Cafe Bucky

From my wonderful daughter today:

Father’s Day ‘06

You taught me how to walk
You taught me how to talk.
You put band-aids on my knees,
And remind me to take my keys.

You always know what’s best.
You comfort me when I’m stressed.
You sometimes protest about how I dress,
But just having you as my dad as always made me feel blessed.

You give me wisdom, guidance, and support
I love you so much, and it makes me so glad
To know that each and every day, I have a loving, caring, DAD.

Haven’t bothered to blog. Haven’t really thought about every last web site to check out.

It’s not for lack of interest. It’s just ..

I gotta sleep too! :-)

So I’m immersed in the online shared space of Second Life, and the work, and “Real Life”, and it’s all invigorating and exciting, and blah blah blah. If there was never time enough to get bored before, I’ve hit the next level.

See, I haven’t been so excited about a new bit of tech since 1993. That’s saying something, ’cause I’ve done a lot of keeping up (well, I did slack off from ‘99-’03 a little :-) Second Life is flat out awesome. Is it Web 3d? I don’t know. It is a lot like the Metaverse of Snow Crash.

In 2L, there’s so much to learn: building, scripting, gestures, and so on. There’s also a huge social bit to it that I love. I’m hooked. That’s it. I’m frikken hooked.

So now the challenge is to work out the balance. There’s sleep to be slept, work to do, bills to pay, drives to take, and bbq’s to fire up. To say nothing of The Web and the things about it that have kept me fascinated for the last dozen years.

I keep pondering on how to write a proper post on “The Widening Web Gap”; where I’d compare the web geeks pushing the boundaries, versus the dialup folks that barely know how to check email, browse, or use IM. Every day that gulf opens a little further. I’m not even sure yet how to link 2L into that.. it takes the whole idea of interactive community and snickers politely to itself. Myspace? Friendster? The latest AOL or Yahoo Social Networking site? Forget it. Why bother? (that’s overstating it, but the kernel is that 2L can function as a heck of Social Space, if that’s what you’re looking for). I still respect LinkedIn though - there’s some utility there.

So my point here is that I’m working out the whole balance thing - there’s a ton of stuff to learn, and I haven’t felt this energized on a tech level for many years. I won’t spend 5 paragraphs talking about the awesome people I’ve met - suffice to say that being able to connect on a 3d visual level sure beats straight text anytime! More later.