it. Stupid tiny liberal arts school.
baseball I know all these people who think it's boring, slow, old-fashioned, etc., but I just don't understand how they can think that. I love baseball, in an old-school kind of way. Home runs don't impress me nearly as much as good defense, or good pitching for that matter. Thanks to my dad, I'm a Twins fan, though I do also have a great fondness for Robin Ventura. Less so now that he plays for the Yankees. I'm still unhappy about that.
bassoons I think I adequately explained my love affair with bassoons yesterday.
blues It was because of Eric Clapton that guitar stopped being just another instrument I played, something else like clarinet and piano, and started being something I loved. I loved Clapton, and because of that I listened to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and had a guitar teacher who told me about Robben Ford and somewhere I found out about Stevie Ray Vaughan and pretty soon my CD collection had everything from Albert King to Cream and it all made sense to me somehow. I was about 14 and too stupid to even know how much fun I was having. I stil like Robben Ford and Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eric Clapton the best.
That's enough for now, I think.
adding random people I put this here not only because I am interested in it but because I thought it might be good for any of these prospective random people who see my name on their "Friend of" list and think, "holly_lama"? Who the heck is that? and click on the name and see my info page. I like to steal my friends' friends and have met some cool peole in certain communities to which I belong, but as I now have something ilke sixty friends, I think I'm good and probably won't be adding any more random people for a while.
Albert Einstein This guy's just cool. I mean, if it weren't for him, we'd still believe time is constant and we live in a priviliged frame of reference (I really like that phrase, "privileged frame of reference"). He was troubled by the idea of war, and his inability to find a grand unifying theory to tie together his special and general relativity. I think a lot of people can relate to that.
astronomy I've liked astronomy ever since I can remember. I was checking books about planets out of the school library when my classmates were reading picture books and my teacher was telling me "you don't really want that book, do you?" I did. I wanted to see Jupiter and black holes and nebulae and supernovae and everything. I still do, though I don't think about it much any more. I took astronomy my first semester of college; it's still one of my favorite classes. If it were a major, I might take it. Stupid tiny liberal arts school.
baseball I know all these people who think it's boring, slow, old-fashioned, etc., but I just don't understand how they can think that. I love baseball, in an old-school kind of way. Home runs don't impress me nearly as much as good defense, or good pitching for that matter. Thanks to my dad, I'm a Twins fan, though I do also have a great fondness for Robin Ventura. Less so now that he plays for the Yankees. I'm still unhappy about that.
bassoons I think I adequately explained my love affair with bassoons yesterday.
blues It was because of Eric Clapton that guitar stopped being just another instrument I played, something else like clarinet and piano, and started being something I loved. I loved Clapton, and because of that I listened to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and had a guitar teacher who told me about Robben Ford and somewhere I found out about Stevie Ray Vaughan and pretty soon my CD collection had everything from Albert King to Cream and it all made sense to me somehow. I was about 14 and too stupid to even know how much fun I was having. I stil like Robben Ford and Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eric Clapton the best.
That's enough for now, I think.
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Date: 2003-07-24 11:56 am (UTC)"See, there she goes being smart and boring again."
Heh.
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Date: 2003-07-24 01:53 pm (UTC)bayball!?!...
Date: 2003-07-24 11:46 pm (UTC)I still root for the Twins (lovely win today) and when I moved here to COlorado and started attending Rockies games here last year, I was depressed to see that, despite the abundance of homerun power, the Rockies couldn't field or run the bases worth a damn. Utterly painful to watch, especially in comparison to the golden gloved, low powered Twinks.
Then, just to test my allegiance, the Rockies went out and got rid of everyone who sucked and put together a rather solid defensive unit. Bastards.
At least I can watch them without vomiting now, but my hopes still rest on the Twins (and on the Royals self-destructing).
(Since childhood, favorite players from other teams have always ended up on the Yankees, thus making me hate them. Most recently was Mike Mussina, but Goose Gossage, Reggie, Cecil Fielder. Evil. I grew up in NY as a rabid Yankee hater.)
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Date: 2003-07-25 08:56 pm (UTC)I'm a shameless friends friends list troller when I get bored *g*.