    [cris] - will that work ok?
    [cris] - ok
    [cris] - im gonna seriously want some help editing this ..
    [scotto] - i can do that
    [dbauler] - yay for husker du references!
* scotto tries to think of a way for dbauler to write a paragraph too
    [scotto] - this is a kind of collaboration i've been wanting to try for a while, actually
    [dbauler] - how so? what's the plan?
    [cris] - is karatin what hair is made of or is that the oil?
    [scotto] - what i did, db, is write a big post and then leave a placemarker for cris to fill in because i thought her voice would be more appropriate in one spot
    [cris] - er keratin
    [scotto] - so i kind of gave cris a suggestion of the content i was looking for, and asked her to take a whack at it
    [scotto] - i'm thinking this might be a way to get ppl to use other ppl's characters more often, if they crosspollinate voices like that or something.  just random experimentation, basically
    [dbauler] - ahhhh, got it.
    [dbauler] - that's actually a good idea.
    [scotto] - don't know about the hair thingie, cris
    [cris] - mm, this is coming out a little preachy, so ..
    [scotto] - ah, shit.
    [scotto] - somebody from work sent me an attachment, and now my mailer's going to be locked up all night
    [cris] - eughk
    [cris] - heres what i gots so far ..
    [cris] - antares measures everything by the yardstick of her high school sweetheart, and he looked a lot like her mother.  chicken and the egghunt through equinox grass looking for the cause of the cause of the cause.  35,000 BC, back when the music was young.  these are the voyages of a species engaged in a collective trying to reattach the apple, and in failing, painting everything candy apple grey.  we romped with pan like children playing, wrapped in 
    [cris] - ead, remember our tongue before the exceptions crept in?  we were so pure we pissed distilled water.  never look back, for surely the crime is to arouse with one's heart and then snatch it away.  some people pry so far back looking for tenderness they stumble across the horrifying demise of their last incarnation.
    [cris] - it needs work
    [scotto] - wrapped in --  ead?
    [cris] - btw antares really *was* a double agent (she really did kill gabriel's father too)
    [cris] - the paragraph split when i pasted it
    [scotto] - what happened in between ?
    [cris] - its a little too punchy .. um, saying the same thing repeatedly & obviously
    [scotto] - that's ok
    [cris] - godh--ead
    [cris] - hmm .. substitute tease for arouse in the 2nd to last sentence
    [dbauler] - (laughs)
    [cris] - hrm, or maybe it should be compell
    [cris] - ?
    [cris] - compel?
    [scotto] - tease is good
    [cris] - okie
    [cris] - im falling out of my chair .. please feel free to rework it  :)
    [scotto] - hehe, thank you muchly fer writing it!
    [scotto] - i am reviewing the whole post right now
    [cris] - thanks for asking  :)
    [cris] - nighty night
    [scotto] - cya
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    [scotto] - fucking god dammit.
    [scotto] - i can't mail this post tonight because of that fucking attachment
    [dbauler] - what attachmane?
    [scotto] - some guy from work sent me an attachment and my mailer keeps crashing trying to receive it
    [scotto] - i won't be able to get it over this modem connection, will have to wait til i get to work tomorrow and get on the lan
    [dbauler] - yeeeeesh.
    [scotto] - this is a real fucking drag all right, i wanna publish NOW!
    [dbauler] - (sigh)
    [dbauler] - the more of this theory i read, the more i think this is definitely the way i should go. i could become a nu-media icon, really. this stuff is so...so...
    [scotto] - which theory?
    [dbauler] - do you know a woman named sandy stone?
    [scotto] - i've heard of her, she teaches honoria at utaustin
    [dbauler] - yeah, i'm into baudrillard, and a baudrillard page brought me to her homepage, so i'm messing around in it..
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    [scotto] - don't know much about her
    [scotto] - hey elsi
    [elsi] - hi
    [scotto] - don't know much about baudrillard either, as it happens
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    [dbauler] - she's interesting but kinda...i don't wanna say...
    [dbauler] - baudrillard is neat. he plays into my apoc ideas pretty heavily.
    [dbauler] - i like theory. i'm kinda so-so with it, but i like the idea of condenced prose..
    [scotto] - i haven't been much for theory, other than performance theory
    [scotto] - well, and theory of scrytch of course
    [dbauler] - of course.
    [dbauler] - it's probably just me making up for being out of school.
    [scotto] - okay, must sleep
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    [pfly] - new post
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    [heath] - how-dee!
    [heath] - it looks utterly certain that my day/night of participation with the scrytch-slosh this weekend will be Friday the 13th. 
    [heath] - [wow, how convenient..]
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    [cris] - pfly - rockin post  :)
    [cris] - crazy characters
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    [pfly] - just discoered i have a dentist appointment on thursday :/
    [pfly] - back to the book, up to int79
    [pfly] - page 141
    [heath] - cool cool cool  -- are you Quarking it?
    [pfly] - yah
    [pfly] - [hi heath!]
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    [heath] - [hi paul.. :) ]
    [pfly] - ha!
    [pfly] - hey, look!  did you know that you're growing *wings*?
    [pfly] - where is everybody today?
    [pfly] - ah ha, the first jer post, int135
    [heath] - huh?  growing wings?  [they're all off reading scytch.. :)]
    [heath] - or else they're working madly like me..
    [pfly] - probably the latter
    [pfly] - whats nice is the 'remove line breaks' in BBedit
    [heath] - that among many things..  [though using it for a whole corpus
    [heath] - causes one to lose line breaks between genuine paragraphs..]
    [pfly] - hmm, not for me
    [pfly] - i mean, if there is an extra line between paragraphs, as usual for interlace, that stic,ks
    [heath] - hm!  really?  so you're removing hard breaks while retaining
    [pfly] - its hell on irc logs though
    [heath] - the extra lines?  wow.
    [heath] - yes, re irc logs, that's the main reaosn i'm hoping people
    [heath] - just start typing shorter lines.  because i really
    [heath] - want to be able to retain the original non-wrapped
    [heath] - format of things.
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    [heath] - the irc logs issue is a bummer.
    [cris] - hey
    [cris] - why a bummer?
    [pfly] - hey cris!
    [cris] - pfly baby
    [heath] - just in relation to trying to find a compromise.
    [cris] - no chance of enjoying the process of compromise?
    [heath] - no no it's enjoyable so long as compromise is eventually
    [heath] - obtained!  :)  trick is getting thewre.  like, i really
    [heath] - want to keep the non-hard-wrapped format for the sake of 
    [cris] - is there any way to make the raw text logs available and then put something fancy up for people who want it?
    [heath] - future searching and re-use of the logs .. [well,
    [pfly] - i bet someone could write us a script that
    [pfly] - takes out line breaks in a useful way
    [heath] - that's possiblke with afairly large amount of extra work.  my
    [cris] - im almost done with the harvey & louise dialogue htmling
    [pfly] - i bet rj could do it in his sleep
    [cris] - i didnt edit too much, but i did nick a couple of spots in there
    [heath] - plan is to continue putting up the long-line version
    [heath] - but allow anyone who wants to to take it and reformat
    [heath] - it in any other way [ie, wrapped version] that people
    [heath] - might want.
