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and our friend Marina from Italy
John from Puerto Rico arrived first to join Maggi and Vance at the HearMe chat but had microphone problems. Soon Ying Lan was there along with Marina, but we gravitated to the Palace for avatar play. Conversation then moved back and forth, sometimes favoring the Palace in text mode, and sometimes moving to Hear Me for live voice conversation. When Moral arrived at the Palace, we all returned there. Maggi had drawn a picture on the whiteboard of the auditorium of the push cart she had got to help her keep her balance while she recovers from her accident, and in the auditorium she taught us all how to draw on the walls. Marina proved to be particularly artistic, drawing flowers and colorful trees, though accidental erasures happened twice before the Palace crashed with all of us stuck in the auditorium. All of us but Moral were in voice contact the whole time, so it was interesting to be talking all together about the problems we were having with the Palace, and wondering what Moral was thinking since to him we must have appeared to be sitting there doing nothing. That was a signal for us to wind down, so Maggi and Michael and Marina and I retired to HearMe and worked out that while much of the world would be going back an hour in October, Michael would be moving forward an hour, and thus two hours further apart from Maggi and Marina. Three out of four of us concluded that Ozzies will go out of their way to be contrary to the rest of us and all but one of us were willing to leave it at that.
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John has joined
Maggi has joined
Status: Connected
Vance has joined
John: efi.virtualscholar.com
Vance: Hi. Maggi told me you were here but silent
Vance: port 9888
John: I just got in. Thanks. Vance, I seem to be having trouble with my microphone.
Ying has joined
Vance: ok, Maggi says you're there
Vance: He's putting faces on at the palace
Vance: I guess that means he's making faces (changing avatars)
Ying: hi john
John: Hi, Ying.
Marina has joined
Ying: I can not wear the new avator.
John: Hi, Marina. Sorry I can't talk, but my microphone (and my speakers) have both seemed to gone out. I heard Maggi at the beginning, but then nothing.
Ying: That's too bad!!
Maggi: so I blew the line
Marina has left
Marina has joined
Ying: I pasted the new avator in my suitcase... But I can not wear it now.
John: No, I think there is a software problem somewhere.
John: Somewhere in my computer, that is.
Maggi: that's good to hear....for us :-)
Vance: I couldn't hear that
John: I think part of my problem is my modem's and sound card's configurations.
Maggi: have fun finding the problem
John: I probably will. (I hope so, anyway.) I'm considering one of those microphone/earphone sets.
Marina has left
Ying: thanks...
Maggi: for my what?
Ying: I wish he will be well soon.
Marina has joined
Ying: Moon festival is coming here.
John: Help, I wound up in the conference room, and can't find a door. Should I jump out the window?
Ying: Next Tuesday... I don't need to work. It is holiday here.
Ying: Use the back button.
John: I did that, and I kept jumping pack in again.
Ying: Or /option/ the gray bar on the top... then select 'go back'.
John: Thank you, Ying. I finally got out.
Ying: you're welcome.
Michael has joined
Ying: hi, michael
Michael: whoopy?
Michael: "Throw another prawn on the barbie."
Ying: What are you talking about? maggi.
Marina has left
Michael: barbie = BBQ
Ying: food?
Michael: Australian slang Ying.
Ying: Kiki
Michael: huh?
Ying: never mind
John has left
Michael: smiles
Michael: arvo = afternoon
Michael: drongo = idiot
Michael: dunny = toilet
Marina has joined
Maggi: woop woop
Michael: = far away place
Michael: wup wup?
Ying: What is the very useful in Taiwan?
Michael: Australian slang!!!
Ying: WhY? Most of movies are made in Hollywood.
Michael: And living in Asia as well!
Ying: I hardly meet Australian here.
Vance: Ballywood?
Vance: Bolly?
Michael: (I know Ying!-
Ying: no.. I mean American movies.
Ying: sorry.
John has joined
Ying: Is it spring in Australia?
Ying: Sydney?
Michael: Yes Ying.
Ying: spring?
Michael: Yes - beautiful spring.
Ying: I am not interested in sport.
Michael: OK!
Maggi: great weather here
Ying: I know most of American like sport... baseball , basketball.. soccer.
Ying: It is big time for Sdyney ..
Michael: Australia has banned 2 IOC delegates from entering the country.
