Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2021-11-14
| 14:46 | lovejoy2199 | Greetings everyone |
| 14:46 | lovejoy2199 | Hello Ember |
| 14:46 | Ember (emberell) | Gronk welcome |
| 14:46 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Lovejoy and Gronk |
| 14:47 | lovejoy2199 | Hello Chancellor |
| 14:47 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | waves from her chair. hi Gronk. lovejoy |
| 14:47 | lovejoy2199 | Hello Andrea |
| 14:47 | Gronk Seriman | Hello Ember, Miss Jones, and Misters Jarvinen and Lovejoy! |
| 14:48 | lovejoy2199 | Hello Gronk |
| 14:48 | lovejoy2199 starts streaming music. | |
| 14:52 | Ember (emberell) | Elfbiter, welcome |
| 14:52 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | hi mr EB |
| 14:52 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | given computer prices are going up, I'll buy a machine this week |
| 14:53 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | before they go higher |
| 14:53 | Gronk Seriman | ...and while you can still get one. |
| 14:53 | Ember (emberell) | Soup, welcome. |
| 14:53 | lovejoy2199 | Wait until 'Black Friday' |
| 14:53 | Soup Jonson | TY all |
| 14:54 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | problem i have with BF is that cheap machines are made and sold for it |
| 14:54 | Ember (emberell) | Agatha, welcome! |
| 14:54 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Soup, Agatha, and Kiara |
| 14:54 | lovejoy2199 | If you are going for a pre-built, check Newegg. |
| 14:54 | Agatha Asuka Macbeth (agatha.macbeth) | Hello :) |
| 14:55 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | nods |
| 14:55 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Garret |
| 14:55 | Ember (emberell) | Garret, welcome |
| 14:55 | Ember (emberell) | Welcome, Phrynne |
| 14:56 | lovejoy2199 | Or, Micro Center if you live close. |
| 14:56 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Phrynne |
| 14:56 | Gronk Seriman | I soooo miss Fry's |
| 14:56 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | i live in a rural area |
| 14:56 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | so it's Walmart or order online |
| 14:56 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | or drive 3 hours |
| 14:57 | Phrynne waves | |
| 14:57 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | hi all i have not greeted |
| 14:57 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | i'm going to play with this freebie i had, see if i can get the Ethernet back up and running |
| 14:58 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | and someone gave me an old Radon card that should work in these machines |
| 14:58 | Ember (emberell) | Jorge, Welcome |
| 14:58 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | hi Jorge |
| 14:58 | Ember (emberell) | Harper, welcome to you too ❤ |
| 14:58 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Jorge |
| 14:58 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | spies Harper |
| 14:58 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | hi |
| 14:58 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Harperlass |
| 14:58 | Jorge Serapis | *waves to everyone!8 |
| 14:58 | Jorge Serapis | I swear, these seats are gonna give me an attack of the vapours one day.. |
| 14:59 | Harperlass | Hi Andrea Hi Word...Sorry I missed Sci FI |
| 14:59 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | I have a machine running Linux I may repartition the drive back to Windows and buy a copy of Win 10 |
| 14:59 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | so kay harper, 2 people were there |
| 15:00 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | MS is pushing W11 already |
| 15:00 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | i saw that |
| 15:00 | Harperlass | I got enough energy to get a shower and to the store, and that wiped me out |
| 15:00 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | hopefully Win 10 will get cheaper |
| 15:00 | Agatha Asuka Macbeth (agatha.macbeth) shudders | |
| 15:00 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | sorry to hear it Harper i hope you feel better |
| 15:00 | Harperlass | Phrynne, Ariana is beautiful |
| 15:00 | Phrynne | :) |
| 15:01 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome to this week's Caledon Oxbridge Deans' Q&A. This is an open meeting; |
| 15:01 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | all are welcome apart from those who intend to misbehave in a disruptive manner. |
| 15:01 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Non-disruptive misbehavior is at your discretion. |
| 15:01 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Transcripts will be posted after the meeting. |
| 15:01 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | at http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/qna/qna_index.php |
| 15:01 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | and welcome, Larky |
| 15:01 | Larky (larkylouz) | thank you, Word. Hi everyone |
| 15:02 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | What do you have for us today, Ember |
| 15:03 | Ember (emberell) | I have been working on the faculty kit this week. It was brought to my attention that I hadn't included some of the most recently changed notecards, due to SL having mishandled them on my way to my own inventory. So I have been going through the cards and making sure I haven't missed anything else, and making sure it -actually- contains the most recent updates through October. |
