Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2017-04-30

15:07 Wordsmith Jarvinen Well, Welcome to today's Q&A.
15:07 Wordsmith Jarvinen This may be a short meeting.
15:08 Wordsmith Jarvinen Phrynne, do you have anything?
15:08 Phrynne I had insomnia last night. So I came in and changed over much of Oxbridge to late spring flowers and flowering grasses. Changes are ongoing and will continue, probably at 3 am.
15:08 Phrynne It was time, of course. Flowering trees were up for a while.
15:09 Phrynne and I'll come up with something else or more for mid-summer, late summer.
15:09 Phrynne I want to catch people's eyes when they come here, so they don't think it's always the same.
15:10 Phrynne There are too many academic SL builds out there that look exactly as they did 10 years ago; I like that we don't.
15:10 Wordsmith Jarvinen Which is a good strategy if we want them to come back.
15:10 Phrynne and that's it.
15:10 Phrynne Seasonal trees help, too.
15:10 Phrynne and most of our trees are seasonalnow
15:10 Holly Gaavin (hollydeni) I saw the flowers they are pretty
15:11 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Agreed
15:11 Phrynne Aside from that, I'm continuing to work on the quotations notecard for the wishing well, in RL time.
15:11 Phrynne and am somewhere in the 300s now.
15:11 Phrynne (300 quotes.)
15:11 Phrynne I want to have as many as possible so people don't get the same one frequently
15:12 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Hm. I might try to translated some Finnish ones later...
15:12 Phrynne if someone wants to throw in 200 separate single Lindens to get quotes, they should get about 200 different quotes.
15:12 Phrynne not that I think anyone will be that persistent, but it's the idea that counts
15:14 Wordsmith Jarvinen Get too many and we'll have to batch them, meaning having batches in separate notecards where one of those gets read randomly.
15:14 Phrynne If you have some good quotes for this, send them to me and I'll put them on the notecard. They should be General-rated and adhere to Oxbridge guidelines -- not sexist, offensive, etc.
15:14 Wordsmith Jarvinen One runs into the 16k memory limits.
15:14 Phrynne I'm sticking to one-sentence quotes, also, so nothing longer than that.
15:15 Phrynne sort of fortune cookie
15:16 Phrynne with unlikely fortunes :)
15:16 Phrynne that's ti
15:16 Phrynne *it
15:16 Phrynne for me
15:16 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Nostradamus? :-)
15:16 Phrynne too long
15:16 Phrynne quatrains
15:16 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hi Orange, Welcome.
15:17 Phrynne hi Orange
15:17 Orange Planer Charge!
15:17 Orange Planer It.
15:17 Wordsmith Jarvinen Phrynne was just finishing up on changing Oxbridge flowers and on working on quotes for a wishing well.
15:18 Orange Planer "May a thousand ants bring you their dinner."
15:18 Phrynne but who said it?
15:19 Orange Planer Me. Is that good enough for the well?
15:19 Phrynne sorry, no.
15:19 Orange Planer Dangit.
15:19 Wordsmith Jarvinen Someone who wanted to get 1000 ants away from THEIR picnic.
15:19 Phrynne it's quotes from history, literature, art, science.
15:19 Phrynne Something at least mildly educational for someone's donated 1L
15:19 Phrynne spare change for change.
15:22 Orange Planer “If there was anything that Syria did, it was to validate the fact that there is no Russia tie."
15:22 Wordsmith Jarvinen Onward. On classes. Holly is iterating on her inventory class. Orange Planer is in progress on a communication class, and Zenmondo Wormser is on the schedule for Scripting Office Hour starting Tuesday.
15:22 Phrynne yay!
15:22 Holly Gaavin (hollydeni) dun dun dun
15:22 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Splendid
15:23 Holly Gaavin (hollydeni) we shall see lol
15:23 Orange Planer Do I hear doubt?
15:23 Holly Gaavin (hollydeni) ohhhh nooooo
15:23 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) zen zen zen '
15:23 Holly Gaavin (hollydeni) smiles
15:25 Wordsmith Jarvinen On other things, I have Oxbridge Mint's transactions into a single spread sheet back to mid February.
15:26 Orange Planer That's impressive. I stink at finances.
15:26 Wordsmith Jarvinen Makes it really easy to at least see who's making patron donations. I can check if Carl can push that back to the beginning of 2017, but that's far from certain.
