2011.03.08 13:00 - Scrabble Cats

The Guardian for this meeting was Bruce Mowbray. The photo is by Bruce Mowbray.

Bruce Mowbray: Hi, Samuo!
oO0Oo Resident: Hi Bruce :)
Wol Euler: hello sam, hello bruce
Bruce Mowbray: Hey, Wol!
oO0Oo Resident: I like your t-shirt, and you are also wearing a red ribbon
oO0Oo Resident: Hi Wol
Bruce Mowbray: yeppers.
Bruce Mowbray: Bleu designed the shirts.
Bruce Mowbray: I think, anyway.
Wol Euler nods.
Wol Euler: the logo is older, I don't remember who made that
Bruce Mowbray: Mmmm. . . me neither.
Bruce Mowbray wonders -- Is this the same time as Maxine's Dream Group?
Wol Euler: oh, yes it is
Wol Euler: I always forget that
Bruce Mowbray: ok, thanks.
Wol Euler: hello darren
Bruce Mowbray: Hey, Darren.
Darren Islar: hi everyone :)
Darren Islar: oops
oO0Oo Resident: Hi leaping dreamer ;)
Darren Islar: :)
Darren Islar: hi Aphro
Aphrodite Macbain: Hi
Wol Euler: hello aph
Bruce Mowbray: Hey, Aph!
Aphrodite Macbain: hello everyone
oO0Oo Resident: Hi Aph :), Hi Ping :)
Aphrodite Macbain: Like my afro?
Wol Euler: ping?
Aphrodite Macbain: my Himalayan panda
Darren Islar: hmmmm, the cat I suppose
Wol Euler: nice!
Bruce Mowbray: Cool 'fro' Aph!
Wol Euler: ah! right
Darren Islar: oh, sory :)
oO0Oo Resident: red panda
Aphrodite Macbain: right sam
Aphrodite Macbain: new look - scares ping tho
Darren Islar: before we know it, we have as many pats as avatars here :)
Wol Euler: tickles his nose, probably :)
Aphrodite Macbain: he he we need out pets
Aphrodite Macbain: our pets
Aphrodite Macbain: I feel like I've been away for ages
Darren Islar wonders what they are talking about ?
Aphrodite Macbain: the little animal on my shoulder darren
Wol Euler: Aphro's shoulder pet
Bruce Mowbray: The brownish pet on Aph's left shoulder is a Himalayan panda.
Darren Islar: yes together with blub and Arches cat....
Bruce Mowbray: yep!
Wol Euler: and somebody had a parrot the other day.
Aphrodite Macbain: his brother is Pong
Bruce Mowbray: blub waves a fin. . .
Aphrodite Macbain: I used to have a sea horse but I lost her
Darren Islar waves back
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, Aph, and she used to swim so FAR away from you -- no wonder she got lost.
Aphrodite Macbain: perhaps when I was at the Think Tank
Aphrodite Macbain: she may have found a friend
Bruce Mowbray: Oh yes -- that would be a strong possibility.
Aphrodite Macbain: brb
Wol Euler nods.
Darren Islar: :)
Bruce Mowbray: ok.
--BELL--
Bleu Oleander: hi everyone :)
Wol Euler: hello bleu
Aphrodite Macbain: Hello Bleu
Darren Islar: hi Bleu
Bruce Mowbray: Hey ya, Bleu.
Wol Euler: this is like the meeting of two trade delegations.
Bleu Oleander: :)
Bleu Oleander: has everyone started the new Art of Being project? :))
Wol Euler coughs and looks at her shoes
Bruce Mowbray: not yet -- but it looks like fun.
Aphrodite Macbain: not yet but it sounds intriguing. especially making a sculpture
Bleu Oleander: (took advantage of the silence to promote)
Wol Euler smiles.
Aphrodite Macbain: good way to get us all to read the wikis
oO0Oo Resident: Hi Bleu, the new project looks very inspiring.
Bleu Oleander: sculptures do sound fun
Aphrodite Macbain: will take things into 3 dimensions
Bleu Oleander: Storm had a sample one there
Aphrodite Macbain: a sculpture?
Bleu Oleander: yes
Wol Euler: he works fast.
