Peer pressure

[dr_whom]

Yes, I finally succumbed. Don't be disappointed if I never write anything interesting here, though; it's just for the friends list.

However, as a reward for anyone who notices that this is here, I'll try to do that meme where you comment and I reply by telling you (1) whatever randomly comes to mind about you, (4) something which doesn't make sense to many people other than you and me, (5) my first clear memory of you, and (7) something I wonder about you, as well as what (2) song, (3) flavor, and (6) vowel I associate with you. Well, I'll try, anyhow.

Yeah.

—AJD, finally back in Philadelphia

(Update: I suppose I've stopped doing this by now.)

Comments

[khyros.livejournal.com]

I'm on it! Good to see you, man.

[dr_whom]

1. Whoa. You found this, like, a minute and a half after I created it. How did you do that?
2. "The Internet is for Porn". Like, obviously.
3. Sarsaparilla, I suddenly have the impulse to say. I don't know why, but—there it is.
4. Somebody once said something about a dance....
5. Hmm. That time you followed me and lowellboyslash back to Quincy after a Milk & Cookies. It must have been, like, October. I wasn't sure who you were and didn't have a clue what to do about it.
6. [æ:]. As in cat, but longer. You can throw in some creaky voice on that if you want to, too.
7. How would you compare your relationship to HRSFA and your relationship to the Noteables?

[tiamat360.livejournal.com]

yay!

[dr_whom]

1. Ooh, a challenge.
2. "Three-Bedroom House". I told you this already.
3. Right now what comes to mind is soy sauce.
4. Okay, so I'm cheating on this one. I'm going to quote you, and I'm implicitly using a slightly different interpretation of "doesn't make sense [to other people]": "I really dislike snow, for obvious reasons." Makes sense to me.
5. Noteables winter concert. You were taking tickets.
6. I wish web browsers were better at phonetic symbols. This one looks like an upside-down e with a fishhook on the right side, and it's the vowel in the American pronunciation of ''bird''. Guarded, but unconventional.
7. How do you have time for fencing and everything else? I quit fencing November of freshman year because I just couldn't handle it on top of Noteables and work.

[dumble.livejournal.com]

Shiny journal!

[dr_whom]

1. For some reason, I don't think your photo there really looks like you. I can't put my finger on why.
2. At the moment, "My Time of Day", from Guys and Dolls.
3. Lemonade!
4. Have you installed the new whiteboard in your lab yet?
5. My answer to this for you is the same as yours for me: at the Kong, when I was visiting Harvard in March '04, and we both didn't have Masq costumes yet. And that led, of course, to a long walk around Cambridge. Well, kind of long.
6. [i]. As in "meep!"
7. Have you decided whether you're okay with being a math major yet?

[lord-codfish.livejournal.com]

Go ahead.

[dr_whom]

1. Yay marathon singalongs!
2. "Please Hello", I rather think.
3. Coffee milkshake.
4. "Not, perhaps, a lot better. But better, anyhow."
5. So, I don't have any clear memories of you before when I was visiting Harvard in March, and hanging out with you and a bunch of people in the CLR, pretending to work. But I obviously knew you then—at the very least, I had met you by the Noteables concert the previous semester. But all that's coming to mind is the CLR.
6. You get a diphthong, I think. One halfway between [ow] and [@w], where @ represents schwa.
7. Do you perceive a connection among your various interests?—do international relations, SF, G&S, and so on form a natural class? Or are they all distinct things that you happen to be interested in independently and, so to speak, coincidentally?

[wolfheart17.livejournal.com]

I'm game

[dr_whom]

1. You know I think I thought you were a junior when you were a sophomore?
2. "If I Were King of the Forest"!
3. At the moment, I'm leaning toward butterscotch.
4. There are worse ways to leave one's keys backstage, anyhow.
5. Same problem as for lord_codfish above. My earliest memory of you seems to involve walking from Sever towards the River after a HRSFA meeting, but I'm pretty certain I already knew you then.
6. [ɔ]. Let's see if that comes out right; it's supposed to look like an upside-down "c". Back mid-low: the Ashkenazic qamatz.
7. Hm. Same question as you asked me for this one, about your religious attitude. (I haven't forgotten! I will answer yours more fully!)

[http://users.livejournal.com/little_e_/]

yo!

