2014.01.16 13:00 - Two Hour Session!

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    The Guardian for this meeting was Agatha Macbeth. The comments are by Agatha Macbeth.  This quite unexpectedly morphed into one of the longest sessions I've been in for a long while and a number of varied and interesting themes came up (not one of them to do with the topic mind you <chortle>).  It started off with Wol appearing in the guise of a black and white cow...

     

    Agatha Macbeth: Yay
    Agatha Macbeth: there you are :)
    Wol Euler: greetings
    Agatha Macbeth: Why do you look like a cow?
    Wol Euler: good question :)
    Wol Euler: I think it's the result of too much work and not enough free time
    Agatha Macbeth: Moo
    Agatha Macbeth: Be careful or someone may milk you
    Wol Euler: also related to spending a lot of time idling about on the marketplace
    Agatha Macbeth: Yes it's amazing what one can find there
    Wol Euler nods.
    Wol Euler: cow outfits, for example
    --BELL--1315
    Agatha Macbeth: A load of bull
    Agatha Macbeth: Soooo...competition done?
    Wol Euler: yes indeed, and three days off
    Agatha Macbeth: Wuhu!
    Wol Euler: yeah :)
    Agatha Macbeth: Plenty of sleep and WoW then?
    Wol Euler: mmhmm :) in that order
    Agatha Macbeth: How's things healthwise?
    Wol Euler: and also cleaning the apartment etc
    Agatha Macbeth: Yah
    Wol Euler: changing sheets for the first time since new year
    Wol Euler: etc
    Wol Euler: plus some cooking
    Agatha Macbeth: As long as you're well
    Wol Euler: all domesticity has gone to hell in these three weeks
    Wol Euler: I'm getting well, thanks :) not yet entirely there
    Agatha Macbeth: I'm not big in that department myself
    Agatha Macbeth: Hm, I can click on your bell, but no sound
    Wol Euler: yah, I know
    Wol Euler: I've been trying for days to find a cowbell sound
    Wol Euler: one that actually sounds like a cowbell, y'know?
    Wol Euler: I hadn't thought it would be this hard
    Agatha Macbeth: 'You can script my bell, script my bell...'
    Wol Euler: heheheheh
    Wol Euler: I can script it :) but I still need the sound file
    Agatha Macbeth: No boings abroad?
    Agatha Macbeth: Or dongs
    Wol Euler: don't want a boing
    Agatha Macbeth: Clang?
    Wol Euler: I want a proper cowbell, that flat metallic "clunk" sound
    Agatha Macbeth: Ah yes
    Agatha Macbeth: I know it
    Wol Euler nods.
    Wol Euler: anything else is not appropriate
    Agatha Macbeth: Mm, tail doesn't do anything
    Wol Euler: listen, it's a L$50 avatar :)
    Agatha Macbeth: Maybe I expect too much these days
    Wol Euler: it isn't from "these days" :)
    Agatha Macbeth: Oh
    Agatha Macbeth: Never seen it before
    Wol Euler: but it is a cowgirl as opposed to a furry
    Wol Euler: which intrigued me
    Agatha Macbeth: Yes
    Agatha Macbeth: Literally
    Wol Euler smiles.
    Agatha Macbeth: Hello Zon
    Wol Euler: evening zon!
    Wol Euler: so, what's been happening this week?
    Agatha Macbeth: To moi?
    Wol Euler: yes, or generally
    Agatha Macbeth: Jeez, very little
    Agatha Macbeth: Weather is mild which is good
    Wol Euler nods.
    Wol Euler: here too
    Agatha Macbeth: Can stay that way too for me
    Agatha Macbeth: Saves on heating if nothing else
    Agatha Macbeth: You have cow eyes too I see
    Wol Euler: indeed )
    Agatha Macbeth: Makes a change from the usual green
    Wol Euler: part of the avatar :)
    Agatha Macbeth: How's Lorac doing these days?
    Wol Euler: Not sure :) I haven't been in to see in ages. THough I did buy a skin or two lately
    Wol Euler: she's still making stuff
    Agatha Macbeth: Good to hear
    Agatha Macbeth: I see Bryn's shop closed
    Agatha Macbeth: She blogged about it
    Wol Euler: yeah, land / tier problems again
    Agatha Macbeth sighs
    Agatha Macbeth: I'll never get that rabbicorn I always promised myself now :(
    --BELL--1330
    Wol Euler: oh yes you can :) her original shop still exists, complete with rabbicon
    Agatha Macbeth: Oh that's good
    Wol Euler: I was in it less than two hours ago :)
    Wol Euler: L$800
    Agatha Macbeth: Ha