    [cris] - when you say line breaks your talking about the ones that break up each quote right?  not the stuff at the end of each entry
* cris gets a clue re: heath's typing style ...
    [heath] - well, line breaks where text in one sentence wraps
    [heath] - to the next line automatically.  lemme see if i can
    [heath] - finbd examples in the actual logs that are
    [heath] - up for you...
    [cris] - right, thats what i wanted to know
    [pfly] - the way mirc logs, there are only line breaks at
    [cris] - i was just worried yo might mean something like [heath] i said this [cris] i said that etc etc
    [cris] - instead of 
    [pfly] - the end of each, um, utterance
    [cris] - [heath] i said this]
    [cris] - [cris] i said that
    [cris] - yea
    [cris] - i like having the raw text up there to search around in
    [heath] - ie http://www.lycaeum.org/~yara/int/irc/irc01.htm
    [heath] -  has no-hard-breaks, which is, for me, personally, archivally,
    [heath] - what is desired;
    [cris] - once its dloaded inot my browser its already on my machine to peruse in a text editor
    [heath] - http://www.lycaeum.org/~yara/int/irc/irc30.htm
    [heath] - has hard breaks which when soft wrapped in the future,
    [heath] - go all screwey..
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    [cris] - so you dont want to archive what goes through the list b/c that puts the hard breaks in
    [heath] - yeah, i had wondered about the possibility that people
    [pfly] - int30 is easier to read, i think
    [pfly] - er, irc30
    [heath] - could download the raw version and load into, say, Word if they wanted, which'd wrap it for them..  but right now,
    [heath] - in-between solutions, i'm headed personally for compromise..
    [heath] - not only that cris but also because i was *already* getting 
    [cris] - the mailer program seems to do the line wraps for you
    [heath] - frustrated with how short the single chunks had to be, *before* flink
    [cris] - ahh.. i see
    [heath] - wanted them to beshorter.  when i went with 300 lines, and 
    [cris] - hmm
    [heath] - tried to read it, it just felt like reading such a small chuink
    [heath] - and threads were getting broken up in mid flow.  that
    [cris] - you must read awfully fast  :)
    [heath] - isn't happenning as much with 1024 line chunks, which also
    [cris] - why 1024?
    [heath] - happen to come neatly to about 64k apeice.
    [cris] - ahok
    [heath] - fairly arbitrary large number, but based on 64 for no
    [heath] - good reason.  re paul, yeah, i agree; but from an archival 
    [heath] - perspective, it sure wld be nice to have full lines that can 
    [heath] - be flowed into fair-sized runs without having toworry
    [heath] - about the line breaks all the time.  and that's why i wonder if
    [cris] - well, my vote, naturally, would be that no matter how you end up formatting them, the raw text version remains available
    [pfly] - so... anyone knows whats up with cohen these days?
    [joshua] - yo, have you guys set a date for the scrytch booze party ?
    [cris] - hee, i *almost* nabbed him onto the solsalva story
    [heath] - maybe the chance for people to download the raw
    [pfly] - [i understand the archival interests...
    [pfly] - ]
    [heath] - version and wrap it in their copy of Word ot something.
    [cris] - or notepad
    [heath] - josh - either wednesday night or this weekend.  i myself am
    [heath] - going to go on Friday night.
    [heath] - cris - that will definitely be so [ie the raw text
    [heath] - version will remain accessible] because that
    [pfly] - itd be nice to have interlace itself in a good archival text
    [heath] - s [dammit why'd they put Enter next to Apostrphe?!?!] 
    [joshua] - will there be anyone left by friday ?
    [joshua] - cris, pfly what about you guys..
    [heath] - the version i plan to concentrate on / archive, allowing 
    [heath] - anyone else who wants to to archive or alter that version
    [cris] - i cant drink 3 nights in a row  ;)
    [heath] - pfly isn't that in essence what yr doing [ie getting it
    [joshua] - p-a-r-t-y
    [heath] - into archival vrsn?]  though if BBEdit does this well wrt
    [cris] - i'll likely attend at least friday but prolly not in the booze context
    [heath] - removing "false" line breaks but leaving spacs between paragrphs
    [heath] - then i'll likely work upa plaintext version of interlace
    [heath] - for posterity..
    [pfly] - i think i might be around wednesday and friday
    [cris] - spaces?
    [pfly] - well, i'm making a quark version of interlace, all foramtted
    [heath] - ie, apparently cris, BBEdit [an awesome freeware
    [heath] - text editor for the Mac that does things like miltifile grep]
    [pfly] - line returns only between paragraphcs, etc
    [heath] - has a feature which removes returns *unless* they are
    [heath] - followed by a single blank line [like most paragraphs in email] 
    [cris] - just for the record, i dont know *why* specifically, but reading what yall say in here in those line sized chunks gives me a case of anxiety
    [heath] - so that paragraphs remain intact & separated.  BBEdit rocks.  :)
    [joshua] - how big is the quark int ?
    [pfly] - me too cris
    [cris] - its like watching a screen saver that your processor keeps hitching on
    [pfly] - josh, i'm on int99 and its page 166
    [cris] - i gotcha
    [heath] - i know; i don't like it either, it feels too jumpy
    [cris] - for a moment i thought you meant you were gonna double space it
    [heath] - and splicey.  :(  but if we continue talking in long
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    [yara] - phew
    [pfly] - bbedit does rock -- i wish there was one on amir's nt box :d
    [pfly] - :D
    [heath] - lines, ppl will stop reading the logs in their unwrapped
    [cris] - its a neat exercise, if we werent doing this i would never
    [heath] - form, unless someone takes those and wraps them other than
    [heath] - me.
    [cris] - know it could cause a visceral reaction
    [cris] - yara
    [cris] - wierdly, whenever i think of neuron my head stil l pictures it in chicago
    [heath] - agh, must get back to work..  will ponder this more.
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    [pfly] - seeya!
    [heath] - yara are yuou willing to wrap your version somehow for the
    [heath] - html'd version and i could keep the unwrapped vrsn?
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    [pfly] - re
    [pfly] - "Uh, hey, y'all. Hey Mr. Bauler. Dolphins effing rule!"
    [cris] - it was gorgous fog this morning here and now its bubble cloudy sunny
* pfly gets to the infamous first huuuge irc post
    [pfly] - first line:
    [cris] -  /msg gourlay turn around!
    [cris] - erp
    [pfly] - [dbauler] i'm just so completely lost with this interlace thing.
