    [scotto] - i need to start considering lunch 
    [joshua] - ok.
    [scotto] - atman
    [joshua] - lunch.
    [joshua] - i'm leaving.
    [Flink] - There'd have to be water coolers everywhere to facilitate gossip & conspiracy.
    [pfly] - "First, the minutes from the last meeting of the subcomittee of the WSA Committee to research the WSA comittee structure:"
    [pfly] - "1) formed a subcomittee to research the relevancy of the goals of this subcomitteee"
    [joshua] - but nobody would trust the water
    [Flink] - Annual reports, Yara?  I think weekly screeds abt How It's All Going Horribly Wrong wd be more likely...
    [scotto] - "2) Scotto killed the committee head and apologized profusely"
    [yara] - no, we'd need an annual report that sounded upbeat
    [scotto] - for investors
    [Flink] - Scrytch continuity is up 23%!  
    [yara] - but that mostly had a lot of cool graphics and charts
    [scotto] - internal reports would have all the bad news
    [pfly] - "3) members of the subcomittee logged onto irc to further discuss"
    [Flink] - "Uh, guys, who thought it wd be a good idea to make db our Treasurer?"
    [joshua] - WSA shows 40billion loss..investors hope for best..
    [pfly] - "Headline: Scrytchmass per month continues to escalate!"
    [yara] - i'd hate to see what happened at the annual stockholders meeting
    [joshua] - quarterly report blames massive loss on "Records and Candy"
    [Flink] - If we had the yearly prospectus we'd have to stop calling it a virus: we'd have to call it "Controlled Expansion" or soemthing.
    [yara] - nooo... "likker and underage hookers" ;) if you're gonna put darren in charge, anyway
    [pfly] - "Headline: New technology of irc logs gives the word/per/month count a much needed boost"
    [joshua] - G'X kicked in Synodical Mouth, report says..
    [scotto] - "Headline: Scrytch gaming division announced; InfiniTek immediately accused of cheating"
    [Flink] - "Scrytch archival now nearly impossible, contributors say.  'We're just hoping for mass storage breakthroughs.'"
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    [scotto] - jenna
    [jenna] - hi scotto
    [yara] - jenna :)
    [joshua] - Security Is Concern At WSA Stockholderd Meeting
    [jenna] - So is darrenB a "Bad Guy" in Interlace?
    [Flink] - Heh...
    [yara] - everyone's a bad guy
    [pfly] - "Scandal: Scotto uses alien technology to vote twice on the WSA Board!"
    [yara] - it's just a question of how naughty they choose to be
    [Flink] - The Wildest wildcard, I think, Jenna.
* jenna assumes aurora is a heathinvention
    [yara] - of course
    [scotto] - you assume correctly
    [jenna] - whata freak
    [scotto] - but he stopped writing about her a while back
    [Flink] - & interlace in general.
    [scotto] - so now she's doing drugs with me and walther and antares, muahahaha
    [Flink] - Scotto: Corruptor.  ;)
* jenna is embarrassed about her choice of names
    [jenna] - although my current ideas about that are worse
    [scotto] - aurora's a neat name, i think
    [jenna] - yeah?
    [heath] - thanks.
    [heath] - {:)
    [heath] - jenna and i thank you
    [jenna] - hi heath
    [jenna] - =)
    [scotto] - tis i pity i canna use it in my own fiction now, hehehe
    [heath] - heya.  :)
    [jenna] - at least it is not at all related to Star Trek
    [Flink] - Elves are coming into the plot soon, however.
    [jenna] - thank godess for small miracles
    [scotto] - yeah, definite plans for Elves.  i can hardly wait
    [jenna] - ;)
    [jenna] - oooooh elves
* yara sighs
    [scotto] - and don't forget Faeries, goddammit
    [heath] - yara's gonna flush the whole mess if we bring elves in and you all know that
    [jenna] - why?
    [scotto] - we're going to have *tons* of Faeries
    [Flink] - Lots of freaking elves, & that's all I can say.
    [heath] - but until she does i can help translate Sindarin names!
    [yara] - i give up. it's no use fighting the masses wanting elves & faeries.
    [jenna] - faeries are even bettah
    [yara] - oh yeah
    [heath] - hey yara, you may be right though.  when the Ewoks came on the scene it all went to hell and everybody knows it.
    [pfly] - cloaks of invisibility?
    [jenna] - doh
    [Flink] - I just want to be able to capitalize more...they're not little people, they're The Little People.
    [jenna] - ewoks?
    [yara] - sure, but that didn't stop Lucas, did it now?
    [Flink] - Hey, you know, originally that was gonna be a planet of Wookies--Class/Race war in Star Wars!
    [yara] - it just seems to easy to resort to already-established mythical characters
    [heath] - one word, Yara - *merchandising.*  Elves and Faeries are our links to the hip young punks of today's hard-edged age!  ;)
    [yara] - it's fixional cheating of the lowest sort
    [heath] - archetypes get that way for a reason, y'know..
    [yara] - that way = overused
* heath curses self, reminding self he was only gonna irc anew when he'd caught up in the logs..
    [Flink] - "Scotto scans the horizon, visibly flinches.  Slowly turns to antares & sez softly 'Fuck.  It's elves.'"
    [heath] - just had to step in for the saudadic moment with Jenna and Aurora  :)  now, nose back to the grindfuckingstone!
    [scotto] - hehehe
    [jenna] - bye heathy
*** scotto has changed the topic on channel #scrytch to "Fuck. It's elves."
    [heath] - [Elves.  Very dangerous.  You go first."
    [atman] - Apparently it was easier to find 100 some odd midgets than 100 some odd 7' tall plus folk...
    [Flink] - "Elves...why did it have to be elves?"
    [jenna] - no I *know* why...
    [heath] - hey btw, though i'm now about to skip irc work 028, which is the one cris and i did all scrytchy-indentity-shifting, [cause dammit i was there already], it's pretty fuckin wild, and is definitely something to be tried.
    [heath] - if the groove is right, i can just imagine it with 6 of us...  word to the wise.  there cld be some good stuff in that sort of exercise.
    [jenna] - Since the ewoks were supposed to not be very technically advanced and obviously Chewy was very technically skilled ..
    [atman] - Yeah, but Chewy was a slave to the empire...
    [jenna] - they couldn't figure out how to explain how Chewy became such a good pilot when all his fellow wookies were spear bearing ludites
    [atman] - don't even try to tell me that you couldn't train an ewok to be a great gremlin...
    [jenna] - doesn't seem to hard to work around...
    [atman] - They're clever fellas, just look at all those log-traps they made.
    [atman] - obviously mechanically inclined.
    [jenna] - but thats the explanation Lucas gives
    [Flink] - & how quickly that 1 irritating 1 figured out how to fly the speeder-bike.
    [atman] - I think it's that basketball players don't work for union scale, personally.
    [yara] - ok, so i'll go along with the elves & faeries, but not willingly. and i now redraw the line at Ewoks.
    [scotto] - fuck Ewoks. 
    [Flink] - Aha!  A policy of conciliation!  Victory is ours!
