That evening, 7 pm SLT, I met Pia and Sylectra, when I arrived at the tea house.
Here is my report; pictures below taken by Sylectra.
Pema Pera: Hi Pia!
Pia Iger: Hi, Pema. good morning.
Pema Pera: thank you! And good evening to you!
Pema Pera: Hi Syl!
Pia Iger: Hi, Dakini, Syl,
Sylectra Darwin: Hi, how are you all tonight?
Pema Pera: how nice to see you are a happy clam ;-)
Sylectra Darwin: Do you know the happy clams or do you just like the word happy?
Sylectra Darwin: :)
I had commented on the “Happy Clam” group’s name above Syl’s name. Dakini would joined us, soon followed by Steve.
Sylectra Darwin: Hi Steven!
Pema Pera: no I don’t know about happy clams
Pema Pera: Hi Steve!
stevenaia Michinaga: hello
Pema Pera: I only know the expression happy as a clam :)
Pema Pera: what do happy clams do?
Sylectra Darwin: hehe, well that fits this group!
Sylectra Darwin: Dakini, how are you?
Pema Pera: Hi Green Tara Dakini!
Dakini Rhode: i’m well!
Dakini Rhode: you are you tonight?
Pema Pera: ?
Sylectra Darwin: a little tired, but very content.
Dakini Rhode: this morning then
Sylectra Darwin: Pema, love your blue hair.
Pema Pera: oh, that’s Dakini’s gift
Pema Pera: she gave me the blues :-)
Pema Pera: the other day
stevenaia Michinaga: hi you
Sylectra Darwin: hihi
Pema Pera: remember our blue day?
Sylectra Darwin: really nice - first guy I have seen with blue hair -
Pema Pera: now I’ve gotta get my mojo working . . . .
stevenaia Michinaga: major storm out east, SL is really sw for me
stevenaia Michinaga: slow
Dakini Rhode: seems like only yesterday…
Pema Pera: haha, yes
The conversation briefly moved to lag, and pros and cons of SL infrastructure.
Sylectra Darwin: system is having trouble tonight - my inventory is lagging.
Dakini Rhode: SL problems tonight…
Dakini Rhode: seems we can say that often
stevenaia Michinaga: a perfect converssation in an imperfect environemnt
Pema Pera: hahaha, that about sums it up!
Sylectra Darwin: yes
Pema Pera: whenever I think about what the Linden folks have done
Pema Pera: I’m simultaneously awed by what the have created from scratch
Pema Pera: a whole culture
stevenaia Michinaga: indeed
Pema Pera: and how primitive it still is technically
Pema Pera: they never go back to maintain and clean up things, it seems
Pema Pera: always add new features
Pema Pera: make it more juicy and more painful
Pema Pera: very american!
Pema Pera: innovation over maintenance
Dakini Rhode: Dakini the american is suddenly… um… embarrassed
Pia Iger: BTW, I can’t help feeling Dakini look like Sophia Loran tonight.
Dakini Rhode: must be this hair
Pia Iger: the make up, eyes
Dakini Rhode: haha
stevenaia Michinaga: ..I can wait till she rezzes
Sylectra Darwin: she does! It’s true!
Sylectra Darwin: I like shiny things. Dakini is shiny.
Dakini, Green Tara incarnate, mixed reactions to praise with a discussion of SL.
Dakini Rhode: i think we expect a lot of this game, so flexible, open source, up 24/7…
Dakini Rhode: lol i am very shiny
Pema Pera: sparkling!
Dakini Rhode: bling
Dakini Rhode: lots of bling
Dakini Rhode: sorry if i blinded anyone, unable to turn it off
Sylectra Darwin: Oh, not, keep it on, it’s like having a princess among us.
Dakini Rhode: haha
Dakini Rhode: i feel like a princess wearing this
Dakini Rhode: like a tibetan barbie
Caledonia Heron: that’s Malibu Barbie’s eastern cousin :)
Pema Pera: Sorry, Dakini, didn’t want to imply that the american way is not right, on the contrary: Americans are good at innovation, Europeans better at maintence, both are equally important
Pema Pera: so no reason to be embarrased at all :)
Caledonia Heron: hello all :)
Pema Pera: It’s just a different style
Pema Pera: Hi Cal!
Dakini Rhode: hi Cal
Dakini Rhode: np Pema
Pia Iger: Hi Cal
Sylectra Darwin: Hello Caledonia.
