2009.10.18 19:00 - Learning to Dance

The Guardian for this meeting was stevenaia Michinaga. The comments are by stevenaia Michinaga.

stevenaia Michinaga: hello Doug
doug Sosa: hi, sorry to be slow.
stevenaia Michinaga: no problem, I was rezzing a while myself
stevenaia Michinaga: certainly no rush here
doug Sosa: i came earlier from a zen sit, and couldn't get msef out of the sitting posture, so i flew around like aladin out of his lamp.
doug Sosa: Exit and return got me back.
doug Sosa: no rush here, but.. the fountain.
stevenaia Michinaga: Sl has that affect now and then
doug Sosa: never notied before you said that, but it is pushed and urgent.
stevenaia Michinaga: what is pushed and urgent
stevenaia Michinaga: hi Pila
doug Sosa: the water..
doug Sosa: hey.. just a little push now.
Pila Mulligan: hi Steve and Doug
doug Sosa: hi pila.
stevenaia Michinaga: how is the water rushed
doug Sosa: well, it comes up because of pressure. no pressure, no fountain. but PaB
doug Sosa: is to get ourselves awake without internal pressure.
stevenaia Michinaga: interesting comparison
stevenaia Michinaga: what is that Pila?
stevenaia Michinaga: someone's tail?
Pila Mulligan: I just noticed Arabella's onigoko tail floating near the ceiling and tried to return it to her
Pila Mulligan: yes
Pila Mulligan: but Storm has to do it it seems
Pila Mulligan: ... must have been quite a party :)
doug Sosa: did i miss something?
stevenaia Michinaga: will have to check the afternoon logs
stevenaia Michinaga: there's an "onigoko tail" up in the rafters
Pila Mulligan: direclty in front of my avi, Doug, up by the pillar tops, is a little pink tail that is the onigokko dance script -- it belongs to Arabella
Pila Mulligan: she must have misplaced it one day while dancing here
stevenaia Michinaga: when attached you can script yourself into some sort of dance
Pila Mulligan: do oyu have one, Doug?
doug Sosa: nope.
Pila Mulligan: want one?
Pila Mulligan: it is kind of fun
stevenaia Michinaga: more of a "Play" moment
doug Sosa: no thanks. well, here comes Paradise, change my mind, no, dancing without smells doesn't work for me.
doug Sosa: ok, I'm convinced, sure.
Pila Mulligan: :)
Pila Mulligan: this is not that kind of dance :)
Pila Mulligan: click it and then click wear (in your inventory)
Pila Mulligan: Steve, are you ready?
doug Sosa: all dancing is that kind of dance.
Pila Mulligan: hi Paradise
Pila Mulligan: we are about to intorduce Doug to the onig... dance
Paradise Tennant: hiya pila doug steve :)
doug Sosa: Better than scarlet O'hara.

Paradise Tennant begins handing out dance scripts which we all try....

Pila Mulligan: would you like to dance too?
Paradise Tennant: ?
Pila Mulligan: ah, annother newbie :)
Paradise Tennant: lol
--BELL--
Pila Mulligan: it is less dancing and more running around actually ... dancing at the edge kind of
Pila Mulligan: onigokko
Pila Mulligan: stop
Paradise Tennant: lol
doug Sosa: wow. exhausting.
stevenaia Michinaga: onigokko
Paradise Tennant: I like this one
Pila Mulligan: if you click and wear the script then wee do it synchronized
stevenaia Michinaga: like a japanese Chinese firedrill
Pila Mulligan: stop
Pila Mulligan: :)
Pila Mulligan: fun
doug Sosa: hm.
Pila Mulligan: hmm :)
Pila Mulligan: whoa, nice Paradise
stevenaia Michinaga: one controls all
Pila Mulligan: Brazil
stevenaia Michinaga: martial art?
Pila Mulligan: yep
Pila Mulligan: Capr .... can't spell it
doug Sosa: so that's what scots wear under their kilt!
doug Sosa: capawara.. brazil, no
doug Sosa: so to wear it what do i do?
doug Sosa: Right out of the bolshoi.
Paradise Tennant: these you just right click a blue screen comes up and you click play in world
Pila Mulligan: the onig thing oyu just click it and the click wear
stevenaia Michinaga: select it from your inventory and "Play in World"
Pila Mulligan: for these dances you start and stop them
Pila Mulligan: :)
Pila Mulligan: li'dat
stevenaia Michinaga: dancing like a pro
doug Sosa: i look to serious. :(
Pila Mulligan: we need some music :)
doug Sosa: forgot to ask how to stop.
