Topic Incubator...ideas for new topics around the Spring

~terry Sun, Dec 8, 1996 (19:25) seed

This topic is your launching pad to start hot topics around the Spring. If you notice a particular conference or topic start to heat up or get interesting, tell us about it here.

~terry Sun, Dec 8, 1996 (19:27) #1

The austen conference just landed here a week ago and it's sizzling. More that you thought possible to know about the works and media productions of Jane Austen. And some of the most engaging poeple you'll ever want to meet. j austen.

~maddog Thu, Jan 2, 1997 (22:22) #2

Terry, whatever happened to the parenting/homeschool conference we talked about?

~terry Fri, Jan 3, 1997 (01:00) #3

I'll set that up tonight. I was just talking to someone who's very big in the homeschooling scene in Austin today.

~maddog Tue, Jan 7, 1997 (14:32) #4

...cool, cause the eMinds topic is still languishing woulda thought there would be more interest over there

~terry Tue, Feb 3, 1998 (20:10) #5

maddog where are you?

~pmnh Tue, Feb 3, 1998 (20:33) #6

(y'mean "mad-wolf"?)

~Wolf Tue, Feb 3, 1998 (20:39) #7

geez, didn't know I'd cause quite the stir *wolf throws her head back and laughs like a mad scientist*

~drool Wed, Mar 11, 1998 (02:10) #8

I always find that here in courpus christi that the spring break bunch are a hot topic, I went to the beach last year and saw a multitude of of interesting (top)ics or is that topless anyway I understand that M-TV is coming to padre island. I bet there will be even more topics or whatever this year. drool

~terry Wed, Mar 11, 1998 (08:50) #9

Maybe you'll start a Corpus topic in travel?

~KitchenManager Thu, Mar 12, 1998 (01:32) #10

or maybe you'll go webcast Spring Break... so we can have a visual of all, those, uh, topics, yeah, that's it...

~stacey Fri, Mar 13, 1998 (19:01) #11

PERVERT!!!!! *silly laugh*

~terry Fri, Mar 13, 1998 (19:12) #12

Maybe I will, and, uh, maybe I won't. I've never been to a spring break.

~stacey Fri, Mar 13, 1998 (19:20) #13

intoxicating T&A fest!

~KitchenManager Sun, Mar 15, 1998 (02:49) #14

Never been to one myself, Terry. (and I thought that's why we got along, Stacey...)

~stacey Mon, Mar 16, 1998 (12:48) #15

Marvin Gaye tunes coming to mind...

~KitchenManager Tue, Mar 17, 1998 (01:28) #16

You win. You stumped me. 'splain, please... (these 99 hour work weeks are killing me!)

~pmnh Tue, Mar 17, 1998 (02:01) #17

damn, wer... ("let's get it on")... (sheesh!)

~pmnh Tue, Mar 17, 1998 (02:02) #18

(sorry... couldn't help it)...

~KitchenManager Tue, Mar 17, 1998 (02:24) #19

s'okay, Nick, I asked for it...

~stacey Tue, Mar 17, 1998 (10:08) #20

thanks for clueing him in nick!

~Wolf Fri, Apr 17, 1998 (21:12) #21

OK, now back on topic..... Terry, what about pet peeves? Man, I could fill that up all by myself!

~terry Fri, Apr 17, 1998 (23:46) #22

Sure, where should we start it?

~KitchenManager Sat, Apr 18, 1998 (00:26) #23

I'll start one in GenX...

~KitchenManager Sat, Apr 18, 1998 (00:31) #24

In fact, it's at http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/restricted/read/genx/15

~KitchenManager Tue, Jul 6, 1999 (15:27) #25

other suggestions?

~riette Mon, Sep 20, 1999 (10:12) #26

Terry, we want an Animal conference!!!!!!

~terry Mon, Sep 20, 1999 (11:52) #27

Are you going to host it?

~aschuth Mon, Sep 20, 1999 (14:04) #28

I think the girls already discussed this in Screwed.

~Isabel Mon, Sep 20, 1999 (14:09) #29

YES! FURRY-CONF NOW! Please????

~aschuth Mon, Sep 20, 1999 (17:15) #30

So, who else was in there? Wolf was hopping about, Isabel had the idea first, or was it Riette? Terry, look here: http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/restricted/read/screwed/4.81 , you may want to read the prelude in a calm moment, too,... And I would like to see it called AnimalKingdom. FurryConf ain't bad, but it's specietistic - discriminates against feathered, naked and scaled neighbours! And we don't want none of that here! No speciecism on the Spring!