    [pfly] - heh
    [yara] - uhhhh. i guess
    [yara] - i mean, i hadn't thought about it
    [cris] - i think interlace got more comfy for me when i realised that was the point .. its like hindsight with my disfunctional family, if i'd stepped outside the context of child-mind, i could have been king and gotten anything i wanted
    [yara] - but then you wouldn't have been dysfunctional ;)
    [cris] - :)
    [cris] - *ding*
    [cris] - hmm.. i can see a possible unsettling allegory there, for one to really participate in the magic of interlace, you gotta stay inside it.  to step outside and realise it's chaos and malleable etc etc would be kinda, not the point then, perhaps.
    [cris] - did you write these scripts & stuff?
    [pfly] - "not the point" heheh
    [cris] - oops
    [cris] - oh man, it reminds me of psychedelics, if only i could get a grip on my trip, well, then, why take them, right?
    [pfly] - heheh, freaky
    [pfly] - it reminds me of life... step outside the context?  hmm, right
    [cris] - #join #leri
    [cris] - im getting wav files
    [cris] - realplayer doesnt do wav does it?
    [pfly] - i dont think so
    [pfly] - but windows shouls have a wav player
    [cris] - hee.  wow, im having a wierd moment.
    [cris] - oh goo, im popping this all in the wrong channel too  :)
    [pfly] - heh
    [cris] - setp outside the context
    [cris] - slip into the space between thoughts
    [pfly] - walk between the raindrops
    [cris] - :::)
    [cris] - i get a mixed sensation of thrill and fear when i try and gnaw on this thought
    [pfly] - yeah, i'm trying to infuse my new characters with that sensation
    [cris] - its that very feeling that makes me want to bury my face in someone's embrace and go to sleep sometimes
    [cris] - like the hold me as the plane falls thing
    [pfly] - its heath's vertigo i think
    [cris] - or exploring unlit caves, much easier when you're holding someone's hand
    [cris] - heath's vertigo?
    [pfly] - he talks about a sensation he refers to as 'vertigo'...?
    [cris] - is this in the logs, or in person?
    [pfly] - in person
    [pfly] - and in the logs!
    [cris] - nods
    [pfly] - hey, so,
    [pfly] - if aurora was born in 1999, in what date is interlace taking place? :)
    [cris] - whoo
    [cris] - i dunno at all
    [cris] - maybe i could think it through
    [cris] - i really dont know, she shows up with one of the iegen devices
    [cris] - eigen
    [pfly] - ah, so she could be in the her past nowadays../
    [cris] - possibly
    [cris] - i spose it remains undetermined until somone writes it
    [pfly] - seems like she got cut off from her present life and is stuck in a weird place
    [pfly] - being born in 1999 means nothing because he was cut off from alla that
    [cris] - it's hmm, complex
    [pfly] - dang this int103 irc log is endless
    [cris] - im still worried im gonna screw up the timeline as i write in louises timeline
    [yara] - i think it's 1976, which explains all the shiny disco-era bad fashion
    [pfly] - hey, its not like it aint already totally screwed up
    [cris] - ahh :)
    [pfly] - haha abby
    [cris] - right, but im trying to unkink it
    [pfly] - the silver suits
    [yara] - scotto's shirts
    [cris] - the sex
    [yara] - the drugs
    [yara] - the rampant virii spreading through unnoticed
    [pfly] - what about big fat penis?
    [yara] - bad rock music
    [pfly] - although i guess mark hamil fits in pretty well :)
    [yara] - and KISS
    [pfly] - heh
    [pfly] - 'course KISS was written about from a very 80s or 90s perspective
    [yara] - predictions from the dfuture
    [yara] - i'm going to try to finish up this one work email and then write about a bunch of things
    [pfly] - you mean an interlace post, or irc?
    [yara] - interlace
    [pfly] - cool!
    [cris] - retro is fucking with the flow of time .. time eats her children to the tabla pop of this incestuous catwalk of history
    [cris] - yara im almost done with that scrlog post i was doing
    [yara] - 'k
    [pfly] - geeze, int103 takes up pages 171-179 of my printout thingie
    [heath] - [that retro thing is btw the seed of dbauler's original conception
    [heath] - of the UMP, as explanation-for retro looking..]
    [yara] - ok. sent.
    [yara] - now, to work on interlace
    [pfly] - yaay
    [cris] - ::)
    [heath] - i've got it!
    [pfly] - shout 'eureka', do it!
    [heath] - wait, i thought i had it, i may not..
    [pfly] - doh
    [cris] - uh?
    [heath] - well, maybe.  the idea was, to run each log thru Word or C'Wrks such that there is a fairly long 1st line and a built in indent 
    [heath] - for the 2nd+ lines; then, in theory, later, one could search&replace
    [heath] - keying off of \t or TAB as the signifier, replacing it with a single space;
    [heath] - but that'd only work if the indent feature truly places a tab on that 2nd line, and as i think abt it, i don't
    [heath] - think it does.  :(  so i thought i had it.  but i don't think i did.
    [yara] - heath, i still don't understand what the issue here is that requires SO much thinking that you could be spending on, say, plot?
    [cris] - heath doesnt write plot
    [pfly] - he's a librarian!
    [heath] - cris whatever happened to atman's 1st post?  did i miss it?
* cris plots
    [cris] - the visigoths?
    [pfly] - heath, i bet rj could write you a script to do exactly what you wanted
    [heath] - yara - rest assured i'm spending LOTS of my spare time mulling over 
    [heath] - the plot of the Lanzu Mythos [formerly 'aji arc]
    [cris] - atman has an intensely precoscious sense of his place in the world, its unsettling sometimes .. kinda like what we were saying earlier about stepping outside the context of one's life
    [heath] - [i see i missed it.  hm; maybe my mail's fucked up,
    [heath] - because i haven't recieved scrytch mail in a coupel days.
    [pfly] - do you mean he's always outside the context?
    [pfly] - its probably online now heath, abby got cuaght up yesterday
    [heath] - btw Paul i've thought more about how you'd denote subcultures of the Lanzu, and it shld be easy .. you cld denot the "Northerners" with "berLaz"
    [cris] - no, i would not land a judgement that big on him, he's able to observe fro that vantage point though
    [pfly] - ber = north?
* yara vaguely attempts to determine who the villain in the attack on infinitek is
    [pfly] - i'm a bit unclear on the attack on infinitek
    [pfly] - earl's is, like, very near to infinitek, isnt it?
    [heath] - [aye paul that it is.  "red-people" wld be xunLaz ..
    [pfly] - ah, i know the word for 'red' :)
    [pfly] - [course, proper lojban words dont end in consonants]
    [pfly] - [unless they are proper names, stick a 'la' in front and a . at the end]
    [heath] - btw cris the harvey catch-up post was wonderful!  [to me]
    [pfly] - i loved it too!
    [cris] - thanks!
    [cris] - which one?  i sent a couple  ;)
    [heath] - well dammit paul, this may just have to be an Excep[tion.  :)  how you sposed to speak prop lojban when half the rafsi end in consonants?
    [heath] - [the one that recoups Apology and Harvey [scrytch style]
    [pfly] - well hey, i dont care if you're improper! ;)
    [cris] - oh cool, im glad that had some cohesion 
    [pfly] - the rafsi that end in consonants are designed to be the front part of compound words
    [heath] - that's it, i'd better worok on the first lingual transformation..
