Birthday lunch rsvps

[alias_sqbr]

Hello! Have just posted to Facebook and that's a more convenient way of counting, but anyone who's not on that please let me know if you're coming.

Time: 12 noon Saturday 22nd November
Place: Jetties Restaurant Hillaries Boat Harbour
Booking under Sophie *my married name*

I SUCK at deciding this sort of thing so cast the net pretty wide, given how absent minded I am I probably still missed people (but no complaining if I missed you because you currently live in England or Canberra etc :P)

I actually don't want TOO many people coming since I'm not sure how large a booking they'll take(*), but I've had too many bad experiences of NOONE coming to stuff I organise to just invite the actual number I want.

(*)In retrospect, 62 was maybe a few too many...I said I suck! Man, I hate organising things.

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[trs80.ucc.asn.au (from livejournal.com)]

Those of us without facebook can't even see the details ...

[alias_sqbr]

Hah, knew I forgot something, sorry :D *edits*

[trs80.ucc.asn.au (from livejournal.com)]

Cool, I'll be coming.

[edible-hat.livejournal.com]

Although I am on facebook, I couldn't see the page either! Because I wasn't (until recently) on Sophie's contacts/friends/whatever it's called list.

[alias_sqbr]

This is the first time I've done a Facebook event, it still boggles me a bit! If you want to come, you are welcome :)

[edible-hat.livejournal.com]

Sadly it's a little too far to travel from Adelaide.

[alias_sqbr]

Hey, I had people considering coming from Canberra and England...

[ariaflame.livejournal.com]

Since I consider myself on the fringe of your social crowd, I shall not add myself to the crowd... But have a good lunch!

[alias_sqbr]

Thankyou!

EDIT: Oops, I realised the thankyou could sound like it was for not coming, rather than for wishing me well! You are of course welcome, though I agree you don't know most of the people coming that well, I know when I'm in that position I feel a bit weird. But so far I have a total of four "yes"'s including myself, so it's not too crowded :)

[the-riviera-kid.livejournal.com]

Let X={person in people | RSVP(person)>0}
the_riviera_kid in X

Yes it has been a long and fruitless day, why do you ask?

[alias_sqbr]

I like how the number of RSVPs I might receive from any given person is unbounded and not neccesarily and integer :)

[the-riviera-kid.livejournal.com]

Whilst I suspected that it was likely that RSVP(person) would be restricted to {-1,0,1} (corresponding of course to a negative RSVP, no RSVP and a positive RSVP respectively), it seemed more robust to assume you only really cared about its polarity.
Plus this way the floor is still open for someone to RSVP +-(sqrt(5)-1)/2 times.

[alias_sqbr]

Plus this way the floor is still open for someone to RSVP +-(sqrt(5)-1)/2 times.

I think that sort if rsvp would average out to zero, but yes :)

[the-riviera-kid.livejournal.com]

My intention was that they would either reply in the negative phi times, or in the positive phi times rather than both, but once again it wouldn't do to limit the system by my naive assumptions.

[alias_sqbr]

Indeed it would not :)

[delicious-irony.livejournal.com]

Messaged you. :P

[alias_sqbr]

Sorry I took a while to reply, Facebook didn't notify me for some reason so I spent a while trying to figure out what sort of message it was!

[nico-wolfwood.livejournal.com]

OMG - are you on facebook?

[alias_sqbr]

No.

Wait....yes :)

[oliverm.livejournal.com]

Alas I will be playing bridge all weekend, so will not be able to make it.

[alias_sqbr]

Well, also the vegetarian options suck. So you're forgiven twice :)

[pedanther]

I actually don't want TOO many people coming since I'm not sure how large a booking they'll take(*)

(*)In retrospect, 62 was maybe a few too many...


...

That can't mean what it looks like it means. Can it?

[alias_sqbr]

*coughs*

In my defense, from previous Facebook things I was pretty sure most people would either not reply or say no, and this is what has happened: so far I have 7 Facebook rsvps (well, eight if you count a "Plus partner" comment)

[pedanther]

So where does the "62" come into it?

[alias_sqbr]

That's the number of invites.

[pedanther]

But not (as I initially thought) the number of people who accepted the invitation?

[alias_sqbr]

Ahaha. Thankfully, no :)