Happy Anniversary to The Floating City!

[Stemish]

Hard to believe, but it was one year ago today that we were all drawn into Thomas' alternate reality, which sucked up our summer days but good.

Thanks again for all the fun, Thomas, Andrea, and the whole FC crew which made it possible!

(PS: it's also been a year since Thomas has posted anything to his blog. I guess it's been a pretty boring 12 months for him or something *ahem*... )

[K`shandra]

And a very happy anniversary to you, and to all of the people I wouldn't have met, virtually or in realspace, without this game.

[Rushy]

My fave time sink!

[Macha]

Finally figured how these forums work....

So, yet again, happy anniversary A Map of the Floating City ! And lots of love and benches to you all !

[Pip Squeak]

Yes, a happy anniversary to all the wonderful people from the Floating City that I have met (and those I haven't too).

[SabineB]

Hey guys...heard there had been an FC reunion type chat last weekend? Any transcript of that around? We need to get together online again and I miss the game. Lets start playing from the start.
I still smile when I think back to the London FC gig

[Pip Squeak]

There's a transcript on the site.

I'd post a link, but the site is down for some reason.

I'll edit it in once I can get at the link.

[Pip Squeak]

A log of the chat is here

[Macha]

Some interesting hints about the future of the game have been made... We'll surely need ideas from everyone! Come give a look to the brainstorming post on the FC forums... (As soon as they're back)

[Pip Squeak]

Given that hte MotFC is being tempremental, I'll post the transcript here

Welcome! You have entered [The Floating City] at 9:29 am
[Alan Crantzbea] 9:29 am: hi Pip
[Pip Squeek] 9:29 am: hiya!
[SootSparrow] 9:29 am: Is everyone hearing the "Meet Goerge Jetson" theme when people entger, or is it just me?
[Katyroo] 9:29 am: Howdy, Pip!
[Pip Squeek] 9:29 am: I knew others would be way early too
[Katyroo] 9:29 am: Yes, and I was in another game, so hearing that was freaking me out!
[Europa] 9:30 am: Katyroo is a tester for me. She has done no wrong. =)
[SootSparrow] 9:30 am: Multi-tasker!
[Europa] 9:30 am: hmmm
[Alan Crantzbea] 9:30 am: 'roo helped me get to 10mn. hat's off to roo!
[Katyroo] 9:30 am: you have no idea of the number of tabs I keep open at once, Soot!
[Alan Crantzbea] 9:30 am: nm not mn.
[Macha] 9:31 am: @SootSparrow : thank you for the wondrous amout of work on the FC!
[Europa] 9:31 am: hrm
[Katyroo] 9:31 am: And I'm still up there at 10 nm, never getting any closer to the Pole
[Pip Squeek] 9:31 am: hey Macha - cards are in the post
[Macha] 9:31 am: *joydances* Pip ! I knew you'd be there
[Pip Squeek] 9:31 am: Katyroo - you could always reset and go again
[Katyroo] 9:31 am: (Europa is trying to boot me, to test Admin stuffs)
[Katyroo] 9:32 am: (and it apparently ain't working right)
[Macha] 9:32 am: Was positive about that
[Europa] 9:32 am: Heh.
[Pip Squeek] 9:32 am: Macha - am I so predictable?
[The Floating City]: caroline has entered at 9:32 am
[SootSparrow] 9:32 am: @Macha; I was just one cog in the machine, but thanks!
[Macha] 9:33 am: I just got to know you a little, after all these months !
[SootSparrow] 9:33 am: More admins!
[Pip Squeek] 9:33 am: @Macha - I suppose I write enough drivel that some of the real me sneaks out
[The Floating City]: Europa has left at 9:34 am
[caroline] 9:34 am: checking in from my office, as my home will likely be w/o power for seven days. i *heart* catastrophic storms!
[The Floating City]: Europa has entered at 9:34 am
[Macha] 9:35 am: @SootSparrow : We got the most beautiful game of all the internets !
[Katyroo] 9:35 am: Oh, my, Caroline! East coast USA?
[SootSparrow] 9:35 am: She's in, she's out! That's Europa!
[Pip Squeek] 9:35 am: lol
[Katyroo] 9:35 am: Always the mystery woman, that one...
[Europa] 9:35 am: Grrr. Round and round.
[Macha] 9:35 am: @Pip Some?
[caroline] 9:36 am: @Katyroo - yep. dc area. dark, hot, and new storms about 30 minutes away.
[Pip Squeek] 9:36 am: @Macha touch
[caroline] 9:36 am: Quoting Ratt now, Europa?
[caroline] 9:36 am: That was Ratt, right?
[The Floating City]: Europa has left at 9:36 am
[The Floating City]: Europa has entered at 9:36 am
[Katyroo] 9:37 am: Yikes! Sounds like most Texas summers - always at least 1 major long-term outage during storms
[SootSparrow] 9:37 am: THat you know that scares and delights me, CAroline!
[Alan Crantzbea] 9:37 am: hi caroline
[Katyroo] 9:37 am: Ahh, changed chat background to tropical sea...
[Macha] 9:37 am: Ahoy, Caroline!
[The Floating City]: Demona Dragon has entered at 9:37 am
[caroline] 9:37 am: Soot - 80s music: my joy and shame.
[caroline] 9:38 am: hola, alan!
[Demona Dragon] 9:38 am: Ahoy!
[Macha] 9:38 am: My- Europe is a pretty quiet place to live in, after all...
[Macha] 9:38 am: Ahoy there !
[caroline] 9:38 am: and ahoy to you, too, macha!
[Alan Crantzbea] 9:38 am: there's some floating city dj-ing going on to accompny your chat pleasure, drop by and spin if you like: http://turntable.fm/floating_city_underground
[Pip Squeek] 9:39 am: @Macha - yes .. 2 major earthquakes soince coming to my pacific island - none of that in Northern Europe
[Macha] 9:39 am: @Pip Squeek : Just so I know.... How late is it by your side?
[Pip Squeek] 9:39 am: @Alan - sadly that is US only access
[Macha] 9:39 am: @Alan : I'd have loved to !
[Pip Squeek] 9:40 am: @Macha - late? it is not yet 10 am on Sunday morning
[SootSparrow] 9:40 am: I'm directing my design power this summer to my wife's roller derby squad, The Killamazoo Derby Darlins
[The Floating City]: Europa has left at 9:40 am
[Macha] 9:41 am: @Pip : and to say most of my folks were scared by the last storm... You should come by there for a vacation
[caroline] 9:41 am: tune her in, tune her out, europa...
[SootSparrow] 9:41 am: HAH!
[Macha] 9:41 am: Indeed !
[The Floating City]: Europa has entered at 9:41 am
[Alan Crantzbea] 9:41 am: wow neat Soot. Johnny Crass and Storm are derby announcers i think.
[Demona Dragon] 9:42 am: Demona Dragon
[Demona Dragon] 9:42 am: oops
[Alan Crantzbea] 9:43 am: hi Demona
[Pip Squeek] 9:43 am: @Demona - talking to yourself - or just reminding yourself of your name?
[SootSparrow] 9:43 am: REally? Cool My wife skates as Rocket Hips #3-2-1, and she is doing great
[Demona Dragon] 9:43 am: hi alan
[Demona Dragon] 9:43 am: punching buttons.....lol
[The Floating City]: Stemish has entered at 9:45 am
[Europa] 9:45 am: Hi Stemish!
[Alan Crantzbea] 9:45 am: captain Stemish! good day!
[Stemish] 9:46 am: howdy!
[caroline] 9:46 am: hola stemish!
[Macha] 9:46 am: @ Demona : And still, you succeded in putting an icon !
[SootSparrow] 9:46 am: Hello Stemish, you old salt!
[Stemish] 9:46 am: is the city still afloat?
[Macha] 9:46 am: Ahoy, Stermish !
[Demona Dragon] 9:46 am: yes that was my intention
[Macha] 9:47 am: Uh, sorry for the mistype!
[Katyroo] 9:47 am: Yes, Stemish, and trading continues at a leisurely pace!
[Stemish] 9:48 am: i think i still need a bug in a peach or something, lol
[SootSparrow] 9:48 am: Last I looked, the whole city was listing a bit to the left...
[Katyroo] 9:48 am: Not many of *those* afloat, it seems!
[Stemish] 9:49 am: "... and listing sideways..."
[Pip Squeek] 9:49 am: and the posting rate has slowed to something more realistic
[Katyroo] 9:49 am: The continental drift effect from subsurface magnetic earth-currents, perhaps
[Pip Squeek] 9:50 am: I seem to have failed to change my avatar
[Macha] 9:50 am: @SootSparrow : Currently trying to move the TSS Yuri Gagarin to the right to correct its balance
[Katyroo] 9:50 am: me, too @Pip
[caroline] 9:51 am: i see there is a boat with rippling sails among the avatars, but i can't get it to stick for me!
[Alan Crantzbea] 9:51 am: it's not dead. it's listin' ?
[The Floating City]: katzenjammy has entered at 9:51 am
[Alan Crantzbea] 9:51 am: Katzenjammy!
[The Floating City]: katzenjammy has left at 9:51 am
[The Floating City]: katzenjammy has entered at 9:51 am
[Macha] 9:51 am: @Stemish : Afloat it is ! And the posting rate is never going to get "realistic"
[katzenjammy] 9:52 am: Hola Alan et al!
[Europa] 9:52 am: Hallo!
[Katyroo] 9:52 am: Howdy, Katz!
[Demona Dragon] 9:52 am: hola
[Macha] 9:52 am: @Pip, @Katyroo : that makes the three of us!
[Macha] 9:52 am: Ahoy !
[katzenjammy] 9:53 am: What'd I miss?
[Katyroo] 9:53 am: Picup hopes to be back soon; off teaching his motorcycle class right now
[Europa] 9:53 am: me spilling salsa on myself.
[Stemish] 9:53 am: caroline: i see your boat

