2012.01.26 13:00 - Ara lozez her S

The Guardian for thiz meeting was Agatha Macbeth. The commentz are by Agatha Macbeth.

Agatha Macbeth: Good day young Boxy :)

No answer
Agatha Macbeth: Young Boxy would appear to be afk
Agatha Macbeth: All hail the great Shamalamadingdong!
Agatha Macbeth: Nope, no luck
Agatha Macbeth: Looks like he's well away

I try to push the sleeping Alf into the water
Alfred Kelberry: hi :)
Agatha Macbeth: Awwwwww
Alfred Kelberry: i see aga strolling pass me
Agatha Macbeth: I was going to push you in the fountain
Alfred Kelberry: wuff!
Alfred Kelberry: long legged girl
Agatha Macbeth: Indeed
Alfred Kelberry: you could ask
Agatha Macbeth: Easier to catch you with
Alfred Kelberry: i'd plunge for you
Agatha Macbeth: Ask what?
Alfred Kelberry: the fountain
Alfred Kelberry: also, sexy boots
Agatha Macbeth: What should I ask the fountain?
Alfred Kelberry: :P
Agatha Macbeth: I'll throw a L$ in and make a wish
Alfred Kelberry: sorry, i'm distracted by the boots
Agatha Macbeth: Ok, I'll cover them up
Alfred Kelberry: there, staring at them now
Agatha Macbeth: Can you see yourself?
Alfred Kelberry: *nods*
Agatha Macbeth: or do they need more polishing?
Alfred Kelberry: no, look perfect
Agatha Macbeth: Ah, ty
Alfred Kelberry: you take good care of them
Agatha Macbeth: that's alright then
Agatha Macbeth: I do indeed
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Agatha Macbeth: A girl has to take pride in her appearance :p
Alfred Kelberry: um, i guess
Agatha Macbeth: Hehe
Alfred Kelberry: is it your session?
Agatha Macbeth: Yep
Alfred Kelberry: cool
Agatha Macbeth: Already claimed
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Agatha Macbeth: that's if anybody turns up
Alfred Kelberry: no, claim away
Agatha Macbeth: Wol is on her way
Wol Euler: awwww
Wol Euler: evening all
Agatha Macbeth: Talk of the devil
Alfred Kelberry: *gives aga a bone* here, you can chew some
Agatha Macbeth: Hello dear :)
Alfred Kelberry: oh! woly girl :)
Agatha Macbeth crunches
Agatha Macbeth: I'm sure what you have on will look lovely once I can see it!
Alfred Kelberry: i hope you don't mind me looking in a random direction
Wol Euler: seen it before :)

                  
Agatha Macbeth: Ah yes
Agatha Macbeth: been too busy to change eh?
Wol Euler: yeah
Wol Euler: sad, innit?
Alfred Kelberry: ms. wol style
Agatha Macbeth: Truly
Agatha Macbeth: but at least good news
Alfred Kelberry: wait...
Agatha Macbeth waits
Alfred Kelberry: it's friday tomorrow!
Wol Euler: yep
Alfred Kelberry: yay!
Wol Euler: but only since yesterday
Alfred Kelberry: one more sleep
Agatha Macbeth: Well it's Thursday today, so stands a chance
Wol Euler: hello zon
Agatha Macbeth: Hi Znk
Zon Kwan: hi all
Agatha Macbeth: So what's special about Friday?
Alfred Kelberry: *wonders why woly didn't announce her arrival with a crack of a whip*
Agatha Macbeth: unless you're a Moslem
Wol Euler: or jewish
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Agatha Macbeth: Friday?
Wol Euler: start of the sabbath
Agatha Macbeth: Oh, right
    --BELL--
Agatha Macbeth: Catholics don't know this stuff...
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Agatha Macbeth: So have we decided what retreats will be called from now on yet?
