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Chat with students Ying Lan from Taiwan, Paolo from Italy, Bridgett from Jamaica, and Felix from Brazil, teachers Maggi, Michael, and Vance, and guest Sergei from Minsk

May 21, 2000

The chat this week took place almost entirely in the voice chat.  Vance monitored the Homestead site and the Palace.  Ying Lan and Michael both came to the Palace (Michael to his surprise) but both went immediately to the voice chat.  There we had a visitor, Sergei, who was not able to hear much due to poor network connection, so we wrote down much of what we said, and this makes the text logs easier for you to follow.  Ying Lan was there and reported problems with a sleeping disorder.  Felix dropped in since he was catching up with work on a Sunday due to time spent on studies.  Paolo from Italy was there, about to visit his brother in his new house.  And Bridgett was there as well and showed us her fashion design website.  We talked about the t-shirt project, and Bridgett let us know she is ready with the t-shirt and waiting for us to design a logo. 

 

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Sergei: Yes! But I don't have a mike

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Sergei: Hi Bridgett

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Sergei: She has left

Sergei: Hi Maggi

Maggi: Hi...

Sergei: I'm Sergei from Minsk

Maggi: Hi...nice to meet you...

Sergei: Yes, Welcome to text chat

Sergei:  I have a bit of a problem with my speakers

Sergei: Can't hear you properly

Sergei: Go ahead. I'll try to follow you

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Sergei: Hi again! Looks like I missed a lot

Maggi: not much

Maggi: so has Spring sprung Sergei?

Sergei: What are our plans for the future? I can't follow you, 'couse the Internet is very slow here

Sergei: Oh Yes! and we feel like whistling

Maggi: birds singing...nice eh?

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Vance: multiuser object oriented

Vance: multiuser dungeon

Maggi: no...nulti user domain

Maggi: multi

Maggi: Sergei...do you get Spring fever...

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Vance: helooooo

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Vance: no voice is coming through

Sergei: I Can't hear you

Sergei: I go on and off

Vance: Yeah, that's pretty normal

Sergei: Yes, go ahead

Vance: these days

Vance: how many fingers?

Vance: couldn't hear you, Sergei

Vance: Sergei, could you hear me just then?

Sergei: No

Vance: It's ok, we can text chat

Sergei: Please use text chat if  you feel  comfortable

Maggi: well...like he said...not missing much

Vance: Yeah, fine, less obtrusive in some ways

Sergei: Still no students

Vance: Maggi sounds just the same in text chat

Maggi: that means you can't hear me either Sergei?

Sergei: No, Ican't

Maggi: Vance is right.

Vance: Often one person in a 5-way voice chat will hear everyone clearly.

Vance: One won't hear anything

Sergei: Aha

Vance: One will get everything from all but one of the others

Vance: And the other 2 get broken voice packets

Vance: Bridgett is online.  She's a student from Jamaica

Sergei: Well, yes, it happens sometime

Sergei: Welcome

Vance: The sound is delivered packet by packet.  If all works well it sounds continuous

Vance: But if it doesn't work then

Vance: (silence)

Vance: (more silence)

Vance: you suddenly get ano

Vance: (silence)

Vance: ther packet like this.

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Sergei: Hi,Bridgett

Maggi: Hi Bridgett...

Sergei: Sure!

Vance: I was just explaining to Bridgett that you can't hear, Sergei

Sergei: Hi

Vance: B said she had to reboot but all is well now.  Can you hear her Sergei?

Vance: Can he?

Sergei: No... continue with text chat ,please

Maggi: ok...

Vance: B asked what's the topic.

Maggi: Spring Fever

Vance: I said, we should talk about t-shirts

Vance: B says she hasn't checked her email about the shirts

Vance: she has made a tshirt for the webheads class, but there is no logo

Vance: I'm asking how we can get the logo to her.  GIF?  Jpg?  (I hope)

Maggi: they are talking about the t-shirt

Maggi: so Sergei...do Russians get Sring fever?