[katzenjammy] 9:53 am: I do that all the time
[Pip Squeek] 9:53 am: @Europa - lol
[caroline] 9:54 am: yay! the westchester sails again!
[The Floating City]: Lyra has entered at 9:54 am
[Alan Crantzbea] 9:54 am: Europa, if you can't get boot working, just give them the cary grant: http://tinyurl.com/dxlrcv2
[Katyroo] 9:54 am: The usual skirmishes with trying to bend a new chat system to your will,,,
[Macha] 9:54 am: Lyra ! Hi there !
[Lyra] 9:54 am: Salut, Macha!
[Europa] 9:54 am: Heh.
[Pip Squeek] 9:55 am: Hi Lyra
[Europa] 9:55 am: I doubt it really would be needed.
[Lyra] 9:55 am: Hi, Pip
[Macha] 9:55 am: As multilingual as usual
[Lyra] 9:55 am: Well... you too :p
[SootSparrow] 9:55 am: Salsa and programming? You are a talented gal, Europa! : )
[Demona Dragon] 9:56 am: sounds like a new lyric, instead of fruit juce everywhere...salsa everywhere
[Europa] 9:56 am: Hee hee.
[Lyra] 9:56 am: Does anyone have extra headphones and Metal Birds for me? I'm still collecting them.
[Macha] 9:56 am: @Europa Did you made it yourself?
[Katyroo] 9:56 am: Salsa makes almost everything better
[The Floating City]: Martin Burr has entered at 9:56 am
[Alan Crantzbea] 9:56 am: mmm salsa and chips everywhere!
[Europa] 9:57 am: @Macha, no, but I did make the guacamole I added it to
[Pip Squeek] 9:57 am: aha - for the avatars you not only have to change them - but tick the box!
[Macha] 9:57 am: @Lyra : How-right. I almost forgot
[Stemish] 9:57 am: pip is spinning like globe!
[Katyroo] 9:57 am: A new metal bird flew in, Lyra. Will send trade offer.
[Macha] 9:57 am: @Europa You're gifted indeed
[The Floating City]: Killashandra Ree has entered at 9:57 am
[The Floating City]: screenkiss1969 has entered at 9:57 am
[Lyra] 9:57 am: Yay!
[Alan Crantzbea] 9:57 am: Killa!
[Stemish] 9:58 am: k'ree!
[Pip Squeek] 9:58 am: globe trotter me - around the world at least once a year
[screenkiss1969] 9:58 am: Hello hello
[Killashandra Ree] 9:58 am: Alan! Stemish! SOOT!
[The Floating City]: mary27182 has entered at 9:58 am
[Martin Burr] 9:58 am: Ahoy Captains - evening to you all
[DrGin] 9:58 am: Killa!
[Macha] 9:58 am: Ahoy, K'ree ! Did you get fair wind?
[Katyroo] 9:58 am: Howdy, Killa!!
[Killashandra Ree] 9:58 am: Doc!
[Lyra] 9:58 am: Hello, Martin!
[Killashandra Ree] 9:58 am: And Katy and Mary and and and...
[SootSparrow] 9:58 am: Hello Killa!
[Europa] 9:58 am: So by the by.... the Aviator is watching this thing called WIMBELDON.
[mary27182] 9:58 am: hey hey all!
[Macha] 9:58 am: Martin ! Thought you never come
[magiske] 9:59 am: Hi Lyra!!!
[mary27182] 9:59 am: I am watching Wimbledon as well
[Europa] 9:59 am: We shall see if he actually makes it on time.....
[Killashandra Ree] 9:59 am: Ahoy, Macha - 'twas a lovely day for a sail!
[Pip Squeek] 9:59 am: lol - he tweeted that he was
[mary27182] 9:59 am: 1 more minute and then the curfew kicks in
[Macha] 9:59 am: ahoy Mary !
[Lyra] 9:59 am: Hi, you
[Alan Crantzbea] 9:59 am: ohhello Mary!
[Katyroo] 9:59 am: A good trader, that Martin!
[mary27182] 9:59 am: hello hello!
[screenkiss1969] 9:59 am: So how does this work?
[screenkiss1969] 9:59 am: I've never done a LC before...
[SootSparrow] 9:59 am: TENNIS? How nerdy.
[Killashandra Ree] 9:59 am: @Europa: I'm seeing things on the Twitter machine about today's match having been just interminable...
[Europa] 9:59 am: You looke fine, screenkiss1969
[Katyroo] 9:59 am: Curfew? Mary, surely you're not under curfew? Or are you where power is out?
[caroline] 9:59 am: got the second worst sunburn of my life at wimbledon, but it was worth it.
[mary27182] 9:59 am: Murray up 4-1, but most Brits seem to dislike him
[Martin Burr] 9:59 am: Hi Lyra & Macha - just got time to set up my chair
[mary27182] 10:00 am: Wimbledon Village has a 11pm curfew on Wimby matches
[caroline] 10:00 am: and 'tis 11 straight up right now!
[mary27182] 10:00 am: So the Murray match has to be shut down now
[Europa] 10:00 am: Indeed.
[Alan Crantzbea] 10:00 am: 4-1 over who, FedEx?
[mary27182] 10:00 am: Baghdatis
[mary27182] 10:00 am: up 2 sets to 1
[Alan Crantzbea] 10:01 am: Well i for one would like to see an englishman win.
[Europa] 10:01 am: what do they do, restart the match the next day?
[caroline] 10:01 am: where can he be? i'll burst a blood vessel if he doesn't show.
[mary27182] 10:01 am: Nah, would be on Monday. No play on middle Sunday
[caroline] 10:01 am: he's caught up in tennis....
[The Floating City]: Captain Deux Etoiles has entered at 10:01 am
[Killashandra Ree] 10:01 am: Twostar!
[Alan Crantzbea] 10:01 am: Doozy!
[caroline] 10:01 am: sorry... couldn't resist.
[Katyroo] 10:01 am: Howdy, Deuxie!
[mary27182] 10:01 am: hey Ames!
[Captain Deux Etoiles] 10:01 am: Hey Mary!
[Pip Squeek] 10:01 am: @Alan - you'll have a long wait for that
[mary27182] 10:02 am: OK game done
[mary27182] 10:02 am: they gotta stop play now
[The Floating City]: The Aviator has entered at 10:02 am
[Captain Deux Etoiles] 10:02 am: The man of the hour
[Arathrael] 10:02 am: evening!
[Macha] 10:02 am: Ahoy, DeuxEtoiles !
[mary27182] 10:02 am: so Thomas, you ever been to Wimbledon?
[Katyroo] 10:02 am: :sail:
[Killashandra Ree] 10:02 am: Hail the conquering hero! :awe:
[caroline] 10:02 am: right on time, mr. wimbledon curfew!
[Europa] 10:02 am: Heh.
[mary27182] 10:02 am: They are still playing? Murray serving for the match
[mary27182] 10:02 am: what the hell
[Stemish] 10:02 am: heya deux
[Katyroo] 10:02 am: whatever floats yer boat
[SootSparrow] 10:03 am: Nice you could show up, Mr. Tennis! : )
[Captain Deux Etoiles] 10:03 am: Stemish long time no see!
[mary27182] 10:03 am: c'mon Murray
[caroline] 10:03 am: hello, aviator
[DrGin] 10:03 am: Deux!
[The Aviator] 10:03 am: Roger wilco
[The Floating City]: Yakamoto (brien) has entered at 10:03 am
[The Floating City]: Paul D. has entered at 10:03 am
[Martin Burr] 10:03 am: Nice to see so many regulars
[mary27182] 10:03 am: match point Murray
[Katyroo] 10:03 am: Lots of !&Hillers here!
[Alan Crantzbea] 10:03 am: Ahoy!
[Lyra] 10:03 am: Can we have some Floating City riddle to solve?
[mary27182] 10:04 am: he got it!!!! Go MURRAY
[caroline] 10:04 am: indeed - much of PRD is away tonight or without power, alas!
[Pip Squeek] 10:04 am: @Kayeroo - far too eary on a Sunday for EB
[Macha] 10:04 am: Good evening, Mr Aviator !
[Killashandra Ree] 10:04 am: @Soot: You've made me think of "Tennis Boyfriend" by Freezepop with that nickname for him.
[Alan Crantzbea] 10:05 am: Good for Andy
[Demona Dragon] 10:05 am: Ahoy and welcome aboard Mr.Aviator!
[Stemish] 10:05 am: *bampersand*
[Katyroo] 10:05 am: But it's just Sat evening for me, @Pip!
[mary27182] 10:05 am: I just had to sell my B-52/Squeeze ticket for tonight. My asthma flared up big time.
[SootSparrow] 10:05 am: Hey Thomas, Jane wanted me to tell you she's listening to Natalie McMaster right now. I have no idea why...
[Katyroo] 10:06 am: And Stemish wins a big purr from Ship's Cat for the first BAMpersand of the chat!
[screenkiss1969] 10:06 am: Oh no...I love Squeeze.
[The Floating City]: joebrazil has entered at 10:06 am
[Pip Squeek] 10:06 am: Kateroo - time shifts were ever the thing in ths game
[Macha] 10:06 am: And to the punctual ones as well
[mary27182] 10:06 am: I know, I know...
[Alan Crantzbea] 10:06 am: BENCH
[mary27182] 10:06 am: I fell so bad, but I guess this is what adulthood is like
[The Floating City]: 7e7e7 has entered at 10:06 am
[Demona Dragon] 10:06 am: BENCH!
[Katyroo] 10:06 am: Agreed, Pip, agreed!
[The Floating City]: GypsyFox has entered at 10:06 am
[Killashandra Ree] 10:06 am: BEEENNNNNNCH!
[mary27182] 10:06 am: lots of hillers
[GypsyFox] 10:06 am: hi
[Macha] 10:06 am: @Pip : I was always there when the spammers had their routine sortie
[Pip Squeek] 10:06 am: Jinx?
[mary27182] 10:06 am: hi GF
[joebrazil] 10:06 am: I've never played the game, merely downloaded the music. How do they relate?
[Katyroo] 10:06 am: I have quite the collection of tethers to trade, you know!
[Europa] 10:06 am: Welcome folks! We are so glad you are here!
[The Floating City]: Pippa Throckmorton-Steeg has entered at 10:06 am
[DrGin] 10:06 am: Hi, GF!
[The Floating City]: johndou1 has entered at 10:07 am
[GypsyFox] 10:07 am: me too ty
[Macha] 10:07 am: Ahoy GF !
[screenkiss1969] 10:07 am: Glad to be here!
[The Floating City]: Jonny Cappuccino has entered at 10:07 am
[screenkiss1969] 10:07 am: How long does this last?
[The Floating City]: RevAndroid has entered at 10:07 am
[Stemish] 10:07 am: so TMDR, you are here to account for the theft of the Summer of 2011 from all those here present. How do you plea?
[The Floating City]: zoove has entered at 10:07 am
[Europa] 10:07 am: Thomas will, I am sure, answer as many questions as he can.
[Pip Squeek] 10:07 am: Stemish LOL!!!
[Europa] 10:07 am: Screenkiss: Till it' ends!
[Katyroo] 10:07 am: Oh, joebrazil! Come & play now - trading bits & bobs from many TMDR songs these days!
[Killashandra Ree] 10:07 am: giggles at Stemis
[The Aviator] 10:07 am: I certainly will
[The Floating City]: zoove has left at 10:07 am
[screenkiss1969] 10:07 am: SO do we just write a question?
[The Floating City]: markfellure has entered at 10:07 am
[Martin Burr] 10:07 am: @Katyroo - i'll try to trade you something different, may include string/twine
[Europa] 10:08 am: Ye
[Killashandra Ree] 10:08 am: curses her too-fast typing and giggles at Stemish, as well.
[mary27182] 10:08 am: come on... SF was one of the few cities that got to hear "17 Hills" live...
[Europa] 10:08 am: p.
[joebrazil] 10:08 am: certainly! how does one play?
[Macha] 10:08 am: Man, the harbour is filling up *greets all*
[mary27182] 10:08 am: I think SF wins
[Alan Crantzbea] 10:08 am: oh Murray is a scot. I am embarrassed, i thought he was english.
[The Floating City]: allegrousa has entered at 10:08 am
[johndou1] 10:08 am: Thank you for sharing your music with us!!
[katzenjammy] 10:08 am: ...yow, gonna have to watch the elbows in here...
[The Floating City]: El Jefe has entered at 10:08 am
