Days of wine and... lemmings?

[mdlbear]

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, even if we don't speak often, please post a comment with a memory of you and me. It can be anything you want, either good or bad. I promise not to come after you with a spatula, either way.

When you're finished, post this little paragraph on your blog and be surprised (or mortified) about what people remember about you.

(From cflute and many others; the wording is said to have come from cadhla.)

Comments

[callibr8]

The moment, either at a Westercon or a BayCon, when you said, "I don't mind when other people cover my songs" (or words to that effect)... and I got a gleam in my eye and said, "Duly noted!". But it's even more fun to add flute parts to your arrangements and do music together!

[lapislaz.livejournal.com]

I think my best memory of you is the first time I heard you sing "Rocket Rider's Prayer". Not totally sure when that was - it might have been Bayfilk 4, might have been ConDigeo (Typocon Lives!). I remember laughing because the song was so fun, and crying because it was so damn true.

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Hearing you play in the dead dog circle at OVFF in 2001, which was the first time I'd met you in person.

[mdlbear]

Must have been Bayfilk; I wasn't at ConDigeo, unfortunately.

Plus & Minus

[capplor.livejournal.com]

There are very few people in the world one can get into a real discussion of 4-d solids with. (Fewer still who challange my thought processes on it).

On the minus side, you're a lousy person to ask "what do I do with my computer?" Too many technical digressions.

[victorthecook.livejournal.com]

The con suite at Consonance in maybe 1996: you were putting together a set list, and asked the group at large if you should do another computer song, or some Yeats. I hadn't heard your setting of "The Cap and Bells" yet, so I asked if the audience would really... respond... to Yeats. Your reply was something like: "You should give them more credit; this group will surprise you." And, of course, you were right.

[mdlbear]

I remember that!

Vocals, too...

[jilara.livejournal.com]

It's the memory of the obvious relish with which you played "Vampire Megabyte" the first time I heard it...

Hmm, are we developing a theme, here...

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

I only know you online, but I remember being delighted to recognize you in new contexts.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

I think it was...umm...Noreascon III and I was going to sing "Software Hacker's Prayer" during the one-shots, and you were there and I got all nervous and backed out.

Now, of course, I'm far more confident ;)