2008.10.05 13:00 - Guess the celebrity

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

When I arrived, Wol was already there standing outside the pavillion. She was working on the auto-recording.

Quilty Bookmite: Hi Wol.
Wol Euler: *scripting
Quilty Bookmite: OK
Wol Euler: it *should* start itself in about three minutes :-)
Quilty Bookmite: OK. Sounds like fun.
Quilty Bookmite: It starts when the chats are due to start?
Wol Euler: I'm sttanding out here to be out of its range.
Wol Euler: yes, 10 ,mins before the hour (roughly)
Quilty Bookmite: Shall I do the same?
Wol Euler: no, stay there,
Cannot enter parcel, you are not on the access list.
PaB Listener Master: Recording has started!
Wol Euler: cool
Wol Euler: oh shut up
Wol Euler: do you see those messages or is it just me?
Quilty Bookmite: Sorry, lag problems
Quilty Bookmite: No, I don't see any messages.
Wol Euler: good
Quilty Bookmite: Just that recording has started.
PaB Listener Master: Recording has stopped, the session is ended.
Quilty Bookmite's PaB Listener: No longer recording. Have a nice day. :)
Wol Euler: what just happened? did you touch it?
PaB Listener Master: Recording has started!
Quilty Bookmite: not me.
Wol Euler: hmmmm
Wol Euler: it#s going mad, stopping and restarting itself.
Wol Euler: damn.
Quilty Bookmite: What we software engineers like to call an unexpected feature. :-)

A bit of an in joke. This is what software engineers call a bug.

Wol Euler: heheheh, yes.
Quilty Bookmite: Well, I seem to have settled down now.
Quilty Bookmite: By the way, thank you very very much for covering my Wednesday slots for the next couple of weeks!
Wol Euler: gladly.
Quilty Bookmite: It's one less thing to worry about. :-)
Wol Euler nods
Quilty Bookmite: Are you still scripting?
Wol Euler: yeah, I will be in semi-distracted mode for a while, sorry.
Quilty Bookmite: No problem at all.
Wol Euler: gotta get this sorted out.
Quilty Bookmite: I completely understand. Will shut up until someone else arrives. :-)
Wol Euler: I was serios about being in operation by the end of the Princton meeting and we need a week of live testing before then, to be sure that it's sound.

Petepete arrives. I don't know him but it seems he's been here before.

Petepete Magic: heya
Quilty Bookmite: It seems to be proving quite a complex piece of equipment.
Quilty Bookmite: Hi Petepete.
Petepete Magic: ive not been on for a while =[
Wol Euler: hi pete
Quilty Bookmite: Have you been to these chats before?
Petepete Magic: yea
Wol Euler: yeah, and the most problem has been the listner, which _should__ have been the simplest.
Quilty Bookmite: Cool. So I don't need to give you the rundown. :-)
Petepete Magic: lol
Petepete Magic: i came before once but i had hardly anything then
Petepete Magic: everyone was doing the manbo!
Quilty Bookmite: Was this on Wednesday?
Petepete Magic: umm i can't remember
Petepete Magic: i think so
Quilty Bookmite: Embarrasing. such things seem to happen a lot on my watch.
Quilty Bookmite: Or when Wol is around. :-)
Petepete Magic: lol
Petepete Magic: manbo!

Pete starts dancing.

Petepete Magic: hehe
Petepete Magic: stop
Petepete Magic: i had to
Quilty Bookmite: I was about to say I was going to try and keep it all sensible today. :-)
Quilty Bookmite: But then again maybe not. :-)
Wol Euler: did I just miss that word taht bheings with "on..."?
Petepete Magic: :-)
Wol Euler: *begins
Quilty Bookmite: Not yet. :-)
Wol Euler: lol
Wol Euler: I did it in the guardians' meeting this morning :-)
Wol Euler: much amusement.

Wish I'd been there. One day this will fit in with my schedule.

Petepete Magic: haha
Petepete Magic: Mommy, Second Life won't work today..=[[
Quilty Bookmite: Excellent! Did you get many participants?
Wol Euler: a good half dozen!
Petepete Magic: wow
Quilty Bookmite: Great!
Quilty Bookmite: onigokko

Wol and myself dance round the table.

Wol Euler: fael, gaya, moon, corvi, me, adn one ohter
Wol Euler: lol
Quilty Bookmite: stop
Petepete Magic: eh?
Wol Euler: utterly childish but I do love it.
Petepete Magic: wtf was that?!
Wol Euler: onigokko
Petepete Magic: i want that emote!
Wol Euler: stop
Wol Euler: heheheheh
Wol Euler: quilty, will you oblige?
Quilty Bookmite: Trying to. :-)

This is when I eventually discover I can't give someone a copy of something I'm already wearing.