* atman pictures hordes of ewoks emerging from InfiniTek headquarters to ravage London.
    [Flink] - Ewoks, big-ass pink teddy bears, velveteen rabbits everywhere!
    [yara] - in fact, put in as many elvers as you possible can
    [yara] - elves
    [yara] - go for it
    [heath] - "wab wab!  e-wab-de-wab wab!  wab-wab de-de-wab!  yah-yah-yah!"
    [pfly] - maybe speederbikes are really easy to fly
    [Flink] - Oh, I don't think so, Pfly...
* heath sees a Licensing Nightmare ont he horizon...
    [pfly] - went was the last time *you* flew a speederbike, hm?
    [yara] - they didn't have opposable thumbs--the brakes would be tough to work
    [Flink] - This morning, thank you.
    [scotto] - i flew one to work, why?
    [Flink] - My snowspeeder is in the shop.
    [atman] - hence the breakneck speed that J. Random Ewok flew at.
    [scotto] - i drive a landspeeder in seattle
    [Flink] - No, that 1 was R. Irritating Ewok.
* heath tries to figure out how hard line breaks got in irc work as they have recently..
    [scotto] - http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9802/04/belgium.gates.ap/ btw is a fascinating tale
    [Flink] - Was that what Luke had on Tattoine?
    [scotto] - yeah
    [Flink] - ...So.  Are there any Ewoks in the WSA?
    [scotto] - no
    [jenna] - I have that set as wall paper scotto
    [jenna] - I was gonna post it here but I thought it was too non scrytch
    [jenna] - =)
    [scotto] - any time an ewok applies for membership, i take him out for dinner, claiming it's an interview, and then dump the body at my earliest convenience
    [jenna] - the old cream pie gag
    [Flink] - Hmp.  Back in the closet for me, then...
    [Flink] - "I'm just a real short hippie!  It's not fur!"
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* Flan offers Good News
    [scotto] - what good news?  out with it, mister1
    [scotto] - !
    [atman] - "I'm actually a hobbit with a rogaine addiction!"
    [jenna] - oh dear
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* Luxo trools for scrytch in the silobrary
    [jenna] - I now am the proud owner of a bonsai tree
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    [Flink] - Shit: gotta run.  I think it's elves...
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    [scotto] - okay, i must go acquire some kind of lunch
    [scotto] - bbs
* scotto wanders off
* yara contemplates a trip to the gym even though she doesn't feel good
    [jenna] - bye
* Harvey watches the voices in his head scatter at the first glimpse of the True Light of the Void...
* jenna runs to leri
    [jenna] - bye all
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    [Harvey] - :)
*** Harvey is now known as heath
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    [heath] - *now* maybe i can catch up..
    [scotto] - re
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    [pfly] - argh
    [pfly] - i am failing to bounce
    [scotto] - you're obviously not rubbery enough to bounce, pfly
    [pfly] - hm, wheres that latex
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    [heath] - wahoo!  i'm now as caught up asi can get via the web!  :)  [well, with irc work that is].  
    [scotto] - any comments?
    [cris] - cooool  :)
    [heath] - WOW!  WOW!
    [joshua] - ewoks ? Phaerie Pholk ? ELVES ? jesus, i step out for a bagel and the whole shithouse goes up in smoke !
    [heath] - "Never feed yourself to something you don't want to be!"
    [joshua] - Lucasfilm is gonna be pissed..
    [heath] - i can'rt believe that made it back int he fray!  wow!  man, that's a real gem.  it's an actual quote, from a *very* long time ago, from someone who's around here...
    [heath] - [re the log & comments scotto -- i made them as i went this morning, into irc, and so they'll be legible in the irc work for today.  :)  i can't remember them now; that's why i typed em out!]
    [joshua] - never feed yourself to somthing you don't want to be ?
    [joshua] - a strong argument.
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*** astro is now known as cris
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    [cris] - hey josh
    [joshua] - yo
    [heath] - btw has anyone tried getting the ftp full list traffic archive from the silobrary yet
    [heath] - and had trouble, asi did?
    [scotto] - nope
    [heath] - er, did you try it and succeed, or just haven't tried it?
    [heath] - darn
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    [scotto] - re flink
    [Flink] - 'ey
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    [scotto] - "the tremendum smiles, if you want it to." - melody
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    [scotto] - re pfly
    [pfly] - re yourself
    [scotto] - chaos on leri is likely to get a little worse
    [scotto] - lamont linked the server to lycaeum and gii.net, and is trying to link a couple others in
    [pfly] - i see shamanbot is htere
    [dbauler] - it's gonna be a nightmare...
    [pfly] - irc can be like tv
    [dbauler] - nothing happened in a dream.
    [dbauler] - nothing is a dream! argh!
    [dbauler] - i will fight this to the end.
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    [scotto] -  [heath] - [also, just a signpost, i still stand precisely across the 
    [scotto] - room from Flink in that i think now is the absolutely perfect moment to 
    [scotto] - invite other lerii into scrytch, as participants.
    [scotto] - well, i'm somewhere in the middle, in that i think word of mouth recruiting is a better tactic by and large than advertising for scrytch in public forums
    [scotto] - that is all.
    [dbauler] - agreed.
    [dbauler] - it's not like people aren't coming in; david moses just signed on monday.
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    [scotto] - heath, i'm not sure you caught two of the ?s i left in the log for you, but i can't find 'em right now, dagnabit
    [scotto] - kind of weird when an irclog ends right in the middle of a big conversation
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    [dbauler] - yeah, s'pecially when it takes a couple days to get the next log up...
    [scotto] - like today's extended riff on the WSA got cut off in the middle
    [scotto] - but then again, it's really only hard core scrytch geeks who give a shit about these logs, i guess
* scotto peers out into the studio audience
* dbauler just shrugs, over and over again.
    [atman] - I find that I delete nearly all the irc logs after reading the first page or so.
    [dbauler] - there's tons of great stuff in the irc logs!
    [scotto] - tons of crap, too :)
    [dbauler] - drink recipies! weird flirting! subtext! plot developments!
    [scotto] - IRC = internet relay crap
    [dbauler] - well yeah, they're to be skimmed, but.
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    [pfly] - well, scrybe, its just me and you
* pfly pours scrybe a drink
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    [pfly] - luton is down
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    [scotto] - atman, flink
    [Flink] - 'eya
    [atman] - 'owdy/
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    [Flink] - Ahhh!  Identity changing!  Ahhh!
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    [scotto] - guardian7
    [scotto] - where, might i ask, are the other 6?
    [Guardian7] - hello sorry so slo checkin other channel # leri & internet stuff
    [scotto] - come in via the lycaeum?
    [Guardian7] - yeah
    [scotto] - well, if you have any questions about #leri or #scrytch, i'd happy to help out.  i'm one of the more cheerful faces you'll meet around here
    [Guardian7] - the other 6 are on the perifefrey of the solar system 
    [Flink] - I'd be the ugliest...
    [Flink] - Cheerful, but hard to stomach.
    [Guardian7] - too much ethanol - sorry
    [scotto] - ethanol.  hey db, this guy's got ethanol!
