The Guardian for this meeting was Eos Amaterasu. The comments are by Eos Amaterasu.

Eos Amaterasu: Hi Korel
Eos Amaterasu: Sorry to be late - got totally absorbed in composing a sentence
Korel Laloix smiles
Korel Laloix: Must be some setance.
Korel Laloix: Care to share it?
Eos Amaterasu: :-)
Korel Laloix: Or too personal?
Eos Amaterasu: There are so many shades of meaning that it is hard to say something both precisely and with the right tone in a very few words.
Eos Amaterasu: (not ready for prime time sharing, Korel :-)
Korel Laloix: True... and when people go through that mouch trouble, the subtelties are usualy lost on me.
Eos Amaterasu: But we could make up our own sentences here!
Korel Laloix: No worries.

--BELL--

Eos Amaterasu: thank you bell
Korel Laloix: YOu ever look at the anual worst sentance competion?
Eos Amaterasu: uh oh, no
Korel Laloix: http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/
Eos Amaterasu: hmm, yes, a dark and stormy topic
Eos Amaterasu: sometimes the sentences here at the pavilion are like magical lily pads with traces of avatar soul
Eos Amaterasu: sometimes interweaving patterns
Korel Laloix: You could probably enter a few sentances from here into the contest I think... smiles

Eos Amaterasu: the theme for this week, btw, is "connections"
Eos Amaterasu: (next week is "boredom")
Korel Laloix: What kinds of connections?
Eos Amaterasu: Paradise Tennant: exploring connections :)) how we all seem to be connected on some level ?
Eos Amaterasu: (from this Sunday's guardian meeting)
Eos Amaterasu: through this place we are connected, Korel
Eos Amaterasu: and what brings us to this place?
Korel Laloix: Interesting and good chat.... and company while I am bored at work.
Korel Laloix: Heya.
Lila Darkmatter: Hi Korel, Eos :)
Eos Amaterasu: I thought I heard a thumping
Eos Amaterasu: Hi Lila
Lila Darkmatter: crackling... ?
Eos Amaterasu: those are geese
Korel Laloix: I have mentioned a couple of times before, but I have been in Sl for a quarter of my life.
Korel Laloix: So I have some very strong connections through here.
Eos Amaterasu: hmm
Eos Amaterasu listens
Korel Laloix: Not PaB specifically.
Lila Darkmatter: *too*
Korel Laloix: But Sl in general.
Eos Amaterasu: maybe you're part of a new developing species, Korel
Eos Amaterasu: from early on living in virtual worlds
Korel Laloix: And the thing is.... in some ways, I tend to be more honest in here when talking to my long term friends.... as there is still a sort of saftery blanket in the physical seperation and partial anonymity.
Lila Darkmatter: a sort of safe space made
Eos Amaterasu: sufficient trust, perhaps
Korel Laloix: But Sl does act somewhat like alcohol.. lowers your inhibitions on some things.
Lila Darkmatter: it can, nods
Eos Amaterasu: lowers consequences?
Lila Darkmatter: hm not sure of that...but there are so many distinctions - I am probably more open with all friends due to relating here - like a different bar, or less neediness

--BELL--

Eos Amaterasu: PaB - a different bar :-)
Korel Laloix: Yes.. in the sex sims, the consequences are far lower than in RL.
Eos Amaterasu: biology without biology
Korel Laloix: I am under the impression that men and women have very different conversations at bars.
Lila Darkmatter: different from SL conversations?
Korel Laloix: Could be.
Korel Laloix: Would be an interesting paper.
Lila Darkmatter nods.... would have to do many field studies :)
Eos Amaterasu: men talking with men at RL bars, vs women talking with women at RL bars?
Korel Laloix: Sometimes reserach design can be so much fun.. smiles
Korel Laloix: Yes.
Lila Darkmatter: first, you need a snow globe...
Eos Amaterasu: !
Lila Darkmatter grins
Korel Laloix: I have one... smiles
Lila Darkmatter: hah!
Eos Amaterasu looks eagerly
Korel Laloix: But there are large bodies of work that highlight general differences between comunications paterns with respect to gender.
Korel Laloix: Just wonder what the topic dynmic would be in bars.
Lila Darkmatter: yes, even from earliest ages - would be interesting to know how text changes that
Lila Darkmatter: or doesn't :
Eos Amaterasu: in virtual worlds (such as poetry) communication can cross body and gender boundaries and patterns.....
Korel Laloix: Or attempt to... smiles.. sorry, not a poetry person.
Lila Darkmatter: nice noticing, Eos
Lila Darkmatter: I'm sure that in RL bars there is less talk of teleporting ;-) or, maybe anyway...
Eos Amaterasu: "how about we TP home?"
Lila Darkmatter: "fly up to my place.."
Korel Laloix: lol
Eos Amaterasu: that sense of trust you were talking about, Korel
Korel Laloix: That gave me a bit of a giggle.. thanks.
Lila Darkmatter: :)
Eos Amaterasu: in SL, having spent a quarter of your life with SL
Eos Amaterasu: seems like it would be built on ongoing little intersections of your identity and others' identities
Eos Amaterasu: identity with more playful plasticity, being in SL
Korel Laloix: True.
Korel Laloix: There are some strang aspects here.
Korel Laloix: And I have noticed that meeting peopel RL, we usualy dont get along as well.
Lila Darkmatter: some element that enters into a RL conversation that is absent in SL ? or vice versa?
Korel Laloix: Never figured it out.

--BELL--

Korel Laloix: Back in a bit...
Lila Darkmatter: Eos... missing your photo on the board...
Eos Amaterasu: Oh!
Eos Amaterasu: So I just send Bleu a photo?
Lila Darkmatter: there is a booth behind the board, where you take your snap
Lila Darkmatter: then send to Bleu :)
Eos Amaterasu: take the snap how, using a screen capture?
Lila Darkmatter: well I used texture to take one of mine.. but it wasn't friendly enough...
Lila Darkmatter: later I used the "save to disk" option with the SL camera
Eos Amaterasu: rummaging in firestorm for the camera
Lila Darkmatter: that saves it just like a regular picture file ... well I have a 'hybrid' firestorm
Lila Darkmatter: so mine is a small button at the bottom
Lila Darkmatter: that looks like a camera :)
Eos Amaterasu: There it is, under Avatar menu
Lila Darkmatter: Oh, there is that way too ^ ^
Lila Darkmatter: if you're a menu sort of guy rather than button pusher, haha
Lila Darkmatter: ah, getting silly ... think time for bed but looking forward to seeing your snap
Eos Amaterasu: I just flounder
Eos Amaterasu: Lila wants to capture a snap
Lila Darkmatter: float ... flounce...flutter....
Lila Darkmatter: :)
Lila Darkmatter: nice to see you, pleasant sleep
Lila Darkmatter waves
Eos Amaterasu: beautiful dress
Eos Amaterasu: bye lila
Lila Darkmatter: Thanks :) nite