Caledon Oxbridge Deans' Q&A for 2022-07-24
| 14:36 | lovejoy2199 | Greetings Chancellor |
| 14:38 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Greetings, Lovejoy :) |
| 14:38 | lovejoy2199 | brb RL |
| 14:44 | Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) | hiya word! hiya ember! |
| 14:44 | Ember (emberell) | Tora, Word, Lovejoy - hello friends ❤ |
| 14:44 | Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) | howdy friends :-) |
| 14:44 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Hi Ember. |
| 14:44 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome Tora |
| 14:44 | Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) | why thankee |
| 14:45 | KimberlyDworkas | hello |
| 14:46 | Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) | got about halfway through the first of your videos, Word, and then got sideswiped by RL... I'm going back every so often when i have time :-D |
| 14:46 | Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) | hiya kimberly! |
| 14:46 | Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) | howdy lovejoy! |
| 14:47 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Kimberly |
| 14:49 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Okay, with Ember here, the "Deans'" has the apostrophe correctly placed. |
| 14:50 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | The "Risk" one is the last one I did Tora (so far) |
| 14:51 | Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) | Okay, i know i got them out of order, but i figure i'll have the full understanding when i finish :-) |
| 14:51 | Ember (emberell) | I hope I am not late :-) |
| 14:51 | Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) | I was thinking about them today because i was discussing climate change with my mother-in-law |
| 14:52 | Ember (emberell) | Kimberly, welcome |
| 14:52 | KimberlyDworkas | thank you. I crashed |
| 14:52 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Not late at all, Ember. I was just noting the the plural possessive is correct with at least two deans attending. |
| 14:53 | Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) | there he is! hiya elf! |
| 14:53 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Elfbiter :) |
| 14:53 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | :- |
| 14:56 | Ember (emberell) | ) |
| 14:57 | lovejoy2199 | back. Greetings everyone |
| 14:57 | Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) | wb, lovejoy! |
| 14:58 | Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) | hiya chris! |
| 14:58 | lovejoy2199 | Tristan and Isolde *SMILE* |
| 14:58 | Chris (chrismillernhs) | hello |
| 14:58 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Chris |
| 14:59 | Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) | ooh yah, this is nice! forgot. had the stream off. i love the classical music here. |
| 14:59 | Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) | promise i'll turn it off for the meeting :-P |
| 15:00 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | The meeting is in chat, so you could listen, but not zone out (looks at Lovejoy) |
| 15:00 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome Agatha |
| 15:00 | lovejoy2199 | LOL |
| 15:00 | Agatha Macbeth | Hello Word |
| 15:00 | Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) | lol exactly why i promised to turn it off. my brains are all frogged today |
| 15:00 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Hi, Andrea |
| 15:00 | Ember (emberell) | Agatha, andrea, Chris, welcome |
| 15:00 | Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) | hiya andrea! hiya agatha! |
| 15:01 | Agatha Macbeth waves | |
| 15:01 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | The clock has struck three, the others escaping with minor injuries. So time to start |
| 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 | Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) | ((haha!!)) |
| 15:02 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | What might you have for us from Commons today, Ember? |
| 15:03 | Ember (emberell) | This week has been fairly busy for me, as will next week, but I have slowly been working on catching up with campus decor. |
| 15:04 | Ember (emberell) | This week I would like to say also, a warm welcome to a new apprentice tutor, Katie Canningham, who will be learning the ropes on campus for a while as she settles in. Oxbridge is always looking for more help staff- so those interested should always feel free to reach out to me, or other tutors or staff here to learn how to get involved |
| 15:04 | Ember (emberell) | I will be reworking the clues for tutors with the changes to the caledon quest, so expect those, staff, sometime this week hopefully |
| 15:04 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | (Welcome Phrynne) |
| 15:04 | Ember (emberell) | That's all from me this week |