Dakini Rhode: no problems….
Cal had entered the scene as well.
Caledonia Heron: hello BlueHair that Flows with the Wind
Pema Pera: yeah, got the blues . . . .
Pema Pera: . . . and I like it!
Pema Pera: I should start writing a song . . . .
Sylectra Darwin: yes!
Pema Pera: I followed Dakini’s example of blue hair yesterday
Pema Pera: but now Dakini has another new act that is harder to follow
Pema Pera thinking about how to look like Sophia Loren
Pia Iger: haha
Dakini Rhode: i got the slow rezzin’, low down Second Life blues….
Pema Pera: there we go!
Pema Pera: life in the slow rez . . . .
Caledonia Heron: wow no kidding Dakini, you look mahvelous :)…
Dakini Rhode: ty Cal, ryusho has made an idol of me
Caledonia Heron: :)
Dakini Rhode: i think this may be the sophia loren poseball
Dakini Rhode: that somewhat bored look
Dakini Rhode: oh dear
Caledonia Heron: lol, I think they call that sultry :)
Dakini Rhode: i don’t do sultry RL
Dakini Rhode: perky
Dakini Rhode: i do perky
Pema Pera: sultry sutra blues
Caledonia Heron: you look like a mermaid now :)
Some loud splashing sounds indicated that Green Dakini had wound up in the pond, while moving around.
Dakini Rhode: can’t navigate my own pond
Caledonia Heron: a perky mermaid
Dakini Rhode: CALculated the distance wrong…
Caledonia Heron: :)
Pema Pera: somehow this arrangement of benches leaves something to be desired . . . .
Dakini Rhode: it seems you’re the teacher, Pema
Caledonia Heron: yeah, it’s like a panel show sometimes :)
Pema Pera: ohoh
stevenaia Michinaga: but you ARE the center dear peme
Pema Pera: shall we make a different arrangement?
Pema Pera: ssshhhhh
stevenaia Michinaga: these benches are stone… very heavy
Pema Pera: a circle of benches are not idea either . . . .
Pema Pera: hmmm
Dakini Rhode: need a new teahouse?
Caledonia Heron: this is good - a people made circle :)
Caledonia Heron: it’s nice to meet you Stevenaia and Sylectra - I don’t think we’ve encountered each other before have we?
Sylectra Darwin: Nice to meet you too!
stevenaia Michinaga: hello caledonia
stevenaia Michinaga: Your mame seems familiar, perhaps from the blogs
Caledonia Heron: perhaps
Pia Iger: there is only one cal:)
Pema Pera: you’ve not met yet? You both are very frequent participants!
Pema Pera: :-)
Caledonia Heron: one cal, sounds low cal :)
Pema Pera: 1 & only Cal, about to make many puns!
Pia Iger: :)
Caledonia Heron: nah, I’ll be good -
If Cal had thought she would get off that easily, she was dead wrong :-).
Pema Pera: ooohhh
Dakini Rhode: i’m about to sing the lo-CAL blues…
Pema Pera: we’re CALling CAL for CAL puns!
Caledonia Heron: well, now I’m thinking of taking the bait…..
Caledonia Heron: don’t want to derail anything - I get carried away :)
Pema Pera: hahaha, not to worry!
Pema Pera: I enjoyed reading about your description of meditation, in the blog, Dakini
Caledonia Heron: wouldn’t want any CALlateral damage :)
Caledonia Heron: yes me too Dakini
Pema Pera: that would be CALamitous
Dakini Rhode: o good!
Caledonia Heron: in such a voCal way
Pema Pera: hahaha
Pema Pera: it is an interesting point, this question of the relationship between Play as Being and meditation
Pema Pera: I hope some people will treat it as very different and some as very similar and everything in between
Pema Pera: there is certainly room for all that
Dakini Rhode: playasbeing seems to get some folks interested in longer meditation sessions
Sylectra Darwin: does anyone mind if I take a few pics?
Pema Pera: of course fine!!
Sylectra Darwin: ty
Caledonia Heron: sure, it’s ok :)
Pema Pera: Dakini will look very perky!
stevenaia Michinaga: send them to pema for blog
stevenaia Michinaga: lol, pema
Pema Pera: yes please do Syl!
Pema Pera: thanks to Pia’s happy prodding, I learned how to put pictures into the blog
Caledonia Heron: a nice addition
Pema Pera: I had postponed learning, but it was actually quite easy
Picture time.
