2011.10.27 07:00 - Snow and mirror neurons

The Guardian for this meeting was Storm Nordwind. The comments are by Storm Nordwind.

Snowstorm.

Storm Nordwind: Good day to you Yaku!
Yakuzza Lethecus: good morning everyone
Storm Nordwind: Hi there Sam!
oO0Oo Resident: Hi Storm, Yaku :)
Yakuzza Lethecus: hmm, come on, snow right now, really ?
Storm Nordwind: Sure!
Storm Nordwind: We have a few inches outside :)
Yakuzza Lethecus: oh :)
Storm Nordwind: Colorado weather can be quite extreme!
Yakuzza Lethecus: i still need new wintertires :)
Storm Nordwind: On Monday we broke records for heat with +30C. Last night we were down to -9! :)
Yakuzza Lethecus: well i never experienced that
Storm Nordwind: And 200,000 people lost power in yesterday's snowstorm
Storm Nordwind: But today it is clear and bright and I can see for 90km :)
oO0Oo Resident: wow
Yakuzza Lethecus: we also have a really sunny day, but not as fancy contrasts, i appriaciate the sun shining on my fingers while i am typing :)
Storm Nordwind: Nice :)
oO0Oo Resident: :)
Storm Nordwind: I've just had to take the sun away from the broccoli sprouts growing near the window! It was a little too much. :)
Storm Nordwind: View from my window: http://i.imgur.com/VSY4w.jpg

oO0Oo Resident: how beautiful!
Yakuzza Lethecus: *brrrrrrr* *cold*
Storm Nordwind chuckles
Yakuzza Lethecus: i hope nothing breaks since the snow looks so heavy and wet
Yakuzza Lethecus: hey riddle
oO0Oo Resident: insightful Yaku
oO0Oo Resident: Hi Riddle
Riddle Sideways: Hello my friends
Storm Nordwind: Well that was the cause of 200,000 people being without power! :)
Storm Nordwind: Hi Riddle!
Riddle Sideways: slow rez-ation today
Storm Nordwind: It really wasn't that cold here, so the snow started off wet. Later, as it got colder, it turned to powder but the damage had already been done.
Riddle Sideways: a little bit of snow?
Storm Nordwind: I promise I'll melt the snow when I go! :)
Riddle Sideways: :)
--BELL--

Ice rink.

Storm Nordwind: Remember when we had an ice-rink during winter, either by the old Kira Cafe or over where the Cafe is now? Perhaps I should build another this year (?)
oO0Oo Resident: :)
Riddle Sideways: remembers the old kira one,
oO0Oo Resident: let what we have slide away
Storm Nordwind: Great!
Riddle Sideways: will have to look for the skates in inventroy (what a mess)
Storm Nordwind: perhaps an Art as being exhibition of ice sculpture :)
Storm Nordwind: Ice rink in the Art dome?
oO0Oo Resident: :)
Riddle Sideways: oo maybe that would be nicer
Yakuzza Lethecus: the art on ice project :)
Storm Nordwind: Now all we need is Bleu to take it on board...
Riddle Sideways: the village square can be for more then just Art
Storm Nordwind: Yes!
Riddle Sideways tries /9 ice rink
Storm Nordwind chuckles
Storm Nordwind: Have you found that the weather in RL seems to affect people's mood? I wonder if SL weather has any effects?
Riddle Sideways: doesn't it feel different here with ice and snow?
Storm Nordwind: How does it feel different for you?
Storm Nordwind: Hi Bruce
Riddle Sideways: Hi Blub and Bruce
oO0Oo Resident: Hiya Bruce :)
Bruce Mowbray: Hello! (listens)
oO0Oo Resident: ::hears the sound of snow:: :)
Riddle Sideways: listens for the sound of no topic clapping ?
oO0Oo Resident: ::applause:: Riddle

Crickets.

