Chaos’n'Coffee

So here comes what seems to be becoming a tradition of updating this blog once a week…

Friday Lunch
Speaking of traditions, let’s start with Friday, when we made the first “public” call for this little tradition of ours of going out for lunch to the borough market on fridays.
Now it’s good to have the regulars from Headshift joining in, but it would be great if people form around London would occasionally pop by and share some free range conversation over a free range meal.

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That was good. I was not particularly in SoSo mode but enjoyed the short presentations nonetheless.
Keeping them down to 3 minutes is an interesting contstraint / oppportunity. Keeps your attention sharp and the speaker on hardcore facts.
People-wise, Ian was there back from yet another conference in the states, and I finally managed to meet again Josie and especially Yara, that I think I saw last time in 2004 :)
Good stuff.
Also, I finally met Franco Papeschi, an Italian designer and FOAF (via Leeander) and stumbled in my coworking conspiracy buddy Webponce.
Yes it’s a small world, and it’s made out of crossroads.

Did I mention I was not particularly in a social software mood? Well… me and Lars ended up demoing Facebook + Twitter and Plazes to a self assembled crowd… go figure.

Saturday
Nothing special to report really… well apart from organizing a Workshop in Second Life on the new hot Sculpted Prim feature and a nice Thai dinner in Covent Garden (it’s called Thai Pin, very recommended).

Sunday
I was supposed to go to the Sleep exhibition at the Tate Modern with Dave but London had a winter backlash and the weather was so miserable that I lazed out all day… but at least managed to:
. grasp the theory of holodecks in SecondLife
. refresh enough physics to create realistic ship engines (still in SL)
. go on with my Blender self teaching program
. finish to watch third series of BSG (and ultimately decide I’m not made for TV series)

Monday
Bank holidays are good for mood and, rain and chilly wind notwithstanding, I finally made it to the Warhol thing at the tate, where I met Dave who was taking pictures and doing some interviews for the Londonist review of the event.
The scene was cool: plenty of sleeping bags and pillows scattered all across the Turbine Hall, a pianoist playing some John Cage, and a huge screen possibly showing the Sleep movie (I say possibly because in daylight it was too bright to really see a thing on the screen…

Monday night was spent trying to make a grumpy friend smile. Worthwhile. Very.

Tuesday
Back to the office and some troubles focusing the day. Managed to get through it though.
Missed the opportunity to go the Globe and see Othello (I suppose it was too cold anyway) but managed to join in two events on SL:
. Meet the media guru with Winy Maas (actually in mixed reality with Milan) on Idearium Island
. the marriage of Destroy Television (check out her amazing one-avatar-broadcast-station setup) and Walker Spaight. Well, first time of this type of event I attended in SL but… it was fun! A lot!
Also there happened to be there lot of the sl residents I’m used to know from their blogs: Ordinal Malaprop, Tao Takashi, Gwyneth and others…
Is there anything like “alpha-SLers”?
Probably so.