[The Floating City]: JohnnyEndo has entered at 10:08 am
[screenkiss1969] 10:08 am: SD got to hear it live too
[DrGin] 10:08 am: Jefe!
[SootSparrow] 10:08 am: Glad to see so many of my tribe here!
[GypsyFox] 10:08 am: Hello everyone
[Demona Dragon] 10:08 am: Thomas, how was the tour over all?
[mary27182] 10:08 am: lucky SD! lucky SF!
[The Floating City]: vike has entered at 10:08 am
[Stemish] 10:08 am: <- sad to miss the Red Devil Lounge shows ...
[El Jefe] 10:08 am: Greetings all
[JohnnyEndo] 10:08 am: ok, total virgin here - but i feel right at home!
[Pip Squeek] 10:08 am: @Alan - LOL - that is wht many "British" don't like him
[vike] 10:09 am: The Viking Has Appeared
[The Floating City]: jdubenitz has entered at 10:09 am
[Alan Crantzbea] 10:09 am: Jefe! Pip: yeah now i get i:)
[Killashandra Ree] 10:09 am: @Stemish: Oh, they were marvelous...I wish I could have stayed for both sets.
[Europa] 10:09 am: Welcome, Johnnyendo
[mary27182] 10:09 am: Murray is English when he wins, Scottish when he loses
[Captain Deux Etoiles] 10:09 am: The Red Devil Lounge show was great!
[markfellure] 10:09 am: I live in a suitcase....down by the river!!
[JohnnyEndo] 10:09 am: thnx europa!
[7e7e7] 10:09 am: http://youtu.be/B8ogtPyWMmo :heart:
[vike] 10:09 am: Catching a train for Cassandra Wilson at Blue Note in NYC - anything fascinating in here?
[The Aviator] 10:09 am: Demona, thx for asking, I really enjoyed the tour. And they want me back in Sept/Oct for another leg.... which may or may not happen
[Macha] 10:09 am: European mini-tour was a treat as well
[Europa] 10:09 am: Please to not be linking
[GypsyFox] 10:10 am: Yes wish I could have made it to the Devil lounge
[vike] 10:10 am: where's the amazing Lunesse?
[GypsyFox] 10:10 am: too
[Europa] 10:10 am: I'm here, Vike.
[Europa] 10:10 am: Just named Europa today.
[Alan Crantzbea] 10:10 am: Fox!
[The Floating City]: cromio has entered at 10:10 am
[El Jefe] 10:10 am: Another leg would be appreciated for those of us who could not make the first one!
[Europa] 10:10 am: In honor of the Floating City game.
[GypsyFox] 10:10 am: Me too Sooty
[vike] 10:10 am: My heart leaps! Technology - I hear the hair whipping!
[Demona Dragon] 10:10 am: awsome
[mary27182] 10:10 am: touring where in Sept/Oct?
[JohnnyEndo] 10:10 am: ok, anyone old like me? saw thomas in 1984/5 - greek thtr LA
[markfellure] 10:10 am: i wish
[Martin Burr] 10:10 am: @aviator - any likelihood od touring Uk soon?
[caroline] 10:11 am: Johnny, I'm old, but ever saw TMDR back in the day (weep!)
[vike] 10:11 am: Europa, I would change my name to Persius but I'm too vain
[The Floating City]: katiek has entered at 10:11 am
[Killashandra Ree] 10:11 am: @Aviator: Will there be a second pressing of the Tokyo live disc? Or a release of one of the other shows?
[screenkiss1969] 10:11 am: I have many questions, but for the sake of brevity (and because my little ones are waiting for me to join them in the swimming pool) I will just ask this one: "Budapest by Blimp" is so hauntingly beautiful and every time I listen to it, I wonder...what was your inspiration???
[DrGin] 10:11 am: Saw Thomas and the Lost Toy People at the Roxy
[Pip Squeek] 10:11 am: @aviator or Oceania?
[vike] 10:11 am: Where is Thomas?
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[Yakamoto (brien)] 10:11 am: @TheAviator, do you have any info about where the shows of the next leg might be?
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[vike] 10:11 am: Budapest - next question
[JohnnyEndo] 10:11 am: the Roxy - SO jealous!
[mary27182] 10:11 am: Thomas is talking--said they want a Sept/Oct tour
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[caroline] 10:11 am: Lt Fragg!
[vike] 10:12 am: Order muss sein
[Lt Fragg] 10:12 am: 452
[screenkiss1969] 10:12 am: I'm old like you Johnny, I just wasn't allowed to go to concerts back then!
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[The Aviator] 10:12 am: Screenkiss1, BBB was a sort of postcard home to Europe from the USA
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[allegrousa] 10:12 am: hi Thomas love the new CD Your last one was the live one called The Sole Inhabitant. How did you like making that one? It seems like a live greatest hits.
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[Macha] 10:12 am: Huh... I'll have to miss that. @Martin : I count on you to fairly report
[JohnnyEndo] 10:12 am: sk1969 - i snuck out a lot!
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[GypsyFox] 10:13 am: :luck:
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[The Aviator] 10:13 am: Yakamoto, they want me to do cities I missed last time like Denver, Boston etc
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[Pip Squeek] 10:13 am: hey Rolby!
[Martin Burr] 10:13 am: @Macha - will do
[DrGin] 10:13 am: The Sole Inhabitant tour was quite good, caught the Key Club show in LA.
[Alan Crantzbea] 10:13 am: where do you see thomas talking, mary?
[mary27182] 10:13 am: Lots of Colorado folks would be happy w/ DENVER
[Macha] 10:13 am: Rolby ! Glad to see you here
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[katzenjammy] 10:13 am: Denver? Oh please oh please!
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[vike] 10:13 am: Oceania arguably is the finest piece of music you've yet written which is saying alot. The simple genius of a Cole Porter piece - how quickly did the music flow out?
[Demona Dragon] 10:13 am: 1The Aviator = Thomas
[katzenjammy] 10:13 am: Cow votes yes as well.
[DrGin] 10:14 am: Yes, Denver would make some of our folks very happy.
[Europa] 10:14 am: THOMAS IS "THE AVIATOR" for those new to the chat room.
[Rolby] 10:14 am: Hi all - had to get in on another computer!
[mary27182] 10:14 am: Thomas is The Aviator
[Yakamoto (brien)] 10:14 am: @TheAviator, good, I have some friends who missed you and would like another chance to see your show. I'll probably tag along too.
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[vike] 10:14 am: And LUNESSE is Europa!! sigh
[The Aviator] 10:14 am: vike--very quickly! an afternoon as I recall
[7e7e7] 10:14 am: the aviator? is that right? how amusing
[Katyroo] 10:14 am: Oh, I would run up to Denver!
[allegrousa] 10:14 am: loved The Sole Inhabitant DVD
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[pablo] 10:14 am: why o why wasn't puppet theatre played on the u.k tour last year?lol
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[mary27182] 10:14 am: I would fly to Denver
[IanBaird] 10:14 am: A St. Louis stop would be nice to see as well.
[Stemish] 10:15 am: I wish the Live in Chicago DVD got rereleased....
[JohnnyEndo] 10:15 am: any chance of an aviation trip to phoenix AZ?
[Macha] 10:15 am: @JohnnyEndo : sadly I wasn't even born back then. Tough I wish I were!
[mary27182] 10:15 am: Thomas, who is your favorite tennnis player?
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[JohnnyEndo] 10:15 am: oh you SO DO macha
[7e7e7] 10:15 am: where is the technical ta
[vike] 10:15 am: Great here you are and I'm stumped for a great question - zounds
[vike] 10:15 am: Oh did I type that?
[Killashandra Ree] 10:15 am: PICUP!
[vike] 10:15 am: lol
[Stemish] 10:15 am: wb deux, hey picup
[The Aviator] 10:15 am: I was never nuts about Puppet Theatre, that's why it was never officially on an album
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[7e7e7] 10:15 am: are there any new experiments confounding yet?
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[screenkiss1969] 10:15 am: @aviator Thank you for answering! Even my children (age 1 and 4) LOVE your music. I can hum a snippet of "Spice Train" and my youngest says, "That's Thomas Dolby!" And when I played "Oceanea" my daughter exclaimed, "That song is as beautiful as a flower!"
[The Aviator] 10:15 am: Mary, Roger Federer (and John McEnroe)
[GypsyFox] 10:16 am: :dog: If I crash I shall return my pc is acting so odd
[JohnnyEndo] 10:16 am: ok, important Q please Sir Thomas - who is Europa in the song?
[Picup Andropoff] 10:16 am: Just broke every speed limit law riding across Houston to get home... Hi everyone!
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[Killashandra Ree] 10:16 am: admires the Aviator's taste in tennis players.
[Katyroo] 10:16 am: Howdy, Picup! Just in time.
[DrGin] 10:16 am: Thomas, what I'd like to know is how you were able to locate so many belly dancers in all the different cities.
[katzenjammy] 10:16 am: Missed ya Picup
[The Aviator] 10:16 am: Screenkiss that's good, I need a few fans who will still be around in 50 years...
[7e7e7] 10:16 am: i invited matt fink in here
[Demona Dragon] 10:16 am: Thomas, got any new songs rolling around the Nutmeg?
[GypsyFox] 10:16 am: Ha me too Picup I was out and about and got delayed and got here 5 after so worked out good
[joebrazil] 10:16 am: Mr. Dolby, how do you get fantastic singers/musicians to play with you? Personal connections? Mutual admiration? I assume you're choosing whom to play with and I admire your taste.
[Macha] 10:16 am: @Picup You totally mastered it
[7e7e7] 10:17 am: but he is very suspicious
[7e7e7] 10:17 am:
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[Killashandra Ree] 10:17 am: Gin, you're a Burner, you should know the answer to that. They sprout like weeds.
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[vike] 10:17 am: Another brilliant piece is the one of Josephine. How did you stumble upon that idea?
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[Killashandra Ree] 10:17 am: (One of the reasons I was sorry I couldn't stay for the second RDL show is it turned out that I knew one of the dancers.)
[The Aviator] 10:18 am: DrGin, because Rachel Brice who is a true superstar did the 'trailer', when we put the word out the whole BD community stepped up
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[The Aviator] 10:18 am: JoeBrazil, it helps that I'm MD of TED
