PLENARY 4/20 LOG -- 7

THE DISCUSSION CONTINUES IN THE PUB.....

Carole [to MichaelO]: we haven't met, but pleased to see you here. :) 

Mark says, "I thought it was very interesting" 


LauraR [to you]: Hey ther!

Carole [to you]: that's ok--i cna run in through a text to html file 
`laurar hey there in retour ;)

You [to LauraR]: hey there in retour ;)

Mark says, "I found myself thinking of real conferences, and those 
questions were people gas on and on"

LauraR [to you]: My version of juggler no longer works. 

SamanthaW arrives from the Tea and Coffee room. 

Carole says, " yea, in many ways I like this better" 

You [to Carole]: that file will need more than that because all my 
wiz-interferences to keep the discussion going are in there as well 

JJJJugglers communication wristwatch chimes softly. <<< 

Mark says, "unless you are a fantastic typist, you really have to work to 
be a crashing boor here"

You [to LauraR]: oops? Too bad. if it is really broken just download a 
new one...

LauraR [to you]: I did. Still no luck :( Mark offers robertc a beer

You [to Mark]: it helps to have a text file with your publications open 
in a text editor - then you can copy/past wise sentences very fast 

RobertC says, "Hello"
`
You [to LauraR]: what is exactly the problem? Is it the mac or the win 
version? 

look at laurar
A Recent convert to virtual textual environments. She is an Assistant 
Prof. of English, teaching eighteenth and nineteenth-century Brit. lit 
and women's studies.
She is awake and looks alert.

Mark pages, "don't let that cat out of the bag" 
LauraR [to you]: It is the mac version, without the fat. 

Carole [to RobertC]: hi, robert, nice to see you again. 

RobertC says, "I am feeling like a rank amateur at the moment. I need a 
few drinks."

RobertC says, "Hi Carole."

Mark gives RobertC a stiff martini

MichaelO says, "Hello to everybody from Oxford on late rainy afternoon!" 
`

You [to LauraR]: what type of machine do you run it on? Mark says, "That 
should help"

RobertC says, "That's better."

LauraR [to you]: quadra


You [to MichaelO]: yeah - typical british weather, huh? 

Mark says, "did you bring anything from the buttery, Michael?" 

RobertC says, "We are thinking of using this software, but there are no 
romanticists who are as plugged in they might need be." 

MichaelO says, "well, actually no. "


You [to LauraR]: what is it that doesnt work - just the lading of web 
pages or doesnt it work at all?

LauraR [to Carole]: Did mark tell you he was the rude guest who asked for 
a margarita and left?

Carole [to RobertC]: do you mean Juggler? 

LauraR [to you]: It wont' load htmls.

Carole hands michaelo a beer

LauraR [to you]: I mean web pages

MichaelO says, "Thanks for the drink Carole - it is drinking time 
indeed!" 

LauraR [to you]: Yes.

LauraR [to Mark]: Actually I was thinking of another mark :) 

MichaelO says, "I was unable to attedn the first 45 minutes of today's 
session - what was it like?"

You [to LauraR]: ok - dome a favour. Click on the desktop (to get back to 
the finder) and then choose 'about this machintosh' in the apple menu. 
Look how much memore Netscape and Juggler really use 

RobertC says, "Does anyone have a virtual cigarette?" 

Juggler is non-smoker

Mark searches his pockets

SamanthaW says, "Have a Canadian cigarette, RobertC" 

RobertC says, "Merci."

Carole [to MichaelO]: it was good--we all took a bit to get used to the 
format but then it went well.

Juggler notices he is a very slopy typer... 

Mark finds a delicious smoke-free virtual smoke, providing all with the 
best of all possible worlds

MichaelO says, "Gosh! What a virtual place of _debauche_: drinks and 
cigarettes..."

You say, "and games! "


Juggler points at the 8-ball


You shake the magic 8-ball...