Aphrodite Macbain: I gather he has installed plinths too
Bleu Oleander: we actually started these projects with sculptures
Darren Islar: yes :)
Bruce Mowbray: Hey, Bleu -- Do you think it would be all right if I made my sculpture in another program (Poser) then took a photo of it - and then posted that in the dome?
Bruce Mowbray: Or are we expected to "build" a sculpture with prims inside SL?
Bleu Oleander: sure, I think so
Bruce Mowbray: ok -- Thanks.
Bruce Mowbray: That would be easier for me, I think.
Bleu Oleander: can you bring the sculpture into SL?
Aphrodite Macbain: what's Poser?
Bleu Oleander: actually the photo doesn't need to be of a sculpture
Bruce Mowbray: unfortunately, Poser figures do not import into SL -- a different sort of 3D is used. . .
Bruce Mowbray: but I can same an image of it and bring that instead.
Aphrodite Macbain: oh
Bruce Mowbray: *save
Aphrodite Macbain: I thought I'd construct a shape and decorate it
Darren Islar: Poser is used for animations....... oh I see.....
Bleu Oleander: photo or sculpture or one of each illustrating the "wisdom" you've found in the logs
Bruce Mowbray: Poser is a 3D imaging program, Aph.
Aphrodite Macbain: like SL
Bruce Mowbray: cool -- I like the freedom of that, Bleu.
Bleu Oleander: so you don't need to build a sculpture if you don't want to
Bruce Mowbray: Not like SL (Poser) because it is not interactive -- . . .
Bruce Mowbray: and it is not virtual reality -- it is just an imaging program.
Bleu Oleander: could be a short performance piece also
Aphrodite Macbain: oh
Aphrodite Macbain: performance piece- the mind reels
Bruce Mowbray: performance for those who can use voice. . . That sounds good.
Bleu Oleander: dance, song, poem
Bleu Oleander: tableau
Aphrodite Macbain: perhaps they can also be used in the April 1 birthday celebrations
Wol Euler: oooh, get a bunch of anim poseballs and create a tableau vivant from pabbers
Bleu Oleander: yes, exactly Wol
Aphrodite Macbain: yes wol great idea!
Bruce Mowbray: ;-)
Darren Islar: sounds like fun :)
Aphrodite Macbain: a tableau vivant - hee hee
Aphrodite Macbain rubs her hands
Aphrodite Macbain: It would be fun if it were a collaborative art piece
Bleu Oleander: might be fun to work on a project together
Wol Euler nods.
Bleu Oleander: yes, Aph
Aphrodite Macbain: requires a bit more organization and planning...
Aphrodite Macbain: but the results could be fun
Bleu Oleander: you're good at that Aph :)
--BELL--
Aphrodite Macbain: I like to think I am. not sure if it's true
Aphrodite Macbain: my cat is sleeping ON CAPS LOCK
Bleu Oleander: :)
Bleu Oleander: cat caps
Aphrodite Macbain: heheh
oO0Oo Resident: intrigueing 1st line
oO0Oo Resident: or novel title
Darren Islar: :)
Aphrodite Macbain: how about if each of us made a box with images on 3 sides thatcould be arranged in a variety of ways....
Aphrodite Macbain: just thinking ...
Bleu Oleander: for a photo?
Bruce Mowbray listens.
Aphrodite Macbain: no, lines up in a 3-d row like kds blocks
Bleu Oleander: sculptures have to be 2m high x 1m x1m max
Aphrodite Macbain: kids alphabet blocks
Aphrodite Macbain: That would work (the size)
Bleu Oleander: and sit on the plinths Storm is using
Aphrodite Macbain: They could be rearanged to say different things like those firidge magnets with words on them
Wol Euler: !
Aphrodite Macbain: everyone could submit one block
Aphrodite Macbain: sorry - monkey brain
Aphrodite Macbain: most avis would want to create their own art work
Bleu Oleander: that could be your piece and everyone else could do one too
Aphrodite Macbain: yes. and if anyone wants to add to the piece, they can
Bleu Oleander: nice
Bruce Mowbray: cool idea, Aph.
Aphrodite Macbain: when is this due Bleu?
Bleu Oleander: April 1
Bleu Oleander: for the 3rd Anniversary Weekend Spectacular :)
Aphrodite Macbain: ok if people feel it might work, I'll see waht I can do
Darren Islar scratches his beard, something fishie about that date :)
Bleu Oleander: ha!
