2009.12.22 07:00 - Spin(s)

The Guardian for this meeting was Riddle Sideways. The comments are by Riddle Sideways, who finds it hard to believe that the topic of today was thought up ahead and actually implimented.  Almost like a lesson plan, but not

Qt Core: Hi Riddle
Qt Core: Hi Yak
Yakuzza Lethecus: hi riddle,qt :)
Riddle Sideways: Hi QT
Riddle Sideways: Hi Yak
Riddle Sideways: It was silent here so long I drifted off
Riddle Sideways: :)
Yakuzza Lethecus: thats fine
Qt Core: sometimes i drift away even when there is noise :-)
--BELL--
Riddle Sideways: Easy to drift off with a purring cat on lap
Riddle Sideways: she insists on being petted with both hands
Riddle Sideways is thinking of lots of songs with "Drift Away" in the lyrics
Riddle Sideways: or songs by the Drifters

Riddle Sideways: Most of my morning has been thinking about 'Spin'
Riddle Sideways: the Spin we/they put on things
Riddle Sideways: positive spin to negative stuff
Riddle Sideways: too much anti-clockward spin makes you screwed up
Riddle Sideways: those little things named charm, strange, etc.
Riddle Sideways: The old Unix systems use to present MOTD on login
Riddle Sideways: (Message of the Day)
Riddle Sideways: It was a text file that sysops could edit
Qt Core: aven modern ones, fortunes are called nowadays
Qt Core: sadly they are not installed by default ;-)
Riddle Sideways: yes, need to install that onto my new droid
Riddle Sideways: But, what insperational message types should we use?
Riddle Sideways: some positive spin uplifting cute quotes?
Qt Core: or some sarcastic one ?
Riddle Sideways: the latest headline news :(
Riddle Sideways: a small joke?
Riddle Sideways: random would be good
Riddle Sideways: the blues can make you feel good too
Riddle Sideways: so maybe some sarcastic bull
Riddle Sideways: Marvin the paranoid robot
Riddle Sideways: We had Faelnik (sp?) here for a long time
Riddle Sideways: little black furball that put out quotes
--BELL--
Riddle Sideways: existental spin
Riddle Sideways: the difference between chating with silent tea drinking Yak
Riddle Sideways: who looks very much the monk
Riddle Sideways: and chatting with a wooden box
Riddle Sideways: BTW - how did you get your av to be the box?
Yakuzza Lethecus: :)
Riddle Sideways: NP, we are all really chatting to the boxes on our desks (or laps)
Qt Core: just wearing a free av somewhere several month ago, it is not my work
Qt Core: forgot "i got"
Riddle Sideways: is ok
Riddle Sideways: in fact there are things I would say to a box that I might not say to a monk
Yakuzza Lethecus: i still think you should use borg cube textures :)
Riddle Sideways: textures would change the spin a lot
Riddle Sideways: would talk to a borg different then wood
Qt Core: (planning about it, i'm not a builder, have to try it and there stil are the no trans/no mod pieces)
Yakuzza Lethecus: but the fed com badge :)
Qt Core: yes, it took me about 45 min to add it ... those are my great skillz ;-)
Qt Core: most of it just to find how to rotate things ;-)
Riddle Sideways: the spin of You Seeing Yourself (as box/monk)
Riddle Sideways: Us Seeing you as [box/monk]
Riddle Sideways: you are stilll you
Riddle Sideways: we are still out here
Riddle Sideways: but your/my/our attitudes shift/spin
Riddle Sideways: dependent on Point of View
Riddle Sideways: When you flip open/on your phone and see a pink heart smiling at you
Riddle Sideways: does it change how you yell at the person you are calling?
Qt Core: i would ask who is the owner
Riddle Sideways: ah, good question
Riddle Sideways: it is your phone... what do you put on the hello screen?
--BELL--
Riddle Sideways: ooooo that was a good exercise...
Qt Core: nothing but i put a nice pic (made with the phone itself) of fields and mountains in the background in a glorious sunny day as background, quite relazing it remind me about beauty/calmness in everyday activities
Riddle Sideways: Yak, I was just given a good book "The Philosphy of the Matrix". You might like it
Riddle Sideways: nice calming moment before getting down to biz
Yakuzza Lethecus: actually i was just thinking about the matrix more and about second life because of the film avatar
Yakuzza Lethecus: having an avatar to play reality
Riddle Sideways: prolly need to see that movie
Yakuzza Lethecus: isn´t our body already our avatar ?
Yakuzza Lethecus: are we our body
Riddle Sideways: the matrix sure made ppl think about that
Yakuzza Lethecus: red and blue pill became famous questions even in philosophy
Riddle Sideways: The Tao you can touch is not the real
Qt Core: i sometimes have red cinnamon pils i ate before intense programming sessions ;-)
Riddle Sideways: which pill will you take today?
Yakuzza Lethecus: oh, i think it doesn´t matter :)
Riddle Sideways: yep, doesn't matter... except our attitude
Yakuzza Lethecus: right, sl is real as our real reallity when we are stuck thinking about it and not percieving that much
Yakuzza Lethecus: but a cute cat who want´s to be pettet is nicer then a visual pet
Yakuzza Lethecus: but who knows what the next virtual worlds might provide
Yakuzza Lethecus: and which senses are possible to be reached by it and how long it takes until we don´t know whats real not real or has ever been unreal
Riddle Sideways: those gloves that control and feedback warmth/pressures
Yakuzza Lethecus: a friend of mine plays flight simulations and he got a head tracking device
Yakuzza Lethecus: and something called novint falcon to feel what he´s doing in other games
Qt Core: a gps sixth sense: http://news.therecord.com/article/507124
Riddle Sideways: even some of the location/camera aware "games" on my Droid
Riddle Sideways: point it at the sky and it shows the names of the stars
Yakuzza Lethecus: jep google whats to make that with pretty much everything
Yakuzza Lethecus: point on a leaf and tell me what plant it is
--BELL--
Yakuzza Lethecus: but for now it seems only to recognize stuff like the big ben
Riddle Sideways: ooo hate to do this, but gotta go be real life
Qt Core: the astronomic kind of apps are a big pull for me to buy one of those ... even if i don't really need one ;-)
Riddle Sideways: possible high pressure day
Yakuzza Lethecus: what real life riddle ? :)
Yakuzza Lethecus: take care! :)
Qt Core: try to survive
Riddle Sideways: :) no idea which real
Yakuzza Lethecus: cya both
Qt Core: bye