2019.03.25 07:00 - A Sheltered Circle

The Guardian for this meeting was Eden Haiku. The comments are by Eden Haiku.

 

The Northern Lights

 

Adams Rubble: Good morning Eden :)

Eden Haiku: Good morning Adams!

Adams Rubble: did you get to see the Northern light display?

Eden Haiku: Sorry to hear about developers cutting down trees in your borough :(

Adams Rubble: the tree loss is very upsetting

Adams Rubble: this is the fourth we have had in the past few years

Adams Rubble: good morning Riddle :)

Riddle Sideways: slow morning, All

Adams Rubble: I was thinking of you eden when I read about the northern lights display; I have never ever seen them

Eden Haiku: Good morning Riddle :)

Riddle Sideways: 4th shat? missed it sorry

Adams Rubble: the tree loss is the fourth--not the northern lights :)

Adams Rubble needs to watch her pronouns

Riddle Sideways: Yes! Pronouns must always be watched

Eden Haiku: No, I haven't seen the Northern Lights display Adams. Would you have a link?

Riddle Sideways: link? isn't it something you go outside to watch?

Adams Rubble notes that the pronoun issue is a problem further up

Adams Rubble kicks her boss

Adams Rubble: hmm. not sure which paper the article was in

Eden Haiku: Oh, you mean the Northern Lights are right here at night time?

Adams Rubble: https://www.nj.com/news/2019/03/nort...-geostorm.html

Riddle Sideways: then again, it is warmed and more comfortable to stay inside and watch them

Adams Rubble: only in North jersey and where it is dark--I think it was last night

Eden Haiku: Oh! in RL. Was setting my world into midnight...Did you get a chance to see them Adams?

Adams Rubble: no, I am too far south and there is tons of light pollution here. I have never ever seen them, even as a child

Adams Rubble: light pollution gets worse every year

Riddle Sideways: saw them as child in upstate NY

Adams Rubble: :) Riddle

Riddle Sideways: and young in Canada

Eden Haiku: I saw some twice. The 1st time was spectacular, in downtown Montreal at around 3pm. Dancing white arms of light :)

Eden Haiku: This was way before social media and it took me a while to register they were Northern Lights :)

Riddle Sideways: UFOs

Adams Rubble: they must seem like magic

Riddle Sideways: ULOs Unidentified Light Objects

Eden Haiku: We had a party that evening and we were tidying up. I was hanging dish clothes on the line when I saw the lights. Amazing! Then we went into the street to look up at the sky!

Adams Rubble: :)

Adams Rubble: people who live inthe cold icy north deserve some advantages :)

Riddle Sideways: yes

Eden Haiku: Second time, I was at the summer house, bringing some papers to the recycling bin, and saw some pink lights at the corner of my eye. It was the ending of what were northern lights I discovered later,

Riddle Sideways: before TV, they already had the show

 

—BELL--

 

Eden Haiku: Yes!

Riddle Sideways: sorry Beel, sound was off

Eden Haiku: Same here :(

Riddle Sideways: a told story before,but always wondered how Dad knew these things

Riddle Sideways: would bundle us out the door and point

Eden Haiku: father knows best :)

Riddle Sideways: there would be an eclipse or Northern Lights

Riddle Sideways: then we could back inside

Adams Rubble: :)

Riddle Sideways: he would return to his paper

Riddle Sideways: took years to get the connection to that newspaper thingie

Eden Haiku: Ah! Ah!

Adams Rubble: :)

 

Papers  

 

Adams Rubble: Morning and evening papers every day

Adams Rubble: so much reading to do

Riddle Sideways: small town = only an evening paper

Eden Haiku: It changed so fast...

Riddle Sideways: there were a lot of pages back then

Eden Haiku: Yes!

Adams Rubble: yes, most of them ads :)

Eden Haiku: Necrologies

Riddle Sideways: now days (especially Mondays) there are so few pages to a newspaper

Eden Haiku: Older people reading the necrologies

Riddle Sideways: Obituaries

Adams Rubble: Sam's Hardware Store - They have the washer for your drippy faucet

Eden Haiku: yes, obituaries...