Alfred Kelberry: woly, tell us something peculiar about architecture
Wol Euler: Those Things We Like To Do That Are Not Retreats
Wol Euler: TTWLTDTANR for short
Agatha Macbeth: Riiiiiight
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Wol Euler: easy
Wol Euler: I foresee great popularity for that acronym
Agatha Macbeth: Easy to say
Alfred Kelberry: or gnr
Agatha Macbeth: When is a retreat not a retreat
Alfred Kelberry: gnu is not retreat
Wol Euler: when it's ongoing?
Agatha Macbeth: Hmmm
Agatha Macbeth: Could be
Alfred Kelberry: :)

I note what Wol is holding
Agatha Macbeth: Ah it's a whip - thought it was a cigarette holder
Agatha Macbeth sighs
Wol Euler: nah that was the other Vita outfit
Agatha Macbeth: Right
Wol Euler: not wearing that one here, Boxy would faint
Agatha Macbeth: Mine disappeared from my inv
Wol Euler: O.O
Agatha Macbeth: Unless an alt has it
Wol Euler: I think I was there with you ...
Wol Euler: search for it by name, perhaps?
Wol Euler: maybe it got pushed into a folder
Alfred Kelberry: me? i'm a robo pup made of steel. bring it on! :)
Agatha Macbeth: No, it's definitely not there, I looked
Agatha Macbeth: Alf, what happened to your Nature v Nurture debate?
Agatha Macbeth: that would have been interesting
Alfred Kelberry: what?
Alfred Kelberry: i'm actually waiting on woly to tell us about architecture
Agatha Macbeth: You suggested it in email a while ago
Alfred Kelberry: some peculiar details of inner workings
Wol Euler: oh really? sorry I missed that
Agatha Macbeth: Our thread seems to have become tangled
Wol Euler: architecture is about money
Wol Euler: (surprise)
Wol Euler: not about beauty
Wol Euler: which comes as a shock to all young architects
Wol Euler: because college talks only about beauty
Wol Euler: (and a little about plumbing and how gravity works)
Alfred Kelberry: ouch
Agatha Macbeth: The aesthete is a dying breed...
Wol Euler nods sadly.
Agatha Macbeth: Did you ever meet Plumb Bob?
Wol Euler: what architecture students learn to do is maybe 15% of the job of being an architect
Wol Euler: the rest is Excel spreadsheets and checking invoices
Alfred Kelberry: woly, but there are a lot of beautiful buildings
Wol Euler: of course :)
Agatha Macbeth: What isn't these days? [sigh]
Wol Euler: but as a percentage of the whole ...
Alfred Kelberry: hmm
Alfred Kelberry: of course there are tenders and architects have to offer the most efficient solution
Alfred Kelberry: makes sense for any area
Agatha Macbeth: Love me tender
Alfred Kelberry: *kisses aga's cheek*
Agatha Macbeth: Aww
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Agatha Macbeth: Wet cardboard nose
Alfred Kelberry: woly, so you say architects work is largly tossing numbers in excel?
Alfred Kelberry: aga, you like it
Wol Euler: as a proportion of time spent, yes
Agatha Macbeth: Mm :)
Wol Euler: there is far more time spent on numbers than on drawing lines and circles
Alfred Kelberry: woly, being an architect sucks :)
Wol Euler: or even squiggles
Alfred Kelberry: er...
Wol Euler: no, it doesn't suck
Wol Euler: it's just this way
Alfred Kelberry: i mean, architects are the jewels of society
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Wol Euler: I don't mind checking invoices, not much
Wol Euler: hehehe
Alfred Kelberry: oh no... she's into that too :)
Alfred Kelberry: xiri!
Agatha Macbeth: If you can't join em, beat em
Alfred Kelberry: yes, please
Xirana Oximoxi: gute Nacht :)
Wol Euler: hello xir
Agatha Macbeth: Hi Xira
    --BELL--
Wol Euler: guten abend :)
Agatha Macbeth: Buenas dias :)
Xirana Oximoxi: ok... abend * :)
Xirana Oximoxi: buenos días Aga girl :)
Agatha Macbeth: :)
Alfred Kelberry: *takes out a banana gun to compensate the amount of whips around*
Agatha Macbeth: I was close
Wol Euler: O.O
Alfred Kelberry: er... step back, please
Wol Euler: "compensating" you say ...

