Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2016-07-03

15:00 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome everyone to the Oxbridge Deans' Q&A
15:00 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) sorry to hear that carl
15:01 Wordsmith Jarvinen Our various roles are listed at http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/admin.php
15:02 Wordsmith Jarvinen Phrynne, you had a few things to mention?
15:02 Phrynne One or two.
15:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen Proceed?
15:03 Phrynne I don't know if you all are aware of it, but at Oxbridge we ban and report people whose user names are obscene, intolerant, contain reference to private body parts or are otherwise unsuitable to a General region.
15:04 Phrynne (I'm having some lag trouble, sorry if this is slow.)
15:05 Phrynne This past week I went through the list of parcel bans and unbanned about ten people who are no longer in Second Life becuase of having inappropriate names.
15:05 Phrynne SL will remove people whose names are obscene, etc.
15:05 Wordsmith Jarvinen And you generally AR accounts with such names?
15:06 Phrynne When newcomers arrive with inappropriate names, I do ask them to start over with new names and a accounts.
15:06 Phrynne Yes, I AR them
15:06 Phrynne The names violate the TOS.
15:07 Phrynne TAking the names off the parcel ban lists lightens the burden on each parcel and makes things rez a little quicker
15:07 Phrynne And that's all.
15:08 Wordsmith Jarvinen And makes room to ban more questionably named avatars, while waiting for LL to eliminate them.
15:08 Carl Metropolitan Phyrnne, I saw your new Troll Bridge, and I got a troll to live under it.
15:08 Wordsmith Jarvinen Yay!
15:08 Phrynne Oh , great, Carl!
15:08 Badass Fae (larkylouz)'s ears perk up!
15:08 Holly (hollydeni) giggles
15:08 Phrynne we have needed one.
15:08 Agatha Macbeth Troll bridge?
15:09 Carl Metropolitan He can eat the sharks. I'll place him after the Q&A
15:09 Phrynne It's at teh NW corner of Oxbridge
15:09 Agatha Macbeth Do the trolls pay a toll?
15:09 Carl Metropolitan He's only 2LI
15:09 Phrynne even better
15:10 Holly (hollydeni) awwww he is cute
15:10 Wordsmith Jarvinen I've got future ideas for more specialized sharks that chat --- Oh, someone for remedial rules .......
15:11 Wordsmith Jarvinen Rule breakers are food not friends.
15:11 Phrynne will the sharks be rideable?
15:11 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) hehhe!
15:11 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) claps
15:11 Wordsmith Jarvinen Do we want them to be?
15:11 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) oh yes!
15:12 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) fun for us, terrible for evildoers
15:12 Carl Metropolitan Jian had some nice mesh sharks. I don't know if they are mod for scripting though.
15:12 Phrynne The only rideable sharks I know of were in White Tiger Island years ago.
15:13 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) I ahave some sharks that yo ucan swim with
15:13 Wordsmith Jarvinen Oh, I've got some in progress in Blender, modeled after sand sharks.
15:13 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) as long as rowan can ride 'em, she's happy
15:13 RainyDayRecess :D
15:14 Wordsmith Jarvinen http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_content_width/hash/1f/2f/1f2fdcc296c0641c0cbdb857038945c2.jpg?itok=J7Qyzkyr
15:14 Wordsmith Jarvinen I even have "someone" who can help me shape them. ;)
15:14 Wordsmith Jarvinen (horses first)
15:15 RainyDayRecess :)
15:15 Badass Fae (larkylouz) <grin>
15:15 Carl Metropolitan Oh. Way ahead of the project!
15:15 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) it is obvious that the next evolutionary step for the shark is a dorsal seat
15:15 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Good one, Rowan!
15:15 Carl Metropolitan No. Lasers on the head come first!
15:15 RainyDayRecess :D
15:15 ZiggyFritz Yesss!
15:15 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) hehehe i'm patient
15:15 Wordsmith Jarvinen I though avatars where supposed to evolve to sit on the dorsal fin ... no?
15:16 engacia :)
15:16 Phrynne No, behind it, so they can hold on
15:16 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) so you belong to THAT school of thought
15:16 Wordsmith Jarvinen moi?
15:16 Carl Metropolitan I created a parody of the Damian Hirst art installation of a shark in a formaldehyde tank in SL. But mine was better because it had a laser on top!
15:16 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) the sharks must evolve, not us
15:17 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) or: do we evolve? and not the sharks?
15:17 Wordsmith Jarvinen Concurs.
15:18 Wordsmith Jarvinen While I'm on it, uploaded a new version of the CAT watchtower script this morning. Unexpectedly, it saved without revision. That's the most complicated of the bunch.