    Agatha Macbeth: Must go and take a look
    Agatha Macbeth: Wonder when/if she's doing anything new
    Agatha Macbeth: Most of Immersiva was fenced off last time I was there
    Wol Euler: there's a sign up that she is preparing someting, but I don'T know if that is current/true or not
    Agatha Macbeth: Ah
    Agatha Macbeth: Will have to keep checking the blog
    Eliza Madrigal: 's current display-name is "Eliza".
    Agatha Macbeth: Liz
    Wol Euler: hello eliza <3
    Eliza Madrigal: Sunji says to give you cookies, Agatha :)
    Eliza Madrigal: Hi Wol :))
    Wol Euler smiles.
    Eliza Madrigal: Hi Zon :)
    Agatha Macbeth: Aww yay
    Eliza Madrigal zooms
    Agatha Macbeth: She wants me to be fat eh
    Eliza Madrigal: wants you to be sweet
    Eliza Madrigal: :P
    Agatha Macbeth: This *IS* Wollie and not a cow incidentally
    Agatha Macbeth: Hey I am sweet!
    Eliza Madrigal: oh, okay.... thanks for clarification
    Wol Euler grins.
    Eliza Madrigal: milk maid?
    Wol Euler: clarity is good
    Zon Kwan: hi Eliza :)
    Agatha Macbeth: I know people in SL called Clarity hehe
    Wol Euler: call it "spent a lot of time looking at the Marketplace in a semi-vegetative state"
    Eliza Madrigal: are they true to their SL name?
    Eliza Madrigal: heheh Wol
    Eliza Madrigal: you deserve that
    Agatha Macbeth: Clarity begins at home maybe?
    Wol Euler: I think so too :)
    Wol Euler: it surely dosen't begin at work :/
    Agatha Macbeth: Aww
    Wol Euler: it's a constant struggle to get people to give you (me) complete information
    Agatha Macbeth: G.I.G.O.
    Eliza Madrigal doesn't even know what complete information would look like
    Wol Euler: well, if you mean "make me a PDF" you might say that, using the word "pdf"
    Wol Euler: rather than saying something that makes me think you want a piece of paper printed out
    Wol Euler: and then being angry at me for not intuiting that you wanted a file.
    Agatha Macbeth: What's PDF in german?
    Wol Euler: "pdf"
    Agatha Macbeth: Oh
    Eliza Madrigal: oh... that's asking a bit much don't you think?
    Eliza Madrigal cackles
    Wol Euler: yeah, I know, it is unrealistic :)
    Agatha Macbeth: PDF = pretty damn funny perhaps
    Eliza Madrigal: Partly derpy frijoles
    Agatha Macbeth: That too
    Agatha Macbeth loves a good frijole
    Wol Euler: :)
    Agatha Macbeth: How's Liz then?
    Eliza Madrigal checks
    Wol Euler: yin-yang eyes are back, I see :)
    Eliza Madrigal: :) aye
    Agatha Macbeth: Good way to look at the world
    Eliza Madrigal: Liz seems to be doing well.. weird sleeping patterns but aside from that all OK
    Agatha Macbeth: Been online at 3AM again?
    Eliza Madrigal: sometimes... or sometimes I just lay there
    Agatha Macbeth: Oh I couldn't do that
    Eliza Madrigal: the latter is more productive,,,keeps me out of trouble and can be meditative
    Agatha Macbeth: If I can't sleep I just have to get up and do something
    Eliza Madrigal: they say it is better... to get up for about 30 minutes
    Eliza Madrigal: but not get online :)
    Agatha Macbeth: Fortunately I never have the problem
    Eliza Madrigal smiles
    Wol Euler smiles.
    Wol Euler: I've been too tired to have had that problem :)
    Agatha Macbeth: I keep meaning to record myself to see if I snore
    Eliza Madrigal: I was sorry to miss dream workshop tuesday because I had a neat observation in dreaming this week
    Santoshima Resident: 's current display-name is "San".
    Wol Euler: oh!
    Agatha Macbeth: Oh?
    Eliza Madrigal: that's a good thing to do, Aggers
    Eliza Madrigal: for health
    Agatha Macbeth: Hello Sanji
    Wol Euler: well, pleaes keep it for next week
    Eliza Madrigal: Hi San :)
    Wol Euler: and/or tell us now :)
    Wol Euler: hello san
    Santoshima Resident: greetings everyone
    Zon Kwan: hi San
    Agatha Macbeth: Or both!
    Eliza Madrigal: well I may not make it next week either... besides, it is sort of interesting on the whole
    --BELL--1345
    Agatha Macbeth: Fire away :)
    Eliza Madrigal: :)
    Eliza Madrigal: Okay...
    Agatha Macbeth:
    Eliza Madrigal laughs
    Wol Euler listens.