Eden Haiku: And comic strips in week end issues

Adams Rubble: comics to teach the kids to read newspapers

Riddle Sideways: still have weekend comics here

Adams Rubble: Dick Tracey

Adams Rubble: was it Moon Mulligan?

Riddle Sideways: the NY Times is far to serious for the funnies

Eden Haiku: And as you learn to read, you would get adventurous and read articles

Adams Rubble: yes

Riddle Sideways: Image having smart watches like Dick Tracy

Adams Rubble: yes, amazing

Eden Haiku: Remembers reading literary critics when I was 16

Riddle Sideways: ah

Adams Rubble: :) Eden

Eden Haiku: In my parents mainstream paper

Eden Haiku: I was the only one reading those :)

Adams Rubble: I remember seeing art from local museums is a Sunday supplement

Adams Rubble: saved them for a long time

Eden Haiku: It starts early, these passions :)

Adams Rubble: :)

Riddle Sideways: "Small Town Kid, Discovers there is Art, Music, Books, Museums out There"

Adams Rubble: Big city kids too

 

Someone refuses a one million dollars job!

 

Eden Haiku: Read this morning that a scientist from University of Montreal refused a job of 1 million dollars from a Japanese AI company. He didn’t agree with their values...

Adams Rubble: wow

Eden Haiku: Not in the paper though. On Twitter so I know just a flash of it. Have to read an online paper later :)

Adams Rubble: brb

Riddle Sideways: Top scientist don't go cheaply now days.Pooh, on only 1 million. The Stars wait for the Draft and get Big contracts

Riddle Sideways: wait. might be confusing categories

 

—BELL--

 

Riddle Sideways: even the printed newspaper becomes pointers to things to go read deeper online

Adams Rubble: back

Riddle Sideways: nope, not going to type the W el come b ack line

Adams Rubble: :) Riddle and contracts

Eden Haiku: During the pause, I fast-read the article (linked in the tweet) Samuel Bassetto went to visit the main office of Denso in Japan and discovered they had many penalties from justice, hired only 0.9% of women and had a very bad carbon imprint record.

Adams Rubble: I missed a pause

Eden Haiku: Welcome back Adams:)

Riddle Sideways: hmmm, an AI company using a lot of Carbon

Eden Haiku: Carbon impact (I was translating from French…)

Adams Rubble: both come across Eden :)

Riddle Sideways: Far more women should be hired. They know more about intelligence

Eden Haiku: Many would have accepted a 1 million job, thinking they could outwit the dark side of the Force...

Eden Haiku: That's so sweet of you to say Riddle hehe!!!

Eden Haiku: You are joking, I know :)

Riddle Sideways: hmmm, maybe not joking. ㋡

Riddle Sideways: am hopeful for all the women getting into politics

Eden Haiku: Not sure I would have said no....So many good things one can do with one million. But then they wouldn't hire me for an AI project :))

 

Eden Haiku: Maybe you Riddle?

Riddle Sideways: naaah, 1 million ain't what it used to be

Riddle Sideways: (which is a very strange line to write)

Eden Haiku: laughs

Adams Rubble: who needs ai when you have Dick Tracy's watch

Riddle Sideways: There are scenes from a bad movie, that Eden should never watch. the Evil guy used to want $1 Million dollars as ransom

Riddle Sideways: travels forward in time

Riddle Sideways: and says the same line

Riddle Sideways: all the generals around the table start reaching for their wallets

 

—BELL—

 

Problems inserting images in the log

 

Eden Haiku: Just took a close-up snapshot of your gorgeous dress Adams. Unfortunately, I won't be able to insert it into the log. The wiki doesn't let me insert images anymore.. I wrote a ticket to MindTouch which handles the wiki and they answered they don't offer support anymore...

Riddle Sideways: Really? when did that happen?

Adams Rubble: I had been able to copy and paste them into the log once they were saved at the bottom. I wonder if that still works

Eden Haiku: When I started using snapshots taken on SL Viewer instead of Firestorm.

Riddle Sideways: yes, think it was a two step process

Eden Haiku: I can download them and save them at the bottom. but not insert them...