    [Flink] - Uh...Scotto?  Db's not here.
    [scotto] - you should know, Guardian7, that all traffic on this channel is logged for posting to the scrytch mailing list at a later date.
    [scotto] - i know, flink, i just like shouting at other ppl via the logs
    [Flink] - Fair 'nuff!
    [Flink] - This evening, for my rant I shall be transcribing...something.  A description.  Of a project.  I will be avoiding naming the project, & will refer to it as XXX.
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    [Flink23] - Damn flaky net access provider...
    [Guardian7] - cool hope the system benefits fm our posts
    [Flink23] - Anyway, as I had been attempting to say, the project (XXX) is not unlike interlace.
    [Flink23] - A _prize_ awaits any1 who can tell me where this description was lifted from...email w/ yr entry!
    [Guardian7] - gotta go eat something
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    [Flink23] - XXX: A RANDOM ACCESS MYTH.  History is a dream, here, in the realm of XXX.  Accesss to the dream is not in order.
    [scotto] - i'm hereby offering a cash prize in genuine WSA approved currency to the first person who writes Guardian7 into interlace as a character
    [Flink23] - Done & Done.
    [scotto] - extry points goes to anyone who makes clever fun of AOL in the process
    [Flink23] - Natasha Henstridge is Guardian7--the other 6 are also 2nd-tier actresses...
    [scotto] - (sorry for the interruption, flink, please continue)
    [Flink23] - "In a dream there is no time but evermore.  If there is no time, there is no order.  In the saga of XXX, between the extremes of the beginning XXX[v]
    [Flink23] - and the end XXX[v], everything happens *all at once*.  Without a sequence of events, there is a rush of events.
    [Flink23] - The rush of events is a horror.  This is the key.
    [Flink23] - Ultimately, rhythm is image and image is rhythm.  Ultimately, this myth is random access."
    [scotto] - veddy interesting, mr. bond
    [scotto] - i had a column in my college newspaper called "random access," as a piece of gratuitious irrelevant trivia
    [Flink23] - There's some more, but I have to ponder its inclusion...;)
    [Flink23] - I've read all the 1s on ScottoWeb!  
    [scotto] - when is this project slated to be unveiled?
    [scotto] - aha, i have all but the one serious one archived
    [Flink23] - The project listing I just transcribed?
    [scotto] - yeah
    [Flink23] - Well, lemme assure you, I ripped the thing off.  The project was...unveiled in 1988.  Massive failure & the de facto end of the careers of those involved.
    [scotto] - excellent
    [Flink23] - Let's see...I think this stuff will work, too...
    [Flink23] - "'Out beyond the Europe's rim the Spaniards met the Indians.'  This, then, is the original encounter, the deep background of the XXX saga, the table upon which the whole new myth unfolds.
    [Flink23] - To the Spaniards, agents of a Catholic Sovereign, the New World was no place of grace.  To the Spaniards, the first Europeans to find a New World, what they found was not good.
    [Flink23] - It was anti-genesis, anti-Eden, seat of evil, pit of darkness.  All the shining silver of Mexico and all its bright, bright gold
    [Flink23] - herein became no luminous mirror of delight, but, rather, a mirror of blackness.  The priests in the expeditions could imagine no place worse than this place,
    [Flink23] - albiet new, visibly in the thrall of invisible spirits.  All the shining silver of Mexico and all its bright, bright gold becomes, when striven for beyond all limit, that which is beyond limit.
    [Flink23] - Melted and remelted, incorruptible, but soft, its luminosity circulated throughout Europe: the seduction of the Old World by the New World--innocence corrupts experience."
    [scotto] - so this is a light costume comedy, right?
    [Flink23] - (Bear in mind all I wanted to get at was that last sentence, but I needed all the prior stuff to make it make sense."
    [Flink23] - )
    [Flink23] - Y'know, you're not far off there, Scotto...
    [scotto] - how many ppl were involved with said XXX?
    [Flink23] - Well, a largeish support beaurocracy, (sp) but in terms of the artistic entities...
    [Flink23] - 5 core people,
    [Flink23] - & looks like 16 supplementary.
    [Flink23] - Care to hazard the 1st guess?
    [scotto] - 1st guess at what?
    [Flink23] - The nature of the project...remember there's a _prize_ awaiting the brilliant correct answerer(s)!
    [scotto] - well, what do you mean by nature of the project?  like the structure it took, or what the content turned out to be?
    [Flink23] - Nothing so deep--just looking for the name, pretty much.
    [scotto] - ah, i won't hazard the first guess, no
    [scotto] - is this online somewhere?
    [Flink23] - I was just about to check that 1 myself, actually.  I kinda doubt it: there was more or less no internet in 88, & the catastrophic failure of the enterprise most likely wd've precluded anybody from putting it up after the fact.
    [scotto] - well, okay.  what kind of collaboration was this?
    [Flink23] - Ummm...I don't want to give it away.  It's pop culture, though, from aging 1-time stars.
    [Flink23] - Wow: they're all over the freaking web...
* scotto pretends not to be interested
    [Flink23] - Hehe: if you knew, I seriously doubt you would be--lemme try to find something that ties in w/ the stuff I did above.  Right now I'm just wallowing in nostalgia.
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    [Flink23] - ???
    [`] - ), I caught a bizarre little flight to Rio de Janeiro from a British fellow who was shipping dairy products cross country, and at last made my way to the American consulate there, a small but immaculate office in a corporate building of some kind.  
    [`] - There, I met a young man who was more than willing to believe my claim that my documentation had been eaten by piranhas; he pulled several strings for me, got new documents issued for me, and even made first class plane reservations for me back to the States, courtesy of the United States government.  
    [`] - Mind you, this is not a tactic I recommend for all foreign travelers, unless you happen to be young, charming, and the main character of a book.
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    [Flink23] - Wazzat?
    [scotto] - i'm just getting a kick out of dropping random quotes from my book into the scrytch logs
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    [Flink23] - Ahh...I kinda enjoy baiting that scrybe guy too.  Never does kick back, though.
    [Flink23] - Here's something I found on them: occupied themselves with
    [Flink23] - advanced pursuits in the metaphysics of their time and space, which included Zap Comix, "Star Trek," various
    [Flink23] - experiments involving stimulation and alteration of synaptic patterns by means of secret potions and
    [Flink23] - concoctions, and, of course, rock & rol
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* scotto kicks himself
    [Flink23] - Whyfore?
    [scotto] - i hate when i find a sentence in my stuff that starts out with "needless to say" and then actually says something that *was* needless to say
    [scotto] - just drives me crazy, isall
    [scotto] - if it really is needless to say, don't say it!
    [Flink23] - Well, in my experience, nearly every time "needless to say", it is, but then it _is_ (said).
    [scotto] - i know, that's the point
    [scotto] - in speech it's one thing; in writing it's usually redundant
    [Flink23] - Verbal punctuation.