    Eliza's dream

    Eliza Madrigal: the dream took place in a group situation... several adjoining apartments, similar to retreat feeling but more business-like
    Eliza Madrigal: I was, the following morning after settling in with the group, sleeping in a catnap way in a corner
    Agatha Macbeth: ^.^
    Eliza Madrigal: of a filled room, people bustling about getting ready to attend the day
    Eliza Madrigal: and one lady was holding a notebook with the group grocery list
    Eliza Madrigal: but she flipped some pages and found some of my personal notes and so began to call my name
    Eliza Madrigal: it took a while before I opened my eyes... surely there had to be more than just me in the group with that name
    Eliza Madrigal: but no... so eventually I opened my eyes and was handed this notebook... a personal list
    Eliza Madrigal: the thing is, in less than a split second, I saw my mind create the backstory of having written it
    Eliza Madrigal: even though I don't believe that there had been a linear progression in the dream, in which I had
    Eliza Madrigal: and it felt so natural, to do things that way
    Eliza Madrigal: that when I woke I kept going with that idea... and seeing things that way...
    Wol Euler: creating backstories?
    Eliza Madrigal: was very interesting as an observation and as a questioning reality
    Eliza Madrigal: yes
    Eliza Madrigal: writing backwards
    Agatha Macbeth grins
    Agatha Macbeth: Does writing backwards work better than the other way round?
    Eliza Madrigal: if I'd not seen the twist, I would have sworn that the way the dream had happened was that I wrote the notes, and then gave the woman the notebook on which we made the group grocery list
    Eliza Madrigal: just felt like a tangible inquiry into the (false idea of?) linear time
    Agatha Macbeth: 'Open other end' again
    Eliza Madrigal: yes :)
    Wol Euler nods.
    Agatha Macbeth: Yes, this time thing (wherefore art thou Stim?)
    Eliza Madrigal: thanks for humoring my repetitive obsessions
    Eliza Madrigal: lol
    Wol Euler: yes, I see that :) it is interesting.
    Zon Kwan: waves
    Agatha Macbeth: Think obsessions are repetitive by definition heh
    Eliza Madrigal: heheh
    Agatha Macbeth: Bye Zon
    Eliza Madrigal waves
    Wol Euler: whether the patterns we see around us in waking life are perhaps are artificial as those the brain creates to avoid leaving gaps in the story of our dreams ...
    Eliza Madrigal: exactly
    Eliza Madrigal: it would lend credence to the idea that we see the world as we want to
    Agatha Macbeth: Oh indubitably we do
    Agatha Macbeth: Objectivity is a great gift
    Eliza Madrigal: in Zen Mind Beginners Mind he says that time flows from future to present to past... have been thinking on that for years
    Wol Euler: huh
    Eliza Madrigal: at first it sounded so odd
    Wol Euler: oh! oh!!
    Agatha Macbeth: Eh? eh?
    Eliza Madrigal: he he
    Wol Euler: (makes a note to tell you later, won't interrupt)
    Eliza Madrigal: tell me NOW
    Eliza Madrigal: lol
    Agatha Macbeth: Tell us what?
    Wol Euler: awwww
    Wol Euler: sorry, I just have no filter today, I donÄT want to take us away from Eliza's story
    Agatha Macbeth hands Wollie a filter
    Eliza Madrigal: that's perfectly fine... just wanted to throw the observation into the mix
    Wol Euler wears it
    Eliza Madrigal splashes Wollie with water which dissolves all filters

