2024.06.04 07:00 - The making of a Guardian

The Guardian for this meeting was Riddle Sideways. The comments are by Riddle Sideways.

Adams Rubble: Good morning Mr. Sideways :)
Riddle Sideways: Good Morning Ms. Rubble ㋡
   --BELL--
Riddle Sideways: so formal ㋡
Adams Rubble: are you in the heat dome?
Riddle Sideways: had not heard of being in one, but weather forecast jumps way up today
Adams Rubble: Hope everyone can stay hydrated
Riddle Sideways: heard the fire is supposed to be triple digits hot
Adams Rubble: fire?

Riddle Sideways: Morning Sable
Adams Rubble: Good morning Sable :)
SableHunt Resident: Good morning friends! <3

Riddle Sideways: heard there is a fire up toward Tracy CA
Adams Rubble: is there more fire in CA?
Adams Rubble: ohhh
Riddle Sideways: the season is starting
Adams Rubble shakes head
Adams Rubble is no fan of global warming
SableHunt Resident checks national wildfire and smoke map...
Riddle Sideways: nope.don't like climate chahges

Adams Rubble: BTW, Dibrovna is going to email and ask people if Satursday June 22 is better for anopening talk at the museum. He also is going to do one on Wedneday June 12 at 12 noon SLT
SableHunt Resident: oh! :)
Adams Rubble: He is going to have to warp this up
Adams Rubble: wrap!!!
SableHunt Resident: The Wednesday might be better for Sable. :)
Adams Rubble: hope he doesn;t warp it
SableHunt Resident checks calendar...
Riddle Sideways: the wednesday one would be better for Riddle
Adams Rubble: Not set in stone yet but probably will be one then
Adams Rubble: Agatha is having trouble getting started this morning
SableHunt Resident: argh! That would be double-booked for me as well. :( I attend meetings of an old pagan group back in England that I used to be active in (online, natch), and they are having their monthly talk at exactly the same time. This month will be a guest speaker on “Modern Spiritualism”.

SableHunt Resident: Good time of day, Agatha! <3
Riddle Sideways: Well met, good Agatha
Agatha Macbeth: This is always a good time of day :)
Adams Rubble: Hello Agatha :)
Agatha Macbeth: Is that a renaissance cos...oh never mind...
Adams Rubble: Regency
Agatha Macbeth: Close
Adams Rubble: each three sylabbles with rs es ns cs
SableHunt Resident: They both begin with "re" :)
Agatha Macbeth: George IV and all that?
   --BELL--
Agatha Macbeth: Mr Darcy
Adams Rubble: Mr Sideways
Agatha Macbeth looks sideways

Riddle Sideways: was busy looking sideways at some air quality map
Agatha Macbeth: All you need is the air that you breathe?
SableHunt Resident: I usually visit the maps from here: https://www.airnow.gov/
Riddle Sideways: yes, am looking there
Agatha Macbeth: Air today, gone tomorrow
Riddle Sideways: breath in, breath out
Agatha Macbeth: ?
Agatha Macbeth: Did someone mention Popeye?
Agatha Macbeth: Must be me
Riddle Sideways: yep
Riddle Sideways: and "The Air that I breathe" is a Hollies song
Riddle Sideways: (had to look it up)
SableHunt Resident remembers when it was released
Riddle Sideways: 1974 was sooooo long ago
SableHunt Resident nods
Agatha Macbeth: Only 50 years

SableHunt Resident: Ah... that's difference between Brits and Americans... Brits think 100 miles is a long way, whereas Americans think 100 years is a long time.
Agatha Macbeth: 100 miles IS a long way
SableHunt Resident giggles
Agatha Macbeth: If you have to walk
Adams Rubble: 100 years has become much shorter lately
Adams Rubble: whereas 100 miles has become longer
Riddle Sideways: once again, depends on how ya look at it
   --BELL--
Adams Rubble: drove 66 miles the other day and seemed long
Riddle Sideways: drove 142 miles Saturday and it was very long in traffic jams

