we had a great chat last nite!

[janice]

Ok, Bob, you had a great idea.  All interested persons should take a look at the time at the top of the page.  Calculate how many hours + or - of a difference there is between the clock here and the time that it is where you live.

Ok, everybody let's meet at 3 am on Saturday the 19th.  But don't fret, because I mean 3 am on the Piano Forum clock (at top of page). So, right now, calculate the time difference to your own time zone.  Now, add or subtract that number from 3 am on Saturday the 19th.  That's what time we are meeting.  Maybe we should have another one for 12 hours later, so that Bernie and the other Europeans can join in.  How's this?  Feedback, please!

[donjuan]

3 am forum time! You mean 10:00 Eastern/ 8:00 Mountain...the same time as last Friday, right?
But, I dont know what you mean by "Saturday the 19th"Today is the 24th.  Dont you mean the 25th?
donjuan

[janice]

DUH on me!!  LOL--I have no idea why I said that!  Yes, I mean tomorrow (Friday) nite at 10 Eastern, 9 Central, etc etc.  Same as last week.  Because we are all too confused to set a different time!  LOL  So I guess that we are "stuck" with this!  I would like to ask a question (I believe that this is the 3rd, possibly the 4th time--LOL--but who's counting, right?!) but who was it that changed the name of the room?  Whoever it was--please send me a private message explaining how you did that.  I need to know, because I want to try something, and if it works, it will eliminate the mass confusion that was caused by my being booted.

If you were NOT at the last chat, then I need for you to send me your AIM screen name, or else you are going to be sitting there twiddling your thumbs while wondering when on earth you will be invited into the room.  You won't be, unless I have it.  Send via private message here at the forum.  Log in at 10 Eastern time, and just hang tight until you see an invitation.

 T'will be a blast!!!

[willcowskitz]

Well nerd, I think people's inability or lack of will to learn anything new is more annoying than your desperate attempts to promote an objectively better protocol for chatting.  AIM is for yanks, IRC is for Finnish losers having their lame antisocial clubs behind the back of the God.  To correct something about the commercialism misunderstanding here;  IRC is free and in itself non-beneficial activity, whereas AIM indirectly supports a megacorporation.  But blindness only affects inside one's field of vision.

[Saturn]

Well nerd, I think people's inability or lack of will to learn anything new is more annoying than your desperate attempts to promote an objectively better protocol for chatting.  AIM is for yanks, IRC is for Finnish losers having their lame antisocial clubs behind the back of the God.  To correct something about the commercialism misunderstanding here;  IRC is free and in itself non-beneficial activity, whereas AIM indirectly supports a megacorporation.  But blindness only affects inside one's field of vision.

Such strong statements!  I agree with all of them, but most people probably won't care whether they're supporting a megacorporation or not.  I use AIM all the time regardless of this.  Also, back when the stockmarket was good, I made lots of $$$ off of AOL, so it's all good.

In any case, Janice, AIM would be fine for this chat.  I should be able to make it this time.  But in the future, if these chats will be occurring regularly, then it would be good to have a more permanent (and reliable) medium.  The IRC idea proposed by nerd is a good one.

- Saturn

[donjuan]

Something weird happened during the chat when I was there..I kept getting this message that there was a problem with the IP address of another member, and my AIM connection terminated.  I couldnt log on. My computer went mad and the internet stopped working.  geez, I hope it doesnt happen again..
donjuan

[janice]

Sorry to hear that, donjuan  I've been meaning to write a post and ask where people were.  There were 5 of us, but nobody was there that was there the week before (except for donjuan).  We had a good time--sorry you missed it!  Me, I'm not in the mood to deal with IRC--too much work.  If you guys want to set it up, go ahead.  Just let me know if you did and how to do it.  Actually, I see nothing wrong with an AIM room. I kinda like it

btw--someone asked me for someone else's screen name.  I wouldn't give it out.  I just don't do that because I feel it is an invansion of that persons privacy.  I'm really into respecting a person's confidentiality.  That person completely understood where I was coming from.  So.....if you don't mind someone else contacting you via AIM, please make sure that it is in your profile.

Nils, so when are you gonna join us?

[Saturn]

Sorry to hear that, donjuan  I've been meaning to write a post and ask where people were.

