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Gettin' the hang of it

January 7, 2006 2 Comments

Okay, okay! Once you can get around Second Life without bumbing into the walls it gets pretty interesting. I upgraded my graphics card driver and went in again. Here’s what I found.

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But now I'm found

January 7, 2006 Leave a comment

I take it all back. I finally found Randy (aka RC Mars) in Second Life. Somehow the information I got was two hours off. He and volunteer Jade Lilly made their presentation and I (Chester Carnot) mostly stood and watched. I stood because I had a hard time getting my butt to sit in the right place. It takes some ...

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I was lost

January 7, 2006 Leave a comment

I went to Democracy Island in Second Life today (see Randy Moss’ post). It was only the second time I have been in the Second Life virtual world, so I spent most of my time trying to figure out how to handle my "body" and navigate. Randy Moss was there somewhere doing a presentation about the Second Life Relay For ...

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Everything in Its Place(s)

January 5, 2006 2 Comments

I have been exploring Pandora.com, an on-line, real-time music service that specializes in finding new artists for the listener based on the characteristics of their self-chosen music. Pandora has meta tagged the songs on over 30,000 cds with the categories of tone, vocal, electronic or acoustic, beat, melody, etc. Pandora employs music theorists to properly identify the characteristics of songs ...

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