17 April 2010: 'Family Values' by Sarah Genge

[13:54] Saga Highfield: So, that volcano in Iceland.
[13:54] Fleche Xeno: it blows.
[13:54] Saga Highfield: Hehehe it absolutely does
[13:55] Palen Cale: **giggles**
[13:55] Saga Highfield: Do you think it'll last much longer?
[13:55] Palen Cale: i hope i'm not stepping on anyone
[13:55] Fleche Xeno: no more than a week I think
[13:55] Saga Highfield: I think you did, Palen, but he was made of brass just then
[13:55] Melch Savon: It's a miracle -- I made a Saturday!
[13:55] Saga Highfield: so that's okay
[13:56] Palen Cale: good. I didn't kill him
[13:56] Fleche Xeno: i'm made of sturdy material / is the chat in voice or text?
[13:56] Sora Bluebird: hello
[13:56] Saga Highfield: Hello all
[13:56] Jago Constantine: hey folks
[13:56] Paolo Alfa: hello everyone
[13:56] Felix Fossett: greetings all you recent arrivals
[13:56] Melch Savon: Hi Jago, all
[13:57] Jago Constantine: hey melch :)
[13:57] Melch Savon: I am here. Call it a miracel
[13:57] Melch Savon: :)
[13:58] Felix Fossett: ok, it's a miricle
[13:58] Palen Cale: this is a nice place....I've been meaning to come here for a long time now
[13:59] Jago Constantine: Ok we'll wait a few minutes for people to show up :P / like Eddi :)
[13:59] Sora Bluebird: of course!!
[13:59] Felix Fossett: i'm rather inexperienced with this whole second life thing, i find it difficult to find interesting place
[14:00] Felix Fossett: intersting=nerdy enough for me
[14:00] Fleche Xeno: showcase is the best index
[14:00] Palen Cale: i've been here for two years and I still have a hard time now and then finding things to do
[14:00] Saga Highfield: does any of you have a job in sl?
[14:00] Palen Cale: no
[14:00] Fleche Xeno: I teach marketing. / but thats' about it. :)
[14:00] Saga Highfield: that's a lot
[14:01] Jago Constantine: that box avatar doesn't work well with chairs it seems melch :)
[14:01] Felix Fossett: you can do that?I don't have a job in First Life®, hey a job is a job
[14:01] Jago Constantine: hey paolo, welcome
[14:01] Fleche Xeno: sure you can / might be teachig more calsses soon :)
[14:01] Saga Highfield: that's cool
[14:02] Paolo Alfa: hello, some more people are in the other room
[14:02] Felix Fossett: this would, I assume, require 3d rendering software though, wouldn't it?I mostly only use the Adobe Suite
[14:02] Saga Highfield: Sad, but I don't think I have anything to teach, and other jobs seem sort of inappropriate
[14:02] Jago Constantine: hey, fleche, felix, saga and palen - are you here for the sci fi meeting?
[14:02] Fleche Xeno: I am. :)
[14:02] Felix Fossett: jah jago
[14:02] Palen Cale: yes
[14:02] Saga Highfield: sure
[14:02] Jago Constantine: ok cool ... we usually meet in this next room
[14:03] Saga Highfield: oh okay then
[14:03] Jago Constantine: turn on streaming music as well because we're listening to a story this week
[14:03] Palen Cale: rats, the oven timer just went off - gotta check on the cake. Go ahead and start without me
[14:03] Jago Constantine: ok we'll start soon / hmm the music stream dropped out for me and won't restart / can everyone else here music at the moment? / hear
[14:04] Fleche Xeno: nothing for me
[14:04] Saga Highfield: nope
[14:04] Jago Constantine: Sora is your stream working?
[14:04] Paolo Alfa: no nothing
[14:04] Sora Bluebird: sorry
[14:05] Sora Bluebird: it should start again now
[14:05] Jago Constantine: ah ok now I hear it :)
[14:05] Saga Highfield: oh here it is
[14:05] Jago Constantine: welcome eppie
[14:05] Sebastian Diranovitz: I iz blind!!!
