I've always thought Second Life was a bit weird, but I've also always been fascinated by its real world applications. For example, I once attended a Librarians talk in SL with a member of the Faculty of a previous job (it's also always interesting to see what people choose as their SL avatars), it was both fun an interesting. However, I've also always found SL to be a bit boring. Not really anyone to talk to and if there is it's people you probably aren't sure whether you should be talking to them or not. Interestingly enough was some of my first experiences in SL (about 2 years ago) I found that large numbers of the people I met where actually Librarians! They had librarian parties, librarian meetups, and research talks. I haven't been back in a really long time, so long my "Home" destination no longer existed and I took me a bit to figure out how to maneuver again. SL was a lot more crowded than I remember the last time and I could actually hear people talking, as of my last visit to SL the only way to talk was via the text field.
So on my return to SL, I found my cool clothes were still there, including my Doctor Who t-shirt, plaid pants and Converse sneakers. Also to my happy surprise I still had my virtual Poodle. Here is a snapshot of me, a cup of coffee and my poodle in the Bonsai gardens in Koleamoku (one of the locations I had saved that still existed). Now, I'm off to see if the Charles Dickens town still exists.
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