2014.07.31 19:00 – Chasing Ebola

The Guardian for this meeting was Paradise Tennant. Participants included Korel, Ewan and stevenaia.

Korel Laloix: Heya
Paradise Tennant: Smiles Hi Korel! Long time no see. So nice to see you!
Korel Laloix: Not been on here much to speak of.
Korel Laloix: Good to see you as well.
Paradise Tennant: neither have I lately - hardly come in at all..
Korel Laloix: RL has taken a lot out of my SL time for sure.
Korel Laloix: But still nice to be in and out of it for a bit.
Paradise Tennant: That must mean you are busy I hope with all good things :)
Korel Laloix: Mostly good... I am happy and healthy so I can't complain.
Korel Laloix: What you been up to?
Paradise Tennant: smiles same old really .. working hard .. trying to run more .. I use to be like you I ran some 8 miles every day but I got side tracked by work and it is hard getting back into it when you are out of shape
--BELL--
Korel Laloix: OH I know that is the case.. the couple of times I have been unable to run it hurt getting back into it.
Paradise Tennant: yes - when you are in shape – you just feel really light and bouncy like it is no effort really  -when you are not - it is like being a lumbering root vegetable
Paradise Tennant: hiya stev .. nice to see you .. been a while :)
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, nice to see you and Korel
stevenaia Michinaga: how are you two?
Korel Laloix: Osiyo
Korel Laloix: Good..
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Korel Laloix: Lots of strange things in my life at the moment.
Paradise Tennant: smiles and listens ..
stevenaia Michinaga: nods, I've been very busy, a nice change for a while, just returned from vacation
Paradise Tennant: ahhh the beach !
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, sand castles
Paradise Tennant: one sec ..doggie request be back .. in a minute
Korel Laloix: OK.. sounds nice
Korel Laloix: I soooo miss the beach.
stevenaia Michinaga: I love our once a year trip there to do nothing in the sand
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Paradise Tennant: you know we need to do more of nothing !
Korel Laloix: Nothing bores me though.. smiles
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, it's very relaxing and offers a time to focus
Paradise Tennant: I am starting a week’s holidays celebrating with a nice glass wine .. the dog has his favourite liver chew .. we are in party mode
stevenaia Michinaga: focusing on nothing is an interesting change
Korel Laloix: Party and liver should really never be in the same sentence.
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Paradise Tennant: lol
Paradise Tennant: going up to a friend’s cottage to: kayak, hike, run, sleep in .. read books, cook and eat great food and take long dog walks!
stevenaia Michinaga: sounds like a perfect week, hold the liver
Paradise Tennant: should be fun .. it is on really nice quiet lake ..
Korel Laloix: That sounds lovely as well.
--BELL--
Paradise Tennant: Blue would protest .. that point .. he finds it .. just the best .. as he is getting older his sight , hearing and general ability to get around are all starting to decline- so he is much more into his food these days ..
Paradise Tennant: right now he is doing a liver happy dance
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: So what has been strange with you Korel?
Paradise Tennant: nods and listens
Korel Laloix: Just complicated.. and I have to decide by Monday if I want to go down to Africa with a former Epidemiology professor of mine and chase Ebola-virus.
Paradise Tennant: yikes pretty scary stuff happening there ..
stevenaia Michinaga: wow, yes
stevenaia Michinaga: how do you make such a choice
Korel Laloix: Yes.. but a great opportunity.
stevenaia Michinaga: could be life changing in so many ways
Korel Laloix: Well.. for me, the real thing is making sure grandma is OK while I am gone.
Korel Laloix: So when I asked her.. lol.. she said if I did not go she was going to through me out of the house.
Paradise Tennant: agree grandma is important and I bet she would worry about you
Paradise Tennant: after she threw you out of the house that is
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: they certainly need help there too
Paradise Tennant: hiya ewan .. we have a veritable crowd tonight :)
stevenaia Michinaga: hello Ewan
Korel Laloix: Great fun
Ewan Bonham: Hello friends..
stevenaia Michinaga: how long have you had to think about this, Korel?
Paradise Tennant: Korel is trying to decide on whether or not to go to Africa and research the Ebola virus .. basically chase instances of it ..
Korel Laloix: heya
Korel Laloix: So I am pretty sure I want to go now, just to pass a physical and a few things.
Ewan Bonham: Oh, Korel... what are your hopes if you go? Help find a cure?
Paradise Tennant: must be all kinds of shots and lots of protocols to learn
stevenaia Michinaga: I've been listening to reports. very complex situation for working there
stevenaia Michinaga: nice be asked to make such a journey
Korel Laloix: Will I am not that optimistic.
Korel Laloix: But the grant I would be going under is looking at vectors.
Ewan Bonham: Vectors?
Korel Laloix: Yes, much violence against workers
Paradise Tennant: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/07/29/picturing-ebola-photographers-chase-an-invisible-killer/#1

