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Saturday, 16 May 2009 11:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaffy_rFelicitations to a Former Rassafarian*
Happy birthday to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
akirlu , an extremely bright and witty woman I first met years ago on the Usenet group rec.arts.sf.fandom. (Dear lord, it really is years ago now; back in the middle 1990s. Ack. But I digress ....)
During that group's salad days, I became happily acquainted with her sharp intelligence and somewhat frighteningly broad span of knowledge. She was a bright light in the community, and someone who heightened the level of discourse whenever she joined a conversation.
Years passed, RASSF changed, I drifted away, but still, from time to time, thought about and appreciated some of the notable intellects I'd enjoyed within the group She was one of them.
Just a few days ago, the redoubtableapostle_of_eris , pointed me to a link on tartan. It led me to akirlu, and what a joy it was to realize that this was my esteemed acquaintance from Usenet. So I'm delighted to offer you birthday wishes; may today be everything you want it to be, and may the rest of the year be simply magnificent.
*The first "a" is there to facilitate the word's ease of pronunciation, given the lack of mellifluosity that Rassfarian would represent. Rassfarite? That does have a satisfyingly skiffictional ring to it, I suppose.
Happy birthday to
akirlu , an extremely bright and witty woman I first met years ago on the Usenet group rec.arts.sf.fandom. (Dear lord, it really is years ago now; back in the middle 1990s. Ack. But I digress ....) During that group's salad days, I became happily acquainted with her sharp intelligence and somewhat frighteningly broad span of knowledge. She was a bright light in the community, and someone who heightened the level of discourse whenever she joined a conversation.
Years passed, RASSF changed, I drifted away, but still, from time to time, thought about and appreciated some of the notable intellects I'd enjoyed within the group She was one of them.
Just a few days ago, the redoubtable
apostle_of_eris , pointed me to a link on tartan. It led me to akirlu, and what a joy it was to realize that this was my esteemed acquaintance from Usenet. So I'm delighted to offer you birthday wishes; may today be everything you want it to be, and may the rest of the year be simply magnificent.*The first "a" is there to facilitate the word's ease of pronunciation, given the lack of mellifluosity that Rassfarian would represent. Rassfarite? That does have a satisfyingly skiffictional ring to it, I suppose.