| 15:03 | Harperlass | Waves to Soup and Elfbiter |
| 15:04 | Ember (emberell) | I believe I have fixed most of the issue so far, pending a bit of reviewing - so I've updated the dispenser in the faculty lounge, but once I'm certain, I'll send out another notice, this time hopefully fixing that small issue. |
| 15:05 | Ember (emberell) | Besides that, as always, we are looking for new tutors and help staff - those interested should please IM me, or another tutor, for the application material - we've seen a lot of good new, friendly faces around Oxbridge of late, and I do want to encourage anyone who wants to to volunteer |
| 15:05 | Ember (emberell) | That's all from me this time. |
| 15:06 | Larky (larkylouz) | Thanks for all your work on that, Ember. |
| 15:06 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Thank you, Ember |
| 15:07 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | We may have seen another episode with the "Ugandan Prince", and Michael reported a few trolls appearing at his last role-playing class (Michael does have parcel ban powers). |
| 15:08 | Harperlass | Were they role playing trolls, troll role-players, or just trollish? |
| 15:09 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | UP comes to Oxbridge under a variety of names, and claims to teach a required class, and spews a bit of other disinformation. |
| 15:09 | Phrynne | If they're disrupting the class in any way, they're trolls. |
| 15:10 | Harperlass | Oh Ugandan Prince is the troll...I thought you meant a scammer plus trolling as a separate thing...didn't realize |
| 15:10 | Larky (larkylouz) | He's also fond of pretending to be an African royalty. Last night, he claimed he could teach medicine and African History. |
| 15:10 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | If you observe any problematic behavior, report it to Ember, Larky, or myself. |
| 15:11 | Ember (emberell) | When in doubt, please let us know. Either by IM, or through the pneumatic tube located within the classroom on ground level |
| 15:11 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Andrea, do you have any announcements for today? |
| 15:11 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | We will be having our Bi Weekly fund raiser next week on Sunday. DJ Sasha says it will be a Arabian themed dance so dress accordingly. It will be held at the belly dance pavilion in the Oxbridge Village for the ambiance. There is a nice water fall there now across from the pavilion. I hope to have a random freebie giver running with no copy items to be given out. We will gather after the Q&A. There should be a notice in the groups now from when i got ahead of myself and posted a week early. I'll do another post soon. |
| 15:12 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | I plan to look at the financials this week and see what fundraisers are working well for us as I begin to plan for Christmas and next year. |
| 15:12 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | If you have any no copy items you would like to donate for the random gift giver. Please let me know. All linden donations are appreciated big or small. |
| 15:13 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | We are, i believe doing well. but We prepare for the future. |
| 15:13 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | back to you word |
| 15:13 | Larky (larkylouz) | Hi BadgerofZen. welcome |
| 15:13 | badgerofzen | hullo |
| 15:13 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | waves at badger frozen |
| 15:13 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Thank you, Andrea |
| 15:13 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | my pleasure |
| 15:13 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome badgerofzen. |
| 15:13 | badgerofzen waves at Andrea | |
| 15:13 | badgerofzen | hullo |
| 15:14 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | A few items. |
| 15:15 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | I emailed Andrea a few minutes ago a current spreadsheet containing the year's $L transactions with a breakout of donations at each fundraiser. Sorry that took me so long, Andrea. |
| 15:15 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | np |
| 15:15 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | ty |
| 15:17 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | We are doing well, which allows for riding out both the next RFL season and the unexpected. |
| 15:17 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | .. 39 days since tier paid, all instructor stipends paid. Oxbridge Mint Balance : 469,662 $L Tier Liability : 32,036 $L Base Reserve : 225,000 $L Total Liability 257,036 $L Surplus : 212,626 $L |
| 15:18 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Andrea has specifically worked to increase our surplus given pandemic caused vagaries in employment in RL |
| 15:19 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | We are stable, and thank you all who have and are keeping it so |
| 15:20 | Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) | Kiara Foxx (maxinefox2008) gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway. |
| 15:20 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | thank you Kiara |
| 15:20 | Ember (emberell) | Thank you, Kiara :-) Every donation counts. |