Maggi: Spring

Sergei: I like t-shirts

Maggi: because the Germans get tired...:-)

Sergei: What's your favourite T-shirt slogan?

Sergei: Great!

Vance: We're trying to make a webheads tshirt but we have to design the logo.

Vance: Bridgett is a clothes designer

Vance: She can make the tshirt with the logo

Vance: She was thinking more like .. a pocket logo?  Probably a printed logo.

Vance: Education, English ...

Vance: We need a symbol

Maggi: People in Miami made t-shirts in Spanish for the Pope's vist but instead of it saying I Saw the Pope in Spanish it said I Saw the Potato...

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Vance: What do you think Maggi?  I'll try to record some ideas here.

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Vance: Bridgett is ready to work on the project whenever we come up with an idea

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Sergei: Thanks Bridgett

Sergei: Hi Felix

Vance: See the idea, Sergei, is to make a tshirt and design a logo amonst the class

Vance: then we want to get sponsorship to pay for it.

Sergei: Just fine

Vance: Bridgett said she's had some very late nights (working) last week

Sergei: No, no Vance.Not this time

Vance: I might be missing some of this.  I see 3 green names but hear nothing but Maggi

Vance: I heard that Felix

Vance: Felix just played us a blast of Music, Sergei

Vance: Actually it was MUSIC!!!

Sergei: What were you doing last week,Bridgett?

Maggi: I hear everyone

Sergei: Sorry, I've missed that!

Sergei: Can you sing?

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Felix: I was watching FORMULA 01

Maggi: Hi Ying

Maggi: Felix says he can't sing

Vance: Yeah, you're coming in clearly

Maggi: Sergei can't hear us

Sergei: Can he dance?

Vance: Ying Lan says she had to go to Taipei last week due to a problem in her life

Vance: She sleeps only 3 or 4 hours in a day

Felix: YING your voice is SO HIGH

Felix: oops.. SO LOAD

Vance: So is yours Felix, so loud

Vance: But it's ok

Felix: oops.. I forgot the speelling

Vance: That is ok

Vance: I think it's about right Ying Lan

Felix: loud

Vance: So, YL, you sent to see a doctor in Taipei?  What did he say?

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Vance: She went to a class (voice disappeared)

Felix: Who is Sergei?

Vance: Bad enough I have to keep the logs, I have to write them too

Sergei: Thanks,Vance

Vance: http://www.netword.com/webheads

Ying: <Type here to chat>

Felix: Vance I just can hear your breath

Sergei: I can hear you from time to time

Ying: Psxchology of potentail

Vance: http://www.netword.com/teaching4webheads

Vance: I can't hear Ying Lan

Vance: :-(

Vance: On my interface it says Ying is talking, but I can't hear her.

Status: Disconnected

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Network error

 

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Maggi: she comes in and out...

Ying: I don't know how to explain it... but I found the source of trouble in my life.

Maggi: well that is good

Vance: What was the source?

Ying: Like I am always regret something which I could not changed.

Sergei: She  can  go to text chat too.

Vance: YL can't sleep due to worries

Vance: Maggi suggests reiki

Vance: YL asked Maggi to repeat

Sergei: It always happens with me too

Vance: What's that Sergei, unable to sleep?

Maggi: most people can't sleep if you have something on your mind.

Sergei: Yes, I'm Sergei

Sergei: I always have something on my mind

Vance: When Bridgett can't sleep she reads

Vance: She says two months ago her aunt died and she got a lot of reading done

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Maggi: try just concentrating on your breathing Ying...

Vance: Vance says he works when he can't sleep but that doesn't happen often because he's usually happy

Ying: What is reiki?

Maggi: empty your mind and just observe you breathing

Maggi: reiki is finding a source of universal energy

Vance: Vance and Bridgett agree that not being able to sleep just makes the condition worse

Maggi: I do this when I go to the dentist...it works...I am very relaxed.

Vance: Reading relaxes Bridgett

Sergei: Where can we find it?

Maggi: find what...the enrgy?