Dakini Rhode: o dear found my smile too late
Sylectra Darwin: be happy to share
Pema Pera: thanks, Syl!
stevenaia Michinaga: was it fear of doing it badly?
Sylectra Darwin: not at all too late, Dakini
Pema Pera: no
Pema Pera: simply no time
Dakini Rhode: too late for the photo
Dakini Rhode: this av face can smile when i remember how to do it
Pema Pera wondering to whom Steve’s question was addressed
Dakini Rhode: or frown
Pema Pera: ah, both perky and sultry
stevenaia Michinaga: it was to you
Pema Pera: okay, so yes, no, no time :)
stevenaia Michinaga: i wonder where you get the tiem to do what you do
stevenaia Michinaga: time
Pema Pera: I wonder too
Sylectra Darwin: You must not sleep much.
Pema Pera: true
Sylectra Darwin: hehe, Dakini!
Sylectra Darwin: gotcha!
Sylectra Darwin: silly girl
Dakini Rhode: haha
Sylectra Darwin: you make funny face.
Dakini Rhode: yes silly
Pema Pera eagerly awaiting pictures for the blog!
Sylectra Darwin: Need any action shots?
Dakini Rhode: like?
Pia Iger: dancing?
Caledonia Heron: what’s that animation you gave me Dakini?
Dakini Rhode: onigokko?
Dancing time!
Caledonia Heron: ah, that’s it, thx
Dakini Rhode: does anyone need the onigokko shippo?
Pia Iger: what is it?
stevenaia Michinaga: perhaps if you tell me what it is
Sylectra Darwin: That sounds like fun
Sylectra Darwin: thank you.
Sylectra Darwin: It’s a tail!
Dakini Rhode gave you Frying pan.
Caledonia Heron: I thought it was the happy feet dance but it gave me a mouse tail instead :)
stevenaia Michinaga: a mouse tail?
Pema Pera: Pia, did you get one?
Pia Iger: yes. Have not open yet.
Dakini Rhode: you need to wear it
Pema Pera: open inventory
Pema Pera: left click on onigokko
Pema Pera: then right click and wear
Dakini Rhode: i love this frying pan
Pema Pera: Pia, can you find onigokko?
Sylectra Darwin: REally interesting tableau, guys. Not sure what to name it!
Pema Pera: :)
Dakini Rhode: onigokko
Pema Pera: stop
Dakini Rhode: that’s what it’s called
Caledonia Heron: my session going wiggy
Dakini Rhode: onigokko
Dakini Rhode: stop
Sylectra Darwin: wa-ha-haha-aaaooooow
Sylectra Darwin: smiles
Dakini Rhode: we need more space for this
Indeed, the wild running-in-circles that accompanied the onigokko dance
barely did fit in between the tea house and the stone benches.
Meanwhile Dakini had graciously handed out frying pans to all of us.
Sylectra Darwin: Are you getting a building jones?
Pema Pera: how do you activate the frying pan?
Dakini Rhode: lightning here
Pema Pera: after wearing it?
bam club just say bam whispers: ready to bam
Dakini Rhode: i’m signing off folks…
Sylectra Darwin: bam
Dakini Rhode: cuckoo?
Pema Pera: Pia, how do you use the pan to hit?
stevenaia Michinaga: lol
Dakini Rhode: i need cuckoo
Sylectra Darwin gave you bam club just say bam.
And Syl had followed Dakini by handing out really big wooden clubs.
Dakini Rhode: left click on someone, Pema
stevenaia Michinaga: bam
Pia Iger: just click
stevenaia Michinaga: /bam
Dakini Rhode: haha
Pema Pera: AH!
Pia Iger: so violent
Pema Pera: wow, yes
Dakini Rhode: gets out a little hostility
Pema Pera: a new element in our play . . .
Pema Pera: well, I’ll have to leave to
bam club just say bam whispers: ready to bam
Dakini Rhode: /bam
Pema Pera: You see, Syl, every meeting here is different
Sylectra Darwin: weren’t we supposed to discuss something?
Pema Pera: quite different
Sylectra Darwin: I was wondering.
Sylectra Darwin: smiles
Sylectra Darwin: this was fun
Dakini Rhode: /bam
bam club just say bam whispers: ready to bam
Dakini Rhode: bam
bam club just say bam whispers: ready to bam
stevenaia Michinaga: /bam
Dakini Rhode: oops sorry Pia
Dakini Rhode: i didn’t mean it…
After a while we all were warming up to clubbing and banging.
