Our esteemed, napping, naked-mopping blog lord wondered if we might like to have a Balloon Juice Zoom on Thanksgiving, since many of us won’t be participating in our usual celebration activities.
People could participate with either video or just audio.
Anyone interested? Bueller? Bueller?
Mary G
I could try, though I don’t have a web cam or room for another app on my cheap old phone, so audio only.
Sebastian
I have a paid Zoom account without the 40 minute limit if we need one
Amir Khalid
Where can I download Zoom?
SiubhanDuinne
I’d like to do that.
RoonieRoo
I would be interested. I really could use even a small moment with like minded people.
zhena gogolia
I’m interested in principle. But despite the fact that there will only be two of us, I’m planning a fairly elaborate dinner (by my standards), and I have a 3:00 ET Zoom with friends set up, plus a potential other one at 5:30 PM (although the second one might not happen).
WaterGirl
@Amir Khalid: Will you be able to join us?
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
I like this idea.
Delk
Don’t invite Toobin.
Baud
Will there be a public line for lurkers and gawkers and advanced bots posing as real people?
Amir Khalid
@WaterGirl:
Depends on the timing.
Kathleen
I’m definitely interested. I’m spending Thanksgiving by myself. I think it would be cool. Thank you, WG!
CaseyL
I’d love to, but I’m going over to my neighbors (we’re a bubble) around 4:00 Pacific time, and who knows how long thereafter.
RedDirtGirl
I love it!!!
KenK
Oh, yes. If not available for Zoom (depends on timing) I’ll definitely send a video greeting. Great idea. Hopefully, we won’t see John naked-mop. I do have my standards…
SiubhanDuinne
@Delk:
We don’t need him. We have Baud.
Pete Downunder
I’d love to join but timing could be tricky. We are 15 hours ahead of EST (Amir will have a similar issue) so 4 pm Thursday EST is 7 am Friday here which could work.
gwangung
Isn’t there a law of the universe that we’d be breaking if we did this?
WaterGirl
@Pete Downunder: What, you guys don’t have alarm clocks? :-)
Ruckus
@Amir Khalid:
google Zoom, download the free version.
I like the idea, timing might be an issue, because people in many parts of the world. So so as long as I don’t have to get up before 8am, I’m in.
Ruckus
@Pete Downunder:
Beat me by this much……
SiubhanDuinne
O/T reminders:
Lester Holt is interviewing President-elect Biden on tonight’s NBC Nightly News. It’s Biden’s first sit-down interview since the election.
And President Barack Obama will be the guest tonight on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS).
Must-watch TV for me.
zhena gogolia
@Pete Downunder:
I think late afternoon would probably be best for most people.
Bluegirlfromwyo
Interested but it’ll all depend on time. My in-laws never pick a time for a holiday gathering of any size until the last minute.
satby
Much as I enjoy all you lovely people, I don’t do Zoom. Enjoy though.
Starfish
@Sebastian: On Thanksgiving, unlimited Zoom is free
Amir Khalid
Try to pick a time for the meetup within the Thanksgiving no-time-limit window.
Scout211
@Sebastian:
Zoom has suspended the time limit on all free accounts for Thanksgiving Day.
arrieve
I would be interested depending on the time.
raven
Hi there,
We here at Zoom believe it is important to pause, give thanks, and recognize who and what we are grateful for. This Thanksgiving, we are thankful for Zoomers, our amazing customers that have inspired and delighted us in 2020.
To show our appreciation, we will be lifting the 40-minute time limit starting at midnight on November 26th through 6 a.m. ET November 27th for meetings globally. We hope you are able to connect with family and friends to share a meal, raise a glass, and swap stories.
There is no action needed on your part; just connect over Zoom uninterrupted. We hope you have a wonderful holiday and find time to be together.
Cheers,
Team Zoom
MazeDancer
Insanely, have booked a few Zoom T-days, but would love to break the 4th wall or whatever we’ll be doing, if possible, for a few minutes at least.
Assume, with so many people, the discussion won’t get much past our nyms and what we’re eating, but that will be fun.
raven
Since my bride is going to drive eight hours for a two hour outside, socially distant Thanksgiving with her sister I’ll just be hangin with my dog watching shitty football so I’ll keep tack of what you decide.
Barry
I’m interested.
WaterGirl
It sounds like there’s enough interest to go ahead with the Balloon Juice Zoom Thanksgiving.