Ying: It sounds hard to do... to find a source of universal energy.

Maggi: it isn't

Sergei: You are kidding

Maggi: you just need to find a way to tap into it...

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Maggi: no...Sergei...it may sound strange but I am not

Sergei: I can' t believe you,Maggi!!!

Maggi: you don't have to :-)

Vance: Bridgett asked about ... ??

Vance: a magazine from Germany called Elegant

Vance: Maggi knows it

Maggi: Eleganz...

Sergei: Ok,ok,ok...

Vance: (Michael is on his way)

Vance: Maggi will buy one and send it to Bridgett

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Vance: Bridgett will email the address, but maybe she can subscribe in Jamaica

Vance: Michael is singing a good evening song

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Michael: Hi everyone.

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Vance: Michael, I'm writing a lot so Sergei can follow us

Vance: He's not getting very good reception

Michael: OK.

Vance: Bridgett appreciates that Maggi will send her a copy of Eleganz

Sergei: Hi Michael!

Michael: What is ELEGANZ about?

Michael: Hi Sergei.

Vance: Me neither.  I don't know it

Michael: So ELEGANZ is a German fashion magazine!

Sergei: Probably, poetry

Vance: Bridgett says it's a fashion magazine, and she's seen it in Jamaica on tourists, but she can't get it

Maggi: LOL

Michael: Men know something about fashion don't they?!

Vance: Bridgett implied that women would know about this magazine

Sergei: Hi there!

Maggi: do they?

Vance: hi

Vance: (down Maggi)

Michael: Vance has a great sense of fashion.

Michael: What about you Sergei? Are you fashion conscious?

Michael: Vance thinks Michael would be a well dressed guy!

Maggi: mmm...it's called ... this is me

Vance: Michael doesn't know what he's talking about

Vance: Michael likes to feel comfortable.

Vance: He likes to wear clothes in the middle

Michael: Yeh - jeans and a nice shirt or something.

Vance: Maggi likes Jeans (my favorite clothing, btw)

Maggi: middle of the road is a good place to get run over...LOL

Vance: Bridgett wears suits, jeans, tshirts

Vance: She goes to fashion shows and dresses up

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Vance: Next fashion show she's not going but her creations are

Michael: Do you have a website to show your fashions Bridgett?

Maggi: Maggi means that is mc's fashion statement

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Vance: Bridgett has a website!  So what's the URL???

Sergei: ELEGANZ.... I like the sound of it...

Vance: Yeah, send it

Maggi: I bet Sergei has some sense of fashion

Vance: can't wait

Sergei: Not at all

Vance: She likes simple stuff, clean lines, soft fabrics, doing stuff for the tourists

Vance: no complications, basic stuff

Vance: (lost audio)

Michael: How cold does it get in Jamaica?

Vance: It does get cold, no snow, so she makes warm clothes for Dec, Jan, long sleeves

Maggi: probably like Oz

Michael: Maybe Maggi. But I thought Jamaica was always tropical.

Vance: can get chilly, visitors don't think so but Jamaicans do

Michael: OZ = Australia

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Michael: Hello there Paulo.

Vance: Sergei, were you talking to paolo earlier?  Could you hear him?

Paolo: hi, ive spoke to Sergei

Vance: Can anyone hear me?

Michael: I can hear everyone.

Vance: Michael can hear everyone he says.  Paolo is coming in clearly

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Vance: Michael wants to know what's the news in Italy today (they don't have tv in oz?

Vance: Paolo is at his brother's house?

Michael: Paulo is going to his brother's house today.

Vance: MC asked if he goes there every Sunday

Vance: Any special occasion, MC wants to know?

Vance: Actually, Paolo is not so clear to me.  I am getting only a bit at a time.  Paraphrase for me Michael.

Vance: P's brother has a new house

Michael: Paulo is going to his brother's house because he has a new house and he is getting married.

Vance: The house is in Paolo's town.  I'm not getting most of what he's saying

Michael: That's better!

Vance: That's much better

Michael: Paulo was talking too close to the microphone.

