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...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.
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Gee, I wish he'd been my neighbor when I was working on my music major. Think of all the help on essays.....
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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".
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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.
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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.
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*blink* I love learning new things about old Hatrackers. When/where were you a journalist, Tom?
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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.
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Very affable. The difficulty in talking to him lies in mustering the courage to say anything at all.
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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.
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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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