<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Let’s meet this Friday at 7 pm via jitsi.org. <div><br></div><div>One limitation of jitsi (or a limitation of me in not being able to find how to do this - if it can be done) is the inability to schedule a meeting in advance. I’ll create a meeting on Friday around 6PM and reply to this email chain with the link. Click the link in the email and it’ll open the meeting in your browser or, if you’re using a smartphone or tablet, you’d have the option of using the smartphone/tablet app. </div><div><br></div><div>We’ll read what I suggested earlier </div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We’ll read and discuss a story available online so it’ll be easy for everyone to get. I like the name of this one:</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><i style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Secret Life of Bots</i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">by Suzanne Palmer. Click on the link below to read the story. </span></div><div><a style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana;"><br></a></div><div><a style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana;">http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/palmer_09_17/</a><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>As for ‘The Other David’, here’s a few more suggestions:</div><div>DaW (if it’s good enough for a SF imprint...)</div><div>DWit (using the RKov model)</div><div>David (or Dave) W</div><div>TOD (the other David)</div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">See everyone Friday around 7 pm. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Louis</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The bastard child of absurdity and the sublime. </span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div>Sent from Snoopy, my other iThing</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Apr 6, 2020, at 4:53 PM, "david@challengerconsulting.com" <david@challengerconsulting.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><div dir="auto">Well just for the record, I self-identified as (the other) David, but I will also accept "the other David" so not to exclude the parenthetically challenged.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><div dir="auto" font-size:9pt;"=""><i>Sent from my Sprint Phone.</i></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 10pt;"><div id="LGEmailHeader" dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">------ Original message------</div><div dir="auto"><b>From: </b>David G. Grubbs<dggrubbs@gmail.com></dggrubbs@gmail.com></div><div dir="auto"><b>Date: </b>Mon, Apr 6, 2020 12:51 PM</div><div dir="auto"><b>To: </b>NESFA Reading Group;</div><div dir="auto"><b>Cc: </b></div><div dir="auto"><b>Subject:</b>Re: [nesfa-reading-group] What’cha_think_about_a_v irtual_Reading_Group_test?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">The "other David" is "David W.". I'm "David G." or "!
Dave G." The only collision we've run into so far at NESFA with that pattern is "Rick K{atze,ovalcik}", so Kovalcik goes by RKOV.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 12:05 PM Wesley Brodsky via reading-group <<a href="mailto:reading-group@lists.nesfa.org">reading-group@lists.nesfa.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div>While either evening will work for me, I vote for April 10, for the same reason "The Other David" did.</div><div>-Wes</div><div><br>On April 6, 2020 at 10:57 AM, "Chip Hitchcock" <<a href="mailto:cjhi@newcastle2.com" target="_blank">cjhi@newcastle2.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:10pt"><div>I'm fine with!
either evening.<br></div><div><br></div><div>/CHip<br><br></div><blockquote id="gmail-m_3820714919173677441replyBlockquote" style="border-left:2px solid blue;margin-left:8px;padding-left:8px;font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:verdana"><div id="gmail-m_3820714919173677441wmQuoteWrapper">-------- Original Message --------<br> Subject: Re: [nesfa-reading-group] What’cha_think_about_a_v<br> irtual_Reading_Group_test?<br> From: "<a href="mailto:david@challengerconsulting.com" target="_blank">david@challengerconsulting.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:david@challengerconsulting.com" target="_blank">david@challengerconsulting.com</a>><br> Date: Sun, April 05, 2020 9:47 pm<br> To: "David G. Grubbs" <<a href="mailto:dggrubbs@gmail.com" target="_blank">dggrubbs@gmail.com</a>>, NESFA Reading Group<br> <<a href="mailto:reading-group@lists.nesfa.org" target="_blank">reading-group@lists.nesfa.org</a>><br> <br><div style="font-size:10pt"><div dir="auto">Let's do the 10th!
. That way if it works I can get off my ass and start reading The Light!
Brigade with enough time.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Stay health and safe,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">(The other) David</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><div dir="auto"><i>Sent from my Sprint Phone.</i></div></div></div><div style="font-size:10pt"><div id="gmail-m_3820714919173677441LGEmailHeader" dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">------ Original message------</div><div dir="auto"><b>From: </b>David G. Grubbs</div><div dir="auto"><b>Date: </b>Sun, Apr 5, 2020 8:39 PM</div><div dir="auto"><b>To: </b>NESFA Reading Group;</div><div dir="auto"><b>Cc: </b></div><div dir="auto"><b>Subject:</b>Re: [nesfa-reading-group] What’cha think about a virtual Reading Group test?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Either day works for me.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gma!
il_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 8:28 PM Louis Galvez III <<a href="mailto:boogalouis@gmail.com" target="_blank">boogalouis@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Before we meet virtually to discuss The Light Brigade in early May. I’d like to run a test virtual meeting at which we’ll discuss a short story. <div><br></div><div><div>Email me back letting me know If Friday 4/10 or Friday 4/17 better for you. </div></div><div><br></div><div>We’ll read and discuss a story available online so it’ll be easy for everyone to get. I like the name of this one: <i>The Secret Life of Bots</i> by Suzanne Palmer.</div><div><a>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/palmer_09_17/</a> </div><div><br></div><div><div>For video chatting, we’ll use <a href="https://jitsi.org/" target="_blank">https://jitsi.!
org/</a>, a Zoom-like video conferencing client. No accounts, no logins!
, no passwords, encrypted end to end, just hop on, start a meeting, inform others of the virtual meeting room’s name, and get to video chatting. </div><div><br></div><div>When using a computer, jitsi runs through your web browser. You can download the jitsi app for apple and android smartphones and tablets.</div><div><br></div><div>I don’t have a zoom account and I don’t like the idea of creating a new meeting every 40 minutes. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks to James Boggie and Robert Luoma for helping come up with and refine the idea. </div><div><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Louis</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>The bastard child of absurdity and the sublime. </span></div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div>Sent from Snoopy, my other iThing</span></div></div></div></div>_________________________!
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