Paul was the photographer to catch images of Charlie, Kathleen, Mark, and George. The camera is the Canon 350D (Model DS126071) which Mark is willing to part with.
George took the camera to try it out over the next month. [I have since found the pdf booklet is 72 pages. I (finally) downloaded Paul's photos and your webmaster doctored them to be THE meeting's photos.]
George passed around the Amiga Future Nr 110, praising the game reviews this month for their variety of delivery. Its all a fast read so I won't comment further... I'm not an English Major.
Kathleen was the star of the evening with comment wit ("That would be 'wordify'?" is an example). [I] asked if Charlie had provided any GIS joke material from work? "Not much" she said as Charlie concurred. Then she piped up, "Well, there's LIDAR..." followed by a pause to let us fill in our own funny ideas of what that might be.
There was fun teasing out the idea of her using a small origami "user manual" while telling some appliance joke to the audience. She opens it up nonchalantly and a some point looks at the unfolded "manual", turns it side ways, makes a joke about its uselessness, then engages the audience again and (also nonchalantly) starts refolding the origami and in pretty short order, she acts like she sublty hides that she has resorted to just smashing it together and finally tosses it behind her.
Turns out she regularly uses hand motions when doing standup comedy, just no props. [I think this could be an exception.]
We had a great time comparing experiences with "reading between the lines" when trying to convey a problem (and often a solution) to someone in position to act. Our shared attitude is "Here's a problem and THIS could solve that." and taking a lack of feedback as being understood and acceptance of clarity. WRONG. Ha! We agreed that if we were the sort of person who expected to have to mount a campaign to get consideration for every single thing, then we wouldn't be in our current avocation, but stars in a marketing department.
Charlie is celebrating the expiration of his "Code Compliance" authority (or some such), so to more easily avoid questions from that department of the city and its one more distancing from that time. [Am I reading between the lines right?]
From George:
Paul mentioned seeing me at Marilyn's music gig at Hyde Park Deli a while
back, which reminds me that she also teaches piano. I took piano when I was
a kid, so I asked about it. Paul says she enjoys seeing students light up with
revealed interest in music and making music. I told him I wish the 2
teachers I had way back in the 50's had that attitude (or let on that maybe
I should focus on improvisation or.. something). Strange that even that
subpar experience /may/ have been the spark to the lifelong interest in many
aspects of more complicated music. I know that I never asked for piano
lessons and it was only a child's duty to a parent's expectations that I
practiced and did all the piano lessony things. I don't remembering enjoying
much of that. So, Marilyn has my admiration.
8pm came around way too fast. I had only finished half of my Conan's Savage (small, white... all-the-way), boxed it up, and took it home. (It did not make it for the morrow.)