[dr_whom]

1. I can understand how the first time I said "Heather and Jeff are getting married" you could have thought I was talking about you, before I explained that I was talking about someone else named Heather. It's the second time that puzzled me.
2. After some deliberation, I'm going to say "Class".
3. D'you remember "OK Soda"?
4. I am kind of drawing a blank here.... I would like to know if you lived in that room with all the fairies around the door, though; and though there are plenty of people who would know what I'm talking about, most of them probably won't see this comment.
5. See above as for lord_codfish and wolfheart17. I was in, like, the Lowell JCR, at the beginning of my senior year, and I was like, "Who's that?" and someone said "That's Heather," and I was like, okay.
6. [ɞ]. Let's see if that comes out; it should look a little like a heart on its side. The vowel itself is like a schwa, but a bit lower and rounder; or like the vowel I gave wolfheart17 but fronter.
7. The, like, paragraph or so of commentary under each installment of "The Naked Elf"—do you regard those as being an essential part of the comic, or essentially an embellishment?

[preraphaelite.livejournal.com]

Meme me, baby, one more time...

[dr_whom]

1. Conversely to what I said to wolfheart17 above, when you were a junior I think I thought you were a sophomore. Well, at the beginning of the year, anyway.
2. "Tango: Maureen".
3. Strawberry.
4. Am I pretending to be you, then?
5. My first clear specific memory pertaining to you specifically is not actually of you per se (Latin geek sez: it should be per te, not per se; se is third person), but of lowellboyslash talking about you, in November '01. I knew who she was talking about, though: I had at least seen you at Milk & Cookies several times before then.
6. Something a little front of [u], but not as far front as [ʉ] (which should look like a u with a bar through it): closer to the American English vowel in food than the French vowel in fou is, but still definitely rounded.
7. So—following up on (5)—perhaps the earliest clear specific memory of you that I have for which you were actually present is of hanging out in the Lowell JCR one time, when you said, quote, "I don't like the Noteables." A year later, give or take a bit, you were in the Noteables. What happened?

[ophblekuwufu.livejournal.com]

Me! Me!

[dr_whom]

1. Well, as you know already, you remind me very much of my friend Richard's sister. I suggested to their mother that she should invite you to one of her musicale soirées—one of the reasons that you remind me of her is that I suspect you would have a splendid time at one of those. Did you ever hear from her?
2. Something like "No One is Alone", I think.
3. Are counterfactual, hypothetical, or alternative-universe flavors allowed? Because my answer for this really wants to be "tea, if I liked tea". (Which is the first time my answer for this question has agreed with anyone's result on that survey.)
4. It's generally advisable to put the face of organizational legitimacy on things that are accomplished by back-room wheeling-dealing, wouldn't you say?
5. Hm. Hanging out in the CLR one time at the very beginning of your freshman year. You had just gotten into Mizmor Shir but were thinking about joining the Noteables instead.
6. [ɒ], basically (should look like an upside-down script-type a), but slightly less tightly rounded than that symbol might imply: a low back vowel of moderate roundedness. A nice friendly sort of vowel.
7. What made you decide to run for co-chair, the first time? And were you surprised when you won?

[boojum42.livejournal.com]

Finally!

Meme me! :)

[dr_whom]

1. I really do respect syntacticians, you know.
2. "The Simple Joys of Maidenhood" does seem to be about right, yeah.
3. Rosemary! After this summer, anyway.
4. The ethernet cord of Narnia has magic wireless powers!
5. During that Clue game at Vericon, I suppose. But I actually got to know you sitting on those benches outside the classroom waiting for Indo-European to start.
6. [ɪ]: the small-cap i, as in spin and so on.
7. (1) notwithstanding, what was it that drew you to syntax specifically?

[sivvyswraith.livejournal.com]

Whyever not?

[dr_whom]

1. So far, you're the only person I've seen doing this meme who actually used (7) to tell people what you wondered about them, without necessarily actually asking it. Thank you for mine, by the way.
2. "Come Up to My Place".
3. Cinnamon, I think.
4. Maybe some Lunchables?
5. Well, the earliest thing I can actually think of is you and Matt singing "Come Up to My Place", at the tech week run-through. But I had already known you for many months by that point; I'm not sure why I can't remember anything specifically earlier.
6. I feel like I want to give you a syllabic sonorant, which is pretty much equivalent to a vowel for most purposes. In particular, [ɱ]. (It should look like an m with a tail.) This is a nasal like [m], but articulated with your top teeth on your bottom lip (as if it were [f]) instead of with your lips closed together. Some people use this sound for the first syllable in the word emphatic.
7. I guess I wonder, do you know what you intend for your next, like, major step to be? Or are you playing it by ear for a while?

[thekinginyellow.livejournal.com]

Meme, I say!

