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| Posted By : Hermit - 7/31/2007 11:46 AM | | How about we set this thread up as a way to schedule chats?
I'll be on from 11:30 to 1:30 (multi-tasking) CST today. And check in later.
Tomorrow, 1 August 2007: 11:45-12:30PM CST (lunch)
Anyone else?
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| Posted By : H.P. Lovesauce - 7/31/2007 11:53 AM | | Whatever moments I can steal from 12:30-2:30 EST, I suppose. |
| Posted By : xiaotien - 7/31/2007 3:22 PM | assuming i can get the chat thingy to work,
i can be on in the mornings 9 - 11 am perhaps
and afternoons 2 - 4 pm west coast time.
we'll see what happens!
cindy p.
a little sweet, a little sour.
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| Posted By : von Darkmoor - 7/31/2007 5:47 PM | Ah, though you have wondrous intentions, you ask far too much of us working stiffs, dear David. I pop in when I can during the working week day and way too often in the evenings when I am supposed to be doing other things! Regretfully, though I'd love the consistency, I cannot swing it.
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| Posted By : Hermit - 8/1/2007 9:37 AM | By 'schedule', I mean "heads-up, I can be there (at this time in the next few days)"
I am not a scheduler myself, per se. Intrigued by the idea, but I'm pretty much a fly-by-the-seat kinda guy. I constantly write myself notes and reminders to do the multitude of projects and check-backs I'd intended. Still, I juggle so many things that I hardly notice when the ravens of dysmnemonia drop in to feast on outlying agenda.
Howard von Darkmoor said...Ah, though you have wondrous intentions, you ask far too much of us working stiffs, dear David. I pop in when I can during the working week day and way too often in the evenings when I am supposed to be doing other things! Regretfully, though I'd love the consistency, I cannot swing it.
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| Posted By : H.P. Lovesauce - 8/10/2007 10:30 AM | | Hey, we want to schedule some chat time for today (Friday the 10th)? |
| Posted By : Hermit - 8/10/2007 10:38 AM | What time? What topic?
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| Posted By : H.P. Lovesauce - 8/10/2007 12:08 PM | Uhh...pff...you're asking me to think?
1:00 p.m. EST! Topic: How to Become the Best Writer Ever! |
| Posted By : H.P. Lovesauce - 8/10/2007 12:46 PM | Yes, but the internets go to Europe so much slower. You'll be able to join in whenever and catch up.  |
| Posted By : carnifexpress - 10/22/2007 4:21 PM | Is anyone still doing this? I'd love to join in time-willing...
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| Posted By : Dave - 10/22/2007 7:03 PM | You could even use the calendar feature of the forum to schedule them
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| Posted By : Firlefanz - 10/23/2007 3:05 AM | The problem with this chat interface is the fairly short idle time it allows. After a mere 10 min of idle time, it kicks participants with no easy method to rejoin. Basically, one has to restart the entire page.
That makes waiting for a like-minded spirit rather frustrating. I haven't used that chat since trying it out with HP Lovesauce that one time.
- Call me Firle.
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Mystical Adventures
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| Posted By : Dave - 10/23/2007 5:30 AM | so what would be a good idle length?
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| Posted By : Dave Panchyk - 10/23/2007 8:20 AM |
Half an hour? Unless the app is a bandwidth-sucker ( el chupaneto), of course.
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| Posted By : carnifexpress - 10/23/2007 12:50 PM | Could someone suggest a night and approx. time people would be on there so we could see who is around? Just chatting with other writers is fun to me and a dose of non-reality is what I need right about now.
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| Posted By : xiaotien - 10/30/2007 5:20 PM | we'd have to consider time zones?
5pm pacific would be 8pm eastern?
is that a good time for people?
or later? 8pm pacifica and 11pm eastern.
that seems late.
what day is good for people?
what about tuesday? i have tv shows
to watch on monday and wednesday. ha!
cindy p.
a little sweet, a little sour.
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| Posted By : Bill Ward - 10/31/2007 1:29 AM | I'd be up for something, I don't mind having it later in the evening (east coast time) so we can accommodate more people.
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| Posted By : tchernabyelo - 10/31/2007 1:56 PM | Ah, but those of us over the other side of the pond woul dhave to stay up reeeeeal late then... however, frankly, it should generally go with whatever fits the largest number of people, and I'm guessing that's gonna be mid-evening in the mid-west, so to speak.
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| Posted By : xiaotien - 10/31/2007 4:09 PM | 8pm pacific = 11pm east = 7am gmt
tchem, not the best time, but still doable.
i wouldn't log on for it, tho. hah! i like my sleep!
is tuesday night good for people?
is 11pm too late for east coasters?
cindy p.
a little sweet, a little sour.
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| Posted By : Firlefanz - 10/31/2007 4:47 PM | Hmm.
xiaotien, hat doesn't seem right. Usually, the time difference between me and US East is 6 hours. That would put me at 5am when it's 11pm East Coast. (Right now, the time difference is only 5 hours, because of stupid daylight savings time and the different dates of switching back.)
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Mystical Adventures
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| Posted By : xiaotien - 11/1/2007 10:37 AM | fire, doh! you are right, the 8 hours is between
me and england. sorry, that's what i'm used to.
having conducted a long distance relationship and all. =)
so yes, it's 8pm pacific = 11pm east = 4am gmt.
so yeah, that doesn't work out well.
no one seems to want to chat anyway.
cindy p.
a little sweet, a little sour.
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| Posted By : xiaotien - 11/1/2007 6:37 PM | during the day works for me, too.
what about 1pm pacific = 4pm eastern = 9pm gmt??
cindy p.
a little sweet, a little sour.
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| Posted By : Bill Ward - 11/1/2007 11:07 PM | I'm much less surly in the evenings.
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| Posted By : H.P. Lovesauce - 11/2/2007 4:17 PM | | I'm in here for a few minutes. |
| Posted By : xiaotien - 11/9/2007 5:09 PM | i'm in the chat room all by my lonesome. =)
cindy p.
a little sweet, a little sour.
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| Posted By : xiaotien - 11/9/2007 5:34 PM | well, i kept getting booted so i gave up. =(
cindy p.
a little sweet, a little sour.
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| Posted By : Bill Ward - 11/9/2007 5:45 PM | I was there just now, but a vicious gang of pool-cue wielding flight attendants chased me out.
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| Posted By : xiaotien - 11/9/2007 10:08 PM | well, boo. i didn't see anyone at all!
cindy p.
a little sweet, a little sour.
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| Posted By : xiaotien - 11/19/2007 4:38 PM | sorry, cw.
well, this isn't working out very well.
cindy p.
a little sweet, a little sour.
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| Posted By : Nathaniel Morgan - 11/19/2007 8:12 PM | | I always manage to login just after someone has been booted. :P
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| Posted By : Nathaniel Morgan - 11/19/2007 8:19 PM | Which is to say I'm lurking there now...
When I should be Nanoveling. Shhhh! Don't tell. |
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