    [pfly] - the logic being that CVC is easier to remember than CVV
    [heath] - but sometimes that makes no sense to me.. ie, why in a compound wrd wld "people red" be right but in a sentence it'd be wrong??
    [cris] - hey heath im real curious about feedback on the louise post [soverign] if ya get to that one sometime
    [heath] - [seeing my mail these days it'll be when i read in ont he web.]
    [pfly] - all words end in vowels in order to ensure parsability
    [cris] - i think thats the first time i ever tried to put a whole story into a post, front to back
    [cris] - ive been studying gourlay's writing style closely, the atmosphere of personable technical writing
    [pfly] - i dont understand the exact mechanics of it -- but apparently the vowel ending stuff ensures a soundstream that unambiguiously breaks up into the correct words
    [cris] - in order to try and learn to focus w/o droning
    [pfly] - [sov] is your most recent?
    [cris] - i think so
    [pfly] - i began to read it, loved the atmosphere and feel of it, but got inspired to write my own post and havent gotten back to it yet.  loved the first half though :) :)
    [cris] - that letter one [ms.] was scrytching a letter a friend of mine wrote to his gf's sister, it gave me the impulse to make antares & louise sisters
    [cris] - hee
    [cris] - thanks paul
* pfly writes long lines
    [cris] - i liked that last one you set, wild adventure craziness, you really feel the characters condensing even as they see it
    [pfly] - cool -- you mean they're becoming more solid?
    [cris] - right, in parallel to them observing it themselves
    [pfly] - cool!
    [cris] - its kinda that stepping outside of the context and inside the context at the same time
    [pfly] - there's a lot to play with i think
    [yara] - oh wait. did someone perhaps suggest who the villain might be and i missed it?
    [pfly] - i said i didnt know what was going on re the attack
    [cris] - what villan?
    [yara] - in the attack on Infinitek--is there a villain?
    [yara] - i was trying to figure out who might stop dbauler & i
    [cris] - i thought it was you guys .. though i admit i cant recall you actually nailing the place
    [pfly] - aren't scotto, slade, etc all heading that way?
    [cris] - but it all got referred to in such a way i figured i read too fast to see that it was you all
    [cris] - oooo, i gots an idea how to stop you two
    [cris] - hee hee
    [pfly] - there seems to be a whole menagnerie of characters lurking around infinitek these days
    [cris] - the building itself is slipping focus a little, softening & becoming more organic
    [cris] - perhaps it's time for tokyo to burn
    [pfly] - it got bombed, but i'm still unclear on how much of it got destroyed
    [cris] - who bombed it?
    [yara] - ok. but who might stop us?
    [yara] - Bomberman
    [pfly] - bomberman!
    [cris] - i thought he fucked up?
    [yara] - he dropped the van on to it with lots of explosives
    [pfly] - well... why are scotto, slade, etc, heading that way?
    [yara] - that was the 1st time
    [yara] - i dunno
    [cris] - oh!  ok ..
    [pfly] - there could easily be villians *inside*,... like the shadow aliens
    [yara] - the 23 babies are trying to take it down by taking control of it, right?
    [cris] - i need to read scotto & flinks posts closely, its hard to pick out exact positon .. i wanted to send antares down into the caverns
    [pfly] - or any number of things.... scotto has written lots of little blurbs about the horrosrs inside
    [pfly] - 23babies, yeah
    [cris] - but she might already be at infinitek
    [pfly] - antares is supposedly with slade etc..
    [pfly] - although i had the feeling that was turning into a "not-antares"... kinda fuzzy
    [cris] - the entity, having chosen a corporation as its avatar, would have to be somewhat suppressable just by the CEPO meme itself
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    [yara] - what entity?
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    [yara] - hey jer, are the 23 babies trying to destroy Infinitek or just take it oveR?
    [pfly] - the building itself could fight back
    [cris] - theres antares proper and the muse snuck into the plane w/yara & db disguised as antares
    [jer] - they *did* take it over
    [pfly] - ohh!
    [pfly] - there have been scenes of anarchy inside written recently
    [yara] - hmmm hmm. i'll have to think about this
    [jer] - but the company itself is the personification of a cuthulu-style entity
* yara debates going to the mtg vs. going to the gym
    [pfly] - but now i recall the takeoverposts
    [cris] - the muse morphed into a snakeish thing to be able to slither down into the bowels of the building faster 
    [yara] - ok. i'll have to think about this
* yara heads off to the gym
    [cris] - im trying to psych up for a truly gruseome scene in the angel lab
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* jer isn't sure what's going on with the building now though, cause i haven't had a chance to read my email thoroughly
    [cris] - the upper, visible levels got blowed up
    [jer] - it's too bad bauler never reads the papers
    [cris] - if it's an entity, it must be awfully pissed
    [jer] - ;)
    [jer] - i'll tell you what, the entity is fucking FURIOUS at this point
    [cris] - ::)
    [jer] - cause it'sno longer fully in control of itself
    [cris] - hee
    [cris] - why, coz scotto's not CEO anymore?
    [jer] - taking the form of a corporation instead of a human being was a smart move inasmuch as it allowed for longer reach and more power
    [pfly] - i think scotto got hijacked by slade & co and is going to infinitek,...even though he wanted to stay on the island
    [jer] - but
    [cris] - bring me the head of not-scotto, db ays ..
    [jer] - the tradeoff was that it couldn't be in full control of itself at all times...it needed human puppets to help run the show
    [jer] - and now, that control is in the hands of the 23
    [pfly] - zombie stockholder army?
    [jer] - and the 23 aren't going to be babies forever...
    [jer] - i'm not sure what to do about this most recent attack on the building, though
    [pfly] - i think its only going to get worse (the attack)
    [cris] - ooo, 23 adults with no interpersonal conflicts
    [jer] - the entity is going to be off its fucking rocker, and the babies are going to perceive it as an attempt to thwart their plans
    [cris] - well, i was a thinkin, the muse is gonna be real anfry about having to dispact some of the angels out of sheer mercy
    [cris] - er dispatch
    [jer] - the attackers might just get hit by both the company *AND* the babies
    [cris] - angry
    [jer] - by the way, as i said, i haven't had a chance to catch up lately...who the hell is the muse?
    [cris] - so the muse is gonna be seething with sorrow and grief & rage fairly soon
    [cris] - hee
    [cris] - scotto invented the muse
    [pfly] - way back
    [pfly] - but she's been a bit part until recently, no?
    [cris] - the muse is who took away louise's name and turned her into the she as punishment for stuff
    [cris] - the muse is very bit part yea
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    [pfly] - haha
    [jer] - so is the muse an angel?
    [pfly] - i think its the traditional muse
    [pfly] - the greek myth muse
    [pfly] - more or less
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    [cris] - carrier drop
    [cris] - so i was thinkin the muse is related to ext. in a way
    [cris] - the desire to step outside life in order to communicate it in art
    [heath] - re the Vodka Shake contest - idoes that relate to the scrytch slosh?  if so i really *could* make "Russian Popsicles" ...
