I've always been a huge JJ Ventrella fan and I was ecstatic when he joined up with Second Life. LL has got some incredible people working on features. I'll be thrilled when the Physical Avatar hits the Grid. I always thought, rightly or wrongly, that floopies have his stamp all over them.

There are old things like joints that I think a lot about. My inept experimentation with joints, when we had them, resulted in kewl weathervanes, the fruit of several happy hours of tinkering. I thought about joints a lot when I was making the crane decoration on Sunday, day-dreaming about them in a pleasant fashion.

I have no doubt things are going to pop out of the hole unexpectedly, as floopies and sculpties did, making residents breathless with amazement and wonder.

In the Second Life Herald, a comment to an Inigo Chamberlin story was made by Nicholaz Beresford, everybody's favorite open-source client programmer. He said:

"The worst thing I ever did to that immersion, did to my SL experience, was starting to work on the viewer from an open source perspective. There is nothing that not only pokes holes into the fabric reality, it completely rips it apart. It turned the experience into a program and into bits (in both meanings of this word), and I guess this is the reason why the Lindens, who are working on the plumbing side of SL day in and day out, have lost most of their sense of what SL means to the inhabitants."

That has the ring of truth.

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