2009.02.18 19:00 - Small Talk

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2009.02.18 19:00 - Small Talk

The Guardian for this meeting was stevenaia Michinaga. The comments are by stevenaia Michinaga.

I arrived to greet Adams Rubble,  Pila Mulligan, Corvuscorva Nightfire  with Sylectra Darwin following shortly after.

Adams Rubble: Hello Steve, Corvi :)

stevenaia Michinaga: hello adams, Corvi

Adams Rubble: Hello Pila :)

stevenaia Michinaga: evening Pila

stevenaia Michinaga: Corvi, come up front and join us

Pila Mulligan: greetings

Adams Rubble glad Corvi is there to catch us by the neck if we start to fall into the fountain :)

Corvuscorva Nightfire: Hiya!

Corvuscorva Nightfire: ha

Corvuscorva Nightfire: Pila!

Pila Mulligan: :)

Corvuscorva Nightfire: Yay!

stevenaia Michinaga: :)

Corvuscorva Nightfire: (are we meditating?)

Pila Mulligan: we are quiet, so perhaps :)

stevenaia Michinaga: I just got home, it was snowing slush tonight

Pila Mulligan: will it freeze tonight Steve?

stevenaia Michinaga: no, meting and raining

Pila Mulligan: ahh, better than ice

stevenaia Michinaga: yes, it;s warming

Pila Mulligan: I lived in Des Moines for a while before moving here and I remember well those icy roads

buddha Nirvana arrives with a little friend

Adams Rubble: Hello buddha

Corvuscorva Nightfire: hiya, Buddha!

Pila Mulligan: hi buddha and tinkerbell

buddha Nirvana: Halo" :))

stevenaia Michinaga: ice, or volcanic ash, tough choice

Pila Mulligan: :)

Adams Rubble: :)

stevenaia Michinaga: tinker bell... who brought her?

buddha Nirvana: ah, she seems to fly around me

Adams Rubble: :)

Corvuscorva Nightfire: Hiya, Sylectra!

Pila Mulligan: hi Sylectra

Adams Rubble: Hello Syl. Long time no see :)

Sylectra Darwin: hiya!

stevenaia Michinaga: hey Sylectra

Sylectra Darwin: It's true, good to see you

Sylectra Darwin: Hey Steven. :)

Sylectra Darwin's dress was captivating with comments from everyone.

Pila Mulligan: what an outfit!

Corvuscorva Nightfire: wow

Sylectra Darwin: I am very tired and think I am getting a sore throat so I might not be able to stay long.

Sylectra Darwin: Thanks!

Sylectra Darwin: This is an Eshi original.

Sylectra Darwin: She's an SL designer friend.

Corvuscorva Nightfire: itsss.....crazy amazing.

stevenaia Michinaga: to much shopping?

Corvuscorva Nightfire: amazing

Sylectra Darwin: ...sick kids

Sylectra Darwin: Hello buddha, do you have a fairy?

buddha Nirvana: Hi :) it would seem so..

buddha Nirvana: :)

Pila Mulligan: Tinkerbell no less

Sylectra Darwin: grins

Sylectra Darwin: she's cute

Sylectra Darwin: Wow, Steve, you have such a nice crowd on Wednesdays!

Adams Rubble: Yes the dress is lovely, Syl :)

stevenaia Michinaga: feel free to send the pic to the log, whoever took it

stevenaia Michinaga: well we are just preparing for your session tomorrow

Corvuscorva Nightfire: that was me..but i don't know how to post pictures.

Sylectra Darwin: snorts

Sylectra Darwin: excellent!

Sylectra Darwin: there will be a pop quiz you know.

Pila Mulligan: :)

Corvuscorva Nightfire grins.

Sylectra Darwin: thank you Corvi!

Needing a picture on the wiki, Pila Mulligan  wanted to know how that is done, the discussion continues about computers, SL and very new computers and very old computers (if 9 years is a very old computer)

Pila Mulligan: how do you send a picture to the log?

stevenaia Michinaga: once you have a picture on your computer, you can load it into any wiki at the bottom there is a picture load button

Sylectra Darwin: do you have automatic uploads set up to go to Flickr through an e-mail address?

Sylectra Darwin: Oh, Steve's way is easier.

Pila Mulligan: ahh me, I'm such a useless geezer in these techie things

Sylectra Darwin: A cute geezer :)

Pila Mulligan: I'm still trying to figure out if I am registred n the wiki :)

stevenaia Michinaga: it works

Pila Mulligan: than Syl, but no match for those peacock feathers :)

Sylectra Darwin: Here's what you do: just send it to one of us and we'll do it. :)

Pila Mulligan: thanks*

Pila Mulligan: ok

stevenaia Michinaga: haha

stevenaia Michinaga: I have it corvi, thank you

Sylectra Darwin: Eshi's a good cause. She's an immigrant and if she cannot get enough art work she will have to go back.

stevenaia Michinaga: back to where?

Sylectra Darwin: She's from Eastern Europe.

Sylectra Darwin: http://www.eshiotawara.com/

Sylectra Darwin: In other news, I just bought a Macbook. :)

Pila Mulligan: are you using it now?

