2015.08.01 01:00 - Lithuanian Red

The Guardian for this meeting was Wol.

Wol Euler: buongiorno, qt
Qt Core: buongiorn Wol
Wol Euler: how's life?
Qt Core: being the first day of summer leave... busy obviously ;-)
Qt Core: your ?
Wol Euler: hehehehhe
Wol Euler: busy too, first day of an incredibly intense 3-week period on the building site
Wol Euler: after that, three weeks mostly off-duty :)
Qt Core: ok, it seem an honest agreement
Wol Euler smiles.

Qt Core: one could even call it "smart vacation" as in doing it not in peak season, both for the hotel prices and for the traffic
Wol Euler nods.
Qt Core: the idea is that not too many should be smart or you just shift peak season ;-)
Wol Euler: Boss and kids are of course tied to the school holiday dates
Wol Euler: but it works out well
Wol Euler: I'm sure the airlines and travel agents etc keep a very close statistical eye on the dates that people book
Agatha Macbeth: Guten morgen
Wol Euler: buongiorno
Qt Core: Hi emerald clad Agatha
Wol Euler: emerald or teal?
Agatha Macbeth: Eh?
Agatha Macbeth: Oh
Agatha Macbeth: Turquoise I think
Qt Core: never ask a man about such subtle color differences
Agatha Macbeth: It is pretty tho
Wol Euler: agreed
Wol Euler: on both points
Agatha Macbeth: I always think of it as Miami Dolphin blue
Agatha Macbeth: (Or green)

Qt Core: a few months ago i discussed for almost an hour with a female colleague about the color of my pants, ended up installing an app that take a pic and tell me the color name
Agatha Macbeth: So glad I'm not colour blind
Agatha Macbeth: 0.0
Agatha Macbeth: To me they are pink
Qt Core: (as in trousers)
Agatha Macbeth: Or salmon
Wol Euler: as an architect I frequently have discussions about the colour of a particular shade of black (or white)
Wol Euler: white != white
Qt Core: i think about them as faded red (the funny thing is that it was about the shade of my RL red trousers)
Wol Euler: you can prove this for yourself easily by taking any two books and opening them one at a time, looking at the colour of the paper, then comparing both "white" pages
Wol Euler: I'd call that sugarcandy pink, yes
Wol Euler: though the patches suggest faded red

--BELL--

Agatha Macbeth: The eye of the beholder
Wol Euler: or of the newt.
Agatha Macbeth: Absolutely
Agatha Macbeth: At least we don't have Aph's gulls here
Wol Euler: yeah, that was annoying
Wol Euler: poor Aph
Agatha Macbeth: It was funny tho
Qt Core: ?
Agatha Macbeth: At the retreat
Agatha Macbeth: We wanted bird sounds so she rezzed a seagull noise then couldn't turn it off
Wol Euler nods.
Qt Core: not even the nicest of the bird calls...
Agatha Macbeth: Remined me of Weston
Wol Euler: at least her gulls didn't shit on us
Agatha Macbeth: Only metaphorically
Wol Euler: as happened to several people in my family at various times and places
Qt Core: i wonder if there are SL brds that shit on people
Agatha Macbeth: Probably
Wol Euler: probably, Rule 37 applies
Qt Core: yes, weird enough to to have to be done
Agatha Macbeth: Or rule 98

Wol Euler: https://xkcd.com/305/
Qt Core: (i love xkcd)
Wol Euler: how peculiar that after so many years "wetriffs.com" doesn't actually exist. The Internets have failed us.
Qt Core: (and its what if even more
Agatha Macbeth: https://xkcd.com/688/ seems to pertain to what we were just discussing
Wol Euler: indeed
Qt Core: to that man deserve a nobel or a psychiatric examination ?
Wol Euler: That parrot must be a Lithuanian Red, even rarer than the Norwegian Blue.
Agatha Macbeth: But it's not an ex parrot yet
Agatha Macbeth: It hasn't cease to be


--BELL--


Qt Core: while i was mulling about how tired i was from bicycle ride of this morning (something less than an hour) i found my sister watching the swimming world championship, to be specific the 25 Km of swimming in a lake... and they were already over 3 hours... and felt even lazier than usual
Agatha Macbeth: That's a long swim
Wol Euler: wow
Qt Core: they interviewed the italy team doc that explained that as the race start at 9am they wake ap at 5am to have breakfast
Wol Euler: then there was the woman who swam from Cuba to Florida.
Wol Euler: the appropriately named Diana Nyad
Agatha Macbeth: Maybe she couldn't afford a boat
Qt Core: then they keep drinking a supersweet and energetik beverage before and during the race
Wol Euler: https://xkcd.com/305/
Wol Euler: oops
Agatha Macbeth: 7sm
Wol Euler: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/02/wo...-florida-swim/
Wol Euler: there
Agatha Macbeth: I hear Mexicans are good swimmers
Wol Euler: nah, the Rio Grande is broad but very shallow
Agatha Macbeth: Yee haw
Wol Euler: punchline: she was 64 years old when she did it.
Agatha Macbeth: People are crazy
Qt Core: and the question is why ? and the answer is why not ?
Wol Euler: "because it's there"
Wol Euler: or for creative people "because it isn't there yet"

Qt Core: i need to go , as i said first day of summer leave so much busier than a workday
Wol Euler: bye Qt, take care
Agatha Macbeth: Ciao Qt
Qt Core: Bye Wol, Agatha
Agatha Macbeth: Family OK?
Wol Euler: yes, thanks
Wol Euler: no news is good news, as they say
Agatha Macbeth: Yay
Wol Euler: and you?
--BELL--
Agatha Macbeth: Oh I'm wonderful
Wol Euler: well, yes, of course; but are you well?
Agatha Macbeth: That too
Agatha Macbeth: Hope you have been resting well
Wol Euler: actually no, I haven't been either sleeping or napping enough for the last few weeks
Agatha Macbeth: Well start today then
Agatha Macbeth: Give WoW a rest
Wol Euler: I will actually, working until time for Fracture, then the last day of the Retreat, then bed
Agatha Macbeth: Yeh
Agatha Macbeth: Any news of Corvi lately?
Wol Euler: not in ages
Agatha Macbeth: Or Eidolon?
Wol Euler: ditto
Agatha Macbeth sighs
Wol Euler: though I did see her on a few days back
Agatha Macbeth: Ah
Agatha Macbeth: Maybe doing something at Vox
Wol Euler: perhaps
Wol Euler: I keep meaning to go and have a look, and forgettig
Agatha Macbeth: She had moved things around as I recall
Agatha Macbeth: Changed the decor a bit
Wol Euler watches and chuckles
Agatha Macbeth: Arrrrr
Agatha Macbeth: Shiver me timbers and blast me barnacles
Wol Euler: well, I'm working today, so I will have to head off at the bell
Agatha Macbeth: Yeh moi aussi
Agatha Macbeth: Wonder how Quilty is these days
Wol Euler: he's fine, I see him on FB, involved with his kids and his bicycle
Wol Euler: haven't seen him here in many years
Agatha Macbeth: Hehe

--BELL--

Wol Euler: bye for now, dear Aggers
Wol Euler: enjoy the weekend
Agatha Macbeth: You too Wollage
Agatha Macbeth: Rest well
Wol Euler: 3
Wol Euler: <3 even
Agatha Macbeth: ♥