I keep having to spell out Balloon Juice… damn you Toobin.
We’ll get this figured out and share details tomorrow. In the meantime, keep chiming in if you’re interested so we have an idea of how many people will attend.
Old Dan and Little Ann
Make sure you find a teacher or two to host and co-host. They are adept at muting the riff-raff and cutting the videos of anything pornographic. That’s what some people may want, though. Ymwv as I’ve seen the cool kids type.
jl
I’m having a super safe outside mini gathering with work friends, but it will short. So, If no conflict I’m game, if I have good connection.
But, need Cole naked mopping and stepping in cat poo, and live pix of mustard jar supernaturally evaporating from the kitchen sink counter, or GTFO.
If Cole re-enacts running his car into a ditch, I’ll contribute to defray the expenses.
HumboldtBlue
I ain’t got nuffin else to do.
feebog
I’m in. If you need an account, I have a personal Zoom account. I also have a Cisco Webex professional account with unlimited time that I use for business. Unlike Zoom, Webex is unhackable. Although I can’t think of anything funnier than a porn hack in the middle of a Balloon Juice Zoom meeting.
Baud
@Old Dan and Little Ann:
But… that’s everybody.
namekarB
Count me in
jl
@Baud: Is Baud XXXX!! attending? I’d could use some internet flat stale beer.
Edit: I forgot warm.
Sister Golden Bear
Me.
Baud
@jl:
Only as a voyeur.
narya
yes! And using the WebX from feebog might be a nice alternative, but I will join no matter what.
PaulWartenberg
I’d love to but I’ll be with my parents from 2PM onward, some of it involving getting Hoopla Digital on a laptop hooked to a flatscreen so they can watch streaming videos.
jl
@Old Dan and Little Ann: “cutting the videos of anything pornographic”
This place is going to stay a mommy blog for Thanksgiving? That sounds odd to me,
Middlelee
Sounds like fun. I’m in.
jl
@Baud: ” Only as a voyeur”
But looks like no pronos.
Phylllis
I would; depends on the time.
geg6
Depending on the time, I’m in. Having early afternoon dinner with our bubble, a sister and BIL. I expect we’ll be home around 5 pm ET, so if it’s after that, I’m in.
Maj TJ Kong
@Sebastian: I got an email today from Zoom. They are waiving the 40 minute limit for Thanksgiving Day.
Ksmiami
I have a zoom at 3 mountain time and cooking an elaborate meal of duck breasts etc around 5:30 but would love to meet some of the magicians behind the inner blog workings so…
NotMax
Sure ’nuff.
To accommodate time differentials, the initiating host can always shift hosting duties to another participant in order to keep the festivities going.
Watership
Hey, I’m currently covid positive, so the wife and I are definitely not going anywhere for T giving. I’d love to pop in if lurkers are welcome. Oh, unless covid is transmissible over the interwebs of course
Tenar Arha
I am.
I’m already planning a joint watch super long movie/double feature afternoon with family. Lots of “I’ve seen that, a lot” on our lists. Depending on what movie they pick, I may have no problem pausing the movie, ducking out to zoom for a bit for something else, and coming back.
gwangung
I’m interested to pop in for a bit if I’m not busy elsewhere…
Mrs DougJ Balloon
I’d lurk
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
If initiated by a paid account the time limit doesn’t apply. Our Saturday evening RPG group on Zoom goes on for 3+ hours. Oddly enough, the person whose account is being used (and who hosts) did so from Thailand for a few weeks (I think he’s back in California by now).
chopper
@Amir Khalid:
yeah, depends on the time. i have zoom calls with family throughout the day on xgiving.
Sebastian
@Starfish:
@Scout211:
@Maj TJ Kong:
I did not know that. Nice!
/s as Zoom shareholder I would prefer to squeeze every profit out of the desperate masses but this feelgood gesture will have to do. /s
lol
mali muso
Depending on how occupied the 4 year old and hubby are, I would be interested in popping by.
NotMax
People will have to remember to sign in using their B-J nym. Otherwise it’ll get very confoozin’.
Jeffro
I’m in, just lemme know when ?
The Red Pen
I would drop by.
I’ll bring a meme about candied yams.
(Warning, it will reference Karen Finley.)
Princess Leia
Oh, please!!! What a lovely way to enjoy the day!!!