Pila Mulligan: with SL, I mean

stevenaia Michinaga: the graphics are much better

Sylectra Darwin: Actually, I am on my desktop at the moment. But I used it earlier today for note-taking.

Corvuscorva Nightfire: better than what?

Sylectra Darwin: My Acer laptop died :(

Corvuscorva Nightfire: mine isn't all that good compared with Ades...

Corvuscorva Nightfire: my macbook, I mean..

Sylectra Darwin: Ade, what do you have?

Corvuscorva Nightfire: Adelene has a really nice moniter...among other things.

stevenaia Michinaga: than my old Powerbook, SL missed a line, I jst bought a MacBook Pro

Corvuscorva Nightfire nods.

Sylectra Darwin: oh sorry, she's not in the room at the moment, hehe

Corvuscorva Nightfire: Sweetie has one of those...and the Pro is better than my macbook.

Sylectra Darwin: oooo, Steven!

Pila Mulligan: don't Macs use a Unix system?

Sylectra Darwin: Nos has a Macbook pro too.

stevenaia Michinaga: somewere under the hood

Pila Mulligan: and they work okay with SL?

Pila Mulligan: or is that what you meant by better graphics?

stevenaia Michinaga: well it didn;t yesterday , but it's running fine today

stevenaia Michinaga: yes, better than my old laptop

Adams Rubble: SL seems to be an equal opportunity crasher

Pila Mulligan: my old windows 200 machine is actually rusting, it may be time to replace it

Pila Mulligan: 2000*

stevenaia Michinaga: SL runs on that?

Corvuscorva Nightfire pictures a rusting computer...

Corvuscorva Nightfire: yes.

Pila Mulligan: yes

Corvuscorva Nightfire: but not well.

Pila Mulligan: so true

Corvuscorva Nightfire first ran it on a 2000

Sylectra Darwin: wow

Corvuscorva Nightfire: a looong time ago on another account since destroyed.

buddha Nirvana: Thank you, nite all :))

Adams Rubble: night buddha :)

Pila Mulligan: bye buddha and tinkerbell

Corvuscorva Nightfire: nite, Buddha

Pila Mulligan: I may try something daring like XP

Adams Rubble: :)

Adams Rubble still has a windows 3.1 machine at work :)

Pila Mulligan: cool

stevenaia Michinaga: yikes

Adams Rubble: It runs a dos program and works fine :)

Adams Rubble: Frightens the young techies

Pila Mulligan: :)

Corvuscorva Nightfire: ha!

Pila Mulligan: I've heard Vista also has some problems, with SL especially

Adams Rubble: uh oh

stevenaia Michinaga: my wife's computer can't run it but I suspect it;s the graphics card

stevenaia Michinaga: it runs VISTA

Pila Mulligan: and cannot do SL?

stevenaia Michinaga: no

Adams Rubble: boooo

Pila Mulligan: so what is best for SL?

stevenaia Michinaga: whatever works.. a mac :)

Adams Rubble: good graphics card

Pila Mulligan: realizing that is probably a subjective question

stevenaia Michinaga: a little

Sylectra Darwin: Mac love is subjective.

Sylectra Darwin: You would not believe the kudos I received on Facebook for buying that machine.

Adams Rubble: :)

Corvuscorva Nightfire sneaks out of the meeting....

Adams Rubble: They have an effective ad campaign

Pila Mulligan: bye Corvi

Corvuscorva Nightfire: bye all.

Adams Rubble: by Corvi :)

stevenaia Michinaga: bye corvi

Corvuscorva Nightfire, Adams Rubble and Sylectra Darwin depart and computer talk continues with Pile Mulligan

Adams Rubble needs to go too. Good night all :)

Pila Mulligan: bye Adams

stevenaia Michinaga: bye Adams

Sylectra Darwin: sleepy bunch tonight.

Sylectra Darwin: me included.

Sylectra Darwin: I am useless, thus I am off as well.

stevenaia Michinaga: :)

Pila Mulligan: bye Sylectra -- nice dress

stevenaia Michinaga: night, enjoy your computer

stevenaia Michinaga: yes, very nice dress

Sylectra Darwin: thank you, good night gentlemen. Wish I could enjoy a nice beverage with you some time (especially in Hawaii)

Pila Mulligan: always welcome :)

stevenaia Michinaga: wow

stevenaia Michinaga: great movement

Sylectra Darwin: yes, I thought Eshi did amazing work. Not bad for $1000 L.

Sylectra Darwin: It was for a good cause, like I said. :)

Sylectra Darwin: nighty night

Pila Mulligan: bye

Pila Mulligan: a couple of Mac questions Steve ...

Pila Mulligan: since I am contemplating a new sytstem some day

Pila Mulligan: 1. does Mac play well with a Wondows netwrok?

stevenaia Michinaga: yes

Pila Mulligan: Windows*

Pila Mulligan: cool

stevenaia Michinaga: I ahve a windows puter in my office and reach in and grab files all the time

Pila Mulligan: I have an even older and rustier W2k system on ethernet as a backup

stevenaia Michinaga: my officemate has one

Pila Mulligan: in my home offic

Pila Mulligan: that helps then

stevenaia Michinaga: not sure you can reach back that far

Pila Mulligan: oh?