Alf starts firing bananas
Agatha Macbeth: Here come the prims...
Wol Euler: good god
Alfred Kelberry: pew pew
Xirana Oximoxi: :)) I think somewhere in my inventory I also have this dangerous weapon :)
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Alfred Kelberry: hi, mick and aph :)
Wol Euler: hello ara, mick, welcome to banana world
Agatha Macbeth: Yellow and dangerous

Like shark infested custard...
arabella Ella: Hiya!
Mickorod Renard: hiyaaaa
Agatha Macbeth: Hi Arababe and Mick :)
arabella Ella: he he
Agatha Macbeth: You arrive at an interesting juncture
arabella Ella: banana junction!
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Xirana Oximoxi: hi Arabella and Mick
Agatha Macbeth: Loving you has made me bananas
Mickorod Renard: he he
Mickorod Renard: ayup Alfie
Alfred Kelberry: woly, how about cads?
Alfred Kelberry: cads for grads?
Agatha Macbeth: How about them?
Wol Euler: CAD? everyone uses it
Wol Euler: nobody draws by hand any more
Alfred Kelberry: you said excel
Xirana Oximoxi: me
Wol Euler: except perhaps artists
Agatha Macbeth: By Jove, you cad!
Xirana Oximoxi: :)
Wol Euler: (no architects, I mean)
Alfred Kelberry: 15% brough from college
Alfred Kelberry: which implies no cad for you
Alfred Kelberry: :/
Alfred Kelberry: weird
Agatha Macbeth: I must ask - what is a cad?
Wol Euler: C.A.D.
Wol Euler: computer aided drafting
arabella Ella: computer aided dezign
Agatha Macbeth: Oh
Mickorod Renard: computer aided design
Mickorod Renard: oops
Alfred Kelberry: advanced crowd today
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Xirana Oximoxi: very expensive programm :)
Wol Euler objects to the "design" part of that
Alfred Kelberry: sustained

And now for zomething completely different
arabella Ella: Mick could u do me a favour and explain my 'z' plz?
Alfred Kelberry: what z?
Mickorod Renard: zure
Agatha Macbeth: Well since I can't draw for crap, have never used one
arabella Ella: he he
arabella Ella: Mick will explain i hope
Mickorod Renard: ara has lost her s
arabella Ella: i have one letter mizzing on my keyboard
Mickorod Renard: so she is using her z instead
Agatha Macbeth looks for Ara's S
Alfred Kelberry: ahhh
Alfred Kelberry: haha
Wol Euler: heheh
Alfred Kelberry: just noticed :)
Mickorod Renard: he he

Ho ho! (zorry)
Agatha Macbeth: How do you lose an S?
Mickorod Renard: zuper yez?
arabella Ella: and it will take quite a lot of time for me to get it back ... maybe a month or more
Alfred Kelberry: thought something's with your av
Alfred Kelberry: wow, a month?
arabella Ella: wot iz it
Mickorod Renard: we could all zync with you Ara
Wol Euler: cut out a square of tough cardboard, write "s" on it, and glue it in place
Agatha Macbeth: She haz cheezeburger :p
arabella Ella: well i have been waiting for a quote for 3 dayz now and not yet got it
Alfred Kelberry: are you zure?
Alfred Kelberry: :)
arabella Ella: for work i uze copy and pazte
Agatha Macbeth pokes Boxxy
Xirana Oximoxi: haha
Alfred Kelberry: jezuz
Alfred Kelberry: it zuckz
Agatha Macbeth: Oh zhit
Alfred Kelberry: :)
arabella Ella: and if i decide on a new keyboard my laptop will have to be zent to UK for around a month to be repaired that iz what i have been told zo far
Mickorod Renard: I like cornizh pazte
Wol Euler: O.O
arabella Ella: u bet it zuckz Alfie!