Eljai
I’ll join. And my webcam is working. Now where are my groucho glasses…
WaterGirl
@Watership: OF course lurkers are welcome, plus your pet is in the upcoming BJ calendar, so I’m not sure you’re totally a lurker.
Very sorry to hear that you are COVID-positive. That sucks. We’ll try to distract you.
Gretchen
Zoom is waiving charges for longer than 40 minute calls on Thanksgiving.
WaterGirl
@Mrs DougJ Balloon: Are you the real Mrs. DougJ, or are you an imposter?
Pop quiz: what’s your son’s name? :-)
Oh, and welcome!
HinTN
Damn you, @feebog:
My whiskey came right out my nose.
NeenerNeener
Just pick a time and I’ll drop by for a bit.
Suzanne
I am totally in.
So. Last week, I told my boss and my primary client that I would not be going to the construction site until further notice. My client was pissed. My boss wasn’t happy, not because he thought I did anything wrong, but because an unhappy client is always a tough thing to deal with. ANYWAY. Turns out, two days after I told them that I wasn’t coming out to do field reports, one of the Owner’s vendors came to work with a fever and then later tested positive for COVID. The entire job site is closed until at least a week from Thursday and apparently all of the tradesmen have vacated every part of the project. Schedule is blown to hell. Cost is skyrocketing. Superintendent is in quarantine. What a shitshow.
I now feel like less of a nervous Nellie for refusing to go on site.
PsiFighter37
I might pop in, but only interested if it’s a private Zoom with a password. Not too interested in a public one where complete randos might hop on.
FelonyGovt
I’d be interested. I want to FaceTime with a widowed friend who will be alone on Thanksgiving but haven’t set up any particular time.
feebog
@HinTN:
..
U
\___/
caring & sensitive
I’m a lurker and a very infrequent commenter who will be alone on Thanksgiving, so I’m in
UncleEbeneezer
I’m in if the time is right.
If it’s on zoom you can have people email whoever is setting it up for the password. That’s what we do for our Indivisible meetings and we’ve never been hacked despite advertising our meetings on our public FB page.
Rob
I might de-lurk and join in, but probably only if it’s a private Zoom call with a password. But as a lurker I wouldn’t want to take away space from regular jackals.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: “I like to watch.”
Joy in FL
I would love to be the virtual company of fellow jackals. I can almost certainly work with whatever time the powers that be choose. It’s a great idea.
Mary G
@Suzanne: You told them so and now they’ll hate your guts for a million years for being the bearer of bad news that wasn’t listened to.
eddie blake
my laptop isn’t exactly top-of-the-line and lacks a camera. that being said, mz blake is a teacher and as such is totally set up for the zoom-online-meetup jazz.
i dunno what we’re gonna be up to just yet (i know we’re not GOING anywhere) but a balloon-juice virtual meetup could be a lot of fun.
definitely interested.
Sloane Ranger
Not celebrating Thanksgiving but would be interested in joining in depending on the time the meeting is held.
I have a paid Zoom account under my name in the real world as I suspect others do as well so should be interesting, if a little confusing.
Gvg
I am interested depending on times.
Amir, zoom is downloadable from either google store or Apple store. Not sure of other sources, I tend to not trust any others.
also whoever sends you a link email, it will include a link to zoom itself, and it offers you a choice of downloading zoom then.
sherparick
I have the Zoom app. Just put out the instructions.
H.E.Wolf
This is an excellent idea. Thanks for the reminder about good security protocol!
I’d enjoy stopping by, if the timing is right…it would be great to meet some of the lurkers (and non-lurkers too).
PSA: No one *has* to turn their video on, if they don’t want to. Little blank rectangles can still be sociable. :)
Scout211
@Sloane Ranger:
You can change the name on your video feed to your BJ nym for privacy.
ETA: also for jackals to recognize you from your nym here.
tinare
I’m not much more than a lurker but I’m on my own for thanksgiving so it’d be nice to hang out on zoom with some jackals.
Felanius Kootea
Depends on what time it starts – I’m on the West coast and my husband has planned a family Thanksgiving Zoom in the evening PT.
WaterGirl
@NotMax:
Good point! I have no idea how to do that. Are there simple instructions somewhere?
WaterGirl
@Suzanne: You are a role model. Go you!
WaterGirl
@Rob: Lurkers are more than welcome!
sab
@H.E.Wolf: I can’t zoom since I don’t have a smartphone. My husband has been zoomimg since March with a Hawaiian beach background instead of our hideous hutch with all my cookbooks and extraneous pet clutter.