    [pfly] - or, if the muse is like, inspiration... it always comes from outside any context
    [cris] - and at the same time that reflection & external context inspiring one to amplify one's life & taste it moe fully
    [cris] - mmmmm [popsicles
    [cris] - yea, the muse is inspiration personifies
    [cris] - d
    [cris] - or at least the vague tickly idea of the muse i have is
    [pfly] - me too
    [cris] - is why the muse associates so closely with ange;s
    [heath] - oh; does anyone have any comments on the categories provisionally listed at 
    [heath] - http://www.neuron.net/~rez/  ?
    [cris] - i recall thinking they seemes to cover it at this juncture
    [pfly] - it looked good to me... i was working on a scrytch picture for possible use as an imagemap of links...
    [pfly] - hey heath
    [cris] - when scotto approached me to write something about antares doin' aeute i have to admit i was a little grumply
    [pfly] - i like the idea of planning and making a sctychweb that is planned organic... easy to add to, and seemingly working even if "not done", etc
    [pfly] - aeute?
    [cris] - but i guess its good to be understood enought to be critiqued ..
    [cris] - i like that too, the evolving scrytchweb
    [pfly] - i think it would be cool to have links running off into endless shuffle links and stuff
    [cris] - aeute - the false sentiment or false memory angel
    [pfly] - as we find connections, we can link them up into an ever more complex web
    [heath] - [the End God of False Memories]
    [cris] - yea
    [pfly] - but also have solid texts like psychdegraddable and interlace
    [cris] - ooo, kinda like the scrytch trading card game
    [heath] - paul - i agree.  that's why i want to figure out a generic classification structure..  
    [pfly] - i remember liking your site...  
    [heath] - yup, those would go into a section devoted to "distillate corpii" or somesuch..
    [heath] - i do too, cris, i should make it a Section.  :)
    [pfly] - my idea was to someday make a funky picture with links embedded in it that lead off into a chaotic network of bits
    [cris] - ::)
    [cris] - i like hat
    [cris] - that
    [pfly] - i have some qabalah imagemaps i made a while back that might be fun
    [cris] - generic classification structure?
    [heath] - yara - did you say that irc work 35 & 36 were up?
    [heath] - cris - no, but rather, one honed to the needs of scrytch; a concept in Archival..:
    [heath] - "Provenance" with a soft e..
    [heath] - it means, "analyze the collection to be organized, and let *it* show you the best way to organize it.
    [heath] - start grouping like with like, until you have enough rough categories that structure emerges.  a weird but very cool idea.
    [cris] - heath, you are aware that  ..
    [pfly] - it would be nice if all of us could access the site and edit it ourselves?  you think?
    [heath] - it is used by archivists who are given very large and specialized collections, like say
    [cris] - argh!  i just got called into a one on one meeting w/supervisor re: upcoming projects
    [heath] - the materials froma famous family, to organize for presentation or access.
    [cris] - i'll read the log for this, so ... seeya in text  :)
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    [heath] - well paul, a part of me really wants to be able to devote autonym.com to this...
    [heath] - thus each person cld have their own scrytch-related accnt at autonym.com..
    [heath] - [that was the whole idea, basically, re Provenance.  the details come in ther execution.
    [pfly] - but if we dont have access to each other's files, we cant embed links in them
    [pfly] - oh wait... i misunderstood
    [pfly] - gotchya
    [pfly] - page 200
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    [heath] - hell, we could all just have complete permissions given to one-another on the entire archive,
    [heath] - and it cld become a massive exercise in Trust.  :)
    [pfly] - i think that would be wonderful
    [pfly] - if we continue to Keep In Touch on irc, i think we'll be aware of conflicts, etc
    [heath] - well, we have plenty of time to work out the site and details before Amir returns..
    [pfly] - yeah... i'm going to continue to work on my graphics
    [heath] - and, it cld be that we want to secure scrytch.org or something, though i'm willing to dedicate autonym.com if it's desired and it's already there..
    [heath] - in theory "autonym" cld be an impratur for publishing ventures..
    [heath] - profits of said [ha ha] going intoa common scrytch slush-fund.  :)
    [pfly] - impratur?
    [heath] - [imprint / name]
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    [heath] - [umbrella signifier]
    [heath] - [cover story / foil] ;)
    [pfly] - well, www.scrytch.org would be pretty cool, i gotta say
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    [pfly] - i had hoped i would be able to print out a draft of Prologue today for proofing, but alas, i'm only at int123
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    [pfly] - hey cris
    [cris] - hey pfly
    [cris] - hmph, i finally got verbal achnowledgement that i've been almost consistently late for 4 months now
    [cris] - it was a sorta pre-warning warning
    [pfly] - heh, what do they think of it?
    [pfly] - oh
    [heath] - yup, it wld.  we cld always split the cost etc.  my only concern is the organizational overhead of getting that set up - 
    [cris] - i said i'm writing a novel
    [heath] - it was a nightmare for autonym.com and that was just me; gii.net was torturous and drawn out
    [cris] - is scrytch still available?
    [cris] - why all the trouble with autonym?
    [pfly] - aren't .org easier?
    [heath] - one'd assume so cris..  one cld check at internic
    [cris] - i think neuron/~scrytch wouldnt be so horrible either
    [heath] - just the hassle with registering a domain name period.  getting the 3 necessary contacts, preparing the billing info..
    [heath] - but i'm notoriously bad at that stuff.  :)
    [joshua] - butrimple
    [heath] - though again cris that's something that amir has to set up.  
    [joshua] - mookie dont fish fry
    [heath] - basically, i'm thinking of scrytch/ [which i'll change this all to soon]
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] - test
    [cris] - argh had phone call ..
    [cris] - there's also daft/scrytch
    [cris] - though i think space is more an issue on daft
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    [cris] - we might wanna help spring for a hard drive for neuron  ;)
    [pfly] - [another big meta talk around int110 - 130 or so]
    [heath] - basically i'm thinking of /~rez/scrytch/ as a receptacle for the stuff we put together
    [pfly] - i think neuron still has tons of space, no?
    [heath] - while we decide whether to get the domain name; putting it at root on www.autonym.com
    [heath] - remains as an option, though the domain name'd be A Perfect World.
    [pfly] - although getting amir a hard drive would be nice
    [cris] - im not particularly concerbed over having a special domain .. doesnt ring as a neccessity in my aesthetic universe
    [cris] - though it doesnt sound bad either
    [heath] - [i also still have autonym paid for for another year yet, which i'd like to take advantage of at some level.]
