spotted spider-fingers covered in polka-dots. i feel i stand out now. i should have known anonymity doesn't mean invisibility. it's still the same feeling though, even if i don't feel the same. non-locality makes it all the same. all variations on a well-familiar theme. but then if you spotted me, i spotted you too. how are we doing? 131126 ... raze i'm sorry if i made you feel exposed in any uncomfortable way. i just wanted to convey that i like reading what you write. sometimes it's hard to know how to do that here. but i know the feeling, i think. when i first started using this name, there were a lot more people around here. i thought i would hang back in the shadows unnoticed. when it became clear that people were actually reading what i wrote, it was a little strange at first. 131126 ... autodidactyl think nothing of it. or anything of it, i guess. as open as this place is for expression, i'm still far from sure on how to communicate here. i like your words too, though. the recognition's just so strange because i've been reading all you fine folks for ages now, thinking there was some impassable gap between myself and impassible beings i could never move. that all turned out to be false though. good news! anyway, i figure it's a good exposure. not the chipped-teeth-winter-wind kind, but more like braces off after years or the cool-smooth texture of a face just shaved. it's nice to find that things aren't as i thought they were without anything actually changing. the alert's passed. false alarm. pas de larmes. passe la lame à travers la peau. i always feel better after a close shave. 131126 ... epitome of incomprehensibility I like the name autodidactyl. It's like a self-taught winged dinosaur. And Wikipedia also tells me, via the disambiguation page: Dactyl may refer to: Dactyl (mythology), a legendary being Dactyl (poetry), a metrical unit of verse Dactyl Foundation, an arts organization Finger, a part of the hand Dactylus, part of a decapod crustacean A moon of asteroid 243 Ida ...that last one, I think, would be definitely spotted. Or at least pockmarked. Though I don't think it'd shave. 131126 ... e_o_i (Never mind my silliness. What I mean is, Hello, nice to meet you. And you can write in French, which is cool.) 131126 ... satellite bien sur, c'est encore plus amusant en francais. je comprends de vos blathes (my french ends with this word) que vous habitez aussi en montreal... c'est partialement la cause de mon ecriture en francais. you've got a good list going. it didn't occur to me to check out the wiki page... i like the asteroid one. awesome news to me. i'd love to be adrift in space, but only if i had something to drift about. 131127 ... e_o_i Ah yes! Of sorts. I live in Dorval, which is not really Montreal proper. Boring, rather, but with a good library, and plenty of buses to take you east or west. I also feel an affinity to Parc Ex, knowing people there, and further down, the strip of downtown between McGill and Concordia. And in between the winding streets of the mountain, and Parc like a ribbon running past it. "Dactyl" I didn't know as finger, or as asteroid (that list is cut and pasted from Wikipedia, I should have put quotation marks) before, just as the poetic foot DA-da-da. Greek finger, poetic foot, c'est ça. 131127 ... contradactyl muscles in states ranging from sorta sore to sure to score a ten or more depending on the scale we're using. shorter and shorter is what my list of exercises seems to have gotten. the snowball fight was only two says ago, but still my body aches. could do well to stretch next time. it was fierce, though. and so was she, my gorgeous adversary. how could i not push it at least a little? besides, measures are being taken to fix these issues. i've a pocket full of almonds to make my bones less brittle. my walking bass now runs instead. i'll get her next time. 131128 ... distal-dactyl bugger, that was meant to go under sore. or maybe soar. curse these eyes, not bothering to look up a few millimetres to confirm their intentions... 131128 what's it to you? who go blather from