Happy perihelion!

[pne]

Today, on the 4th, the earth will be at its closest to the sun.

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[lovewithnoface.livejournal.com]

Really? I didn't know that.

[pne.livejournal.com]

Yup. Perihelion (closest approach to the sun) and aphelion (furthest distance from the sun) are around 4 January and 4 July each year; see http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/almanac/seasondate.htm or http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/EarthSeasons.html, for example, for the exact dates for the next couple of years.

[lovewithnoface.livejournal.com]

Fascinating. The name is Greek I presume.

And, have you read privchange yet today?

[pne.livejournal.com]

The name is Greek I presume.

Indeed.

And, have you read privchange yet today?

No. *goes and does so*

Ooh! Congratulations, Tali!

[lovewithnoface.livejournal.com]

YAYAYYAYAYAY!!

I should porbably go and look at that review you did now. It will make much more sense :)

[pne.livejournal.com]

Ah, the one with "good job following the IC" all over the place? :D Hee. Shame on me for not noticing that.

Yeah, you could :) Though I think I summarised the ICs for you in an email.

[lovewithnoface.livejournal.com]

You did but still, I really want to see them. Because, apparently, Ic's appeared, and I listened to them. That was really amusing. And then I was positive I'd get I2s then since you thought I had them and was doing a good job with them. But I didn't and got all sad :(

[pne.livejournal.com]

And then I was positive I'd get I2s then since you thought I had them and was doing a good job with them. But I didn't and got all sad :(

*nods* Yes. Privs don't come after every review.

And you were doing a mixed job at that point (end of November); some good things but still a fair number of spelling mistakes and awkward phrasing, so consensus was to let you stay I1 for a while.

I'm sorry if I got your hopes up unduly with that review.

[lovewithnoface.livejournal.com]

Everyone got my hopes up. Everyone refered me to IC's and everything and I kept saying "I'm not an I2 yet!"

I had to tell like a million people that. Over and over and over.

Everyone thought I had I2s. Why?

[pne.livejournal.com]

Perhaps because you had comms I2s? I'm not sure.

I think a bunch of people tend to guess someone's priv level from their activity level (as in, I've seen that person around a bunch and they've been doing support a while; they're probably I2s), but the two don't correlate that well.

Or someone may be good in some areas but have some "rough edges" in others; those who see mostly the good bits might overestimate someone's priv level.

In the end, though, I'm not sure why.

[lovewithnoface.livejournal.com]

Neither am I.

I'm whomping gunk by moving everything out :)

And I'm leaving more humorous ICs. I love this priv.

[pne.livejournal.com]

I really want to see them

I think one of the ceremonial rites of new I2dom is to go through past requests and look at the approval ICs :)

But that kind of thing is not encouraged; many simply aren't that spectacular and you don't gain that much from it. But many new I2s do so anyway.

[lovewithnoface.livejournal.com]

From the I2 e-mail:

"These internal comments should remain confidential at all times, and not be shared with anyone who does not have the priv to read them. (Note: It's traditional at this point to go back through some of your old requests and read the internals. This won't teach you anything much or help in any way, but it's sometimes fun. :))"

Eh, you guys took way too long to give me them. It took me over an hour to go through them all and I gave up and skipped several pages.

[pne.livejournal.com]

These internal comments should remain confidential at all times, and not be shared with anyone who does not have the priv to read them.

*nods* I thought about that before sending them to you. But I figured that I was fine in doing so in that case.

(Note: It's traditional at this point to go back through some of your old requests and read the internals. This won't teach you anything much or help in any way, but it's sometimes fun. :))

Ah, so it's still in the I2 letter ^^

Eh, you guys took way too long to give me them.

We felt you weren't quite "there" yet.

[lovewithnoface.livejournal.com]

Oh I know, I was thinking in terms of convience and going back to look at ICs :)

Too Close!!!

[sovereigna.livejournal.com]

Yuck. So that's the excuse they give for how hot it was yesterday?

Thanks for the know. :)

Re: Too Close!!!

[pne.livejournal.com]

Probably :)

I imagine that this means a southern summer will be slightly warmer, all other things being equal, than a northern summer of the same degree of latitude.