| 15:04 | Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) | *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*Yayyyyyyy!!!!*:-.,_,.-:*'``'* |
| 15:04 | Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) | for Katie!!! lol, speaking of the NEW TUTOR!! |
| 15:05 | Ember (emberell) | :-) |
| 15:05 | Katie (katie.canningham) | Hi! |
| 15:05 | Katie (katie.canningham) | thankee! |
| 15:05 | Katie (katie.canningham) | apprentice - much to learn! |
| 15:05 | Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) | you'll do smashingly, i'm sure! :-D |
| 15:05 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Thank you, Ember, and thank you Katie |
| 15:05 | Ember (emberell) | You're in a good place to learn ❤ |
| 15:05 | Katie (katie.canningham) | many thankees! |
| 15:05 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Andrea? |
| 15:06 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Come and join Dj Sasha and myself at the Lava field this Sunday afternoon from 4 to 6. The theme is fire!, So elementals, small dragons, fire suits, bathing suits, etc, or your imagination works. Hope to see you there! Oh and don't fall in! Landmark attached. Caledon Oxbridge Village (129,220,3903) |
| 15:06 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | all from me |
| 15:07 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Quite the impressive build |
| 15:07 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | sasha added to it |
| 15:07 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Even a bit "grating" |
| 15:08 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | I assume damage is not enabled :-) |
| 15:08 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | no it is not |
| 15:09 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | The top two plots on the wall behind me are current to today. |
| 15:10 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Showing class attendance and the avatar age histogram for classes in the top panel. |
| 15:10 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | The visitor statistics in the middle panel |
| 15:11 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | We've got a correct entry in the destination guide, which seems to be starting to have an affect |
| 15:12 | Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) | w00t!! |
| 15:13 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Badass Fae, while generally not inworld, is working on place pages and has created Oxbridge Twitter and Facebook pages. |
| 15:13 | Katie (katie.canningham) | nice! |
| 15:13 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | So, multiple efforts working to get more traffic to us. |
| 15:14 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | I paid tier for the current quarter on 6 July. We are financially in very good shape. |
| 15:15 | Katie (katie.canningham) | ~*~ Farrrrrrrrrrrr Out MAnnnnnnnn!!!! ~*~ |
| 15:15 | Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) | well hot dog!! |
| 15:15 | Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) | *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*Yayyyyyyy!!!!*:-.,_,.-:*'``'* |
| 15:15 | Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) | again |
| 15:15 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Thanks to Andrea's efforts and collaborations. |
| 15:15 | Katie (katie.canningham) | ~*~ HUZZAH!!! ~*~ |
| 15:15 | Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) | nice work, mz andrea!! |
| 15:16 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) unfurls some flags to wave but realizes that sarsaparilla poles have been gnawed by gremlins. | |
| 15:16 | lovejoy2199 | LOL |
| 15:16 | Katie (katie.canningham) | darn those gremlins! |
| 15:16 | Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) | ((told ya we needed traps!)) |
| 15:16 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | The statistics on our website are current to date also: http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/statistics/index.php |
| 15:18 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | I'm back from a conference 10-16 July without another one until late September, so should be able to concentrate on some other updates for a while. |
| 15:18 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | thank you for your work |
| 15:19 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | And that's pretty much it for me, open to general questions, announcements, comments, and comas. |
| 15:19 | Katie (katie.canningham) | comas? |
| 15:19 | Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) | perhaps we could address the current gremlin problem on campus?? |
| 15:20 | Ember (emberell) | If there's an issue on campus, do let me know, I can sort it. The gremlins are there to help :-) |
| 15:20 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Still hosting tthe Writers' Meeting |
| 15:20 | Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) | ooohhh... |
| 15:20 | Katie (katie.canningham) | ford gremlins? |
