2017.01.09 07:00 - Exciting times

The Guardian for this meeting was Eden Haiku. The comments are by Eden Haiku.

Riddle and I sporting our skates

Inventory happens, a cold, rain and a fallen tree

Riddle Sideways: here we are again, skates and all
Riddle Sideways: :)
Eden Haiku: Hey Riddle :)
Riddle Sideways: there sitting on skates
Eden Haiku: I'm sleeping with my skates on by fear of losing them again in inventory :)
Riddle Sideways: :)
Riddle Sideways:   inventory happens  
Eden Haiku: it certainly does :) How are you feeling this early morning?
Riddle Sideways: was stuck with the beginner skates at first
Riddle Sideways: a little better this morning
Riddle Sideways: was sickly most of the weekend
Eden Haiku: Have you been sick?
Riddle Sideways: took yesterday completely off
Eden Haiku: snap
Eden Haiku: a cold?
Riddle Sideways: flu-ish, head coldy, achy, not wanta do nothin feelin
Riddle Sideways: yes, it was cold too
Eden Haiku: Ah yes... tired of celebrations maybe? I certainly am myself...
Riddle Sideways: sleep with a cough drop all night
Riddle Sideways: amazing that it doesn't dissolve unless one is awake
Eden Haiku: Here it' minus 19 celsius
Riddle Sideways: oh dear
Eden Haiku: Really? I'm glad you didn’t choke on the cough drop
Riddle Sideways: here it is 40F
Eden Haiku: Was too chicken to go for a walk yet....
Riddle Sideways: been raining since Friday
Riddle Sideways: is very good
Riddle Sideways: stay inside, but good for the planet
Riddle Sideways: need to fact check a tree falling
Eden Haiku: 40F is pretty cold for Caifornia. Rain yes. Would have been more useful during summer
Riddle Sideways: the little pond in the meadow is there now
Riddle Sideways: in the middle of the night, (well 5am)
Eden Haiku: We used to use Farenheit measures, but I'm so used to Celsius now, I forgot what they meant in F
Riddle Sideways: was told about or dreamed
Riddle Sideways: a tree fell
Eden Haiku: oh?

The Tree fell

Riddle Sideways: https://www.google.com/search?q=big+tree+falls&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Riddle Sideways: The Tree fell
Riddle Sideways: The giant Redwood
Riddle Sideways: thousands of year old tree
Eden Haiku: So sad ;(
Riddle Sideways: with a tunnel to drive a car through fell
Riddle Sideways: wonder if anybody heard it fall
Eden Haiku: Or in the real world? Was it in your dream?
Riddle Sideways: does it make a sound if nobody is there
Eden Haiku: Mystic Riddle :)

--BELL--

Adams was there for a short time 

Riddle Sideways: somewhere there is a photo of a 2 yr old son leaning on that tree
Riddle Sideways: hey Adams
Eden Haiku: Good morning Adams :)
Adams Rubble: Hello Riddle and Eden :)
Riddle Sideways: did you bring good happy joyous topic today?
Adams Rubble: not me
Eden Haiku: Lots of lag for me this morning
Riddle Sideways: ok, will stay in sad mood
Adams Rubble:the west coast is getting big storms
Riddle Sideways: good news is west coast is getting big storms
Eden Haiku: You visited that tree in the past, with 2 y old son, now the tree fell, the giant redwood and you are feeling sad....
Adams Rubble: I read about the tree this morning
Riddle Sideways: so sad
Riddle Sideways: might have to mope all day
Eden Haiku: Such a giant knocked down, it’s sad indeed
Riddle Sideways: can't think of a more famous tree
Eden Haiku: Sadness is ok
Eden Haiku: Moping is ok
Eden Haiku: Did you go there as a child yourself Riddle?
Riddle Sideways: nope. grew up on East coast
Eden Haiku: Ah, I see.....
Riddle Sideways: visited that tree maybe the second time in California
Eden Haiku: Always scary to learn such a giant has fallen
Eden Haiku: We are so very little, we humans
Riddle Sideways: for so little time do we humans spend on a life
Riddle Sideways: those trees go thousands of years
Eden Haiku: Thousands!\
Riddle Sideways: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoioideae
Riddle Sideways: feel like putting citations by every statement from now on

--BELL--

¨Ambassadors from another time¨

Riddle Sideways: John Steinbeck wrote about the redwood, "The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It's not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know,they are ambassadors from another time."
Riddle Sideways: John says it better
Riddle Sideways: guy had a way with words
Eden Haiku: Beautiful!
Adams Rubble: sorry I must go and take care of a problem that has just arisen
Adams Rubble: bye
Eden Haiku: Saw some redwoods in Bristish Columbia. Bye Adams!
Riddle Sideways: hope all is ok
Riddle Sideways: by
Riddle Sideways: and there are Coastal Redwoods near home
Riddle Sideways: smaller giants :)
Eden Haiku: Never seen the giant ones. They are North of San Francisco I think?
Riddle Sideways: ummmm, East
Riddle Sideways: the mountains along the eastern border
Riddle Sideways: North of S.F. are Coastal Redwoods too