    [scotto] - eh
    [scotto] - lazy
* scotto is on the revision warpath
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    [scotto] - yara
    [yara] - hey there
    [scotto] - brb
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    [yara] - yikes! i'm gonna be late... cya tomorrow
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    [scotto] - "I believe the blood of the Messiah was spiked." - Laurel
    [Flink23] - Still is: His bloodline survived!
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    [Flink23] - 'ey db
    [dbauler] - the heat is now off in the place, so pardon my gaps in conversation, all.
    [Flink23] - ???  You're unheated presently?
    [dbauler] - yeah, and it's getting awful cold.
    [Flink23] - No shit: Febuary is the coldest month.  Happened to Kim & me a few years back: took our landlord 10 days to install a new furnace...
    [dbauler] - the furnace seems fine, but it's not blowing out hot air, just air. hopefully this is a fixable thing.
    [Flink23] - In the meantime, have they at least brought you a space heater or 2?
    [dbauler] - i don't have a landlord. i own this place. so i basically gotta wait things out until tomorrow.
    [Flink23] - Pisser.
    [dbauler] - eh. to quote jimi hendrix, that's okay, i got my blankets...
    [Flink23] - Alright, to tie off what I was rambling 'bout earlier, that 1988 project did not quite end the careers of those involved.
    [scotto] - but you still won't say who they were, right?
    [Flink23] - Nor did it really involve the 5 core people I had believed: it was primarily 1 to 3 people, & more specifically 1 person's work on work they'd done long previously.
    [dbauler] - what is this? 
    [Flink23] - The others had significant involvement, but more on the "face" of the project than on its skeleton, to irritate myself w/ metaphor.
    [Flink23] - Like interlace (& this was a real surprise) it (XXX) was largely concerned w/ consolidation & such of much of the prior body of work by the people involved.
    [Flink23] - (All of which I've found out from the surprising plethora of websites abt these folks.)
    [scotto] - you are being mighty cryptic about all of this, sir flink.
    [Flink23] - Scotto: I will not reveal it at this time.  But soon.
    [dbauler] - what? what are we talking about?
    [Flink23] - I have to be cryptic: the message, the ideas, is/are interesting, but if I tie them to their source, nobody will want to think abt them...trust me.
    [scotto] - ok
*** scotto has changed the topic on channel #scrytch to what? what are we talking about?
    [Flink23] - Db, it's a project I found w/ some interesting parallels to interlace.  Should pop up in the logs presently.
    [dbauler] - well...okay, if you say so.
    [Flink23] - Obviously I don't have any clear reason to think so, but I had a feeling Db'd be the 1 to successfully answer the challenge...
    [dbauler] - challenge? am i being challenged? 
    [dbauler] - aaaaaaagh!
    [scotto] - en garde, mister.
* dbauler is loopy from heat loss.
    [scotto] - say, this is an opportune moment to point out that sometimes it's remarkably irritating to view life through the filter of iadics.
    [Flink23] - All readers of scrytch IRC logs are being challenged!
    [scotto] - oh sure, it's all 'useful' and such, but.
    [scotto] - that is all.
    [dbauler] - screw iadics!
    [Flink23] - Can I trouble you for a definition of same, sirs?
    [dbauler] - does that come from anything? 
    [scotto] - it always does, db
    [scotto] - iadics is viewing human relationships via geometric patterns: dyads, triads, tetrads, etc
    [scotto] - analyzing how these relationsihps intertwine
    [scotto] - it's standard sociology, also wrote up by john lilly for the head crowd
    [scotto] - brb
    [Flink23] - Sounds like a bridge between group & individual psychology.
    [scotto] - probably is
    [dbauler] - i want it duly noted that i have a plan!
    [scotto] - for what?
    [dbauler] - in general! a scrytch/interlace plan!
    [scotto] - let's hear it
    [dbauler] - no no no! all i mean is that i have a plan. and will say no more than that.
    [dbauler] - (laughs)
    [scotto] - feh, i've got one of *those* plans
    [dbauler] - implications in the last irc log that i didn't have a plan are greatly exaggerated and wrong.
    [dbauler] - and wrt foreshadowing or fucking around, it's both, and it's not knowing which is which that makes things interesting. and that's all i'll say on that.
    [Flink23] - That's what I was trying to get at, Db...you put it better than I did that time, though.
    [scotto] - "foreshadowing - the key to quality literature!"
    [dbauler] - always leave yourself an out, is the key for me and interlace, which is why the dead thing failed, because there was no out.
    [scotto] - what failed about it?
    [dbauler] - we're now forced (in heath's opinion) to make that aspect of interlace a dream, which is the last out, and one i'm uncomfortable with.
    [scotto] - see, i don't even remotely agree with heath there.  courtney and cohen are dead, dead, dead, and they are walking around the island.
    [Flink23] - None of interlace was a dream in _my_ handlings of it.
    [dbauler] - right. that was the whole premise. and there's no reason to change that.
    [scotto] - maybe his particular angle was a dream, and that's fine, but even dreams are real in this setting
    [scotto] - dreams are eigenstates (there's that word!)
    [dbauler] - it was the use of "true names" (a concept i still don't get, really) which made things odd, but...
    [scotto] - i get True Names, or rather, i'm fucking around with it in a big way by playing with aurora; it's interesting
    [Flink23] - None at all.  1 thing I try to remember is that Heath'll theorize at the drop of a hat...usually interesting, but not always correct.  ;)
    [scotto] - hehe
    [dbauler] - i'm torn. i mean, i've made appeals to have MAYA stuff removed from the scrytch files (and failed) because certain people think it means something it doesn't. and i think that's how heath took his death, and other such things. but i don't think..
    [dbauler] - ah hell, i'm not sure what i think.
    [Flink23] - I think the True Name idea was great: I'm working to integrate a view of that w/ a radical reinterpretation of a lot of interlace...
    [Flink23] - Nobody's gonna let you pull it out, Db...no matter what yr intentions were, it's in a lot of heads, you know?  
    [dbauler] - yeah, i know.
    [dbauler] - and even though it has nothing to do with nothing, people won't let it go.
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    [Flink23] - I've had to handle some of my own historification (I hate that word) to make damn sure my repudiation of early artistic tangents is noted...
    [dbauler] - it's frustrating.
    [Herben] - Llo all!
    [scotto] - herben
    [Herben] - This has got to be one of the most unfriendly servers I've ever been on. :O(
    [Herben] - Llo scotto
    [scotto] - herben, this has been a very tightknit community until today when a formerly private server got linked to a public server.  we're adjusting
    [scotto] - btw, every thing you say on this channel gets logged for posting to a public mailing list, fyi
    [Flink23] - Yeah, that's a risk you run, w/ the voice you use...I dunno.
    [Herben] - Yes, I know what you mean.
    [Herben] - A mailing list?  Why?
    [scotto] - this particular channel is associated with an ongoing aesthetic project known as "scrytch"
    [Flink23] - This channel is for discussion/ranting/whatever related to that mailing list.
    [scotto] - everything said here is part of the ongoing context we're building
    [Herben] - What is scrytch?
    [Flink23] - An ongoing aesthetic project, of course.  ;)
    [scotto] - scrytch is a virus
    [scotto] - a form of writing that takes over your life
    [Herben] - Hmmmm....
