...it makes life so much easier when you're doing a project for your music seminar class, and you need help doing the research... so you just e-mail Douglas Hofstadter, your neighbor.
Not only that, but he replies, and actually knows who you are, and is more than willing to help.
I just thought I'd mention.
Posted by andi330 (Member # 8572) on :
Gee, I wish he'd been my neighbor when I was working on my music major. Think of all the help on essays.....
Posted by Stan the man (Member # 6249) on :
It is nice knowing people. That's how I get all the major stuff done.
Truck Me: May I speak to Jon please? Secretary: How do you know him by his first name? Me: He's my grandfather's cousin.
Insurance Me: Hi Kathy. How're the kids? Kathy: Great. What can I do for you?
after insurance is set up Kathy: Tell your parents I said hi and to come over sometime. Me: Will do.
Posted by Marek (Member # 5404) on :
I got to check out sheet music from UofL's music library through a sort of connection. My viola teacher (private lassons, not through the school) went with me, and when they queastioned her about checking out sheet music when she had books over due, she just had them ask the head of the music department if it was ok, and while they were at it, to tell her she said "hi mom".
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
I deliberately avoid using any connections I may have nowadays. I used them so often when I was a journalist that I felt like I'd left a greasy stain on the universe.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
quote:Originally posted by TomDavidson: I deliberately avoid using any connections I may have nowadays. I used them so often when I was a journalist that I felt like I'd left a greasy stain on the universe.
You did, Tom....that was your job. Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
*blink* I love learning new things about old Hatrackers. When/where were you a journalist, Tom?
Posted by TheHumanTarget (Member # 7129) on :
Connections are wonderful...
ME: I'd love to meet Jimmy Carter! Friend: Okay. Let me ask my dad to ask my uncle Jalal (Talabani) if I can bring a friend to dinner.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
What was Carter like in person?
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
All my best connections are right here on Hatrack .
Posted by TheHumanTarget (Member # 7129) on :
Very affable. The difficulty in talking to him lies in mustering the courage to say anything at all.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
I can understand that. How's his health, do you know? He isn't exactly a young man these days.
Teshi, I know what you mean.
Posted by TheHumanTarget (Member # 7129) on :
He seemed fine to me, although I must admit that I didn't ask.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Yeah, I didn't imagine that you would have; I was talking more about what you'd observed.
Posted by TheHumanTarget (Member # 7129) on :
Soft-spoken, but not noticeably so until you reflect on the conversation. I think the reason stems from the fact that people just naturally stop talking to listen to him.
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
Raia- He's famous? I didn't even know that. I used to play with his kids when we were little.
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Haha, yeah... he wrote Goedel, Escher, Bach which is genius in musical/academic circles. If you have interest in music, mathematics, or anything even remotely related, it's really brilliant. It made him famous, but really only to people in similar academic areas. He's not a celebrity, or anything, but every academic and student of those topics knows who he is.
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