On one side of the ball light blue writing appears... It says: "Looks 
Good".
http://www.gatech.edu/lcc/idt/Faculty/andreas_dieberger/TechMOO/div_objec
ts/ 8-ball6.gif

Carole [to MichaelO]: we talked about the notions of exact 
texts--questioned whether that notion was outdated Mark looks grimmly at 
the potentially satanic fortune telling device 

LauraR [to you]: Juggler uses 2500 and net uses 3072 `

You [to LauraR]: that should be enough actually `laurar so what OS 
version do you have? That was also in that 'about this mac' window

You [to LauraR]: so what OS version do you have? That was also in that 
'about this mac' window

Carole whispers, "I walready went through this stuff with Laura--it all 
looks fine. i dunno what's going on"

LauraR [to you]: 7.5.1

You [to LauraR]: ok.... now - did you make that Netscape alias and put it 
into the same place Juggler is at?



You whisper, "perhaps I'll find out what's wrong" to Carole. 

LauraR [to you]: Yes, just like we did in the lab. 

MichaelO says, "So Mark - how do you feel a week after the live 
conference?" `laurar strange...

You [to LauraR]: strange...

Mark says, "I'm slowly coming back to life" 

Carole says, " Everyone should congratulate Mark on his new job" 

MichaelO says, "what new job?"

LauraR says, "Congratulations Mark on your new job." `mark yeah! I heard 
- congratulations!

You [to Mark]: yeah! I heard - congratulations! 

RobertC says, "Congratulations on your new job - which is what?"

Carole says, " and everyone should congratulate laura for winning 
Undergraduate Teacher of the Year at USF." 

MichaelO says, "Congratulations Laura!!!!!!!!!" 

Mark says, "Congrats laura! let the celebration of laura begin!" 

You [to LauraR]: I feel stupid asking that but you didn't disable loading 
of web pages perhaps? Its the checkbox on the lower left corner of the 
client window

LauraR blushes in embarrassment

Carole raises a glass to Laura and then to Mark 

SamanthaW says, "Congratulations to all. And congrats on a great 
conference." 

MichaelO says, "Yes - a very good conference!" 

Mark gulps down his drink
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You [to LauraR]: three cheers to laura!

LauraR [to you]: should it be crossed or not? 

Mark says, "the job is a 1 year visiting asst. professorship at Emory- 
means I finally get to teach romanticism" 

You whisper, "I don't remember *blush*" to LauraR.

 RobertC takes a languorous last drag of cigarette and stubs it out. `

You [to LauraR]: It think it should be checked 

LauraR [to you]: Well, it is crossed, so I will try it open. 

Mark says, "I've been organizing for about 1 1/2 years. Lost about the 
last 3 months completely"

Juggler uses Muddweller when he does mainenance or moderating in the MOO 


Carole says, " Are people disoriented by the multiple threads going on?" 


SamanthaW says, "How often have folks gotten to teach Romanticism, by the 
way? I have yet to teach it."

MichaelO says, "The job does sound interesting - and you already have 
'professorship' in your title!"

You [to Carole]: I can sort-of keep up with 3-4 threads if they don't 
move to fast - after years of training...

Mark says, "a poem here or there, but this fall will be the first real 
class for me"

Carole says, " was that professor-ship? Do you teach sailing as well?" 

Mark says, "yes, sailing on lake geneva- in storms" 

RobertC says, "I am, but the opportunity was a pure fluke. I have taught 
Keats and Shelley in comp classes, but that was painful." 

LauraR says, "I'm temporarily signing out." 

MichaelO says, "in a way the mutiple threads could make up for the slow 
access time in my case."

Mark says, "I'm really just a faculty spouse." 
< Merlin has connected. Total: 9 >
>>>Jugglers communication wristwatch chimes softly. <<< 

Merlin arrives from the Tea and Coffee room. 

SamanthaW says, "Keats and Shelley in Comp? Must have been bizarre." 