    [Herben] - Is that good or bad?
    [scotto] - depends on who you ask
    [Flink23] - Yes.
    [Herben] - :O)
    [Flink23] - & when you ask.
    [Herben] - Could you explain it a little better, please?
    [scotto] - yeah
    [scotto] - scrytch is a form of writing which is first of all anti-copyright, meaning,
    [scotto] - anything you contribute to scrytch is grist for some other scrytcher's mill
    [scotto] - that's first.
* dbauler kicks back and watches scotto give the intro rap.
    [scotto] - so, at this point, there are archives of scrytch that go back years, and themes and resonances have emerged over time.
    [scotto] - it started as a writing exercise:
    [scotto] - writing that needs not conform to any kind of stricture whatsoever, not plot, not form, not nothing, just whatever comes out
    [scotto] - whatever "scratches the itch"
    [scotto] - the sound of the pencil against the page
    [scotto] - etc.
    [scotto] - lots of dross over time, also lots of remarkable experimental stuff
    [scotto] - all part of a vast tapestry, interconnected because ppl keep recycling other ppl's writing as they see fit.
    [scotto] - at this point in time, scrytch now includes audio and graphics as well, it includes this irc channel, and it includes a large ongoing story being evolved out of the stew by a half dozen or more contributors
    [scotto] - it's a virus, and it's mutating
    [scotto] - does that help, herben?
    [Herben] - Yes, lot's!
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    [Herben] - I have to go now, but I want to come back in the near future.  This sounds like a very interresting form of writing. One I'd be more comfortable with myself.
    [scotto] - as for this being an unfriendly server - 9/10 of the people on this server have fleshmet or have some kind of flesh connection to someone involved.  it's very tight
    [scotto] - groovy, herben
    [scotto] - see ya round.
    [Herben] - Bye!
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    [Flink23] - Well.  Nice scrytch description, I must say.
    [scotto] - eeesh.  
* scotto bludgeons scrybe with a cement trout
    [scotto] - i didn't expect 'word of mouth' to involve *my* mouth, dammit.
    [Flink23] - You guys _are_ unfriendly.
    [scotto] - we're a bunch of fuckers when you get right down to it.
    [Flink23] - What?  I'm confused...
* scotto growls for no apparent reason
    [scotto] - just kidding. 
    [scotto] - my apartment is infested with ants, it's made me grumpy.  they keep climbing up the power cord of my laptop onto the table, and i keep having to flick them off
    [Flink23] - Sucks!  What was yr word of mouth comment abt?
    [scotto] - oh, the whole "should we advertise publicly or only let it spread word of mouth?" debate
    [scotto] - "As seen in previous scrytch logs!"
    [Flink23] - Ah...well, I'm all for offputting abuse & utter concealment, as seen in previous...etc.
    [Flink23] - Must arise early tomorrow, so I'll take my leave.  Don't take any of that scrybe guy's guff, Scotto...
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    [dbauler] - you ever just feel like crying for no reason?
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    [heath] - had a dream last night.  it was a pretty fuckin cool dream, actually.  well, the last part of it was.
    [heath] - during the first part, somehow i got a bunch of secret astronauts who ran a store as a cover to let me go on one of their trips to Mars if i'd promise in return to take over care & feeding of the Country Music Section...  :(  {:)
    [heath] - but then it got cool; wandering around the fixional Minneapolis-esque town, i ran intoa Manga shop, and one of the Manga i found ended up influencing the arc-formerly-known-as-'aji.  the content of the exquisitely drawn b&w manga was a precise
    [heath] - cross between Ghost in the Shell [2-parts], Aeon Flux [1-part], and the FPS game Marathon, who nobody here but dbauler's probably played in any form.  the part that reminded me of Marathon was the way the story itself was told - uplinks at 
    [heath] - infrequent intervals during which exposition was delivered, separated by long wordless empty sneaking-around-and sniping things phases.\ [much like the orig. liquid tv Aeon Flux].
    [heath] - well, as i was waking up, what i gleaned from this dream was that the female spy in the ancient-looking futureistic setting was a member of an Order of Illuminated Assassins; not in the sense that they're all illuminated, but in the sense that no
    [heath] - one of the Assassins are stupid or ignorant of the overarching ideals of Order.  these ideals are as follows: they seek to "disappear" physical manifestations of scientific knowledge.
    [heath] - that was about all i got from my dream before i awoke, but i trnaslated it into the arc thus..:  there is a sect of shamen who are also cartographers in various senses [ie, also alchemists, writers; they map mental spaces as well as
    [heath] - physical spaces].  they have a secret tongue and are also in charge of describing the relations between various branches of the common tongue, so that precise translation from one language / dialect to another is possible.
    [heath] - they chart these correspondences and are keepers of them.  this Order of Assasins ups their ante a bit; they now have an enemy.  the Assassins actually only kill when something -- like, say, a person -- gets in the way of their attempt to 
    [heath] - stealthfully steal away the tomes and charts of knowledge from their original resting places.  it is said by the catDzanu [the mapper-shamen] that these Assassins destroy all of the work they steal, but this is probably untrue; each of the 
    [heath] - Assassins must *know* the languages spoken all around their world so they can travel easily between regions; they must know the lay of the land for the same reasons; and none of them are dumb.  so it's likely that the materials thus spirited away
    [heath] - end up in some or several repositories somewhere.  perhaps only the most exemplary versions of certain concepts and charts are kept and the rest destroyed, those safeguarded versions then recopied and used to teach the Assassins.  their motives 
    [heath] - in this behavior are unclear [but i have some thoughts which i'm going to let simmer, the "vision" being so fresh].  the effect this has, though, on the advancment of culture is interesting.
    [heath] - ...
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    [cris] - heath - wanna bounce a timeline off you:
    [cris] - louise escapes bethany medical,meets up w/harvey
    [cris] - er i mean rraby
    [cris] - they do the ext think into heath's dreams, this is where she is killed by the she who is also in heath's dreams
    [cris] - at this point she iswandering around in ext and doesnt know it,, living a life she does not know is not real, she cannot put togewther the lack of context or history into anything meaningful
    [cris] - being predisposed to suicdide anyway (have to get this in there b/c thats how she was written in the beginning of interlace)
    [cris] - she tries to do herself in, hanging i spose, and fucks up & dies by accident (kinda like flying by distracting yourself before you hit the ground)
    [cris] - then she is stuck back in ext, even more vivid .. this is where she starts to wander the desert, the ols She thing from this summer
    [cris] - and that takes her to the caravan where she meets UP WITH sTELLA/hARVEY
    [cris] - capslock
    [cris] - and at the end of that series of pieces she motorcanoes into the aurora borealis and "dies"
    [cris] - and then thats where we find her in the nautilus, coming awake and aware of courtney and cohen heading to the island
    [cris] - it's rough but ill flesh it out better
    [cris] - l8tr]
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    [heath] - the piece of software that wanted to modify my system has an interesting concept behind it..
