2011.07.02 01:00 - The ethos of the times

The Guardian for this meeting was No Self. The comments are by No Self.

FcSeeker Resident: Hello Agatha
Agatha Macbeth: Morning FC :)
Agatha Macbeth: How are we today?
FcSeeker Resident: o.k.
Agatha Macbeth: Great
FcSeeker Resident: did I answer behaf of both of us :) ?
Agatha Macbeth: I guess so :)
FcSeeker Resident: giggles
Agatha Macbeth: I'm good anyway
FcSeeker Resident: wishes that you would be better than o.k.
FcSeeker Resident: good
Agatha Macbeth: Alright then, I'm very OK :p
FcSeeker Resident: smiles widely
Agatha Macbeth: Ah, here's Wol
Wol Euler: good morning!
FcSeeker Resident: Hello Wol :)
Agatha Macbeth: Hello O furry spotty one :))
Wol Euler smiles.
Agatha Macbeth never saw a leopard with antlers in a dress before
Wol Euler: well, what a sheltered life you lead :)
Agatha Macbeth: Indeed
Wol Euler: all catelopes wear dresses
Wol Euler: even the male ones
Agatha Macbeth: Fair enough
Agatha Macbeth: Like Hemulens then?
Wol Euler: it's just what we do
Wol Euler: oh, don't know them
Agatha Macbeth: Moomintroll?
Agatha Macbeth: Tove Jansson
Wol Euler: nope, sorry
Agatha Macbeth: Aww
Wol Euler: I guess that is *my* sheltered life :)
Agatha Macbeth: You don't know what you missed
Wol Euler: :)
Agatha Macbeth: One my faves as a kid
Agatha Macbeth: and still in fact
Agatha Macbeth: It is set in Finland, so Fael would probably know it :)
Wol Euler: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moomintroll
Agatha Macbeth: Good grief, not much on it is there?
Wol Euler: very poor
Agatha Macbeth: Look up Tove Jansson
Wol Euler: the snork maiden gets 3x as much
Wol Euler: hello arch
FcSeeker Resident: Hello Archmage
Agatha Macbeth: Hi Archie
Archmage Atlantis: Aggers. Wol, Fc
Archmage Atlantis: Namaste,Blessings and Gearre
Agatha Macbeth: Same to you :)
Agatha Macbeth: What's Gearre?
Wol Euler: likewise
Archmage Atlantis: Things tend to get magical here
Agatha Macbeth: Ah, you noticed
Archmage Atlantis: Not my cup of tea
Archmage Atlantis: Yes, Aggie
Agatha Macbeth thinks of Richard Gearre
Agatha Macbeth: and slaps her wrist
Archmage Atlantis: Since the beginning I have known
Archmage Atlantis: First the universe cooled, then the dinosaurs came........
Agatha Macbeth: Ha
Archmage Atlantis: Airplane, the movie
Agatha Macbeth: More coffee Alan?
Agatha Macbeth: No thanks
Agatha Macbeth: :p
Agatha Macbeth: I picked the wrong week to give up sniffing glue
Wol Euler chuckles.
Agatha Macbeth: I love that film
Archmage Atlantis: There is never a wrong week to give up sniffing glue
Agatha Macbeth: and the sequel
Agatha Macbeth: Especially jack Jones standing in the spotlight
Archmage Atlantis: Wine and Beer we evolved around
Archmage Atlantis: Glue and Drugs we did not
Agatha Macbeth: Well I did!
Agatha Macbeth: That's evolution for ya
Archmage Atlantis: True, Aggie
Agatha Macbeth: Wonder if darwin ever sniffed glue
Agatha Macbeth: (Charles I mean, not Miszer)
Wol Euler: heheheh
Archmage Atlantis: The weird thing about evolution, is that one can observe from a point, experience it in a life.....but still
Archmage Atlantis: not be it
Agatha Macbeth: I love to watch things evolve
--BELL--
Archmage Atlantis: Twas brilling and the....
Agatha Macbeth: slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe
Wol Euler: and the borograths outgrabe.
Archmage Atlantis: He was the first, that dude that invented computational machines......he gets the second post
Agatha Macbeth: Borograths?
Wol Euler: I'd like to make a borograth avatar
Agatha Macbeth: Sounds like something from Middle earth
Wol Euler: wasn't it "borograth"?
Agatha Macbeth: Mome-raths and Borogroves
Wol Euler: "All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe."