I meant to be there, but completely forgot about it.

I'm too young to be forgetting things, damn it!

- Saturn

[nerd]

Me, I'm not in the mood to deal with IRC--too much work.  If you guys want to set it up, go ahead.

Once more

Have you tried it? It's probably less work than creating an AIM account and downloading and setting up AIM software (because you don't have to create the account). The room/channel is ready and I started another thread where I described three ways to connect step-by-step.

The thread is here:
https://www.pianoforum.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=misc;action=display;num=1088092593

Right after creating the room I found out that chopinfiles has it's own IRC room which is more or less alive (has some chatters). You might want to try that, too. The room is located at:
- server: irc.internetnu.net, port: 6667
- channel: chopinfiles

[Shagdac]

Janice,

Sorry to have missed it! I was called into work that evening as the other person and called out sick. I didn't forget, just wasn't home. Will there be another one next Friday at the same time? Please let us know.

Thanks....Hope to make it next time!
S

(Hope your chili turned out good!)

[janice]

(Hope your chili turned out good!)

What on earth?  When and where did I say anything about making chili?  ROFL  That is WAY too hilarious!!!  PLEASE PLEASE  write back and explain, because I can't sleep tonite until I hear about THIS!!  I haven't made chili in ages!  Hey, I'm kinda hungry now.  Maybe I will make a batch and tell you how it turned out, since you asked!  ROFL

[janice]

     Recipe for Chili

Brown 2 lbs. of ground beef in a skillet, with a large chopped up onion along with 1 tsp. minced garlic and 1 Tbsp. chili powder (I use 2 Tbsp)

Add 2    29ounce cans of Brooks chili beans and a large can of tomato juice.

Simmer for at least 30-45 minutes

Stir once in awhile (whenever you feel like it!  lol)

[donjuan]

hmmm... this change in topic is...spontaneous.
Janice, your recipe for chili isnt bad, but it would need celery and lots of kernel corn to really start to cook!
donjuan

[janice]

Yup, it was a spontaneous idea that I had to post a recipe for chili!  I did it as a joke because Shagdac asked me how my chili turned out, I thought "Huh? I never said a word about chili!!!!" So I went in the kitchen and grabbed the first chili recipe I could find! LOL

[Bob]

I like chili!p    

[Shagdac]

Janice......

Don't you remember??? It must have been on 6/23 or 6/24 or one day before the chat....I was online at home doing something and you instant messaged me letting me know about the chat Friday night. We went back and forth very briefly, as you said that you had to get off and eat your chili! I'm serious...don't you remember now? Guess it must have been around dinner time....I signed off, and told you hope your chili turns out good. Maybe you don't remember as my user name for my home computer is different. But you came on and asked if I was Susan.

Hope this jolts your memory.....either way, looks like I have a new chili recipe! Hahahahaha!

[bitus]

sorry i couldn't make it... i'm in Europe, and 9 pm Central Time is 5am in Romania... not good.
We should have sessions in the morning US Time, so that all people around the world could come in. For example, if you have it at 8am Pacific Time, then you can have people from all America and Europe, but if you have it at night in USA, then all people in Europe are asleep...
I know it would be harder, but school is out, and most of us don't work in the morning... and it would get more people together (hope...)
Feedback?!
Bitus.

[janice]

. We went back and forth very briefly, as you said that you had to get off and eat your chili! I'm serious...don't you remember now? Guess it must have been around dinner time ...

Ok, it sort of rings a bell now.  LOL  I picked it up from the deli, though, and it was getting cold.  Haven't made it in awhile.   But I was left scratching my head, thinking "what on earth...? ? ? ?"  LOL    

[janice]

sorry i couldn't make it... i'm in Europe, and 9 pm Central Time is 5am in Romania... not good.
We should have sessions in the morning US Time, so that all people around the world could come in. For example, if you have it at 8am Pacific Time, then you can have people from all America and Europe, but if you have it at night in USA, then all people in Europe are asleep...
I know it would be harder, but school is out, and most of us don't work in the morning... and it would get more people together (hope...)
Feedback?!
Bitus.