The days of hitchhiking

Eden Haiku: Ah. I was hitchiking through California with a friend, a looong time ago. We stayed by the coast :)
Eden Haiku: Missed the redwoods:(
Riddle Sideways: they only grow to 300 feet
Riddle Sideways:Ah, the days of hitchhiking
Riddle Sideways: a much better time
Eden Haiku: memories....
Eden Haiku: Nobody does that anymore ....
Riddle Sideways: strangers being friendly
Riddle Sideways: nope
Eden Haiku: Yep!
Eden Haiku: We were all hippies then :)
Riddle Sideways: the coast highway use to have lots and lots of hitchhikers
Riddle Sideways: always tried to fill the car
Eden Haiku: My friend had long blonde hair like yours :) I was wearing peasant dresses and flowers in my hair :)
Eden Haiku: Maybe you picked us up?
Riddle Sideways: ah! good hippies
Riddle Sideways: maybe
Eden Haiku: :)
Riddle Sideways: so many hitchhikers
Riddle Sideways: they always told such great stories
Eden Haiku: We weren't afraid of strangers in those days. Nobody was it seems.
Riddle Sideways: nope! just good people you had not met yet
Riddle Sideways: hmmmm, that place with the crossroads in Canada
Eden Haiku: We felt at one with the world, the trees, the animals, the people
Riddle Sideways: with the Wah Wah Goose statue
Riddle Sideways: a major highway goes north from the cross-Canada hiway
Riddle Sideways: huge conventions of hitchhikers were there
Eden Haiku: Looking up the goose on my phone :)
Riddle Sideways: you'd stop and let out one crowd and take in another
Riddle Sideways: WaWa
Riddle Sideways: have a postcard from there
Riddle Sideways: love that Goose

--BELL--

Riddle Sideways: the town of Wawa, Ontario
Eden Haiku: We took a plane from Montreal to Vancouver and then San Francisco. But then we traveled mostly through hitchhiking. Buses sometimes, when there were some. But to see the coast, you needed a car and we didn't drive. We met great people along the road...
Riddle Sideways: a time when you didn't need a car
Eden Haiku: We even caught a glimpse of writer Anaïs Nin in Santa Barbara :)
Riddle Sideways: well, there was that 7 hour wait in New Mexico
Eden Haiku: Why so long?
Riddle Sideways:a famous hitchhiker hell spot
Eden Haiku: Ah!
Riddle Sideways: get dropped off there and maybe never get a ride
Eden Haiku: New Mexicans were not hitchhikers friendly?
Riddle Sideways: no! they are
Riddle Sideways: just that exit
Eden Haiku: Or just such a desertic place I guess
Riddle Sideways: your ride was turning off there, so out you went
Eden Haiku: Ah!
Riddle Sideways: entering cars were going too fast to stop
Eden Haiku: :) A tequila bottle between their legs :)
Riddle Sideways: giggles
Eden Haiku: remembers funny pages from Kerouac's
Eden Haiku: That scared me though, the drunk drivers :)
Riddle Sideways: yep

Exciting times

Eden Haiku: They would offer us a beet as soon as we got into their car :)
Eden Haiku: *beer
Riddle Sideways: then go very fast, then very slow all over the road
Eden Haiku: We lived in exciting times :0
Riddle Sideways: "here have a beet"
Eden Haiku: Or a beating?
Riddle Sideways: "One more beet for the road"
Eden Haiku:   Do we still? "Live in exciting times" as Piet Hut says in his foreword of Maxine's book?  
Riddle Sideways: sounds like a Far Side cartoon
Eden Haiku: giggles
Riddle Sideways:yes! we always live in exciting times
Riddle Sideways: feel them
Eden Haiku: Read somewhere thatwe should be more concerned about artificiel intelligence developments than about islamic state crazyness
Eden Haiku: Exciting times indeed...
Riddle Sideways: the excitement over the next few weeks

A hippie cat

Riddle Sideways: young/fat cat has just come in to announce the excitement over dawn and not raining and should go now ... NOW
Eden Haiku: Ah yes, January 20th....
Eden Haiku: Now!
Eden Haiku: It’s a hippie cat;)It wants the world and it wants it NOW!\
Riddle Sideways: Many Sci-Fi movies and books have told of AI threats for years
Eden Haiku: Robots are almost there
Eden Haiku: Cute little Japanese personal assistants
Riddle Sideways: Capitalist cat: all ur yarn ballz r r's
Riddle Sideways: yes, been reading about them
Eden Haiku: hehe, be gentle to the young cat :)
Riddle Sideways: pet projects now are AI software bots
Eden Haiku: Like a small child. keeping your accounts and passwords I guess
Riddle Sideways: maybe should be scared
Riddle Sideways: they are Listening
Eden Haiku: They are :)
Riddle Sideways: supposedly listening only for their name and awake up phrase
Riddle Sideways: but ...