Pila Mulligan: clkick stop
Paradise Tennant: just click stop
Pila Mulligan: a little box is on your screen
Pila Mulligan: somewhere
Pila Mulligan: that has a stop option
stevenaia Michinaga: it might be under your "Commmunicate" window
Pila Mulligan: or maybe you are doomed to dnace forever :)
Pila Mulligan: aha
Pila Mulligan: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: or try "Stop all Amination" from the World menu
Paradise Tennant: lol I have a big inventory ..sorry some of these I do not think i have tried
doug Sosa: well i clicked on annimations
doug Sosa: never found "stop"
stevenaia Michinaga: I've seen that one
stevenaia Michinaga: Stop is also under the "World Menu"
Paradise Tennant: sort of fun
Paradise Tennant: :)
Paradise Tennant: how is everyone tonight :)
Pila Mulligan: dancing :)
stevenaia Michinaga: One of the Qi Gong excersizes we do is sort of a "rag doll" dance jsut bouncing around and waving arms freely, suppose to loosen you up
Pila Mulligan: I like the Capoeira one best
Pila Mulligan: yep
Pila Mulligan: like a puppet :)
stevenaia Michinaga: you look like you should be singing like Ethel Merman Doung
Pila Mulligan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwG7JwXtUSI
stevenaia Michinaga: doug
Pila Mulligan: capoeira dance video link
doug Sosa: well no stop button on my screen.
Pila Mulligan: hi Storm
Paradise Tennant: hiya storm :)
Paradise Tennant: we are dancing
Storm Nordwind: Hi there!
doug Sosa: and i can't stop.
Paradise Tennant: doug's first experience with it :)
Pila Mulligan: Storm, this dancing began when I noticed Arabella left her ongi... script here, up in the rafters
Storm Nordwind chuckles
Pila Mulligan: I tried to retun it ot her but cannot - permissions
Pila Mulligan: can you return it to her?
Pila Mulligan: I am pointing at it with my avi
Storm Nordwind: She has two objects here. I'll have to see what's what
Pila Mulligan: ok
doug Sosa: i deleted it.
doug Sosa: like neuro surgery.
Pila Mulligan: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: Are you jsut a cloud to me tonight Storm?
Paradise Tennant: ;)
Storm Nordwind: Let me try to remedy that
--BELL--
doug Sosa: you look fine to me, storm.
stevenaia Michinaga: those capoeira videos are captivating
Pila Mulligan: :)
Paradise Tennant: ;)
doug Sosa: Thanks for getting the spelling right.
Paradise Tennant: does anyone have anyting they would like to talk about tonight.. I was thinking on the marvelous benefit a lazy weekend can bring to the spirit :0
Pila Mulligan: amen
doug Sosa: One of my son's went to brazil to learn. wewere visiting my daughter in southern alabama where she was or a while and we went to local club
Storm Nordwind: People sometimes forget that recreation can mean (potentially) re-creation.
doug Sosa: and seth started to dance and won the prize for the night, next was a black marine from queens.
doug Sosa: Then my oldst was production manager of the traveling part of the Kirov Ballet..
doug Sosa: I just like to boggie on the floor.
doug Sosa: a lazy weekend. i think in a way the aim of PaB is to make everything feel lazy, while active.
Paradise Tennant: ;)
stevenaia Michinaga: my relaxing weekend was chasing 2 cute 5 yr olds around the Museum of Natural History while they and their parents looks at the dinosaurs
doug Sosa: friends i've got to be up at 5 for a trip and need to get ready. blessings.
Paradise Tennant: lol amazing how high a pitch little girls can squeal .. isn't it :)
Paradise Tennant: nite nite doug :)
Storm Nordwind waves
Paradise Tennant: have a safe trip
Pila Mulligan: bye DOug
stevenaia Michinaga: they were boys
Paradise Tennant: kk
Paradise Tennant: :))
stevenaia Michinaga: my days of chasing 5 yr old girls have long past, since I was 6
Paradise Tennant: lol
Storm Nordwind managed to get sunstroke on a red flag day (temperatures in the mid 80s a week after we had snow)
Paradise Tennant: ouch
Paradise Tennant: sorry to hear that ..
stevenaia Michinaga: aww the fair skined
Storm Nordwind: No. Not fair skin. Lack of hair on top!
Pila Mulligan: and lack of ozone above that
Paradise Tennant: hats are a wonderful accessory :)
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, I always wear a hat in RL
Storm Nordwind: I forget now I'm in Colorado. The clouds did the trick in Scotland!
Paradise Tennant: likes ball caps .. mostly mine are chewed up .. blue likes them very well too !
Pila Mulligan: :)
Pila Mulligan: I spent the day bringining some bannas and watermelons
Paradise Tennant: such a different land scape from scotland
Pila Mulligan: and doing some puttering about
Paradise Tennant: nice!
Pila Mulligan: bringing in*
Paradise Tennant: you have your own banana trees?