WaterGirl
@tinare: I recognize your nym, so you can’t be a total lurker!
WaterGirl
@sab: Couldn’t you dial the number from your phone and then manually enter the passcode?
Dan B
I only have a phone and a tablet. It’s the latest Samsung so the screen is bigger than some phones. The tablet is a year old and not tested.
It seems like there are enough people that it would be best for me to limit myself to “Hello everyone, happy T-day.”
stacib
@WaterGirl: I’m interested although mostly a lurker. Is everyone invited?
Scout211
@WaterGirl:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yx8mLR76ukA
This is a really good tutorial for setting and switching your display name on zoom.
realbtl
I’ll be home with the dog so this sounds good.
ExpatDanBKK
That could be fun from the other side of the planet ?…
WaterGirl
@stacib: Everyone is invited! And everyone is welcome.
WaterGirl
@Scout211: Thank you for that.
zhena gogolia
@NotMax:
How can you do that?
Danielx
@HinTN: long as it doesn’t involve Lord Shortfingers and Stormy Daniels; no disrespect to Ms Daniels intended.
And yeah, most interested.
Super Dave
I would love to do it.
Dan B
@zhena gogolia: Did you see Scout at 98 – tutorial.
zhena gogolia
@Scout211:
Thanks. I find that my display name keeps changing, especially at work.
Thad
I’m onboard as long as it happens to land outside the window of the Zoom Thanksgivings we are having with my family and my wife’s family. Zoom removing the 40 minute limit during the holiday is definitely a good thing… just wish they had announced it sooner.
zhena gogolia
@Dan B:
Yes, thanks.
WaterGirl
@Dan B:
Imagine that you can hear the buzzer of disagreement on that!
NotMax
@zhena gogolia
Scout211 provided a link to a video on that above at #98.
In my case, as I have not signed up for a Zoom membership and fire up Zoom on the PC, the option to enter any name I choose is right there on the initial screen where one enters the access code number of the meeting, so it can be done before joining.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
In, so long as the timing doesn’t impede my Turkey smoking or dinner!
John Cole
There doesn’t have to be a set time, you know. We could just start one up at noon on Thanksgiving, and let it run all damned day and people could pop in and leave as they choose.
2liberal
I’m actually working that day. Is lurking allowed, no video provided?
Suzanne
@Mary G: It was visibly not safe. The client wants me to come out and document how the GC is not staying on schedule so they can go back and get damages. But the client’s employees and vendors are not following protocols. Not going to do it.
ETA: And now the schedule is even more shot to hell because of the mandatory COVID shutdown and the fact that they can’t keep tradespeople on the site.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Is there a 12 Step for that?
NotMax
@NotMax
Slight edit for clarity.
In my case, as I have not signed up for a Zoom membership and fire up Zoom on the PC, the option to enter any name I choose is right there on the initial screen after clicking Join Meeting, where one enters the access code number of the meeting, so it can be done before the connection is activated.
Danielx
@WaterGirl:
ding ding ding!
Of course, it’s more difficult to say “fuck you” when it’s a festive occasion and everybody can see and hear you. But I have done it at family holiday gatherings myself, and I have complete faith in the jackaltariat.
Eric S.
I’m in.
Sadly the family plans were canceled last minute because my brother’s boss is a … jerk.
WaterGirl
@2liberal: Yes!
Baud
You could charge and make it a BJ Peep Show.
Anotherlurker
I’m interested.
NotMax
Toughest part will be choosing which background to use so people won’t see the ‘casual’ condition of my living quarters.
:)
Dorothy A. Winsor
@WaterGirl: When I sign into zoom, there’s a place to enter the name I want to show during the chat. I use “Dorothy” even though my account is to dawinsor, I think.
geg6
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
There is a hamburger menu where you can change your display name. That’s what I use.
JeanneT
I might peek in if I’m not feeling shy….
Miss Bianca
@SiubhanDuinne: Is it my imagination, or are Democrats suddenly getting a lot more air time than they used to?
Miss Bianca
@raven: That’s pretty classy of them, I gotta say.
Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!)
Sounds like fun. I’d like to drop in when not on other zoom get togethers with family and friends.
Miss Bianca
@The Red Pen: GET OUT
zhena gogolia
For those asking for a password, I don’t see how that’s feasible. Who’s going to e-mail all these people to give them the password?
The host can pretty quickly get rid of any Zoom-bombers, can’t they?
