Comments on: Friday Photo Blogging: gatecrashing a Second Life recruitment party

By: Mathias Gould

Mathias Gould — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:22:04 +0000

Wow, I really like the cube. Dunno what to say about the party.

When I was a lot younger, my family took me on a short tour of hte US to look at colleges. When we stopped in Pittsburgh, there was a guy that lived there that had been my mentor in all the Unix mysticism for many years via IRC and email. We went out ot lunch with him, and I remember when we first recognized eachother, it was a faint kind of recognition of the brain behind the person, really strange. Back then, of course, we didn’t have fancy things like Second Life where our avatars looked like us, and we were Linux hackers (not crackers!) so we led pretty secretive and boring RL lives. Hell, that was even before flickr so it’s not like anyone ever caught me in various pictures at conventions (which exist on flickr of me now).

Hope you guys had fun. See you in the metaverse.

By: heather

heather — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:00:22 +0000

Aye, meeting folks from games in real life is very odd, but sometimes quite good. I was very surprised while playing Warcraft to discover that a number of the people we’d fallen in with lived, at most, an hour and a half’s drive from us. We met at a convention somewhere in the middle more than a year ago, and we’ve all gotten to be RL best-friends since then. They’re like family to us, and if I’ve gotten nothing else out of online gaming, that’s been more than worth the admission price.

By: Ian Ozsvald

Ian Ozsvald — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:48:20 +0000

Hi Paul, good to meet you last night (at the door, as you and your friend were trying to leave and I stepped in to say Hi).
The event was a bit random and certainly they didn’t get so many people asking for a job I think, but it was good to see the scene in action.
Ian.