Aphrodite Macbain: he he
Aphrodite Macbain: anything can happen
Darren Islar: yep :)
Bleu Oleander: needs to be inspired by the logs
Darren Islar: I can make it fischie...... :))
Bleu Oleander: random diving and reading
Aphrodite Macbain: yes - that will help I think
Aphrodite Macbain: how leaping?
Bleu Oleander: that too
Aphrodite Macbain: he he
Darren Islar: well you never tell when the 1st of arpil is coming up, but .... I really don't know :)
Wol Euler: hello chi
Aphrodite Macbain ponders the concept of diving and reading.....p
Bruce Mowbray: Hey, Chi!
Darren Islar: hi Chi
Bleu Oleander: hi Chi
Aphrodite Macbain: Greetings Chi
Chi Aho: Hi, everyone!
Darren Islar looks at Blub.....
Bruce Mowbray: Blub waves a fin at LP.
Darren Islar: don't worry I wasn't talking about Blub :)
Darren Islar waves back
Bruce Mowbray: "Something Fishy" --- hmmmmm.
Aphrodite Macbain: Ping licks her lips
Darren Islar: does something start to get form in your mind Bruce :)
Bruce Mowbray: Well,,,, you are assuming that I have a mind to form something in. . .
Wol Euler: :)
oO0Oo Resident waves at Chi.. finally looking up from the chat history :)
Darren Islar: eh yeah....... I actually do :)
Chi Aho: yes!
Bruce Mowbray: Actually, I was sort of surprised that the expression "something fishy" would be used in Holland.
Darren Islar: it isn't, in Dutch that is, but we do use quite some American expressions
Bruce Mowbray: also (pardon me for mentioning this) but, you are all gray to me, Leaping -- and have been from the start of this session -- but that could just be my machine.
Darren Islar: am I the only gray one?
--BELL--
Darren Islar: (maybe I should relog)
Wol Euler: no
Wol Euler: too late
Bruce Mowbray wishes he'd not said anything about gray. . . .
Chi Aho: Everyone looks very clear to me.
Aphrodite Macbain: Bruce is gray to me and all I see of wol are her boots
Wol Euler: I'll rebake
Chi Aho: When i logged on a bit ago i had to rebake and then found myself nude
Aphrodite Macbain: better wol
Wol Euler: just say the word :)
Bruce Mowbray: That's really fishy, isn't it -- everyone looks fine to me now -- except for Leaping - whom I cannot see at all.
Chi Aho: so i had to dress
Wol Euler: no need to suffer in silence :)
Aphrodite Macbain: yes, I arived naked too. very disconcerting
Bruce Mowbray is naked under all these clothes. . .
oO0Oo Resident: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Meaning: A feeling that something fishy or suspicious is going on. Example: "This situation doesn't feel right. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark." Origins: The play Hamlet. The character Marcellus states this when Hamlet is hallucinating and seeing the ghost of the recently deceased king. This phrase is especially used when describing scandals.
oO0Oo Resident: .
Aphrodite Macbain: thanks Sam, so rotten = fishy?
oO0Oo Resident: the idea beying you could smell the rotting fish from as far away as...
Aphrodite Macbain: Sweden
Wol Euler: hello zon
Bleu Oleander: hi Zon
Zon Kwan: hey all
oO0Oo Resident: Hi Zon
Aphrodite Macbain: hi Zon
Chi Aho: hello, zon
oO0Oo Resident: shakespeare was projecting
oO0Oo Resident: like we all do
Bruce Mowbray: Hi, Zon.
Zon Kwan: topic ?
Aphrodite Macbain: all over the block
Aphrodite Macbain: but rotting fish primarily
Wol Euler: mostly the new art project
Chi Aho: wb, darren
Bruce Mowbray: wb, LP. You look fine now.
Wol Euler: wb LP
Darren Islar: thanks :)
Darren Islar: I had been tp-ing a lot
Aphrodite Macbain: Hi darren. You're still gray to me
Darren Islar: hi Zon :)
Zon Kwan: hi darren
Aphrodite Macbain: TPing is hard on the body
Darren Islar: yes :)
Darren Islar: and I was on a very laggy sim.....
Aphrodite Macbain: laggy sim = useful words for scrabble
Darren Islar: sl-scrabble
Aphrodite Macbain: right. we need a new scrabble dictionary that includes SL words
Aphrodite Macbain APPLAUDS!!!