Michael: Which auditorium?
Ying: Chinese's name..
Ying: Go to what\?
Vance: the t word
Ying: p word
Ying: tiny
Ying: toy
Ying: toilet
Ying: tommy for the toilet
Ying: Tomy
Ying: knock knock who's there?
Maggi: who
Ying: Tomy is in the toilet
Ying: I like flower, too.
Ying: moral is there.
Ying: turn down what?
John has left
Ying: I want to go now.
Ying: see you next week.
Ying: have a good week.
Ying: bye
Maggi: bye
Ying has left
Which chat would you like to see now: Palace | Hear Me
The Palace - Avatar-based text chat logs (Vance has added comments in italics)
Connecting to efi.virtualscholar.com:9998
Connected via TCP
*** Welcome to The Virtual School House Vance!
Vance: @64,64 !It's Vance
Vance: Hello
Mad: hi big guy on skates
marina: @64,64 !It's marina
Mad: Hi Marina
marina: Hi
Vance: Hi Marina. Watch out for the door. (Marina disappears behind the door to the classroom)
Vance: That's a nice one Ying Lan (Ying Lan has made her own avatar, a picture of herself with 6 frames)
Ying-Lan: Too strange
Mad: why?
Ying-Lan: Uncompletely
Vance: You mean the colors? Happened to Maggi's picture too.
John: Does the avatar have to be in some particular format (I have it in gif and in jpg - neither will paste.
marina: I see you have nice pictures
Mad: thanks
Vance: Mine are in jpg. You click on the jpg, press ctrl-c to copy, and then the suitcase, New, and ctrl-v to paste there
marina: I had a busy week so I hadn't work on my computer a lot
Ying-Lan: Mine is also in JPG.
Vance: What did you do this week, Marina?
John: I did all that, but at just gave me a "ping" and nothing happened.
Mad: we must all be busy
Vance: Marina, what happened to your avatar? (Marina's avatar is in 4 parts, but only the head is there, leaving the body invisible)
marina: I wear only a head
Vance: I'm trying to find an avatar for John (Vance is getting a thumbnail of John from the Teaching for Webheads site to import into the Palace suitcase)
Ying-Lan: marina, do you lose your body?
John: I can't get myself to move. Do you think I might be frozen with fright?
Ying-Lan: @64,64 !It's Ying-Lan
Vance: Ok, John, have that one (Vance 'wears' an avatar with John's picture and then moves it aside so John can take it)
Vance: You can grab it and put it in your suitcase
Vance: owww (Marina has produced fire and it's right under Vance)
Vance: That's better (Vance moves away from the fire)
John: Thank you, Vance. What was I doing wrong?
Ying-Lan: John, you are here.
Vance: I don't know. I just took a thumbnail, resized it, clicked on it, pasted it in the suitcase, and then handed it over
Ying-Lan: We need a topic to talk.
John: I wonder if I downloaded the right software? I downloaded the client.
Ying-Lan: client?
Vance: Have you got a suitcase and does it have New in it?
Ying-Lan: I forgot what I download...
John: Yes I do, and yes it does.
Ying-Lan: hi, marina.. you are pretty... (Marina has completed her avatar)
Vance: Yeah, YL, a client software is an application that you use to do something like chat.
Ying-Lan: nice white suit what you are in.
marina: Thank you!
Vance: For example, Palace is one client, and Hear Me another. ICQ another.
Mad: Can you move your nameoff your mouth JOHN? (In his hurry, Vance wasn't careful about resizing John's avatar and there isn't enough space at the bottom to allow John's name to be written below his chin on his picture)
Vance: I just went in the auditorium to look at Maggi's drawing? How would he do that Maggi? (Vance returns from a visit to the auditorium)
marina: I would like to create an avatar but I don't have enough time these days and I don' have a scanner.
John: I'm trying to, but the name won't click.
Mad: I don't know..
Vance: It doesn't take much time. But you do need a digital image.
Vance: Why don't you just post a photo to me and I'll scan it for you? (Vance Stevens, box 41637, Abu Dhabi, UAE)
Vance: I can make an avatar for you in seconds like I did for John just now.
John: What rooms do we have here?
Vance: Of course it will take a week for me to get the letter by snail mail.
marina: I can try to do that.But how many days does the photo need to arrive to emirates?
