2008.10.01 13:00 - Geek party

The guardian for this session was Quilty Bookmite. The comments are his. 

Initially Fael, Gaya and Wol turn up and we have a brief geeky discussion on the new recording device. Some sort of new fangled gramphone I believe.

Quilty Bookmite: H Fael
Fael Illyar: Hi Quilty :)
Quilty Bookmite: How are you?
Fael Illyar: I'm good. You?
Quilty Bookmite: I'm pretty good myself. :-)
Fael Illyar: a bit tired perhaps though.
Quilty Bookmite: Been overdoing it?
Fael Illyar: Hi Gaya :)
PaB Listener Master: I've been touched by a PaB guardian.
Quilty Bookmite: Hi Gaya.
Quilty Bookmite: Hi Wol
Fael Illyar: Hi Wol :)
Wol Euler: hello quilty, gaya, fael

First Fael brings up an issue with the new device.

Fael Illyar wonders if there should be blue balls over our heads.
Quilty Bookmite: I'm also a bit tired but that goes with the territoty of being a father. :-)
Quilty Bookmite: Is there supposed to be when we are being recorded?
Wol Euler wnoders why she has one, then.
Gaya Ethaniel: _/!\_
Wol Euler: aaaaah
Wol Euler: gaya has one now
Quilty Bookmite: I can't see them.
Wol Euler: hmmmmmm
Gaya Ethaniel nods
Fael Illyar: I still have none.
Wol Euler: you don't have one, nor does fael.
Wol Euler: damn and blast.
Quilty Bookmite: I switched the recorder on. Shouldn't I have one first?
Fael Illyar: you'd think so, yes.
Quilty Bookmite: Ah. I see them now.
Wol Euler: mmm, not necessarily. It runs on a scanner, the order in which avs are reported is pretty well random.
Wol Euler: but you definitely should have one by now.
PaB Listener Master: I've been touched by a PaB guardian.
Fael Illyar too!
PaB Listener Master: Recording has stopped, the session is ended.
PaB Listener Master: Recording has started!
Wol Euler: there, that worked.
Fael Illyar: whee! shooting balls :)
Quilty Bookmite: Yay!
Wol Euler: but I'm unsure why it did.
Quilty Bookmite: It even followed me.
Fael Illyar: how far will these balls follow us by the way?
Wol Euler: oh, yes, they do :-) up to 15 metres away from the master, then they derezz
Quilty Bookmite: Very nice. Is it all working now?
Fael Illyar: well, almost :)
Wol Euler: very very close!

I start some techie talk.

Quilty Bookmite: Did you solve the memory leak/fragmentation issues?
Wol Euler: probably.
Fael Illyar: automatic posting on the wiki does not yet work but there is a way to get the log out now.
Wol Euler grins.
Quilty Bookmite: I gues only testing will tell. :-)
Wol Euler: a siyx-hour marathon session might still be a problem, but normal sessions are ok.
Fael Illyar: problem, why?
Quilty Bookmite: From what I have been reading, LSL doesn't have memory leaks.
Faenik loves wells!
Wol Euler falls down laughing and kicks her feet in thte air.
Quilty Bookmite: But it can suffer fragmentation.
Quilty Bookmite: It has garbage collection, right?
Fael Illyar: Hi Solo :)
Quilty Bookmite: Hi Solo.
Gaya Ethaniel: _/!\_
Solobill Laville: Hey, everyone!
Wol Euler: not really, no. Memory is not released while a script runs. the master script will run forever. tehrefore ...
Wol Euler: hello solo
Quilty Bookmite: I saw that described in a chat but I couldn;t find reference to it online.
Quilty Bookmite: But memory fragmentation would have the same effect.
Wol Euler: if you watch the numbers above the listeners, they constantly tick down although no _new_ memory is bueing used. When it gets below 1500, it will crash.
Wol Euler: yes, thsi is probably fragementation; but the point is that it dones't work cleanly :-(
Wol Euler: the master seems stable, it hasn't declined in a few days now.
Quilty Bookmite: Well, it's excellent work anyway. I wish my LSL skills were up to helping you.
Wol Euler is in socially inept geek mode, sorry.
Quilty Bookmite: I'm a Java developer so it shouldn;t be difficult to learn. Just need the practice.
Gaya Ethaniel smiles at Wol. nice mode np
Quilty Bookmite is a geek from way back. :-)
Fael Illyar is a native speaker of geek so no problem at all ;)
Wol Euler chuckles

I realise that we are getting lost in geekery, to the detriment of those present who don't have a software background. I try and steer things in a sensible direction but fail miserably.

