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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 6, 2020, at 8:31 PM, Louis Galvez III <<a href="mailto:boogalouis@gmail.com" class="">boogalouis@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Let’s meet this Friday at 7 pm via <a href="http://jitsi.org" class="">jitsi.org</a>. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We’ll read what I suggested earlier </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana;" class="">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;" class=""> </span><i style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana;" class="">The Secret Life of Bots</i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana;" class="">by Suzanne Palmer. Click on the link below to read the story. </span></div><div class=""><a style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana;" class=""><br class=""></a></div><div class=""><a style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana;" class="">http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/palmer_09_17/</a><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As for ‘The Other David’, here’s a few more suggestions:</div><div class="">DaW (if it’s good enough for a SF imprint...)</div><div class="">DWit (using the RKov model)</div><div class="">David (or Dave) W</div><div class="">TOD (the other David)</div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">See everyone Friday around 7 pm. </span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">Louis</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">The bastard child of absurdity and the sublime. </span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""><br class=""></span></div>Sent from Snoopy, my other iThing</span></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Apr 6, 2020, at 4:53 PM, "<a href="mailto:david@challengerconsulting.com" class="">david@challengerconsulting.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:david@challengerconsulting.com" class="">david@challengerconsulting.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">
<div style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">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" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div dir="auto" font-size:9pt;"="" class=""><i class="">Sent from my Sprint Phone.</i></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""><div id="LGEmailHeader" dir="auto" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">------ Original message------</div><div dir="auto" class=""><b class="">From: </b>David G. Grubbs<dggrubbs@gmail.com class=""></dggrubbs@gmail.com></div><div dir="auto" class=""><b class="">Date: </b>Mon, Apr 6, 2020 12:51 PM</div><div dir="auto" class=""><b class="">To: </b>NESFA Reading Group;</div><div dir="auto" class=""><b class="">Cc: </b></div><div dir="auto" class=""><b class="">Subject:</b>Re: [nesfa-reading-group] What’cha_think_about_a_v irtual_Reading_Group_test?</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><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 class=""></div></div><br class=""><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" class="">reading-group@lists.nesfa.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><div class="">While either evening will work for me, I vote for April 10, for the same reason "The Other David" did.</div><div class="">-Wes</div><div class=""><br class="">On April 6, 2020 at 10:57 AM, "Chip Hitchcock" <<a href="mailto:cjhi@newcastle2.com" target="_blank" class="">cjhi@newcastle2.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><div class="">I'm fine with!
either evening.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">/CHip<br class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote id="gmail-m_3820714919173677441replyBlockquote" style="border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: blue; margin-left: 8px; padding-left: 8px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana;" class=""><div id="gmail-m_3820714919173677441wmQuoteWrapper" class="">-------- Original Message --------<br class=""> Subject: Re: [nesfa-reading-group] What’cha_think_about_a_v<br class=""> irtual_Reading_Group_test?<br class=""> From: "<a href="mailto:david@challengerconsulting.com" target="_blank" class="">david@challengerconsulting.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:david@challengerconsulting.com" target="_blank" class="">david@challengerconsulting.com</a>><br class=""> Date: Sun, April 05, 2020 9:47 pm<br class=""> To: "David G. Grubbs" <<a href="mailto:dggrubbs@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">dggrubbs@gmail.com</a>>, NESFA Reading Group<br class=""> <<a href="mailto:reading-group@lists.nesfa.org" target="_blank" class="">reading-group@lists.nesfa.org</a>><br class=""> <br class=""><div style="font-size:10pt" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">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" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Stay health and safe,</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">(The other) David</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><i class="">Sent from my Sprint Phone.</i></div></div></div><div style="font-size:10pt" class=""><div id="gmail-m_3820714919173677441LGEmailHeader" dir="auto" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">------ Original message------</div><div dir="auto" class=""><b class="">From: </b>David G. Grubbs</div><div dir="auto" class=""><b class="">Date: </b>Sun, Apr 5, 2020 8:39 PM</div><div dir="auto" class=""><b class="">To: </b>NESFA Reading Group;</div><div dir="auto" class=""><b class="">Cc: </b></div><div dir="auto" class=""><b class="">Subject:</b>Re: [nesfa-reading-group] What’cha think about a virtual Reading Group test?</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><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 class=""></div></div><br class=""><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" class="">boogalouis@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></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" class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Email me back letting me know If Friday 4/10 or Friday 4/17 better for you. </div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class="">The Secret Life of Bots</i> by Suzanne Palmer.</div><div class=""><a class="">http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/palmer_09_17/</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">For video chatting, we’ll use <a href="https://jitsi.org/" target="_blank" class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I don’t have a zoom account and I don’t like the idea of creating a new meeting every 40 minutes. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks to James Boggie and Robert Luoma for helping come up with and refine the idea. </div><div class=""><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">Louis</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="">The bastard child of absurdity and the sublime. </span></div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class=""><div class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class=""><br class=""></span></div>Sent from Snoopy, my other iThing</span></div></div></div></div>_________________________!
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