second life -- noaa

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Tonight I visited the NOAA part of Second Life.

There was someone else standing there when I arrived. He was buck naked, standing there with a sign over his head saying he was adjusting his appearance. Lol.....

I'm guessing he was just clueless, but who knows.

NOAA is the first place I've been that had posted signs about deportment, and running around naked would, I suspect, be on the "not ok" list.

I wandered around some. I found a weather map of the US that they said was live. This would be from 9-ish, EST, on Monday night..... I believe the blue circles are temperature indicators, but I didn't see a key. It is really cold here again tonight, so if the indication is accurate, that dark blue means around zero F.....

(That dark blob bottom center is moi.)





They have a place where you are supposed to be able to get on a plane and fly into a hurricane. Not sure how that is supposed to work -- a sign says you should click on the plane to board (that worked) and then click on that same sign, which was outside the plane (!!) to start the tour. Hmmm. I mean, if you are inside the plane, you can't touch something outside the plane. Unless you detach the camera from the avatar and slide it round to outside and find the sign and click on it...... And even when I did that, it didn't work. Then I was trapped inside the plane..... Until I teleported back to the entrance. I did that three times and couldn't get it to work.

They could take lessons from the Exploratorium on how to make things easy for newbies..... I went back to the Exploratorium at the beginning of the evening, this evening, and rode a photon from the sun to the earth (passing through the orbits of Mercury and Venus). All I had to do was click on a photon, and I was sitting on it, riding on out..... None of this sit first and then click somewhere else stuff.....

Naked guy was still at the entrance the second time I arrived (having escaped the plane for the first time), still adjusting his appearance, but he was fully dressed by then. Tee hee.

Another place in NOAA where you were supposed to take a tour was a submarine. I never saw the submarine, though I did sit where I thought I was supposed to sit. It was another sit here, click somewhere else thing. Who knows. Maybe some day when I know more about how to make things work, I'll re-visit.

I did wander around some more, looking at things you didn't have to manipulate, and I found this. I bet there's a lot of Alaska in Second Life.....







I decided that was enough fun for a day, and quit.

Oh -- I forgot to say -- I began my evening by practicing with clothing.

I don't know where you are supposed to learn how to do this -- you're not supposed to take off your clothes in polite society, but where you *are* supposed to go to practice, I don't know. I went to the University of Michigan's island, and went to a place where I could see for a distance, and ... took off my boots and my cloak and my gauntlets, and, well, um, it seems that my shirt is an undershirt. I took it off, making sure I was ready to put it RIGHT back on, and yep, I was naked underneath. Ok.

The next excitement was "losing" my cloak. All the rest of my garb was in a "clothing" list in my inventory, and all I had to do to put it back was click on it.

The cloak was not there......

After some time poking around in my inventory, I found it in a box in the "objects" folder. Ok. So ... how do I get it out of the box and put it on????

I had to go google for "second life" "open object" (after trying some other things that were not the least bit helpful), and then I got it out and put it back on.

I've just realized that this post is pretty much backwards. I guess that's what you get when it's after 11 and I'm ready to not be doing all that much thinking....


And that was my evening in Second Life.

Things learned:
a bit about taking off/putting on clothing

a bit about objects (which might contain clothing or other interesting stuff)


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