15:18 RainyDayRecess Yay!!
15:19 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) wow, most excellent
15:19 Phrynne What does the watchtower script do?
15:19 RainyDayRecess Nice work
15:19 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Yeah!
15:19 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) excellent
15:19 engacia awesome, mr jarvinen
15:19 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) it shoots at nearby air sharks
15:19 RainyDayRecess :D
15:19 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Puts lasers on the fronts of the CATs?
15:19 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) and protects Caledon
15:19 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) yes
15:19 ZiggyFritz That's just awesome.
15:20 Wordsmith Jarvinen It both rezzes and airship and (who knew?) watches over it. Get's a URL from the sim and registers it, so the ship can keep updating it's location. And, when necessary, tells the ship to go die and rezzes a new one.
15:20 engacia wow!!
15:21 Liška Bystrouška (liska.fuchs) thinks Caledon has jumped the shark
15:21 Wordsmith Jarvinen Part of the complication is that SL is flakey about URLs, so the script needs to self-check that it's URL remains valid.
15:22 engacia holds her head to keep it from spinning
15:22 Holly (hollydeni) no joke
15:22 Wordsmith Jarvinen Part of the problem before was that the communication between ship and watchtower would fail and the watchtower would rez another, and then another, and then ......
15:22 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) and so a mere script surpasses the programming that hosts it
15:22 RainyDayRecess Ohhhh
15:23 Carl Metropolitan SL -- in general -- works in spite of Linden Lab :)
15:23 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) hehhe
15:23 RainyDayRecess Really great work, Word, thank you
15:23 engacia :)
15:23 Wordsmith Jarvinen This version will only rez a new ship if it has a valid URL and has registered that with the dynamic directory name server.
15:25 RainyDayRecess (I hope there won't be a quiz later)
15:25 Wordsmith Jarvinen So, a lot is going on under cover and under the water.
15:25 Wordsmith Jarvinen Carl, did you have more?
15:25 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Hey folks. How about a huge hand for Wordsmith. He's put hours and hours of work into this, in addition to his other duties.
15:26 Agatha Macbeth clap
15:26 Holly (hollydeni) clapping.....
15:26 Agatha Macbeth ***** APPPPPPPLLLLAAAUUUSSSSeeee***********
15:26 Phrynne applauds loudly
15:26 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) yay!!!!
15:26 RainyDayRecess Yay for Word!!!!
15:26 ShaRa Ishtar (shannonraven) clap
15:26 Jessica Moore (jessicajmarionette) /applause
15:26 Carl Metropolitan No. I did not really
15:26 Holly (hollydeni) whistles
15:26 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) TERTIA DECIMA!
15:26 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Yay!!!
15:26 Gronk Seriman applauds
15:26 Wordsmith Jarvinen Awwww.
15:26 Badass Fae (larkylouz) heeeeyyyyyyyy!
15:26 ZiggyFritz claps.
15:26 Liška Bystrouška (liska.fuchs) HUZZAH!
15:26 Carl Metropolitan I am amazed at the work you've done on the CAT system.
15:26 Liška Bystrouška (liska.fuchs) huzzaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh
15:27 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) CAT will rise again, and New Babbage will be defeated!
15:27 RainyDayRecess :D
15:27 ShaRa Ishtar (shannonraven) May the Force be with US!!
15:27 Wordsmith Jarvinen Well, it's been slower that I'd hoped, mostly because I've been felled a bunch by allergies this year. I don't sneeze, I just fall asleep. What one gets when it rains after four years of draught.
15:27 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) yes indeed
15:28 RainyDayRecess :(
15:28 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) there will be giant beetles hatching next year from this
15:28 Badass Fae (larkylouz) I like the Freudian slip there, Word.
15:28 Badass Fae (larkylouz) passes Wordsmith a cold beer.
15:28 Carl Metropolitan I feel like falling asleep myself.
15:28 Wordsmith Jarvinen mmm yes.
15:28 Holly (hollydeni) tosses coffee
15:28 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) prods carl with long stck
15:28 Phrynne catches coffee in a cup
15:29 Phrynne and hands it to Carl
15:29 Holly (hollydeni) lol
15:29 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) tosses chocolate
15:29 Liška Bystrouška (liska.fuchs) Intercepts chocolate pass
15:29 Phrynne eeek! a giant beetle!
15:29 Liška Bystrouška (liska.fuchs) Returns it for a TD
15:29 Carl Metropolitan Too much blood in my caffeine stream, probably.
15:30 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) a bit bigger, and rowan could ride that, too!
15:30 Wordsmith Jarvinen There they are already, Rowan.
15:30 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) that was fast
15:31 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) they breed very quickly
15:31 Phrynne Are you sure they aren't part tribble?
