Here's what I learned last night at the let's-all-talk-at-once-free-for-all known as the hubskidrinkclub (newly renamed by Thundara as Hot Singles ^W^W):
1. I don't know what ^W^W means and could not find it on a list of emoticons. A chemical list called it a unit of concentration. We were units, true, but it was somewhat hard to concentrate.
2. It seems that _refugee_ is dating Pope Francis. The consensus seemed to be that she should break up.
3. It is somewhat possible to have several concurrent conversations on IRC simultaneously. Although sometimes it's unclear which conversation is which (see #2 above).
4. We demanded that demure type with his left hand only. We all applauded with our left hand only.
5. kleinbl00 gets a badger for the funniest laugh-out-loud line of the evening.
6. refugee managed to submit three poems to journals during the IRC and gets a badger for most effective multi-tasking during an IRC.
7. insomniasexx is back from Thailand and is leaving for Costa Rico. She gets a badger for most IRCing while waiting for a plane.
8. Everyone at the IRC was naked, so the question, "What are you wearing?" never came up. Do you believe that someone asked me that while playing facebook scrabble? JEEZ
Now please, what did you learn? I'd shout-out everyone, but it's too early for shouting.
I wasn't counting but it looked like up to 20 people stopped by at one time or another.
I learned that I am easily mistaken for bfv in the IRC and that thenewgreen is sponsoring a Paris meet-up.
...TLAs? Google's not giving me a good answer.
I learned that I should stay up to join the IRC But I have free healthcare so I shouldn't complain.
Maybe a Sunday afternoon IRC would be a good time for all. 10PM in GMT+2 is noon in LA and 3PM in NYC. edit: and don't forget about Complexity and other Euro-hubbers!
I am dating the pope because this one's better than the last, but the consensus seems to be that that ain't sayin' much. Yes I managed to actually do things while IRCing, I am surprised I managed so well, but I did. I was genuinely trying to talk about our proposed topics! I had a very fun time with you all. lil you seem particularly upbeat and energetic, I hope it is because everything is great with you and your life is jubilant and it's just leaking off into the screen.
While it may seem, at first glance, that teachers give papers as "busywork" - at the end of the year, at the end of degree or high school certificate or whatever, the thing you'll remember is what you researched for your own papers even 100 years after high school is over. (Note shameless plug, or I should say plog - a blog-plug)
To be honest I'm at the point with submissions where the less I care/agonize about each one, the better, and it also all feels soulless and vaguely like begging for gods to come down and kick me in the ribcage, so it's better if I am doing something fun at the same time, even if it takes me more time to send out a submission. So I wasn't editing at all, I was skimming magazines and trying to figure out which poems might fit where best, but beyond that it was a lot of copy/pasting and reiterating my same general cover letter when necessary. If I was editing I don't think I would have been nearly so conversant. I also stayed pretty focused on just the back and forth between lil and me so that probably was part of it. I just hate submissions and need to do more of them anyway. shrug
@1. ^W == ctrl-W == delete-last-word on terminals. Old geek joke. There's also ^H for delete-last-character (i.e. b^Hromance). I learned that if you say too many positive things about someone, it is possible to be misconstrued as mocking >_< Nevertheless, stay awesome, lil.
At the risk of over-explaining the joke, a common misconfiguration on old dumb terminals would result in the ^W/^H not actually deleting the previous word/character, but rather inserting literal ^W/^H characters. The terminal itself would interpret them correctly, so it would appear to the user that they had deleted what they meant to delete. This had amusing results when people thought of a more tactful way to phrase something in an email.
Yeah, I felt like I pretty much just jumped into the IRC, but you guys all do a good job of making a guy feel welcome :) Also, pretty sure I have to mail Starship Troopers to Dendrophobe now. (P.S., how do you tag someone's name in a comment?)
No need to make it clear. We don't care if you are m, f, or in between. Part of the fun is making no gender assumptions or getting them wrong. Of course some people want to be known and that's fine too, especially if you are showing up at a hot singles event. Edit I would be impressed if you were royalty though.
I am quite fashinated by the whole "Showing gender in a username" thing. I have been mistaken for a guy many times using this username. "Fun" story involving this username - My G-mail adress is the same as my username and I once had to quickly email a school assignment to a teacher. I used my personal mail because using the school one would involve hours of bullshit. The teacher was the kind of guy who had backpacked a lot and thought stories about that was an accebtable substitute for teaching. He also knew way less than he thought he did. He had mistaken badger for beaver in american slang terms. He thought this was hilarious and that I was some kind of internet escort. I lectured him on the importance and symbolism of badgers in Wisconsin. But without the "girl" at the end it wouldn't have sounded so weird.
No, he faced me about it the cafetery in front of anyone. With eyebrows. Like it was "our secret". It was mostly insinuation. One girl complimented me on what I said back to him later.
My Dad mapped out all my family's genealogy a few years back (or at least as far as he could), and I actually am a distant relative to the O'Donnell Dynasty in Ireland...What I'm saying is, we can all pretend I'm royalty if it makes you happy! I don't care either, but I try not to make assumptions about someone's gender (even though I do it subconsciously...trying to get better at that), so sometimes it is good to know how they identify :)
I was on IRC the first week on hubski - everyone was super helpful.
Hey, welcome! I didn't even realize you were new, I figured i hadn't seen you before or something. I hope I can balance the helicopter as well as the checkbook:D
Hey, welcome! I didn't even realize you were new, I figured i hadn't seen you before or something. I hope I can balance the helicopter as well as the checkbook:D
I learned that IRC is really not conducive to relaxation. I tried to meditate just after our chat, and it did not go well. I think the breakneck pace and general disorder of the chat got me into a super unfocused mindset. I always love catching up with you guys, though
I learned that I'm terrible at conversation and really good at lurking (already knew that, actually), that you guys all have really interesting things to say (I think I already knew that one too), and that next time I should stay up later and actually try to participate.
Surprise -- I actually don't canoe much at all...My username is from an old story that we tell at my camp about the ghost of an indian princess paddling a birch bark canoe. I had had a very bizarre dream about this tale the night before I created my account. I will say, however, that my experiences in canoes have been positive ones. But generally, I'm more of a hiking type than a paddling type. Was that way too much information? I tend to do that.... and maybe I'll give spring a try :)Do you have anything to say about paddling?