The Guardian for this meeting was Riddle Sideways. The comments are by Riddle Sideways joined by Eliza, Yakuzza, Xirana and Storm.

Using Life as a Lab, do the experiment.  Be Mr. Happy Man.

Riddle Sideways: hi Eliza
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Riddle :)
Eliza Madrigal: hope everything is well for you
     Phone rings, mistakenly answer it, cannot get rid of caller
Riddle Sideways: RL distractions today
Eliza Madrigal: it happens :)
                     --BELL-- 

Yakuzza Lethecus: good morning you two
Riddle Sideways: hi Yak
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Ya :)
Yakuzza Lethecus: hi xirana
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Xiri :)
Riddle Sideways: Hi Xir
Xirana Oximoxi: hello Yaky Eliza, Rid! :)
Riddle Sideways: a quiet science day
Xirana Oximoxi: Yaku*
Riddle Sideways: or the lab is quiet
Xirana Oximoxi: but Yaky is also nice:)
Riddle Sideways: thing is that Yaky is not Yacky/talkitive
Yakuzza Lethecus: :)
Eliza Madrigal smiles

Xirana Oximoxi: I've not read the logs of this week:) I am not up to date of what has been told about the subject of this week
Xirana Oximoxi: Life as a Lab?
Yakuzza Lethecus: gosh, life as a lab, not that i wouldn´t constantly think about it, but i guess i don´t consider my thinking very much scientific
Xirana Oximoxi: me either:)
Eliza Madrigal: a few really nice sessions... pema attending two, and yesterday 7am we had an exploration of 'dropping past and future'
Xirana Oximoxi: dropping past and seeing to the future is a good way :)
Yakuzza Lethecus: morning strom
Eliza Madrigal: yaku you are open and curious... one thing is that that stance is quite 'scientific'
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Storm :)
Riddle Sideways: Welcome Storm
Xirana Oximoxi: hello Storm!
Storm Nordwind: Hi there :)
Eliza Madrigal: that's true Xiri... could make another angle of experiment
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Xirana Oximoxi: do you see of feel or thought about your life as an experiment?
Xirana Oximoxi: or a lab?
Riddle Sideways: just observing now and leaving past and future observations out of it
Eliza Madrigal: good question Xiri
Xirana Oximoxi: I've put the verb in past tense... it should be present tense:)
Xirana Oximoxi: think*
Xirana Oximoxi: :)
Eliza Madrigal: :)

Eliza Madrigal: I'll suspend judgment about whether it is an experiiment, for now. There 'are' lots of experiments in my life though... like 'it couldn't be that bad of an idea to have chocolate cake for breakfast could it...' hah
Storm Nordwind chuckles
      Bill Cosby was one of the Philosposores who taught the cake for break-fast 
Storm Nordwind: Here - have some of mine :)
Eliza Madrigal laughs
Xirana Oximoxi: :)))
Yakuzza Lethecus: haha, just had chocolade and made a tomato salad with mozarella directly after it, but it was a bad combination :P
Eliza Madrigal: mmm tomato mozzerella
Xirana Oximoxi: it can be seen as a new 'fashion cuisine' too :))
                     --BELL-- 