Pila Mulligan: hmm

stevenaia Michinaga: you would have to ask a mac techie somewhere

Pila Mulligan: ok ... #2:

stevenaia Michinaga: my last 3 computers were laptops

Pila Mulligan: do you now if there is a version of WordPerfect for Mac?

Pila Mulligan: these of course are easy Google questionds

Pila Mulligan: just wondered of you nkow

Pila Mulligan: if*

stevenaia Michinaga: haha, looking on google now

Pila Mulligan: well, thanks

stevenaia Michinaga: doesn;t look good, used to be available on a mac but looks like windows only

Pila Mulligan: ahh, too bad also -- I'm kind of stuck with WordPerfect

stevenaia Michinaga: there is an opensource "Office" equivalent from Sun Microsystems that runds on mac, it may have a wordperfect translator built-in

Pila Mulligan: yes, I use it some

Pila Mulligan: it is good

Pila Mulligan: but WordPErfect has some especially nice and unique functions for legal breifs

Pila Mulligan: and although I say i am retired I still get jobs to do

Pila Mulligan: writing briefs

stevenaia Michinaga: there may be translators but that would be a pain

Pila Mulligan: I have yet to find a word processor with equivalent feautres - Word has tried it bt in a very clumsy manner

Pila Mulligan: MS Word that is

Pila Mulligan: case citations go at the front of a breif in a table, and Wordperfect has automated the making of that table to such a degree that it is very helpful

stevenaia Michinaga: yes

stevenaia Michinaga: no, I don;t see wordperfect format in openoffice

Pila Mulligan: I've looked high and low, as I'd love to find womething to use besides Windows

Pila Mulligan: thatks for chekcing

Pila Mulligan: something

Pila Mulligan: *

stevenaia Michinaga: wouldn't we all

Pila Mulligan: :)

Pila Mulligan: funney how the lag put those last three lines I typed out of sequence :)

stevenaia Michinaga: yes, I was having tha tproblem earlier

Pila Mulligan: has your flu flown?

stevenaia Michinaga: it wwas jsut a cold, seems to be mostly gone

stevenaia Michinaga: thanks

Pila Mulligan: ah, cool

Pila Mulligan: rememebr: gan mao ling :)

Pila Mulligan: I'd be happy to mail you a bottle if you cannot find it

stevenaia Michinaga: I;t on my macphone notes, will always ahve it with me

Pila Mulligan: little yellow pills

stevenaia Michinaga: they for flu?

Pila Mulligan: for flu and colds

Pila Mulligan: excellent preventative if you catch it at the very beginning and also greatly decreases the symptoms if you do ont start until later

stevenaia Michinaga: I may stop off at some point and pick some up them

stevenaia Michinaga: how often do you take then?

Pila Mulligan: two or three pills two or three times a day when needed

Pila Mulligan: I only take one or two on a day when I sese the start of a cold

Pila Mulligan: sense*

Pila Mulligan: knock on wood -- haven't had a cold for a long time

Pila Mulligan: I take several if I am going to fly on an airplane, also

Pila Mulligan: preventative

stevenaia Michinaga: smart move these days

Pila Mulligan: that recirculated air is nasty

Pila Mulligan: along with the airport and TSA :)

Pila Mulligan: well, i suppose the session is about ended tonite -- thanks for being the host

stevenaia Michinaga: yes

stevenaia Michinaga: thanks

Pila Mulligan: anything on your mind?

stevenaia Michinaga: no, just winding down, unusually hard work out in Thai Chi yesterday

Pila Mulligan: oh, how is it going?

stevenaia Michinaga: 21 reps

Pila Mulligan: cool

stevenaia Michinaga: good, one more week then another session

Pila Mulligan: how many movements in a rep?

stevenaia Michinaga: just one, then another group, snce I don;t know them it;s hard for me to say, probably ome

Pila Mulligan: there are usually 108 distinct movements in a traditional tai chi set

Pila Mulligan: it takes 10-20 minutes

stevenaia Michinaga: no, maybe 8-10

stevenaia Michinaga: maybe les

stevenaia Michinaga: less

Pila Mulligan: yes, that is sensible -- usually the 108 movements are taught i sic sections

stevenaia Michinaga: it wa a simple warm up move repeated

Pila Mulligan: yep :0

Pila Mulligan: six sections*

Pila Mulligan: 10-15 movements per section

Pila Mulligan: have you started getting a feeling that the movements are yours, so to speak?

stevenaia Michinaga: some, but we keep adding to it, much to learn

Pila Mulligan: yes

Pila Mulligan: an imitating is always the first and more difficult part

Pila Mulligan: then it clicks and off you float on your own movements:)

stevenaia Michinaga: yes

Pila Mulligan: it feels good :)

stevenaia Michinaga: well I must be off, thanks

Pila Mulligan: ok, bye Steve

stevenaia Michinaga: take care