    [cris] - ah ok
    [heath] - domain names are $200 for the first year and $100/year thereafter i believe
    [heath] - er $200 first *2* years
    [cris] - see, im kinda into bauhaus, gong back to numeric addresses wouldnt bother me a while lot  ;)
    [heath] - to be honest, the possibilities of scrytch.org fascinate...  it cld ostensibly be a non-profit org which "promoted experimental media and design."  }:)
    [cris] - er whole
    [heath] - naturally, the heart of the matter wld only be revealed to those willing to dig...  :)
    [cris] - those willing to risk the context
    [cris] - of you feel a strong current trying to pull you under, just go with it and when it settles down swim parallel to shore until you can come back in
    [cris] - er if
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    [pfly] - ooh a scrytch post from scotto
    [yara] - uh oh
    [cris] - run duck cover flee flee flee!
* yara got some actual work post-gym
    [heath] - hey yara did you say irc work 035 and 036 were up now..?
    [cris] - gotta work, l8tr
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    [yara] - no. they're not
    [yara] - i haven't touched them yet
    [pfly] - ohh, wait, are scotto/aurora/slade and co going to UIAT?  not infinitek
    [yara] - and i don't know when i'nm going to get to them
    [heath] - hm; you want me to get them in a form identical to the first bunch and make it so you cld link 
    [heath] - into them from 034..?  it cld be done..  i know you're swamped and i keep offering..  {:)
    [yara] - why do you keep switching around the formats then?
    [yara] - i think the big obstacle to my doing them, other than a lack of time, is i never knpow when you're going to change your mind again
    [heath] - i' don't.  i'm trying to decide ont he best one and settle on it.
    [heath] - now, you know as well as i that you can take the rawtext and do whatever the heck you want to it.
* yara is cranky and doesn't mean to take it out on you
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    [heath] - so int hat sense it doesn't *matter* what i do with the rawtxt vrsns.
    [heath] - but, i'm still trying to come up with a way to satisfy everybody.
    [heath] - and, given the hassle, i simply offer to take that off your hands.
    [pfly] - ok seeya
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    [yara] - well, it wasn't a hassle before
    [heath] - *with* the full offer that you could have them *back* if you wanted evenm when i'd settled and begun executing in a way that makes everyone happy.
    [heath] - i mean, in other words, i'm not trying to make you cranky, i'm trying to *UN*cranky you!
    [heath] - yara - it had become so for me.
    [yara] - you're not doing a very good job
    [heath] - ie, i was sitting on the cusp of:
    [yara] - and i think the only thing that fixes the cranky business is kisses & chocolate
    [heath] - 3 mailings a night; one to you in one format, one to xero in another [to satisfy me]
    [heath] - and a third post of a URL only to the list.
    [heath] - if i had kept doing what i had ben doing in sending just to the list the whole log,
    [heath] - i would have been unhappy in the following ways:
    [yara] - ideally what would you like me to do?
    [heath] - 1 - i already felt they were too *short* even before Flink felt them too long;
    [heath] - 2 - i had become dissatisfied with the longevity of the material given the intrusion of hard line breaks.
* heath kisses you and gives you chocolate
    [yara] - much better. thank you :)
    [yara] - so--in an ideal sense, how would you like me to respond?
    [heath] - [work emergency hold on]
    [heath] - ok.  my instinct is: let me get an area set up on neuronscrytch for logs,
    [heath] - format a page to be just like the ones you set up, and starting with 035,
    [heath] - have you link from 034 to there in "Next" .  that way i can deal with both adding the
    [heath] - html version and also archiving the rawtxt version each couple nights.
    [heath] - it'll lower my stress level because i won't have to do massive version control with other people, and it shld lower ytours 
    [heath] - because you won't have to worry about them [or about ppl bugging you abt them].
    [heath] - once we get the big site going, we can take a look and see if the system's working and how
    [heath] - we want to change it.  does that sould good [enough] to you?
    [yara] - sure
    [heath] - :)
* heath steals back one of the "turtles" and munches happily..
    [heath] - lord have mercy but it's time for me to go home..
    [heath] - gnight..
    [yara] - night hon
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    [scrybe] - eesh, what a maroon..
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    [dbauler] - yeeeesh.
    [yara] - so dbauler--plans are on for tomorrow night! ben & sally are gonna help... muiahahaha
    [dbauler] - eeeeeexcellent! all is fitting into the Plan!
    [yara] - unfortunately, we'll have to play early tho... ben has to be up and at work at 8am the next day
* yara is trying to squeeze in some writing time today
    [dbauler] - i may not be on until around nine yr time; i'll have to hop on from home and access is tricky before that.
    [yara] - no worries
    [yara] - my big question today is: who is the antagonist against our attack on Infinitek? who may try to stop us?
    [yara] - and if no one, should we bring in a villain?
    [dbauler] - jer.
    [yara] - there's an idea
    [dbauler] - jer now owns infinitek and doesn't want his place trashed.
    [yara] - rad. ok
    [dbauler] - though i don't know if he's gonna do any writing soon, so we might just hafta add in things.
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    [dbauler] - bang-up job on this last post, scotto.
    [scotto] - hey thanks
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    [pfly] - heya
    [scotto] - pfly
    [pfly] - just abt to read yer new post
    [scotto] - there may some discontinuity with what you just wrote
    [pfly] - i think so... i skimmed the first part at work :)
    [scotto] - but only, as they say, mild discontinuity
    [pfly] - so i was making up ways to deal with that on the way home
    [scotto] - i wrote my thing last night but my mailer couldn't send it til this a.m.
    [scotto] - i think i'm going to start using the term 'mild discontinuity' more often
    [pfly] - btw,
    [pfly] - who exactly is the tetrad?  scotto, aurora...?
    [scotto] - scotto, aurora, walther, antares
    [pfly] - ok right
    [pfly] - there's an antares with abby & db too , heh
    [scotto] - yeah, that antares is actually the muse in disguise
    [pfly] - aahh, really?
    [scotto] - indeed
    [pfly] - my new characters cant get it together because i dont really know whats going on
    [scotto] - well it adds to the comedy certainly :)
    [pfly] - oh yeah, it definitely something to play
    [pfly] - hey, why are y'all going to UAIT again?
    [scotto] - we needed to steal a supply of drugs from police chief william slade
    [scotto] - see flink's last post
    [pfly] - oh wait, drugs right
    [scotto] - hehe
    [pfly] - oh slade has a stash?
    [scotto] - had one
    [pfly] - ph wait...  i'm asking things as i read
    [pfly] - ok, another -- that room where mrs wormwood was shot -- where *is* that room anyway?  uait?
    [scotto] - yes
    [pfly] - got it, ok
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    [pfly] - are you still having fun with alla this?
    [cris] - me?
    [pfly] - heya criscris
    [cris] - heyhey
    [scotto] - i'm not sure "fun" is the right word :)
    [pfly] - no, scotto
    [cris] - what other reasons would there be to do alla this?
    [scotto] - i'm kidding, cris
    [pfly] - is the UAIT building in SOPOP?
    [scotto] - yes
    [scotto] - at the heart of downtown SOPOP
* cris sets about ansering own question ..
    [pfly] - ok, i thought so, making sure
    [pfly] - (trying to locate freak and slut!)