| 15:20 | Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) | once we teach them to write, yes ma'am!! |
| 15:20 | Katie (katie.canningham) giggles | |
| 15:21 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Maybe we should recruit some _nilmergs_ :-) |
| 15:21 | Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) | lmao!! later on i'll ask you what those are, mr finland |
| 15:22 | Ember (emberell) | (read it backwards, Tora) |
| 15:22 | Chris (chrismillernhs) | https://glorantha.fandom.com/wiki/Nilmerg |
| 15:22 | Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) | oh gadZOOKS!!!! |
| 15:22 | Chris (chrismillernhs) groans | |
| 15:22 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | The are beings known to those in Scandinavia who look exactly like human women .... except for their tails. |
| 15:22 | Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) | hahaha!! dang brain frogs!! it's ALWAYS their fault!! |
| 15:23 | Katie (katie.canningham) | you can see them in the mirror of erised |
| 15:23 | Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) | HAHAHA!!!! |
| 15:23 | Ember (emberell) looks at her tail... | |
| 15:23 | Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) | i love you guys. don't ever change 'n stuff!! |
| 15:23 | Katie (katie.canningham) | :) |
| 15:25 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | All forms are impermanent :-) |
| 15:25 | Agatha Macbeth | But some are more impermanent than others |
| 15:25 | Katie (katie.canningham) | but our hearts remain the same |
| 15:26 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | I always view Oxbridge as kind of being like a spaceport. You never know who will arrive. As long as it's general rated. And with a priority on teaching and learning, not on role-play. |
| 15:26 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Other topics? |
| 15:27 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | (and the "comas" was a carry over from when I was teaching mesh class) |
| 15:27 | Ember (emberell) | Questions, on Oxbridge, Caledon, Second Life, or otherwise... as long as they are generally appropriate, are welcome |
| 15:27 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | And, yeah, we already know the 42.... |
| 15:28 | Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) | dangit!! i was just gonna mention i knew the answer to life, the universe and everything already |
| 15:28 | Katie (katie.canningham) | hehe |
| 15:29 | Katie (katie.canningham) hands Tora a towel to keep with her, just in case | |
| 15:29 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | slips off quietly . enjoy the meeting |
| 15:29 | Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) | THANKEE!!! forgot mine. yes, i know... |
| 15:29 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | tc Andrea. |
| 15:29 | Katie (katie.canningham) | see you! |
| 15:29 | Ember (emberell) pulls her chair back down | |
| 15:29 | Ember (emberell) | Not yet, chair. |
| 15:30 | Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) | yah i have to boogie as well. i'll see you guys tonight, most of you! take care till then :-D |
| 15:30 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | She's off to the fundraiser venue |
| 15:30 | Ember (emberell) | Be well, Tora! |
| 15:30 | Katie (katie.canningham) | cheers! |
| 15:30 | Ember (emberell) | All are welcome to come dance with us there, by the by. It'll be a blast |
| 15:30 | Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) | waves and poofs!! |
| 15:30 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Andy other topics? |
| 15:31 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Hearing nothing, we are ..... |
| 15:31 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | adjourned. |
| 15:31 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | sometimes people may not know enough to formulate a question |
| 15:32 | Katie (katie.canningham) | yay! |
| 15:32 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Thanks you for coming and participating. |
| 15:32 | Ember (emberell) | It is why we do invite curiosities, too |
| 15:32 | Ember (emberell) | IF it is a rough question, it is stil welcome ❤ |
| 15:32 | Ember (emberell) | Take care, friends. |
| 15:32 | Katie (katie.canningham) | you too! |
| 15:32 | Katie (katie.canningham) | see you!! |
| 15:32 | Katie (katie.canningham) | TC all! |
| 15:32 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Okay, I better try to get some sleep before my forehead smashes the keyboard |
| 15:32 | Katie (katie.canningham) poofs to hear the second half of Snoots' set at Wootstock | |
| 15:32 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | (and my typing gets even worse) |
| 15:33 | lovejoy2199 | Take care, Elf. And, stay safe. |
| 15:33 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Hold the fort. |
| 15:33 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Be seeing you |