Aphrodite Macbain: sorry that was my cat that made me applaud
Wol Euler: a likely story :)
Aphrodite Macbain: ;_0
Darren Islar: blame the cat :)
Aphrodite Macbain: true - she's a smart cat
Bruce Mowbray: I've written computer programs that use the actual Scrabble dictionary -- There are 179,000 words in it.
Bleu Oleander: talented cal
Darren Islar: wow
Bruce Mowbray: You can get it online, you know.
Bruce Mowbray: free.
Aphrodite Macbain: wow. half of them we have probably never used
Bruce Mowbray: right, Aph.
Aphrodite Macbain: Must be handy since it's up-to-date
Darren Islar: In a way I'm not good with words, I always loose with playing scrabble :)
Bruce Mowbray: You can also get lists for 4- letter, 5-l;etter, 6-letter words, etc.
Aphrodite Macbain: hmmm. that would be cheating...
Aphrodite Macbain: and would take far too long
Darren Islar: lists..... suddenly looks interesting :)
Bleu Oleander: could probably also get a computer to play for you
Aphrodite Macbain: yes - a real challenge!
Aphrodite Macbain: No thinking required
Bruce Mowbray: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adam.bo...abblelists.htm
oO0Oo Resident: ty Bruce
Bleu Oleander: plug 'n play
Aphrodite Macbain: thanks Bruce
Bruce Mowbray: yw
Zon Kwan: hm 4 letter words..
Darren Islar: problem is, it's in English :(
Bruce Mowbray: ADZUKIS AGATIZE AGENIZE AGNIZED AGNIZES AGONIZE ALBIZIA ALCAZAR AMAZING AMAZONS ANALYZE ANODIZE APPRIZE ARABIZE ASSIZES ATOMIZE AZALEAS AZIMUTH AZOTISE AZOTIZE AZURITE AZYGOUS BANZAIS BAPTIZE BAZAARS BAZOOKA BAZOOMS BEDIZEN BEEZERS BEGAZED BEGAZES BENZENE
Bruce Mowbray: That's English?
Bleu Oleander: greek to me
Aphrodite Macbain: there is only one Z in scrabble
Darren Islar: yes, sorry......
Bruce Mowbray: They probably have a Dutch one somewhere, LP.
Aphrodite Macbain: Bedizen?
Darren Islar: not all f it....
Darren Islar: oh, for sure......
oO0Oo Resident: ελληνικά σε μένα
Bruce Mowbray: http://thepixiepit.co.uk/scrabble/dutch.html
Darren Islar: you're saying sam ?
oO0Oo Resident: translates as: that's greek to me
Aphrodite Macbain: yup greek to me
Wol Euler: bedizen means "to dress up gaudily"
Zon Kwan: i love u too
Darren Islar: thanks Bruce :)
oO0Oo Resident: i love you 3
Wol Euler: (knew I'd seen the word, but had to look it up)
Aphrodite Macbain: 5
--BELL--
Aphrodite Macbain: a bedizened jexebel
Aphrodite Macbain: jezebel
Zon Kwan: u too
oO0Oo Resident: uuu
oO0Oo Resident: u all
Agatha Macbeth: Greetings
Chi Aho: Hi, Agatha
Wol Euler: hi aggs
Bruce Mowbray: Hey, aggers.
oO0Oo Resident: Hi Agatha :)
Bleu Oleander: hi Aggers
Wol Euler: finished dreaming?
Agatha Macbeth: Yep
Chi Aho: We are discussing whether sl cats applaud scrabble word dictionary programs
Agatha Macbeth: For now
Wol Euler: big hair.
Chi Aho: or was it the programmers?
Agatha Macbeth: Who the cats?
Bruce Mowbray: especiall when the cats use capital letters.
Agatha Macbeth: What about dogs?
Chi Aho: lol
Agatha Macbeth: Or am I barking up the wrong tree?
Wol Euler: cats came up because Aph's cat was sleeping on her keyboard
Agatha Macbeth: Ah
Darren Islar: a bit late: hi Aggers
Agatha Macbeth: Hello Mr Panther :)
Darren Islar: :)
Chi Aho: Darren, your name tag isn't showing; does that mean you can't see our name tags either?
Agatha Macbeth: Sleeping on the keyboard eh?