Yes, that does help!  Most of us don't crawl out of bed before noon--lol.  I've kind of gathered that from talking to most folks from the US!  (You lazy bums--lol.  Just kidding.  I'm not a morning person, either!)  So if we had it on Saturday, noon, central time, that would be 9pm for you, right?  How does that sound?  Feedback!!  Hey Bernie, what time would that be in England?  We are dying to talk to you!!  But you would need to download AIM. (If someone insists on using something else other than AIM, then you will have to convince everyone else.  Personally, I think AIM is great--we can create our own chatroom,it works as a permanent sort of thing, etc.)  I know that whatever time we pick will be bad for at least one or two people, but I'm trying to get a time that is convenient for the majority of Americans and Europeans at the same time.  Personally, I won't be able to stay much longer than an hour if we start at noon on Saturday (US, central time).

Feedback?

[Spatula]

OH SH!T SORRY I FORGOT!!! OH NO AND I'm the one who suggested the time...from now on I shut up about telling the time etc...Janice you do it!!!  

[janice]

Yes, that does help!  Most of us don't crawl out of bed before noon--lol.  I've kind of gathered that from talking to most folks from the US!  (You lazy bums--lol.  Just kidding.  I'm not a morning person, either!)  So if we had it on Saturday, noon, central time, that would be 9pm for you, right?  How does that sound?  Feedback!!  Hey Bernie, what time would that be in England?  We are dying to talk to you!!  But you would need to download AIM. (If someone insists on using something else other than AIM, then you will have to convince everyone else.  Personally, I think AIM is great--we can create our own chatroom,it works as a permanent sort of thing, etc.)  I know that whatever time we pick will be bad for at least one or two people, but I'm trying to get a time that is convenient for the majority of Americans and Europeans at the same time.  Personally, I won't be able to stay much longer than an hour if we start at noon on Saturday (US, central time).

Feedback?

Nobody has said anything!!  Again, feedback please!!  Tash, I am soooo sorry that I forgot to ask you if that time would work for you, cuz u were at the previous chats!  Maybe we should try and get some others involved.  Bitus expressed a desire to chat.  Bernie, what about u?  I know that you don't have AIM, but u can download it in 2 minutes!

[bitus]

Saturday is fine for me... noon Central Time?
Also, people who don't want adds from AOL, can go on the Aim.com, and select the AIM Express option, which is a online thing, and you don't download anything, and get the same features.
Bitus

[donjuan]

Sadly, I wont be able to make it- I have a piano lesson right at that time.

[janice]

Saturday is fine for me... noon Central Time?
Also, people who don't want adds from AOL, can go on the Aim.com, and select the AIM Express option, which is a online thing, and you don't download anything, and get the same features.
Bitus

How about if we just stick with AIM rather than AIM express?  In my case, I don't think that I should download anything else on my puter--I already have alot of stuff.  Also, most people here already have AIM.

**It doesn't seem like anybody is coming, except for Bitus and myself.  But there is 3 more days, still.  Tash, what about you?  Bernhard?

[Tash]

woah what's central time? oh that's 9pm for you janice right? if i'm getting this right... aghh yeah so that's then 11am for me that is fine, better than 12 cos i have  a driving lesson then. ok i'll be there!

[bitus]

AIM Express is an online thing... you don't have to download anything... that's the point
Bitus

[janice]

Tash, I think that we are all ultra confused here, so why don't you try to get ahold of me on AIM, ok?  You're on my buddy list.  Since we are way too confused, it would be better if we "talked" over AIM than trying to figure things out here.

***Bernhard, why haven't you answered me???  LOL  We've been trying to get a time where you can come.

[Peachy_Keen]

Janice asked me to clear things up a little bit on AIM and AIM Express...

The two are essentially the same program, they have the same core features and capabilities. The difference is that AIM is a program you download and run off your computer, and AIM Express is a script you can find on www.aim.com. You don't need to have any programs installed on your computer to run AIM Express, so if you're at work, a library, public computer, whatever, and you would like to chat, you can run it straight out of internet explorer.

I prefer using AIM when I can, it's more convenient if it's on the computer, and has more powerful features. AIM Express is just a matter of convenience.

[janice]

ROFL@"Member of the Bernhard fan club" !  That is tooo cute!!  (pssst--We don't want Bernie to get a big head!!)

[willcowskitz]

Bernhard is too 31337 for AIM.

[f0bul0us]

Bernhard is too 31337 for AIM.