Agatha Macbeth: Have you thought any more about starting your sessions up again Sabe?
SableHunt Resident: I could, yes. But this avatar is not a guardian.
Agatha Macbeth: Ah right
Adams Rubble: Making a guardian is just on the group thingy right?
Riddle Sideways: hmmmm, who can do this titling thing
SableHunt Resident: I can't remember how it was done, to be honest!
Adams Rubble: BTW, the end this week is my 16th anniversary in PaB
Riddle Sideways: nope, can't recall either
Adams Rubble: let me look
Agatha Macbeth: I can't invite, not sure who has the permissions
Riddle Sideways: Pema waved a wand?
Agatha Macbeth: Adams is listed as an owner
Agatha Macbeth: Along with Wol and Steve
Riddle Sideways: land owners
Agatha Macbeth: Hm
Adams Rubble: I am having trouble finding you on the finder thingy Sable
Agatha Macbeth: SableHunt Resident
SableHunt Resident: That would be me!
Agatha Macbeth: Absolutely
Adams Rubble: I sent an invittation
Agatha Macbeth: Wey hey!
SableHunt Resident gratefully accepts
Agatha Macbeth: Welcome back :)
SableHunt Resident blushes
Agatha Macbeth: Now we have a janitor again :p
Adams Rubble: Sable becones a guardian on my 16th anniversary :)
Agatha Macbeth: Woot

SableHunt Resident: Oh my! Scrolling through that PaB member list is a real blast from the past :O
Agatha Macbeth: Tis
Agatha Macbeth: I'm amazed at some of the names still on it
SableHunt Resident: That's lovely, Adams! Thank you, and Happy Anniversary! <3
Adams Rubble: I think it is the first time I helped make a guardian :)

Agatha Macbeth: The power of Rubble
SableHunt Resident giggles
Adams Rubble: great cities were built from rubble
Adams Rubble: and some cities became rubble
Agatha Macbeth: Stone me
SableHunt Resident remembers a favorite poem "Ozymandias"
Riddle Sideways: behold the Power of Adams' wand
Agatha Macbeth: We're not in Kansas anymore
      Visual of giant rock rezzed and moved to on top of Agatha
Adams Rubble: you are stoned, Agatha
Agatha Macbeth: Someone is trying to rock me to sleep
SableHunt Resident laughs
   --BELL--

Agatha Macbeth: I see there are four bots out today
Agatha Macbeth: Becoming an army
SableHunt Resident: Is it my failing memory, or could you have some kind of conversation with one of those bots?
Riddle Sideways: more the merrier, maybe
Riddle Sideways: use to be able to do some crude chat replies, but software quits
Agatha Macbeth: Where's Alan Turing when you need him
Riddle Sideways: dead
Riddle Sideways: it was not what you should call conversation, but was code from a Turing contest.
SableHunt Resident: Ah... that would explain my futile attempts. I thought it was my deodorant.
Agatha Macbeth: Yes

Riddle Sideways: hello Adael
Agatha Macbeth: Hi Adael
Adael: Time for my Nine Second Meditation
Adael: you can talk to me
SableHunt Resident: Hello Adael. Please tell us a bit about yourself. :)
Adael: Nice to meet you Sable
Agatha Macbeth: Are you a furlosopher?
SableHunt Resident wonders whether two sentences on the same line is one too many.
Adael: i am a creation of Fael who gave me to Adams and I like typos
SableHunt Resident giggles
Agatha Macbeth: Yay
Agatha Macbeth misses Fael
Adael: i miss Fael too
Riddle Sideways: love typos too
Agatha Macbeth: The ancient art of tai-po
Adael: boooo
SableHunt Resident: aximidental or dedriberlate?
Riddle Sideways: ah knowd it wel
Adael: This hat is in my eyes
Agatha Macbeth: Eye eye
Adams Rubble: everyone has to make sacrifices for the regency
Adael: why do the US have a regency style?
Agatha Macbeth: 'I'm not supposed to go mad until 1800'
Adams Rubble: In the US regency style is in the 1830s. wouldn;t that be Voctoria's regency?
Adams Rubble: Victoria
Agatha Macbeth: Don't forget William IV
Adams Rubble: I see it ended in 1830
Agatha Macbeth nods
SableHunt Resident: Hanoverian
Adams Rubble: anyway, some of my favorite clothes
Agatha Macbeth: Bloody Germans
Riddle Sideways: wonder why Americans don't say Bloody much
Agatha Macbeth: You have other words for the function
SableHunt Resident: Vocabulary moves on
Agatha Macbeth: Notably damn or goddamn

Riddle Sideways: poof
Agatha Macbeth: Oops
Riddle Sideways: Adams poofed
Agatha Macbeth: Weather maybe?
   --BELL--
SableHunt Resident checks east coast weather

SableHunt Resident: Americans have some words that mean completely the opposite in British English
Riddle Sideways: Americans have many words misunderstand by the other political party
Agatha Macbeth: The GOP?