Pia Iger: no pain here
Pema Pera: /bam
Pema Pera: bam
Sylectra Darwin: Steven, you don’t need the slash
stevenaia Michinaga: ba,
Dakini Rhode: who makes these things?
Dakini Rhode: so funny
Pema Pera: wow even more violent!
bam club just say bam whispers: ready to bam
stevenaia Michinaga: mine’s broken
Caledonia Heron: bam
Dakini Rhode: bam
Caledonia Heron: lol
stevenaia Michinaga: bam
Dakini Rhode: haha
Caledonia Heron: bam bam bam
Caledonia Heron: bam
Sylectra Darwin: hehe
Caledonia Heron: bam
Caledonia Heron: bam
bam club just say bam whispers: ready to bam
Caledonia Heron: bam
Caledonia Heron: bam
Dakini Rhode: rofl
Caledonia Heron: bam
Caledonia Heron: bam
Caledonia Heron: bam
Caledonia Heron: lol
Cal really had gotten into the swing of it!
bam club just say bam whispers: ready to bam
Sylectra Darwin: bam
stevenaia Michinaga: bam
Sylectra Darwin: We could make music
Pema Pera is pretty dazed by now . . . .
Pema Pera: Pia, can you defend me?
Pia Iger: trying…
Pema Pera: just type “bam”
Caledonia Heron: now we all walk softly
Sylectra Darwin: bam
Caledonia Heron: bam
Caledonia Heron: bam
Sylectra Darwin: I was wondering what these clubs did!
Sylectra Darwin: Someone gave them to me last night.
bam club just say bam whispers: ready to bam
stevenaia Michinaga: bam
Pema Pera: bam
Dakini Rhode: these clubs are precious!
Dakini Rhode: i love the cuckoo sound
Dakini Rhode: bam
Indeed, after somebody would get “bammed” immediately the person would go “cuckoo”, audibly so.
stevenaia Michinaga: thnak goodness s you can;t take movies of us here
Dakini Rhode: you cant?
Pema Pera: can you combine bam with onigokko I wonder
Dakini Rhode: Pema the innovator
Pema Pera: onigokko
Dakini Rhode: bam
Sylectra Darwin: oooo, pretty, thanks Cal
Dakini Rhode: yep
Dakini Rhode: bam
Pema Pera: stop
Pema Pera: onigokko
Pema Pera: bam
Pema Pera: bam
Pema Pera: bam
Sylectra Darwin: bam
Sylectra Darwin: bam
Pema Pera: bam
Pema Pera: bam
Pema Pera: Dakini looks like a really wild tara now!
Dakini Rhode: heheheeee
Caledonia Heron: LOL!!
Caledonia Heron: stop
Pia Iger: mad house:)
stevenaia Michinaga: wow
Sylectra Darwin: awesome
Dakini Rhode: scarey
Caledonia Heron: I sure get a kick out of that
In more than one way!
Dakini Rhode: haha
Sylectra Darwin gave you color_fountain.
Caledonia Heron gave you Left Hand Glowstick.
Sylectra Darwin: oooo, pretty!
Caledonia Heron: I like :)
Pema Pera: how to activate?
Dakini Rhode: wow
Caledonia Heron: wear it
Pema Pera: k
Sylectra Darwin: ahhhhhhh
Sylectra Darwin: just wear!
Pema Pera: getting better and better!
Sylectra Darwin gave you Rave power particle effect.
Caledonia Heron: even better!
Indeed, the whole area was getting lit up now with all kind of colorful dazzling effects.
Pema Pera: wonder what the neighbors will be thinking . . ..
Sylectra Darwin: hehehe
Sylectra Darwin: I like the one with the round balls better - less shar qi
Caledonia Heron: they’re thinking that’s some rockin meditation :)
Pia Iger: hah
Pema Pera: :-)
Pia Iger: maybe ET arriving…
Pema Pera: hahaha yes
Sylectra Darwin: Oh! Thank you Dakini, I love it.
Caledonia Heron: the singularity
Pema Pera: we need a different sound track
Pema Pera: well, I really need to go
Pema Pera: thanks for the colorful conversations :-)
Dakini Rhode: no more SL blues…
Pema Pera: or CALorful
Caledonia Heron: ok, adios :)
Dakini Rhode: bye
Caledonia Heron: I almost went there :)
Dakini Rhode: :-)