~aschuth Mon, Sep 20, 1999 (17:15) #31

;=}

~wolf Mon, Sep 20, 1999 (17:34) #32

and i will be more than happy to host (if y'all want me too)

~MarciaH Mon, Sep 20, 1999 (17:48) #33

It was your suggestion; it is your figurative conference...I should think it would be yours to refuse! Go for it and we will purr all over it *smile*

~terry Mon, Sep 20, 1999 (21:01) #34

OK I'll create 'animal' with wolf and ree ree as co hosts, ok?

~wolf Mon, Sep 20, 1999 (21:05) #35

oh thank you thank you thank you, *wagging tail furiously and knocking things over*

~terry Mon, Sep 20, 1999 (21:15) #36

Should I add any other cohosts? Should I name it animal (singular) or animals (plural).

~wolf Mon, Sep 20, 1999 (21:18) #37

i think it should be called the menagerie (or however that's spelled)--maybe just call it the zoo. because we'd need to include spiders and stuff in the topics.

~terry Mon, Sep 20, 1999 (21:22) #38

OK I like zoo. Just widdle ree ree and big bad wuffie as coshosts?

~riette Tue, Sep 21, 1999 (03:39) #39

I'd be happy to be co-host, Terry, but I nominate Isab�l as co-host - didn't she come up with the idea first? What do you all think?

~Isabel Tue, Sep 21, 1999 (08:54) #40

I don't really know what it would mean to be a co-host and if I got the ability that's needed... I'm not very much into html-stuff, all I can do i writing bold and maybe italics and I never know if it really works, unless I see it posted... But I would love to help (somehow)!

~Isabel Tue, Sep 21, 1999 (08:55) #41

Hey it worked! Look!

~riette Tue, Sep 21, 1999 (09:07) #42

You can do italics???? �bowing head in huble admiration� Believe me, Isabel, you cannot possibly be worse with computers than me and Autumn (�grin�) - and I'm a host too!

~Isabel Tue, Sep 21, 1999 (09:13) #43

The same like bold, just put an i into the <> instead of a b!

~terry Tue, Sep 21, 1999 (10:05) #44

OK so wolf, ree and isabel are co-hosts of zoo? OK?

~Isabel Tue, Sep 21, 1999 (10:22) #45

Go for it, Terry! Mao says he can't wait any longer to be first cat on "the zoo"!

~aschuth Tue, Sep 21, 1999 (13:07) #46

Boohoo, and I wanted AnimalKin.... Never mind! Wanna see Riette's cuddlies! And all the other's, too!

~aschuth Tue, Sep 21, 1999 (13:09) #47

Only, doesn't Zoo do the wild folks injustice? No speciecism!

~riette Tue, Sep 21, 1999 (14:31) #48

3 Co-hosts???? ha-ha, Okay! OH! I nearly forgot that we need a cool name for it... hmm... Ventura's Ark?

~terry Tue, Sep 21, 1999 (15:26) #49

Too long. And one word to many.

~riette Wed, Sep 22, 1999 (05:20) #50

Zoo, like wolfie said? Zoo is GOOD, isn't it?

~terry Wed, Sep 22, 1999 (08:41) #51

zoo good. me like zoo. tarzan like jane.

~stacey Wed, Sep 22, 1999 (10:17) #52

paul like tofu...

~riette Wed, Sep 22, 1999 (14:02) #53

ha-ha!!

~aschuth Wed, Sep 22, 1999 (14:04) #54

If Paul is like tofu, and Tarzan (the old cross-dresser!) like Jane, then what is Stacey like? I like AnimalKingdom! Anti-Speciecists of the World, unite!

~aschuth Wed, Sep 22, 1999 (14:05) #55

Uh, and Zoo like Screwed, you know?

~wolf Wed, Sep 22, 1999 (19:04) #56

just get the conference going, wouldja? (i like menagerie best)

~terry Wed, Sep 22, 1999 (19:56) #57

OK, zoo, going once . . .

~MarciaH Wed, Sep 22, 1999 (20:04) #58

Zoo is ok but like Alexander said, it sounds like they are incarcerated. I like AnimalKingdom - or just Animals - that could include some dates I have had...!

~MarciaH Wed, Sep 22, 1999 (20:06) #59

Ark?

~wolf Wed, Sep 22, 1999 (21:28) #60

yeah, springark!

~MarciaH Wed, Sep 22, 1999 (21:55) #61

Love it SpringArk !!! do it Terry!

~terry Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (00:17) #62

zoo or ark?

~MarciaH Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (00:31) #63

ARK as in saving the animals, not incarcerating them...no?

