2014.10.11 01:00 - Punch

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

Alessa Tzal: Guten morgen o Wollykins
Wol Euler: good morning, I wondered whether you'd come
Alessa Tzal: Well I did ;-)
Wol Euler smiles.
Alessa Tzal: How is we?
Wol Euler: good, thanks, and us?
Alessa Tzal: Us is good too thx
Wol Euler smiles
Alessa Tzal yawns
Wol Euler: awwww
Wol Euler: not enough sleep?
Alessa Tzal: No just bloody early
Wol Euler: ah
Alessa Tzal: And so dark I can just abut see to type

Alessa Tzal: How's karu karu doing?
Wol Euler: still making hot stuff, and still offering it cheaply
Alessa Tzal: Yay
Wol Euler grins.
Alessa Tzal: Actually it just occured to me I probably chose the darkest place in the house to put the computer! Ha
Wol Euler: heheh
Wol Euler: athough actually that is better for the eyes than putting the screen directly in front of a window
Alessa Tzal: Oh
Alessa Tzal: I may relocate to the front room at some point, I'll have a think about it
Wol Euler: the problem with windows is the difference in intensity of light between the screen (low) and the outside world (comparatively very high).
Wol Euler: though you should still be able to see the keyboard!
Alessa Tzal: Surely you don't associate the words 'windows' and 'problems'? :p
Alessa Tzal: Maybe it needs a capital letter
Wol Euler smiles.
Alessa Tzal: (Coffee required)
Wol Euler: I'm waiting for the break to make mine
--BELL--
Alessa Tzal: No hugs this morning?
Wol Euler: none yet
Alessa Tzal grins
Wol Euler: she's offline
Alessa Tzal: Maybe gone to get sushi
Wol Euler: or more toys
Alessa Tzal: 0.0
Wol Euler grins.
Wol Euler: not that kind of toys
Alessa Tzal: Ah
Wol Euler: she's a collector of old technology
Alessa Tzal: How old?
Wol Euler: where "old" means the stuff that we used and saw in our childhood :)
Alessa Tzal: Ah right
Alessa Tzal: Like casette players?
Wol Euler: and pagers, and analog cameras
Wol Euler: and transistor radios
Alessa Tzal: Hardly steampunk is it
Alessa Tzal remembers valves fondly

Wol Euler: well, Japan has a different idea of newness versus age (in objects, not people)
Alessa Tzal: Hm
Alessa Tzal: Wonder if they still make diodes
Alessa Tzal: I've been taking a look at some of Bryn's old stuff
Wol Euler: oh?
Alessa Tzal: Yes she's been doing kind of an exhibition thingy
Alessa Tzal: It's been on her blog
Alessa Tzal: A sort of anthology from 2007 to the present
Alessa Tzal: Good as always
Wol Euler: cool
Wol Euler: I've been seeing the notices, but haven't been to look
Alessa Tzal: Pop in if you get 5 mins
Wol Euler nods.
Wol Euler: thanks
Alessa Tzal: Think that's the LM
Alessa Tzal: ♥
Alessa Tzal: The Gashlycrumb Tinies :p
Wol Euler: sounds like something Edwrd Coren would ahve written/illustrated

--BELL--

Alessa Tzal nods
Wol Euler: *Gorey, sorry
Alessa Tzal: I remember Alan Coren
Alessa Tzal: 'Golf for cats'
Wol Euler: hmmm
Wol Euler: comic author, in Punch?
Alessa Tzal: Think so
Alessa Tzal: I used to love Punch
Alessa Tzal: Especially the Franglais stuff
Alessa Tzal: I often used to read it in the barbers while waiting for a haircut getting funny looks from people who wondered what the hell I was laughing at
Wol Euler: heheh, yes it belonged to that category of magazine that was never found in private homes
Alessa Tzal: Seemed like it
Wol Euler: like that suck-up-to-the-rich Homes and Gardens thing, properties for sale upwards of 2 million pounds
Wol Euler: back when that was a lot of money
Alessa Tzal: Yeh
Wol Euler: you know the one, dark green (racing green) cover, fullpage glossy ads
Alessa Tzal: With fake Doric columns
Alessa Tzal: (The homes not the mag)
Wol Euler: yup
Alessa Tzal: Actually doctors and dentists' waiting rooms had a kind of culture all their own
Wol Euler nods.
Wol Euler: german ones are duller, there are only healthcare pamphlets and general-reading mags like Stern and Spiegel
Alessa Tzal: Ah
Alessa Tzal: 'Read about the Hitler diaries here first...oops'
Alessa Tzal: Don't think Stern ever lived that down
Alessa Tzal: Think there's a whole psychology behind hoaxes
Alessa Tzal: Like why do people do them?
Wol Euler: money, often :)
Wol Euler: fame, or notoriety
Alessa Tzal: Yeh
Wol Euler: dealing with personal inadequacy by making others look bad
Alessa Tzal: Hm
Wol Euler: "look how I fooled them! Guess I'm not unhappy and lonely after all!"
--BELL--
Alessa Tzal: Talk about 'own little worlds'
Wol Euler: aren't we all in one?
Alessa Tzal: Only some of us
Wol Euler raises an eyebrow.
Alessa Tzal: Others do it differently so I hear
Alessa Tzal: Chacun a son gout
Wol Euler: so have some madeira, m'dear
Alessa Tzal: Mm
Alessa Tzal: Never liked that suff
Alessa Tzal: Too much like ginger wine
Wol Euler: oh, I am surprised that you (apparently) missed a Flanders and Swann reference :)
Alessa Tzal: Did the gas man call?
Wol Euler: nope
Wol Euler: just a sec
Alessa Tzal: Hug time
Wol Euler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW_zi8n4HDQ
Alessa Tzal: Sorry got watching Ronnie Barker
Wol Euler smiles.
Alessa Tzal: Anyway
Alessa Tzal: Working today?
--BELL--
Wol Euler: not today, and not tomorrow!
Wol Euler: two days off!!!!!!!
Alessa Tzal: Oh good
Wol Euler cheers!
Alessa Tzal: Plenty of WoW and sleep then?
Wol Euler: naps will abound.
Wol Euler: yep
Wol Euler: just so
Alessa Tzal okes you
Alessa Tzal: and pokes you too
Wol Euler: heheh
Wol Euler: I was jus considering how to react to an oke
Alessa Tzal: Oke doke
Wol Euler: with an acorn, perhaps
Alessa Tzal: From them mighty oaks grow I believe
Wol Euler: so they say
Alessa Tzal: Go and murder a few orcs then
Wol Euler: will do!
Wol Euler smiles.
Alessa Tzal: Is there a GM tonight?
Wol Euler: last week, so no
Wol Euler: wasn't it last week?
Alessa Tzal: OK
Alessa Tzal: Yeh I missed it :(
Alessa Tzal: Well Aggers did
Alessa Tzal: See you tomorrow then
Wol Euler: yup
Wol Euler: enjoy the day, dear Alessa
Alessa Tzal: BFN