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[Picup Andropoff] 10:18 am: Mr Dolby. Just wanted to say a big THANK YOU for the freeHouston show before SXSW in Austin. It was great.
[The Aviator] 10:18 am: Vike, the animation featured Napoleon and Josephine so that's how it came about
[caroline] 10:19 am: most inspiring speaker at TED global this time, thomas?
[vike] 10:19 am: Crestfallen
[allegrousa] 10:19 am: Hey The Aviator, where do you rank The Sole Inhabitant in your catalog of releases. I listen to it once a week at least. I think it is my very favorite
[tomatketchup] 10:19 am: Oboy oboy oboy, hope I haven't missed anything
[The Aviator] 10:19 am: Johnny, Europa was a Frenchwoman named Elizabeth Aumont
[tomatketchup] 10:19 am: Apparently not
[Ben69] 10:19 am: I've never been inside a chatroom before, It feels kinda old school. Like the Golden Age of Internet.
[vike] 10:19 am: Perfect topic and history for a song but simple answer - understood
[joebrazil] 10:19 am: MD of TED? managing director of... oh, the actnyms confuse... will look them up
[Europa] 10:19 am: jobrazil: Music Director
[JohnnyEndo] 10:19 am: thank you for solving a 30+ year Q Sir Thomas!
[JohnnyEndo] 10:20 am: suppose i could have googled it, but...
[The Aviator] 10:20 am: Caroline, the speakers were all pretty great
[screenkiss1969] 10:20 am: I have always wondered that too Johnny!
[JohnnyEndo] 10:20 am: better from the source!
[GypsyFox] 10:20 am: :dog: Thomas.... I saw on twitter you sent a tweet to Tal Wilkenfeld who is my female musical hero at the moment...best basist around. And so young too...are you two hoping to record together?
[joebrazil] 10:20 am: found it, understand now! thks.
[The Aviator] 10:20 am: Music Director
[tomatketchup] 10:20 am: I've got a question, who's the youngest fan you know? I'm 17 myself, hoping to set the record here.
[normastitz] 10:20 am: What is your twitter name? Don't think I'm following you ..
[Killashandra Ree] 10:20 am: Oh, HERE's a question, inspired by Johnny's addressing of The Aviator as Sir: Would you rather wind up on the Queen's Honours List for your contributions to music or technology?
[Clingonkelt] 10:20 am: @tomatketchup - got you beat. My son's a second generation fan and he's 16
[The Aviator] 10:21 am: Allegrouse, TSI is nice but I havn't listened to it since I finsished it!
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[GypsyFox] 10:21 am: Gin I LOVE Rachel Brice she is so gifted
[tomatketchup] 10:21 am: Son of a
[normastitz] 10:21 am: My daughters are 12 and 10 ... they love Thomas!
[tomatketchup] 10:21 am: Well, there goes my trophy >:(
[Arathrael] 10:21 am: https://twitter.com/ThomasDolby
[The Aviator] 10:21 am: tomatoketchup, sorry, there was a 12 yr old at my gig in Amsterdam
[normastitz] 10:21 am: Thanks for the link!
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[Clingonkelt] 10:21 am: And Thomas beats us both. LOL!
[screenkiss1969] 10:21 am: I have you all beat! I have 1 and 4 year old fans
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[JohnnyEndo] 10:22 am: awesome screenkiss! i have hope for the future!
[vike] 10:22 am: Thomas, recently Shawn Colvin pinpointed her song "Diamond in the Rough" as the moment she knew she had, essentially, found her sound. When was your first such moment?
[screenkiss1969] 10:22 am: I caught them singing "Evil Twin Brother" the other day
[allegrousa] 10:22 am: I got to see you at the KINK lounge show in Portland, OR. Are you coming back anytime son?
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[allegrousa] 10:22 am: soon?
[Purusha] 10:22 am: Haven't got my 2 daughters past The Beatles, so they don't count. Could be worse though...
[The Aviator] 10:22 am: Yeah but if they don't come to a gig I'm not sure that counts!
[JohnnyEndo] 10:22 am: a fine point!
[screenkiss1969] 10:22 am: The day it
[The Aviator] 10:22 am: Vike, I'm still looking!
[Macha] 10:22 am: @tomatketchup : And that's great. I'm twenty myself, and if I ever have a child, he/she'll be sure to listen to Thomas Dolby
[JohnnyEndo] 10:23 am: all ages - 1 + 4???
[Alan Crantzbea] 10:23 am: Thomas, sometimes you perform with a rhythm machine, and other times with a live drummer. Is it difficult to switch around? Technical hurdles?
[screenkiss1969] 10:23 am: The day it's all ages they will be there!
[tomatketchup] 10:23 am: Hey, by the way Thomas, you don't happen to know any Edwin Birdsong do you?
[Clingonkelt] 10:23 am: @The Aviator - My son wanted to come when you came to Birmingham AL but the venue said 18 and over.
[Pip Squeek] 10:23 am: "The Aviator encourages 1 and 4 year olds to attend his gigs"
[vike] 10:23 am: I was going to tell you not to respond with that - crestfallen No. 2
[screenkiss1969] 10:23 am: I also play his music in my classroom...especially "Gate to the Mind's Eye" during math
[The Aviator] 10:24 am: Thank you. People need to bring their kids to my gigs AND men, you need to bring your wife/girlfriend!
[Picup Andropoff] 10:24 am: Thomas Dolby..Did you pick up any American habbits and take them back to England with you?
[The Aviator] 10:24 am: Seriously
[GypsyFox] 10:24 am: Lol
[JohnnyEndo] 10:24 am: ok, Sir Thomas, almost everyone is doing a Kids Record - any thoughts?
[tomatketchup] 10:24 am: screenkiss1969 @ Myself I love playing Wreck of the Fairchild or Growth, although most people prefer Snoop Dog :/
[GypsyFox] 10:24 am: Hey all us girls went that could make it
[GypsyFox] 10:24 am:
[joebrazil] 10:24 am: I played "screen kiss" to a group to define "metaphor."
[Demona Dragon] 10:24 am: Well I brought my husband (no kids) and he's now a bigger fan than he used to be
[The Aviator] 10:25 am: Picup, erm, I tend to express my feelings! that's not an English trait at all!
[Macha] 10:25 am: @Pip I rememeber being gig-frustrated as a kid. Such tragedies don't need to happen to others
[SootSparrow] 10:25 am: I brought my wife AND I wore a kilt, so that's gotta count for sometihing, right?
[Picup Andropoff] 10:25 am: Haha
[Katyroo] 10:25 am: Indeed, Soot!
[screenkiss1969] 10:25 am: Sometimes I play it in my classroom just because it's an extra perk for myself
[tomatketchup] 10:25 am: I think being shy with one's feelings is a very European trait, Swedish here myself
[Demona Dragon] 10:25 am: you got me beat
[normastitz] 10:25 am: My first gig was at 13, saw Howard Jones at the NEC!
[GypsyFox] 10:25 am: All women love a Kilt Sooty never saw it fail yet.
[Deux Etoiles] 10:26 am: Thomas -- do you have any idea how many amazingly tight friendships were formed during the game!?
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[mary27182] 10:26 am: Thomas, have you been able to get any holiday/down time, or has it been all work work work?
[Clingonkelt] 10:26 am: I brought my wife. She was enthralled. She's a major Tony Banks fan so she has a weakness for guys with keyboards. Somehow, she ended up married to a trombonist
[The Aviator] 10:26 am: Gypsy and thank you. But ladies should realize (a) the band are cute! (b) there are hundreds of intelligent available eligeable males at my gigs!
[allegrousa] 10:26 am: If you don't know about The Sole Inhabitant CD & DVD here is the link to Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/The-Sole-Inhabita ... omas+dolby
[JohnnyEndo] 10:26 am: for real, feist doing 1-2-3-4 on sesame street - Science with Elmo or something?
[GypsyFox] 10:26 am:
[Alan Crantzbea] 10:26 am: haha
[The Aviator] 10:26 am: Norma I think mentioning that gets you auto-ejected
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[tomatketchup] 10:26 am: Thomas, what eventual programming languages do you use to setup your synthesizer and stuff?
[normastitz] 10:26 am: LOL!
[Rolby] 10:26 am: Are there any women here?
[Martin Burr] 10:27 am: @Aviator - I think some of your best songss are the touchy feely ones !
[mary27182] 10:27 am: yes
[Katyroo] 10:27 am: Yep!
[screenkiss1969] 10:27 am: Yes
[normastitz] 10:27 am: Yes
[vike] 10:27 am: Thomas did you write any other songs for Michael Jackson to consider other than Hyperactive?
[Rolby] 10:27 am: (seem to be quite a lot!)
[Demona Dragon] 10:27 am: yes
[The Aviator] 10:27 am: Mary, I'm in Scotland about to take part in some sailing world championships, so yes!
[Lyra] 10:27 am: I agree with Deux Etoiles. Thank you for the game, Aviator.
[GypsyFox] 10:27 am: lol Rolby you make it sound like a bar
[Pip Squeek] 10:27 am: yes!
[Killashandra Ree] 10:27 am: ties herself to Norma - HoJo fans have to stick together.
[The Aviator] 10:27 am: Martin I agree!
[tomatketchup] 10:27 am: Screw the bars, you find the women in the Thomas Dolby livechat
[JohnnyEndo] 10:27 am: ask a silly Q right>\?
[tomatketchup] 10:27 am:
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[Purusha] 10:27 am: Gigs (UK at least) have been very bloke dominated. It's a little unnerving.
[GypsyFox] 10:27 am: BK hey hey
[Killashandra Ree] 10:27 am: BK!
[Deux Etoiles] 10:27 am: BK!
[Demona Dragon] 10:27 am:
[Picup Andropoff] 10:27 am: Thomas Dolby...I just got back from touring all of England on motorcycle. It took most of May and I was able to understand your songs even better from the English viewpoint. There were so many great places to see. Was there a special reason for you moving back to the East Coast of England over all the other great spots?
[mary27182] 10:27 am: Thomas, oh good. I'm glad you are getting some time off. Touring seems like it would be exhausting.
[Black Knight] 10:27 am: yo yo
[Macha] 10:27 am: @Rolby : Of course !
[The Aviator] 10:27 am: Vike, yes, one called 'Interference'
[Katyroo] 10:27 am: Howdy, Black Knight!
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[vike] 10:28 am: Picup has a kick-ass question AND life!!
[Picup Andropoff] 10:28 am: LOL
[vike] 10:28 am: interference recorded anywhere? have not heard
[The Aviator] 10:28 am: Picup, it was mainly because of schools, which sucked in CA
[GypsyFox] 10:28 am: Did Buster know about this?