15:27 Orange Planer Hey, at least you've got everything but the last five or six weeks.
15:27 Wordsmith Jarvinen No, it's the last weeks that I've got.
15:28 Wordsmith Jarvinen LL only keeps the records available for a short time.
15:28 Wordsmith Jarvinen About 30 days.
15:29 Orange Planer Nutz.
15:30 Wordsmith Jarvinen The avatar monitor is gather statistics each day and shoving them up to files on the website, so I don't have to cut and paste 15 emails per day.
15:31 Wordsmith Jarvinen Yesterday was 219 separate avatars making 805 visits.
15:31 Orange Planer What's the average?
15:31 Wordsmith Jarvinen Some of those visits are quite short. I don't know if people are crashing or logging in on Oxbridge and then TPing elsewhere.
15:32 Orange Planer Both?
15:32 Orange Planer They crash, then come here because it's their home logon point.
15:32 Phrynne These are generally first visits --it's not their home point yet
15:33 Holly Gaavin (hollydeni) I drank the koolaide
15:33 Wordsmith Jarvinen Could be. I may instrument the rosegarden in the near future.
15:33 Orange Planer It's going to be weaponized!
15:33 Wordsmith Jarvinen whispers I didn't calculate the average visit, but do have info on total time for the day versus avatars. Here's the histogram on that.
15:33 Wordsmith Jarvinen "visit_time_histogram": {
"le30": 14,
"le60": 18,
"le300": 72,
"le900": 40,
"le1800": 23,
"le3600": 21,
"le7200": 17,
"le21600": 10,
"gt21600": 4
}
15:34 Wordsmith Jarvinen Those are in seconds.
15:34 Orange Planer OK, so 32 of them are less than a minute.
15:34 Orange Planer The rest are five minutes and above.
15:35 Orange Planer The majority appear to be staying a significant time.
15:35 Phrynne Most of them don't talk to us but a few do. And some walk through the whole tutorial.
15:36 Phrynne I think we had one person who came back the next two days, also
15:36 Wordsmith Jarvinen I've yet to write the scripts for multi-day analysis but have the summaries for single days.
15:36 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Some vanish when talked to
15:37 Phrynne They may also be flickering because they try to come in too fast while there's a class on.
15:37 Holly Gaavin (hollydeni) afk a min
15:38 Wordsmith Jarvinen With the class from China coming through last Wednesday, we had over 1300 visits, despite my playing with memory limits and losing several hours of data after 3pm.
15:39 Phrynne it's like fireflies
15:39 Wordsmith Jarvinen So, more to come.
15:40 Wordsmith Jarvinen But we're already noticing things that weren't as obvious before.
15:41 Orange Planer For example?
15:41 Wordsmith Jarvinen Just the number of short visits plus people making 5 minute+ visits multiple times per day.
15:42 Holly Gaavin (hollydeni) hello Doc
15:42 Doc Barnstable (doctorbarnstable) Hello Holly, et al.
15:42 Wordsmith Jarvinen And seeing the avatar age spectrum we've seen in classes before with more that are new and more that are 4 years+ with a dip in the middle.
15:43 Wordsmith Jarvinen Do come in Doc, you can help solve a question.
15:43 Orange Planer Hi Doc.
15:44 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) The chicken came before the egg...
15:44 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) hi doc
15:44 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Eggs existed before chicken did.
15:44 Wordsmith Jarvinen I always thought it was a not quite chicken that laid the first chicken egg (a mutation)
15:45 Orange Planer Or it could have been a drastically not-chicken that had a major mutation, supplying the original chicken.
15:46 Orange Planer If you're a creationist, none of this applies.
15:46 Wordsmith Jarvinen We currently have 232k $L in the Oxbridge account with 74,500 $L due again in July
15:46 Holly Gaavin (hollydeni) takes ibupfophen
15:46 Orange Planer Good ole vitamin I.
15:46 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) has some nice pills from her doctor for pain. if i need it
15:47 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) good stufff
15:47 Holly Gaavin (hollydeni) LOL
15:47 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hey Orange, I got kicked out of the College of Scripting Music Science by the "flat earth" advocate owner of the group.
15:47 Orange Planer snortz
15:47 Phrynne flat earth?
15:47 Orange Planer How'd THAT come up in a music group?
