Two Takashis for the Price of One
(Takashin? Takashii? Takashiae?)
Although we've traded blog comments on occasion, it wasn't until yesterday that I met Tao Takashi for the first time. I was in Theta looking for a quiet place to build, having no idea that Theta was the sim where Tao keeps his offices. We talked architecture and community design (I like how Theta and Pi have the center of the sim devoted to communal areas. In these cases, the communal areas are sandboxes, but they also seem to serve as modern agoras where the local residents bump into one another, chat, commiserate, whatever. That may be the one aspect of the Highlands I am not entirely 100% thrilled with. It's suburby. Everyone stays on their own land for the most part, doing their own things. Still, if that's my only complaint... Back on point, Tao is a very interesting person and it was good to meet him.
In other news, the episode of SecondCast I guest hosted is up. Recording it was way fun, unsurprisingly, since those folks always seem to have a good time. I fear for the first 2/3 of the thing I hardly spoke. During Aimee Weber's interview, I blurted out a couple of one liners (luckily for me Johnny Ming edited out the awkward silences after them to make me seem funnier than I was at the time) and then couldn't find a good "in." The rest of them are used to one another's rhythms and timing, whereas I was reticent to just butt in. Ah well. I did get to say a bit towards the end, if you really have a jones to hear my dulcet tones. Listening to oneself is always strange, but I think that I sound more clipped in speaking than normal. Perhaps because I'm thinking hard about what I'm saying, and usually if the mouth is on the brain is off.
One last parting thought after both hearing and recording the podcast. I definitely think I'm a wittier person when I have a moment to revise my words. A Cicero, not a Cato. One of the things I like about SL is that when chatting with folks I have time to look things up, reword poorly chosen phrases and basically come off as much more well spoken than I actually am. Well, let me rephrase: than I actually am when I'm sober.
In other news, the episode of SecondCast I guest hosted is up. Recording it was way fun, unsurprisingly, since those folks always seem to have a good time. I fear for the first 2/3 of the thing I hardly spoke. During Aimee Weber's interview, I blurted out a couple of one liners (luckily for me Johnny Ming edited out the awkward silences after them to make me seem funnier than I was at the time) and then couldn't find a good "in." The rest of them are used to one another's rhythms and timing, whereas I was reticent to just butt in. Ah well. I did get to say a bit towards the end, if you really have a jones to hear my dulcet tones. Listening to oneself is always strange, but I think that I sound more clipped in speaking than normal. Perhaps because I'm thinking hard about what I'm saying, and usually if the mouth is on the brain is off.
One last parting thought after both hearing and recording the podcast. I definitely think I'm a wittier person when I have a moment to revise my words. A Cicero, not a Cato. One of the things I like about SL is that when chatting with folks I have time to look things up, reword poorly chosen phrases and basically come off as much more well spoken than I actually am. Well, let me rephrase: than I actually am when I'm sober.
4 comments:
They have this routine going on that's hard to break. I had to force my way in to conversations. It worked out okay in the end, though. :D
Err that was moo Money. I forgot my Blogger password. *blushes*
*laughs* Someone someday will set up a single sign-on for all the various blogs out there. That, or shoot all the spammers so we don't need the security anymore.
And you're right. They've got a patter, and I just didn't have a feel for when I could step on them to speak and when that wouldn't be appropriate. They are "the talent" after all.
regarding SecondCast I can imagine that. I guess I would be sort of silent, too :)
And I am also not the person to break in somewhere I guess.
And it was nice meeting you, too :)
Regarding the suburbia it's maybe not really that much the case. I meet a few people there regularly (some I never met yet ;-) and of course I am also traveling around.
But I understand your point. I just wonder if that's not simply human - you need some sort of home.
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