    [heath] - but the manual is written in *very* broken english and i don't know if i trust it..
    [heath] - oops
* heath searches far and wide for summary pages ont he bantu languages
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    [scotto] - yara
    [yara] - hey
    [yara] - i think with my next paycheck, i'm going to have to break downa nd buy some new cds
    [scotto] - sounds dangerous
    [yara] - i hate buying cds cuz i know what the difference is between the cost to produce and the $15.99 they want me to pay
    [heath] - do what i do and shop used.
    [heath] - my entire cd collection [well, 90% of it] is built on that foundation.  the other 10% are purchased new..
    [heath] - special cases & all.
    [yara] - i think i'd have a hard time finding the stuff i want used
    [yara] - it's tough enough finding it new
    [heath] - if you're that picky, yeah..  but if you found a really good used store, it can happen.  plus you get to listen to stuff too.  but i can see the concern.  aren't there online web cd places that sell at big discounts?
    [heath] - [ah, btw, abby we shld discuss whether to keep you going wrt the irc work or have me take it if the mail's now just to be sent to xero; but we can do that later, since i haveta go to lunch..  :(
    [scotto] - hm
    [scotto] - i kinda like having it go thru the list on regular intervals
    [scotto] - reminds me to read the damn things
    [yara] - 6 of 1, half dozen to me
    [pfly] - simearth arrived
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    [yara] - heath, was there a reason you wanted to change how the logs are handled?
    [scotto] - flink mentioned something about the logs being a problem for his mailer, i believe
    [cris] - i think it was something about someone having trouble
    [yara] - because they're so big
    [cris] - what scotto said
    [yara] - ?
    [scotto] - i don't remember
*** Signoff: cris (shutdown & give up for adaption)
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    [heath] - yeah - no, it's still fine with me if you keep 'em, i'd just email em to both you and xero at day's end.  the question is one of their size; so for a couple days, i'm going to try sending them half as large, but there'll be more of em.
    [heath] - so we'll keep going as we have been for a few days, me sending them in smaller chunks now and you putting them up as they are.  i'll just number them "irc work 035a" and "irc work 035b" for now, like that..
    [yara] - um. no. number them irc work 035.1
    [yara] - 035.2
    [yara] - etc
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    [yara] - ok?
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    [heath] - ok, i can do that.  if tjust urls are sent thru the list, i may not even have to break them up this way.
    [heath] - by the way: what would you think of placing the text in some light color on a black background ont he pages?  i'm wondering if it'd be easier to read that way..  [ie, i think it wld for me, frinstance]
    [atman] - I always navigate the web with text color set to amber and background color set to black..so I probably wouldn't notice.
    [atman] - but it's a good idea anyway...the reason I do it is it's markedly less eye strain.
    [yara] - ummm... sure
    [yara] - wait. you don't mean change them *all*--like ALL the interlace stuff, do you?
    [heath] - no no, just the irc logs.
    [yara] - phew
    [heath] - :)
    [heath] - "And While You're At It..."
    [yara] - yeah yeah
* yara goes to find a good color
    [scotto] - puce
    [atman] - fuschia.
    [scotto] - lavendar
    [yara] - you're so helpful--what would i do without you all...
    [heath] - i say bright green.  seriously.  [if you mean for the text]
* heath is eager to see if his attempt to not hard-wrap last night's logs bore any fruit
    [yara] - http://www.lycaeum.org/~yara/int/irc/irc01.htm
    [yara] - how's that?
    [heath] - try an evey higher-saturation green..
    [heath] - [or higher-saturation whatever]
    [yara] - seriously?
    [yara] - ok. try again
    [heath] - yeah, that'll do 'er.  still pretty tasteful, but that's ok.  :)  ;)
    [heath] - well, cool!
    [heath] - you're tops, yara!
    [yara] - uh yeah. ok. i hope amy does all yr interior decorating... ;)
    [yara] - ok. they're all fixed now. and 31-34 are posted
    [heath] - wahoo!  did the soft line breaks work?
    [heath] - nope.  hmm.
    [heath] - ah well.
    [yara] - hey, does Flink still have a problem with the ecistence of the section breaks
    [yara] - existence
    [heath] - [i dunno]
    [heath] - damn; now we're gonna have to work in "the Vanishing of the Seven" somehow..
    [scotto] - that was just a random comment!
    [scotto] - damn.
    [scotto] - we're too creative.  i'm sick of it.  enough imagination around here, goddammit!
    [yara] - ok--so Chris Flink--if i'm supposed to take stuff down, you gotta mail me...
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    [yara] - all i've done this morning is post and read scrytch logs and i'm exhausted
    [mythku] - almost as good as hot syeamy sex no?
    [yara] - definitely not
    [atman] - but almost as sticky, at least, right?
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    [yara] - no. and my eyes are never this tired after sex either
    [pakoo] - schrupting
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    [cris] - oo they said a naughty word?
    [yara] - who?
    [cris] - whatr yall doin tonight anyhow?
    [cris] - oops wrong channel :)
    [yara] - heath's idea of a drunken #scrytch evening sounded intriguing...
    [scotto] - gawd
    [yara] - it'd be total Mayhem     [tm>
    [scotto] - scrytchrip
    [cris] - oo i like it, drunken scrytch rap
    [yara] - in fact, i think it'd be downright hilarious
    [scotto] - i'll bring the goldschlager
    [yara] - is there anyone who can't irc at night?
    [scotto] - i don't think so
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    [yara] - well, we'll have to pick a day--soonish
    [cris] - me is rarin to go fer sure
    [heath] - hey!
    [heath] - yeah drunken scrytch thing!
    [cris] - yea!
    [heath] - but scotto you still really have that prob where you work?  can't you have a peer buy you some likker?
    [scotto] - i will have to do that, yeah
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    [scotto] - unless i can find another store to go to that is a little more lenient re out of state licenses
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    [cris] - heya jerjer
    [jer] - kaboom
    [scotto] - hey jer, we're going to be getting drunk and having a scrytchrip soon
    [jer] - when?
    [heath] - but maybe we sld let Flink decide the beverage, in honor of his precedent in this matter..
    [cris] - uh-huh  :)
    [scotto] - i can't drink beer, man.
    [cris] - i'll organize the scrytchtrip
    [heath] - hm.  yeah, fair enough.    ["organize?"]
    [cris] - yea, no beer.. TNT or wine
* jer will drink whatever the hell he wants.
* heath high-fives jer
    [jer] - right on
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    [heath] - stout.  black.  for me.
    [pfly] - hey
    [jer] - oh fer chrissake, heath...yer never gonna be able to drink enough stout to get as drunk as you'll need to be
    [heath] - bah!  watch me!
    [jer] - you need to think about the logistics here
    [heath] - i'll chase it with Mezcal.  happy?  :)
    [jer] - that's better...
    [jer] - disgusting
    [jer] - but better
    [cris] - ugh mezcal
    [cris] - i should buy some expensive single malt
    [pfly] - when is this scrytchrip supposed to ha[ppen?