Pila Mulligan: yep, nice
Pila Mulligan: yes
Paradise Tennant: wow
Paradise Tennant: lol
Pila Mulligan: several, and they keep expanding
Pila Mulligan: all by themselves
Paradise Tennant: i have potted plants and look out on a sea of glass and concrete :)
Pila Mulligan: uhhh
Pila Mulligan: :|
--BELL--
Paradise Tennant: very pretty at night .. but no bananas :)
Storm Nordwind: I do my gardening in SL. So much less strain on a long spine!
Paradise Tennant: sl gardening is really very engaging .. I like it very well .. :)
stevenaia Michinaga: can you have scripts to get things to "grow " here
Pila Mulligan: nice
Pila Mulligan: coral
Paradise Tennant: it moves
Paradise Tennant: triggered by the presence of near by avs
Paradise Tennant: amazing scripting
Pila Mulligan: is the pool salt water? :)
Paradise Tennant: ;)
Paradise Tennant: I think there is script for everyting
Paradise Tennant: :)
Paradise Tennant: a friend is building an underwater park .. amazing being able to wake up in the morning and say .. hmm today I will build a subterrean garden :)
Pila Mulligan: well, I need to brag about my beach at the open sim place -- it has an underwater meditation place, with fish and whales nearby
stevenaia Michinaga: I've seen those here, they are amazing
Pila Mulligan: :) much fun
Paradise Tennant: ;)
Pila Mulligan: the whales swimming by are epsecially fun
stevenaia Michinaga: perhaps we can flood the Sim someday
Pila Mulligan: I hope you will visit -- it is at osgrid, a region named Gai, the plot is wahi pila
Pila Mulligan: Gaia
Paradise Tennant: you are virtual pioneer
Paradise Tennant: :)
Pila Mulligan: I appreciated why bthe folks wanted to keep the ocean front parcels
Paradise Tennant: pixal wagon trainer
Pila Mulligan: I'm glad they seem to have it owrke dout
Pila Mulligan: it is a frontier there :) and buggy too
Pila Mulligan: more buggy than conestoga
Paradise Tennant: always find my legs end up in mid drift .. alittle disconcerting :)
Pila Mulligan: yep
Pila Mulligan: the not quite flying posture
stevenaia Michinaga: perhaps we don't give the Lindens enough credit
Pila Mulligan: how so Steve?
Pila Mulligan: for debugging SL?
Pila Mulligan: they have indeed done that over the years
Paradise Tennant: hmm and to a real extent ..sl was created by its users ..
stevenaia Michinaga: the stability of the system vs open Sim
Pila Mulligan: I've heard Linden staffers scout around the open sims for SL objects and then ban the people using them from SL
Pila Mulligan: yes, they have made SL stable
Pila Mulligan: open sim stuff is still quite geeky
Pila Mulligan: each grid seems to have its own ambitions
Pila Mulligan: and different prioroites for evolving
Paradise Tennant: always think one of the most interesting features of sl or any virtual landscape is watching people evolve into who they are really
Pila Mulligan: some of the most SL-like grids are in Europe it seems
Pila Mulligan: better shops, more stable, more sociable
Pila Mulligan: and someone is supposedly about to release a Firefox add-on that allows opensim transitons from web sites
--BELL--
Pila Mulligan: a virtual world browser operating within Firefox, that is, as I understand it (or, as likely, misunderstand it :)
Storm Nordwind must go and check something on the museum build, and wishes everyone a good night
Pila Mulligan: bye Storm
stevenaia Michinaga: night storm
Storm Nordwind waves
Pila Mulligan: take it easy in the RL sun
Pila Mulligan: :)
Storm Nordwind: :)
Paradise Tennant: good nite storm :)
stevenaia Michinaga: go hat shopping
Pila Mulligan: :)
Pila Mulligan: Steve you haven't been to osgrid yet, have you?
Pila Mulligan: or have you?
stevenaia Michinaga: yes
stevenaia Michinaga: a friend has one runing on their server somewehre
Pila Mulligan: sorry if I forgot*
Paradise Tennant: :)
Pila Mulligan: I promise Paradise a tour of the beach/underwater site
Paradise Tennant: would you like to give us a tour of your beach house
Pila Mulligan: would you like to come also?
Paradise Tennant: :)
Pila Mulligan: yes, Paradise if thisis a good time
stevenaia Michinaga: I must get going, I'm in the middle of writing for work
Paradise Tennant: kk
Pila Mulligan: ok :0
Paradise Tennant: sure I will take a look :)
Pila Mulligan: ok, lets jump grids
Paradise Tennant: then I have to scoot and walk my four footed friend
Pila Mulligan: bye Steve :)
Paradise Tennant: :) nite nite steve
stevenaia Michinaga: night