Petepete Magic: onigokko
Quilty Bookmite: For some reason it won't let me.
Petepete Magic: stop
Petepete Magic: hehe
Quilty Bookmite: :-)
Petepete Magic: onigokko
Wol Euler: I'll give ou mine,, just a mo.
Petepete Magic: gimme the emote!
Petepete Magic: stop
Petepete Magic: copy it?
Quilty Bookmite: Let me try again.
Wol Euler: sorry, my inventory is desperately slow to load :-(
Petepete Magic: hehe
Quilty Bookmite: Mines fine but I get a stop sign when I try and drag it.
Petepete Magic: mine is quite packed with random stuff.... e.g a castle...... a coffin
Petepete Magic: etc

Musings on inventory.

Quilty Bookmite: Strange to think that in SL we carry whole buildings around with us.
Wol Euler: indeed.
Petepete Magic: hehe
Petepete Magic: especially a 512 sqm castle
Quilty Bookmite: Got it I think.
Quilty Bookmite: Yes, one of the many incongruities in SL.
Quilty Bookmite: Did you get it Pete?
Petepete Magic accepted your inventory offer.
Petepete Magic: yup
Quilty Bookmite: onigokko
Quilty Bookmite: stop
Petepete Magic: onigokko
Wol Euler: yay
Petepete Magic: hehe
Quilty Bookmite: Yay!
Petepete Magic: ahh its something stuck in my bum!
Wol Euler: ah, I hav a different kind, it attaches to my eyeball invisibly
Quilty Bookmite: Yes. A tail.
Petepete Magic: do you like my laser guided plunger crossbow?
Wol Euler: stop
Wol Euler: lol
Quilty Bookmite: Well, it's different. :-)
Quilty Bookmite: Again, only in SL. :-)
Petepete Magic: awww
Petepete Magic: i can't get my pet chocobo our
Petepete Magic: out*
Petepete Magic: (on my right shoulder is a penguin.... you like?
Petepete Magic: )
Petepete Magic: aww its not visible!
Quilty Bookmite: It sunk.
Quilty Bookmite: Is it a Linux penguin? :-)
Petepete Magic: dunno
Petepete Magic: its called 'baby tux'
Quilty Bookmite: Could be then. :-)
Summer Camp Arrow (wear): armed
Summer Camp Bow (wear) whispers: Enter Mouselook to shoot me, Say 'pickup' to pickup arrows, say 'id' to identify yours.
Petepete Magic: robin hood!
Quilty Bookmite: You doing a fashion show, Pete?
Petepete Magic: lol
Quilty Bookmite: :-)
Quilty Bookmite: As you can see I like to dress in flamboyant style.

In my brown top and brown jeans.

Petepete now progresses throug a series of AVs that look like TV characters. Some of them display brief nudity. I'm afraid I'm hopeless at remembering the names of most of them. 