FlyingToaster
The timing looks kinda impossible, alas. The Toaster Extended Family Quarantine is meeting for the first time since March. Our bubble is supposed to be Us, my SIL and her family, mine & HerrDoktor’s best friends, and their next door neighbors. Due to the global pandemic, distance (25 miles instead of 10), plus schedule conflicts (4 teenagers between us), we haven’t managed to see my SIL’s family since March. Dammit.
Thursday is mine and my SIL’s family, as usual at her place, minus the two out-of-town sons (sigh, can’t risk it). 4pm Eastern is roughly when we eat. We’ll probably try to Zoom in my adult nephews then.
Saturday is the other half of the bubble; SIL can’t make it (two of the boys have a online thing), so we’re having a Friendsgiving then.
I really, really want to shoot some people into the sun. Like, really.
frosty
@raven: Shitty football? Ravens-Steelers on T-Day night!
Scout211
@raven:
I was confused when I read the email you just posted. Midnight on the 26th?
I checked and they sent out another message stating that it starts at 12:01 am on the 26th. Not midnight, which sounds like after Thanksgiving is all over.
Amir Khalid
@John Cole:
Das ist ja eine gute Idee! Itu cadangan bagus! That’s a great idea!
sab
@NotMax: I have a PC that is old. Updates expired March. Could I zoom from that?
Thor Heyerdahl
Looking forward to joining you from north of the border.
Kristine
Interested depending on time.
J R in WV
@Watership:
Arggg~!!!~ You’ve probably already spread the Trump Plague to all of us, if it is transmissible over the intertubes!~!~~!
Yipee, we’re all gonna die!!!
Country Joe and the fish for those too young to remember that ditty.
sab
@Amir Khalid: My grandmorher was from Wisconsin. She would have understood you.
Scout211
@sab:
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362023-System-requirements-for-Windows-macOS-and-Linux
Steeplejack
@Suzanne:
Good for you!
J R in WV
@PsiFighter37:
Exactly where do you think we are, anyhow!!????
Some guy who named himself PsiFighter37……..???
raven
@J R in WV: Whoopee
NotMax
@sab
Offhand, don’t see any impediment. Zoom ought to work with any iteration of Windows from Win7 on up.
SWMBO
I would like to join in for a while.
sab
@John Cole: Your creative commonsense is why we even have this blog. Does creative and commonsense in the same phrase pain you? It shouldn’t.
NotMax
@J R in WV
We can have a rousing round of Boot The Troll.
:)
J R in WV
@NotMax:
Some of us don’t use Windoz, nor Apple. But I think just a browser will work. Looking forward to trying that out!
Have friends who intends to Zoom with us on Saturday.
Will be good to do a trial run with other friends… aka jackals…………
sab
@NotMax: New to this. So what do I do to participate? I promise to lurk.
J R in WV
@raven:
Did you see we added a picture of our little cabin on the tiny ranch at the end of the early AM OTR thread?
NotMax
@J R in WV
AFAIK it’s amenable across myriad platforms. Can always do a test run here. The test service lasts for a few minutes and then auto shuts off.
raven
@J R in WV: Thanks for the reply this morning. In 1975 three of us and a dog drove from San Francisco to Tucson to Cochise’s Stronghold up through Arizona and new Mexico and back to Illinois in a 63 Chevy pickup with an am radio and a 4 speed rock crusher (with that huge floor shift). Anyway in Cochise’s Stronghold we camped and we were starving and dead broke. We found a bag of Albondigas hung in a tree (to keep them away from bears we assumed) and we were hungry enough to eat them.
cain
I could do this depending on the timing, I need to make a pie and heading to my friends place for a small thanksgiving get together – just the four of us. But I am planning on making a pumpkin pie so I can be on zoom while trying to do it :-) Maybe people give me advice. :D
raven
@J R in WV: YES! My buddy lived down in Sierra Vista for about 5 years before he went back up to Tucson. Do you go to the El Charro Cafe when you are there?
Mingobat (f/k/a Karen in GA)
I’m in. You can meet Iggy, Muppet and Chauncey if they’re feeling sociable and not whining to go out in the backyard and bark at nothing.
HeleninEire
This is the best idea ever. So what do we do? Just click a link? I’ve never done Zoom.
Amir Khalid
@sab:
Even the bit in Malay? I’m impressed.
jl
@J R in WV: ” Exactly where do you think we are, anyhow!!???? ”
What I was thinking.
