The World According to Jennyfur

I have some free time today. I figured that I would update my blog with some random happenings and thoughts.

As it should come as no surprise to anyone that knows me, I am still on a long term hiatus from Second Life. I’ve logged in a couple times over the past month or so. I usually get frustrated by the poor performance issues and promptly log back out without a second thought. It makes me sad to feel such apathy and contempt for something I once loved so much. I thought at first that I was just sick of the drama that stormed through our virtual lives year after year, but I think it runs deeper than that now. I had always been a big supporter of Linden Lab and Second Life. It just got to the point where I could no longer make excuses for a product that barely works on a good day. I just hope that I haven’t become disenfranchised to the point of not ever coming back and/or completely removing my business interests from Second Life.

While on the subject of Second Life, I’d like to extend a belated congratulations to Daniel Terdiman on the pending release of The Entepreneur’s Guide to Second Life. Upon speaking at the Virtuals Worlds Conference in NYC back in March, he asked me to contribute some knowledge and insight on fashion design and content creation in Second Life. On a side note, whilst Google searching my avatar, I see that while I am wholly un-present in Second Life and most Second Life related forums and blogs, that a certain bag lady blogger still has me in her cross hairs questioning how I could possibly contribute anything on content creation since I’ve like never rezzed a prim. For anyone interested, I became a content creator around May 2004 and regularly released new items up until this past year. My main store is in Indigo and I have owned and managed several other malls and boutique locations around Second Life since August 2004.

I am still playing World of Warcraft because tried and true it works and critical functions don’t break after updates. The “lag” when noticeable in capitol cities is almost laughable compared to the walking through molasses lag at any given time in Second Life. It has been a fun experience since I have never been into online games like this before. I am always amazed by the intuitiveness of the User Interface and just how smooth and beautiful the world is at any given time. Sure, it does not have streamed content like Second Life, but I’d sacrifice streamed content in order to never see Missing Image again.

And in other news, I began managing a friends band last month, Trouble Everyday, whom as you may remember performed a show in Second Life back in June hosted by Phreak Radio. I have been enjoying it immensely and life again. I think after nearly four years of being involved in virtual world stuff I just needed to do something real and tangible again,  eventhough we are focusing on interaction with various new media outlets. I’ll be writing more about my adventures on this blog soon enough. I just need to transition it from being 100% Second Life related to being a mix of new media, music and personal stuff.