Storm Nordwind hears the crickets in SL that have suddenly disappeared from RL this week
Riddle Sideways: they migrated
Bruce Mowbray: Do you know the Carl Sandburg poem about crickets?
oO0Oo Resident: do they hibernate?
oO0Oo Resident: listens for poem
Bruce Mowbray: The voice of the last cricket
Bruce Mowbray: across the first frost
Bruce Mowbray: is one kind of goodbye.
Bruce Mowbray: It is so thin a splinter of singing.
Bruce Mowbray: "Splinter" by Carl Sandburg.
Storm Nordwind: Just read it, for the first time. But also found one by him called "Interior" that mentions crickets
--BELL--
Storm Nordwind: It is odd - I have come to find the sound of crickets normal. Yet I never heard them in the UK - except in US movies!
oO0Oo Resident: @Bruce & Riddle: [07:10] Storm Nordwind: View from my window: http://i.imgur.com/VSY4w.jpg
Bruce Mowbray: Wow! Looks like winter has arrived.
Storm Nordwind nods and smiles
Storm Nordwind: But we had high summer on Monday, Fall on Tuesday - all ready for winter on Wednesday. :)

Spring.

Bruce Mowbray: spring on Thursday?
oO0Oo Resident: lol
Storm Nordwind: boing
oO0Oo Resident: notices spring in Bruce's step
Riddle Sideways: :)
oO0Oo Resident giggles
oO0Oo Resident: giggles
Riddle Sideways: ty for pic
Bruce Mowbray: we still have crickets here, which means that the first frost has not yet arrived. . . due Thursday night, though.
Storm Nordwind wonders about creating an SL version of a Slinky (tm)
Riddle Sideways: hmmmm, think Alice has one, but probably not modifible
Riddle Sideways: the script to go downstairs would be tough
Riddle Sideways: or attach to both hands
oO0Oo Resident slinkys
Bruce Mowbray: Oh COOL, 0!
Yakuzza Lethecus: :)
oO0Oo Resident: lol
oO0Oo Resident: yayyyyyyy
Bruce Mowbray: Wow!!!! Thanks!

Mirror neurons.

Yakuzza Lethecus: i wonder about the activation of mirror neurons and the activation of old experiences about this :)
Storm Nordwind: Oh?
Bruce Mowbray remembers summersaults. . . cartwheels. . .
Riddle Sideways: skipping, hopping, frockling and activation of old experiences
Riddle Sideways: and getting out of the way of mirror neurons
--BELL--
Riddle Sideways: amazing how generations knew about things (like mirror neurons) but it took a scientic paper to name and declare it found
Storm Nordwind nods and smiles
Riddle Sideways: and then Nova has to do a show about it
oO0Oo Resident: somethings we can continue to trust in our individual knowing
Riddle Sideways: and we read wikipedia article and say "duh"
oO0Oo Resident thinks of doctor patient relationship and dialogue
Yakuzza Lethecus: well giving things a name to be able to talk about it
Riddle Sideways: yep
Bruce Mowbray: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/mirror-neurons.html
Storm Nordwind is reminded of the "Rain God" in Hitchhiker
Riddle Sideways: doctor carefully explains to common stupid human that they have what is named an ouchy
oO0Oo Resident: ty... and ty Bruce
Storm Nordwind: "I'm afraid I can't comment on the name Rain God at this present time, and we are calling him an example of a Spontaneous Para-Causal Meteorological Phenomenon." "Can you tell us what that means?" "I'm not altogether sure. Let's be straight here. If we find something we can't understand we like to call it something you can't understand, or indeed pronounce. I mean if we just let you go around calling him a Rain God, then that suggests that you know something we don't and I'm afraid we couldn't have that."
Bruce Mowbray: Hey, Aph!
Storm Nordwind: Perhaps mirror neurons took the same course :)
Storm Nordwind: Hi Aph!
oO0Oo Resident: lol
oO0Oo Resident: so true
oO0Oo Resident: Hi Aph
Yakuzza Lethecus: hi aph
Riddle Sideways: Hi Aph
Riddle Sideways: ty storm

Compassion?