Wol Euler: outrageous
Wol Euler: what make is it?
arabella Ella: zony vaio
Alfred Kelberry: ara, just stick something to it
Agatha Macbeth: Shame you aren't dutch Ara :p
Alfred Kelberry: it'll work
Wol Euler: look on e-bay for a broken one :) seriously, people sell dead computers for spare parts
Agatha Macbeth: Yes
Wol Euler: buy one for a few dollars and take its S
Agatha Macbeth: The great S hunt
arabella Ella: well it waz hanging on a thread and when i took it to zony to have a look they ztupidly removed it completely!!!
Agatha Macbeth: Clever Zony
Alfred Kelberry: never do that - ask your local geek first
Mickorod Renard: you could stick a chair leg on it then, when you need to use S you just have to sit on the chair
arabella Ella: I need to zpeak to our IT ppl once i get a quote
arabella Ella: he he
arabella Ella: zony tony
Alfred Kelberry: he'd probably fix it in a few minutes
Wol Euler: aaaah, that sounds bad. sounds like the connecting pin was half-broken
arabella Ella: pony
arabella Ella: yez Wol
Wol Euler: the other half is probably jammed into the socket, hence needing to replace the whole kb
arabella Ella: zo mick zuggezted i uze z on ZL inztead
Alfred Kelberry: woly, why?
Wol Euler: :)
Agatha Macbeth: Is it a laptop?
arabella Ella: it iz not jammed Wol
arabella Ella: yez laptop
Alfred Kelberry: you can still make it work
Agatha Macbeth: Oh dear
arabella Ella: how boxy?
Wol Euler: then the scavenging idea should still work
Agatha Macbeth: I was stupidly about to ask 'why not just use another keyboard?' :(
Agatha Macbeth zlaps herzelf
arabella Ella: i am trying to borrow another laptop
Mickorod Renard: if you configure it to be on french type keyboard the S will be on another location
Xirana Oximoxi: :)
arabella Ella: and i may take it az an opportunity to get another laptop
arabella Ella: but def notanother zony
Alfred Kelberry: ask your IT people. there must be some hardware guy.
Agatha Macbeth: Zony zuck eh?
arabella Ella: thiz iz ztill on guarantee and they told me the guarantee doez not cover thiz!
Wol Euler: O.O
Alfred Kelberry: sony is overpriced, that's for sure
arabella Ella: i will alfie thankz
Agatha Macbeth: It doezn't?
arabella Ella: oh yez alfie def and bad zervice too
Alfred Kelberry: for no reason except "sony"
arabella Ella: it doez not agz
Alfred Kelberry: get samsung - the next apple
arabella Ella: yez or previouzly i uzed tozhiba and never complained
arabella Ella: but zamzung are doing well right?
Mickorod Renard: samsung is the apple of alfs eye
Agatha Macbeth: Pozzibly
Alfred Kelberry: yes
arabella Ella: my text lookz zo funny
arabella Ella: makez me feel french
Alfred Kelberry: great design and decent price
Mickorod Renard: I think it looks very romantic
Alfred Kelberry: :)
arabella Ella: he he
arabella Ella: ze ze
Mickorod Renard: :))
Agatha Macbeth: Imagine playing Scrabble like this
Alfred Kelberry: mick, you're a romantic soul :)
Agatha Macbeth: you'd score millions
arabella Ella: zcrabble
Alfred Kelberry: as i am...
Mickorod Renard: grin
Mickorod Renard: ayup Zon
arabella Ella: you zhould zee me trying to work and copying and pazting an 'z' and each time i copy and pazte zomething elze it iz undo once again and lotz of infinite patience
    --BELL--
Wol Euler: hello zon
Zon Kwan: hi hi
Agatha Macbeth: wb Zon
arabella Ella: Hiya Zon
Xirana Oximoxi: hello Zon
Agatha Macbeth: My God Ara
Mickorod Renard: shhh
Mickorod Renard: zhhhh
Alfred Kelberry: oh yea
arabella Ella: eh??
