3 April 2010: 'Eight Episodes' by Robert Reed

[13:51] Jago Constantine: hi, kara :) / hey babe!
[13:55] Eddi Haskell: hi!
[13:55] Eddi Haskell: still rezzing
[13:55] Jago Constantine: ok / Hi, Eppie, welcome :)
[13:59] Eddi Haskell: hi eppie
[13:59] Jago Constantine: Welcome Neal! / Hey Paolo!
[14:00] Neal Herriat: hi Jago
[14:00] Paolo Alfa: hello Jago, everyone
[14:00] Neal Herriat: relogging
[14:01] Eddi Haskell: sl has been hard today
[14:01] Eddi Haskell: many people have to relog
[14:02] Jago Constantine: ok so if you have your music streams on you should hear some piano music at the moment / if you can all hear it, I'll start the story :)
[14:02] Neal Herriat: /me nods
[14:03] Jago Constantine: Eddi? / Paolo? / Eppie?
[14:03] Paolo Alfa: yea
[14:03] Eppie Shoreman: I can't hear you.
[14:03] Paolo Alfa: moonlight sonata
[14:04] Neal Herriat: very nice
[14:04] Eppie Shoreman: oh is the music still on? okay
[14:04] Jago Constantine: yes / ok I'll start the playback :) / As usual, we're listening to an episode of the Escape Pod Podcast / it should begin soon :P
[14:05] Eddi Haskell: yes jago?
[14:05] Jago Constantine: Can you hear the music stream?
[14:05] Eddi Haskell: yes
[14:08] Jago Constantine: he's one of my favourite writers too :) / lol / Hi, Pookrucker, we're listening to a story on the music stream
[14:13] Pookrucker Guyot: oh cool im just exploring
[14:13] Neal Herriat: excuse rl
[14:13] Jago Constantine: ok / hey rhiannon! / the story has already begun
[14:15] Rhiannon Dragoone: hi Jago!
[14:16] Rhiannon Dragoone: awww. I was afraid of that
[14:16] Rhiannon Dragoone: and my bandwidth won't support sound
[14:16] Jago Constantine: http://media.rawvoice.com/escapepod/media.libsyn.com/media/escapepod/EP107_EightEpisodes.mp3 / you can download it there / :)
[14:16] Rhiannon Dragoone: i tried to IM you, but ur not on my friends list for some reason
[14:17] Rhiannon Dragoone: ok, i'll download it
[14:17] Jago Constantine: oh sorry I might have cleaned you out without thinking ... I go through my list regularly
[14:18] Rhiannon Dragoone: yeah, and i've not been able to come to your meetings
[14:18] Rhiannon Dragoone: but that should change
[14:18] Rhiannon Dragoone: :)
[14:18] Jago Constantine: cool
[14:19] Rhiannon Dragoone: web browser is not opening; can't be in sl and download it
[14:19] Jago Constantine: aw ok
[14:19] Rhiannon Dragoone: i'll copy and paste the link and listen to it later.
[14:19] Rhiannon Dragoone: thanks
[14:21] Jago Constantine: hi, roxette ... we're listening to a story on the audio channel
[14:21] Rhiannon Dragoone: i'll be here next week
[14:21] Rhiannon Dragoone: enjoy
[14:21] Roxette Zane: hi, what book is this
[14:22] Jago Constantine: its a story called eight episodes, by robert reed
[14:22] Roxette Zane: thank you
[14:23] Jago Constantine: hi, mir... we're listening to a story on the audio channel
[14:24] Mir Nirvana: hi, trying to connect
[14:33] Jago Constantine: cool story :) / is everyone finished?
[14:34] Eddi Haskell: yes i did!
[14:34] Eddi Haskell: i liked it
[14:34] Jago Constantine: There wasn't much of a plot to it ... it was basically a description of the show wasn't it
[14:35] Eddi Haskell: it did not have a deeper meaning?
[14:35] Eddi Haskell: i was looking for a deeper meaning
[14:35] Jago Constantine: well it was about the concepts I think
[14:35] Eddi Haskell: like the ultiate redemption of tory spelling
[14:35] Paolo Alfa: a story within a story
[14:35] Jago Constantine: I like the way that the show was described
[14:35] Eddi Haskell: so all the story was
[14:36] Eddi Haskell: was a description of a show then
[14:36] Jago Constantine: as being slightly awkward ... like the creators weren't totally familiar with human media / yes lol
[14:36] Eddi Haskell: yes
[14:36] Eddi Haskell: now it makes snese
[14:36] Eddi Haskell: sense
[14:37] Jago Constantine: and the last line about wet breathing and songs / was the most telling .... / that it was an alien writing it lol
[14:37] Eddi Haskell: the deeper meaning to me was when they were talking about the alien civilization ejecting trillions of pods
[14:37] Jago Constantine: yeah?
