2015.07.18 01:00 - wild eep

The guardian for this meeting was Wol Euler...

 

Agatha Macbeth: Hello Wollie ♥
Agatha Macbeth: How is we?
Wol Euler: how's you?
Agatha Macbeth: Snap
Wol Euler: hot and sweaty
Agatha Macbeth: Ick
Agatha Macbeth: Funny I don't smell anything :p
Agatha Macbeth: Has Darren fixed the lift yet?
Wol Euler: dunno, I think the answer is "no"
Wol Euler: because I couldn'T see any way to get it back to ground level
Agatha Macbeth: Hm
Agatha Macbeth: Well I just cheated and made a LM
Wol Euler: easy to get up here if you know how to cam about
Agatha Macbeth: Oh of course
Agatha Macbeth: That's how I got here in the first place
Agatha Macbeth: No messing about in lifts for moi
Wol Euler smiles.

Agatha Macbeth: Nice kilt
Wol Euler: thanks
Agatha Macbeth: You know we should have had one last dance in your plot before it came down :(
Agatha Macbeth: I was a bit slow there
Wol Euler nods.
Wol Euler: I didn'T think of it either
Agatha Macbeth sighs
Agatha Macbeth: Is there much at Mugungwa these days?
Agatha Macbeth: Of PaB stuff I mean?
Wol Euler: nothing at all that is explicitly PaB
Wol Euler: I live there, as do Bleu and Adams
Wol Euler: but privately, as it were
Agatha Macbeth: So just 3 of you
Agatha Macbeth: Glad to see you're still there anyway
Wol Euler: well, there are more. The sim is full-ish
Wol Euler: eidolon still has her shop there, I believe
Wol Euler: and we have neighbours
Agatha Macbeth: Yay
Agatha Macbeth: Gaya and Zen are gone then?
Wol Euler: oh long since
Agatha Macbeth: Aww
Wol Euler: I couldn't tell you when I last saw Gaya in SL, or even in WoW come to that
Agatha Macbeth: I still see Gaya on FB occasionally
Agatha Macbeth: Maybe she's busy in RL
Agatha Macbeth: Such a cutie
Wol Euler nods.

--BELL--

Wol Euler: she posts on FB very irregularly, talks about courses and lectures
Agatha Macbeth nods
Agatha Macbeth: Always thought she was older than she is
Wol Euler: oh she is older (depending wht you think), she's a mature student
Agatha Macbeth: But not our age like, I mean
Agatha Macbeth: God that fire's noisy
Wol Euler: I can't hear it over road noise from outside and the computer's fan
Agatha Macbeth: Lot of traffic then?
Wol Euler: yes and open windows (for now)
Agatha Macbeth nods
Wol Euler: actually now that you mention it, I turned the sound up. I can hear hte fire but no birds, so I guess it's drowning them out
Agatha Macbeth: Oddly I can hardly hear my fan
Agatha Macbeth sticks her finger in your belly and wiggles it
Wol Euler: eeeeeeep

 

Wol Euler: ah that reminds me. I found the old Mac system sound "wild eep" as a soundfile and tried to upload it to SL, but it's the wrong resolution. Need to fix that today
Agatha Macbeth: Wild eeep?
Agatha Macbeth: Sounds like a sherriff
Wol Euler: heheheheh
Wol Euler: if you were a Mac user from the olden days, that name would make your eyes misty :)
Agatha Macbeth: Oh lots of stuff does that
Wol Euler: every sensible Mac user had taht as their system alert sound
Agatha Macbeth: How long are we talking?
Wol Euler: in the way that every sensible cellphone user has the "oldfashioned metal bell ring" as their ringtone
Wol Euler: system 7, in the 90s
Agatha Macbeth: Mm
Agatha Macbeth: When did the first mac come out? Early 80s?
Wol Euler: 1984, with that iconic Superbowl ad
Agatha Macbeth: Ah
Agatha Macbeth: Year before the A1000
Wol Euler: although technically speaking it wasn't a Macintosh as such, not by name
Agatha Macbeth: Generic kind of
Wol Euler: right
Agatha Macbeth: Job & Wozniak had been going a while before that tho hadn't they?

--BELL--

Wol Euler: yes, selling kits to build computers to hobbyists
Wol Euler: before realizing that there were more people who might use computers than hobbyists who might be able to build one
Wol Euler: which at the time was not an obvious statement
Agatha Macbeth: Right
Wol Euler: it was not long after Thomas Watson, head of IBM, estimated that the entire USA would need seven computers for all its calculation tasks
Agatha Macbeth: Maybe they weren't as busy in those days
Wol Euler: they were doing different things in those days :)
Agatha Macbeth: Hm
Agatha Macbeth: Not spying on everyone
Wol Euler: that too

Wol Euler: Jobs and Wosniak had a very different idea of "computer" to all those current at the time
Agatha Macbeth nods
Agatha Macbeth: First GUI wasn't it?
Wol Euler: hence the name, something small and simple and familiar, non-frightening
Agatha Macbeth: Macintosh?
Wol Euler: technically no, Xerox PARC had already made a GUI, but they didn't actually use it in any publicly available machines. They thought it was just internal, that "real computerr users" would not want something like that
Wol Euler: because they thought real computer users were people like the hobbyists, or like Thoma Watson
Agatha Macbeth: Good heavens
Agatha Macbeth: Who was Thomas Watson exactly?
Wol Euler: CEO and boss of IBM in its heyday, before the PCs took over
Agatha Macbeth: Ah
Wol Euler: i.e. he was the last Tyrannosaurus Rex, unaware of the little mammals running about his ankles
Agatha Macbeth: Hm
Agatha Macbeth: Some of which became whales

--BELL--

 

Wol Euler: indeed
Wol Euler: ah well
Agatha Macbeth: Mm
Wol Euler: I am going to have to start with my day, the laundry etc won't do itself
Agatha Macbeth: It won't?
Agatha Macbeth: Someone will have to invent self-cleaning laundry
Wol Euler: hehehehhe
Agatha Macbeth: 7sm
Wol Euler smiles.
Agatha Macbeth: Right then
Agatha Macbeth: Time and motion
Wol Euler: enjoy the day, dear Aggers
Agatha Macbeth: Launder well :)
Wol Euler: hehehe
Wol Euler: thank you
Agatha Macbeth waves