Wol Euler: right
Wol Euler: my bad
Agatha Macbeth slapes you
Wol Euler slaps her wrist for trying to quote from memory
Agatha Macbeth: -e
Archmage Atlantis: Them fishes are in the mackoral family
Agatha Macbeth: Ah
Agatha Macbeth: I wondered
Archmage Atlantis: Not a nomal choice for a pond
Agatha Macbeth: Just assumed they were goldfish
Agatha Macbeth: Of course I can see now they're not
Archmage Atlantis: Assumption is useful, but at the critical moments has consequences
Wol Euler: indeed
Agatha Macbeth: Mm, yes true
Agatha Macbeth: It is just to be hoped the consequences are not dire
Archmage Atlantis: At how does one deal with dire?
Agatha Macbeth: As best as possible usually
FcSeeker Resident: what does 'dire' mean ?
Wol Euler: "extremely bad"
Agatha Macbeth: Oh...lemme think
Agatha Macbeth: Yeh
Agatha Macbeth: Crisis-like
Wol Euler: with the flavour of "dangerous"
FcSeeker Resident: o.k.
Archmage Atlantis: I do not know the "official" definition.....to me dire means great pain]
FcSeeker Resident: is there then any other way to deal with such but just let things to happen ?
Agatha Macbeth: Hmm, yes
Archmage Atlantis: Both
Archmage Atlantis: One adjusts to what is known
FcSeeker Resident: including own response
Agatha Macbeth: Well, you always try *not* to let it happen
Agatha Macbeth: Forewarned is forearmed
FcSeeker Resident: responding...or how you say that
Archmage Atlantis: And bargains with what is unknown
FcSeeker Resident: to let yourself also just to do what comes
Agatha Macbeth: You sound a bit Wu-wei-ish FC :p
Archmage Atlantis: The panda speaks!!
FcSeeker Resident: I also listen :)
Agatha Macbeth hands FC some bamboo shoots
FcSeeker Resident: is that love ?
Agatha Macbeth: A token of affection :)
Wol Euler: hello yaku
Agatha Macbeth: Guten morgen Yaku
FcSeeker Resident: Hello Yakuzza
Yakuzza Lethecus: good morning everyone
FcSeeker Resident: (shooting can sometimes mean also love)
FcSeeker Resident: (even it normally do not mean that)
--BELL--
FcSeeker Resident: Agatha ?
Agatha Macbeth: Mm?
FcSeeker Resident: if you shooted me with love I humbly accept that
Agatha Macbeth: Did I miss something?
Wol Euler: "bamboo shoots" are very young bamboo plants :) not guns
Agatha Macbeth: Oh, right, ok :p
FcSeeker Resident: oh sorry
Wol Euler: np :)
FcSeeker Resident: so I receive very gladly your baboo shoots :)))))
Agatha Macbeth: Oh, sorry - thought a panda would know that [giggles]
FcSeeker Resident: mumses delicatesses
Wol Euler: they probably have a different name in Panda-ish
Agatha Macbeth: Right
Agatha Macbeth: A Chinese one no doubt
FcSeeker Resident: they have the name 'food'
Wol Euler: heheheh
Agatha Macbeth pictures FC chomping
Archmage Atlantis: Actually, bamboo shoots and asparagus share a form
FcSeeker Resident: feels delight now having tummy full :))))))
Agatha Macbeth: Ah, same family?
Archmage Atlantis: Same design
Agatha Macbeth: Right, ty
Agatha Macbeth is not a botanist
Yakuzza Lethecus my monkey´s ask themselves if you are a kung fu panda
Agatha Macbeth: :DD
Wol Euler: :)
FcSeeker Resident: hmmm
FcSeeker Resident: must think a bit
Archmage Atlantis: A Rhododendrologist
FcSeeker Resident: maybe I am that also
FcSeeker Resident: when needed
Agatha Macbeth: Heehee
Archmage Atlantis: With a specialty in Azalea
FcSeeker Resident: people can make the toy to be almost anything
Archmage Atlantis: But a commitment to Vireya
Agatha Macbeth nods
FcSeeker Resident: but I like more of hugging :))))))
Wol Euler smiles.
Agatha Macbeth: Don't we all?
FcSeeker Resident: I believe that all here as present does :)
Yakuzza Lethecus: oh yes :)
Wol Euler raises her hand.
