From: poly@ningal.eanna.net   
      
   Hi Johnny,   
      
   Sorry for the delayed response. I've been trying to get back to this   
   for days but other things kept getting in the way.   
      
   Johnny Fusion =11811=  wrote:   
      
   > Sweet Poly  wrote:   
   >   
   >    
   >   
   > : And I'd like to ask you about Second Life over tea.   
   > :   
   > : I've always been curious but I've never been there; never known   
   > : anyone who participates. What does it feel like? Is it like being   
   > : here at the Rancho, where the shared reality is maintained in text?   
   > : Or does it feel more "real"?   
   >   
   > It seems a bit more real to me, but where the Rancho on alt.cp is painted   
   > with text, if we were to migrate to Second Life it would be a shared   
   > reality painted with 3d interactive objects. The interaction is in   
   > real-time as oppossed to the time-shifted nature of USENET.  Where here the   
   Rancho   
   > is painted in our minds, in SL it would be painted on the screen.   
   >   
   > It really is Stephenson's Metaverse from _Snow Crash_ realized, but like I   
   said   
   > with better physics.   
      
   After reading your post I did go to the Second Life website and poked   
   around. I didn't sign up for anything but did see the land grid and   
   enough graphics to get the idea. You're right, it does seem like the   
   Metaverse. Viewing the grid from high up was really interesting. Like   
   Google Earth, but pixilated.   
      
      
      
   > I would love to chat more about this with you.  Maybe even give you a tour   
   of the   
   > grid.  My SL name is ZenMondo Wormser. IF you do create an Avatar I suggesst   
   you   
   > begin in the community gateway of Caledon. That is my "home base" of   
   operations, a   
   > 19th Century Victorian Steampunk Themed Micronation.  Yes Johnny Fusion the   
   > Cyberpunk has grown up to ZenMondo the Steampunk.   
      
      
   Thank you for the invitation! Wow. A guided tour from a local. That's an   
   opportunity I don't want to pass up.   
      
   I really busy with work and personal projects, but I'm going to pencil   
   in a tour with you on my calendar for some time in the not-too-distant   
   future.   
      
   Definitely before the spring planting season starts!   
      
      
   **   
      
   Poly is lying on the living room floor on a long scroll of white paper.   
   A small roomba, retrofitted with a crayon attached to its side with duct   
   tape, is drawing her outline on the paper.   
      
   Sourcerer finds her there just as the bot is finishing its outline. He   
   is used to seeing Poly doing some odd things, but this is completely   
   mystifying. Plus he wants the roomba.   
      
   "Um, dear, what are you doing?" he asks, as Poly rolls off the paper and   
   starts coloring inside the outline with her crayon set.   
      
   "It's my backup avatar for my tour of Second Life with Johnny", she   
   says. "They do graphics there, apparently, and I don't want to embarass   
   Johnny by just showing up with with a cheap avatar. God knows what the   
   good ones cost. So I thought I'd bring my own just in case. You never   
   know. It can't hurt to have a spare."   
      
   And she cut it out and rolled it up and tucked it into a little tube, to   
   go into the little pack of supplies she was putting together for the   
   Tour...   
      
   Best regards,   
      
   Poly   
      
      
   --   
   Sweet Poly   
   poly@circuit-riders.net   
      
   T---A   
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