    [pfly] - scryt-chirp
* jer still has about 2/3 of a bottle of the smoothest irish whiskey he's ever tasted sitting at home
    [cris] - hey if im gonna tie in a huge subset of scrytch into interlace in one chunk, should i just point to it or actualyl write it back in?
    [heath] - mm, kaluha wld be good..  kaluha, with black & tans ont he side
    [cris] - pfly!
    [heath] - prob send it back thru, re-edited in
    [cris] - heyhey
    [cris] - ok willdo
    [heath] - hwhat chunk?
    [cris] - when i do the html on the ext. log im gonna edit stuff i was so blearyeyed i didnt catch
    [pfly] - heyhey
* yara may have ot make those vodka shakes dbauler was recipe-ing
    [cris] - the travels of the she from the desert to the borealis
    [heath] - oh!  i cld send thru my recipe for a Russian Popsicle!
    [cris] - and harvey's gonna = stella
    [heath] - cris, perfect!  there's a bunch of those - are you drawing from early shuffle?  because a number of them are there..
    [pfly] - hth, you hear simearth arrived here
    [heath] - whoah, heavy cris!
    [jer] - maybe i'll make myself a pitcher of Citrus Snowblinds
    [cris] - maybe so
    [heath] - ah way cool paul!  now we're rolling!  
    [yara] - so, we need to make a date for this momentous occasion
    [cris] - the wandering's gonna happen after theShe kills her on the cliff
    [heath] - i shld get Ulias-re ready to send to you!
    [pfly] - i'm up to tricords
    [pfly] - :)
    [heath] - :)  watch out or they'll become sentient!
    [cris] - basically after she kills herself by proxy
    [heath] - agreed yara.  votes?  i vote this weekend.
    [pfly] - right now!
    [heath] - wait no that won't work so well.  i vote 2 weekends from now.
    [yara] - no, not right now
* pfly guzzles
    [cris] - ok this weekend but not sat night
    [cris] - please?
    [yara] - that's valentinte's day
    [heath] - i vote "the next weekend during which Saturday falls ona Full Moon"
    [scotto] - if we do it on a weekend, i'm very unlikely to attend
    [heath] - or maybe the next wknd where Friday is on a *gibbous* moon!
    [cris] - clandestine plays this sat night heath
    [scotto] - can't we get drunk on a school night instead?
    [yara] - yes! the ultimate in naughtiness
    [heath] - [not sure what gibbous means, but it's very Lovecraftian and we can find out]
    [cris] - sentry's comin to town
    [scotto] - i vote doing it on a wednesday night
    [scotto] - i don't have recording sessions on wednesday nights
    [heath] - cris didnt you read where i saiid no not this wknd?
    [yara] - wednesday's are good
    [cris] - ok heath i missed it
    [heath] - i'm scared of that.  i know i won't allow myself to get drunk at *a;ll* if we do it on a worknight
    [scotto] - feh
    [cris] - argh
    [yara] - yes you will--you'll have to. your friends will make you
    [scotto] - all right, well, whenever.
    [cris] - well, maybe we just do these regularly
    [heath] - hey, just telling you my prediction of myself
    [yara] - take your 'puter over to cris's
    [yara] - and have a partay
    [cris] - yea
    [heath] - scotto!  btw!  i need to tell you something about QuakeII
    [scotto] - what about it?
    [scotto] - i haven't even played it yet
    [heath] - basically, that you should be playing the SinglePlayer levels that end up on a certain site, because the guy that gathers and judges them has a really good sense..
    [scotto] - instead of playing the actual cd game?
    [cris] - so yea, louise escapes from bethany, shacks up w/rraby, the walk into ext. and into hmr's dream and louise is kiled by the she and then wanders through the desert, basically becoming the she
    [heath] - once i started playing SPQ levels made by other players [in Quake] the regular levels began to pale..
    [heath] - well, *in addition* of course
    [scotto] - quake II runs like shit on my laptop alas, so.
    [scotto] - i haven't played it at all
    [heath] - but apparently some killer SPQ2 levels are *already* being made by kick ass kids out there who are essentially angling to get noticed by game companies, and recruited, as that happens now quite a bit..
    [yara] - heath, i meant to say thanks for all the Mac resource sites. i may get to be a product planner for Office for the Mac as a result :)
    [heath] - that's a pity.  [whoah Yara!  that rocks!  tell them you have a good personal lead-in / the ear of a bunch of mac-dorks!]
    [yara] - [i did!]
    [heath] - [man, if i could i'd be playing those damn SPQ2 levels, so i figured somebody shld..]
    [pfly] - scrytchsquake
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    [cris] - neutrino kicked my ass in quake at wizards of the coast
    [heath] - http://www.planetquake.com/spq2/
    [heath] - scryque
    [heath] - actually, yara, the best mac programmers left [aside from outliers like the folks at BareBones etc] seem to be at MS now
    [heath] - they'll actually, like, get paid for their work?  and, y'know, get distribution n shit?
    [pfly] - [i still havent *seen* a tricord mind you]
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    [heath] - you can say you know a 10-year Mac afficionado who is an NT admin at the Texas Commission on the Arts and uses Office for W95 / Access with 22 ppl to help every day
    [heath] - y'know paul, aren't trichords made up by the SimEarth folks?
    [pfly] - hmmm
    [heath] - also paul, asap you shld try to generaye a Bryce terrain through the relief map thing..
    [pfly] - dunno, what are they?
    [pfly] - thats right
    [pfly] - hmm, ok!
    [heath] - they have, er, three limps.  i guess they shld be tripods..
    [pfly] - but the layout of the continents doesnt have they je ne c'est ua
    [pfly] - qua
    [yara] - quoi
    [pfly] - maybe 3 spines?
    [yara] - je ne sais quoi
* pfly makes a more artistic continental layout utilizing meteors
* heath is more the sort of "start at the dawn of time and let chance have its way" type of worldbuilder
    [heath] - i do tweak Erosion at the start to get more distinct continental shelves though
    [pfly] - well...
    [scotto] - that's hardly worldbuilding at all
    [pfly] - sometimes its fun to drop a couple meterors
    [scotto] - worldwatching, maybe
    [heath] - and have to lower the Sun Input to make sure the Oceans don't Boil Away after a few bil yrs..
* yara is going to start learning new languages
    [heath] - world*tweaking* scotto..
    [heath] - yara - start with lojban!  :)
    [pfly] - gotta take a screenshot right?
    [pfly] - whats the screenshot key combo?
    [yara] - no. i think i'm going to start with mandarin
* heath wants to generate landscapes as realistically as possible..
    [pfly] - willow is learning mandarin
    [heath] - the whole concept makes me just go all squishy inside
    [pfly] - oh whats another couple metereor strikes?
    [heath] - :)
    [pfly] - :)
    [pfly] - so.
    [pfly] - whats the screenshot combo?
    [heath] - i have FlashIt installed Paul; i no longer remember the generic screenshot combo
    [pfly] - doh
    [heath] - but you shld dnld Flash-It - "it's neat!"
    [pfly] - i found it :)
    [yara] - how is she learning it? does she go to class for it?
