Archive of Second Life

Real things that actually happened

on July 20th, 2007 in Cornell, Life, San Francisco, Second Life by | 3 Comments

My work name is Erica Linden. Everyone who works for Second Life gets a Linden last name. This makes us weirdly popular in-world. There is a huge bouquet of stargazer lilies on my desk. Got ‘em for myself. Who needs boys? Not me. Nope. My mom phoned at 8am to…

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Quality Assurance edition of Old job, Meet new job

on July 11th, 2007 in Career, Tech by | 2 Comments

Quality Assurance Internet startup (new job): A team of dedicated professionals Academic library (old job): The screams of our users

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14 Weird things I’ve learned this week

on May 18th, 2007 in Beekeeping, Books, Librarianship, Life, Research Obsession, San Francisco, Tech by | 3 Comments

Queen Bees are expensive It’s damned difficult to find a cat-sitter in Ithaca Johnathan Lethem’s You Don’t Love me Yet is, so far, an absolutely perfect book Tom Phillips is an artist who did a really great book painting featuring fictional books with titles stolen from Shakespeare Roccapulco is a…

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