Eden Haiku: Now I'm trying the png format and reducing the size once more....

Riddle Sideways: should let all of us know if you figure out how to do it

Eden Haiku: I noticed there are still pictures in other logs, so I guess there is a solution :)

Eden Haiku: Ok, I will.

Eden Haiku: I'm still learning the ropes of the SL Viewer...

Eden Haiku: Firestorm doesn'tfrun on my machine anymore sadly,..,.

Eden Haiku: Frun and run :)

Eden Haiku:Fun to run

Eden Haiku:Onigokko

Riddle Sideways: ㋡

Eden Haiku: :(

Eden Haiku: None of us runs :(

Riddle Sideways: nope. a Serious crowd

Riddle Sideways: no funnies

Adams Rubble: I am finding that one problemwith running the viewers are the virus protectors

Adams Rubble: they think the viewers are threats

Eden Haiku: onigokko

 

Dressing our age

 

Riddle Sideways: Adams, what is your dresses print of? Art?

Eden Haiku: Beautiful dress isn’t it?

Riddle Sideways: yes

Adams Rubble: it is a middle eastern pattern

Eden Haiku: stop

Adams Rubble: that is how Eden keeps her girlish figure

Eden Haiku: hehe

Eden Haiku: Its frun to run :)

Riddle Sideways: ㋡

Eden Haiku: So I guess you created your dress Adams ?

Adams Rubble: not this one

Riddle Sideways: one of the non-Red dresses ;)

Eden Haiku: You should open a shop in MarketPlace, with decent dresses. Most of them are so awfully sexy...

Adams Rubble: I do not have any hint of where I got it from

Eden Haiku: All short dresses with a lot of cleavage...

Riddle Sideways: trying to dress your age

Riddle Sideways: yet everybody are teenagers here

Adams Rubble: I am only 11 Riddle

Riddle Sideways: yep 11

Eden Haiku: All teenagers :))

Eden Haiku: I'm about 14

Adams Rubble: wow, you were here in 2005?

Eden Haiku: Saw a young teen in a restaurant yesterday soooo thin...It was scary. Anorexic I guess

Riddle Sideways: nope, Eden is lying about age

Eden Haiku: laughs

Adams Rubble: wants to get into the movies?

Eden Haiku: 11 yes, PaB is turning 11…wow!

 

—BELL--

 

Sweet sixteen

 

Riddle Sideways: an SL is turning 16

Eden Haiku: Sweet sixteen :)

Riddle Sideways: back when ya knew it all

Adams Rubble remembers standing on the bridge next to the teahouse and watching people come out and then asking if they were Buddhists

Adams Rubble: and someone invited me to a session

Adams Rubble wonders who that was

Riddle Sideways: y'all come on in

Eden Haiku: Trying to fix the range so I can hear the bell...

Adams Rubble: what a trip that turned out to be

Eden Haiku: Draw distance is that it?

Riddle Sideways: remember sitting on the bench outside the teahouse, because could not see others when in

Adams Rubble is getting nostalgic

Riddle Sideways: don't think that is it

Riddle Sideways: and going up the 3 stairs AND getting the door open was tough

Eden Haiku: Still tough for some of us :)

Adams Rubble: :)

Riddle Sideways: it took years to learn to get dressed

Eden Haiku: Do we still have guardians meetings?

Riddle Sideways: was easier to put on another av

Riddle Sideways: not had one in long time

Eden Haiku: For years I dressed with freebies only

Riddle Sideways: couple months back

Adams Rubble notes that women avatars had to learn to dress pretty quickly

Eden Haiku: smiles

Adams Rubble: other avatars more critical of female avatars

Riddle Sideways: really?

Riddle Sideways: others would actually say something about an outfit?

Adams Rubble: and hair and skin

Adams Rubble: nice hair Eden :)

Eden Haiku: This was my first hair in SL. Kept it many years :)

Adams Rubble: :)

Riddle Sideways: oh ear, remembering the pains of hair shopping

Eden Haiku: I was wearing this pink polka dot dress that came with the avatar...and going dancing at the Bombay Social Club people would pity me :)))

Riddle Sideways: actually said something?

Eden Haiku: Yep!