Storm Nordwind: How about this as a worthwhile experiment? Try to be happy for a whole day. Or if that's too much, just for the morning. Or even for an hour. Or just for five minutes.
Riddle Sideways: last time the experiment involved Basil leaves on the tomato-mozarella slices too
Yakuzza Lethecus: only had dried :/
Eliza Madrigal has heard that basil greatly inceases happiness quotient
Eliza Madrigal: I like that Storm... would be interesting actually, and to take notes at various points
Storm Nordwind: Indeed
Riddle Sideways: ah the 'has heard' vs. 'has experienced' factors
Riddle Sideways: doing research before experiments
Xirana Oximoxi: I've seen the video on Youtube you've sent Storm! wonderful...that's it...just change our minds for a while and try to be happy or wish a happy day to otheres! very nice
Riddle Sideways: was unable to watch that video
Storm Nordwind: I've found that putting others before self increases my own happiness. It would be interesting if others experimented with that. Or with their own methods.
Eliza Madrigal: wonder if anyone has done an experiment around how the ease of saying "I love you" varies by among groups
Eliza Madrigal: -by
Eliza Madrigal: actually, +by, -among
Xirana Oximoxi: I think hapiness needs to be shared, so, then, if otheres around you arem not happy it's very difficult to feel happy...
Riddle Sideways: singing "I Love You" with the radio is easy. Singing it on stage is a little harder :}
Eliza Madrigal smiles
Xirana Oximoxi: well... to say ?i love you' needs to be trusted to have effect...maybe:)
Eliza Madrigal: wondering about the correlation between ease of saying I love you and happiness... just thinking of Mr Happy :)
Xirana Oximoxi: having positive thpughts is a good step to feel it:)
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Xirana Oximoxi: :)
Storm Nordwind: @Riddle. I could send you the file for the video, but it's 201 Megabytes
Riddle Sideways: Thanks, but will try youiTube version
Riddle Sideways: or in Chrome
Yakuzza Lethecus: can you toss a link to the vid again storm, i think i missed it
Storm Nordwind: http://vimeo.com/36673515
Yakuzza Lethecus: thx
Eliza Madrigal: brb, going to get a piece of cheese to offset the effects of cake, haha...
Storm Nordwind chuckles
Riddle Sideways: has the cake experiment gone bad?
Xirana Oximoxi: :)
Riddle Sideways: bad is too strong a word
Riddle Sideways: for cake
Storm Nordwind: stale?
Riddle Sideways: video experiment report #2: Thanks, that url works in Chrome and not in FF
Xirana Oximoxi: I must go now... I wish you a nice time to all! :-)
Riddle Sideways: nice wish
Eliza Madrigal: bye Xiri :)
Yakuzza Lethecus: bye xirana
Storm Nordwind waves
Xirana Oximoxi: :-) bye take care all:)
Riddle Sideways: by by
Storm Nordwind only uses GG
Storm Nordwind: FF
Riddle Sideways: wasn't GG an old movie
Yakuzza Lethecus: for me it works in FF
Yakuzza Lethecus: 13.01
                     --BELL-- 

Riddle Sideways: well that was a happy peaceful 90-sec
Riddle Sideways: Windows computers and all the fun software make life as a lab easier
Riddle Sideways: the same ol thing is different most times
Riddle Sideways: what the computer could do yesterday doesn't today :)
Yakuzza Lethecus: i love you guys!
Riddle Sideways: smiles
Eliza Madrigal smiles
Storm Nordwind beams
Riddle Sideways: measuring how easy that was
Riddle Sideways: twisting it into some sci. thing
Yakuzza Lethecus: we are trained to be suspicious today, don´t trust altruistic appearances
Eliza Madrigal feels happiner since Yaku's outburst (report)
Eliza Madrigal: *happier
Yakuzza Lethecus: :)
Yakuzza Lethecus: an 88 years old person who does that on the corner and creates trust that there is no selfish gain just the shared gain of collectively increase os happyness
Eliza Madrigal: creates trust... yes!
Riddle Sideways: somebody taking the first step
Eliza Madrigal: and one sees that he may be doing it for others, but that isn't different than for himself... so vibrant, alive
Eliza Madrigal: and he loves 'everybody'... doesn't seem to reduce the impact of indiidual "I love you"s
Eliza Madrigal: reminds me of my son measuring his friends by who laughs the easiest
Riddle Sideways: /grins
Riddle Sideways: and how a child's laughter made the entire airplane of passenger happy
Eliza Madrigal: :))
Eliza Madrigal: *thank you Yaku* and thanks Riddle, Storm, (xiri). I love you guys! :)))
                     --BELL-- 

Eliza Madrigal will report on happiness experiment along the way
Storm Nordwind: Yay!
Storm Nordwind: Namaste
Riddle Sideways: I Love you!
Riddle Sideways: Thank and bye
Yakuzza Lethecus: bye riddle