| 15:20 | Kiara Foxx (maxinefox2008) | :D |
| 15:21 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | On Monday, 22 Nov at 11 am SLT, Zenmondo Wormser is organizing a panel seminar here in Quixote Hall on the European issue of "chat-control". |
| 15:22 | Harperlass | I'm not sure I know what that is? |
| 15:23 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | I'll likely be doing a planned update to the calendar organization to accommodate more flexible times. |
| 15:24 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Thank you for your work on that word |
| 15:24 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | What's called chat-control is the AI scanning of any and all electronic communications for child sex related material. |
| 15:25 | Gronk Seriman | Oh, that isn't spooky at all. |
| 15:25 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Criminals have been using codewords in communications for a long time... |
| 15:25 | Harperlass | yeah it does sound like a well meaning concept that could go horribly wrong |
| 15:27 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Here's a couple explainers: https://bit.ly/30pe7rn and https://prostasia.org/blog/europes-chat-control-mandate-begins/ |
| 15:27 | Gronk Seriman | Once in place, they could think of a whole laundry list of things that shouldn't be said. |
| 15:27 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | It very likely violates the EU's own privacy regulations. |
| 15:27 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | EU is not fond of hate speech and associated disinformation. |
| 15:28 | Katie (katie.canningham) | Hi! |
| 15:28 | Ember (emberell) | [This message cannot be displayed in your country.] |
| 15:30 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | So a presentation, discussion, and Q&A is planned. Again, Monday, 22 Nov, 11am in this very room |
| 15:31 | Katie (katie.canningham) | Will the transcript be archived? |
| 15:31 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | ty for promoting it Wordsmith |
| 15:31 | Harperlass | A transcript would be handy it sounds really interesting |
| 15:31 | Katie (katie.canningham) | yes |
| 15:32 | Katie (katie.canningham) | ! |
| 15:32 | Harperlass | which means I'm likely to have some last minute thing to interrupt it |
| 15:32 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | I'd been planning to shift the schedule to use flexible times, having inadvertently allowed Zen to schedule this at a time we don't have on the schedule motivates my implementing that change. |
| 15:32 | Gronk Seriman will firmly be in RL at that time. Drat. | |
| 15:33 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | I'll ask Zen if he can arrange to have it recorded |
| 15:33 | Ember (emberell) | If any help is needed on that, give me a wave. I keep my chat logs archived for things like that. |
| 15:33 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | I wonder if both sides of the Atlantic will be represented... |
| 15:34 | Katie (katie.canningham) | It's gotta be tough with a global audience! |
| 15:35 | Kiara Foxx (maxinefox2008) | "[This message cannot be displayed in your country.]" |
| 15:36 | Lathed_Lady - Inventory Notecard Giver | Found notecard Virtual Seminar on ChatControl |
| 15:36 | Kiara Foxx (maxinefox2008) | I better use a VPN |
| 15:36 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Okay, the notecard Zen gave to me is now in the figurine next to me |
| 15:37 | lovejoy2199 | Ty |
| 15:37 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Lots of local American medias display that text to potential European visitors. |
| 15:38 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | With that, open for general questions and announcements |
| 15:38 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Still hosting Writers' Meeting, Thursdays 11:00 AM SLT. |
| 15:38 | Katie (katie.canningham) | With lively chatting and welcoming atmosphere! |
| 15:39 | Katie (katie.canningham) chimes in enthusiastically | |
| 15:39 | Harperlass | it is an encouraging meeting |
| 15:39 | Katie (katie.canningham) nods in agreement | |
| 15:40 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Other topics? |
| 15:40 | Harperlass | and a hopeful offset to soul numbing corporate technical writing even just knowing it exists when I can't be there |
| 15:41 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Jorge, since you are here, there have been recent questions about the CATs and the former submarines. |
| 15:41 | Katie (katie.canningham) | there were submarines? |
| 15:41 | Katie (katie.canningham) | wow |
| 15:41 | Katie (katie.canningham) | ! |
| 15:41 | Ember (emberell) | Sadly they have gone subgrid now |
| 15:41 | Harperlass | <takes notes |
| 15:42 | Katie (katie.canningham) sighs | |
| 15:42 | Katie (katie.canningham) | But the CATs are brilliant! |
| 15:42 | Larky (larkylouz) | I'm still working on the notecard about Caledon Transportation. I'll get it out eventually. |
| 15:42 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Do you have copies of the submarines themselves, Jorge? |
| 15:42 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Mini-sub used to go behind the lecture hall |
| 15:43 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | also sometimes through the plaza.... |
| 15:43 | Jorge Serapis | I do,yes. :_) |