Adams Rubble: learning to shop was one of the first things I learned :)

Adams Rubble: yes Riddle they did

Adams Rubble: someone once took a camera and looked under my dress and said my underwear did not match my outfit

Eden Haiku: The owner of the club who was really sweet pointed me a freebie shopping center :)

Eden Haiku: Oh, that's very invasive Adams :)

Adams Rubble: you bet

Adams Rubble remembers the Blue Dive

Adams Rubble: Dive

Adams Rubble: Blue Dove

Adams Rubble wonders how many shhhh one can get on one break

Riddle Sideways: have had a sheltered second life also, no body ever said stuff like that

Eden Haiku: I also remember many ridiculous petty abuses in my early weeks in SL...

Riddle Sideways: what was the Blue Dove

Riddle Sideways: 42

 

—BELL--

 

Adams Rubble: it was rough outside the sheltered circle of PaB

Eden Haiku: brb

Adams Rubble: the Blue Dive was a freebie place that carried nice clothes

Adams Rubble: blue dove

Adams Rubble: good thing Adael is not here

Riddle Sideways: did not go outside the circle for a long time

Riddle Sideways: think is it is Free Dove now

Adams Rubble: ohhh, maybe it was then

Eden Haiku: back

Adams Rubble: wb Eden

Riddle Sideways: remembering thinking, "How does Adams know how to dress so fine"

Riddle Sideways: that early photo of you sitting with pen and paper

Eden Haiku: PaB was a safe shelter yes :) I rememberhow happy I felt when I found this circle :)

Adams Rubble learned to be vain :)

Riddle Sideways: so many questions of how that photo was done

Eden Haiku: smiles at vain Adams :)

Adams Rubble: those early lessons were good for me to learn

Riddle Sideways: would have been good to have learned

Riddle Sideways: took years to make a wooden cube

 

Too Much Info

 

Eden Haiku: Discovered a big box of old photos recently,

Riddle Sideways: +learn to

Riddle Sideways: ah dear, hides from old photos

Eden Haiku: Thought I always hate bangs but discovered in all these I was having a haircut with bangs. Years and years!

Eden Haiku: Was as young as my avatar then :(

Riddle Sideways: had bangs for some years also

Eden Haiku: smiles

Adams Rubble: :)

Riddle Sideways: TMI

Riddle Sideways: now talking trees: [08:23] Skye Birch Triplet tree 3: Access denied.

Eden Haiku: ??

Eden Haiku: Ah yes, got that too :)

Riddle Sideways:Too Much Info

Eden Haiku: ;)

Riddle Sideways: lately was stumped by "smh", "mhm" and "ikr"

Eden Haiku: Beautiful sun today and just a tad bit below zero Celsius (17 Farenheit)

Adams Rubble: wow, still that cold there eden

Riddle Sideways: kids thinking there fingers will wear out if phrases typed completely

Eden Haiku: Yes, rather cold. Yesterday was warmer, but not much.

Adams Rubble: was near 60 F here yesterday

Eden Haiku: Much better!

Eden Haiku: Heard you bell, shhhhhh!

Adams Rubble: :)

Riddle Sideways: delaying taking out recycling until warmer (<50F now)

Adams Rubble: It may be warmer than that here now Riddle :)

Adams Rubble: I must go and work on some stuff

 

—BELL--

 

Eden Haiku: Did you decipher smh", "mhm" and "ikr"Riddlle?

Adams Rubble: Feeling warm remembering some things from 11 years ago

Riddle Sideways: yes, pronouns are being yelled down the stairs

Eden Haiku: I will have to leave soon too.

Riddle Sideways: from above

Eden Haiku: Ah ah…

Adams Rubble: pronouns being yelled down the stairs?

Riddle Sideways: yes, warm memories

Eden Haiku: Thank you guys for sitting with me in this sheltered circle this morning

Eden Haiku: have a great day!

Adams Rubble: thank you for hosting us Eden :))))

Riddle Sideways: thank you

Adams Rubble: you too

Adams Rubble: bye for now

Adams Rubble blows kisses

Eden Haiku: Bye Riddle, bye Adams. Hugs