2010.05.25 13:00 - Outside the Box

The Guardian for this meeting was Agatha Macbeth. The comments are by Aggers.

Liza Deischer: hey agatha
Liza Deischer: brb
Agatha Macbeth: Hello Liza :)

--BELL--

Liza Deischer: b
Agatha Macbeth calls this meeting to order :)
Agatha Macbeth: How are you?
Liza Deischer: pretty much okay
Liza Deischer: you?
Agatha Macbeth: Good to hear!
Agatha Macbeth: Yes fine thanks
Agatha Macbeth: How is the meditation thing going?
Liza Deischer: pretty much okay
Agatha Macbeth: Great
Liza Deischer: but slow start
Liza Deischer: not everyone is available every week
Agatha Macbeth: A slow start is better :)
Liza Deischer: so........
Liza Deischer: it needs to grow
Liza Deischer: I'm not surprised
Agatha Macbeth: Are you achieving what you wished for so far?
Liza Deischer: I think so, but too early to be sure
Agatha Macbeth nods
Agatha Macbeth: Yes, give it time
Liza Deischer: I will, no problem
Agatha Macbeth: :)
Agatha Macbeth: You use viewer 2 then?
Liza Deischer: yes, why?
Agatha Macbeth: I wondered how you like it
Liza Deischer: well I'm used to it now
Liza Deischer: but works best with voice for me
Liza Deischer: but for building purposes I use emerald
Agatha Macbeth: Ah, cute ;-)
Sartre Placebo: hey everyone
Agatha Macbeth: Hi Yak...er...Sartre
Liza Deischer: hey cal, yaku
Agatha Macbeth: And hello Cal!
Calvino Rabeni: hi :)
Sartre Placebo: and bye
Liza Deischer: eh.....Sartre
Agatha Macbeth: Looks like he turned up at the wrong venue...again ;-)
Liza Deischer: is it tuesday?
Agatha Macbeth: Yes!
Liza Deischer: oh, need to be somewhere else
Liza Deischer: sorry
Agatha Macbeth: Maxine's workshop at Kira
Agatha Macbeth: Bye
Agatha Macbeth: Bye
Liza Deischer: yes, see you

Liza and Sartre poof, leaving Calvino and myself

Agatha Macbeth: How are you then Cal?
Calvino Rabeni: fine, personally, aggers
Agatha Macbeth smiles
Agatha Macbeth: That's what we like to hear!
Agatha Macbeth: Are you travelling or at home right now?
Calvino Rabeni: away visiting, home next week
Agatha Macbeth: Is it warm whre you are?
Calvino Rabeni: :) its a cool spring
Agatha Macbeth: It's been terrible in England the last few days, really hot
Calvino Rabeni: you got "our" share :)
Agatha Macbeth: Looks like it!
Agatha Macbeth: It's a bit cooler today tho, fortunately
Calvino Rabeni: hmm

--BELL--

Agatha Macbeth: I have to ask, why is there a box above the fountain?
Calvino Rabeni: I don't know, it's tagged by Yakusan
Agatha Macbeth: Strange
Calvino Rabeni: Sure, let's send him an IM
Calvino Rabeni: "What's in the box, Yaku?"
Agatha Macbeth: Ha!

Being me, I just cannot resist the urge to sit on top of Yaku's mysterious flying box...

Agatha Macbeth: Well this is an interesting view
Agatha Macbeth: 'Thinking outside the box' and all that
Agatha Macbeth: Hello Zon
Zon Quar: hi..r u up there or
Zon Quar: am i just imagining
Agatha Macbeth: It's ok, I'm just being silly again!
Calvino Rabeni: You figured out what it is used for, Agatha
Zon Quar: good..so im sane
Calvino Rabeni: To get an elevated point of view
Agatha Macbeth: Hm, high chair :)
Agatha Macbeth: Hehe
Agatha Macbeth: Well I certainly can't see any other function for it
Agatha Macbeth: Like they say in Metal Gear Solid 'It's just a box'
Agatha Macbeth: How are you today Zon?
Zon Quar: ah..good and u ?
Agatha Macbeth: Fine thx
Zon Quar: not many ppl here
Agatha Macbeth: No, they are all at Kira (again) :(
Zon Quar: what is up there
Agatha Macbeth: I'll start taking this personally shortly 8D
Zon Quar: lol
Agatha Macbeth: Maxine's dream workshop
Zon Quar: ah.. i dont see dreams
Agatha Macbeth: Apparently they can't schedule it for any other time
Agatha Macbeth: Which is a pain
Calvino Rabeni: What are you going to take personally (puzzled look) ?
Calvino Rabeni: The dream workshop draws from yr session?
Agatha Macbeth: Oh, everybody going to Kira instead of coming here :P

(I was only kidding btw!)