--BELL--

Siri was trying to understand

Eden Haiku: Hopefully, we won't lose our memory too soon. All these trigger words to remember :)
Riddle Sideways: yes,
Riddle Sideways: was trying to teach mother-in-law
Riddle Sideways:to put a verb at start of sentence
Riddle Sideways:Siri was trying to understand
Eden Haiku: Was reading your chatting alone last week session. Very moving, the father-in-law short term memory blanks.
Riddle Sideways: Oh the rambles
Eden Haiku: Siri doesn't even understand me most of the time :(
Eden Haiku: No, you were not rambling. There was the Listener and then we can read your thoughts.
Riddle Sideways: She says Siri and the Lexus and the phone don't understand her voice
Riddle Sideways: so she gives incomplete sentences to us
Riddle Sideways: to straighten out and ask the machines
Riddle Sideways:Google seems better at Yoda sentences
Eden Haiku: "the mind is a wonderful thing/ So full of Big Data'. Love that :)
Riddle Sideways: wonder tomorrow weather we will have in N.Y.
Eden Haiku: Oh, you are in New York City?
Eden Haiku: Exciting city!
Riddle Sideways: no, just an example sentence she would just blurt out
Eden Haiku: Ah, I see....
Riddle Sideways: too exciting a city for this simple person
Eden Haiku: Just tested Siri, asking him to open Play as Being. He offerd a list of drugstores near my place....
Riddle Sideways: :)
Eden Haiku: The fact that I speak to him in French confuses him when I use English words.
Riddle Sideways: just tested "hello, phone" and "hello tablet" and they pretended not to be listening :)
Eden Haiku: This he can understand. I said Bonjour and he answered bonjour. Good boy!
Eden Haiku: Many funny videos about people chatting with their Siri
Riddle Sideways: bet there is
Riddle Sideways: to do list = watch hours and hours of Siri talking
Eden Haiku: A great to do list :)
Riddle Sideways: phone has a new trick. goes into car mode (no fingers allowed) when moved near car bluetooth
Riddle Sideways:and won't come out of car mode by any push button, swapping or fingers
Eden Haiku: I can see myself asking my cute little Japanese robot to bring me a glass of water and he switches the oven on :(
Riddle Sideways: :}
Eden Haiku: Oh, that must be very inconvenient.
Riddle Sideways: Oh! what is that movie
Riddle Sideways: name
Eden Haiku: Her?
Riddle Sideways: ummm "Frank and Robot"
Riddle Sideways: looking
Eden Haiku: ah, haven't seen that one :(
Riddle Sideways: "Robot and Frank"
Eden Haiku: Is it good?
Riddle Sideways: really liked it
Riddle Sideways: a couple others in this house did not like it

--BELL--

Riddle Sideways: but is on the same subject
Eden Haiku: Adding watching ¨Robot and Frank¨ to to do list:)

Japanese robots,  warped intel and an old cat called Minnie

Riddle Sideways: how your little japanese friend will care for you in your old age
Riddle Sideways: falls in the 'cute' catagory
Eden Haiku: Why don't they program cats to do that for us?
Riddle Sideways: does have some twists tho
Riddle Sideways: basic differences between cats and dogs
Riddle Sideways: we can train dogs
Eden Haiku: Would love to have a real cat with AI
Riddle Sideways: cats can train us
Eden Haiku: It would be a very independent IA....
Eden Haiku: giggles
Riddle Sideways:cats have W.I.
Riddle Sideways: warped intel or weird intel
Eden Haiku: hehe
Riddle Sideways: wicked I
Eden Haiku: Is the old cat still alive?
Riddle Sideways: oh dear!! just looked over and am being stared at ... Minnie knows what is being written
Eden Haiku: Love you Minnie.
Eden Haiku: Give her a hug for me would you?
Riddle Sideways: yes, old cat is still alive, but seems a bit weaker
Riddle Sideways: old cat 's place is in a living room chair this week
Riddle Sideways: Minnie don't like hugs
Eden Haiku: Cats do know everything don't they? When you look into their eyes, you can get all the answers
Eden Haiku: oh, I see. She's too fragile too I guess.
Riddle Sideways:likes petting, food, getting on the other side of any door, food, for us to listen, food and some new kind of food
Eden Haiku: She's so catlike!!!
Eden Haiku:loves Minnie cat :)
Riddle Sideways:love is a strong word to apply to a cat that pounces on sleeping body, walking from feet to head at 3am
Riddle Sideways: oh lookie at the time
Riddle Sideways: how it get so late
Eden Haiku: Such a dear :)
Riddle Sideways: got garbage and recycling to do
Eden Haiku: Yes, I know....We better go to our to-do lists I guesss
Riddle Sideways: got AI to program
Riddle Sideways: got robots to build
Eden Haiku: Have fun and let Minnie inspire you for the AI program Riddle:)
Eden Haiku: Have a great start of the week!
Riddle Sideways: yes
Riddle Sideways: No Minnie attitude in robots
Eden Haiku: And sorry again for the fallen redwood :)
Riddle Sideways: so sad
Eden Haiku: Will skate back to my yurt :)
Riddle Sideways: laughs, got ya with the snowball