/\/0   L337   t4L/<    |-|3/2E   P1e4s3

[janice]

/\/0   L337   t4L/<    |-|3/2E   P1e4s3

huh?

[nerd]

huh?

"No leet talk here please." It's some stupid style the wannabe-nerds use...

[Tash]

oh the insanities of time. righto this is how i'm going to determine what time it is everywhere. those interested in being part of this chat, just write a message here saying what time it is was what day and then we can compare it to everyone else's by looking at what time our computer says it was written at, and then what time it supposedly is. for example i'm writing this at 2.30pm on friday arvo, so for my computer cos i put it in2 sydney time it'll say 2.30, but then cos that's different for everyone else it'll reckon i wrote it at some other weird time. and then i can work out the official time differences eventually.

ok so starting off it's what i said above (give or take like a minute)

if this makes sense then put your times down now!

[donjuan]

wow tash, it's like looking into the future!  Now, it is 10:51 Mountain time, Thursday, July 1st. (Canada day, yeh!!)

[janice]

if this makes sense then put your times down now!

No, it doesn't make sense!!  LOL  But I'm tired also!  Right now, it says 5:53 am on July 2nd.  Is that what you mean?

[donjuan]

 Right now, it says 5:53 am on July 2nd.

Janice, you need to watch that caffeine intake and get to bed earlier, or wake up later, which ever one it might be...

[janice]

Janice, you need to watch that caffeine intake and get to bed earlier, or wake up later, which ever one it might be...

No, no--I meant that it was 5:53 am GMT.  So that would be ACCORDING TO THIS CLOCK.  GMT is 6 hours ahead of what it is here.  Anyway, I'm confused! LOL

***How about if we chat on Saturday morning, at 11 am CST/noon EST.  Bernhard is going to be there!!  That's an incentive to get out of bed!! LOL  I know that that is early for western USA.  I needed to get a different time that would work better for Europeans.  Tash, are you going to be able to make it?

[donjuan]

So, is that like 10 AM Mountain time?  (In other words, 2 hours behind Eastern time?)

[janice]

So, is that like 10 AM Mountain time?  (In other words, 2 hours behind Eastern time?)

Yes!

[Peachy_Keen]

This is the time for those of you living in the states:

12:00 PM Eastern
11:00 AM Central
10:00 AM Mountain
9:00 AM Pacific

[donjuan]

This is the time for those of you living in the states:

12:00 AM Eastern
11:00 AM Central
10:00 AM Mountain
9:00 AM Pacific

I am 100% sure you mean 12:00 P.M.

[Peachy_Keen]

I am 100% sure you mean 12:00 P.M.

Uh... err... I don't know what you're talking about.

[janice]

This is the time for those of you living in the states:

12:00 PM Eastern
11:00 AM Central
10:00 AM Mountain
9:00 AM Pacific

Yeah, that's what Peachy said--12PM (noon).  I don't know why your quote says 'AM'.  

Let's not get confused folks!!

Tash, I haven't heard from you.  Can you come?

For anyone who hasn't been to our chats before, you need AIM.  If you have it and want to chat, send me your AIM screen name via private message at the forum.  I will add you to my list, and tomorrow at the time listed, log in, and I will send an invitation to everyone to go into one room, so we can talk there.  


T'will be a blast!

[donjuan]

Yeah, that's what Peachy said--12PM (noon).  I don't know why your quote says 'AM'.  

It says AM in the quote because that's the way it was originally, but Peechy went back to change it to avoid having to eat the other foot.

[Tash]

ah i think that's like 2am for me. now tonight i actually will be awake then but i'll probably be out in the city somewhere celebrating a friend's 18th birthday so unfortunately i won't be able to make it! sorry ppl

[janice]

ah i think that's like 2am for me. now tonight i actually will be awake then but i'll probably be out in the city somewhere celebrating a friend's 18th birthday so unfortunately i won't be able to make it! sorry ppl

We'll look for you anyway, Tash, because it might even run for a couple of hours (who knows), so check to see if I'm still online.

[Motrax]

See you all in half an hour!

[bitus]

Wake up, Janice! Time for some chat
Bitus.

[Motrax]

Where's Bernard? You're needed!!!! We want autographs!!!!!1111one11!1