Calvino Rabeni: RIght
Zon Quar: not everybody
Agatha Macbeth: Well, yeah
Calvino Rabeni: They should know, the action is here :)
Zon Quar: there r 2 quality persons here
Zon Quar: with u
Agatha Macbeth: Thank you Zon [grin]
Zon Quar: u could put on a notice beforehand
Zon Quar: so all would know its ur night
Zon Quar: and they better come or else

At this point, Cal told me in IM of his concern for a friend of his, a journalist, who had got into trouble while visiting the Gaza Strip.

Calvino Rabeni: RL was intruding in an unusual way just now - news from overseas - I was distracted
Agatha Macbeth: Well, sadly, they can only go to the dream workshop at this particular time
Agatha Macbeth: so it doesn't really make any difference
Calvino Rabeni: Now I'm trying to "be here"
Agatha Macbeth nods @ Cal
Zon Quar: here yes
Agatha Macbeth: The Middle East was ever a very troubled place
Zon Quar: has something happened
Calvino Rabeni: Some people are willing to visit the hornet's nest
Agatha Macbeth nods
Calvino Rabeni: Only on a personal level Zon, a friend getting into some amount of trouble there
Calvino Rabeni: Journalist.
Zon Quar: ah..k

--BELL--

Agatha Macbeth will be right back.
Calvino Rabeni: Now he's on the plane home, basically intact :)
Zon Quar: which country ?
Calvino Rabeni: Gaza
Zon Quar: ah.. i want to visit israal in near future
Zon Quar: but not perhaps gaza
Agatha Macbeth: Back
Agatha Macbeth: Yes, I thought Wol was rather brave going to Tel Aviv a while back
Calvino Rabeni: The floating box is apparently unintentional, by the way
Agatha Macbeth: Ah
Agatha Macbeth: An art form possibly?
Calvino Rabeni: For mysterious reasons it appeared
Calvino Rabeni: More like, mystics materialize jewels or other objects
Calvino Rabeni: Yaku might be a SL shaman and not know it :)
Agatha Macbeth: Well one rezzed in my house not long ago for some strange reason
Calvino Rabeni: With you as owner?
Agatha Macbeth: Yes!
Zon Quar: a jewel ?
Agatha Macbeth: That was the strange thing
Zon Quar: or a shaman ?
Agatha Macbeth: It was almost like an apport or something
Calvino Rabeni: I think it was a box, agatha?
Agatha Macbeth nods
Agatha Macbeth: Like that one up there
Zon Quar: beware of appearing boxes...
Agatha Macbeth: Box clever...
Agatha Macbeth: The Boxer rebellion?
Calvino Rabeni: It's the most basic of the SL prims - the SL reality matrix might be unstable - virtual particles appear out of the vacuum, at random
Agatha Macbeth: I see
Agatha Macbeth: yes, that would explain it
Agatha Macbeth: Why a box and not a pyramid
Zon Quar: yes cube is the basic building block of the universum
Agatha Macbeth: for example
Agatha Macbeth: It just looks so bizarre sitting up there for no reason
Zon Quar: im sure there is a reason
Agatha Macbeth: Can anyone rez objects here then?
Zon Quar: we just cant with our limited minds grasp it
Agatha Macbeth: I thought only Storm could

Just to prove me totally wrong (as usual) Cal promptly rezzes a cushion in mid air!

Agatha Macbeth: Well, bang goes that theory!
Calvino Rabeni: I guess it was falsifiable, agatha :)
Agatha Macbeth: Uh huh
Zon Quar: yes reality rules over theories
Agatha Macbeth: You look a proper fakhir Cal! :)
Calvino Rabeni: You realize what might happen if this gets to be common knowledge ... :)
Agatha Macbeth: Er....what?
Zon Quar: wow..u both have siddhis
Agatha Macbeth: We do?
Zon Quar: nods
Agatha Macbeth: Erk
Zon Quar: i must believe my own eyes
Agatha Macbeth: Levitation and all that
Agatha Macbeth: Well this is a new perspective on PaB ;-)
Calvino Rabeni: A seat for you, Zon

Zon now climbs aboard his own flying cushion and all three of us are up in the air!

Agatha Macbeth: Yeah Zon, join the club
Zon Quar: now we can see who is chairing
Zon Quar: woww
Zon Quar: but can i fly
Agatha Macbeth: 'I believe I can fly...'
Agatha Macbeth: 'I believe I can touch the sky'
Zon Quar: it seems teh meditations starts to pay

--BELL--

Agatha Macbeth: Play as floating beings?
Zon Quar: been called, c u floaters...
Agatha Macbeth: Bye Zon, take care
Calvino Rabeni: If this knowledge gets out, people could start bringing their poseballs to group, and then lounging all over the place
Agatha Macbeth: Hm
Calvino Rabeni: Let them, I say :)
Calvino Rabeni: Maybe on Fridays - casual friday?
Agatha Macbeth: Not sure how the permissions work then...
Agatha Macbeth: Hm, decidedly odd
Agatha Macbeth: I can't seem to rez anything here

Cal now starts to get ambitious and turns upside down in mid air.