~terry Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (00:43) #64

Ark, going once.

~riette Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (05:07) #65

Ark. We won't let them drown.

~terry Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (10:08) #66

Going twice.

~stacey Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (10:08) #67

morning Paul! going three times! I like it!

~terry Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (10:19) #68

Gone! ark it is then!

~terry Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (10:29) #69

Either riette, wolf, isabel or stacey (the hosting team) has to join and create a topic for it to be active. No one else can go there till one of these folks does that. Go to the ark, in pairs, please and one of these hostesses will check you in.

~cfadm Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (12:26) #70

SpringArk is up and running now at http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/restricted/browse/SpringArk/all

~MarciaH Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (12:35) #71

Thank you, sir!

~cfadm Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (12:36) #72

Are you, Marcia, supposed to be on the host team as well?

~Elena Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (12:52) #73

OK....it�s great to create new topics but have you ever noticed that compared to the number of conferences and topics in the Spring, there is only a very small group of people taking part in the discussions actively and regularly (outside drool). New people are rare or at least they don�t stay for very long. Why is that, anybody figure? Seems to me that there is something wrong with the inside culture of this place (again, I�m not talking about drool). New people are not actually welcome in the other topics and every now and then they�re practically chased away in a subtle or a less subtle way. Topics end up with the familiar small group of regulars having fun together and having actually not much to say.

~MarciaH Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (13:16) #74

My services were requested when it was apparent that Isabel needed help and wolf and ree were busy ladies. My conference does not need extensive time anymore so I will be happy to help as much or as little as is needed. Please enter me as host, as well. Thnak you! Elena come back to Geo - you promised us pictures of your back yard and its denizens! Beetles in particular...!

~MarciaH Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (13:36) #75

Elena, Spring is like any place you go in the real world. If you are friendly and interested in what is going on in a topic and post that way, you will be welcomed just as in Drool. I have found no exclusionary tactics here. And, I was a Droolian to begin with, just as you were. Many topics need rejuvination. I have also done that...and when you do, others will appear and have a conversation with you. Please try again. John is a new guy here who is quite at home now. You just need to befriend the pe ple here and they will reciprocate.

~riette Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (13:56) #76

Yep, the only 'internal culture' going on in this part of the Spring is a lack of pedestals.

~MarciaH Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (14:11) #77

Amen, Ree! Long may it remain just that way.

~terry Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (14:23) #78

We welcome any newcomers with open arms! Please invite all your firends online and offline to join us!

~Elena Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (14:49) #79

Of course one can always diminish a problem or an argument by personalizing it but surprise, I wasn�t talking about myself only, I was talking about the hermetic Spring culture in general. I think this is a thing to discuss but self-criticism isn�t fun of course, however fruitful and even fun it could be.

~Isabel Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (21:20) #80

I'm a newy! And I never felt the Spring being hermetic in the two weeks I'm here. (Two weeks? ...seems much longer to me) I never felt offended or not welcome at all ( Maybe it was so subtle, I didn't notice). Ok, they're a nosy bunch sometimes (*grin*), but nobody ever was unfriendly or even offending. Some might have been a bit, let's say - cautious? at first, but I can be, too (I never talk to strangers, mommy told me so). There may have been some misunderstandings, too, but that was partly caused by me - wasn't I cheeky when I entered the Spring? (hihi!) (...and me not giving a real email-adress might have caused misunderstandings, too. Just didn't know I should've done it. Found out later, that I was - nearly - the only one who'd done that) And I had problems with some reactions to my posts first, but so what? You can't expect people to react like you want them to! [I'm still pouty, that NOBODY cared what happened to me in screwed after the brain-suckers from outa space got hold of me ;-( Why do I keep coming back? Maybe it isn't me any longer? Maybe I got brainwashed? What have ya done into this psychedelic screwed-backdrop, Terry?] And I haven't made the experience that I can't take part - See I just jumped in! BTW, some thought me coming from drool and so I looked it up. I can't say if people there are friendly or not (I assume they are!), because I didn't join. Drool seemed very hermetic and cryptic to me. I'll never find out what you girls are talking about, sorry! I don't mean this as an affront, but I REALLY just can't understand all the acronyms there and what keeps you talking about - ooh - filmstars? ( Would take me a whole lifetime, to get into this) I can't tell why the community is so small ( In my stadium as a lurker, I got the impression that it's much bigger, don't know why), why people aren't coming back or if somebody was chased away, and if it were so, I can't tell what to change. Can you? But what have I to say? Nothing that really matters, I like talking rubbish! If it gets serious, in philosophy e.g., I keep away - My heads to small for thinking! ( I fear I could loose some of the bullshit in it) Please forgive me! ;-)

~terry Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (21:41) #81

We're all getting to know each other and we're growing. I don't like it when people we love drop away. If our chemistry keeps happening, other people will sense it and want to be a part of what we have going. It's fun here, there are a lot of communities on the net that are rougher and tougher and where the level of discourse isn't near what we have here.