Quilty Bookmite: However, there are people here who don't speak geek, so we should switch to English. :-)
Fael Illyar: perhaps :)
Quilty Bookmite: Does anyone have a subject for discussion?
Solobill Laville: Whatever is OK by me, I have a "geek" translator on this new language HUD I got...
Wol Euler: heheheh
Quilty Bookmite: :-)
Fael Illyar ponders if Geek can be translated that easily.
Gaya Ethaniel giggles
Quilty Bookmite: What does it suggest for "Memory fragmentation"?
Solobill Laville: hmmm, let's see...
Quilty Bookmite: Geek rubbish that doesn't mean anything?
Wol Euler snorts, and wipes tea off her desk.
Gaya Ethaniel laughs
Quilty Bookmite: Not a tea/keyboard moment? :-)
Wol Euler: just missed.
Quilty Bookmite: Well done. :-)
Fael Illyar: good reflexes :)
Faenik is a hairy black ball with eyes and ears.
Fael Illyar: it takes quite some skill to aim it away fast enough :)
Quilty Bookmite: Should be an Olympic event.
Gaya Ethaniel smiles
Wol Euler: no more absurd than some socalled sports.
Fael Illyar: Well, you do learn after a few keyboards :)
Gaya Ethaniel: ah...
Quilty Bookmite: Yes. :-)
Wol Euler: "synchronized swimming"? Feh.
Quilty Bookmite: Do they still do that?
Gaya Ethaniel: Wol... my tummy hurts too much laughing now
Quilty Bookmite: It looks so silly.
Fael Illyar: what's synchronized swimming?

Synchronised swimming!

Solobill Laville: Better check youtube, Fael :)
Fael Illyar not quite up to date on sports.
Quilty Bookmite: Sort of underwater ballet in teams.
Wol Euler: an utterly absurd waste of time and water.
Gaya Ethaniel loves watching synchronised swimming
Wol Euler: lol
Quilty Bookmite: They have to smile the whole time.
Solobill Laville smiles
Wol Euler: sorry, gaya.
Fael Illyar smiles.
Gaya Ethaniel: that's why I love it Wol
Solobill Laville: That was it, Fael! Were you smiling??
Wol Euler: It#s like Irish dancing, they get points not for footwork but for keeping their upper bodies absolutely still.
Gaya Ethaniel smiles
Quilty Bookmite: :-)
Fael Illyar: Yes :)
Quilty Bookmite: I can almost hear the Irish music.
Solobill Laville: Just do that in the river outside, and your an Olympian, Fael!
Wol Euler: /m enods
Solobill Laville: LOL
Quilty Bookmite: Are you a Leprechaun today Fael?

Fael is dressed as a fairy in a green outfit. She breaks into a dance every now and then.

Fael Illyar: fairy perhaps?
Quilty Bookmite: Fairy nuff.
Wol Euler: lol
Wol Euler: just watch, the manbo will start any moment...
Faenik: indeed?
Wol Euler watches, fascinated.
Quilty Bookmite applauds
Gaya Ethaniel smiles
Quilty Bookmite: But what was that?
Fael Illyar smiles.

Some sort of dance accompanied by German singing.

Solobill Laville: That was the dance that Fael and Moon created :)
Wol Euler: ah!
Fael Illyar: if you can call it dance :)
Quilty Bookmite: I see. :-)
Quilty Bookmite: And the singing?
Quilty Bookmite: Was it German?
Fael Illyar nods.
Solobill Laville: That was me, I have voice on
Solobill Laville: No, just kidding
Wol Euler: oh, I didn't hear anything :-(
Gaya Ethaniel giggles
Quilty Bookmite: You have a lovely singing voice Solo. :-)
Solobill Laville: Ah, ty..
Fael Illyar grins.
Quilty Bookmite: Did you have an accident as a child?
Solobill Laville: No, just falsetto, you know
Solobill Laville: That is Greman though, yes, Fael?
Fael Illyar nogs.
Quilty Bookmite: Very impressive. :-)
Faenik: ah :)
Fael Illyar: onigokko

Onigokko is the trigger word for anyone wearing a particular attachment to get up and dance round the table accompanied by musinc. By the end of the session we are all wearing this attachment which looks like a straight pig tail.

Fael Illyar: stop
Gaya Ethaniel pokes at Fael... how did you know that I had it on?
Fael Illyar didn't know.
Quilty Bookmite is stunned!
Solobill Laville: Rats, i had not time to prepare...
Wol Euler chuckles.
Solobill Laville is ready now
Fael Illyar: onigokko
Solobill Laville: Weeeeeee!
Fael Illyar: stop
Solobill Laville: Ah....:)
Quilty Bookmite: OK, I have one question.
Wol Euler: this wil be another short log, QUilty.
Solobill Laville: Just one, Quilty?
Gaya Ethaniel: manbo!