[Picup Andropoff] 10:28 am: Schools are a great reason here too
[screenkiss1969] 10:28 am: I have a decade long friendship with a man in Chicago just because I listed "Thomas Dolby" as one of my musical interests...more than a decade actually because it was back in AOL days!
[vike] 10:28 am: what's a school?
[mary27182] 10:29 am: geez, Picup, did you do Isle of Mann TT???
[Picup Andropoff] 10:29 am: Snarf
[JohnnyEndo] 10:29 am: i grew up in Pasadena - what's CA? did i miss geography?
[Picup Andropoff] 10:29 am: I do race but not there
[Europa] 10:30 am: JohnnyEndo: California.
[JohnnyEndo] 10:30 am: Sir Thomas, truly, thanks for this. Thanks.
[tomatketchup] 10:30 am: Does Mr. Dolby have any plans for any future albums?
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[Ben69] 10:30 am: Not a question but just to share that I remember listening to "Flying North" on my walkman while looking out of the window at the midnight sun on a flight from London to Iceland back in the summer of 1987 (25 years!). I was an 18 year-old kid on my way to a summer job in a fish factory in the northern fjords (filling the gap between high school and college). So hearing that song always reminds me of that flight! Thanx for everything - Ben69
[vike] 10:30 am: red hurts
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[screenkiss1969] 10:30 am: I'm in California too.
[tomatketchup] 10:31 am: Ben69, sounds like an awesome experience, how was the fish factory?
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[Stemish] 10:31 am: Thomas: will we get a re-cap of your lecture and tour on your blog, perchance?
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[DrGin] 10:31 am: I first heard 'She Blinded Me With Science' on my drive to move to California in 1983, it was a radio station in OK City.
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[Picup Andropoff] 10:31 am: Be69 really was Flying North..lol
[vike] 10:31 am: Mulu - origination? Actually, Thomas, let me reverse. What was the most interesting origination/inspiration/creation scenario for a song of yours?
[JohnnyEndo] 10:31 am: ok, i'm new and stupid - what's the red highlighted text mean please/
[The Aviator] 10:31 am: Stemish ah the blog..... mea culpa
[Stemish] 10:31 am: Ben69: best way to hear Flying North ever!
[Europa] 10:31 am: I am just differentiating myself as admin, Johnny.
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[JohnnyEndo] 10:31 am: gotcha
[screenkiss1969] 10:32 am: This was so wonderful!! I hope that next time I can stay longer...must attend to my little ones now. Thank you Thomas! Nice meeting you all
[Gambolputty...of Ulm] 10:32 am: Hello from Austin, TX, everyone!
[Picup Andropoff] 10:32 am: Red text means to put on your 3D glasses now
[normastitz] 10:32 am: WHo came up with the idea of the box heads in the video for Hyperactive?
[GypsyFox] 10:32 am: hey there
[The Aviator] 10:32 am: Ok I'm going red now!
[Gambolputty...of Ulm] 10:32 am: Hello, Aviator!
[Demona Dragon] 10:32 am: dang thats hard on the eyes
[Pip Squeek] 10:32 am: @aviator - thanks - that helps
[Picup Andropoff] 10:32 am: Hey G of Ulm!!!
[JohnnyEndo] 10:32 am: wow! clash of the RED TITANS!
[The Aviator] 10:32 am: Everybody else but Europa PLEASE STAY WHITE
[mary27182] 10:32 am: wow, there are people here I haven't "seen" in a year!!! hello Gambolputty ... of Ulm
[vike] 10:32 am: Red gives me trotsky icepick visually! pick soft acqua green!
[vike] 10:32 am: AHHHHHH
[Katyroo] 10:32 am: Howdy, Ulm!!
[spike913] 10:32 am: Hello from Philadelphia PA
[Gambolputty...of Ulm] 10:32 am: A great plasure to meet you after the SXSW show at Cedar Street!
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[Gambolputty...of Ulm] 10:33 am: Hello Mary27182!
[spike913] 10:33 am: Caught your show at the World Cafe Live back in March .. great time !
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[The Aviator] 10:33 am: How's this
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[Alan Crantzbea] 10:33 am: good!
[vike] 10:33 am: Lovely
[Demona Dragon] 10:33 am: excellent
[Gambolputty...of Ulm] 10:33 am: Muy bueno
[mary27182] 10:33 am: i like the green
[Picup Andropoff] 10:33 am: Better
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[Arathrael] 10:33 am: Nice
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[caroline] 10:34 am: ah, soothing colors of the sea.
[Yakamoto (brien)] 10:34 am: That's more comfortable than red, yes.
[DrGin] 10:34 am: I like the green, too
[vike] 10:34 am: But our dear, luminous lunesse - what is her new softer color?
[JohnnyEndo] 10:34 am: much better in aqua green!
[GypsyFox] 10:34 am: Boris Darling sends his regards...he is on a shoot. And may not get home in time
[Deux Etoiles] 10:34 am: 17 HIlls Captain Buster Cretin sends his regards. Heould love to be herebut he's in the studio mixing his album!
[Clingonkelt] 10:34 am: YES. the green is great
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[tomatketchup] 10:34 am: Speaking of Hyperactive, does anyone possibly have the midi file for it that appeared in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHWMKLc8 ... re=related
[GypsyFox] 10:34 am: busy boys they are for sure
[vike] 10:34 am: If only Zappa had lived long enough to record with you
[Gambolputty...of Ulm] 10:34 am: Buster's stuff is really good - so glad to have met him through FC!
[Alan Crantzbea] 10:34 am: Thomas, who are you listening to these days?
[JohnnyEndo] 10:34 am: WOW. no kidding - FZ and TD...
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[vike] 10:35 am: Good question Alan!!
[Pip Squeek] 10:35 am: @aviator -BTW everyone appriciated the signed Top Trumps cards from the Sydney gig - that I had not told any of them I was sending them
[vike] 10:35 am: Sigur Ros?
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[Clingonkelt] 10:35 am: If I had to pick someone for TD to record with, it would be blue man group.
[Yakamoto (brien)] 10:35 am: In Detroit, we're going to see Jeff Elbel play tonight - another Floating City musical connection.
[The Aviator] 10:35 am: Good. Folks, it's the 1 year anniversary of the Floating City Game! Anyone got any passing comments or reminiscences?
[mary27182] 10:35 am: Thomas, what is your favorite kind of tea? (really reaching here...)
[spike913] 10:35 am: nice Clingonkelt
[spike913] 10:35 am: agree there
[mary27182] 10:35 am: it's interesting how many of my facebook friends are from the game
[Demona Dragon] 10:35 am: too many benches ... lol!
[caroline] 10:36 am: thomas, it's remarkable how many great friendships have come from the game.
[Alan Crantzbea] 10:36 am: Yeah, Deux Etoiles pointed it out, that there are quite a few friendships that grew out of last summer's game and album. Thanks for that!
[Gambolputty...of Ulm] 10:36 am: I remember seeing the post letting everyone know the game was on. I clicked on it on a whim. I had know idea it would be swallow me whole! LOL!
[Flatrock] 10:36 am: I loved it all and want to play again!
[Clingonkelt] 10:36 am: LOL I am afraid I never have gotten any good at the game. I think I am not smart enough for it .
[mary27182] 10:36 am: and we also plan semi-regular face-to-face get-togethers
[Pip Squeek] 10:36 am: @Aviator - the key ongoing memory is the friendships made
[The Aviator] 10:36 am: Lapsang Souchong
[El Jefe] 10:36 am: Thomas, Paul's comment earlier was bang-on, as wel Capt. G's, it was the friendships!
[Katyroo] 10:36 am: I have photos of me with Katzenjammy on a bench & with AlterCow on another bench! Faraway friends getting together
[vike] 10:36 am: THAT IS COLIN HAY"S FAVE TEA!
[Clingonkelt] 10:36 am: OTOH were it not for the game, I'd not have known you were touring again.
[spike913] 10:36 am: vike ROFL
[El Jefe] 10:36 am: Mr. Cretin and I managed to catch up but I have not yet made it to other meetups!
[Europa] 10:37 am: The replicating Moths.
[Picup Andropoff] 10:37 am: Dolby...Your game put us through pretty much every available emotion.
[Gambolputty...of Ulm] 10:37 am: Yes! The moths!
[vike] 10:37 am: He has a song called "beautiful world" and he cites lapsang souchong - to make it worse, I handed him three packets after a gig and he looked at me like I was - well - me
[Lt Fragg] 10:37 am: A year ago I was on vacation playing...and I am back here again. Its fitting I'm in room 452.
[normastitz] 10:37 am: Right, nice as this is I have to go, getting up early to see the Olympic Torch Relay.
[Martin Burr] 10:37 am: Floating City is a very friendly community
[Pip Squeek] 10:37 am: Creating that petents
[vike] 10:37 am: Ow! Europa - blood is coming out of my eyes!
[Katyroo] 10:37 am: Waitinggggg and waitingggg for a trade to regenerate!
[Gambolputty...of Ulm] 10:37 am: Oh, and how I would start seeing things on the side of the road IRL as flotsam!
[The Aviator] 10:37 am: Picup... I suspected as much
[DrGin] 10:37 am: Yes, I remember leaving for Burning Man with some regret that I'd miss the endgame.
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[Macha] 10:38 am: @Caroline, @Pip : That's right ! Never witnessed the first run, but still glad to be here, thanks to all Citizens
[mary27182] 10:38 am: I remember working so hard to get everyone on the tribe to complete albums, and then getting no points for it. We were so confused.
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[Picup Andropoff] 10:38 am: I remember that Gin. Sad to see you go then
[Demona Dragon] 10:38 am: Everyone trading entire collection across as many people as possible...
[Katyroo] 10:38 am: I rushed off a plane to try & help solve puzzle at end, but 17 Hills got skunked there.
[vike] 10:38 am: Aviator, would you be a bit preturbed with any critiques of the new disc (actually just a single comment?) Don't respond if you'd prefer to keep this Facebook, 2012, Mass Mind Herd Positive
[DrGin] 10:38 am: But, got to meet Killashandra and Johnny Crass in person on the Playa.
