Second Life

So. This is a documentation of my experiences in Second Life as a greenhorn. As I noted on the wiki, my entry into this alternate universe was frustrating. I have used SL before, but not enough to be comfortable with moving around. But I found a second orientation island today, so I have my appearance set. Yet as before, although I can fly and drive and walk around I am still bored. I took a balloon ride, which was boring and I think since I am running Vista, my SL is sometimes very glitchy - a.k.a. I will get stuck underground sometimes or sink through the road. Needless to say this is frustrating, but I do see clearly the options presented by having an unlimited amount of potential space to build, learn and mingle with people from around the world.

Better Late than Never, I Suppose

Sorry for the delay. As with most of my classmates (I think), the concept of an online class is excellent until I forget that since we don't meet in a classroom, I forget to do the assignments. This is how classes will eventually be in the future, but for the present it takes some getting used to. So I guess this may be the intro to my (strictly) online education.

We were asked to talk about our online habits and our relationship with technology...I don't remember where it says this, but I'll provide a little insight. I love instant messenger, even though I don't get a lot of messages; same thing with text messaging. I don't consider myself to be a technological font of knowledge, but I don't use Internet Explorer, so I guess that puts me in the lead in some race (I use Flock). To me, Flock is in the same vein as what we are reading, about the immersion of everything we use in one easy place. It has and remembers links to blogs, you can bookmark videos with a simple click of a button. I feel that Microsoft will catch onto these advances eventually, so I figured I would try to get ahead of the curve for once.