In a Strange Land

Location: Salad Bar, 10 Years On I will never forget the argument beside the salad bar. A conservative co-worker in our Physical Plant...

Location: Google Sites Once again, I'm stepping into the fray to teach first-year students in my seminar Cyberspace: History, Cultur...

Location: Watching the Meat Thermometer Well, it's that time again...for country ham. The real thing, Yankees: not some water-and-sm...

Location: Checking Baby Jesus' Head It is time for Rebar Jesus again. Welcome to a journey not to Second Life or OpenSim, but just d...

Location: Unpenitent I'll take a break from invented worlds on screen to one that is happening in the flesh now: the myth of The Rapt...

Location: Pondering Reading Hamlet Au's interview with Rod Humble , Linden Lab's new CEO, coincided with an event in class that m...

Location: Doing That Blog Thing My students in the first-year seminar are spending one day tracking how they use a form of collaborative c...

Dancing in my Moon Temple. Location: Second Life Things settled down in the Anam Turas group, with regular Sunday morning Open Pagan Dis...

A Lammas ritual on Gaia Rising. Location: Gaia Rising As a shy and hesitant neo-pagan solitary, finding and practicing with others was...

Location: Fixing a Virtual Roof When I am social, in either my physical or virtual lives, it tends to be with folks as smart and, believe...

After " Belief-O-Matic " revealed my best religious fit as Neo-Pagan, I was eager to find out more. Coincidentally, I signed up fo...

Location: Campus Walk I'm a big enemy of multitasking. When students do it and try to write, the work usually sucks. When they walk acro...

Location: RL Desk, Fixing Class Web Site Over at New World Notes , I have followed the discussion of Neal Stephenson’s response to the erro...

Location: Lord Ansar's Protest Site Philip Rosedale's first crisis, as Interim CEO of Linden Lab, may have arrived. I happened upon ...

Location: Rockin' Along in an Old Rockin' Chair Alicia's posting of the BBBC challenge goes this way: Is your avatar more or le...

Location: Doldrums of Slacker Land Time for some analysis. I just cannot motivate myself during the time when my annual report, assessment d...

Location: Doing ONE Thing at a Time image courtesy of UCLA Magazine I was pleased to see "Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price...

Location: Chained to rock Special thanks to Cathy Anderson, of the SLED mailing list, for alerting us to this build Jack Green Musselman and...

Location: Mixed Reality Event Last night, I had the chance to listen as Wagner James Au moderated a panel with Philip Rosedale, Cyn Linden,...

Location: In Recovery, Louisville CCCC image "borrowed" from multiple sites Another reason to prefer virtual conferences in place ...