Yakuzza Lethecus: i was just thinking on how we individually think of hour rl experiences because of watching these things in a virtual world and acidentally thought about mirror neurons in the same sentence
Yakuzza Lethecus: sry about that
Riddle Sideways: why sorry?
oO0Oo Resident: a joke Yaku?
Riddle Sideways: seeing 'handstand-backflip' made my mirror neurons ache and say that would hurt
Bruce Mowbray: so "empathy" involves mirror neurons. . . and also compassion?
Bruce Mowbray: I'll show Aph what it looks like. . .
Riddle Sideways: and language
Riddle Sideways: we yell "ouch"
oO0Oo Resident: seems like a recursive humour, your statement Yaku.. maybe not your intention... not sure
Riddle Sideways: snowing
Aphrodite Macbain: Hello everyone
--BELL--
Riddle Sideways: what you running to, Aph
Aphrodite Macbain: My destiny
Riddle Sideways: whoops, was that some bell sound :}
Storm Nordwind: The microwave was saying "Your food is done" ;)
Bruce Mowbray attempt to empathize with Aph's destiny by rubbing mirror neurons together very fast.
Riddle Sideways: it does sound just like that :)
oO0Oo Resident: @Aph: [07:10] Storm Nordwind: View from my window: http://i.imgur.com/VSY4w.jpg
Bruce Mowbray: that snow is coming our way, Aph.
Riddle Sideways: um, a big blizzard
Riddle Sideways: cometh
oO0Oo Resident: YAY!!! We're doomed!!
Aphrodite Macbain: Sam?
Riddle Sideways: :)))
oO0Oo Resident: ahem

Identity problems.

Bruce Mowbray wonders if persons with a very large quantity of mirror neurons would have identity problems.
Aphrodite Macbain: wow!!
Bruce Mowbray: mental chameleons?
Aphrodite Macbain: It's cold in Toronto but not that cold
Aphrodite Macbain: Doomed to skiing and skating
Bruce Mowbray is relieved to hear that there are no identity problems in Toronto. . . but can they do handstands?
Aphrodite Macbain: With style
Yakuzza Lethecus: i use to think that we all are a mixture of everyone we interact with anyway, what is the ,,i"
Bruce Mowbray: What do you call someone from Toronto -- a Torontoite? A Torontoer?
Storm Nordwind: Torontino?
Bruce Mowbray: I agree with Yaku - - - "I am part of all that I have met: (Whitman?)
Aphrodite Macbain: a Torontonian
Aphrodite Macbain: or an easterner
Storm Nordwind: Interesting Yaku... though where is the original seed for all that? After all, a mixture of many nothings is still nothing!
Bruce Mowbray: or an Ohioan living in the attic?
Aphrodite Macbain: Perhaps I am part of all I haven't met
oO0Oo Resident: [13:18] Arisia Vita: "you all wear the colors of my friends, lovely to see.."
Riddle Sideways: I am he as you are he as we are altogether - Lennon-McCartney
Storm Nordwind chuckles
Aphrodite Macbain: so does Aphrodite

Coffee with Paradise.

Aphrodite Macbain: This afternoon I'm going to have coffee with Paradise
Aphrodite Macbain: in RL
Storm Nordwind: Wonderful!
Riddle Sideways: say Hi for us
Aphrodite Macbain: I will
Yakuzza Lethecus: yes please :)
Storm Nordwind: Tell her we're all lovely people really! ;-)
Riddle Sideways: the image of coffee with Paradise
Bruce Mowbray: OH yes, Hi from all the dudes!!!
Aphrodite Macbain: heheh
Yakuzza Lethecus: hey boxy
Storm Nordwind: Boxy!
Bruce Mowbray: Hey, Boxy!
Alfred Kelberry: an aftersession folks
Riddle Sideways: Hi boxy, right on time
Alfred Kelberry: yep
Aphrodite Macbain: She's expecting a blondee
Riddle Sideways: session can begin now
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Aphrodite Macbain: Hey Boxy
Aphrodite Macbain: and will get a grey haired lady
--BELL--
Riddle Sideways: same as many of the rest of us :))
Riddle Sideways: we all carry the blounde genes
Storm Nordwind wonders whether Aph could ever have been blonde. After all, she can work an avatar... ;-)

Divide by zero.