I am so conventional.

Quilty Bookmite: Why do the chats I host always end up so boring and convetional?
Solobill Laville: hehe
Wol Euler laughs!
Fael Illyar: hard to say :)
Quilty Bookmite: Must be my austere manner.
Gaya Ethaniel giggles
Wol Euler: It's my influence, I am a disruption in hte flow of Being.
Gaya Ethaniel giggles
Wol Euler: it eddies and curdles and turns silly.
Quilty Bookmite: Space/time curves itself around Wol.
Fael Illyar: sillyness is Being too :)
Party Dress AO - Preloaded ZHAO II: Could not find animation '*Luth* Innocence Sit'
Solobill Laville: About a month ago I had a wonderful one on one talk with Avastu here
Solobill Laville: It ended in the Chocolate Disco
Quilty Bookmite: Sounds good. My wife would like that. :-)
Wol Euler: heheheheh
Faenik: ah :)
Gaya Ethaniel smiles
Solobill Laville: erm
Solobill Laville: Chocolate Disco ♪
Solobill Laville: Chocolate Disco ♪
Solobill Laville: Avastu is quite a dancer for such a large man ;)
Quilty Bookmite: How do I join in with the onigokko?
Quilty Bookmite: Light on his feet?

Gaya send me the Onigokko thingie. It all gets very silly.

