Amusing numerical checkpoint

[vyvyanx]

For the first time since creating my journal in November 2001, I have exactly 100 lj friends and 100 lj friends-of (with an overlap of 98).

Comments

[zotz]

Well, that's easily fixed. [Goes to delete journal]

[gerald_duck]

"Don't worry about my defriending you. It's nothing personal: I only did it for the numerological significance."

Or is it really just a fluke? :-p

[vyvyan.livejournal.com]

:-) I have tried very hard to maintain parallel lists of friends and friends-of (call me sad and obsessive if you wish). Two people list me as friends against my will; two people I list as friends despite them not friending me back (one is a relation who is crap with computers and doesn't understand lj; one has a really interesting lj and posts publicly all the time and has a good reason for not friending people they don't remember meeting).

[vyvyan.livejournal.com]

Please don't - how would I learn such interesting things about obscure bands otherwise? :-)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Do you mean you used to have more than 100 friends/friends-of at one point?

[vyvyan.livejournal.com]

No. I meant that this is the first time that this cooccurrence has arisen, but in fact, neither possibility has previously pertained. I could have had more than 100 of either before, but no. Yesterday, a long-distant ex of mine re-added me to his friends list - bringing me up to 100 there - and I re-added him - bringing me up to 100 on the other side. (I mentioned him during our long discussion on Saturday, incidentally :-)

:)

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Ding!

[dryad-wombat.livejournal.com]

Hello hello! I was wondering if I could humbly ask you a linguistics question? :) I've been reading vague references to Gibbs's The Poetics of Mind, and I'm frantic to comprehend what he means by generative wager vs cognitive wager. The only "explanation" I have found so far is this:

"Gibbs posits the existence of a cognitive wager against the more standard generative wager..."

I don't have time to get to the liobrary to read Gibbs myself today...do you have any idea what the difference is? *Hope*

[vyvyan.livejournal.com]

Oh dear - I'm afraid I've never even heard of Gibbs and his wagers :-( Google suggests he's a recent psycholinguist person; I only ever read quite general stuff on psycholinguistics.

Is this for E301? Maybe the tutors' conference could help, if it's urgent?