Carole [to MichaelO]: how slow is your connection? `

You [to LauraR]: see you in a bit

Mark says, "how did the freshman? do with the poetry" 

@who
Name	Location	Connected Idle Time Doing/Idle
----	--------	--------- --------- ----------
Juggler	Davy Byrne's Pub	2 hours	0 seconds
Mark	Davy Byrne's Pub	2 hours	6 seconds
Carole	Davy Byrne's Pub	2 hours	10 seconds
SamanthaW	Davy Byrne's Pub	an hour	11 seconds
Merlin	Davy Byrne's Pub	27 seconds 19 seconds
LauraR	Davy Byrne's Pub	54 minutes 38 seconds
MichaelO	Davy Byrne's Pub	an hour	38 seconds
RobertC	Davy Byrne's Pub	an hour	48 seconds
pasta	Entertainment areas an hour	14 minutes

Total: 9 people, 8 of whom have been active recently. 

LauraR has disconnected.

MichaelO says, "why does Juggler's communication wristwatch keeps on 
chiming all the time? I thought the notion of time was to disappear in 
cyberspace?"

Mark says, "time, sure. Watches, never." 

RobertC says, "I had a better time of it the first time I did it. 
frankly, if you want them to like it, it helps to sell the power of the 
imagination line."
`michaelO sorry - thats a monitoring device. It tells me when peopel log 
in or out and such stuff

You [to MichaelO]: sorry - thats a monitoring device. It tells me when 
peopel log in or out and such stuff

LauraR has connected.

RobertC pages, "I wanted to know what was going on." 

Mark says, "did you try a different line at one point?" RobertC says, "I 
feel pretty comfortable with multiple threads, but that isn't too 
different from how I work anyway." 

SamanthaW says, "I had a similar experience as Robert in an Intro class. 
Imagination and the aesthetic moment, 'n stuff like that. "
Mark says, "I think that I have also found that the traditional canonical 
ideologies we are all sort of uncomfortable with do make the most direct 
appeal"

look
The Davy Byrne's Pub
This is one of the famous pubs in town. Have a beer, a chat with friends, 
... Enjoy.
And if you don't enjoy any more or you left your darling at home, waiting 
for you - the exit is to the [north]...
On one of the walls, there is a large polished mirror. At the bar, there 
are three taps: one for Guinness stout, one for Smithwick's brown ale, 
one for Harp lager. Good stuff, folks! Oh, and there is a small sign that 
says: "Sorry, due to repair works no beer can be served right now - 
please bring your own and enjoy the atmosphere, anyway - Jim O'Duncan, 
licensed publican" You see a Pub review, a 8-Ball, and a Poor Thing here. 
LauraR, Merlin, MichaelO, SamanthaW, Carole, and Mark are here. RobertC 
is distracted.
@who
Name	Location	Connected Idle Time Doing/Idle
----	--------	--------- --------- ----------
Juggler	Davy Byrne's Pub	2 hours	0 seconds
Mark	Davy Byrne's Pub	2 hours	14 seconds
Carole	Davy Byrne's Pub	2 hours	15 seconds
LauraR	Davy Byrne's Pub	a minute 23 seconds
Merlin	Davy Byrne's Pub	3 minutes 27 seconds
SamanthaW	Davy Byrne's Pub	an hour	31 seconds
MichaelO	Davy Byrne's Pub	an hour	55 seconds
RobertC	Davy Byrne's Pub	an hour	a minute
pasta	Opium Den	an hour	a minute

Total: 9 people, all of whom have been active recently. 

Carole says, " too true, Mark"

Mark says, "Is this a manifestation of adelescence or american 
individualism?" 

SamanthaW says, "Maybe we shouldn't be so hard on the traditional 
canonical postions, then?"

Merlin has disconnected.

Mark says, "hard to say. Is that selling out?"

 Carole says, " and I wonder how much our students experience the kinds 
of disjunctions that Currn was talking about. I mean, my students are so 
totally grounded in the individual--they lack the ability to see 
themselves as split."


Juggler orders a Sweet Georgia Brown

RobertC says, "Students are so materialist anyway that doing materialist 
readings of poems only confirms their notion that poetry doesn't matter.