Yonatan Zunger (zunger) wrote,
Yonatan Zunger
zunger
Okay, this one is interesting:

I want anyone and everyone who reads this to post in here something they would LIKE to do with me SOMEDAY.

Then post this in your journal to see what I'd like to do with you.
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tyrsalvia

May 18 2004, 12:07:20 UTC 11 years ago

If I ever go to Paris, I'd like to meet you at the pendulum and wind our way to a little cafe somewhere, discussing all the conspiracies we can come up with that we'd never dare believe in.

gaaneden

May 18 2004, 12:42:19 UTC 11 years ago

This is a great idea!

troglodyteking

May 18 2004, 12:18:18 UTC 11 years ago

Get together and discuss old languages, compare notes, and then have a raring old time reading Beowulf per hansandersen's suggestion while drinking ale and mead with a bunch of like-minded and like-spirited people.

zunger

May 18 2004, 13:35:33 UTC 11 years ago

I'll drink to that. :)

aaangyl

May 18 2004, 16:55:44 UTC 11 years ago

Throw in a reading of the Descent of Inanna and LOTS OF CHEESE and that one gets my vote!

vmurther

May 18 2004, 17:30:11 UTC 11 years ago

Hook me up.

zunger

May 18 2004, 18:06:01 UTC 11 years ago

This is starting to sound like a plan. Maybe this weekend? ('xcept I'm busy on Saturday night)

troglodyteking

May 18 2004, 23:12:11 UTC 11 years ago

Ooh, ooh! Yes, this would be wonderful. And I am actually going to be around this weekend, unlike the previous one and the next one. I will also be occupied Saturday night, and Friday night as well. Sunday, maybe?

aaangyl

May 19 2004, 13:07:57 UTC 11 years ago

Next weekend would work WAY better for me, if that's a possibility... particularly like, a Friday night, so I'd be up in the area already without an extra trip. Though if I could borrow a patch of couch or floor and thus reduce my Monday commute, I might be able to justify a Sunday.

(I'm such a needy little whiner!)

zunger

May 19 2004, 13:16:26 UTC 11 years ago

Next weekend would probably also be better for me. What do the rest of y'all think?

troglodyteking

May 19 2004, 15:35:16 UTC 11 years ago

Next weekend does not work for me - I am going to be gone to Disneyland. Pooh.

troglodyteking

May 18 2004, 23:11:03 UTC 11 years ago

Descent of Inanna? I seem to recall Inanna is a goddess from one of the early Fertile Cresent/Middle East/Summerian/whatever civilizations. Is this a long epic poem about her descent into the underworld?

vmurther

May 19 2004, 08:01:35 UTC 11 years ago


That would be the one, yes. Some translations/versions aren't horribly poetic, though.

aaangyl

May 19 2004, 13:10:30 UTC 11 years ago

The one I have (Diane Wolkstein's version) is quite epic poetic, and makes for really good reciting.

zunger

May 19 2004, 13:18:05 UTC 11 years ago

I don't know if I still have any editions; if I do, mine is probably buried very, very deep.

Hmm... so food, drink, and ancient epics?

aaangyl

May 19 2004, 20:50:02 UTC 11 years ago

hm, next weekend's also a long weekend, and the art & wine festival down here in town. So Friday still works best for me; I'd like to go to the festival Sunday... I wonder if Breakfsat Club is still going to happen? Hmm.

vmurther

May 20 2004, 09:56:11 UTC 11 years ago


I'm also good for Friday that week.

aaangyl

May 20 2004, 14:39:53 UTC 11 years ago

Ok, that's two votes for Friday. Majority rules!

(How 'bout firing up the fondue gear Yoooooonification? I've been waiting pa-tient-ly!)

zunger

May 20 2004, 16:42:15 UTC 11 years ago

Well, if William's going to be out of town, we could always aim for a different date. He's the one who started this idea, after all. :)

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gaaneden

May 18 2004, 12:46:43 UTC 11 years ago

Stand next to you, after a day of sightseeing, as you point out to me how the city looks as the sun hits the golden Dome of the Rock near sunset.

danaeris

May 18 2004, 21:49:20 UTC 11 years ago

Sit down and catch up. Over a long night with much hot chocolate and other steamy hot beverages, discuss everything from politics to string theory. Well, especially geek about physics. I think there's a lot to you -- you seem like an amazing person -- and if I should ever get a chance to know you better, I'd count myself honored. :)

zunger

May 19 2004, 13:20:50 UTC 11 years ago

I'd be up for that. Are you ever in the MV area?

jeweled_griffon

May 20 2004, 01:07:08 UTC 11 years ago

Have a fun and thought-provoking getting-to-know you conversation. Albert introduced us once, I don't know if you remember (my name's Adi, it was Aleatha's Halloween party, I was in a renaissance dress). We didn't really get to talk then. . . but I'm unfortunately not geeky enough to be able to discuss string theory :)

spockbowie

May 20 2004, 21:30:39 UTC 11 years ago

Hey are the epics in any languages I could read? (englishes)

zunger

May 20 2004, 22:36:05 UTC 11 years ago

Sorry... we're going to be reading the whole night in Sumerian. How are you at deciphering cuneiform? :)

(I'm kidding, btw - there are excellent translations of all the things under consideration, and I believe that's what's being discussed. Or at least I hope so, since I can't read cuneiform at all.)