[14:37] Eddi Haskell: i thought that was interesting
[14:37] Eddi Haskell: yeah
[14:37] Eddi Haskell: never quite thought of aliens
[14:38] Eddi Haskell: trying to populate the universe virally
[14:38] Jago Constantine: oh yeah
[14:38] Eddi Haskell: but im reading too much into it it is just an interesting thought
[14:38] Jago Constantine: there's a lot of sci fi with machine probes
[14:38] Eddi Haskell: we tend to think that life forms will visit each other in starships
[14:38] Eddi Haskell: deliberately
[14:38] Eddi Haskell: but why not just eject trillions of genomes
[14:39] Jago Constantine: yes ... well I don't think that so I liked this story
[14:39] Eddi Haskell: in hopes that they will take
[14:39] Eddi Haskell: i always read too much into these things lol
[14:39] Jago Constantine: that is called panspermia / the idea that life can spread from planet to planet / either naturally or artificially
[14:40] Eppie Shoreman: take care every one
[14:40] Jago Constantine: you too eppie!
[14:40] Eddi Haskell: im gonna make an avatar alt today with the name panspermia
[14:40] Jago Constantine: I think an alien probe would probably be so advanced that it could make a show that would seem very well made to us lol
[14:41] Eddi Haskell: yes really involving holography
[14:41] Eddi Haskell: time travel
[14:41] Eddi Haskell: glimpses of cosmic events
[14:41] Jago Constantine: unless the amateurish nature of the show was part of the clues it was giving
[14:41] Eddi Haskell: yes
[14:41] Eddi Haskell: well
[14:41] Eddi Haskell: with any new miedium once it is introduced
[14:41] Eddi Haskell: the intiial failures occur
[14:42] Eddi Haskell: when they mimic the media they are supposed to repleace
[14:42] Eddi Haskell: an alien trying to broadcast in media
[14:42] Eddi Haskell: might see the first broadcasts on televsion
[14:42] Eddi Haskell: the 36 nazi olympics
[14:42] Eddi Haskell: and think that is what the earth is like
[14:42] Jago Constantine: yeah / thats from the novel Contact by Carl Sagan
[14:43] Eddi Haskell: instead of rozeanne barr we have leni riefesnstahl
[14:43] Jago Constantine: the first message from aliens
[14:43] Eddi Haskell: yeah?
[14:43] Jago Constantine: is a picture of hitler
[14:43] Eddi Haskell: oh thats right
[14:43] Jago Constantine: lol
[14:43] Eddi Haskell: they were the first to broadcast!
[14:44] Eddi Haskell: all these short stories hint at more context
[14:44] Eddi Haskell: i wonder how many short stories are written
[14:44] Eddi Haskell: with the thoughts of turning them into novels
[14:45] Eddi Haskell: this one seems like it would make a great novel
[14:45] Jago Constantine: I wonder / maybe some are written as proposals for publishers / someone could make a machinima of this story in second life / hehe
[14:46] Eddi Haskell: if you did it it wuold get 200,000 hits
[14:46] Eddi Haskell: you have a knack
[14:46] Polygnotos Azemus: u r the book lovers?
[14:47] Jago Constantine: yes, hi, polygnotos
[14:47] Eddi Haskell: im the easter bunny
[14:47] Jago Constantine: we just finished listening to a story
[14:47] Polygnotos Azemus: hi nice to be here
[14:47] Jago Constantine: we have the science fiction meeting every saturday at 2pm / second life time
[14:48] Polygnotos Azemus: just sf?
[14:48] Polygnotos Azemus: no Tolstoi? lol
[14:48] Jago Constantine: I am only the sf guy / if you join the bookstacks group / you will get notices about other genres
[14:49] Polygnotos Azemus: ok! i only know a.c Clark
[14:49] Jago Constantine: cool :)
[14:49] Polygnotos Azemus: wow, beautiful place
[14:49] Jago Constantine: its very friendly looking / ok folks ... next week's meeting we will have a discussion about what we've been reading
[14:50] Polygnotos Azemus: it's really a nice interior to talk about books
[14:50] Polygnotos Azemus: i am impressed
[14:50] Polygnotos Azemus: may i sit down?
[14:50] Jago Constantine: it's a nice pub hehe / sure! / we're just winding up the meeting though
[14:50] Polygnotos Azemus: oh...
[14:50] Jago Constantine: I'm in Australia so I am going to have breakfast
[14:51] Polygnotos Azemus: oops australia
[14:51] Polygnotos Azemus: other side of the world
[14:51] Jago Constantine: yes hehe / I think the next event here is poetry tomorrow at 11am second life time
[14:51] Polygnotos Azemus: wow i like poetry
[14:52] Polygnotos Azemus: reiner maria rilke...
[14:52] Jago Constantine: cool!
[14:52] Polygnotos Azemus: german romantic love poetry\
[14:53] Jago Constantine: cya next week Paolo!
[14:53] Paolo Alfa: nice meeting, really good story, thank you for having it
[14:53] Polygnotos Azemus: u got to be a member of this group?
[14:53] Jago Constantine: if you want to learn more about sci fi, come along next saturday at 2pm Polygnotos :) / you don't have to be / but you will get notices if you are
[14:54] Polygnotos Azemus: ok! ty
[14:54] Eddi Haskell: happy easter Oly
[14:54] Eddi Haskell: poly
[14:54] Polygnotos Azemus: ty!
[14:54] Eddi Haskell: is it cool to call you polly?
[14:54] Polygnotos Azemus: bye sorry i am too late
[14:54] Jago Constantine: thats ok! / bye!