    Wol's article

    Wol Euler: okay :) I read an amazing article in Der Spiegel at lunch today, about a brand-new language which has come into existence in Australia in the last 30 years
    Wol Euler: Light Warlpiri
    Wol Euler: fascinating
    Eliza Madrigal: new language??
    Agatha Macbeth: Wow
    Wol Euler: better still: a new tense
    Wol Euler: not just past, present and future, they have a fourth tense
    Eliza Madrigal listens closely
    --BELL--1400
    Wol Euler: for things which could or did happen in the present or past but which cannot happen in the future
    Wol Euler: e.g. because somebody has died
    Zen Arado: 's current display-name is "Zen".
    Santoshima Resident: hi Zen
    Agatha Macbeth: Good heavens
    Wol Euler: (actually an e.g. :) edit that please
    Eliza Madrigal: Hi Zen :)
    Agatha Macbeth: Hello Zenny
    Wol Euler: hello zen
    Agatha Macbeth: Edit which?
    Eliza Madrigal: So how does that work.... am captivated
    Wol Euler: replace "i.e." with "e.g."  (I did)
    Zen Arado: Hi all
    Agatha Macbeth: OK
    Agatha Macbeth: Zum beispiel ;)
    Wol Euler: the article was written for an intelligent but general/lay public, so they didn't give concrete details
    Wol Euler: but that is the specific case: somebody who has died will not be doing any more stuff in the future :)
    Eliza Madrigal: poor lay public... we're left out of so much
    Wol Euler: I found that idea fascinating!
    Eliza Madrigal: it really is, Wol
    Wol Euler: the words(concepts) that cultures consider it worth their while inventing say a great deal about how tehy think
    Agatha Macbeth: This is an aboriginal language?
    Eliza Madrigal: at first I wondered if it was going to be a tense for "fourth time" - kind of evolved language, of the sort maybe daedelus has been pondering
    Wol Euler: it is important to them to distinguish this category of things that will not be happening again/now
    Wol Euler: yes, an offshoot of Warlpiri, mixed with english and pidgin
    Eliza Madrigal: so neat
    Agatha Macbeth: Ah
    Santoshima Resident: bye
    Eliza Madrigal: Zen do you need an IM with background?
    Eliza Madrigal: bye San
    Wol Euler: invented spontaneously by children and has grown up with them
    Zen Arado: by San
    Agatha Macbeth: TC San
    Zen Arado: nah it's ok
    Wol Euler: I pasted to him in IM :)
    Agatha Macbeth: He knows how much sense us three usually make ;)
    Wol Euler: heheheh
    Eliza Madrigal: :)
    Eliza Madrigal: men never understand women :P
    Agatha Macbeth: Ain't it the truth
    Wol Euler smiles.
    Eliza Madrigal giggles
    Eliza Madrigal: love making sexist statements to people who know I don't think that way :P
    Agatha Macbeth blows in Liz's ear
    Eliza Madrigal shivers
    Agatha Macbeth: There are some languages that have no tenses at all
    Agatha Macbeth: Don't think chinese has
    Zen Arado: 4th tense hmm
    Eliza Madrigal: really?
    Agatha Macbeth: Hmm
    Zen Arado: they use tones a lot
    Agatha Macbeth: And malay too I think
    Wol Euler: german has no specific future tense, it's a "projected present"
    Wol Euler: "I go to the store tomorrow"
    Agatha Macbeth: Sehr gut
    Eliza Madrigal: hm
    Eliza Madrigal: this may be part of what my son's been trying to convey to me about Russian language too
    Wol Euler: ah :) he's learning Russki?
    Zen Arado: Alan Watts writes about Chinese ideograms in one of his books
    Eliza Madrigal: yes :)
    Agatha Macbeth: Horosho
    Agatha Macbeth: Oh ideograms yes
    Wol Euler: wonderful, good for him. I wanted to learn it in high school, but there weren't enough of us to make a class
    Zen Arado: he says we should all use them
    Wol Euler raises an eyebrow.
    Agatha Macbeth: Could write with brushes
    Zen Arado: so economical
    Eliza Madrigal: he loves it, but not enough to make a club... he wants to take it as long as they'll let him and then learn others... am glad
    Eliza Madrigal: but how does one speak ideogram?
    Wol Euler nods.
    Agatha Macbeth: It's a form of writing
    Wol Euler: and how do ideogramatic languages create new words?
    Agatha Macbeth: Pictures rather than alphabet
    Wol Euler: indeed
    Eliza Madrigal nods
    Zen Arado: I hear sounds
    Zen Arado: singing
    Wol Euler: my feeling is that these languages would tend to stasis
    Agatha Macbeth: Like the japanese for Japan is actually two chinese characters meaning Sun Rising
    Wol Euler: because of the enormous difficulty of creating and publicizing new ideograms
    Agatha Macbeth nods
    Eliza Madrigal: interesting... didn't realize that Aggers
    Zen Arado: wish I had Kindle on this computer could quote Watts