Alfred Kelberry: more, please
Alfred Kelberry: :)
arabella Ella: he he
Alfred Kelberry: :
Alfred Kelberry: funny how it's delayed
Alfred Kelberry: slow response
Agatha Macbeth: That's called lag Boxy
Alfred Kelberry: yea
Mickorod Renard: and no chance of borrowing another Ara?
arabella Ella: yez mick but only next week
Agatha Macbeth: Another Ara? yez pleaze
arabella Ella: he he
Xirana Oximoxi: I go now.... good night/day all! :)
Alfred Kelberry: xiri :)
Agatha Macbeth: Then we could keep one at PaB at all timez
arabella Ella: night xirana lovely zeeing u here
Wol Euler: gute nacht, xir
Mickorod Renard: nite Xir
Agatha Macbeth: Bye Xira
Agatha Macbeth: zleep well
Mickorod Renard: take care
Alfred Kelberry: ara, you're obviously typing 's' a lot :)
Mickorod Renard: Xir is quiet
arabella Ella: i dunno alfie!
arabella Ella: i know what my problem iz tho
Alfred Kelberry: try and pick non-'s' words :)
Wol Euler listens.
Agatha Macbeth: mm?
arabella Ella: i waz originally trained to uze a manual type writer where u need to thump on keyz
Wol Euler: ah :)
Alfred Kelberry: ouch
Agatha Macbeth: Oh wow, yeah
Alfred Kelberry: poor keys
Wol Euler remembers those
arabella Ella: zo i ztill tend to thump z bit
Agatha Macbeth: Me too
Mickorod Renard: I saw one once
Alfred Kelberry: woly, i even typed on one! :)
Wol Euler: fortunately my father got an electric very soon after I learned to type, else I probably would too
arabella Ella: can never manage the feather touch which i zee zome ppl uzing
Agatha Macbeth: Well I'm a klutz by nature anyway
Alfred Kelberry: ok, not typed. i pushed some keys.
Wol Euler: :)
arabella Ella: whatever zat iz agz i muzt be one too
Mickorod Renard: I still use two fingers
Alfred Kelberry: haha
arabella Ella: he he
Agatha Macbeth: No comment
Mickorod Renard: he he
Wol Euler grins.
Alfred Kelberry: you do it faster than me with 10 :)
arabella Ella: but i muzt admit
Agatha Macbeth: I do that when Cameron comes on the radio
arabella Ella: i have had a computer or laptop zince around 88 and thiz never happened to me before
arabella Ella: zince my firzt amztrad
Agatha Macbeth: The zame one?
arabella Ella: he he
Wol Euler: file under "shit happens", ara :)
arabella Ella: pull ze other one agz!
Agatha Macbeth: I willz
Mickorod Renard: I had an acorn
arabella Ella: what fun!
Agatha Macbeth: Did it become an oak tree?
Wol Euler: I think my first was a Sinclair Z88
arabella Ella: he he
Mickorod Renard: it beacame a bbc
Agatha Macbeth: Dear god Wol
Alfred Kelberry: ha! ara, try and stop this...
Alfred Kelberry: onigokko
arabella Ella: ze ze
Alfred Kelberry: :P
Agatha Macbeth: Ztop it!
Wol Euler: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Z88
Wol Euler: ztop
Alfred Kelberry: haha
arabella Ella: no way can ara ztop thiz!
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Wol Euler: hehehe
Mickorod Renard: ohh noooo
Agatha Macbeth: ztop
arabella Ella: he he
Alfred Kelberry: one month of oni is ensured :)
Mickorod Renard: ztop
Alfred Kelberry: :)
arabella Ella: i will then dream on ztopping oni!
Alfred Kelberry: gee, thiz iz fun :)
Agatha Macbeth: sure iz
Alfred Kelberry: aga?
Mickorod Renard: zomeone ztop uz
Agatha Macbeth: Mm?
Alfred Kelberry: didn't get that, repeat, please
Agatha Macbeth: Wherez Korel?
Agatha Macbeth: ZTOP
arabella Ella: ztop!!!