Bruce Mowbray: I see Darren's tag.
Agatha Macbeth: I do that sometimes
Bleu Oleander: I see it too
Wol Euler: so do I, zoom out a bit perhaps, Chi
Chi Aho: yes; it suddenly appeared
Chi Aho: after the zoom
Agatha Macbeth: Maybe some viewers don't show them
Bruce Mowbray: Bye, Aph!
Chi Aho: I just need to know why i showed up in a cloud earlier and after rebake appeared nude
Aphrodite Macbain: Bye
Aphrodite Macbain: I'm off to tend to things Bye! everyone
Darren Islar: I have turned the tags on for myself to see, but I dont' think that has any effect on my own tag
Wol Euler: server lag
Wol Euler: bye aph, take care
Zon Kwan: waves...
Agatha Macbeth: Bye Aphro, and pussy
Wol Euler: bye bleu, be happy
Bleu Oleander: bye all :) take care
oO0Oo Resident: Bye Aph
Chi Aho: i waited until all inventory items were in before rebaking
Bruce Mowbray: Bye bye Bleu.
Chi Aho: bye bleu
Agatha Macbeth: Bye Bleu
oO0Oo Resident: Bye Bleu
Darren Islar: bye Aph and ting or something :)
Darren Islar: bye Bleu
Darren Islar: okay, more comments about my avi or tag :)
Wol Euler: :)
Chi Aho: appears clear now
Agatha Macbeth: Can see both clearly
Wol Euler sees no need to comment.
Darren Islar: :)
Darren Islar: thanks Wol :)
Chi Aho: Sorry my Wednesday talks conflict with PaB meetings
Agatha Macbeth: Is there another one this week?
Chi Aho: yes
Agatha Macbeth: Ah, good
Chi Aho: Encounters with the Spirit: From Meditation to Mystical Experiences
Agatha Macbeth: Sounds good
Chi Aho: It will be in 2-3 parts
Agatha Macbeth: Right
Agatha Macbeth: At Osho again?
Chi Aho: I just finished a 3 part series on Emotional, Moral and Spiritual Development
Chi Aho: yes, osho at 1:00 p.m. (sorry)
Chi Aho: Wednesdays
Agatha Macbeth grins. Thanks
Chi Aho: After that I think I might do some on humanism
Agatha Macbeth: Yay, go for it! :)
Chi Aho: since i believe that humanism is not inconsistent with theism
Agatha Macbeth: All good stuff
Darren Islar: sounds interesting
Agatha Macbeth: Oh definitely not incosistent i would say
Chi Aho: And I don't think that what we believe is so important; its more about what we experience, as i see it
Wol Euler: rather like Play as Being, then.
Agatha Macbeth: Or what we think
Wol Euler smiles.
Wol Euler: my dears, I'm off to bed. I am too tired.
--BELL--
Wol Euler: goodnight all, be happy and productive
Agatha Macbeth: Bye oh tired one
Chi Aho rushes to tuck Wol in
Darren Islar: nite Wol :)
Wol Euler: bfn
Bruce Mowbray: Good night. Thanks!
Agatha Macbeth: Looks like that's about it then
Darren Islar: I need to visit some other place, goodnight all
Agatha Macbeth: Bye folks, have fun
Chi Aho: goodnight all
Chi Aho: How have you been, Sam?
oO0Oo Resident: [14:14] Chi Aho: And I don't think that what we believe is so important; its more about what we experience, as i see it
oO0Oo Resident: mmm
Chi Aho: i was thinking about theological beliefs
oO0Oo Resident: our experiences resonate
oO0Oo Resident: ripple out
Chi Aho: Like, would it be more important to believe in the holy spirit or to experience the holy spirit?
oO0Oo Resident: one experience needs no label
oO0Oo Resident: and infects the world
Chi Aho: ???
oO0Oo Resident: so a leap to what's important
oO0Oo Resident: like
oO0Oo Resident: tucking someone in
oO0Oo Resident: gestures
Chi Aho: haha
oO0Oo Resident: hehe
oO0Oo Resident: yes
oO0Oo Resident: ty Chi
oO0Oo Resident: seeing you, i will soon ;)
Chi Aho: i must go now
oO0Oo Resident: :))
Chi Aho: yes, c u
oO0Oo Resident: byeee