what the hell do you all do all day?

[Guest guest]

hey--I work hard at not working.

[Guest guest]

I am worried about you. You once said you have a

wife and kids, but you have a job which you obviously

don't like, and don't do much work at. What will happen

to the family if they chuck you out for spending all

day on the net? <br><br>You're obviously a nice guy,

with ideas, wit and a lot to say. In fact, so much to

say, that it gives those of us who are looking for

gold a hell of a lot of sludge - albeit entertaining

sludge - to sift through before we find it. In fact,

because I have to spend an hour or so a day (HAVE to?)

reading messages at work just to keep up, I'll probably

end up losing my job too!!<br><br>So please,

everybody, nice as you are and entertaining as it is to

observe the cut and thrust (and in El Senor's case) the

kill of vigorous debate, remember each time you post

that your message will occupy the time of hundreds of

others.<br><br>Question: What sort of stuff belongs in the chat room, and

what should take the form of

postings?<br><br>Cheers<br><br>Dave

[Guest guest]

John,<br><br>Please, there is no need to

apologize. However, maybe you should get

IM.<br><br>Dave, why do you pick on John? I'm obviously as

guilty.<br><br>I would like to turn this around and say that it's

amazing that in this online club we feel we are relating

to one another and communicating personally. I feel

like I know many of you. It would be a shame to start

censoring friendly messages. Or caustic messages. The comic

relief is so welcome in a club that could easily become

drab, monotonous, stagnant, and overly serious. I know

it's a pain to sift through any apparant BS, but like

John said we are not all able to chat at the same

time.<br><br>We all have to sift through sludge--that's life, and

that IS how real gold is found. I personally don't

want to hear about Hindu philosophy here every day.

This club would become defunct if we restricted

ourselves to asking only for asana tips or questions on how

to practice the moral observances, or what to eat to

be a good yogi. What kinds of postings would you

like to see? Post some of your own questions. Or read

some of the several thousand past messages--there is

helpful info there. <br><br>Ashtanga="99% practice, 1%

theory."

[Guest guest]

I agree with Sunshine. However, I would not refer

to what we have to sift through as BS, but cow dung!

That way it's all relevant.<br><br>(Though I for one

would like to hear a bit more about philosophy. And

more good things to read about yoga in general, beyond

Astanga practice manuals. For me, practice is probably

more than 99%, I just do it because I love it and it

feels great on many levels. I don't know too much about

it. So perhaps I need to work on bringing the theory

part up to 1%.)<br><br>Keep it up, stiffy mother john.

I have come to think of you as the MC of this

far-flung group. Like Jay Leno, or Carson, depending on

your age or preference. Wish I could take you up on

that dinner invite, but we will be just passing

through.<br><br>This may be a stupid question: what is the difference

between this forum and a chat board?

[Guest guest]

bandawoman, I suppose the difference is a chat

board is live; you talk with people who are online at

the same time. With the clubs and forums you can post

a message anytime and answer anytime.<br><br>Yeah I

like stiffy mother John the bobbing ashtangi surfer

wannabe. An MC is a great description. Always mediating,

initiating subjects, reeling us back to the core topics, and

being funny. We love you okrgr1 (and where is that

handle from anyway)???<br><br>Let's continue to have fun

while we discuss the intricacies of yoga theory and

sanskrit inflections, OK? I had a real ego-blasting day

today--a toughie and I cried a bit--so I need some comic

relief now more than ever.

[Guest guest]

many things--not about yoga.<br>sun, sorry your

day went south. time heals most things. for another

annoying platitude, hows this: we wouldn't be able to

appreciate our good days without the perspective of some bad

as well. kind of like SD weather, it's not really

life if it's 'blue skies' all the time.<br>

message boards--it's not just me? i find this system to

be surprisingly clunky. you can't search for posts

by a given author, day or topic (looking up all

those SPW posts took a whole lunchtime.) also,

sometimes, when i'm trolling around looking at older

messages, when i hit the 'message list' link i get sent to

the first 50 messages, back in 1998 or whenever it

was. lately i've had a couple of episodes where i

could read all but the most recent post. if i tried to

click on that i would get sent back to messages 1-50 as

well. needs some adjustment to meet the customers'

needs if you ask me.<br>Instant messenger--we actually

had loaded that on our home machine a while back. the

perky IM boxes that would pop up at start up and

demand that something or another be done were irritating

enough but not too long after that we had all kind of

system crashes, loss of dsl access and other e-dominoes

falling. i doubt there was any linkage with IM but

pavlovian reflexes run deep so i've been reluctant to

re-install it at home. besides, no one ever wanted to talk

to me using it before. sniff. a lot of the time i

connect at work where we can't load stuff

anyway.<br>moniker--way back in the dark ages--back when i had a mac and

aol was the distant third of the internet access

companies, when i signed up on my aol account they

recommended a sign on name that was something i could

remember but that someone else was unlikely to come up

with--so OK is for oklahoma and RGR is the abbreviation

for a unit i was in when i was in the army decades

ago. the 1? well, i apparently tried to sign on with

a long time ago and got a password which i

susequently forgot. when i later tried to sign on again, i

was told OKRGR was in use and to pick another

name--so, OKRGR1.<br>wonderful comments--thanks all. he

does have a valid point though. there's probably not a

place here for posting just for postings sake. one of

my mom's homilies: if it doesn't need to be said,

don't say it. it's pretty easy to cross the line from

contributing to typing just to hear myself type. so i've

resolved to do better--so far only 4 posts today and only

two about yoga. i trainable, no?