Agatha Macbeth: ZZTOP
Alfred Kelberry: ok, i'll save you
arabella Ella: zzzzzzzzz
Alfred Kelberry: stop
Agatha Macbeth: Give me all your lovin'
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Wol Euler: whew
arabella Ella: ah
Agatha Macbeth: Aww
Wol Euler: that was close.
Mickorod Renard: phew,,nackered now
Agatha Macbeth is exhauzted
Alfred Kelberry: *beamz*
arabella Ella: u r all zo funny!
arabella Ella: where iz zon?
Agatha Macbeth: Practize :p
Wol Euler: Funny R Us
Wol Euler: could be the new name of the retreats
Agatha Macbeth: Now I'm typing Polish
arabella Ella: maybe i lozt my ezz zince my RL name ztartz with ezz?
Agatha Macbeth: Retreatz?
arabella Ella: az wol and micko know
Wol Euler nods.
arabella Ella: from the malta retreat
Mickorod Renard: mmmm
Agatha Macbeth: But Ara zuitz you
Mickorod Renard: zounds the same though
arabella Ella: thankz agz
Agatha Macbeth zmilez
Mickorod Renard: now then, I av to go to Wok
arabella Ella: i like ara too and feel like i am ara when i am here
Wol Euler nods.
Agatha Macbeth: Aww
Mickorod Renard: I think you are Ara Ara
Agatha Macbeth: Ara and Aga
arabella Ella: i muzt go get zome zleep now
arabella Ella: he he
Agatha Macbeth: Zleep well my dear
Alfred Kelberry: ara, the letter 's' is not that frequent in english language, actually: http://bit.ly/wi1eNi
Alfred Kelberry: maybe you also type in other languages?
Wol Euler: goodnight ara, take care
Wol Euler: bye mick, wok well
arabella Ella: no i dont alfie
Agatha Macbeth: Could be worse, could be E
Wol Euler: 7th or 8th IIRC
arabella Ella: good night everyone!
Mickorod Renard: are u not comming?
Wol Euler: too tired
Agatha Macbeth: Byee
Mickorod Renard: kk
Alfred Kelberry: coming where?
arabella Ella: no mick i need to zleep
Alfred Kelberry: woly?
Mickorod Renard: :(((
Alfred Kelberry: come with us
Wol Euler: sleepy wol
Agatha Macbeth: Bye Mick, take care
Alfred Kelberry: you can nap on a couch
Agatha Macbeth: Remember me to Bruze
Mickorod Renard: bye folks,,take care
Alfred Kelberry: i'll tuck you in later :)
Alfred Kelberry: wuff!
Agatha Macbeth: Well, that waz entertaining...
Wol Euler: nope :) sorry
    --BELL--
Alfred Kelberry: aww
Wol Euler: goodnight all, take care
Alfred Kelberry: rest well
Alfred Kelberry: whipped dreams
Agatha Macbeth: Bye Wol, zchlaf gut ♥
Wol Euler: hey
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Alfred Kelberry: a good looking bum
Alfred Kelberry: you coming?
Agatha Macbeth: Zure iz :)
Alfred Kelberry: wuff!
Agatha Macbeth: Since we have have been abandoned, I'll say zayonara
Alfred Kelberry: aww
Agatha Macbeth: Bye for now Boxy
Alfred Kelberry: there's a meeting, no?
Agatha Macbeth: Meeting?
Alfred Kelberry: 2pm
Alfred Kelberry: wok?
Agatha Macbeth: Of what? where?
Agatha Macbeth: Oh I don't know
Alfred Kelberry: is it today?
Agatha Macbeth: No idea
Alfred Kelberry: i see 2 folks
Alfred Kelberry: in the cafe
Agatha Macbeth: anyone at the cafe?
Agatha Macbeth: Well one will be Mick
Alfred Kelberry: let's check it out
Alfred Kelberry: pila is on
Agatha Macbeth: Mick Pila and Cal I think
Alfred Kelberry: let's crack it!
Alfred Kelberry: mmm
Alfred Kelberry: :)