Alfred Kelberry: a little plug to share. talk at science circle on nov 1st 11:30 am: "Divide by Zero and Conquer the World!"
oO0Oo Resident: I'm a uniter, not a divider ;)
Alfred Kelberry: "During the talk you will learn how to divide real numbers by zero and will hear how this makes computers more accurate and safer."
Aphrodite Macbain remembers being a brunette with red highlights
Storm Nordwind: I already divided by zero Boxy. You are now all mere figments in the conquered world of my imagination.
Riddle Sideways: :)
Alfred Kelberry: sam, division by zero might be just that - unity :)
Aphrodite Macbain: or nothing
Alfred Kelberry: there, i'm now united in storm's mind :)
oO0Oo Resident: Samúð clicks Storm's nose, and a rain of flowers falls from the sky ;)
Aphrodite Macbain: I feel much smarter now
Aphrodite Macbain: better than snow
Alfred Kelberry: as i recall it was fine to divide by zero before
Storm Nordwind: b4?
Riddle Sideways: just that it gives a divide by zero fault exception. you die and are placed at home again
Riddle Sideways: would you like to continue
Alfred Kelberry: brahmagupta, indian mathematician
Bruce Mowbray: Dividing by zero - - - Is that a left brain function, or a right brain function?
Bruce Mowbray: http://www.ted.com/talks/iain_mcgilc...ded_brain.html
Alfred Kelberry: bruce, it's a brain function

Big ugly red and white thing.

Riddle Sideways: btw - has anybody tried the big "free instant Nirvana" structure?
Riddle Sideways: it is stright north from the Kira doorway
Aphrodite Macbain: I'm off to visit Chagall
Riddle Sideways: lucky
Aphrodite Macbain: Bye
Aphrodite Macbain: Bye! everyone
Storm Nordwind waves
Bruce Mowbray: Bye Aph! HELLO to Para from all of us.
Riddle Sideways: bye and say hi to Chagall and Paradise
Aphrodite Macbain: will do
Bruce Mowbray: treadmill Aph, they call her.
Alfred Kelberry: :)
oO0Oo Resident: Bye Aph
oO0Oo Resident: "free instant Nirvana" structure?
Riddle Sideways: big ugly red and white thing
Riddle Sideways: almost on Kira land
Alfred Kelberry: wait, is aph in france?
Riddle Sideways: no in toronto
Bruce Mowbray will try anything once. . . looks around for Instant Nirvana. . . wonders if this is another snake oil thingie.
Alfred Kelberry: ah, para must be back then
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, both of them were at the 7 p.m. session here last night.
Storm Nordwind scans his camera... "Less ugly inside it seems"
Bruce Mowbray: and that's when they discovered they were in the same town.
Bruce Mowbray: and decided to have coffee today.
Riddle Sideways: yes, nice inside and ugly on outside
Riddle Sideways: like many of us
Alfred Kelberry: bruce, i think it's an eureka
Bruce Mowbray: yes, a serendipity!
Riddle Sideways: you need to go in it
Riddle Sideways: not just camera
Bruce Mowbray is several hours late for breakfast. . . so will now poof.
Alfred Kelberry: eat well
Yakuzza Lethecus: bye riddle
Riddle Sideways: need to leave now, bye all
Alfred Kelberry: oh my, that is something new, bruce :)
Yakuzza Lethecus: hello marobounty
Maurobounty Resident: hello
Yakuzza Lethecus: bye bruce
Yakuzza Lethecus: bye everyone
Storm Nordwind: Hi Maurobounty
Storm Nordwind: You are new to Second life?
Maurobounty Resident: yes
Storm Nordwind: Welcome :)
--BELL--
oO0Oo Resident: [for the log]: Bye Bruce, yaku, Riddle

Data and seawater.

