2013.06.08 01:00 - Lost in Space Looking at the Earth

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[01:16] Hana Furlough: greetings, wol!
[01:19] Wol Euler: hello hana
[01:19] Wol Euler: sorry for the delay :)
[01:19] Hana Furlough: not at all
[01:19] Wol Euler: how are you=
[01:19] Wol Euler: ?
[01:20] Hana Furlough: i'm well, and you?
[01:20] Wol Euler: hung over from a picnic/party last night
[01:20] Wol Euler: but cheerful
[01:20] Hana Furlough: nice!

[01:20] Hana Furlough: i'll try not to speak too loud
[01:20] Wol Euler chuckles.
[01:21] Wol Euler: brb
[01:21] Hana Furlough: np
[01:23] Wol Euler: much better :)

[01:23] Wol Euler: it was a wonderful day, sunny and warm after so many weeks of cold rain
[01:23] Hana Furlough: oh nice
[01:24] Wol Euler: forecast for today is the same, so I will get out and enjoy it while it lasts
[01:24] Hana Furlough: yes! be sure to do that!
[01:26] Wol Euler smiles.

[01:27] Hana Furlough: i was just out myself at a nearby temple
[01:27] Hana Furlough: the rainy season will be upon us soon
[01:28] Wol Euler nods.
[01:28] Wol Euler: make the most of the good weather
[01:28] Hana Furlough: yes
[01:28] Wol Euler: which temple was it?
[01:29] Hana Furlough: Toji, right near kyoto station
[01:29] Hana Furlough: did you visit there?

[01:30] Yakuzza Lethecus: good morning
[01:31] Hana Furlough: hello yaku
[01:31] Wol Euler: good morning, yaku
[01:31] Wol Euler: no, I didn't go there
[01:32] Wol Euler: (to Hana, the toji temple in kyoto)
[01:32] Hana Furlough: next time!
[01:34] Wol Euler: I spent almost all of my time in and around Higashiyama, and the area west of the river from there
[01:34] Hana Furlough: ahh yes, a very nice area
[01:36] Wol Euler: still looking at the map, very confused :)
[01:37] Wol Euler: my impression was that the station was very far north of where I stayed, but what Google calls "higashiyama" is directly east of the station
[01:37] Hana Furlough: yeah, it is
[01:38] Hana Furlough: maybe you thought south was north?
[01:38] Hana Furlough: higashiyama can refer to NE of the station as well
[01:39] Wol Euler: hmmmmmmm

[01:40] Wol Euler: in any case, I didn't go to Toji, I am sure I would hve remembered that pagoda
[01:40] Hana Furlough: yes, it really is stunnng
[01:41] Hana Furlough: it's visible from the westward bound shinkansen as well
[01:41] Wol Euler: just found Shijo Dori...

[01:41] Wol Euler: the Starbucks at Sanjo Dori was my headquarters, I'd have my morning coffee and watch the hawks and the river
[01:42] Hana Furlough: ahh yes, that is a very special place
[01:42] Hana Furlough: the hawks are amazing
[01:42] Wol Euler smiles.
[01:44] Wol Euler: so yes, that is far northeast of the station, I was completely wrong
[01:46] Hana Furlough: it's easy to get turned around
[01:47] Wol Euler nods.

[01:51] Wol Euler: sorry, too much time in the map :)

[01:52] Wol Euler: I would have had a different understanding of the world if google maps and its satellite photos had been available when I was a child
[01:52] Hana Furlough: how true
[01:53] Yakuzza Lethecus: the global village
[01:53] Wol Euler nods.

[01:53] Wol Euler: not an abstract circle called "paris" but a bunch of rooftops and parks
[01:54] Wol Euler: and just a scroll to the northeast is Amsterdam ....
[01:55] Yakuzza Lethecus: is there something that you can just share a link and everyone sees the specific part of a googlemap that someone wants to show his friends ?
[01:55] Yakuzza Lethecus: so one controls the googlemap for everyone to show different area´s
[01:56] Wol Euler: yes, there is a link icon at the top right which makes a URL to the map or satellite page you you could paste
[01:57] Wol Euler: erm, top right of the sidebar :)
[01:57] Wol Euler: https://maps.google.de/maps?q=kyoto+...12112&t=h&z=19

[01:57] Yakuzza Lethecus: yes, a static sharing of the map part
[01:57] Yakuzza Lethecus: thx :)
[01:57] Wol Euler: oh, you want to steer my map for me?
[01:57] Wol Euler: no I don't think you can do that

[02:08] Wol Euler: are we all lost in space looking at the earth? :)
[02:08] Hana Furlough: yes

[02:09] Yakuzza Lethecus: would be a metaphor for watching the news too
[02:09] Wol Euler grins.
[02:09] Wol Euler: I suppose, yes

[02:11] Yakuzza Lethecus: non posted sessions are automatically "no sessions" ?
[02:11] Wol Euler: nothing automatic, some human person has to create a session and give it that title
[02:11] Wol Euler: which is usually Eliza or I
[02:11] Wol Euler: and if we find a log in the database, we publish it

[02:12] Wol Euler: "no session" means there was no log, not even one line was spoken
[02:13] Yakuzza Lethecus: ah, so it will not post the bare log then automatically without a name

[02:16] Hana Furlough: i should get going
[02:16] Hana Furlough: nice chatting with you both
[02:17] Wol Euler: bye hana, take care
[02:17] Yakuzza Lethecus: bye hana
[02:28] Yakuzza Lethecus: Ich wish you good and sunny weekend, now that it´s finally a bit warmer :)
[02:28] Wol Euler: thank you, yaku!
[02:28] Wol Euler: same to you
[02:28] Wol Euler: take care