    'Wish I could be like Alan Watts da da da da da da da da ♫'

    Agatha Macbeth: Didn't he invent the kettle or something?
    Zen Arado: a measure of power?

    Agatha Macbeth: 1 joule per second

    Riddle

    Eliza Madrigal: I sometimes need help to interpret Riddle. Can you guys take a look at his last log? https://wiki.playasbeing.org/Chat_Logs/2014/01/2014.01.14_07:00_-_No_Player_as_being_Being_came
    Agatha Macbeth: Oh
    Agatha Macbeth looks
    Eliza Madrigal: feel badly that I've not made his session in so so long
    Agatha Macbeth: Links always take years to open for me
    Agatha Macbeth: Silent Running yay
    Agatha Macbeth: One of my all time faves
    Agatha Macbeth: Bruce Dern
    Eliza Madrigal: Riddle is sad though... about no visitors...
    Zen Arado: good song
    Wol Euler: he sounds dejected. I hope he's okay
    --BELL--1415
    Zen Arado: yeh
    Zen Arado: sounds fed up
    Eliza Madrigal nods
    Eliza Madrigal: :(
    Agatha Macbeth: 7AMs do seem very poorly attended lately, Storm said so too
    Zen Arado: yeh
    Eliza Madrigal: they are... it surely isn't personal
    Agatha Macbeth: Europeans are at work and it's probably too early for many people in NA
    Eliza Madrigal: for a while they were very well attended, not sure what changed except in my own life
    Agatha Macbeth: Yes, schedules
    Zen Arado: gradually dwindled
    Wol Euler nods.
    Zen Arado: an exponential dwindle
    Zen Arado: less come less want to come
    Eliza Madrigal: to everything...turn turn turn....
    Agatha Macbeth: There is a reason