[Pip Squeek] 10:38 am: overtaking MycoLogical's posting total
[Arathrael] 10:38 am: the book of history page, and court sessions
[Gambolputty...of Ulm] 10:39 am: I remember how much it made me want to get the new album! I went out to Waterloo Records and bought it the first day it came out.
[Katyroo] 10:39 am: I still want to whup whoever wrote version A & thought we'd accept it as best one!
[mary27182] 10:39 am: I really liked the world, and the illustrations
[Alan Crantzbea] 10:39 am: heh yeah Soot and Europa goofing off in court.
[Macha] 10:39 am: @Pip : As expected from you
[The Aviator] 10:39 am: I think you FC folks shold figure out a format for continuing the game, that doesn't require ongoing input from me and my team, other than perhaps writing a backstory and laying a paper trail. Comments?
[Gambolputty...of Ulm] 10:39 am: Oh! HAUNTED DOLLS!!!
[Picup Andropoff] 10:39 am: Waterloo Records is the beat!
[DrGin] 10:39 am: Thomas, will there be further re-mixes of songs from The Floating City?
[Pip Squeek] 10:39 am: Oh .. the Book of history and the huge multi-person authoring and editing sessions through the night
[GypsyFox] 10:39 am: Its fun to still go on and trade
[Katyroo] 10:40 am: I'm still trading, and newcomers are enjoying it too
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[DrGin] 10:40 am: I'd love to see a comic book series based on Tales of the Floating City.
[tomatketchup] 10:40 am: What DrGin said
[Katyroo] 10:40 am: Oh, YES, Dr GIn!
[Demona Dragon] 10:40 am: There are still a few seemingly unobtainable items
[Gambolputty...of Ulm] 10:40 am: Great idea Dr.!!
[Katyroo] 10:40 am: [are you listening, Soot??]
[Ben69] 10:40 am: @vike I think Facebook is a game where the aim is to convince your "friends" that you are happier than they are. So far I am losing ...
[The Aviator] 10:40 am: DrGin... better ask Soot Sparrow about that!
[Pip Squeek] 10:41 am: @aviator - it does sort of work as stand alone now (apart from spam) with effectively two ways of playing - get North or Trade immediately
[vike] 10:41 am: @ben69 excellent!
[Alan Crantzbea] 10:41 am: ohh that'd be awesome Paul
[Picup Andropoff] 10:41 am: Having the game progress would be a great event. There are soooo many talented players. It was amazing
[SootSparrow] 10:41 am: Yes, I'm listening...
[tomatketchup] 10:41 am: Tales of the Floating City - His home ruined... His family murdered in cold blood... his world... DESTROYED. Thomas Dolby staring as Thomas Dolby in... TALES OF THE FLOATING CITY
[Rolby] 10:41 am: @Pip - or have a fight with Melody!:)
[mary27182] 10:41 am: As for continuing the game, if there were a way to make it like the MOOs and MUDDs of old internet, the players themselves wrote the dungeons
[Alan Crantzbea] 10:41 am: Soot.. make that happen *wiggles fingers*
[Katyroo] 10:41 am: Graphic novel!!
[vike] 10:41 am: Did you give your father's pots back to Greece?
[The Aviator] 10:42 am: Pip: someone will have to explain what you're saying in detail. We could probably shut down the parts that are no use, and enhance the rest somehow?
[Pip Squeek] 10:42 am: @Rolby - we love each other really
[mary27182] 10:42 am: ...but I do not know if MOOs and MUDDs are still popular...
[DrGin] 10:42 am: I loved the comic anthology that they did based on The Matrix many years ago, I could see the Floating City doing that.
[The Aviator] 10:42 am: Vike my brother did
[SootSparrow] 10:42 am: Maybe Thomas and I will have a little talk some day...
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[tomatketchup] 10:42 am: I would love to see a MUD of the Floating City, but perhaps as a different game
[Gambolputty...of Ulm] 10:42 am: I would like to see the map become active again, and allow for movement.
[vike] 10:42 am: Good old Marty
[tomatketchup] 10:42 am: Don't fix what isn't broken, as they say.
[Martin Burr] 10:42 am: as FC players, we also need a way to kill the spam on the game boards - it's taking over
[Jonny Cappuccino] 10:43 am: I used to play a MUD called "Shades" on Prestel. Reminding me of that has made me feel quite old.
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[Alan Crantzbea] 10:43 am: Soot: Kickstartr maybe?
[Picup Andropoff] 10:43 am: Moving the ships around would be fun
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[Lyra] 10:43 am: I agree with the idea of a comic book. It would also be nice to feature some of the best patents.
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[Lyra] 10:43 am: Hello, SD!
[The Aviator] 10:43 am: Gambolputty, that can't happen... I can't afford to emply several people to keep it running
[GypsyFox] 10:43 am: Thomas thank you again for the awesome show at Tippitinas and we wish we had been brazen enough to meet you and at least take a picture or two. Lol . we were the ones right at the front and to your left a little. When you asked if there were floating city members we yelled like monkies ha
[Europa] 10:43 am: I try to keep on it, but there's a lot of other projects.
[DrGin] 10:43 am: Soot, are you coming to ComicCon?
[Katyroo] 10:43 am: Yes, Kickstartr could work great for graphic novel
[spiritual_dogma] 10:43 am: Hi there, Lyra. Nice to see you!
[tmdrfan] 10:43 am: thomas, have you thought about doing a Google+ hangout?
[Europa] 10:43 am: But I do check in and try to kill the spam when I can.
[The Aviator] 10:43 am: Alan that's a cool idea
[vike] 10:43 am: Of course there's the argument they should have been returned far earlier but then it wasn't the Stone of Scone
[Gambolputty...of Ulm] 10:43 am: Ah, understood.
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[Macha] 10:44 am: @the Aviator : Now we are making "progress" by making Sorties, completing Cargo and/or sailing North. The Game amso has very "dynamic" forums
[The Aviator] 10:44 am: TMDRfan, are they any good?
[tomatketchup] 10:44 am: Okay, gonna listen to a TD song but don't know which, any recommendations?
[JohnnyEndo] 10:44 am: yes alan - kickstarter would be perfect for this.
[Yakamoto (brien)] 10:44 am: Ooh, Kickstarter reward levels that include a set of carkeys?
[magiske] 10:44 am: Hi SD!!
[Macha] 10:44 am: @Spiritual_Dogma : Ahoy, SD !
[The Aviator] 10:44 am: Macha, like I say, someone needs to get it all down and make a kind of 'petition'
[Alan Crantzbea] 10:44 am: haha the Bug On A Peach level!
[spiritual_dogma] 10:44 am: Hey Magiske! Great to see you around
[Arathrael] 10:44 am: google+ hangouts are good, but the problem is the limited numbers - only up to ten people at a time
[Clingonkelt] 10:45 am: tomatketchup: Budapest By Blimp - Sole inhabitant version
[tmdrfan] 10:45 am: The Google+ hangouts are quite good. Allows you to do chat with people face-to-face.
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[spiritual_dogma] 10:45 am: Macha! Good evening to you too!
[SootSparrow] 10:45 am: A graphic novel is more a matter of time than finances, but you never know...
[Arathrael] 10:45 am: I've seen people tie them in with broadcasts via youtube or other though
[vike] 10:45 am: Any crazier fan for you than Julian's Giant Banana fan?
[Pip Squeek] 10:45 am: @aviator - I have tried to summarise here – [link removed to stay in limits]
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[spiritual_dogma] 10:45 am: Great to see so many of you around
[tmdrfan] 10:45 am: you can do the hangout broadcast and let more than 10 people watch
[mary27182] 10:45 am: are there enough people left playing from each tribe, so that each tribe could come up with a new puzzle?
[vike] 10:46 am: Who lived under you at 5 Petley Rd, Hammersmith, West London?
[DrGin] 10:46 am: Soot, if the graphic novel was done as an anthology, with different artists and writers, it could be very-doable.
[The Aviator] 10:46 am: Pip, shouldn't you WIki it?
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[JohnnyEndo] 10:46 am: ok, how "GLOBAL" are we anyway? me = Tucson AZ
[SootSparrow] 10:46 am: I've got a bunch of friends who have financed comci projects via Kickstarter, with great success.
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[DrGin] 10:47 am: Los Angeles, here
[tomatketchup] 10:47 am: Lund, Sweden here
[magiske] 10:47 am: yes. KS is good for funding..
[sneezerdog] 10:47 am: colorado
[Yakamoto (brien)] 10:47 am: I'm in the ruins that were once Detroit.
[Flatrock] 10:47 am: St. Paul, Minnesota
[Demona Dragon] 10:47 am: new brunswick, canada here
[tmdrfan] 10:47 am: me=Orlando, FL
[tomatketchup] 10:47 am: inb4 "Sweden? Don't you mean Switzerland?"
[spiritual_dogma] 10:47 am: Cologne, Germany
[Katyroo] 10:47 am: Florida (home is Texas)
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[Gambolputty...of Ulm] 10:47 am: Austin, TX
[Martin Burr] 10:48 am: Essex, United Kingdom
[Picup Andropoff] 10:48 am: Houston Texas
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[JohnnyEndo] 10:48 am: wow... nicely played guys!
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[Clingonkelt] 10:48 am: Birmingham, AL
[Deux Etoiles] 10:48 am: San Francisco, CA
[spiritual_dogma] 10:48 am: Hi Martin (Burr). Nice to meet you!
[GypsyFox] 10:48 am: Arlington, TX
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[Clingonkelt] 10:48 am: and sometimes a world in Minecraft named "Albion"
[SootSparrow] 10:48 am: Kalamazoo, MI
[Rolby] 10:48 am: Guildford, UK
[JohnnyEndo] 10:48 am: WE ARE GLOBAL INDEED!!!
[Pip Squeek] 10:48 am: @Aviator - ok - I'll see aboutdoing that
[vike] 10:49 am: when is the next new music?
[Clingonkelt] 10:49 am: @Rolby - isn't that where Ford Prefect was from?
[Martin Burr] 10:49 am: '@SD - good to see you in the house
[Rolby] 10:49 am: That was Godalming, I think? Next town.
[Clingonkelt] 10:49 am: LOL
[mary27182] 10:49 am: other ideas about keeping the game running: I do know that many of us are sysadmin types
[The Aviator] 10:49 am: Pip: thanks, cos your link didn't work
