In a Strange Land

Long ago, a world ago really, I and an employee of Reynolds Aluminum refurbished old computers, mostly pre-iMac Apple product, and gave them...

I had the pleasure of attending a "Sharp Viewpoints" event on my old employer's campus, where Dr. Kevin Hallock , university P...

A colleague in senior administration at OSU sent me a notice about their new AI initiative . It's so at odds, in a healthy manner, with ...

Put On Your Waders As part of teaching Ethan Mollick's book Co-Intelligence , I subscribed to his substack "One Useful Thing."...

I read a piece today at Space.com, about a fierce solar storm that hit our planet some 2687 years ago. Another such Miyake event today woul...

Location: Study-Break From Grading Finals, Butt in Chair The numbers are trending back down for the number of private regions in Second...

Location: Thinking about a new SL Road Trip I admit that I have had a morbid interest in watching the slow decline in the number of p...

Location: Prognosticator's Chair I never spent much time in Cloud Party, though Cyn Skyberg did reach out for a phone interview ...

Location: Robins Center, University of Richmond image credit: Boston Public Library at Flickr I have reflected here before on the temp...

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: Prognosticator's Chair My students are in the midst of Alone Together , Sherry Turkle's jeremiad about the dangers ...

  Location: VWER meeting Photo credit: Wrenaria Today, the VWER meets to discuss its future under our new leader, SL's Kali Pizzar...

Location: Linden Lab Web Site and New World Notes At New World Notes, I have been eagerly watching, and contributing to, both the discussi...

  Location: VWER Meeting Every year, I look forward to this event. In 2009, it is where I first met AJ Kelton and many of the folks to w...

Location: Waiting for a Vote This began as a reply at Tateru Nino's blog . I'll share my thoughts again on this debt debacle. Th...

Now that the news is out that Linden Lab wants to rebrand their signature product , I'll toss my tophat in the ring along with other mo...

Location: Prognosticating I see a very different shadow from the dynamic ones in the new viewer. Some weeks, every other post by Hamlet A...

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: VWER meeting image courtesy of Lolly's photostream Last week, our special guest Dusan Writer covered a great deal of te...

  Location: Not Shopping Anywhere I have been critical of Linden Lab here, but I'm a bit blind-sided by the slew of blog posts about ...