    Walk like an Egyptian

    Agatha Macbeth: You really need some egyptian hair with that dress Liz
    Eliza Madrigal: :)
    Eliza Madrigal: where do you shop for hair? I would indeed like cleo hair
    Zen Arado: wonder what that would lok like
    Agatha Macbeth: Hm
    Agatha Macbeth: Trying to think if I ever saw any in SL
    Wol Euler: Emo-tions is about the best for modern styles
    Wol Euler: you might go to a historical-outfitter for Cleo hair, let me find that LM
    Eliza Madrigal: thanks
    Agatha Macbeth: I seem to remember A & A do a black number with a fringe called Katsuki
    Agatha Macbeth: Ali & Ali
    Eliza Madrigal: I hardly walk into SL stores these days, though do browse the market occasionally
    Eliza Madrigal: I need to do an inventory sweep
    Eliza Madrigal: only just learned one can open one more inventory window at a time
    Zen Arado: don't we all
    Eliza Madrigal: would have made things so much easier!
    Zen Arado: oh?
    Wol Euler: :)
    Eliza Madrigal: yes.... so frustrating to drag and drop when the place keeps changing
    Zen Arado: easier to just drag straight across
    Eliza Madrigal: yes... but had no idea :)
    Zen Arado: a black Englishwoman showed me that one time
    Zen Arado: reorganizes Jan's inventory
    Agatha Macbeth: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p...words]=katsuki
    Eliza Madrigal: :)
    Eliza Madrigal: thanks
    Eliza Madrigal clicks
    Agatha Macbeth: Try that
    Agatha Macbeth: Black version is in top right
    Eliza Madrigal: nice bangs
    Eliza Madrigal: all long though
    Agatha Macbeth: Mm
    Wol Euler: "wunderlich historical garb", try her
    Agatha Macbeth: Can't think of any shorter
    Agatha Macbeth: A uraeus would look good too :)
    Eliza Madrigal: thanks...hm
    Wol Euler: good luck :)
    Eliza Madrigal: should ask Eden where she found her Egyptian items
    Agatha Macbeth: Neferlizi
    Zen Arado: great improv riffs at end of that song
    Eliza Madrigal smiles
    Agatha Macbeth: Hey Mr music man
    Wol Euler smiles.
    Eliza Madrigal: left a comment at the bottom of the log... hope he sees
    Wol Euler: sent him an IM :)
    Eliza Madrigal: :) nice
    Zen Arado: yeh or he won't look
    Eliza Madrigal: Riddle's been here since prebeginnings :)
    Wol Euler nods.
    Zen Arado: a pab institution
    Eliza Madrigal: :)
    Agatha Macbeth: Hey diddle Riddle
    Eliza Madrigal: okay...time for me to fly
    Agatha Macbeth: Aww
    Zen Arado: time to work
    Eliza Madrigal: thanks for this time
    Agatha Macbeth: Our time is yours :)
    Eliza Madrigal steals the bell back
    Zen Arado: byee Eliza
    Wol Euler: bye eliza, it was lovely to see you again
    Agatha Macbeth: You can't steal your own stuff
    Eliza Madrigal: hugs, byeeeeeeeee
    Zen Arado: nice dress
    Agatha Macbeth: Bye Liz TC
    Wol Euler smiles.
    Eliza Madrigal: ty :))
    Eliza Madrigal: wish you lovely evenings and pleasant dreams
    Zen Arado: very nice
    Agatha Macbeth: Which I won't remember :(
    Wol Euler: awwwwwwww
    --BELL--1430
    Wol Euler: are you still writing down whatever you *do* remember in the morning=
    Agatha Macbeth: Nah, gave it up ages ago
    Agatha Macbeth: I'm always too tired to remember anyway
    Zen Arado: it's hard to do
    Zen Arado: I always feel dreams are rtivial
    Zen Arado: then afterwards wish I had recorded
    Wol Euler nods.
    Agatha Macbeth: Vital or trivial? ;p
    Zen Arado: trivial
    Agatha Macbeth: Hm
    Wol Euler: well, all life is trivial if you take a millenial perspective :) that's no reason not to take it seriously
    Zen Arado: it's like something doesn't want me to record them
    Agatha Macbeth pulls Wol's horns
    Wol Euler: ow
    Zen Arado: I know
    Zen Arado: but my dreams are usually about work
    Wol Euler smiles.
    Zen Arado: past work
    Agatha Macbeth: I'm not a morning person at the best of times
    Wol Euler: mine are often about riding busses :) now that IS trivial :)
    Zen Arado: or about music if I work on it before bedtime
    Agatha Macbeth: I would definitely prefer music to buses
    Wol Euler smiles.

