2015.03.18 19:00 - Patterns

The Guardian for this meeting was stevenaia Michinaga. The comments are by stevenaia Michinaga.

Lucinda Lavender and Bleu Oleander were already at the Playgota when I arrived

Bleu Oleander: hi Luci :)
Lucinda Lavender: hi bleu!
Lucinda Lavender: i hae a very sensitive trackpad on my laptop...v
Bleu Oleander: that's hard to get used to
Lucinda Lavender: this make make typing kind of random
Lucinda Lavender: i wiped it with a screen cleaner and that has always worked e it kind of
Bleu Oleander: a new laptop?
--BELL--
Lucinda Lavender: means i hop around the page...on
Lucinda Lavender: no old
Lucinda Lavender: hoou?w are y
Lucinda Lavender: how are you?
Bleu Oleander: great, you?
Lucinda Lavender: pretty good:)
Lucinda Lavender: busy week but good
Bleu Oleander: for me too
Lucinda Lavender: not sue i should claim this because of my sesitivityr
Lucinda Lavender: sensitivity
Bleu Oleander: too many typos?
Lucinda Lavender: yes!
Lucinda Lavender: and sudden changes
Bleu Oleander: was it always like that?
Lucinda Lavender: well no
Bleu Oleander: I think you can adjust that in preferences
Lucinda Lavender: something got spilled on the laptop and i had to change it to tap to en i got super sensitivecleaned it and it ...
Lucinda Lavender: oops i cleaned it and it got worse
Bleu Oleander: :)
Lucinda Lavender: i also went to tap to click
Lucinda Lavender: and that was a week previous
Lucinda Lavender: :)))
Bleu Oleander: I don't like SL on a laptop
Bleu Oleander: I prefer my desktop ... has a better screen
Bleu Oleander: especially if i'm building something
Lucinda Lavender: ah unfortuantely i have to keep erasing the last youtube paste this eve!
Lucinda Lavender: it keeps inserting it
Lucinda Lavender: :)
Bleu Oleander: oh no
Bleu Oleander: technology!!
Lucinda Lavender: i am working hard behind the scenes here
Bleu Oleander: ha ha!
Lucinda Lavender: yes...
Bleu Oleander: a real workout
Lucinda Lavender: any new thoughts ?
Bleu Oleander: well ....
Bleu Oleander: my refrigerator died yesterday
Lucinda Lavender: oh no...everything to an icebox?
Bleu Oleander: never had that happen before
Lucinda Lavender: big job...
Bleu Oleander: can't get a new one til next week
Lucinda Lavender: oh my
Bleu Oleander: yes, so cranky without my icecream lol
Lucinda Lavender: haha
Bleu Oleander: I'm working on a new building
Lucinda Lavender: what kind?
Bleu Oleander: using textures from where I have coffee
Lucinda Lavender: in RL?
Bleu Oleander: it's a pavilion type building ... coffee in rl
Lucinda Lavender: cool!
Bleu Oleander: i've run out of prims
Bleu Oleander: ha ha!
Lucinda Lavender: hmmto bad
Bleu Oleander: hey steve
stevenaia Michinaga: waves
Lucinda Lavender: hi steve...if you coumld clai
stevenaia Michinaga: ???
Lucinda Lavender: my lAPTOP IS HAVINMG A PROBLE
stevenaia Michinaga: hmmm I can;t seem to select anything like a pillow
stevenaia Michinaga: to sit
Bleu Oleander: reading Luci's typing gets easier once you get used to it :)
stevenaia Michinaga: or claim the log
Lucinda Lavender: very sensitive trackpad
Lucinda Lavender: please?
Lucinda Lavender: claim
--BELL--
Lucinda Lavender: spilled something on the laptop, then cleaned it...which made it worse.
stevenaia Michinaga: oh no
stevenaia Michinaga: well I got the log but having sitting issues
Lucinda Lavender: maybe i should take it in...SL is way worse than just regular use of laptop
Lucinda Lavender: sorry bell
Bleu Oleander: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: there
Bleu Oleander: :)
Lucinda Lavender: good
stevenaia Michinaga: sitting shouldn't be that dificult