Thank you for defending the honor of the premier almost top 10,000 blog.
raven
@HeleninEire: Install zoom and someone should be posting a link and login instructions.
SWMBO
Sigh. I knew it couldn’t be as simple as it seemed. Which zoom do I need to download?
zoomapp
zoom cloud meetings
Ivan X
what is Zoom
raven
@SWMBO:
Zoom Client for Meetings
The web browser client will download automatically when you start or join your first Zoom meeting, and is also available for manual download here.
raven
@Ivan X: you are kidding? It’s and online meeting platform that EVERYONE has been using for 8 months!
sab
@Amir Khalid: Nope. Only German. Her family was one of two English speaking families in her town in Wisconsin. America likes to pretend it is old, but mostly it isn’t. The Las Vegas land grab was 1905 or 1906.
Omnes Omnibus
I would prefer not to.
HeleninEire
@raven: Thanks.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@HeleninEire: Yes, whoever is hosting the meeting should give us all a link that we just click on.
(There is an alternative too. For my writer group, I open zoom, click on “join a meeting,” and then enter a code for the meeting and then for the password. But I’m guessing for BJ, we’ll just have to click on a link.)
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: grump
Steve in the ATL
@HeleninEire: Zoom is super easy. I’ve been doing arbitrations on it, meaning that it’s being run by retired lawyers. Not a tech-savvy contingent. Will be child’s play for an hard-drinking international accountant.
@NotMax: are you the one who recommended Swedish cop noir “Before We Die”? Just finished season one and it was quite enjoyable. Will skip season two since it’s apparently not entirely focused on Blanka.
@raven: you forgot to add “Go Dawgs!”
ThresherK
No, I’d probably just end up doing 99 44/100% lurking.
Pleased to announce that our good friends two hours away have cancelled their big Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. We had already decided we’re not going to either, but this means there’s such better odds we’ll see them next year.
raven
@Steve in the ATL: I fucked up a bunch of posts by pasting instruction in the name field!
Steve in the ATL
@raven: he is consistently on brand
Scout211
@SWMBO:
For which device? For iPad and iPhone it’s zoom cloud meetings.
raven
@Steve in the ATL: don’t tell him but he’s one of my favs even if he is an officer
Danielx
@sab:
If it has a camera, and if you have a reasonably high speed/bandwidth connection, etc….probably.
Big issue is bandwidth, since Thanksgiving Day get-togethers are going to absorb god’s own measure of video transmission capability. I have heard Zoom has hugely expanded capacity since the early days of the pandemic, but..
H.E.Wolf
Oh, but Bartleby, we’ll miss you! (Well, I’ll miss you!)
HRA
Family wants a zoom get together on the day and has not given a time. The count is now 30 +members not all in one place.
I already do have Zoom at 175% on this desktop. That does not mean I am good at it.
Interested!
VeniceRiley
Depending on the time of day, I might. Just to see all your jackal mugs!
sab
@Amir Khalid: My family only speaks Mandarin, Shanghainese, Korean or Japanese as Asian languages.. Being European origin, we also speak English, French, Spanish, Danish and Gaelic. The German speakers died of old age.
Danielx
@Omnes Omnibus:
Yeah, you and Marlene Dietrich…no, couldn’t have been her.
NotMax
@sab
This page may prove helpful. The app you want to download and install is the one labeled Zoom Client for Meetings. One thing to note is that there is no requirement to sign up for a Zoom account, if you may be leery about that.
I talked 92-year-old Mom through the how to steps by phone with no problems, so it’s pretty cut and dried for a novice.
Ohio Mom
I’ll try to be there— depends on scheduling vis-a-vis the Ohio Inlaw Zoom.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: I’ll take a pass as well
In my case, I’ll be cleaning, cooking, eating and in a turkey coma.
Roughly in that order.
sab
@NotMax: Thank you. You are one of the reasons I keep coming back to BJ.
Also to I just shut my door to cat traffic. Should probably let the little guys wander.
prostratedragon
@J R in WV: I can run it on Linux, downloaded from the zoom.com site.
Might drop by on Thursday, though I’m kind of shy (blush!).
NotMax
@Steve in the ATL
Yuppers. Season 1 only is free on Prime through the end of November.
