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Starlog Day 2, 4 hours Second Day, Second Life, “Charlie’s” First Lesbian Experience?             I decided to learn more about the Second Life culture, and see if I couldn’t better equip myself to maneuver this foreign world.   I searched and watched a few Youtube videos so I could learn more about the basics.   My goal for this next attempt, I needed to learn how to communicate.             For whatever reason, when I logged into Second Life, there were plenty of people walking around and several were helpful.   I was excited, I was communicating with people in Second Life!!   I asked for help.   I changed my shape (apparently, to do some of these things you need to upgrade to “advanced” mode, which does NOT cost anything!).   I had a Miss Sweetwater ask why I was so short.   I changed the view to see the front of me.   I had morphed into some half woman, half quad-dog form, really short, with spindly limbs and a deformed foot.   Half bald, half of my head had a few, brown wisps of

For my COM 399 class, I have to use Second Life and write about the eperience.  Although this is not my final paper, I am sharing my first draft, of my first experience in Second Life.  You can stay tuned for the final paper!! Second Life of Frustration Why I don’t play video games How to be reduced to feeling like an idiot             First let me start by saying I don’t play video games.   I did not grow up playing them, and when I do play them, I am quickly reduced to feeling like an idiot.   And since I feel I am a fairly intelligent person, I don’t enjoy feeling like an idiot.   Which I do, every time my software is updated or I get a new computer.   I have long since learned not to do things that make me feel like an idiot.             That said, I started this assignment with no prior knowledge of Second Life.   I decided I would watch the first tutorial listed on our assignment.   It was a man who was showing off his cool office in Second Life.   The murals on his walls wer

Kim Taylor Future Horizon Reports COM 399             One of the technologies I found the most surprising was "Mobiles."   And I know it is part of my own bias on cell phones, and the real necessity for mobile devices.   When you have a computer at work, and you have one at home, I just don't see the need to have internet on my phone.   Since I am taking classes at Bradley, I have bought a netbook that I have brought in for a few of the classes where we were in a computer lab and there wasn't enough computers for the whole class (I know I digress, but that just doesn't make sense to me.   I pay for the "computer lab", but then I bring my own netbook because there aren't enough computers in the class...or wait, I can go check one out down the hall....)   However, after reading the Horizon Reports, I have a totally different perspective on this technology group.   Personally, I don't know if I will eventually get the internet on my phone, but I do