15:47 Holly Gaavin (hollydeni) hands the pills to Word
15:47 Evil Sociopath Beware (cymbal.constantine) There are flat earthers
15:48 Phrynne thinks any competent builder can make a flat earth, but doesn't want to live on one
15:48 Wordsmith Jarvinen He is using the physical site to push flat earth beliefs.
15:48 Phrynne *headshake*
15:48 Evil Sociopath Beware (cymbal.constantine) I don't understand why you have to push em.. are they lonely?
15:48 Orange Planer Some people think Terry Pratchett's Discworld is true.
15:49 Orange Planer "Round earth is a conspiracy!
15:49 Orange Planer "
15:49 Wordsmith Jarvinen We actually reside on an extreme frisbee moving through space?
15:49 Phrynne turtles all the way down?
15:49 Orange Planer Elephants first.
15:49 Orange Planer Then turtles.
15:49 Evil Sociopath Beware (cymbal.constantine) A hologram
15:49 Orange Planer Reality is fake! Everything I see is not real!
15:50 Orange Planer Therefore, I can act as I wish because none of you matter!
15:50 Orange Planer That's when you kick them.
15:50 Wordsmith Jarvinen Doc, A question. Were you having any trouble with crashing when at Oxbridge yesterday?
15:50 Evil Sociopath Beware (cymbal.constantine) oooh no that is when I invite them for tea!
15:50 Orange Planer That's how you prove that other people do exist. We can cause them pain.
15:51 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) resists temptation to start about postmodernism...
15:51 Evil Sociopath Beware (cymbal.constantine) Ask me about reality after my Oculus rift
15:52 Holly Gaavin (hollydeni) thanks Mr E
15:52 Wordsmith Jarvinen Andrea, you're our supporter at "large", anything to announce?
15:53 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) umm the bowling fundraiser is moving along. waiting on textures for the bowling lanes and for posters
15:53 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) the build is basicly done
15:53 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) party tuesday night in the new swamp Cyprus grove in south end
15:54 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Dj Patty starts at 6
15:54 Wordsmith Jarvinen kk. I know that Rainy was working on the textures.
15:54 Wordsmith Jarvinen Blues?
15:54 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) after the textures, just need a date, the tus night will be blues rockabily, sppoky swamp music
15:55 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) the them is swamp
15:55 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) theme
15:55 Phrynne looks for her frog avatar
15:55 Holly Gaavin (hollydeni) thinking zombie?
15:55 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) possibly a fundraiser in the village park. a halloween in may
15:55 Wordsmith Jarvinen Watch out for the alligator avatars, Phrynne.
15:55 Phrynne is definitely not attending as the Fruit Jello avatar.
15:56 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Need to catch up with desmond on that one.
15:56 Wordsmith Jarvinen Anything else? Anyone?
15:56 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) that or you could come as swamp people
15:57 Evil Sociopath Beware (cymbal.constantine) I will come with my croc avatar
15:57 Holly Gaavin (hollydeni) hi Evil
15:57 Evil Sociopath Beware (cymbal.constantine) Waves to Holly
15:58 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Still hosting Writers' Meetings
15:58 Holly Gaavin (hollydeni) Im a terrible writer
15:58 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) May 4th 11:00 AM SLT. in Caledon Nights reading room in front of a huge fireplace.
15:58 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thursdays at 11am SLT.
15:58 Orange Planer What's a writer's meeting?
15:59 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Talking about writing. Some writing prompts to those who want. Maybe exhanges of tests
15:59 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) *texts
16:00 Wordsmith Jarvinen With that, looks like (sounds like?) we can adjourn.
16:00 Phrynne thanks for coming
16:01 Wordsmith Jarvinen That you for coming.
16:01 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) night all
16:01 Holly Gaavin (hollydeni) night
16:01 Evil Sociopath Beware (cymbal.constantine) Good night!
16:01 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) possible giants club coming
16:01 Wordsmith Jarvinen Night Andrea and Elfbiter.
16:01 Phrynne good night everyone
16:01 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) bye i'm off to get naked at burn
16:01 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) see ya
16:01 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Bedtime for me.
16:01 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) night mr eb
16:02 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Hold the fort, lady Holly :-)
16:02 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Be seeing you
16:02 Holly Gaavin (hollydeni) bye Mr E