[DrGin] 10:49 am: I used to publish comics many years ago, Soot. Worked with Rich Johnston on The X-Flies and Dirtbag.
[mary27182] 10:50 am: I am not sure how time-intensive it is to keep the map running, but....
[vike] 10:50 am: If Nietzsche were alive, which of your songs would he give you the most #$%^&* for writing?
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[tomatketchup] 10:50 am: Oboy, here comes the Nietzsche jokes :p
[vike] 10:50 am: Okay, I'm laughing now - I have to get out of here - this room is making me crazier than usual
[Pip Squeek] 10:50 am: @Aviator - it was to a MotFC forum - so you probably had to be logged in
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[Clingonkelt] 10:50 am: I would ask the room at large: Is the value of the game, for you personally, in the gameplay? Or the social interaction? Cause this game has both
[vike] 10:50 am: But wow - I was here - unbelievable with the delightful, the effervescent and lovely...LUNESSE! Ciao
[The Aviator] 10:51 am: Mary: hmmm..... it's not just keeping the map runniong, it's overall tweaking of the parameters to keep things rolling along
[Yakamoto (brien)] 10:51 am: @TheAviator, a funny thing about the forums, the first request to view a page often doesn't work. If you try to reload it usually comes up on the 2nd request.
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[Macha] 10:51 am: Do we have people familiar vith filming techniques here?
[Pip Squeek] 10:51 am: @Clingonkelt - originally the game play, but it soon became the social interaction
[tmdrfan] 10:51 am: I'd still love to start playing the game, but available time is so little.
[Gambolputty...of Ulm] 10:51 am: It was mostly the game play for me at first, but the social aspect is what wound up sucking me in.
[The Aviator] 10:51 am: Pip, please send it (or a Wiki's version) to Lunesse
[Clingonkelt] 10:51 am: See that's my thinking also
[mary27182] 10:51 am: I think AlterCow is familiar w/ filming
[Gambolputty...of Ulm] 10:51 am: I really felt part of a community
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[Gambolputty...of Ulm] 10:52 am: AlterCow is indeed
[doris cleaner] 10:52 am: Sorry I'm late - was in the pub! Agree with Pip Squeek; originally the game, then the social interaction...
[Pip Squeek] 10:52 am: @Aviator - will do
[mary27182] 10:52 am: yeah, the solving of the game was much better b/c of the social interaction
[GypsyFox] 10:52 am: yea where IS COW
[spike913] 10:52 am: turn the city upside down and have everyone start heading south
[DrGin] 10:52 am: Isn't Cow in Ohio or something?
[mary27182] 10:52 am: Cow is probably at a funeral
[The Aviator] 10:52 am: All: is there any sense in resetting your ships back to the coastline?
[Clingonkelt] 10:52 am: AND morphing the game into a more socially interactive thing instead of a more game thing could be less labor intensive (read: fewer pounds per month to operate)
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[Picup Andropoff] 10:53 am: Reset them to the coast and then what?
[Clingonkelt] 10:53 am: Or there could be ANOTHER city?
[Gambolputty...of Ulm] 10:53 am: I'm not sure, Aviator.
[mary27182] 10:53 am: couldn't we be reset just by starting a new character?
[Pip Squeek] 10:53 am: @Aviator - yes - for the fun of redoing the journey
[The Aviator] 10:53 am: Well quite
[Arathrael] 10:53 am: the thing with the game is that it was essentially a linear progression from coast to pole/floating city, tied in with a storyline
[gruvsyco] 10:53 am: I never got past just starting the game due to social interaction
[doris cleaner] 10:53 am: Don't want to just replay the game in the same way...
[Pip Squeek] 10:53 am: some of us have done that trip 6? times
[Gambolputty...of Ulm] 10:53 am: Yes, I would do it all over again. Indeed I would.
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[GypsyFox] 10:54 am: ME TOO :dog:
[Deux Etoiles] 10:54 am: Fayili!
[DrGin] 10:54 am: Fayilli! Hi!
[Stemish] 10:54 am: Fayili!
[GypsyFox] 10:54 am: hi Fay
[Arathrael] 10:54 am: so resetting the ships back to the coast makes sense in starting that progression again, albeit without the storyline
[Fayili] 10:54 am: Oh my. Good thing I remembered about this!
[The Aviator] 10:54 am: You guys have to be as ingenious about the sequel as we were about the original! ... ie, work within the time/budget contraints (zero)
[Martin Burr] 10:54 am: I never got passed 5nm - but i've liked it just the same
[Clingonkelt] 10:54 am: I never got to the end, but I will say that I think I would find a sequel much more interesting that a re-boot
[Picup Andropoff] 10:54 am: Haha...Zero
[Katyroo] 10:54 am: Hi, Fayilli!
[Clingonkelt] 10:54 am: LOL wow that's Low Budget, Thomas!
[Lt Fragg] 10:54 am: I would do it again, however a lot of the joy of the game was the discovery /together/ of ewhat was going on and the communal race to the goals
[Fayili] 10:54 am: Hi, Katy!
[Arathrael] 10:54 am: really to adapt the game to post-floating city you kind of need a whole new game I think
[Alan Crantzbea] 10:55 am: Thomas, do you think you will do something like this for your next music? Somethingthat engages your fan base and is social like The City was?
[Macha] 10:55 am: Ahoy !
[SootSparrow] 10:55 am: DrGin: I've been self publishing my own graphic novels for the last 10 years, so I know all of the fun ups and downs of the crazy world of comics publishing. : ) Like I said, it would be a matter of time, Thomas' permission to do so, and all that. So the best answer is maybe, but if it's something people want, let's keep the discussion active. You all know where I hang out web wise.!
[Clingonkelt] 10:55 am: @Athrael Agree, but it's not in the budget, apparently LOL!
[JohnnyEndo] 10:55 am: since i have never HEARD of the game before today - old dinosaur = me - start a new one please?
[Gambolputty...of Ulm] 10:55 am: Building the new world.
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[The Aviator] 10:55 am: Well, we can keep the server up, just not have any intervention by me, Lunesse, the paid programmers etc
[Katyroo] 10:55 am: Perhaps puzzle-problems that take more of the patent-creating aspect?
[Gambolputty...of Ulm] 10:55 am: Hola, Jeff Elbel!
[Arathrael] 10:55 am: it's not impossible to do a new game for zero budget, zero time is a bit trickier [Katyroo] 10:56 am: Howdy, Jeff!
[Clingonkelt] 10:56 am: @athrael - point to you
[Pip Squeek] 10:56 am: Arathrael - you could have the same underlying mechanics, but perhaps with some 'keys' that are necessary to get past certain mileages and the keys come from sorties
[jeff_elbel] 10:56 am: Greetings and well-wishes, all! Happy Anniversary and many happy returns of the day!
[Lt Fragg] 10:56 am: How much intervention has happened since the calendar scheduling of sorties?
[Europa] 10:56 am: Just a few more minutes everyone, get your last questions in.
[Yakamoto (brien)] 10:56 am: Well, the compelling part of the game (for me) was the social / team interaction involved with dealing with the events (pirates, curses, etc). Stuff that took manpower to perform.
[GypsyFox] 10:56 am: hey Jeff
[Macha] 10:56 am: Jeff ! So you made it
[Flatrock] 10:56 am: Still, just SO thankful for the original experience of the game.
[caroline] 10:56 am: hi jeff!
[spiritual_dogma] 10:56 am: Cheers, Captain Elbel!
[JohnnyEndo] 10:56 am: north american tour again? w/ AZ please?
[Yakamoto (brien)] 10:56 am: Hi Jeff, I'm still coming to see you at The Bullfrog later.
[mary27182] 10:56 am: thanks again, Thomas, for the music and for the game. Take care, and enjoy the sailing!
[jeff_elbel] 10:57 am: Looking forward to seeing some Floating City friends tonight near Detroit at the Bullfrog Bar & Grill for a Who tribute/benefit show I'm playing. We're going to hijack it as a Floating City reunion!
[Gambolputty...of Ulm] 10:57 am: Yes, thanks to TMDR and the entire team for giving us this experience!
[The Aviator] 10:57 am: Well there is an interface designed for non-programmers... eg I was able to set times for Daring Sorties myself, and change quantities of a given item that showed up as Flotsam.
[Clingonkelt] 10:57 am: @Aviator - perhaps we could continue to throw ideas out via, twitter, say?
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[Arathrael] 10:57 am: Aviator, any chance of a FC anniversary gig? (may as well ask!)
[doris cleaner] 10:57 am: Yes!!
[Picup Andropoff] 10:57 am: If I remember right Mr. Dolby, the main purpose o the game was to attract new listeners to your music more than entertain your existing fans. Do you feel the game did that?
[jeff_elbel] 10:57 am: Captain Yakamoto, see you soon!
[The Aviator] 10:57 am: .... so if you guys designated your own moderators maybe that could work?
[Clingonkelt] 10:57 am: @Aviator - best idea yet
[mary27182] 10:57 am: yes, there are many of us who could be moderators
[Gambolputty...of Ulm] 10:57 am: That could work
[GypsyFox] 10:57 am: Indeed Flatrock...and for everything after as well. Like you said Amy permamant friends and people we truly love that we will always keep in our lives.
[mary27182] 10:57 am: even stuff that involves programming
[El Jefe] 10:57 am: I think we could designate mods happily.
[Deux Etoiles] 10:57 am: @The Aviator: so how many total of each of the rarest flotsam items were there!?
[Yakamoto (brien)] 10:57 am: I think that could be fun.
[Macha] 10:57 am: @TheAviator : If that's so, I'll be glad to do my share, as we all would I think
[Pip Squeek] 10:57 am: Picuc - a yes from me - I was a gamer first
[Arathrael] 10:58 am: that would certainly help give some dynamicism and structure to it
[The Aviator] 10:58 am: Picup, I certainly do feel it achieved that
[jeff_elbel] 10:58 am: I believe a batch of us requested moderatorship a couple of months ago, via Captain Pip.
[mary27182] 10:58 am: also I think we could create puzzles
[Europa] 10:58 am: Jeff: There are issues with tribal privacy.
