Eyefood

One of the things that I always feel makes series of islands joined together a bit ‘obvious’, is how the edges work (or not) together. I think you have to be really careful not to make everything ‘blocky’ when you’re terraforming.

Hopefully, I’ve kinda got it so far with the join between Emerge and Open Habitat. Obviously, the join between Open Habitat and LeedsMet is seriously blatant - but I have a cunning plan to make that more ‘logical’

It’s starting to make a bit more sense as a series of islands

Kisa Naumova posted a moving image.

Kisa Naumova: hello
Illyria Rozen: Hi
Kisa Naumova: ]how are you doing?
Illyria Rozen: Alright I think, Not sure how I’m gona do the textures and stuff for the guitar though
Kisa Naumova: yeah, that could be tricky
Kisa Naumova: I think you might have to tile a large one across all the little pieces
Kisa Naumova: I have some formulas that can help
Illyria Rozen: Cool, I don’t know how I’d do that
Kisa Naumova: ah
Kisa Naumova: it might be easier to talk about that in RL
Illyria Rozen: Yeah, I’m not in uni though
Kisa Naumova: ok
Kisa Naumova: well,
Kisa Naumova: at whatever point you are
Kisa Naumova: I should have time
Kisa Naumova: Oh, did you friend me BTW?
Illyria Rozen: Ok, I’ll let you know if I’m around at any point
Illyria Rozen: yeah I did friend you
Kisa Naumova: ah
Kisa Naumova: sorry
Kisa Naumova: I get several requests a day, and I forget who people are
Kisa Naumova: haha
Kisa Naumova: LOL
You have offered friendship to Illyria Rozen
Illyria Rozen is Online
Illyria Rozen: That’s ok I thought that might be the case
Kisa Naumova: cool
Kisa Naumova: anyway
Kisa Naumova: best go…
Kisa Naumova: catch you later
Illyria Rozen: ok
Illyria Rozen: bye

A thought occurred to me earlier on, regarding the way we have created accounts for the students in the pilot on The Site. To make things simple, I rehashed a version of my ‘click to join the site’ box (which is the glowing orange doughnut in some of the snapshots that have been appearing), so that all they had to do was click and they’d automagically have a new account and be put into the right groups.

Which is all very well, but I’ve started wondering how this will work in relation to their existing accounts - will having two identities on the site be confusing? Will they flip backwards and forwards between the two? Will they spend more time devoted to one than the other?

I know that personally, having several identities online is something that I’ve struggled somewhat with for the past six years. Juggling which particular ‘persona’ I felt like on a particular day hasn’t always been easy - even though I’ve taken steps like having multiple browser installations (with their own separate cookies) to be able to do things like keeping three Flickr accounts and three Twitter accounts going at the same time.

Even then though, I’ve always noted that I seemed to shift emphasis from one persona to another depending on a host of different things.

…

Originally, when I was first playing around with the idea of having specific Second Life sections of the site, I introduced a category in the user database to store Second Life names. One thing that I think this pilot will show, is whether I should have pursued that idea, rather than relying on separate accounts.

We’ll see I guess

The 51A has an annoying habit of taking a long break at the bus stop just after the Drysalters pub sometimes. I guess it must be because we sometimes miss out stops when there’s nobody to pick up or set down, and the driver gets ahead of the timetable.

Or something.

This evening though, as I gradually cranked up Air on my iPod to drown out the deafening sound from the girl-in-front-of-me’s iPod, I caught sight of a Great Tit in the tree next to my window.

It took me a couple of moment to realise what must have happened - it must have got snagged at some point, and caught there - but it was dangling, by the neck, lifeless, suspended from a branch on a piece of what looked like fishing wire. A tiny little feathered suicide.

Well, maybe it wasn’t the saddest thing ever. But it was pretty heart-wrenching nonetheless.

Kisa Naumova posted an image.

Hehehe

SLurl

Graham Hibbert posted an image.

Graham Hibbert posted an image.

Graham Hibbert posted an image.

Graham Hibbert posted an image.