[14:05] Paolo Alfa: yes
[14:05] Jago Constantine: ok as I said in the notice for the meeting / today we're listening to another podcast story / Family Values, by Sarah Genge / from the Escape Pod podcast / if you all hear moonlight sonata then we can begin :)
[14:06] Paolo Alfa: I have to go just before 3, so please don't think me rude
[14:06] Jago Constantine: sure thats ok :)
[14:06] Melch Savon: Hear it
[14:06] Melch Savon: /me wonders if this is still on his iPode ...
[14:06] Palen Cale: oops
[14:07] Jago Constantine: hey palen watch the fire :)
[14:07] Felix Fossett: i may leave at any time, my cable connection is less than perfect
[14:07] Palen Cale: i walk thru fire.....i guess I'm special
[14:07] Jago Constantine: sure felix :) / the story is just beginning on the music stream / apparently a jane austen like story xD / welcome sebastian / you're on a lamp xD / hey eddi
[14:08] Sebastian Diranovitz: I noticed but I am lagging... Sorry... LOL
[14:08] Sebastian Diranovitz: I promise not to ruin the furniture
[14:08] Eddi Haskell: hi
[14:08] Felix Fossett: a lamp lagger
[14:13] Jago Constantine: hey simeon :) / there we go folks ... a short story this week :) / let me know when you finish
[14:18] Palen Cale: what was the author's name?
[14:18] Jago Constantine: Sarah Genge
[14:18] Melch Savon: I am onto Yehle's wrap up
[14:19] Jago Constantine: ok if everyone is in the wrap up we can turn it off maybe
[14:19] Palen Cale: fine with me
[14:19] Saga Highfield: ok with me
[14:19] Simeon Bookmite: yep I missed it all
[14:19] Melch Savon: /me retunes his attennii
[14:19] Paolo Alfa: fine
[14:19] Sebastian Diranovitz: I gotta run guys... Ill talk to you later... :-)
[14:19] Jago Constantine: cya sebastian / :)
[14:19] Saga Highfield: bye
[14:19] Palen Cale: i missed the ending - Sandoval got a double off the Dodgers at just the wrong moment and I got distracted.
[14:19] Felix Fossett: lol
[14:19] Eddi Haskell: bye sebastian
[14:19] Melch Savon: I always find these vignettes of a vaugely recogvizable society interesting.
[14:19] Jago Constantine: Ok ... I should have mentioned the story had sex in it before we began lol / I hope no one was offended :P
[14:20] Eppie Shoreman: I missed the ending also, my mother called :(
[14:20] Melch Savon: Melch has ... spores!
[14:20] Saga Highfield: hehe
[14:20] Palen Cale: anyone who has been on SL for a while can't possibly be offended by a story like this
[14:20] Palen Cale: so this group meets once a week?
[14:20] Jago Constantine: yes we do / every second week we listen to a story
[14:20] Felix Fossett: um, this is my first time, i never got the story
[14:20] Jago Constantine: the rest of the time we discuss what we read / http://media.rawvoice.com/escapepod/media.libsyn.com/media/escapepod/EP168_FamilyValues.mp3
[14:21] Fleche Xeno: when I got make my vingrette, I'm gonna get unreasonably aroused.
[14:21] Jago Constantine: that is the link to the story to download if you like :)
[14:21] Palen Cale: thanks, Jago
[14:21] Jago Constantine: the sex for those creatures was remarkably casual anyway / so it hardly felt prurient to be hearing it described
[14:21] Palen Cale: yeah, what sluts, huh? / **giggles**
[14:21] Fleche Xeno: like SL sex/
[14:21] Felix Fossett: or, 1970s IRL sex
[14:21] Jago Constantine: heh well
[14:21] Fleche Xeno: the descritioon of the sex was very clinical.
[14:21] Melch Savon: We all want those strange wisps of energy
[14:21] Eddi Haskell: So in a way its a planet where sex is based around hand jobs.
[14:22] Melch Savon: "stray"
[14:22] Paolo Alfa: she...showed her bare capillaries...shocking
[14:22] Jago Constantine: lol / that was interesting too / I wondered why they don't have artificial heating :P
[14:22] Melch Savon: The story itself was about social status though, right?