    And so to macs

    Zen Arado: iPhone would be good for recording dreams
    Zen Arado: they go into iTunes automatically
    Wol Euler: that would be great.
    Agatha Macbeth: iDreams
    Zen Arado: becoming an Apple zealot
    Agatha Macbeth: Mind the pips
    Zen Arado: will be trying to convert people from the hell of Windows
    Zen Arado: :)
    Agatha Macbeth: And that *is* hell
    Wol Euler grins.
    Zen Arado: Steve Jobs my guru
    Agatha Macbeth: Have to use that australian tense
    Wol Euler: not a veyr communicative one, then
    Wol Euler: yeah!
    Wol Euler: see, it is useful.
    Agatha Macbeth: Indeed
    Zen Arado: he might come back and invent a new...something
    Zen Arado: must read his book
    Agatha Macbeth: If he had taken over from Gates at Micro$haft wonder what he would have done differently?
    Agatha Macbeth: Hypothetically
    Wol Euler: or if he'd agreed to license mac os to microsoft, as they wanted.
    Agatha Macbeth: They did?
    Wol Euler: they only wrote dos and then windows because he wouldn't license to htem
    Wol Euler: mmhmm
    Agatha Macbeth: Ah
    Zen Arado: mac os seems better
    Wol Euler: Jobs thought that hardware was the path to wealth, but Gates realized that it was just stuff and that software was the essential
    Wol Euler: he got that one entirely wrong :)
    Zen Arado: everything just has a solid feel
    Agatha Macbeth: Seems so
    Agatha Macbeth: Do macs still look like purple TVs or have they evolved since then?
    Wol Euler snorts.
    Wol Euler: that was an awfully long time ago, aggers :)
    Agatha Macbeth: Yeh, well
    Agatha Macbeth: I don't keep up with it as much as I did
    Agatha Macbeth: I blame SL
    Wol Euler: http://www.apple.com/imac/
    Zen Arado: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Apple-Wirele...ywords=imac+27
    Zen Arado: that's the one I got
    Agatha Macbeth: Keyboard doesn't look very big
    Wol Euler: pretty!
    Zen Arado: never hear the fan
    Wol Euler: yeah, that is the best thing about macs
    Wol Euler: they are silent
    Zen Arado: hate the magic mouse though
    Agatha Macbeth: Magic mouse?
    Zen Arado: looking for another one
    Zen Arado: too flat for me
    Zen Arado: yeh the one they give you
    Zen Arado: and keyboard a little difficult
    Agatha Macbeth: Interesting
    Zen Arado: ok for most
    --BELL--1445
    Agatha Macbeth: I remember the Quadra
    Zen Arado: feel naked without anti virus
    Agatha Macbeth: Are you and Sunny going to be DJing at PP again Zenny?
    Zen Arado: not tomorrow though
    Agatha Macbeth: OK
    Zen Arado: she is thinkng about it
    Agatha Macbeth: That's if Mira doesn't de-friend everybody again :P
    Zen Arado: not many around PP these days
    Zen Arado: yeh :)
    Agatha Macbeth: Crazy lady
    Zen Arado: she gets rid of my clients
    Zen Arado: :)
    Agatha Macbeth sighs
    Zen Arado: no Whispr now
    Wol Euler: :(
    Agatha Macbeth: Hope Sun is ok, she's seemed a bit down lately
    Zen Arado: yeh
    Agatha Macbeth: Which is odd for her
    Zen Arado: spoke to her earlier

