Various thoughts dripping through the holes in my head!

Top Gear Season 9 Episode 3
Funny. Surreal. Serious. This episode of Top Gear will go down as a classic. You don’t need an interest in cars to watch this episode of Top Gear. You’ll probably laugh. You might be offended. You’ll mutter to yourself, “that cannot happen here”. You’ll sigh, “I can’t believe it was that bad”. You don’t need an interest in cars to watch this. It was just that good. Top Gear has always been one of my favorite TV shows but with this episode they’ve gone up a level in my book. Do a search on youtube for the various clips. It’s even better if you catch the complete show.

2nd Life
I heard about 2nd Life a couple of years back but I finally took a peek last week. This is my first foray into a MMORPG. Is Second Life a MMORPG? It does not have the fantasy aspect of a WoW or Eve but I would argue that it is. It’s a “Snow Crash” MMORPG. We don’t have the VR equipment to fully immerse ourselves in 2nd Life but it’s not too hard to imagine. Land is a commodity and there is a real demand for it. That requires protection. With protection comes government or at least a political structure. With a political structure they have a currency (it even has an exchange rate with the USD). 2nd Life has all these aspects and that makes it seem more real…. There is an economy and political system in place even if it’s just bits and bytes living on the servers of Linden Labs. It’s going to be an interesting experiment.
What drew me to 2nd Life? They had a scripting language and it looked interesting to build stuff on the platform. Have not really built anything yet, more a case of me just poking around to see how things worked.
Anway meet my alter ego, Zed Qunhua (this is a default male character)

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