Agatha Macbeth: Ah
Agatha Macbeth: How's Australia?
Calvino Rabeni: gday Mate! We do a lot of thinking "down here"
Agatha Macbeth: Strewth
Agatha Macbeth will drop an IM to tarmel
Agatha Macbeth: is the blood rushing to your head?

Late night Euler now joins the merriment

Agatha Macbeth: Hiya Wol :))
Wol Euler: hello cal, aggers
Wol Euler: is this magic day?
Agatha Macbeth: It's a bit of a strange session tonight :)
Wol Euler: ah :)
Calvino Rabeni: Ack - lost my concentration
Agatha Macbeth: Aw
Agatha Macbeth: You silly fakhir ;-)
Agatha Macbeth: How are we tonight Ms E?
Wol Euler: tired
Wol Euler: just got in from work, tea is steeping
Agatha Macbeth: Again?
Wol Euler: yeah
Agatha Macbeth: Aw
Wol Euler: 11 hours today.
Wol Euler: beh
Agatha Macbeth: Jeez
Agatha Macbeth: Is this a new project then?
Wol Euler: no, just having to catch up wiht the steelwork drawings
Agatha Macbeth: Whoa
Wol Euler: a lot of what happens in construction projects is a game called "it's not my fault"
Agatha Macbeth: Ah
Wol Euler: you can't be the last one holding the piece of paper that somebody else says he can't work without
Agatha Macbeth: Like pass the parcel then?
Wol Euler: yeah
Wol Euler: but wiht lawyers.
Agatha Macbeth: Even worse...
Wol Euler: we basically took three weeks off to do the competition, but the other trades didn't
Wol Euler: so they caught up
Agatha Macbeth: Oops
Wol Euler nods
Agatha Macbeth: The phrase 'Where will it end' comes to mind
Wol Euler: heheheh
Wol Euler: hopefully not in court, and not in an ambulance either
Agatha Macbeth: True
Agatha Macbeth: You should have stuck to software programming
Wol Euler: heh
Wol Euler: brb, tea must be ready by now
Agatha Macbeth: You would be poorer but with a safer state of mind
Calvino Rabeni: Just software - don't write the control systems for things that will dump people in the bay somewhere
Agatha Macbeth: :)
Agatha Macbeth: Or rez objects in mid air

--BELL--

Calvino Rabeni: I have to slip out during the bell - meeting - see you later :)
Wol Euler: bye cal, take care
Wol Euler: ah, you have a fracture armband on:)
Wol Euler: going to the show later?
Agatha Macbeth: Bye Cal
Agatha Macbeth: say what?
Wol Euler: it's tuesday, there's a party at fracture this evening
Agatha Macbeth: It'll probably be too late for me
Wol Euler: definitely too late for me
Agatha Macbeth: Actually I didn't realise i had it on
Agatha Macbeth: They don't start til 6pm SLT I think
Wol Euler: mmhmm
Wol Euler: pretty late for us
Agatha Macbeth: Which is 2AM for me
Agatha Macbeth: Hopefully I'll be in bed by then
Wol Euler nods.
Agatha Macbeth: Everything go ok with perusing the retreat venue?
Wol Euler: heh
Wol Euler: it took nearly five hours to get there.
Wol Euler: 91 km
Wol Euler: because I messed up and trusted google maps rather than asking them for directions
Wol Euler: google maps is car-centric
Agatha Macbeth: Oh dear
Wol Euler: even if you tell it to find you public transport, it seems to assume that you will jump into a car when the last train station is reached
Agatha Macbeth sighs
Wol Euler: so I ended up (a) at the wrong station, and (b) in a one-cow town with no taxi service
Agatha Macbeth: OMG
Wol Euler: still, it was not boring :)
Agatha Macbeth: May you live in interesting times
Wol Euler: exactly
Agatha Macbeth: So how will the retreaters be getting there? (assuming there are any)
Wol Euler: well we are up to four and a half now :)
Wol Euler: we'll do what I should have done, take the train to the proper station and let the staff come and get us in their bus
Agatha Macbeth: Right
Agatha Macbeth: Hopefully all will go well
Wol Euler nods and crosses various appendages
Agatha Macbeth: :P
Agatha Macbeth: What's the weather like there in October?
Wol Euler: unpredictable
Wol Euler: could be warm and sunny, or moist and chilly
Wol Euler: most likely the latter
Agatha Macbeth nods
Agatha Macbeth: Sounds familiar...
Wol Euler: yeah
Agatha Macbeth: Well I was expecting some stragglers from the dream workshop might show up by now, maybe not

I notice Wol's head moving from side to side...

Agatha Macbeth: You looked like you were watching a tennis match then :)
Wol Euler: looks like it's over
Wol Euler: heheheh
Wol Euler: searching for a name...
Agatha Macbeth: Yes, they don't always show up tho

--BELL--

Wol Euler nods
Agatha Macbeth: Well, i don't think anyone else will be turning up
Wol Euler: ah well.
Agatha Macbeth: Might as well stop the recorder
Wol Euler: byeeee