Archmage Atlantis: And to all cats
Agatha Macbeth: Carried unanimously
Wol Euler: yay
Agatha Macbeth: And the next item on the agenda is....
Wol Euler: world peace?
Agatha Macbeth: Sardines?
Archmage Atlantis: works for me
Agatha Macbeth: :p
Agatha Macbeth: Now, about this Gaddafi bloke...
Archmage Atlantis: World peace, sardines
Wol Euler: are sardines a threat to world peace?
Agatha Macbeth: Only if there aren't any :p
Wol Euler: ah
Agatha Macbeth: Sounds fishy to me
Yakuzza Lethecus: well sometimes when i see conflict in the media i think of the old move ,,wag the dog"
Archmage Atlantis: Yaku, you are silent
Yakuzza Lethecus: where they made up a scandal in another coutnry just to cover up a scandal
FcSeeker Resident: I have heared that sardines are delicatess to human beings
Agatha Macbeth: Or wag the panda?
Wol Euler nods.
Wol Euler: great film
Agatha Macbeth: Pandas don't have tails dothey?
FcSeeker Resident: oh yes
Agatha Macbeth: Oh
Agatha Macbeth: Ah yes
Agatha Macbeth: A little fluffy one :)
Wol Euler: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Do_pandas_have_a_tail
Wol Euler giggles.
Agatha Macbeth: ooh
Wol Euler: I love the internet so much,
Archmage Atlantis: Now I seem to understand at bit.......there are entities who stand up and say "I am"
FcSeeker Resident: awww
Agatha Macbeth: David attenborough strikes again
Wol Euler: wikipedia is the Chartres cathedral of our time.
Archmage Atlantis: And other entites who go behind
Agatha Macbeth: Does it have sacred geometry?
Yakuzza Lethecus: i think we can´t compare wikipedia to anything before
Yakuzza Lethecus: accessibility for everyone
Agatha Macbeth: I miss those pictures of mad-eyed Jimmy Wales at the top :p
Wol Euler: all very true; I meant the senses of magnificence and capturing-the-ethos-of-the-times
Yakuzza Lethecus: nothing never achieved before, even when things are made free like public library´s in the past you still had to pay in time and a lot more efford
Wol Euler: there has never been anyhting as radically inclusive as the wiki spirit
Agatha Macbeth: Let's hope it doesn't go the same way as Alexandria's library
Archmage Atlantis: That is why we go back to the source, Yaku
--BELL--
FcSeeker Resident: there is no need to that because Wiki is made by people themself
Agatha Macbeth will be right back.
Archmage Atlantis: It will, actually it already has, Aggers
FcSeeker Resident: ?
Wol Euler: O.O
Wol Euler: wikipedia has ceased to exist? wow
Archmage Atlantis: imho, wikipedia has done it's wonder.....there is a next step
Wol Euler: ah
FcSeeker Resident: aha ?
Archmage Atlantis: I am old said the,,,
FcSeeker Resident: thinking hardly...
Wol Euler: http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.c...iam-lewis.html
Agatha Macbeth: back
FcSeeker Resident: wb Agatha
Wol Euler: wb
Archmage Atlantis: Women, always late to the fight
Agatha Macbeth: Such is life, eh?
Agatha Macbeth: Wol, I was fascinated by a quote from a friend of yours....
Agatha Macbeth: Just remember that the takeaway lesson from The Faultless Painter is that perfection isn't, and love is separate from achievement.
Wol Euler: mm?
Wol Euler: ah
Agatha Macbeth: What is that from exactly?
Wol Euler: it's a poem by Robert Browning
Wol Euler: let me look that up
FcSeeker Resident: nice poem :)
Agatha Macbeth: Oh, gotcha
Agatha Macbeth: Thought it sounded vaguley familiar
Agatha Macbeth: but couldn't place it
Wol Euler: http://www.bartleby.com/42/675.html
Agatha Macbeth: ty
FcSeeker Resident: I scared you Archmage because I speak ?
Wol Euler: (it's very long, the effect is cumulative)
Agatha Macbeth nods. I'll look in more detail later :)
Wol Euler: apparently something scared arch.
Agatha Macbeth: Oops
Agatha Macbeth: His Arch nemesis maybe?