Korel Laloix: How the disease is transmitted.
Korel Laloix: Like from mosquitoes or dogs or the like.
--BELL--
Paradise Tennant: bodily fluids transmit it?   so a sneeze .. can spread it ?
Korel Laloix: That is the theory, but I do not think there is a big case for airborne transmission yet.
Paradise Tennant: Pretty big decision could one of the most important things you do in your life and certainly one of the bravest
--BELL--
stevenaia Michinaga: Korel poofs
Paradise Tennant: nods yes ..
stevenaia Michinaga: wish her luck with her decision
Paradise Tennant: must be a hard one to make ..
Ewan Bonham: Namaste... I will be leaving now... see you soon..:)
stevenaia Michinaga: where ever it takes her
stevenaia Michinaga: bye Ewan
stevenaia Michinaga: good to see you again
Paradise Tennant: night night Ewan thanks so much for dropping by
Paradise Tennant: amazes me how brave people can be .;. one of our species most endearing qualities I think
Paradise Tennant: that and good manners :)
stevenaia Michinaga: smiles
stevenaia Michinaga: sometimes good manners is the brave thing to be
--BELL--
Paradise Tennant: have you seen luci lately

stevenaia Michinaga: no

Paradise Tennant: I miss her

  stevenaia Michinaga: She does post on FB  

stevenaia Michinaga: yes   

Paradise Tennant: I never go into facebook  

 Paradise Tennant: not sure I even remember my password  

 stevenaia Michinaga: nods, It can be interesting of you have the right friends who do all the work and post interesting things  

 stevenaia Michinaga: do you follow the PaB mailing list at all?

stevenaia Michinaga: the phenomenology conversation between Bleu, pema and Pila is interesting to follow

Paradise Tennant: hmm will try to pick up on it

Paradise Tennant: is there a Cole’s notes version?

stevenaia Michinaga: learning much about it, I was never a philosophy follower, now I’m beginning to read about it, it’s more about how you see, with judgement yes, with experience, so everyone can see and experience something from a unique perspective

stevenaia Michinaga: I mean without judgement

Paradise Tennant: hmm ok will try to open up the threads .. I get so many emails .. I often avoid them .. if I can

stevenaia Michinaga: some say it is because of this, there will never be an artificial intelligent machine

stevenaia Michinaga: in a video Eos posted early in the conversation

Paradise Tennant: hmm

Paradise Tennant: not sure it will 
Paradise Tennant: actually be artificial

Paradise Tennant: think almost everything has some level of sensory .. resonance stevenaia Michinaga: or intelligent
stevenaia Michinaga: interesting the sense of applying experience in perception w/o judgement
stevenaia Michinaga: since each experience influences the next
stevenaia Michinaga: and makes it unique for each of us
stevenaia Michinaga: of course I'm only on page 60 of a 600 page introduction
Paradise Tennant: 600 page introduction?
Paradise Tennant: do they post these threads to the website?
stevenaia Michinaga: on the Google group site
Paradise Tennant: hmm
stevenaia Michinaga: if you go to Google groups you should be able to access it since you are a member
Paradise Tennant: hmm not coming up
Paradise Tennant: in Google groups as playasbeing?
stevenaia Michinaga: nods
Paradise Tennant: hmm don't think I am a member
stevenaia Michinaga: hmm
stevenaia Michinaga: try "http://groups.google.com
stevenaia Michinaga: it should be there if you are logged in
stevenaia Michinaga: playasbeing
stevenaia Michinaga: should be on the list
Paradise Tennant: ok
Paradise Tennant: hm think I have to create an account :))
Paradise Tennant: will do :))
stevenaia Michinaga: hmm oh well
Paradise Tennant: smiles .. will log in and read up .. sounds very intriguing and I so miss both Pema and Pila.  I had a nice chat with Bleu the other night.
--BELL--
stevenaia Michinaga: you might have to request an invitation
stevenaia Michinaga: bed time for me, perhaps we will shop when you are on vacation, do you have internet at the cabin?
Paradise Tennant: okies thanks for dropping by ..
stevenaia Michinaga: nice seeing you
Paradise Tennant: I can pick up emails there .. on my blackberry .. don’t think there is a modem.
Paradise Tennant: smiles and waves at you !!!
stevenaia Michinaga: ok, we'll shop when you get back
Paradise Tennant: nods - lets maybe something red ?