Vance: Have a look John. To your right (our left) is the classroom.
Vance: The auditorium is over here (Vance moves to the auditorium door)
Mad: or go to option and goto room
Vance: Maggi has drawn a picture of her walker device on the wall in there
marina: I come to see it
Ying-Lan: What are you drawing? maggi.
Mad: the handle bars are straighter up
Mad: the thing i use to walk around with that I don't have to carry stuff
Vance: So how do you draw in here?
Mad: click on paint
Vance: You're very restless Marina
Vance: I find draw, but not paint
marina: Ying has a great avatar choice (Ying Lan has changed avatars to another picture of herself)
Vance: I'm wondering how you get the tall avatar
John: I see there are three rooms called New Room. What do these do?
Mad: or click on draw under options
Received file office3.gif. (Vance has tried Maggi's suggestion and gone to one of the rooms. The picture is loading in here.)
John: Hi, Michael.
marina: Hi Michael!
MichaelC: Great avatar Vance.
John: So, what do we do with these rooms? Do we teach/study in them?
Vance: Hi Michael. I just went to New Room 91. It's an office
Mad: whatever you want
MichaelC: So what's so good about an office?
Vance: So I missed a bit of explanation I think. Maggi, is there a paint option or just draw?
Mad: they are both the same I think
Vance: ok, so once you have the draw toolbox, then what?
Ying-Lan: Am I strang?
Mad: click on the pencil, hold the left mouse button and draw
Vance: You look a little fuzzy, YL
Vance: ooh I feel naked (Vance's avatar has disappeared - later we work out that it happens every time we click F9 to say something in the Hear Me chat)
Ying-Lan: fuzzy?
John: We have birds in here???? (Michael has introduced his trademark parrot)
Vance: I think the bird is in your suitcase
John: I'm talking about the one I see sitting on my head. (Somehow the parrot has attached itself to John's avatar and moves with him when he does)
Vance: I think he likes you John
Mad: watch out he doesn't do somethin ... lol
Vance: What happened to Marina I wonder. Are you all listening to Michael and Maggi? (It's been quiet in the Palace for a while and Vance has returned from voice chatting to find Marina gone)
John: @64,64 !It's John
John: Hi, sorry I was gone for a while. My server closed me down due to being overloaded.
Mad: Hi John again
marina: @64,64 !It's marina
Vance: How come my avatar keeps disappearing? Welcome back Marina. We thought we'd scared you off.
marina: No. I had problems with my netscape
John: Sure is quiet in here.
Mad: we are all talking about food on hearme
Mad: ever had kangaroo?
marina: No never
John: Let me try to log back in there, then. Food is something I could use right now.
Mad: Michael has...
Mad: me too
Mad: not kangaroo but I am hungry
Vance: Is everyone listening at hear me?
Moral: @64,64 !It's Moral
Mad: Hi Moral
Moral: Hi there!
Vance: Hi there Moral. We're all in Hearme and talking there.
marina: Hi moral
Vance: And Marina is hear eating pizza of course (Marina has introduced a slice of pizza from her suitcase)
Mad: we can talk here too#1
Vance: here I mean
Moral: Hi Mad and vance and Marina.
Vance: It's hard to be in two chats. While we were talking in HearMe this chat was very quiet
Moral: Hi Michael!
Mad: I'm hungry
John: I noticed that, too. I also find that I miss a lot of what is said in the Palace when I am in HearMe.
Mad: you get used to reading in two places
Vance: Michael is talking about the Olympics in HearMe. Will you watch them Moral?
Moral: Of course Vance. I am look forward it.
Vance: We're all looking forward to it.
Vance: I don't know though. I don't watch much tv.
Mad: do you think China will get them in 2008?
John: I don't really like the Summer Olympics, myself. I love to watch the winter ones, though.
Moral: Vance - Did Miachael recommend any good website about them?
Vance: Well, Michael is right there by the door.
Moral: I think we will get it Maggi.
Mad: I asked him
Vance: Why does my avatar keep disappearing? Ying Lan's seems ok
John: I thought you were doing it on purpose.
Vance: I don't see when it leaves - no, it just goes away.
Vance: over here
Vance: It happened again
Vance: I think my avatar disappears when I press f9
Vance: I will try it
Vance: Sure enough. F9
John: Happens to me, too.