    [cris] - ahok
    [cris] - i think i might be learning how to write finally
    [cris] - i wont know till i turn it on other projects
    [cris] - which i cant get the motivation to work on
    [pfly] - why not?
    [cris] - id rather try and entertain yalls
    [cris] - er yall
    [scotto] - i've definitely realized that scrytch has taken over a substantial portion of creative energy that might be directed elsewhere..
    [pfly] - hmmm
    [scotto] - although at this point, i must now go do some vocal recording
    [pfly] - hey cool, new song, or?
    [scotto] - new song.  
    [pfly] - great!
    [scotto] - we haven't been able to burn a copy yet of a good mix of the last one, because the cd burner's been holed up with one of the other programmers
    [scotto] - however, that guy is now in dallas for 3 days so  maybe we can steal it
    [pfly] - oh
    [pfly] - well its ok cause ive been pretty busy... got some more time coming up though
    [pfly] - (I'm scheduled to have time)
    [scotto] - ok, we'll see if i can get it to you in time for your time!
* cris looks for another hook to write into ..
    [pfly] - how about the muse-antares hanging with abby and db?
    [pfly] - so scotto, you left slade and friends tied up in that room, right?
    [scotto] - yeah
    [pfly] - good :)
    [scotto] - cal and the child squadron were supposedly guarding them
    [pfly] - bullies
    [scotto] - ok, must go...
* scotto wanders off
    [cris] - where *are* abby & db?  i thought they were sitll eating at earl's ..
    [pfly] - um
    [pfly] - maybe they are
    [pfly] - thuoght they might have left
    [pfly] -  hey, scotto wrote that he has "trained lips"
    [pfly] - (amazing post too)
    [cris] - trained lips?
    [pfly] - yeah, he means, like, acting training
* cris is reading for yara & db context
    [cris] - ah, i see ti
    [cris] - it
    [cris] - woo, i like abby's editorial decision to start chapter 2 at the post where db nabbed the marbles
    [cris] - hey paul, have you seen any of my html version of pages?  i'm hoping the extra layers of input will catch on
    [cris] - im kinda hoping we might get some people on the list who arent actually writing interlace to maybe try their hand at graphics & stuph to illustrate
    [pfly] - i think "chapter 2" was decided by me her and scotto... at least... one day on irc
    [pfly] - oh no, i havent seen your html stuff... i tried earlier but got a server not responding, where is it again?
    [cris] - cool.  i like it  :)
    [cris] - http://www.neuron.net/~antares/scrytch/int/
    [cris] - int73.htm is my fave but work in progress 
    [cris] - its funny, freak & slut4883 are pretty fun folks
    [cris] - i keep worrying you're gonna slip in a moral judgement on them at some point, its groovy that it hasnt yet
    [pfly] - moral schmoral
    [cris] - yayy!  ::)
    [pfly] - hmm, server not responding... heath said neuron wasnt responding earlier... maybe its grumpy
* cris sings, 'if i can't dance, i don wanna be in no revolution ..'
    [cris] - oo i didnt realise that
    [cris] - dang .. hmm, i could pop it up to abother server .. one sec
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    [jenna] - =)
    [cris] - hey jenna
    [scotto] - re
    [scotto] - ok, well in that case, i'm going home.
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    [cris] - huh!
    [cris] - ;)
    [cris] - hmm my ftp thing is not workin ..
    [pfly] - well, neuron web has gone done before, itll prolly be back up tomorrow
    [cris] - yea
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    [cris] - ok .. in a few minutes its gonna be at http://www.io.com/~cris/int/int73.htm
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    [cris] - dang, i might be having trouble with kdi actually ..
    [dbauler] - alo, good people.
    [pfly] - hey db
    [dbauler] - damn, i need to step up on my output; it's been thick the past couple days.
    [pfly] - it has been thick, yeah
    [cris] - ok, hee, soon, ill have that page up  :)
    [jenna] - =)
    [dbauler] - i need to start paying attention.
    [cris] - ooo i just realised i sobconsciously grabbed joaquin & xavier's names from an earlier post 
    [dbauler] - post when post?
    [cris] - its silly .. joaquin & xavier are the revolutionaries in [soverign0 but they show up as 'joaquin loves xavier' carved into soem driftwood in int179
    [cris] - i think i just like the sames
    [cris] - er names
    [pfly] - good names yah
    [cris] - thanks  :)
    [cris] - joaquin is a dancer i like and xavier is one of leland's compadres in mexico city
    [dbauler] - that certainly does cause one to relook the post in question.
    [cris] - im trying to flash out old references and flesh out current characters in relation to old posts
    [cris] - er flesh not flash
    [cris] - the 'original recording' mentioned in int179 was 'destroyed' by pc .. i was intensely stoned and had written a lot more for that piece when my machine got nailed  ;)
* cris needs to learn to write fiction rather than fixion :)
    [dbauler] - hey, it's all good.
    [dbauler] - besides, it adds to the goofball sub-context!
    [pfly] - goofball?  this is *serious*!
    [dbauler] - yeah, we'll see...
    [cris] - hee
    [dbauler] - i can do one-line reviews of interlace things tomorrow, thursday at latest.
    [cris] - hmm, as long as you have the pearls .. 'pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua' kinda loosely translates into something like 'there are many wonderful things on the earth and in the sky'  or somethin like that
    [dbauler] - if tomorrow is booze day, then tonight is definitely caffeine night. caffeine and zorn night!
    [cris] - hey db that would be cool, should it get its own page or be inserted into ref.htm?
    [dbauler] - i dunno, i'll hafta talk to abby...
    [cris] - k
    [cris] - hmm, maybe its own page would be better just for the visual aesthetics, the balance of form
    [dbauler] - i'm also gonna expalin recent islam theories on scrytch-reading tomorrow, and probably blow something else up while i'm at it.
    [cris] - :)
    [cris] - whats the word for how snails ambulate?
    [cris] - not slide, is there a technical term?
    [pfly] - ooh what zorn?
    [dbauler] - um...
    [dbauler] - what is the word?
    [pfly] - slime?
    [pfly] - slimetrails?
    [cris] - hee
    [cris] - need the verb coz the slimetrails will get mentioned  :)
    [pfly] - snaimbulation?
    [dbauler] - i'll check, just a sec.
    [dbauler] - naked city; torture garden.
    [cris] - sniambulate?  
    [cris] - i do want to write stuff re the hospital ship, im looking for the right mood to do it in, i think i need a booze night for it
    [dbauler] - hey, cool!
    [dbauler] - i'm just happy anybody's interested in pursuing it.
    [cris] - :)
    [pfly] - torture garden, yikes... i have that one
    [pfly] - its metallica crossed with the tazmanian devil
    [cris] - those are flink works arent they?
    [pfly] - or SOD and taz
    [cris] - is sniambulate seriously the word?
    [cris] - or were you makin that up
    [pfly] - no
    [pfly] - i was being funny
    [cris] - hmm .. maybe it doesnt matter
* cris adds it in
    [dbauler] - shit, i can't find it.