~MarciaH Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (21:55) #82

Isabel, you know you are one of us. (some day I might tell you just what you happened to stumble into, but not right now...)It is, as Terry points out, a colder and crueller world out there. In here I am home and warm and fuzzy, even when we disagree. We are never intentionally cruel, and when you happen on us on a bad day (I am talking like Queen Victoria with the "us" and "we"!), we spend a week trying to make amends for any hurt we have caused. *Hugs!* We genuinely care about each other on the Spri g...at least, I know I do!

~MarciaH Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (22:05) #83

Oh, and I spent over 2 years in Drool before I ever ventured out. Now I free float back and forth. It is most assuredly different in there, but not one whit less nurturing than elsewhere, and perhaps more protective than any other place on Spring. I am truly sorry about your brain suction from space monsters, and for giving you grief if I did so!

~Isabel Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (22:15) #84

Nothing to be sorry about! No offense taken! Everything's fine! :-) Don't worry your little head to much! ( I won't anyway!)

~Isabel Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (22:16) #85

Nothing to be sorry about! No offense taken! Everything's fine! :-) Don't worry your little head too much! ( I won't anyway!)

~MarciaH Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (22:18) #86

Ya mean it's ok to go back to the kitties and fishies and stuff like that?! OKAY! ...race ya!

~Isabel Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (22:20) #87

Oops! Why do I always say things twice? Ok, it's 4:30 in the morning (!) Have to get some sleep! Good night.(Oh, Ok, wanted to make the second o on too, that's why this happened!)Gawd, hafta go sleepin' look at da watch!

~wolf Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (22:22) #88

you got your brains sucked out? (see, i don't venture into screwed too much)...maybe that's a topic to be discussed in paraspring! aliens and all *grin*

~Isabel Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (22:23) #89

Sorry hafta race to bed. Tomorrow's another day for playing and having fun with ya kids. ( You know Calvin and Hobbes "The days are just packed!" - love them!) Good night, John Boy!

~wolf Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (22:25) #90

night mary ellen...

~Isabel Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (22:26) #91

Why are you always quicker than me are? Yeah, let's relive paraspring, that's agood plan for tomorrow! But I REALLY have to go sleepin' now, ot else I won't have time to play with you tomorrow. I just quit now, Ok? GOOD NIGHT!

~Isabel Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (22:28) #92

What's that plays name? "You'll never get out of this topic alive"? *grin* Night Wolfie, night Marcia! I will REALLY go sleepin now.....................................

~wolf Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (22:32) #93

me too (but it's 9:30 PM here)

~MarciaH Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (22:34) #94

G'night - it is still afternoon here...!

~wolf Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (22:37) #95

you don't sleep do ya?

~MarciaH Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (22:40) #96

I do - but it is only 4:40pm here (Thursday) and I will go to sleep about 10pm. The PC goes off at about 8pm and on at 7am (or earlier) tomorrow...so I do sleep! You are out playing while we are still waiting for the sun to get to us.

~MarciaH Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (22:42) #97

I AM concerned about Isabel being up till 4:30am, though! She must not sleep at all!

~riette Fri, Sep 24, 1999 (03:58) #98

Elena, does Drool not consider itself a part of the Spring? Marcia, perhaps Isabel is being .... uhm ... abused by the brain-fuckers from outta space! Ya know ... SAXUALLY! Ha-ha! Isabel, I'm glad you feel at home here; you're a cool one. And we Europeans will outnumber these Yanks yet!!

~aschuth Fri, Sep 24, 1999 (06:15) #99

Hehe, now, ain't that true? And then we'll mouth off, and never get visa again :=/ Anyhow, Riette, you're right, could be a trend here - I got a Nachbar, a neighboer, a neighbrit, a neighportuguese and a neighfinn! I must be a rich man! Talking about neighfinn - Elena, what do you think about this? I mean, they all sound so happy up there, but yet, something resonated in me from what you wrote... Hmh.

~Isabel Fri, Sep 24, 1999 (07:43) #100

Rise and shine! It's 13:30 and I just got up. So you see I do sleep!. I cam eback from a concert at 2 or 3 o'clock last night, and I was sooo nosy about the Ark that I had to look up all the new topics, before I went to sleep. But I got that problem, that I can hardly sleep at nights, but can't get up early in the morning...