Wol Euler: heheh
Agatha Macbeth: Or perhaps the Arch thief got him
Wol Euler: lost his keystone maybe
Agatha Macbeth: Hmm
Wol Euler: (architectural joke)
Wol Euler: (they aren't intended to be humorous)
Agatha Macbeth: 'He who was rejected is become the keystone of the church'
Wol Euler: exactly
Agatha Macbeth: Or something
Agatha Macbeth: I know Masons babble on about it
Wol Euler: http://bible.cc/psalms/118-22.htm
Agatha Macbeth: That's the one: ty
--BELL--
Agatha Macbeth: I guess Adams would have known :)
Wol Euler: certainly
Agatha Macbeth: Did you sleep okay Wol?
Wol Euler: yes! nearly nine hours
Agatha Macbeth: Oh great
Wol Euler: I haven't slept so well since New York
Agatha Macbeth: Right
Wol Euler: feeling much better today
Wol Euler: ty for asking
Agatha Macbeth: Glad to hear it :)
Agatha Macbeth: I went to bed early meself last night
Agatha Macbeth: consequently was up at six
Wol Euler: hehehe
Wol Euler: that's how it goes
Agatha Macbeth: Never mind, helps housework-wise
Wol Euler: so, what exciting plans do people have for the weekend?
Agatha Macbeth: Er...gardening :(
Wol Euler: :)
Agatha Macbeth: Which I can't stand to be honest
Wol Euler: so why not sub-let it?
Agatha Macbeth: but at least it's fresh air
Wol Euler: my therapist in London was a keen gardener, but lived in an apartment (no garden)
Agatha Macbeth: It would be a long way to come....
Wol Euler: so she had an arrangement with a local man who had a large garden but hated the work of gardening
Wol Euler: she did the work, and he paid whatever material costs arose
Wol Euler: both were happy
Agatha Macbeth: Symbiosis?
Wol Euler: somthing like that
Agatha Macbeth: :)
FcSeeker Resident: :)
Wol Euler: perhaps you could find a similarly situated person?
FcSeeker Resident: I has such relate for a while with a lady who loved to do dishes :)))))
Agatha Macbeth: Knowing my luck, highly unlikely
FcSeeker Resident: had
Wol Euler: heheheh
Wol Euler: try it and see, aggers
FcSeeker Resident: I arreanged dishes for her to do :))))
Agatha Macbeth: Thing is, I don't like strangers in my home
FcSeeker Resident: she was not a stranger
Wol Euler: your garden isnt your home, is it?
Agatha Macbeth: Well it's part of it
Wol Euler: well, yes, I suppose ...
Agatha Macbeth: Hence I'm the one doing the gardening!
Wol Euler: you'd better learn to enjoy it, then.
Agatha Macbeth: Yes.....
FcSeeker Resident: (loves 'gardening' in the bamboo field)
Agatha Macbeth: Maybe I should come and live with you [grin]
Agatha Macbeth: No gardens
Wol Euler: :)
FcSeeker Resident: could be :)
--BELL--
Agatha Macbeth: EC, you sound like a cat I used to know :p
FcSeeker Resident: giggles
FcSeeker Resident: and how is that ?
Agatha Macbeth: Well, an old friend in PaB
Agatha Macbeth: (who is now sadly gone)
FcSeeker Resident: aha
Wol Euler: :(
Agatha Macbeth: used to have a black cat
Agatha Macbeth: which sat on her shoulder
Agatha Macbeth: and said things like 'sould be' and 'indeed'
Agatha Macbeth: *could
Wol Euler nods.
FcSeeker Resident: is she gone only from SL or...?
Agatha Macbeth: Yes, she left SL :(
Agatha Macbeth: Rl called I think
FcSeeker Resident: so she is not gone
Agatha Macbeth: Well I'm hoping she'll be back some day
FcSeeker Resident: :)
Agatha Macbeth: i miss her muchly
FcSeeker Resident: <3
Wol Euler nods.
Agatha Macbeth: She used to poof hearts, just like you :)
FcSeeker Resident: aha
Agatha Macbeth yawns and stretches
Wol Euler smiles.
Wol Euler: it seems to be time
Agatha Macbeth: Ah well, better get on with the gardening then I guess
Yakuzza Lethecus: :)
Wol Euler: enjoy the day, my dears.
FcSeeker Resident: :)
Agatha Macbeth: At least the sun's shining :)
Wol Euler: :)
Yakuzza Lethecus: good weekend everyone
Wol Euler: bye for now
FcSeeker Resident: takes a humble bow
FcSeeker Resident: namaste
Agatha Macbeth: Bye all, take care :)