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Sergei: How many room are there in your brother's house?

Michael: You can say, : "He lives 30 kilometres away"

Vance: Yeah, I was just telling you what I understand, but I've written it above.

Michael: Evening Ying. (It is evening for me and Ying.)

Vance: Paolo's house is "little" 5 or 6 rooms

Ying: Good evening.

Vance: Hi Ying

Paolo: hi sergei

Michael: The average Australian house would have 3 bedrooms, a kitchen and lounge.

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Maggi: living room

Michael: Yes - living room is the lounge.

Vance: They are talking about the rooms in a house ...

Sergei: It's 16:01 in Minsk

Michael: LOL

Sergei: Good Evening!

Maggi: the questions they ask....

Vance: Michael is getting personal now, he asks if Paolo likes the woman his brotehr is going to marry?

Sergei: How was your day?

Vance: I can't hear the answer, but I think Paolo said it's better to be single.

Vance: WHen single you have only two problems.  When you are married you have a lot of problems

Sergei: Hi Paolo

Michael: LOL

Vance: few problems

Vance: esp for women tehre are a lot of problems esp when they have kids

Michael: No comment!

Vance: Magggi says its easier to raise a child alone

Vance: Bridgett has no intention of getting married

Vance: She doesn't need to cook for some guy

Michael: Bridgett is a free woman!

Vance: she can do anything, so she doesn't need it

Vance: 30 next month?

Vance: yeah, in june

Michael: Yes 30.

Michael: Bridgett is certain - she is NOT getting married!

Vance: B isn't married because she doesn't like "these guys:

Maggi: marry young and get it over with...LOL

Sergei: A child needs a father i think

Michael: Interesting point Sergei.

Vance: http://www.netword.com/webheads

Vance: You can meet us all there

Maggi: yes...one that wants to be a father but none is better when they aren't

Paolo: Bridgett, all guys all around the world ??!!

Sergei: Why not? You'll get tired being alone!

Paolo: the father is import for chilldren as the mother

Michael: That's true Paulo.

Michael: But I also agree with what Maggi said.

Maggi: yes they are Paolo...I agree....but I can't just buy one can I?

Vance: Of course it's best if children have two parents who love them and each other

Vance: But not every child has two such parents, then what?

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Michael: What do you think Maggi?

Paolo: Maggi, how is the wether there?

Michael: Australia follows the US in everything!

Maggi: yukky

Sergei: America sets standards and we follow them

Maggi: well stop doing that...

Michael: America is the big leader in the world!

Vance: I leave the chat for jsut a few minutes and look what you guys are talking about!

Michael: LOL

Vance: Separation?  What kind of separation?

Maggi: separation here is different

Maggi: many people do not divorce because it is expensive

Maggi: people should think longer before they marry

Michael: Here it costs about $50!

Vance: Here you say I divorce you 3 times (so I hear)

Maggi: cost thousands here mc

Sergei: We have the same weather in Minsk

Maggi: only for the men Vance

Maggi: fat chance

Maggi: not so easy

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Michael: Sergei - can you hear us now?

Sergei: Yes, I can

Sergei: But not always

Michael: It's 9.00 am in NY.

Michael: Vance hangs out on the Internet all day at work. True Vance?

Vance: true

Vance: all day

Vance: But I'm not in America

Michael: Bye Paulo.

Vance: Nice to see everyone

Michael: Ich auch nicht.

Sergei: Bye!

Vance: ich auch

Michael: Maggi and Paulos are speaking Italian and German.

Maggi: ciao

Michael: I'll be here!

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Vance: That's a BETTER place to be

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Michael: Good night everyone! I'm going to have an early night.

Sergei: Good night!

Michael: Beer on the balcony as usual for Vance! Nice.

Michael: Enjoy it Vance. One day I'll do it with you!

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Sergei: It was nice to talk to you all. Bye .

Maggi: Bye Sergei

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Michael: Bye - I'm really am going this time. Bye!

Vance: (waits politely for Michael to leave)

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