SableHunt Resident: Adams returneth
SableHunt Resident: Welcome back!
Agatha Macbeth: WB dear
Riddle Sideways: *:::* WELCOME BACK *:::*
Adams Rubble: sorry, I crashed
Agatha Macbeth: Aww
Adams Rubble: but I also need to go but just came to say hello
Riddle Sideways: crash Happens
Agatha Macbeth: The crash of Rubble
SableHunt Resident: wyrd happens

Agatha Macbeth: Hello. Bye. ♥
Riddle Sideways: "Hello, I must be going" - Marx brothers
Adams Rubble: I just came to say goodbye :)
Adams Rubble: Have a very nice week
Adams Rubble: shhh
SableHunt Resident: You too! <3
Agatha Macbeth: See you in Regent's park
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: bye
Riddle Sideways: by
Agatha Macbeth: Bi

Agatha Macbeth sighs wistfully
SableHunt Resident: wistfully?
Agatha Macbeth: Dunno why
Agatha Macbeth: Just did
SableHunt Resident: aaaw...
Agatha Macbeth is odd like that
Riddle Sideways: makes a note to sigh wistfully later today
Agatha Macbeth: At 7.30pm
SableHunt Resident looks for a how-to video
Riddle Sideways: must be one

Agatha Macbeth: How 2 the sequel to How?
Agatha Macbeth remembers Fred Dinage well
SableHunt Resident: Oh my! You couldn't broadcast *that* show anymore!
Agatha Macbeth: Titles might be a tad racist
SableHunt Resident: And the opening sequence
Agatha Macbeth: Or at the east stereotyped
Agatha Macbeth: East?
Agatha Macbeth: Least
SableHunt Resident giggles
SableHunt Resident: We are talking about an old children's TV show, Riddle.

Agatha Macbeth: Was glad to see the Washington football team finally got around to changing their name
SableHunt Resident: Yes!
Riddle Sideways: yes
SableHunt Resident: There doesn't seem to be any pressure for any other teams to change
SableHunt Resident thinks about a team 600 miles to the east
Riddle Sideways: was having troubles finding the Fred Dinage. Is it spelt correct
Agatha Macbeth: Do any other teams have perjorative names? Can't think of any
SableHunt Resident: Fred Dinenage
Riddle Sideways: ah
Agatha Macbeth: Ah
Agatha Macbeth: Thanks
Agatha Macbeth: Jack Hargreaves
Agatha Macbeth: I liked him
Agatha Macbeth: The country guy
Agatha Macbeth: John Miller was the scientist
Agatha Macbeth: And Bunty James was the token woman
Agatha Macbeth: Memories
   --BELL--
Riddle Sideways: Bunty Gunn
Agatha Macbeth: Sister of Tommy, Ray and Bren
SableHunt Resident finds a video of a How intro from the 70s (a little later than the even worse intros from the 60s) and cringes.
Riddle Sideways: took a while, but tracked down what you was talking: How and How 2
SableHunt Resident: It's part of British folklore. And as mutually unintelligible to Americans as, say, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
Riddle Sideways: like Peewee's Playhouse
SableHunt Resident nods
Riddle Sideways: like Fox News
SableHunt Resident searches for something witty to say about that dreaded network
Riddle Sideways: don't search too long or hard, there is none
Agatha Macbeth titters

Riddle Sideways: should get some Japanese TV viewers to mention favorite shows
Agatha Macbeth: That would be good
SableHunt Resident: agreed
Agatha Macbeth: The Japanese are mind blowingly creative in such endeavours
SableHunt Resident: They are!
SableHunt Resident also watches shows on CJ ENM
Riddle Sideways: and not watched enough Bollywood
SableHunt Resident wonders what's on Crunchyroll atm
   --BELL--
Riddle Sideways: ohhhh, need to get that app

Riddle Sideways: well folks, need to go watch hundreds of these TV shows
Riddle Sideways: so much was not educated in
SableHunt Resident: Enjoy! And bring us commentary next time, maybe!
Riddle Sideways: ㋡ giggles
Riddle Sideways: by All
Agatha Macbeth: Bye for now
SableHunt Resident: Bye!
Agatha Macbeth: Another enjoyable hour and a half
Agatha Macbeth: TC ♥