[dr_whom]

1. I'm still proud of having thought up "Most Likely to be Colonized by Rabbits".
2. Still "Heaven on Their Minds", really.
3. So, I actually feel inclined to say Cel-Ray soda. Why? Because it's regarded by most people as bizarre and off-putting, but in point of actual fact it's really excellent. Also because it's obviously Jewish and from New York.
4. Player 1 used the magic of category select!
5. You showed up to MST3K SIG in the Quincy JCR in, like, October of your freshman year. I hadn't met you before, but I said "Hi, Warren" and acted as if I had.
6. A diphthong for you too: [ɔə]: the same vowel nucleus I gave wolfheart17, but gliding into schwa.
7. What are you doing next year, exactly? Or approximately.

[http://users.livejournal.com/-mycroft-holmes/]

Don´t guess I know how you found me. I´d make that a question, but you must pardon punctuation of strange Central American keyboard, in which the markings on the keys bear little relation to the symbols they type, and I´ve yet to find the question mark. I´m interested in whether you can come up with anything to say about me. Anything pleasant, or anything, period.

[dr_whom]

1. How I found you? It was an ljseek.com search on something like "Noteables"—though not exactly that, since a search on "Noteables" turns up so many typos for "notable" that it's not useful. Something like that, though. ...Also, something's weird about your apostrophes, too. Silly Central America.
2. You're going to take this the wrong way, but "Loving You" from Passion. Not because I identify you with the character, exactly, but because I think you might have.
3. The flavor that comes to mind is tomato.
4. All I mean is, your car must have been packed pretty full not to be able to carry that little tiny TV set....
5. This one's easy because it came up last time we talked. I walked you (part of the way?) home after a Noteables after-party in Dunster, and advertised Songs for a New World to you.
6. I feel inclined to say [ei], perhaps with some creaky voice, though I couldn't say quite why.
7. What do I wonder about you? Many things.... I'll say you don't have to answer this if you don't want to (especially right here), but I do wonder what you think I think of you.

[konnundrum.livejournal.com]

Hey, found it (via comma)! Diddn't take so long!

Reed

[dr_whom]

1. Whoa, I haven't heard from you in, like, ages!
2. "Rock Island", from The Music Man. I've actually had it stuck in my head, on and off, for several weeks, and one of the things that keeps it their is that every now and then the phrase "Mandolin picks, perhaps," in your voice, pops into my head.
3. I told thekinginyellow Cel-Ray soda, but you I think I'll just say celery.
4. My earliest memories are repressed.
5. I feel like I should use my answer to (4) for this one also, but it wouldn't be true. I'm not sure what is, though. Something in Claire's Latin class?
6. A diphthong for you too: [ʌi], as in right (in some dialects).
7. Well, I mean, what have you been doing in the past, you know, little while?

[prisminawindow.livejournal.com]

I'm probably a bit of a challenge, but, um, *waves*.

[dr_whom]

1. Your name surprises me.
2. Well, now, "So Long, Farewell".
3. Light ginger.
4. I didn't know Wyoming had senators!
5. Easy: you were helping q10 move in. I thought you were somebody else.
6. I'm gonna say [œ].
7. How'd you meet q10?

[cmouse.livejournal.com]

Wow. Hello.

[dr_whom]

1. I think I think you're taller than you are.
2. Is "Hear My Song" too obvious?
3. PIne nuts!
4. Did I tell you that I named the frog J.B.?
5. I guess, in the Lowell Grille my senior year, and I was like, who is this? ...Was that you?
6. [ʉ]: halfway between the the vowels in English tool and French tulle.
7. How long do you see yourself staying in Boston?

[yaleartificer.livejournal.com]

I noticed! Do I get a cookie?

[dr_whom]

It would have to be a very old cookie....

1. Your voice is a lot deeper than it looks.
2. I feel like "Don't Be the Bunny" suits you.
3. Parsley.
4. Parsley?
5. You tried to get me to play UmJammer Lammy at a HRSFA party. I didn't get the hang of it.
6. Have I used [ɛ] yet?
7. Whatever happened to Lilies?

[(Anonymous)]

Well, December is like Janurary in many ways.

David Speyer

[jcberk.livejournal.com]

Well, it's January now. And you left yourself logged into LJ on my computer, so I noticed you. Hi!

[rford.livejournal.com]

and I noticed when jen commented on it.

[landofnowhere]

As long as it's still January...

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I noticed it in, like, March. Does that count?

-BIK

[mollishka.livejournal.com]

Well I noticed in... April! But I have my excuses. :)

So what's my vowel??

[lanyanavich.livejournal.com]

Another month, another person. Hi!

[sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com]

No time limit? Shiny! Ok do the meme for me.

[scibilia.livejournal.com]

(waves)