    The late arrival

    Agatha Macbeth: Hiya QT!
    Zen Arado: she always seems so cheerful
    Agatha Macbeth: Not in bed yet? :p
    Wol Euler: hello qt!
    Qt Core: Hi all
    Zen Arado: Hi Qt
    Agatha Macbeth: This must be the Boxy shift
    Wol Euler: that would be a fine thing
    Qt Core: Just had a three hour fight at home don't know if when i'll sleep :-(
    Zen Arado: meep meep
    Agatha Macbeth: Three hour fight?
    Agatha Macbeth: Erk
    Wol Euler: oh wow, I'm sorry to hear that
    Zen Arado: long fight
    Agatha Macbeth: Good job you don't live with Mike Tyson
    Qt Core: but lets forget that, what topic keep you here for an almost extra hour ?
    Zen Arado: good thing about living alone
    Agatha Macbeth: We were just talking about macs
    Zen Arado: and how good they are
    Zen Arado: nothig like the zeal of a new convert :)
    Agatha Macbeth: I think Bleu uses one doesn't she?
    Zen Arado: yes
    Wol Euler: all the best people do :)
    Agatha Macbeth: Seems so
    Zen Arado: I always thought they were too expensive
    Qt Core: never used one, even if since a few months there is one near my desk at work (to do some iphone app development
    Agatha Macbeth: Me too
    Zen Arado: but guess it is worth it
    Wol Euler: depends how highly you value the time and effort you put into conquering windows afresh every other week
    Zen Arado: I tried Win 8 and hated it
    Wol Euler: to me, the pain-in-the-ass factor of windows is worth quite a few Euros
    Agatha Macbeth: Ubuntu is good, if geeky
    Zen Arado: too geeky for me
    Qt Core: (btw, the language with those beautiful iphone app are written is quite ugly)
    Wol Euler: Qt, is there anything you want to talk about?
    Agatha Macbeth: I'd actually forgotten what a command line was since my Amiga days
    Agatha Macbeth listens
    Qt Core: anything that isn't in my mind at the moment, Wol ;-)
    Agatha Macbeth: Like a mini retreat :)
    Wol Euler: okay :)
    Wol Euler: just thought I'd offer
    Agatha Macbeth: The PaB refuge
    Zen Arado: I better go
    Agatha Macbeth: Back to the mac :p
    Qt Core: bye Zen, have fun
    Wol Euler: bye zen, take care
    Agatha Macbeth: Take care Zenny
    Zen Arado: never left it :)
    Agatha Macbeth: DJ well
    Zen Arado: byee
    Qt Core: from outside and i may easily be wrong i always seen macs as too much "patronizing" letting you not much choice in how things are done
    Agatha Macbeth: Is there anything anyone wants removed from the log?
    Qt Core: but maybe windows is the same, i only learned my ways before
    --BELL--1500
    Wol Euler: heheh, my feeling about windows is the opposite. It insists on asking me questions about things I neither know nor care about, without giving me any information on which to base the decision
    Agatha Macbeth: Sounds like your boss!
    Wol Euler: true that
    Agatha Macbeth: :P
    Qt Core: i need to be in command... so i prefer the command line (decent ones, like linux ones)
    Agatha Macbeth nods and smiles
    Wol Euler: I'd agree with the goodness of a unix command line
    Qt Core: only problems the headache of remembering if that machine/user pair has ksh or bash
    Agatha Macbeth: Bash I know, not sure about ksh
    Qt Core: it is two generation older, i'm more used to its keybindings
    Agatha Macbeth nods
    Qt Core: luckily there is a way to tell bash to use ksh ones (that in the end mimics Vi/Vim)
    Wol Euler: my dears, I shall move on. Qt, I hope you will be able to settle and sleep tonight.
    Agatha Macbeth nods
    Agatha Macbeth: Yes my eyes are quite tired after two hours too :p
    Wol Euler smiles.
    Wol Euler: goodnight all, take care
    Qt Core: i'm thinking to bring up the big gun listening to the rapsody in blue :-)
    Agatha Macbeth: This will be one long log
    Wol Euler smiles.
    Agatha Macbeth: Oh do
    Qt Core: bye Wol
    Agatha Macbeth: I love it
    Wol Euler: it's a classic
    Wol Euler: deservedly
    Qt Core: it is my fav music pieces
    Agatha Macbeth: Mine too!
    Agatha Macbeth: Take care guys
    Wol Euler: goodnight!
    Qt Core: bye
    Agatha Macbeth: Ciao QT
    , be well

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