[14:22] Saga Highfield: Yes, but that was based on sex anyway
[14:22] Fleche Xeno: politic, and the powe mechanism in nonpromla groups
[14:22] Melch Savon: Kind of simplified Jane Austen for aliens?
[14:22] Eddi Haskell: I thnk I would be gay on that plaet too, who wants to be squeezed for spores all day?
[14:22] Jago Constantine: lol
[14:22] Saga Highfield: :D
[14:22] Palen Cale: that cracks me up, thinking of Jane austen reading this story. What would she make of it?
[14:22] Melch Savon: don't go there Eddi
[14:23] Paolo Alfa: and politics, politics and sex are the same everywhere
[14:23] Melch Savon: She'd ask "who is Mr. Darby here?"
[14:23] Palen Cale: **giggles**
[14:23] Fleche Xeno: we can hardly expect a story to be written by a human not to contai human related ideas
[14:23] Felix Fossett: what would jane austin think of Pride, Predjudice and Zombies?
[14:23] Saga Highfield: I think she'd be horrified. Spores! How rude!
[14:23] Jago Constantine: I got the impression that the heat exchange was more pleasurable than the sex part
[14:23] Palen Cale: **giggles**
[14:23] Fleche Xeno: I thought the heat exchange was a simple metahpor for resources
[14:23] Melch Savon: Or maybe a shareable afterglow?
[14:23] Jago Constantine: and that the males provided heat to the females
[14:23] Sora Bluebird: i need to go..hugs!
[14:23] Jago Constantine: thanks sora, cya later :)
[14:23] Fleche Xeno: you need heat, so you get it from an exchange of resouces that she held as a status as a gestation host
[14:23] Saga Highfield: bye sora
[14:23] Eddi Haskell: bye sora
[14:24] Jago Constantine: yes it mentioned her high kudos
[14:24] Fleche Xeno: not differnt thatn a matriarchial society / if you add a few spears / it'd amazonian genre
[14:24] Jago Constantine: I guess they didn't need to be very technologically advanced at all / hence no artificial heating / and marine organisms probably can't develop technology anyway
[14:24] Saga Highfield: I wouldn't say they wouldn't need to be advanced in all aspects though
[14:25] Fleche Xeno: I think the aritficial enegy woudl be something you introduce
[14:25] Fleche Xeno: to examine the disruption it can cause in that society
[14:25] Fleche Xeno: like the pill on ours.
[14:25] Saga Highfield: Maybe they don't need heating, but transport? building? computing?
[14:25] Jago Constantine: yeah
[14:25] Fleche Xeno: or fertility treatment
[14:25] Jago Constantine: well ... I didn't see anything that required any of those
[14:25] Fleche Xeno: the story was neat in what it said / power exchange
[14:25] Jago Constantine: they could have been at a greek or roman level socially
[14:25] Fleche Xeno: they you'd have to explain that soceity
[14:25] Jago Constantine: artificial heating would cause a population explosion
[14:25] Fleche Xeno: this was contained in someone's home for a party
[14:25] Jago Constantine: and break down the relationship system / women's need to have a creche of men
[14:26] Fleche Xeno: I'm not sure it's a need
[14:26] Fleche Xeno: but it's how a woman gains politicla power in that society
[14:26] Eddi Haskell: S and M is based around weedkiller
[14:26] Jago Constantine: it was described as a home with rooms, but it could have been a coral reef or something lol
[14:26] Saga Highfield: true
[14:27] Jago Constantine: there was little description of the building or whatever it was
[14:27] Melch Savon: /me waves goodbye as he must away. Great story though!
[14:27] Jago Constantine: thanks melch, cya next week :)
[14:27] Saga Highfield: bye melch :)
[14:27] Fleche Xeno: time for me to get bac to writing ;) / cya all
[14:27] Jago Constantine: cya next week :) / any other thoughts folks?