Scout211
@prostratedragon:
zoom.us
J R in WV
@NotMax:
Only if you run Windows or Apple OS or Chrome… I run Linux, and so will just use the browser to link — I hope. Will be an experiment. There is a Windows 10 machine, but we don’t use if for internet things. Not secure compared to Linux.
J R in WV
@prostratedragon:
Kind of shy>? really? You know there are lots of people here with real reasons to be shy… don’t you?
Just jump in, the water’s fine. even in winter!
prostratedragon
@Scout211: Aha. Going just on memory not always good.
NotMax
@sab
Aw gosh, that’s very nice of you to say.
mvr
Please post details prominently. I would like to try to make it if it works with my schedule for the day. I trust someone who has already posted on this longish thread has figured out that we probably need some tiny bit of coordination of passwords or security. I teach via zoom regularly these days to a good number of folks and have never needed security though the university requires us to require passwords. But this being a political blog it might be better to have some security rather than none. I know that some meetings use some sort of pre-registration form to then send folks password and login info. But I have never set that up myself.
FWIW.
Scout211
@J R in WV:
The support link I posted at #141 lists Firefox and Chrome browsers in Linux as supported
sab
@Steve in the ATL: Steve is just tormenting us. His job would never let us know who he is. I am okay with that.Glad he is here.
NotMax
@J R in WV
This is so. Was operating under the assumption sab is using Windows.
Also too, one can join a Zoom meeting from within a browser without installing the app at all, although some features of Zoom will not be available when doing it that way.
sab
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: I’ll pretend I didn’t see this.
sab
@NotMax: I am using windows 7 under old computer. Windows 10 under new. Have no phucking idea what my Nook is using.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@sab: Nook tablet? A very old version(Gingerbread v2.3) of Android with a custom user interface.
NotMax
@Steve in the ATL
FWIW have moved on after Before We Die to another Swedish series, The Restaurant. More soap opera-y, but so far not detrimentally so. Season 1 is free on Prime.
prostratedragon
@J R in WV: (Aw, shucks) yes, really. However, if it’s on I’ll at least drop by.
debbie
Will there be a link for those who just want to watch the chaos?
AnnMcC
Yes please! Otherwise, it’s just me and the two kippy dips.
NoraLenderbee
@John Cole: This is the best idea.
200 posts and no pie filter jokes?
Gemina13
I’d like to. I have no webcam, but audio would be fine.
stinger
I’m interested.
The Fat White Duchess
@WaterGirl: The Duke and I would like to attend.
AJ
Yes Please!
catclub
My experience trying it via browser was with a not overpowered computer doing that. It was not a success.
The Fat White Duchess
@WaterGirl: The Duke and I would like to attend.
@zhena gogolia: Not necessarily; some Zoom-bombers have found a way to take control of the screen once they join the meeting. And much worse than porn can ensue.
zeecube
Interested. But why do I have visions of a House of Babel a la Brady Bunch?
Karen H
I’m interested in dropping in for a while. Sounds like fun.
Bruce K
I’d be interested, but I don’t know if I’d be able to make it, given that I’m 2 time zones east of London and 7 time zones east of Eastern Standard Time (IE: six PM EST is one AM Friday my time).
DCrefugee
I’m interested as well…
zhena gogolia
WaterGirl, in case you’re the organizer, I think that more important than a password would be to make the settings so that no one but the host can Share Screen. That’s where interlopers can be really obnoxious, when they grab the screen and show naughty videos, etc.
I’ve been using Zoom since March and have never had a Zoom-bomber, but it seems to me that from the stories I hear, it’s pretty easy to knock them out of the meeting, but if they share the screen it can be unpleasant. So the simple step of eliminating that possibility in advance can really help.
SiubhanDuinne
@Steve in the ATL:
Bwah hahahahaha hahahahaha hahaha ?
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
Oh, Bartleby…
SiubhanDuinne
@Miss Bianca:
I don’t think it’s your imagination at all. I’d bet it’s measurable, and perhaps has been/is being measured by the people who do that kind of thing. Such a welcome change!
RedDirtGirl
Please count me in!
WaterGirl
@The Fat White Duchess: It is only fitting that the Duke and the Duchess would formally respond to the invitation!
Nancy
I’m in although I’m zooming with distant relatives at 2:30. That probably won’t last long because what do we say after the first 10 minutes? Sure miss your pie? Are you watching football?
Anyway I’d love to zoom with the jackals if the times work.
SFBayAreaGal
Count me in. Thank you Watergirl for coordinating this.