15:31 engacia brusts out laughing!
15:31 ZiggyFritz Lol.
15:31 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) taht must be it
15:31 Gronk Seriman "Ladies and Gentlemen, The Beatles!" *Girls screaming*
15:31 Phrynne Tribbles in armor.
15:31 Holly (hollydeni) *hic*
15:31 RainyDayRecess Hahaha
15:31 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) oh no i tribbled alll over my vest
15:32 ZiggyFritz We're in for some serious tribble.
15:32 Wordsmith Jarvinen Tribbles in Armor sung to Knights without Armor?
15:32 Holly (hollydeni) LOL
15:32 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) hehehe
15:32 Phrynne Remember, in the War of the Tribbles and the Klingons, the tribbles won.
15:32 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) yes hahhaha
15:32 ZiggyFritz They cheated.
15:32 Wordsmith Jarvinen They know how to multiply.
15:33 Carl Metropolitan So any questions from anyone? Anything about Caledon, Oxbrige, SL?
15:33 ZiggyFritz But can they add?
15:33 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Any progress in finding people to fill the empty roles here in the uni
15:33 Wordsmith Jarvinen Trivia question: What was the grain involved in that story?
15:33 RainyDayRecess :D
15:33 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) quadrotriticale
15:33 Wordsmith Jarvinen Yep.
15:33 engacia i'll tribble that and add pi
15:34 ZiggyFritz Lol.
15:34 Phrynne it's a real form of grain, apparently
15:34 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) its tribble-licious
15:34 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) yes
15:34 Phrynne a kind of wheat
15:34 Jessica Moore (jessicajmarionette) a high yield grain
15:34 Liška Bystrouška (liska.fuchs) Speaking of trivia, Carl, any chance of Caledon Trivia happening again?
15:34 Carl Metropolitan It is a name that was made up by the writer based on the name of a real gain.
15:35 Carl Metropolitan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triticale
15:35 Carl Metropolitan Not anytime soon. RL sucks right now.
15:36 RainyDayRecess :(
15:36 Holly (hollydeni) is that trivia about Caledon?
15:36 Phrynne passes Carl the refurbished platter of cake, to make things here a little better
15:36 Liška Bystrouška (liska.fuchs) General trivia
15:36 Holly (hollydeni) oh
15:37 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Any progress in finding people to fill the empty roles here in the uni?
15:37 Liška Bystrouška (liska.fuchs) And NOT easy questions
15:38 Wordsmith Jarvinen Samm sent me some suggestions on registering those who want to teach, and I'll put out a note to the larger faculty and Caledon this next week.
15:38 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) And the Dean of engines? any prospects there?
15:39 Wordsmith Jarvinen Not yet, but I may be able to have Brace help with the education part ... she's offered.
15:40 Holly (hollydeni) I love her
15:40 RainyDayRecess :)
15:40 Wordsmith Jarvinen I think she really likes being in a place that's positive and fun.
15:41 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) ^-^
15:41 Carl Metropolitan She could teach several different classes with minimal prep I think.
15:41 engacia brace who?
15:41 Wordsmith Jarvinen Brace Coral
15:41 engacia ty
15:42 Badass Fae (larkylouz) I am looking for someone to cover the Basic Photography class, either temporarily or indefinitely. I'm taking a break from it.
15:42 Wordsmith Jarvinen Dean of ..... Development.
15:42 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) would be good to see some new classes and maybe some special workshops
15:43 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) is working on increasing her knowledge
15:43 Phrynne What would any of you like to teach?
15:43 Holly (hollydeni) im still in kindergarten
15:43 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) i'd like to teach a class on mesh bodies
15:43 Wordsmith Jarvinen I always mention the possibility of a workshop; that everything doesn't have to be a repeating class.
15:43 RainyDayRecess :D
15:43 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) i'm researching it now
15:44 engacia impromptu classes are always nice, too
15:44 Wordsmith Jarvinen Oh, that reminds me -- a feature in avatar complexity.
15:44 engacia im still in preschool
15:44 engacia diapers, even
15:44 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) my diapers are mesh
15:44 engacia :))
15:44 RainyDayRecess :D
15:44 Phrynne As long as they don't talk...
15:45 Wordsmith Jarvinen If you have a mesh body and exceed someones avatar complexity, they see your nametag and that's it.
15:45 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) hehhe that's me, miss mysterilous
15:45 Wordsmith Jarvinen Apparently, the body alphas override the monocolor display.
15:45 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) mysterious
15:45 ZiggyFritz I've found that you can touch somebodies name, and there's an option to fully render the avatar.