Bleu Oleander: ha ha
stevenaia Michinaga: I ahve a forlerly head, now chest cold :(
stevenaia Michinaga: formerly
Lucinda Lavender: think I should go...computer tries to paste of its own accord
Bleu Oleander: awww hope you feel better soon
stevenaia Michinaga: what did you spill on it?
stevenaia Michinaga: thanks Bleu
Bleu Oleander: might have to take it in Luci
Lucinda Lavender: i did not do it...might be beer
Lucinda Lavender: ...yes
Lucinda Lavender: it will go in tomorrow:)
Lucinda Lavender: my mini ca nnothandle sl
stevenaia Michinaga: I;m sure it will be an easycleanup
Lucinda Lavender: oh good thanks all
Lucinda Lavender: see you again soon
Bleu Oleander: ok take care Luci
stevenaia Michinaga: bye luci
Lucinda Lavender: sorrsorry no ou goodnight yhere..l
Lucinda Lavender: bid you goodnight
Bleu Oleander: nite nite
stevenaia Michinaga: Bleu, I had a new visitor after you left last night, we chattted but he didn;t wnat to be quoted in the log. He mentioned Rupert Sheldrake and Electric Universe, have you ever heard of him or this?
Bleu Oleander: heard of but don't know much about
stevenaia Michinaga: I didn;t have any time to look this up but he gaev me links that I put in last nights log
Bleu Oleander: is that a book?
stevenaia Michinaga: a link
stevenaia Michinaga: http://www.electricuniverse.info/Ele...niverse_theory
Bleu Oleander: will have to read this ... don't know much about his theories
stevenaia Michinaga: http://www.holoscience.com/wp/
stevenaia Michinaga: he didn't really discuss it much, just gave me the links
Bleu Oleander: ah ok
Bleu Oleander: hard to know what he's talking about
stevenaia Michinaga: nods
Bleu Oleander: I'm reading the Unvearable Lightness of Being again ... forgot how good it was :)
--BELL--
Bleu Oleander: *unbearable
stevenaia Michinaga: nods
Bleu Oleander: one of my favorite physics books is the lightness of being
stevenaia Michinaga: it;s in our llibrary somewhere
stevenaia Michinaga: will have read it
Bleu Oleander: a physics approach to finding meaning in a seemingly random world
stevenaia Michinaga: the nature of humanity to find patterns
Bleu Oleander: yes
stevenaia Michinaga: there was a recent TED talk about that
Bleu Oleander: by who?
stevenaia Michinaga: perhaps recent only in that I watched it recently
Bleu Oleander: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: let me look through my history
stevenaia Michinaga: hmmm, I sent it to my son, he is into conspiracies and thought he may relate :)
Bleu Oleander: what was the conspiracy?
stevenaia Michinaga: part of what he was saying with patterns was we are wired to see things that may not be there
Bleu Oleander: because a pattern suggests something?
stevenaia Michinaga: saying there are patterns in the past that we recognize that can save us from death, for instance or may be just the wind blowing through grass and not be a preditor, so for survival, we have expectation about the patterns around us
Bleu Oleander: ah ok yes
Bleu Oleander: better safe then sorry
stevenaia Michinaga: nods, unless it jsut makes you paranoid and nothing is there
Bleu Oleander: right, not good if taken too far
stevenaia Michinaga: http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_she...self_deception
stevenaia Michinaga: there it is
Bleu Oleander: oh yes, I've heard this one
Bleu Oleander: he's at caltech I think
--BELL--
stevenaia Michinaga: I think I'm going to head out... sleep calls
stevenaia Michinaga: night Bleu
Bleu Oleander: ok me too
Bleu Oleander: feel better
Bleu Oleander: nite
stevenaia Michinaga: thanks, night