[xuratu]

Website's been updated.

Now when you hover over the "blog" button (red hatty's icon! Hee!) it lists a few more player's blogs. In order, the list includes RedHatty, jwiv, TheDarthBunny, Nitefoll, ChrisJill86, Rumpletoe, WWO-Mordy, MistralWind76, and everybody's loveable Xuratu!

Nice to see some great player involvement.

[skywing]

-moved to introductions, where it fits better-
Unfiction could use a delete post button.

[xuratu]

rose wrote:

I think that gracesmom is pretty clearly asking us for advice as to whether we think she should go to this meeting or not.

Agreed. I went ahead and told her she should go, with someone else with her. I also set up a LiveJournal (link below) and made my AIM public in preparation.

[rose]

I think that gracesmom is pretty clearly asking us for advice as to whether we think she should go to this meeting or not. It sounds ominous to me, so I vote no. She shouldn't go, she should send someone else.

I think anyone who chats with her might want to share their opinion. I'll figure out a way to give her my opinion too.

[cissmiace]

WolfHawk wrote:

poeticexplosion wrote: cissmiace wrote: I got an offline message from mPathytest while I was at the Doctors, this is very cool, as I havent mentioned to her in any direct chats that I'm from the UK... Quote: mPathytest (19:00:10): The UK gov has an oil shock action plan. Skim over the first few paragraphs to the list of concrete action items. This is VERY cool. Can't find a document like this for the US. I guess we're going to have to write it ourselves! mpathytest signed off at 19:00:16. http://www.og.dti.gov.uk/downstream/emergencies/down_emerge.htm He sent the same thing to me, so I think it's a coincidence. I looked at this site. I'm confused; why, if it is a UK plan, is it listing speeds in Miles per Hour instead of Kilometers per Hour?

Because we use MPH

[OrangeForAHead]

mPathy, how have I offended thee? I'm certain that the comment I left on the sci-fi personality test post went through the night before last, but now it is gone! I wrote who I was, shared my thoughts on the stories, and asked a few questions. And yet, mPathytest did leave a quick response on aim yesterday. I somehow doubt I offended the her, nor was I being weird or rambling off-topic. No, I think what I wrote was deleted because it was relevant, too relevant.

I wrote something along the lines of (but not exactly):

Quote:

Apparently I'm Gregory Benford. Thanks for sharing those stories by Tiptree/Sheldon, I've never read her stuff! The first story made me think of, well lots of newer stories, but particularly Oryx and Crake, which everyone I know had to read for our required Ethics of Emerging Technology course (have you read that story?) Scary, but makes you wonder what's scarier, humanity finding itself in a terrible state, or one person making a fateful choice for everyone against their will? The second story disturbed the hell out of me. To lose one's ability to make choices by reason, by love or by what's good for us, that loss of will and judgement is really terrifying. Sort of like addiction (oh do you suppose that's our current circumstance though, with our oil addiction?) I suppose that's why my answer to your poll question about hacking my brain would be, what exactly would you have in (my) mind?

You'd think this would be perfect discussion stuff for mPathytest! But instead, it's just the stuff that she would rather not post publicly. If I thought she were going to talk to me privately about it later I might not post this right away, but maybe it's all secretive. SPEC: Maybe "one neural mod at a time" is not in the memetic sense, but a quite literal secret objective.

[lubbarlubab]

ooo. I see my urban graffiti icon in the bottom right hand of the page. Cool!

[WolfHawk]

poeticexplosion wrote:

cissmiace wrote: I got an offline message from mPathytest while I was at the Doctors, this is very cool, as I havent mentioned to her in any direct chats that I'm from the UK... Quote: mPathytest (19:00:10): The UK gov has an oil shock action plan. Skim over the first few paragraphs to the list of concrete action items. This is VERY cool. Can't find a document like this for the US. I guess we're going to have to write it ourselves! mpathytest signed off at 19:00:16. http://www.og.dti.gov.uk/downstream/emergencies/down_emerge.htm He sent the same thing to me, so I think it's a coincidence.

I looked at this site. I'm confused; why, if it is a UK plan, is it listing speeds in Miles per Hour instead of Kilometers per Hour?

[cissmiace]

poeticexplosion wrote:

He sent the same thing to me, so I think it's a coincidence.

Ahhh damn me for getting excited

[poeticexplosion]

cissmiace wrote:

I got an offline message from mPathytest while I was at the Doctors, this is very cool, as I havent mentioned to her in any direct chats that I'm from the UK... Quote: mPathytest (19:00:10): The UK gov has an oil shock action plan. Skim over the first few paragraphs to the list of concrete action items. This is VERY cool. Can't find a document like this for the US. I guess we're going to have to write it ourselves! mpathytest signed off at 19:00:16. http://www.og.dti.gov.uk/downstream/emergencies/down_emerge.htm

He sent the same thing to me, so I think it's a coincidence.

EDIT: She. She said the same thing. I must get genders straight!

[cissmiace]

I got an offline message from mPathytest while I was at the Doctors, this is very cool, as I havent mentioned to her in any direct chats that I'm from the UK...

Quote:

mPathytest (19:00:10): The UK gov has an oil shock action plan. Skim over the first few paragraphs to the list of concrete action items. This is VERY cool. Can't find a document like this for the US. I guess we're going to have to write it ourselves! mpathytest signed off at 19:00:16.

http://www.og.dti.gov.uk/downstream/emergencies/down_emerge.htm

[lirath]

AIM mPathytest

[poeticexplosion]

Finally, I had an IG instant messenger convo! Nothing new really, except the somewhat interesting idea that Nico is himself being threatened.

AIM wrote:

[12:48] gurrtin: Hey, you probably don't know me, I'm PoeticExplosion on livejournal. Sorry to bother you, but I wanted to ask what you "inner circle" types thought about Nico's emails to gracesmom. [12:49] mPathytest: well, I'm not scared of Nico -- at least not as scared as some folks [12:50] mPathytest: although I have no idea what he's up to [12:50] mPathytest: meeting so close to the mystery date? [12:50] mPathytest: if you have any ideas, feel free to share [12:51] gurrtin: My only real concern is why he can't tell her whatever it is over email [12:51] mPathytest: EXACTLY [12:51] mPathytest: i know this is "high confidence" and all, but in person suggests something rather unusual, doesn't it? [12:51] gurrtin: Right [12:52] gurrtin: either he's up to no good or there's some weird circumstance we don't know about (like his computer's insecure or something) [12:53] gurrtin: So, just so I understand, you guys have been getting a creepy vibe off him, right? [12:56] mPathytest: `it's so hard to say! [12:56] mPathytest: he has inside knowledge -- is that because he's a good guy or a bad guy? leaking it to us suggests good guy, right? [12:56] mPathytest: why would a bad guy want to give ordinary citizens a head's up? [12:56] gurrtin: but threatening you suggests bad guy [12:56] gurrtin: he's hard to understand! [12:57] mPathytest: true. an enigma. maybe he's being threatened -- sometimes you can't help letting that spill over [12:57] mPathytest: okay I have to run [12:57] gurrtin: ok, thanks for chatting [12:57] mPathytest: but I really am glad to hear your thoughts on this!! multiple POV really helps [12:57] mPathytest: ttyl [12:57] gurrtin: ttyl

[OrangeForAHead]

more meta

[jegger]

[INTERACTION] Another GracesMom Convo