A Day in Second Life

Yesterday started off with an appearance on Smarter Technology in Second Life, where DIP has maintained an office since 2006. We're not the only ones. Check out this Wall Street Journal article, "A Second Chance for Second Life," published today.

John Jainschigg, Rita J. King, Joshua S. Fouts and Jerry Paffendorf discuss DIP's work with 3D Squared and Loveland. (1000 Inches in Loveland is DIP's neighborhood within the city of inches in a warehouse in Detroit).

At 7 pm SLT, I appeared on a "quiz show to the stars," The 1st Question, hosted by Hydra Shaftoe and the highly entertaining Pooky Amsterdam (proprietor of PookyMedia, with whom we recently collaborated on a short video, "Transformation: How We Become Who We Are." All guests were asked which element from the periodic table they most identified with. I said helium because it floats and it's vital in the study of superconductivity.

My experience with games that have buzzers is limited to a distant day in Syracuse, a college bowl held on a snowy afternoon, during which I had buzzed in on round one as soon as the host said, "This famous trail..."

"Ho Chi Minh!" I shouted, realizing at that very moment that it could have been the Trail of Tears, the Appalachian Trail, the...what was I thinking? All eyes were on me. Why had I buzzed in so quickly??

"Correct!"

I didn't answer another question the entire time, and I feared a repeat performance on Pooky's show.

Not this time. I won!

The real prize, however, was meeting Spiral Walcher, one of the other contestants, who teleported me to two of his spectacular builds, one for IBM and another called the Electric Forest. I'm shown below in the x-ray disco ball I was wearing to dance with the contestants and audience after the show.


Second Life continues to amaze. In fact, I've got to split now to meet with TREET.TV to work on an upcoming broadcast from Second Life to the internet--more on that soon. I'll leave you with the Electric Forest, below.