Holy Avatar, Bat Princess!

Status: 13% Zombie, 87% Perk

Okay...skipping way ahead here to avatars and Second Life.

I created that batty little blue-haired thing at tektek.org - sort of cute I suppose. Not sure exactly what purpose it serves, but I may be able to use it somewhere.

It's kind of fun now and then to create little avatars to use as your personal identifier on websites where one might lurk about. Often I just use one of my photos, or some strange little picture I've found along my internet travels.

I checked out the DoppelMe.com site - HIDEOUS. At least if you're going to play around with these things, they ought to look good!

I prefer Meez.com - a little more interesting. Don't you think?

I do. That's just one of my personal meez avatars - I also have a library meez. I've updated it a bit in anticipation of the Oak Harbor teens reaching the goal I've set for them. 50,000 pages (combined) and I'll dye my hair purple when they come back to school. I am sure they will reach it - they've submitted over 300 book reviews so far!!!

One of the questions to answer here is what I think of my virtual self vs. my real self. Ummmm, I don't really think of my virtual self as being anybody but an extension of the real me. Though I don't have a pet dragon and my hair isn't to my ankles, I think they are reasonable representations of myself... I do take pictures in cemeteries, after all!

As for Ms. Dewey - I don't like her. She gets annoying pretty quickly. And I certainly hope people don't think that's the kind of customer service you get from librarians!!!

As for Second Life - it seems interesting, but I don't really have the time or inclination to delve too deeply into it right now. I signed up today, but don't have the software downloaded and therefore didn't spend any time with it. I watched one of the short movies, and it was fairly impressive. It seems like you can do quite a bit there - but really, wouldn't it be better to be out doing all of this in the real world?

You know - the place with fresh air...and sunshine...and baby crows in your yard...