Bring Back Grimmy

MIT5 is done and I intend to post a more detailed blog post on the conference itself. My presentation on narratives in Second Life went a little dry. We had one of the largest rooms and Cory and Pathfinder were actually in the audience. My paper was one of the most substantial papers, but by the time I came to the most interesting stuff, I ran out of time. I decided to rethink my presentation style. Namely more images, less theory, using visuals to simplify the theory. However, on that very same day, W-Hat had its third birthday. When I came back to the hotel, I decided to stop by Baku to see what’s up and perhaps offer some congratulatory words to Deco. After all he did all the prep for the party. When I went there, I found out two very sad news: Deco had been banned the very same day of the party, so technically he couldn’t even participate in half of the party.  And one of the libslers, JM, had passed away a week ago in a car crash. I had interviewed him and he seemed like a cool guy. He was only 17. Life sucks, big time.
And for some reason Moo kept attacking me most of the time I was in Baku. She is under the impression that as a researcher, I can’t really feel compassion for goons and I am out to cause them harm. After a half an hour of explaining, she calmed down and decided to give me another chance. I don’t know why she is this upset, because technically I am not even interested in what she does. The only time she even appears is in CopyBot with the picture she has taken with the Bot itself. We’ll see how this plays out.
But I wanted to post the W-Hat birthday bash machinima here, created by Deco, one of my favorite goons.