Re: Crit: Ivni, plus noodling

David Langford <ansible@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 20:55:07 +0200, nyra <nyra@xxxxxxx> wrote:
[on Logan Kearsley's crit bit]

But what tripped me up a bit were the names:
Tildy - tilde

By coincidence, the July =Ansible= contains this:
THOG'S DIACRITICAL MASTERCLASS. The three-eyed barbarian chief of a lost
tribe speaks: `"I am Oom-laut," he said, and those two words seemed to
convey the impression that he was afraid of nothing.' (M. Howard Lane,
`Queen of the Huallaga', _Mystery Adventures_ 11/36)

When this quote first surfaced on a mailing list, the responses began with:
"And here is my wife, Dip-thong...." The character was rapidly provided
with a daughter, Sadie Lah (called Schwa for short), and aged Norwegian
parents, Tilde and her husband Thorn.

Now don't you all start....

Hah. At work on Tuesday we were putting up a "Welcome to the
Engineering Library" display and it looked a little boring; continuing
an ages-long discussion about the habits of our engineering students I
said, "We should put up a big red button!"

So we did.

It was a *** of A4 paper with a red button-shaped magnet attached,
saying:

------------------
| Please |
| do not push |
| big red button |
| |
| O |
| |
| Please |
| do not push |
------------------

(Originally I was just going to use one of those phrasings, but we
decided overkill would be fun.)

With it we pinned up some white string in a 'circuit' which also
functioned as a pretty outline of the whole display.

Things have been quiet this week -- mostly visitors rather than students
as we're between terms. But on Wednesday morning, as I was taking
journals off the new journal display, I saw a student from the corner of
my eye reach to the display then stop. I tried very hard to look as if
I wasn't watching him, but either he saw that I was or he was actually
in some doubt, because he turned to me and said, "Excuse me, what would
happen if I pushed the red button?"

I explained semi-coherently (my colleague had thought that they'd ask,
but I had maintained that they'd just push it, so wasn't prepared for
the question; and besides I was trying not to laugh) that we'd likely
just make a tally that someone had pushed it....

"Oh," he said, "I just thought I'd better ask in case it brought the
library down or something." And pushed it.

So all I can say to you is that clearly Sika's first name is Anunaa.

Zeborah
--
Gravity is no joke.
http://www.geocities.com/zeborahnz/
.

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