[Picup Andropoff] 10:58 am: @ Aviator Thats great to hear
[mary27182] 10:58 am: maybe each tribe could come up with new puzzles for teh other tribes
[jeff_elbel] 10:58 am: I see, Europa.
[The Aviator] 10:58 am: But bear in mind that if you elect new GODs, they have to be (a) impartial (b) not players themselves
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[El Jefe] 10:58 am: Good idea, Mary
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[Fayili] 10:58 am: I would love to be able to create puzzles to share.
[Clingonkelt] 10:59 am: @Aviator - how soon does a decision have to occur?
[Gambolputty...of Ulm] 10:59 am: I was a fan of the music as well as your career, which I why I played the game. It made me a bigger fan as a result.
[SootSparrow] 10:59 am: It was a thrill to see the game evolve, planned and unplanned, and to see the narrative bend by the actions of the players. For me, it was great to tap into a whole new world of people to share my geekery with.
[jeff_elbel] 10:59 am: I stll enjoy hanging out, trading, and keeping a handful of forum threads going. The limericks are fun, and occasionally we produce a zinger.
[The Floating City]: MycoLogical has entered at 10:59 am
[Pip Squeek] 10:59 am: yay ! MycoLogical!
[doris cleaner] 10:59 am: ...and we had our own theme tune!
[Europa] 10:59 am: You can email me about things dealing with the game evolution. lunesse@thomasdolby.com
[Macha] 10:59 am: @MycoLogical : Hi there!
[MycoLogical] 11:00 am: Hey Pip
[Clingonkelt] 11:00 am: @Europa noted and thanks
[MycoLogical] 11:00 am: And you too Macha!
[Rolby] 11:00 am: Miss Sing's Flotsometer has been fun.
[SootSparrow] 11:00 am: MUSHROOM!
[GypsyFox] 11:00 am: Oh SootyPaul and your graphics and artwork are soooo amazing
[Gambolputty...of Ulm] 11:00 am: Oh, and happy anniversary everyone!
[tmdrfan] 11:00 am: if you do decide to do a reboot, make sure to post it out on the social networks...I really wouldn't want to miss it again
[Fayili] 11:00 am: I also enjoy the community we formed. Doing a Secret Santa or something for Christmas would be neat, if everything were still running around then.
[Katyroo] 11:00 am: I;m still trading, although the forums don't play well with my computer these days
[Europa] 11:00 am: We are VERY happy you all came to chat today, and thanks to the Aviator for making time in his schedule as well.
[JohnnyEndo] 11:00 am: thank you @europa - nicely played!
[doris cleaner] 11:00 am: Thanks
[jeff_elbel] 11:00 am: Must go. Big love to The Aviator, Europa and to all my fellow Captains. Happy anniversary! Thomas, so loved your band show at Park West in Chicago. I love the instrumental FC disc and look forward to whatever new music may come.
[mary27182] 11:00 am: thank you!!!
[Europa] 11:00 am: tmdrfan: We will do a social notice for sure.
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[Pip Squeek] 11:00 am: thank you for organising!!
[Katyroo] 11:00 am: Thanks to all! A life-changing summer it was!
[Yakamoto (brien)] 11:00 am: @TheAviator Thanks, it's always nice to hear from you!
[Flatrock] 11:00 am: Bench!
[Alan Crantzbea] 11:00 am: Thank you for the music, Thomas, again.
[Macha] 11:00 am: @Jeff : Bye ! Have a great time
[Demona Dragon] 11:00 am: Thank you Thomas, for the chat today and the awsome tour =)
[JohnnyEndo] 11:00 am: thank you Sir Thomas!
[caroline] 11:01 am: PRD did a secret santa last xmas, and it was a hoot.
[Alan Crantzbea] 11:01 am: BENCH
[tmdrfan] 11:01 am: Thanks @Europa and @TheAviator!
[Fayili] 11:01 am: Will you ever do a not 21+ show in the Bay Area? XD
[doris cleaner] 11:01 am: ...and any news on the Islington footage?!
[The Aviator] 11:01 am: Someone who understands game design and is familar with FC could probably think up a 'curtailed' version that requires little or no programming resources. For example, there could be a Patent Office that just automatically posts applications, and the community gets to vote on whether they pass or not
[Gambolputty...of Ulm] 11:01 am: Cool on the Secret Santa!
[GypsyFox] 11:01 am: YES thank you Thomas you truly changed lives by the people it allows us to meet in a very literaly way.
[Fayili] 11:01 am: Or will I have to wait two years to see you?
[spiritual_dogma] 11:01 am: Wonderful to see you, people. @The Aviator: Thanks for all the lovely music
[GypsyFox] 11:01 am: literal* hehe
[Macha] 11:01 am: Yes... Thanks for all that.
[spike913] 11:01 am: (tipping hat) i barely played, but longtime listener ... looking forward to any new project you put out
[Lt Fragg] 11:01 am: Thanks, Aviator
[The Aviator] 11:01 am: Faylii: yes, sorry about that. Looks like there might be something in Oct
[jeff_elbel] 11:01 am: Bench!
[Flatrock] 11:01 am: Thanks, so much Thomas!
[JohnnyEndo] 11:01 am: here here gypsy fox! so true!
[spike913] 11:01 am: ooops ..not wearing a hat
[Katyroo] 11:01 am: That sounds workable, @The Aviator
[Fayili] 11:02 am: Aaand I'll be down in LA by then! Well, here's hoping.
[Yakamoto (brien)] 11:02 am: The Secret Santa was awesome. I was always impressed with the creativity of my tribe mates. Trading actual creative items as gifts was ... well, almost overwhelming.
[The Aviator] 11:02 am: Ok roger and out!!
[Gambolputty...of Ulm] 11:02 am: I like that idea on the patent approval
[Fayili] 11:02 am: Thanks for the games and the music, anyway.
[JohnnyEndo] 11:02 am: peace.
[Gambolputty...of Ulm] 11:02 am: Ciao!
[El Jefe] 11:02 am: Thanks!!
[Clingonkelt] 11:02 am: @Aviator good night sir!
[Yakamoto (brien)] 11:02 am: @TheAviator G'night!
[Rolby] 11:02 am: Thanks and goodbye!
[Demona Dragon] 11:02 am: aurevoir
[doris cleaner] 11:02 am: Thanks for being here @Avitaor
[mary27182] 11:02 am: go Federer!
[GypsyFox] 11:02 am: Bye and many blessings to you :rose:
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[Katyroo] 11:02 am: Safe sailing to all!
[Pip Squeek] 11:02 am: thanks for everything @aviator
[Macha] 11:02 am: @Aviator All the best !
[Macha] 11:03 am: and goodbye
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[El Jefe] 11:03 am: Must dash, all -- cheers!
[Arathrael] 11:03 am: Thanks!
[Deux Etoiles] 11:03 am: Thank you!
[Gambolputty...of Ulm] 11:03 am: Indeed! BENCH!!!
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[Europa] 11:03 am: Thanks again, everyone!
[Picup Andropoff] 11:03 am: It would be great for us fans to have something going that would be fun for us and also bring in new fans in a world saturated with so many performers. To have Dolby stand out in a clever way others havent done.
[mary27182] 11:03 am: bye chief!
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[Yakamoto (brien)] 11:03 am: Bench! Thanks Lunesse!
[doris cleaner] 11:03 am: :0)
[spiritual_dogma] 11:03 am: See you around and hopefully trade some items... again
[JohnnyEndo] 11:03 am: you guys rock - thanks for letting me crash your party! peace.
[Demona Dragon] 11:03 am: Bench
[Europa] 11:03 am: Sure thing, Yakamoto!
[DrGin] 11:03 am: thanks!
Great seeing everyone!
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[Demona Dragon] 11:03 am: ty lunesse
[Europa] 11:03 am: Johnny, join Thomas' FB page, etc.
[Macha] 11:03 am: @SD you know we will
[Europa] 11:03 am: keep talking to us! =)
[Macha] 11:04 am: Ty, Europa
[Europa] 11:04 am: You are welcome Demona
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[Europa] 11:04 am: YW, Macha
[JohnnyEndo] 11:04 am: already have - that's how i stumbled onto this!
[Yakamoto (brien)] 11:04 am: @jeff_elbel What time do you go on?
[Macha] 11:04 am: and Bench to y'all!
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[Europa] 11:04 am: JohnnyEndo: great!
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[Arathrael] 11:04 am: If someone could save and post the chat on the forums that would be great
[spiritual_dogma] 11:04 am: @Macha: I know for sure
[Arathrael] 11:04 am: I lost my log when I got briefly disconnected a while ago
[Rolby] 11:04 am: (@Macha - don't forget about your autograph!)
[Demona Dragon] 11:04 am: agreed
[Macha] 11:04 am: Will do
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[SootSparrow] 11:04 am: Good night Thomas, get some sleep! Lunesse, thanks, anad clean up that salsa! : )
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[doris cleaner] 11:05 am: Goodnight all, Doris loves you xxx
[Arathrael] 11:05 am: night Doris
[GypsyFox] 11:05 am: Bye yall....love you
[mary27182] 11:05 am: thank you, good night.
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[Macha] 11:05 am: 'Night !
[Demona Dragon] 11:05 am: group hugz
[Europa] 11:05 am: =)
[spiritual_dogma] 11:05 am: Good night, Doris... lovely costume at the winner's gig!
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[JohnnyEndo] 11:05 am: love and light to you all - and thanks. peace.
[Macha] 11:05 am: @Rolby : You're too much
[spiritual_dogma] 11:05 am: Same to you Johnny!
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[Alan Crantzbea] 11:06 am: Soot: think about how, given some sort of green light from TMDR, how much time and
money it would take to get a graphic FC novel out the door. I mean, if you want to
[Europa] 11:06 am: you all may stay here and chat as long as you like. =)
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[SootSparrow] 11:07 am: Agreed; it would be cool!
[Alan Crantzbea] 11:07 am: ThanksEuropa!
[Picup Andropoff] 11:07 am: Soot. I would be willing to help with a graphic also
[SootSparrow] 11:07 am: Good night all, thanks for all the kind words on the Facebook pages; It's an honor to share
my work with such an appreciative crowd! Keep track of me at www.paulsizer.com!
[Macha] 11:07 am: @Alan : We could finance it somehow!
[Alan Crantzbea] 11:07 am: Once we get a figure like that, we could think abou a kickstarter for it maybe
[Alan Crantzbea] 11:07 am: catcha!
[DrGin] 11:07 am: Soot, loved BPM.
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[The Floating City]: Europa has left at 11:07 am -:)