| 15:43 | Ember (emberell) | Oh, speaking of, the little transport on Oxbridge proper seems to have gone, too. If that can be replaced :-) |
| 15:43 | Jorge Serapis | .. but considering the border upheavals, they've been out of service for yonks. |
| 15:43 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | I can replace the COLT, Ember |
| 15:44 | Ember (emberell) | that would be quite lovely if possible. It's a lovely little feature |
| 15:44 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Quite possible. |
| 15:45 | Gronk Seriman | Any news on the horse-n-buggies in Oxbridge Village? |
| 15:46 | Jorge Serapis | we had the CATs themselves, submarines, the small ferry from Galileo to SSC and the Mosquitoes were in the works (small 4 seater planes(. |
| 15:46 | Harperlass | as in WW2 Mosquitoes? |
| 15:47 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | You would ask RainyDayRecess about the horse carriages but I have not seen her inworld for a while. |
| 15:47 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | And Jorge just gave me a copy of one of the subs. Getting back to the translations has higher priority, but there's several threads toward making it a background task. |
| 15:47 | Jorge Serapis | We had two seater and 4 seater planes.. mosquitoes and dragonflies. A sample of each is at the Gervasi Scribe Airfield on the north border of Caledon Cay. |
| 15:47 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | she comes in and pays tier. about it |
| 15:47 | Larky (larkylouz) | She was inworld last week. |
| 15:48 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Other topics? |
| 15:49 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | question? |
| 15:49 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Hearing nothing |
| 15:50 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Is anyone using the |
| 15:50 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | high skydiving board above us? |
| 15:50 | lovejoy2199 | I am. |
| 15:50 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | ok then |
| 15:50 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | ty |
| 15:50 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | about it |
| 15:50 | Larky (larkylouz) asks innocently, "Isn't that why Lovejoy attends these meetings????" | |
| 15:51 | lovejoy2199 | That and the music stream. lol |
| 15:51 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | He comes for the music stream also. ;) |
| 15:51 | Larky (larkylouz) | LOL |
| 15:51 | Agatha Asuka Macbeth (agatha.macbeth) | It is good |
| 15:51 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | If nothing else, |
| 15:52 | Larky (larkylouz) | Thank you to Word, Ember, Andrea and all the other staff who keep Oxbridge going. I appreciate your hard work! |
| 15:52 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | we are adjourned |
| 15:52 | Gronk Seriman | I miss the departure cannon. |
| 15:52 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | We appreciate yours as well |
| 15:52 | Larky (larkylouz) | :^) |
| 15:52 | Ember (emberell) | Very much so |
| 15:52 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | well i can put it back |
| 15:52 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | if i can find it |
| 15:52 | Gronk Seriman | It was a blast! |
| 15:52 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | it was |
| 15:52 | Harperlass | I want a LM to the diving board |
| 15:52 | Katie (katie.canningham) grins | |
| 15:53 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | getting the angel right is tough |
| 15:53 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | you can use the teleporter uoutside |
| 15:53 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | to the left of the stairs |
| 15:53 | Katie (katie.canningham) | cool! |
| 15:53 | Agatha Asuka Macbeth (agatha.macbeth) | Angels can be funny things... |
| 15:53 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | oops angles |
| 15:53 | Agatha Asuka Macbeth (agatha.macbeth) | <3 |
| 15:54 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | big flashy looking pad to tp to the platform |
| 15:54 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | byea all |
| 15:54 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | be well |
| 15:54 | Katie (katie.canningham) | Cheers! |
| 15:54 | Harperlass | thank you all |
| 15:54 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Okay, bedtime, them |
| 15:54 | Larky (larkylouz) | Take care, all. |
| 15:54 | Katie (katie.canningham) | G'night Elf! |
| 15:54 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | sleep well |
| 15:54 | Gronk Seriman | Thank you, Deans! |
| 15:54 | lovejoy2199 | Take care, Elf. |
| 15:54 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Hold the fort |
| 15:54 | Soup Jonson | G night! |
| 15:54 | lovejoy2199 | Stay safe. |
| 15:54 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | bye all for now |
| 15:55 | Carinja | Thank you for giving us all the informations. And thank you for your efforts. |
| 15:55 | Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) | badgerofzen gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway. |
| 15:55 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Be seeing you |
| 15:55 | Ember (emberell) | Thank you for your donation, Badger |
| 15:55 | Katie (katie.canningham) | hehe |
| 15:55 | Ember (emberell) | ... |