Shouldn't the saying really be about idle minds? Interesting week, things happened so that I didn't really get to jot down my thoughts at many points.

Warren Ellis' Reuter's commentary finally seduced me into the dark pact that is a SecondLife account. Not that Philip Rosedale is necessarily Satan, but anything that gives you such a complete universe to express your alter-ego seems like it should inherently detract from my
essence in some fashion. However, having arrived in world, I “played” through the intro tutorial and promptly got ported to the nearest infohub where my video card shit the bed. Yay. After switching out to a different card I got back in and began my explorations, which were varied and interesting… let me summarize my findings.

There's ALOT of sex. I mean, good god. Sometimes you forget how 80% of the internet, but this is evident in second life. Not that there isn't an enormous amount of content that doesn't make me feel like a perv, but an internet browser doesn't usually walk around chatting at you with a foot long dong hanging out or be in a room having fellatio when you turn the corner. Some of my first forays were simply exploring the most popular areas in-world, which consisted of only 1 out of 20 not being some sort of strip club, adult toy store, or other form of escort service. Granted I came away with some interesting free loot, but it was still disappointing in a kind of grand philisophical way. Not that I should be surprised, but the fact that given a literal universe that's completely customizable the first building on the block is a porno shop makes some part of me sad.

That being said, the sky no longer being the limit some people have acted out some unique things. Flying about the world is kind of lying being Jasper Morello, but with loading zones. Of course I hit up the weapons combat area, which was chock full of some of the most humorous and disgusting things I've seen in a bit. The launcher that propels blades that slice of the victims head and limbs, who then rolls around screaming bleeding everywhere for a good few minutes, I thought was exceedingly inventive. However I must admit that I did buy a giant mech from somewhere and proceeded to blast people to little pieces. That was refreshing.

Overall, it's not something I'm going to be spending a significant amount of time on, more of a casual log-in and explore attitude. I just don't have the inclination to sit between a furry and an anime escort chatting about inane things. There are plenty of people IRL that want to attack me with their blatherings. Which leaves me looking for some of the more interesting builds and experiments people are running which, while the number is growing, is relegated to the vast minority for now. We'll see.

I went to buy a Wii on Friday night during the blizzard(?), but Best Buy didn't have one. That was mightily annoying… I think I deserved to get one just for getting my ass there and wanting to spend a wad of cash. I settled for buying a new case for my laptop and playing Guitar Heros for half an hour (Coming to 360 April 7th!). I also had a visit from a Jehova's Witness today by the name of Sean Green, which was surprising but awesome.

Also, I just bought tickets to Celtic Woman here in Boston in June, YAY. Maureen, her mother, and I are all going, w00t.

I don't know, I feel like I had more meaningful things to say, but after ranting about second life and watching some of Young Frankenstein, I don't know where my head's at. Peace out Ya'll.