Something I enjoy highly about my job is the level of curiosity which it requires. Not unlike Mythbusters or other epics of the Discovery Channel regime, I find myself involved, on a daily basis, in practical experiments. A lot of questions come up on Second Life Answers that involve empirical evidence. For example, Carson Hadlee asks a timely question, "Force Inventory Loading?" which I'll be answering shortly after I blog this. As much as possible, I like to get involved inworld and really dig into what's happening. Not if, but how.
Time sometimes isn't so relevant for me. For a lot of my revelations, I require sleeps, sort of like you can't force snailmail already in transit to arrive faster—there are certain physical constraints, as well as the speed of the network in place. I recently became aware of Secondlifeme, have not signed up for it yet, but I can't just observe. I'm getting a kick reloading the pages and seeing different avies. I have to participate, and so, I'll be signing up soon. And if you have a Second Life social service I should sign up for, let me know why, and tell me what it's all about. (We can do the hokey pokey after.)
I've also joined a group inworld for the Second Life Hacks book. I've never read one of these books before, but it looks kind of like one of Heloise's hints texts, only more techy. w00t. Wilder Linden is devoted to this project, and in the SL Forums, she's posted: "Help author the O'reilly Second Life Hacks Book – Call for Submissions". Also new today: project ResMod begins, and there's a Community Team Roundtable on Feb. 1! Big picture on the Announcements, but what I'll go on and say is I like waking up and finding myself in unexpected situations. I kind of wish there was a "random" login setting for my avatar… pick up where I left off.