* dbauler checked his snail fiction collection and came up with nothing.
    [cris] - is ectoplasm that gooey stuff that poltergeists sometimes leave around?
    [cris] - oof.  might be a brainburp but i just flashed a real ugly tale of trauma patients in the hospital ship suffering molestation at the hands of a horny poltergeist
    [dbauler] - yep.
    [cris] - nah, been done  (the _Entity_)
    [cris] - though. maybe it sould be dine differently
    [cris] - er done
    [dbauler] - hell yeah. give it a shot.
    [cris] - im never gonna get dates once this interlace stuff gets attention .. :P
    [dbauler] - (currently in the changer: torture garden, praxis: sacrifist; painkiller: buried secrets; mr. bungle: disco volante. it's one of THOSE kinda nights...)
    [dbauler] - you'll just get interesting dates!
    [cris] - hee
* cris throws on some chris & cosey
    [jenna] - mmm horny poltergeists
    [cris] - :)
    [jenna] - that used to be one of my favorites
    [cris] - rilly?
    [jenna] - yeah
    [dbauler] - (laughs)
    [cris] - rl or as film theme?
    [jenna] - no it would help me get to sleep when I was little
    [cris] - for real?
    [dbauler] - would you mind explaining and elaborating and letting us use that material for posts? (laughs)
    [jenna] - imagining get um erm you know by the ghosteses
    [jenna] - they didn't seem so scary that way
    [jenna] - guess thats pretty weird
    [cris] - yea, i was getting there but db is apparently more comfortable with inquisition  ;)
    [jenna] - praxis
    [jenna] - wasn't that the klingon moon that blew up
    [jenna] - or does that mean something else...
    [jenna] - as usual
    [cris] - i have to fess to fantasizing about it, i even used to do this one spell for calling demons to one's bed when i was doin that kind of thing .. but nothing ever showed up
    [cris] - whats praxis?
    [jenna] - I am only aware of the startrek reference
    [jenna] - wow
    [jenna] - thats impressive cris
    [jenna] -     [dbauler] - (currently in the changer: torture garden, praxis: sacrifist;
    [cris] - impressive?
    [jenna] - yeah I was scared of demons
    [jenna] - they seemed more real than ghosts
    [cris] - it was kinda stupid, if something had shown up i wouldve been toast
    [jenna] - and I certainly would have been scared to do a ritual
    [jenna] - I'm still afraid to say demon names outloud
    [cris] - my dad did a great job of making sure i have a deep seated belief in ghosts, along with things under the bed and monsters in the dark
    [jenna] - I have a few friends that have nicks like azrael azathoth belial etc
    [jenna] - ooh I'm scared
    [jenna] - I wonder if typing counts
    [cris] - jenna - thats probably b/c the depth & sincerity of your belief was greater than mine
    [cris] - i think i was daring reality to show me something
    [jenna] - =)
    [cris] - i didnt know azrael was a demon .. i thought he was an angel
    [jenna] - nope incidently Gargamel is also a demon
    [cris] - k.. need a word:  if im describing the insertion of something into our plane of existence, and then the de-insertion, what is a good word for de-insertion?
    [cris] - who is gargamel?
    [jenna] - I remember alot of religious folks freaking out about the smurfs for that reason
    [jenna] - you gargamel and his cat azreal
    [cris] - oh!
    [cris] - hee
    [cris] - hare soggoth
    [jenna] - who were always trying to make smurf stew
    [cris] - holy shit  :)  never knew that
    [pfly] - gargamel is from a story by rousseau..?
    [pfly] - oop, nope
* cris 's take on media shifts a bit
    [jenna] - smurfs paul
    [jenna] - freaking smurfs
* cris should read some rousseau
    [pfly] - rabelais
    [pfly] - whoa, ive been smurfed!
* cris cracks her back .. crick pop pop krrk krrk
    [jenna] - so I'm sure yara will not want smurfs in scrytch either
    [jenna] - wise woman
    [cris] - oh b/c of elves  :)
    [cris] - hell, angels are kinda like elves, receptacles of phantasy
    [jenna] - b/c = ?
    [cris] - because
    [jenna] - gonna go eat..
    [jenna] - =)
    [cris] - i caught myself saying 'imho' at my supervisor today
    [jenna] - he hee
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    [cris] - i was in a normal meeting, but we had to go over the topic of my being late for 4months running
    [cris] - and i said 'imho i really shouldnt be putting you in the position of having to bug me about my attendance'
* cris geeks
    [cris] - is it 'end points' or 'endpoints'?
    [pfly] - you said 'imho'?  how did you pronounce it?
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    [pfly] - hey flinkage!
    [Flink] - There's a new nickname...
    [cris] - :)
    [cris] - "IM ho"
    [cris] - im as in him, ho ans in hose
    [cris] - er as in
    [cris] - k, need another word:
    [cris] - this word would decribe the motion of a cats claw extending from its toe, or a blade from a switchblade
    [cris] - the context is a robot with blades emerging from its outstretched arms
    [Flink] - snick
    [Flink] - The word (it's in _all_ the comics...) is snick.
    [cris] - emerging slowly ?
    [dbauler] - shit shit shit!
    [cris] - here's the sentence ..
    [Flink] - A blade emerging slowly from a switchblade?  Self-defeating weapon, that...
    [cris] - another one activates and advances upon the chained angels, arms out as if to embrace, but with several razor sharp blades *** 
    [cris] - ** being the -ing verb i need
    [dbauler] - extending?
    [Flink] - Phlitting from their sheaths.
    [cris] - extending doesnt imply the emergence of the blades, just the position
    [cris] - hmm, i spose i could try and insert a sense of humour into the passage ..
    [pfly] - en garding
    [Flink] - All sorts of dick jokes wd seem to be possible.
    [cris] - db - whats shit shit shit?
    [pfly] - threatening?
    [dbauler] - damn this no scrolling shit.
    [dbauler] - damn this server dropping nonsense!
    [cris] - yea, no dick jokes, i dont tend to make fun of penii
    [dbauler] - you would figure extracting to be the opposite of retracting, but in this case it ain't.
    [Flink] - Dicks are profoundly laughable, Cris.
    [cris] - right .. maybe emerging works .. i wanted something creepier  ;)
    [dbauler] - finish the sentence after the word.
    [cris] - ** from them?
    [cris] - ** from within them?
    [cris] - ** from within?
    [cris] - not sure yet
    [dbauler] - hmm.
    [cris] - flink, why are dicks profoundly laughable?
    [cris] - are you saying they are more laughable than everythign else?
* dbauler is angry at the world and plans to take it out on fictional things.
    [cris] - :)
    [pfly] - my vocabulary is very... um
    [pfly] - uh...
    [dbauler] - (giggles)
    [Flink] - I find most things laughable, & dicks well into the top third of that group.
    [cris] - mine is a shallow pool  :)
    [pfly] - uncertain?
    [pfly] - willow has a great arsenal of words