Petepete Magic: guess who i am.... now!
Petepete Magic: (sorry for the nudity thing....... it broke)
Quilty Bookmite: NP. I did wonder. :-)
Petepete Magic: so who am i?
Quilty Bookmite: Hmmm.... Should I know?
Petepete Magic: dunno
Petepete Magic: ill tell ya
Petepete Magic: mortimer smith
Petepete Magic: next!....
Quilty Bookmite: Ah. No idea.
Wol Euler: someone in badly fitting pants.
Wol Euler: hehehehe
Petepete Magic: lol
Petepete Magic: soooo....
Quilty Bookmite: Yes, I know this one. :-)
Petepete Magic: Say it then
Quilty Bookmite: But aren't you dead?
Petepete Magic: shh
Petepete Magic: i die lots of times
Petepete Magic: i have had a potato for a heart
Quilty Bookmite: I know. :-)
Petepete Magic: and i have lived in hell with SATAN for a while
Petepete Magic: and SADDAM HUSSEIN
Wol Euler: Cheney!
Quilty Bookmite: LOL!
Petepete Magic: lol
Petepete Magic: who is me now?
Petepete Magic: grr this nutity will b on camera wont it
Petepete Magic: lol
Wol Euler: it all goes on the blog.
Petepete Magic: lol
Petepete Magic: so who am i?
Quilty Bookmite: I didn't take any pictures. :-)
Petepete Magic: im a famous witch (lesbian) from a TV program......
Quilty Bookmite: I right. Buffy's sidekick.
Quilty Bookmite: Can't remember her name.
Wol Euler has not yet watched a minute of TV in 2008. Sorry.
Petepete Magic: Last name 'Rosenburg'..... my Gf tara died
Petepete Magic: .......
Petepete Magic: first name is also the name of a TREE!
Quilty Bookmite: I know who it is but I forgot her name. Haven't watched Buffy for years.
Petepete Magic: one that is commonly found near water
Quilty Bookmite: Willow.
Petepete Magic: yup
Petepete Magic: willow rosenburg
Petepete Magic: and now?
Quilty Bookmite: Big bird?
Quilty Bookmite: A large chicken?
Petepete Magic: .... im form FINAL FANTASY games
Petepete Magic: from*
Quilty Bookmite: I don;t think I even know what that is. :-)
Petepete Magic: its a chocobo!!!!!!!!!!!!
Petepete Magic: who am i now?
Quilty Bookmite: Some vampire dude?
Petepete Magic: this might help
Petepete Magic: (the sound)
Petepete Magic: not the queer dancing lol
Petepete Magic: ...
Petepete Magic: im played by David boreanaz and i had a split off series from BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER
Petepete Magic: got it yet?1
Quilty Bookmite: Yes. Again I can;t remember the name. :-)
Quilty Bookmite: Angel
Petepete Magic: hmmm thing god... heaven.... wings....halo
Petepete Magic: yup
Petepete Magic: now?7
Petepete Magic: cmon you can guess this one
Quilty Bookmite: No idea.
Petepete Magic: lol
Petepete Magic: try this one on for size then
Petepete Magic: who am i
Petepete Magic: I was adopted as a baby then found out i am a witch. i went to live with my two half sisters (the Halliwells)
Quilty Bookmite: Right. Something beginning with P?
Petepete Magic: comeon
Petepete Magic: nope!
Petepete Magic: lol yea
Quilty Bookmite: After that, they are all the same to me. :-)
Petepete Magic: so.... what
Petepete Magic: p.... matthews
Petepete Magic: that helps?
Quilty Bookmite: Phillipa?
Quilty Bookmite: Penelope?
Petepete Magic: paige!
Quilty Bookmite: Persephone?
Petepete Magic: who now?
Petepete Magic: who am i now
Petepete Magic: im one of the halliwel sisters
Quilty Bookmite: You have to bear in mind that neither of us are American. :-)
Petepete Magic: lol im english
Quilty Bookmite: OK. :-)
Petepete Magic: so.... which halliwell sister am i?
Quilty Bookmite: SO I can;t use that as an excuse. :-)
Petepete Magic: lol do u watch charmed?
Petepete Magic: i can freeze people and blow them up
Quilty Bookmite: I have done on occasion but the names didn't stick.
Petepete Magic: lol Piper Halliwell
Quilty Bookmite: I don't have Sky any more. :-)
Petepete Magic: hehe
Hobo Vardo Freebie: Cannot give no copy objects from an attached object.
Quilty Bookmite: Nice railway carriage.
Petepete Magic: it was a hobo gypsy wagon!
Quilty Bookmite: OK. :-)
Quilty Bookmite: I'm really looking forward to posting this log.
Petepete Magic: lol
XengineR whispers: To set the speed, type 'speed,x' in chat where x is the speed. (125)+
Wol Euler: you'll get us all barred...
Quilty Bookmite: Perhaps we should do something different. :-)
Petepete Magic: speed,200
XengineR whispers: Petepete Magic, speed acknowleged: 200.000000.
Quilty Bookmite: I'm obviously rubbish at this game.
Petepete Magic: hehe
Quilty Bookmite: I don;t watch enough television and haven't been to the cinema for about 2 years.
Wol Euler: oh, let me find a URL about that, Quilty.
Petepete Magic: ill be back in 5 minutes.... just going to get my UFO out
Wol Euler: clay shirky talking about the cognitive surplus, where the time that produced Wikipedia and all those other free resources came from
Quilty Bookmite: OK.
Petepete Magic: thats if i dont get chucked off the pc
Quilty Bookmite: I wonder if it makes me a social outcast. :-)

Wol sends me an interesting article about the Wikipedia generation. I send an interesting article of my own about how we perceive things.

Wol Euler: http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/20...the-mouse.html
Wol Euler: it makes you part of the next generation, already here.
Wol Euler: a cross-age generation
Quilty Bookmite: Ah. I see. :-)
Wol Euler: long but brilliant.
Quilty Bookmite: I have a link for you. A brilliant article. One sec...
Quilty Bookmite: Well, I thought it was brilliant.
Quilty Bookmite: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/sep/20/fiction
Wol Euler: ah, ty.
Wol Euler: oh wow, off to a very good start.
Quilty Bookmite: I did hear this theory about new technology. Basically there is a period after technology is introduced when we completely misuse it and produce a lot of rubbish.
Petepete Magic: aww
Quilty Bookmite: After a while, we get more subtle with it and start to produce some really good art.
Petepete Magic: brb agen lol
Quilty Bookmite: Bye Pete.
Wol Euler nods.
Quilty Bookmite: Then the next big thing comes along.

At this point I am disconnected from SL and can't log back in again. Apparently Wol was sat there on her own working on scripts.