Quilty Bookmite: Thanks Gaya.
Gaya Ethaniel smiles
Gaya Ethaniel: if you wear it Quilty then type onigokko
Quilty Bookmite: onigokko
Fael Illyar ponders about onigokko music but no one running suddenly.
Quilty Bookmite: stop
Quilty Bookmite: Yes, that was odd.
Gaya Ethaniel: Mommy, Second Life won't work today..=[[
Quilty Bookmite: onigokko
Quilty Bookmite: stop
Quilty Bookmite: I'm sure the novelty will wear off with time. :-)
Fael Illyar: it will :P
Wol Euler: :-)
Gaya Ethaniel smiles
Fael Illyar: until a few months later you rediscover it and it somehow has it again
Quilty Bookmite: :-)
Fael Illyar beams happily.
Solobill Laville nods
Quilty Bookmite: OK, I have another question.
Solobill Laville: I knew it
Quilty Bookmite: If past, present and future are an illusion and all that exists is fourth time of which the other 3 are merely manifestations....
Quilty Bookmite: How can I never match my socks?
Faenik is a hairy black ball with eyes and ears.
Solobill Laville: hmmmm...good question
Gaya Ethaniel giggles
Solobill Laville: blue
Fael Illyar: no, red
Solobill Laville: yes, red
Quilty Bookmite: Giraffe.
Fael Illyar: The answer, you do but not the way people usually do it.
Gaya Ethaniel: ah...
Quilty Bookmite: Well said grasshopper.
Gaya Ethaniel giggles
Quilty Bookmite: Sometimes they aren;t even the same size.
Wol Euler: perhaps it's just an illusion that other people's socks match.
Quilty Bookmite: And my feet are the same size before you ask.
Gaya Ethaniel 's tummy hurts for laughing so much again
Fael Illyar: good point, how do you know other people wear matching ones :)
Quilty Bookmite: Maybe I don't look closely enough at other peoples feet.
Fael Illyar: feet aren't _that_ interesting :P
Gaya Ethaniel: oh?
Quilty Bookmite: To some they are. I don't have that fetish though.
Fael Illyar: well, ok, exceptions excluded :P
Quilty Bookmite: onigokko
Gaya Ethaniel finds Quilty rather quirky
Quilty Bookmite: stop
Party Dress AO - Preloaded ZHAO II: Could not find animation '*Luth* Innocence Stand 1'.
Gaya Ethaniel: Mommy, Second Life won't work today..=[[
Quilty Bookmite: You must be thinking of someone else Gaya. I'm very sensible.
Gaya Ethaniel: ah... ok Quilty
Quilty Bookmite: Sorry Gaya. :-)
Fael Illyar throws quirks all over the place.
Gaya Ethaniel tries to look convinced
Wol Euler: not identity theft, identity _misplacement_
Quilty Bookmite: I'm a middle-aged software engineer, married with a daughter. Sounds conventional to me.
Quilty Bookmite: Don't I look conventional?
Gaya Ethaniel smiles
Fael Illyar: no, not in SL
Quilty Bookmite: Good point. :-)
Wol Euler: "The true hero is always a hero by accident, he longs to be an honest coward like everyone else."
Fael Illyar: ... although, I wonder what SL conventional is
Solobill Laville is always wary of the conventional looking
Gaya Ethaniel smiles
Quilty Bookmite: Probably wise Solobill. I wouldn;t trust me at all.
Faenik: ah :)
Gaya Ethaniel giggles
Fael Illyar smiles.
Quilty Bookmite: Maybe looking conventional allows me to get away with more.
Solobill Laville: Exactly my point...
Solobill Laville: :)
Quilty Bookmite: You look pretty normal yourself Solobill.
Fael Illyar: yes, looks can be ... umm ... deceiving?
Quilty Bookmite: :-)
Solobill Laville: hehe
Gaya Ethaniel smiles
Solobill Laville is also always wary of the unconventional looking
Solobill Laville: :)
Faenik: indeed?
Fael Illyar looks somewhat unconventional, doesn't she?
Quilty Bookmite: Anyone you aren't wary of? :-)
Solobill Laville: hmmm, doesn't sound like it
Gaya Ethaniel smiles. ponders what to wear next time around Solo to give a good impression...
Quilty Bookmite: Yes Fael. Always. :-)
Quilty Bookmite: Sounds like there's no hope.
Fael Illyar smiles.
Solobill Laville: You always leave a good impression, Gaya
Fael Illyar pokes Wol.
Gaya Ethaniel smiles. oh ty Solo
Solobill Laville: It's that Quilty guy though... ;)
Wol Euler wakes up ahd looks around. is it teatime?
Gaya Ethaniel giggles
Cup of Black Tea whispers: Ah!Mmm, hot, and steamy tea!
GreenTea(Matcha): Mmmhh... enjoy the best green tea Quilty Bookmite
Quilty Bookmite: Snap - almost
Fael Illyar: snap?
Quilty Bookmite: Tea drinkers.
Cup Of Green Tea whispers: Ah! Steaming Green Tea!
Wol Euler raises her RL cup to the screen.
Cup Of Green Tea whispers: Ah! Steaming Green Tea!
Fael Illyar is having a "break" from tea or coffee.
Wol Euler: ty gaya
Quilty Bookmite: We aren't exciting enough to keep you awake Wol?
Gaya Ethaniel: yvw
Gaya Ethaniel smiles
Wol Euler: on the contrary, I fainted from overexcitement.
Solobill Laville: ha
Fael Illyar: Ah, so tea or coffee wouldn't help there :)
Quilty Bookmite: Very kind of you to say so. :-)
Gaya Ethaniel: oh Wol... my tummy!
Faenik: indeed?
Quilty Bookmite: In RL I am eating the solitary apple we got out of our garden this year.
Solobill Laville: may it be tasty
Quilty Bookmite: That is after my daughter has had enough of it.
Gaya Ethaniel: what kind Quilty?
Quilty Bookmite: A bit sharp but very tasty, yes,
Gaya Ethaniel: russet?
Quilty Bookmite: Red Devil.
Gaya Ethaniel: ah
Quilty Bookmite: First year for the tree so we didn't expect much.
Solobill Laville: Your daughter or the apple? har har...
Gaya Ethaniel: Solo... <smile>
Solobill Laville: ...red devil...
Solobill Laville: sigh
Quilty Bookmite: My daughters second year. We expected a bit more. :-)
Wol Euler: what was taht?
Solobill Laville: hehe
Quilty Bookmite: She loves apples!
Quilty Bookmite: Eats the core as well.
Gaya Ethaniel smiles
Solobill Laville: that is good, I used to do that when I was a kid!
Quilty Bookmite: And no apple tree grew inside you?
Solobill Laville: Well, out of my ear, yes
Gaya Ethaniel smiles
Faenik: why not?
Quilty Bookmite: :-)
Solobill Laville: That's why I don't do it anymore
Gaya Ethaniel: ah... entish
Quilty Bookmite: Shall I talk a bit louder then?
Gaya Ethaniel giggles
Fael Illyar: Well, it's about time for me to go to bed.
Quilty Bookmite: Me too.
Solobill Laville: Bight, Fael
Gaya Ethaniel: me three
Solobill Laville: *n
Wol Euler: good night all, take care.
Fael Illyar: Good night everyone :)
Gaya Ethaniel: _/!\_
Quilty Bookmite: Thanks everyone. It's been fun!
Wol Euler: It's been quite amusing.
Wol Euler: onigotto
Solobill Laville: Night, all
Fael Illyar: Yes, thank you for the laughs :)
Gaya Ethaniel: has been great ty all
Quilty Bookmite: onigokko
Quilty Bookmite: stop
Wol Euler: heheheh, ty
Solobill Laville: typo
Wol Euler: quity, you have a tail.
Quilty Bookmite: We all do.
Quilty Bookmite: It's the onigokko thing.
Solobill Laville: That is onigokko tail
Wol Euler: oh, I see.
Solobill Laville: yup
Quilty Bookmite: Goodnight.
Solobill Laville: night