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Say what you will about Tim Rogers's qualities as a journalist, a writer, or a human being: he had one hell of an arresting LiveJournal. I will say (after, admittedly, many minutes of hesitation) that reading Tim's journal was the best thing to happen to me in 2005. I am both telling the truth when I say that and very, very wrong.
Let me digress for a moment. Seven years ago, I graduated from high school, and my life changed utterly; five years ago, I flunked out of college, and it changed again. My gmail records tell me that three years ago yesterday I e-mailed Tim a long and rambling message that announced, among other things:
"If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then
revision is the sincerest form of imitation."
Revision, huh?
TIM ROGERS, I'M GOING TO REVISE YOU.
I never quite got around to that, unfortunately, and now, three years later, I'm going to simple imitation. Just as Tim had his "108 secrets about the number 108", I am going to 387 things about Jason Love, the first of which is: I attach great significance to the number 387.
It isn't coincidental that I'm writing this on 03/08/2007. (Although I guess I should repost this on August 3 for any non-Americans in my readership, huh?)
Forgive me as I skip back to what I was saying earlier: I know I'm wrong when I say that 108.livejournal.com was not the best thing to happen to me in 2005. That was two years ago, though, and without spending undue time reconstructing the events I know must have happened that year, I can't really recall anything else that happened. I worked, I went to school, and I spent a lot of time on the internet, much of it at insert credit reading Tim's essays. It galls me that I don't have better recollection--so I'm going to strive for more frequent updates, and the sort of stringent structure this project suggests seems as good a method as any for guaranteeing that.
I suppose I'd better mention why exactly the number 387 is so significant, before I end this first entry. So:
I'd memorized the first eight digits of pi early in elementary school; when I was in fourth grade or so, my friend Jared and I decided to make a contest of seeing who could memorize more. Then in sixth grade I finally found myself in the same class as this girl Jill that I had my first crush on, and when the whole class was put in alphabetical order, my name came right before hers--I was the seventh student, and she was the eighth. That was the same year I first tried making QBASIC programs with some sort of username/password functionality, and for my username I took the last five letters of my middle name (which happens to be Alexander) and combined it with it with the 3 from pi, Jill's 8, and my 7: "ander387". Four years later I'd use the same username when I made my GeoCities web page.
I still use that username for my alternate Yahoo! e-mail address, which may be why, as much as I've loved the number 387, it's starting to get a little old. I get a bit more thrill out of 329 these days, not least because it's the date of my birthday: March 29. Speaking of which, since this is March 8, 2007, what date do you think is 387 days from now...?
Let me digress for a moment. Seven years ago, I graduated from high school, and my life changed utterly; five years ago, I flunked out of college, and it changed again. My gmail records tell me that three years ago yesterday I e-mailed Tim a long and rambling message that announced, among other things:
"If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then
revision is the sincerest form of imitation."
Revision, huh?
TIM ROGERS, I'M GOING TO REVISE YOU.
I never quite got around to that, unfortunately, and now, three years later, I'm going to simple imitation. Just as Tim had his "108 secrets about the number 108", I am going to 387 things about Jason Love, the first of which is: I attach great significance to the number 387.
It isn't coincidental that I'm writing this on 03/08/2007. (Although I guess I should repost this on August 3 for any non-Americans in my readership, huh?)
Forgive me as I skip back to what I was saying earlier: I know I'm wrong when I say that 108.livejournal.com was not the best thing to happen to me in 2005. That was two years ago, though, and without spending undue time reconstructing the events I know must have happened that year, I can't really recall anything else that happened. I worked, I went to school, and I spent a lot of time on the internet, much of it at insert credit reading Tim's essays. It galls me that I don't have better recollection--so I'm going to strive for more frequent updates, and the sort of stringent structure this project suggests seems as good a method as any for guaranteeing that.
I suppose I'd better mention why exactly the number 387 is so significant, before I end this first entry. So:
I'd memorized the first eight digits of pi early in elementary school; when I was in fourth grade or so, my friend Jared and I decided to make a contest of seeing who could memorize more. Then in sixth grade I finally found myself in the same class as this girl Jill that I had my first crush on, and when the whole class was put in alphabetical order, my name came right before hers--I was the seventh student, and she was the eighth. That was the same year I first tried making QBASIC programs with some sort of username/password functionality, and for my username I took the last five letters of my middle name (which happens to be Alexander) and combined it with it with the 3 from pi, Jill's 8, and my 7: "ander387". Four years later I'd use the same username when I made my GeoCities web page.
I still use that username for my alternate Yahoo! e-mail address, which may be why, as much as I've loved the number 387, it's starting to get a little old. I get a bit more thrill out of 329 these days, not least because it's the date of my birthday: March 29. Speaking of which, since this is March 8, 2007, what date do you think is 387 days from now...?