15:46 Wordsmith Jarvinen You can right click on the nametag and select "render fully" and there they are.
15:46 ZiggyFritz Yeah, what he said.
15:46 Wordsmith Jarvinen Right now, I think this is just with the LL viewer, but coming soon to FS.
15:47 Phrynne :(
15:47 Phrynne I would rather FS led instead of following SL
15:47 Phrynne but it's not up to me.
15:47 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) yes indeed
15:48 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) announcement
15:49 Wordsmith Jarvinen Go ahead, Andrea.
15:49 Agatha Macbeth Oh my
15:49 Gronk Seriman Oh, no!
15:49 Holly (hollydeni) the heck?
15:49 Phrynne why are we sinking into the floor?
15:49 RainyDayRecess Whoa!
15:49 ZiggyFritz Lol.
15:49 RainyDayRecess :D
15:49 Jessica Moore (jessicajmarionette) Well, that's interesting.
15:49 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) hahah the new ride@!
15:49 RainyDayRecess Yaaaaay!
15:49 Agatha Macbeth Toto we're not in kansas anymore
15:50 Carl Metropolitan I was already nauseous...
15:50 engacia hang on dont move!!
15:50 Holly (hollydeni) dont throw up dont throw up
15:50 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Just a note. There will be a Blues Juke Joint event at my juke joint this coming Tuesday night at PM SL time. Ms DJ Poppy will be our DJ for the evening. A notecard with details is available upon request. And don't forget that Dean Corals COU Salsa Fund raiser dance is on Wednesday night at 7Pm SL time.I can provide a lm upon request.
15:50 ShaRa Ishtar (shannonraven) bye - I HATE that
15:50 ZiggyFritz Do it again! Do it again!
15:51 Liška Bystrouška (liska.fuchs) Maybe that floor switch shouldn't be out in everyone's view...
15:51 engacia and just another note, i will be having impromptu chats at my little store of dreams soon :)
15:51 Wordsmith Jarvinen That is an ambiguous reference right now.
15:53 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) chirp chirp
15:53 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) chirp chirp
15:53 Wordsmith Jarvinen And yes, the lecture halls do reconfigure for building classes.
15:54 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Liška Bystrouška (liska.fuchs) gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:54 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Looks around for buddy holly
15:54 engacia tc all ima log
15:54 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Gronk Seriman gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:54 Wordsmith Jarvinen There are also LM givers on the schedule kiosks just outside and inside the lecture hall for the Salsa dance.
15:55 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) excellent!
15:55 Wordsmith Jarvinen Those are the parts at the top that say .... Salsa
15:55 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) there is a nc giver on top of the pub in the oxbridge village that gives the nc for the next dance
15:55 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) for caledonian nights
15:56 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) and don't forget Mr Skysmith has a writing club that meets on tuesdays
15:56 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) if you have a interest in writing
15:56 Wordsmith Jarvinen 11 am Elfbiter?
15:56 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) thank you for mentioning that
15:57 Phrynne I thnk it's Thursdays, unless it's changed
15:57 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) yes thursdays
15:57 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) oh sorry thursdays it is
15:57 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) typed tuesday for some reason
15:57 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) mumbles incoherently at herself
15:57 RainyDayRecess :D
16:00 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) starts to hum the music to miami vice
16:00 ZiggyFritz Lol.
16:00 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Thank you everyone. Go figure, an informative meeting that's lots of fun.
16:00 ZiggyFritz Thank you, I enjoyed it.
16:00 Jessica Moore (jessicajmarionette) With thrills and chills and spills galore.
16:00 Holly (hollydeni) clapping.......
16:00 Phrynne /me, inappropriately, hums the theme song of Beverly HIlls Cop
16:01 Wordsmith Jarvinen Yep. Time to adjourn.
16:01 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) well the deans must be in a group im or asleep
16:01 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) see everyone
16:01 Carl Metropolitan Asleep
16:01 Phrynne Or lagged
16:01 RainyDayRecess Thank you Deans
16:01 Gronk Seriman Thank you Chancellors and Deans!
16:01 Phrynne Thanks for coming
16:01 Wordsmith Jarvinen Or sleeping in a group IM.
16:01 Jessica Moore (jessicajmarionette) Thank you, sirs, and ma'am.
16:01 Phrynne oh dear
16:01 Agatha Macbeth Zzz
16:01 Carl Metropolitan Goodnight everyone.
16:01 Carl Metropolitan I am going to go lie down for a bit.
16:01 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Feel better, Carl.
16:02 RainyDayRecess Take care Carl
16:02 Phrynne take care, Carl
16:02 lovejoy2199 Happy Fourth of July
16:02 Jessica Moore (jessicajmarionette) Get better soonest.