2012.12.20 19:00 – Speaking of Words

The Guardian for this meeting was Paradise Tennant. Participants included Aphrodite, Riddle and Santoshima.

Paradise Tennant: hiya aph you look lovely and xmasy :))
Aphrodite Macbain: and you look plain lovely!
Aphrodite Macbain: we match
Aphrodite Macbain: match
Paradise Tennant: we do !
Paradise Tennant: how have you been
Aphrodite Macbain: fine thanes
Aphrodite Macbain: thanks
Aphrodite Macbain: \are u still in Toronto?
Paradise Tennant: yes :)) rainy night
Paradise Tennant: not at all wintery
Aphrodite Macbain: Wol is in Toronto too
Paradise Tennant: Yes !
Aphrodite Macbain: you should get together
Paradise Tennant: we are going to have lunch :))
Aphrodite Macbain: yay
Aphrodite Macbain: Plans to celebrate?
Paradise Tennant: just a quiet xmas really going to a get together sort of christmas dinner with friends on Sunday but christmas day I will just spend with my mom and then head out to another little dinner get together
Paradise Tennant: yes so hard to watch
Aphrodite Macbain: how old is she?
Paradise Tennant: hmm well she is not really that old but she has lot of health issues
Aphrodite Macbain: aww
Paradise Tennant: funny people age at different rates there are young 80 some things and old 70 some things
Aphrodite Macbain: wol said he was going to be here- I think san too
Paradise Tennant: smiles nite nite aph :))
--BELL--
Paradise Tennant: that dress looks great when you stand up
--BELL--
Riddle Sideways: Hi
Riddle Sideways: sitting quietly
Riddle Sideways: oops, did not see the bell
Paradise Tennant: oh hiya riddle sorry was posting my last week's session ..how are you :)))
Riddle Sideways: well, was starting to post a session also
Riddle Sideways: the clock reported a time to come in here
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Riddle Sideways: almost never made 7pm sessions
Paradise Tennant: yes
Paradise Tennant: not a good time for you ?
Riddle Sideways: usually busy
Riddle Sideways: dinner
Riddle Sideways: or dishes
Paradise Tennant: yes life's rituals :))
Riddle Sideways: try to go play
Paradise Tennant: play what ?
Riddle Sideways: seems each night of the week has something
Riddle Sideways: go play bass in a rock band
Riddle Sideways: go visit friends
Paradise Tennant: smiles that sounds like serious fun :)
Riddle Sideways: play
Riddle Sideways: is serious
Paradise Tennant: would it not be a wonderful world if we accorded play the same importance as work
Riddle Sideways: it sure would
Riddle Sideways: don't you
Paradise Tennant: if you could look at your boss and err hmm I am really sorry cannot run those numbers have some playing to do :))
Paradise Tennant: *say
Riddle Sideways: ah, the trick is to get paid for the fun play we can do
Paradise Tennant: yes that is a trick
Paradise Tennant: but I think you would see a completely different side of people too
Riddle Sideways: acting
Paradise Tennant: not so serious hard to be that serious when you are playing
Riddle Sideways: funny how some thing programming computers could be work
Riddle Sideways: it is fun
Paradise Tennant: yes if you really like doing something it is hard for it not to be fun ..it it s something that can make time stop for you ..
Paradise Tennant: I find that is the test if you can lose track of time completely ..
Riddle Sideways: do that all the 'time'
Paradise Tennant: nods and smiles
Riddle Sideways: need to always play serious voice with boss about how hard that last problem was
Paradise Tennant: lol
Riddle Sideways: or please don't give me any harder problems
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Paradise Tennant: well sometimes you get lucky and you end really liking what you have to do a lot of :))
Riddle Sideways: Tuesday the topic-o-the-week had us thinking of Spanish vs. French vs. English
Paradise Tennant: kind of blissful luck really
Riddle Sideways: but language can be between 2 listener/talkers
Paradise Tennant: have you ever tried to just think in pictures
Riddle Sideways: boss imagines that the workers are suffering
Paradise Tennant: without the labels
Riddle Sideways: yep, done that
Riddle Sideways: called it the Peter Maxx period
Paradise Tennant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Max
Riddle Sideways: but more to your point
Paradise Tennant: he looked lively
--BELL--
Riddle Sideways: Yes that peter
Santoshima Resident: 's current display-name is "s a n".
Riddle Sideways: Hi San
Paradise Tennant: hiya san
Riddle Sideways: thinking in just images
Paradise Tennant: we are talking about thinking in pictures
Santoshima Resident: hi! I am rezzer overloading on these snowflakes
Riddle Sideways: not labeling
Paradise Tennant: like animals do
Santoshima Resident: ok, thinking in pictures
Santoshima Resident: like we do :)
Santoshima Resident: words come second
Santoshima Resident: pictures first
Santoshima Resident: { we are animals, after all : }
Riddle Sideways: large object coming fast at you, doesn't need label "bus" for you to ovoid
Santoshima Resident: please continue
Paradise Tennant: http://www.grandin.com/inc/visual.thinking.html
Paradise Tennant: temple grandin offers some good perspective too
Paradise Tennant: riddle I interrupted you there what were you about to say ??
Paradise Tennant: wb aph :)
Riddle Sideways: Hey Aph
Santoshima Resident: hi Aph :)
Riddle Sideways: long time periods not seen
Riddle Sideways: we think in pictures
Riddle Sideways: sometimes the pictures of letters to attempt to spell some word
Santoshima Resident: thanks for the link paradise ~ interesting
Santoshima Resident: spell :)
Riddle Sideways: how did we get so caught up in thinking those pictures are words
Aphrodite Macbain: pictographs?
Paradise Tennant: I guess just labels to facilitate the faster processing of more pictures ?
Aphrodite Macbain: some words and letters used to be pictures
Riddle Sideways: we draw the pictographs that you might see our imagined pictures
Paradise Tennant: yes
Paradise Tennant: they are like wires trying to link fractured vision into a shared vision
Paradise Tennant: or maybe like computer cables linking processors :))
Riddle Sideways: if there were a script font of flowing letter shapes it would look more pictograph
Aphrodite Macbain: I like the way our minds can fill in the blanks
Aphrodite Macbain: just the merest suggestion of a word or a sentence and our minds can read it easily
Riddle Sideways: connecting these little pixels into a drawing you might imagine the same as was meant to convey
Riddle Sideways: yet training twisted the mind to think that this drawn "Word" is a label for something
Aphrodite Macbain: Time to give my back a rest.
Aphrodite Macbain: How do you all manage to sit
Aphrodite Macbain: and be comfortable
Riddle Sideways: avatar can sit for hours
--BELL--
Aphrodite Macbain: every time I mark papers,
Aphrodite Macbain moans quietly
Aphrodite Macbain: whispers bye
Paradise Tennant: ouch nite nite aph
Paradise Tennant: hope you feel better .
Riddle Sideways: bye aph
Riddle Sideways: has the style/type of our drawing affected the imagination
Paradise Tennant: yes
Riddle Sideways: the use of label/words that your might not have label as I had meant
Paradise Tennant: I find swearing .. perhaps has the most profound impact on the pictures .. it seems to suck respect out of the air and creates a very different reality
Paradise Tennant: something very hard about it
Riddle Sideways: a single sharp clap will do the same
Riddle Sideways: a bright light bulb
Riddle Sideways: the color red
Santoshima Resident: {please excuse me ... building over yonder }
Riddle Sideways: by San
Paradise Tennant: smiles take care san thanks for stopping by
Riddle Sideways: also must go
Riddle Sideways: buy
Paradise Tennant: take care riddle really nice to see you :))