Alfred Kelberry: nice, a new facebook data center in europe
Storm Nordwind: Nice?
Alfred Kelberry: not that i care socially, but the tech is cool :)
Storm Nordwind: Ah... I've yet to be convinced of any personal benefit, so haven't indulged :)
Alfred Kelberry: "In 2009 Google purchased a paper mill in Hamina, southern Finland, and turned it into a data center, using seawater from the Baltic Sea for its cooling system." - i missed that
oO0Oo Resident: They have done a lot of costly and impressive projects. The undersea cable for USA to Japan comes to mind.
Storm Nordwind: Hmm... seems a common thing in Scandinavia: to use the cold to cool and the heat byproducts from factory processes to heat homes
Alfred Kelberry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VChOEvKicQQ
oO0Oo Resident: clicks
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Alfred Kelberry: sorry, the title is "Google's Hamina Data Center"
oO0Oo Resident: cool, ty Boxy!
Storm Nordwind: 80 miles from Helsinki...
Storm Nordwind: Sad they don't heat the local houses with it
--BELL--
oO0Oo Resident: I'm off. The talk looks interesting too Boxy :)
oO0Oo Resident: .-''''-.,.-''''-.
oO0Oo Resident: ! ((( * ))) !
oO0Oo Resident: ". ♥ ."
oO0Oo Resident: '''-.,.-'''
Storm Nordwind: Bye!
oO0Oo Resident: 〜waves〜
oO0Oo Resident: ☻/
oO0Oo Resident: /▌
oO0Oo Resident: / \
Alfred Kelberry: \o/

Supercool.

Alfred Kelberry: i wonder when do we get superconductivity at home temperature
Storm Nordwind: In the next Ice Age perhaps?
Alfred Kelberry: um, i think we're already in it :)
Alfred Kelberry: tess :)
Tess Aristocrat: waves ㋡
Storm Nordwind: Hello Tess
Tess Aristocrat: hello : )
Alfred Kelberry: storm, imagine laptops that never heat up. how awesome is that.
Storm Nordwind smiles
Tess Aristocrat: hmmm..laptops that run on LED
Tess Aristocrat: ㋡
Alfred Kelberry: cooling industry will go extinct
Tess Aristocrat: or, solar, even
Alfred Kelberry: except ice cream :)
Tess Aristocrat: like..the little calculaters
Storm Nordwind: Would you excuse me gentlefolk. I've been here for two hours and I must attend to the snow! :)

Family of adapters.

Tess Aristocrat: you open them and they have the little solar panel
Tess Aristocrat: be well
Alfred Kelberry: ah, snow. lovely.
Alfred Kelberry: say hi to the snow!
Alfred Kelberry: make a snowball and throw it
Alfred Kelberry: tess, i actually meant superconductive circuitry. no thermal resistance - no heat dissipation.
Tess Aristocrat: ah...well, you know me, hahaha
Tess Aristocrat: once, I went camping..
Alfred Kelberry: solar panels are neat though :)
Tess Aristocrat: and took a big radio..
Tess Aristocrat: but had no 'C' size batteries
Alfred Kelberry: uh oh :)
Tess Aristocrat: though, I had tons of 'D' batteries
Tess Aristocrat: and..some aluminum foil..
Tess Aristocrat: so..
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Tess Aristocrat: I wrapped them..and put the two ends of the foil into the radio with tape
Tess Aristocrat: yay! radio ㋡
Alfred Kelberry: ingenious tess!
Tess Aristocrat: Necessity being the mother of invention..hehehe
--BELL--
Tess Aristocrat: I come from a time or perhaps a family or circumstance..not sure, where you make things work ㋡ you adapt.
Alfred Kelberry: this is great :) family of inventors :)
Tess Aristocrat: ㋡ or just family of adapters
Alfred Kelberry: gah, evil youtube. it's never just one video :)
Tess Aristocrat: didn't you used to make things when you were young?
Tess Aristocrat: ah..true that..
Tess Aristocrat: see you later ㋡
Alfred Kelberry: um, i built some structures with cubes :)
Alfred Kelberry: bye :)
Yakuzza Lethecus: ah still here boxy
Alfred Kelberry: yaku-san :)
Alfred Kelberry: you're back!
Alfred Kelberry: i knew you wouldn't leave me! :)
Yakuzza Lethecus: yes, only for a few seconds
Yakuzza Lethecus: :)
Alfred Kelberry: heh
Yakuzza Lethecus: do you have any new projects recently ?
Alfred Kelberry: a few boiling :)
Yakuzza Lethecus: hmm, in such a late state :)
Yakuzza Lethecus: got to go, catch up later