[14:28] Saga Highfield: I like the idea of Jane Austen listening to this
[14:28] Jago Constantine: hehe
[14:28] Saga Highfield: errm that
[14:28] Palen Cale: she would be bewildered and horrified
[14:28] Jago Constantine: probably
[14:28] Saga Highfield: With all of us in general as well
[14:28] Jago Constantine: lol
[14:28] Palen Cale: Mr. Darcy would turn up his nose at us
[14:29] Saga Highfield: oh well
[14:44] Eddi Haskell: Not with me i WOULD TELL AMUsing little royal anecdotes
[14:44] Palen Cale: **giggles**
[14:44] Felix Fossett: 8 ^ )
[14:44] Palen Cale: men could get away with almost anything back then, as long as it was not in polite society
[14:44] Jago Constantine: yes
[14:45] Eddi Haskell: As the saying goes, do whatever you want in private as long as you don't scare the horses.
[14:45] Saga Highfield: would men be able to get away with as much in the story we just heard?
[14:45] Paolo Alfa: I have to go, see you all next week, thanks
[14:45] Jago Constantine: cya next week paolo :)
[14:45] Saga Highfield: Bye Paolo
[14:45] Jago Constantine: I read a quote somewhere about the victorians
[14:45] Felix Fossett: later paolo
[14:45] Eppie Shoreman: I don't think so.
[14:45] Jago Constantine: that even though they were hypocrites
[14:45] Palen Cale: Not around respectable females
[14:45] Jago Constantine: at least they did know how to behave in public :P
[14:45] Palen Cale: only in the lower depths of society
[14:45] Saga Highfield: unlike us uncivilized lot, huh?
[14:46] Felix Fossett: the 21st Century Savage
[14:46] Jago Constantine: lol yes / I can't believe people who wear hats indoors for instance :P
[14:46] Felix Fossett: oh jago that's my pet peeve / well one of 327 pet peeves
[14:46] Palen Cale: /me giggles as she glances at Eppie
[14:46] Jago Constantine: lol / Oh I should mention too / that http://gardenstreet.org/drabblecastarchive/MP3Warehouse/files/Drabblecast_154.mp3 / is another version of the story / from the drabblecast podcast / I haven't heard it, but it might be worth checking out
[14:47] Simeon Bookmite: never heard of drabblecast
[14:47] Felix Fossett: i tried to click on that, it did nothing for me, do i need to enable something?
[14:47] Jago Constantine: hmm maybe copy and past the link into your web browser / it opens windows media player for me
[14:47] Felix Fossett: i couldn't even highlight it
[14:47] Eppie Shoreman: it didn't work for me either.
[14:48] Felix Fossett: could it be because I'm using a Mac?
[14:48] Jago Constantine: you can't highlight it? / maybe
[14:48] Eppie Shoreman: no, I'm on a pc.
[14:48] Jago Constantine: do a google search for drabblecast family values
[14:48] Felix Fossett: ok thanks
[14:48] Simeon Bookmite: loaded for me
[14:48] Eppie Shoreman: this is the third time today that I haven't been able to get onto a link.
[14:48] Jago Constantine: I actually like drabblecast more than escape pod ... it's weirder and funnier
[14:48] Simeon Bookmite: but the viewer does give me problems with links often / looking forward to a drablecast tale in the future then
[14:49] Jago Constantine: yes I'll pick one for the next podcast meeting :)
[14:49] Simeon Bookmite: steve ely is always so earnest
[14:49] Jago Constantine: heh / before we wind up, would anyone like an invite to the science fiction discussion group?
[14:50] Palen Cale: sure
[14:50] Saga Highfield: yes, please
[14:50] Jago Constantine: ok great :)
[14:50] Saga Highfield: thank you :)
[14:50] Eppie Shoreman: bye everyone
[14:50] Jago Constantine: So next week we'll be talking about books / so think about what you read during the week
[14:51] Saga Highfield: bye eppie!
[14:51] Jago Constantine: bye eppie!
[14:51] Simeon Bookmite: bye / bye every one :^)
[14:51] Eddi Haskell: bye
[14:51] Saga Highfield: have a great week everyone
[14:51] Jago Constantine: cya folks :)
[14:51] Palen Cale: the Giants are ahead 7-0 so it's a great weekend so far / see you all next time