Vance: F9 is unfortnately the key you use to talk on hear me
Vance: Nice glasses, MOral (Moral has put on spiral glasses from his suitcase)
Vance: Can I have some pizza Marina? (Vance helps himself to Marina's pizza)
Moral: :-)
Ying-Lan: hi
Ying-Lan: moral
Mad: Interesting face John
Vance: Marina, you can't type here?
Mad: the last one
Vance: Can you read this?
marina: Now I can write at last!!
MichaelC: Hi Moral!
Vance: We're trying to find out why ... nevermind, now she can write
Vance: I'll bet you were whispering ...
Moral: Hi Michael!
Mad: mixing up buttons
Vance: Hi (Vance has just gone into the auditorium and found Marina and Michael decorating the walls)
Vance: I just came here to take a picture
*** ; marina is Painting
*** ; Vance is Painting
MichaelC: Hi !
*** ; marina is Painting
Vance: cool
Vance: I've been taking pictures.
Vance: You'll see them in the logs
Vance: Very nice, Marina
Vance: Hi. Marina has put a nice drawing on the board inside the auditorium (Vance goes out to get Moral and bring him into the auditorium)
Vance: Did you see the pictures, Moral?
Moral: What pictures, Vacne?
Vance: Follow me ... (Vance moves his avatar stepwise toward the auditorium door)
Moral: sure (But next move, Vance is inside the auditorium without Moral having got the idea. Inside the auditorium it's impossible to communicate with Moral outside. But John is there with Marina and Michael)
John: Very pretty. Wish I could drqw. I can't even draw stick figures.
Vance: Moral is coming
Vance: You didn't follow (Vance goes back outside to get Moral)
Moral: How can I follow you Vance?
Vance: follow me through this door
Moral: Are you there, Vance?
Moral: Ok.
Vance: coming? (Vance goes back inside; Moral follows this time)
*** ; marina is Painting
MichaelC: It;'s been a lomng time since we all came in here!
John: Did someone erase all the artwork, or is it my screen?
MichaelC: Maggi accidentally erased it.
Mad: no...I hit the detonator by mistake
Vance: It's ok, I took a picture (See it just above)
*** ; MichaelC is Painting
*** ; marina is Painting
*** ; MichaelC is Painting
*** ; marina is Painting
*** ; Ying-Lan is Painting
*** ; MichaelC is Painting
Mad: nature is callng...be right back
*** ; marina is Painting
*** ; Ying-Lan is Painting
John: I think I see a tree growing up the wall.
*** ; marina is Painting
*** ; Ying-Lan is Painting
*** ; marina is Painting
*** ; Ying-Lan is Painting
Vance: I'm not sure how to get the picture back here, but at least you can see it on the logs
*** ; marina is Painting
*** ; MichaelC is Painting
*** ; marina is Painting
MichaelC: You can really make a big mess here.
Vance: Do you want to paint, Moral?
Moral: Yes, how?
John: Whoever is drawing the tree is really good.
MichaelC: Click the paint icon on the left Moral.
Vance: Options, draw
Vance: Paint icon? I don't see one ... Options / Draw for me
*** ; Moral is Painting
*** ; marina is Painting
*** ; Ying-Lan is Painting
*** ; marina is Painting
*** ; Ying-Lan is Painting
*** ; marina is Painting
*** ; Ying-Lan is Painting
John: I'm afraid I'm going to have to leave. My granddaughter just arrived. Bye all.
*** ; Ying-Lan is Erasing
*** ; Ying-Lan is Erasing
*** ; Ying-Lan is Erasing
*** ; Moral is Painting
*** ; Ying-Lan is Painting
*** ; Moral is Painting
*** ; Ying-Lan is Painting
*** ; Ying-Lan is Erasing
Vance: OK, bye John
Ying-Lan: by john
Winsock Error: 10053 - Software caused connection abort
(At this point the Palace started to crash with all of us inside. Our avatars were still there, and we could move them, but nothing we wrote would appear on the screen. We were all, except Moral, talking together in Hear Me, so except for Moral, it appeared to the rest of us as if nothing had happened and it occurred to us gradually that the Palace wasn't working. Eventually, it crashed completely. That is, I was disconnected myself, but Michael said my avatar was still there. Finally it just went down. Fifteen minutes later it came up again, but we were heading back into real life by then.)
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