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    [pfly] - yeah
    [heath] - i use flashit all the time because it allows me to select a portion of the screen, and to determine what i do with it after i've snapped it..
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    [pfly] - why do you need screenshots all the time?
    [heath] - hey, once the possibility is there, i find all sorts of uses!
    [heath] - abstract art..
    [pfly] - hehe
    [pfly] - aww, now i wanna sit around with you taking screenshots and making abstract art
    [pfly] - you know what we need?
    [pfly] - we need a real, drag and drop multimedia irc
    [pfly] - too bad modem speeds arent up to it
    [yara] - aron and i folled around with netmeeting for awhile, but it's kinda clunky
    [yara] - fooled
    [pfly] - maybe someday we'll all have cable modems or some such and itll be easy
* scotto only has 3 more chaps left of LfT revs.......
    [heath] - :)  it's a quaint and visionary ideal..  it'll happen paul!
    [heath] - for now we just have to do stuff and show each other on pages
    [heath] - i really plan to revamp the 'ajiri site this wknd and put it on neuron.net/~rez/ as well..
    [scotto] - at some point yara i will have to enlist your help w/reviewing query letters and such like documents
    [heath] - [then it'll be twice as long, eh?  ;)  :) ]
    [scotto] - if'n yer up for reading that kind of propaganda, that is..
    [yara] - query letters?
    [scotto] - yeah, to find an agent for LfT
    [yara] - ohh
    [yara] - of course
    [yara] - what happened to those people that girl knew?
    [scotto] - i'm going to consider lots of options
    [pfly] - ha, that bryce thing is remarkably easy
    [pfly] - cut and paste really
    [heath] - how does it look?
    [pfly] - well,
    [pfly] - it depends heavily on how you model the terrain :)
    [pfly] - the texture i have on it now makes it look like more of a little island arxchipeligo than a whole world
    [heath] - yep..  i figured we cld follow the Biome lines..
    [heath] - actually, also: are you taking the shot from just the little window, or the scrolling detail area with only the relief layer shown?
    [heath] - the latter produces finer granularity, and you can also get a larger size image to star twith that ay..
    [pfly] - but the whole edit window wont fit on the screen
    [pfly] - can you save it as a picture?
    [pfly] - itd be hard to change textures along biome lines...
    [heath] - [well, eyeballing it..]
    [heath] - i had to do mine in chunks.  one screenful at a time.. [in the edit window]
    [heath] - thus, though, you do get much larger pieces!  and you cld always do them as separate continents!
    [heath] - btw did we decide ona date for the scrytchslosh / scrytchrip?
    [pfly] - oh, yeah and i could reattach the screenshots in photoshop
    [pfly] - whens the next holiday?
    [heath] - probably President's Day the 16th
    [heath] - yup, for us that's it
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    [heath] - have at you!
    [heath] - so atman how far are you in interlace and what are your observations?
    [atman] - 72
    [atman] - weird.
    [atman] - no further comment at this time.
    [atman] - I'm secretly plotting my intro into interlace even as we speak, though...
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    [yara] - no, we did not pick a date
    [yara] - though both scotto & i said wednesdays were good, the weekend less good
    [pfly] - weird
    [heath] - again yara, we may have to Go In Shifts.  i can't do it on wednesdays..
    [heath] - maybe we'll just make a vow to always be as drunk as possible when scrytching..
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    [cris] - wierd.  no further comment at this time?
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    [scotto] - wow, a character i'd totally forgotten about
    [rubiacha] - what char>?
    [scotto] - the inimitable Matsutaro Alvarez, guitar player extraordinaire
    [rubiacha] - woa .. nevah hoid
    [scotto] - in LfT
    [rubiacha] - but there is a guitar player in interlace
    [rubiacha] - ah!
    [scotto] - extreeeeeeeeeeeeeemly minor
    [yara] - i think interlace needs an impromptu jam session
    [rubiacha] - ya
    [yara] - reality boundaries all to be erased, so everyone (identity or not, loud shirts and all) can be there
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    [deadcris] - seeya
    [deadcris] - oops misdir
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    [deadpfly] - tricords have invaded the fricken forests
    [deadpfly] - oop, now they're sentient
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    [scotto] - revisions are finished
    [scotto] - wa-fucking-hoo!
    [deadpfly] - yaa!
    [scotto] - now i need to reread the entire thing *just for typos* 
    [scotto] - in one fell swoop
    [deadpfly] - oof
    [dbauler] - good lord.
    [scotto] - as a final precautionary measure.  should only take a day or two
    [scotto] - i want to double check how all my revisions flow, too.
    [scotto] - then, whammo, start on a query letter and a synopsis.
    [scotto] - i'm way not looking forward to that part.
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    [deadpfly] - you mean your scrytch FSJ Tv guide synopsis isnt good enough?
    [scotto] - yep
    [scotto] - i wish it were that simple, ack.
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    [dbauler] - oh lord.
    [scotto] - what?
    [dbauler] - oh nothing, nothing.
    [scotto] - uh huh.
    [scotto] - out with it!
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    [dbauler] - 'alo, cris!
    [scotto] - cris
    [dbauler] - i'm working on it, just a sec.
    [cris] - hihi
    [cris] - *hugs*
    [dbauler] - hey, who is the not-antares who's in london right now?
    [scotto] - are you changing the subject?
    [cris] - the muse
    [cris] - morphed into antares to sneak into the attack on infinitek and idspatch the worst off of the angels and leave the rest for jer
    [dbauler] - cooool, got it.
    [cris] - ya
    [cris] - wrote it as you please if you please though
    [cris] - er write
    [cris] - im gonna edit the irclog conversation i posetd between harvey & louise when i html it
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    [dbauler] - #leri, feh.
* scotto heads off to a recording session
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    [dbauler] - is anyone currently using cal and the child-small animal army?
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    [dbauler] - okey, that takes care of that.
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    [deadpfly] - hey
    [cris] - hipfly
    [deadpfly] - hilo
    [cris] - vassap?
    [deadpfly] - fish have evolved!
    [deadpfly] - and insects
    [cris] - birds
    [cris] - reptiles
    [deadpfly] - the carniferns went extinct
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    [cris] - bloop
    [deadpfly] - gleep
    [deadpfly] - got octopii in the jungles
    [cris] - snorgle
    [deadpfly] - bop
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    [scotto] - god damn it, where are all you fucking people!!
* scotto assaults scrybe with a shrimp fork and a weedeater
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    [scotto] - db
    [dbauler] - 'alo, scotto...
    [dbauler] - hey, mr. scotto, do you know where the pdf of shuffle is?
    [scotto] - i do not, alas
    [dbauler] - my copies aren't coming out at all, blank documents, shit...
    [scotto] - what do you mean they aren't coming out?
    [dbauler] - they're empty documents.
    [dbauler] - nada, zip, zilch.
    [scotto] - the versions on the net?
    [dbauler] - the version at neuron. i think there might be another.
* dbauler begins printing shuffle the old fashioned way; by hitting up the text version.
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    [Flink] - Morning Heath...up early, are we?
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    [deadpfly] - geeze, i'm still dead
