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[atheneglaukopis]

I am too tired to make any kind of intelligent post, I had a loooong day, but my great triumph was a bash script that tells me the number of minutes until the next bus leaves, from home and from campus, and that updates every 60 seconds. That was actually not too difficult, now that I'm getting a feel for bash, although it did of course take me a

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[fpb]

I tell people I have an acquaintance who understands Akkadian and Sumerian, programs computers, loves algebra, translates Jim Steinman songs in Sanskrit, writes the occasional excellent fanfic (about Achilles, natch!), plays the piano and in her free time makes important discoveries in comparative mythology. And people congratulate me on my imagination.

[atheneglaukopis]

Well, that is very imaginative. I am planning on learning Sumerian, hopefully soon, but as to the piano, you may be thinking of a post a few years ago wherein I related my complete inability to learn the piano. I've had three friends try to teach me to play something really simple like "Mary Had a Little Lamb", and the universal reaction was, "You're so smart...how can you possibly be so dumb at this?" My musical incompetence is a special accomplishment unto itself.

[fpb]

That is comforting. The trouble is that I know that you are perfectly capable of learning Sumerian from a standing start and that you have done all the rest. Now I used to think of myself as something of a brain, but you and another online acquaintance have well and truly put me in my place. 8-) And that's all right - I love to meet talented people.