{"id":166,"date":"2007-05-08T15:11:06","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T20:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/05\/08\/a-little-too-happy\/"},"modified":"2007-05-09T08:10:22","modified_gmt":"2007-05-09T13:10:22","slug":"a-little-too-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/05\/08\/a-little-too-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Too Happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once in a while I stroll over to Will Richardson&#8217;s blog just to see what&#8217;s going on.  Today was one of those days.  I read his post on <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogg-ed.com\/2007\/second-life-in-my-first-life\/\">Second Life<\/a> and couldn&#8217;t help but laugh.  Can we just end this whole Second Life thing?  There is nothing worse than a virtual environment where every avatar is suppose to represent a real person&#8230; that can only communicate by typing on a keyboard.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\"  alt=\"Laughing in SL\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/SLLaughing.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I said (rather, I typed) something funny to someone in SL and got back a &#8220;LOL&#8221; in the chat dialog.  Isn&#8217;t it bad enough that we can only chat with a keyboard and not with our real voices?  Now I have to imagine that the virtual representation of someone I&#8217;m talking with is also laughing based on the fact that &#8220;LOL&#8221; was typed back to me.  Shouldn&#8217;t the avatar grab his gut and roll around on the ground?  Maybe there is a way to make the avatar do this and no one I have talked with knows how to do it.  I could create a cheat sheet of all the body language needed in SL.  Then when someone says (types) something funny I could say &#8220;PWWILAMCC&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Please Wait While I Look At My Cheat Sheet&#8230; and then I could roll around on the ground laughing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once in a while I stroll over to Will Richardson&#8217;s blog just to see what&#8217;s going on. Today was one of those days. I read his post on Second Life and couldn&#8217;t help but laugh. Can we just end this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/05\/08\/a-little-too-happy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[336,5],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","tag-edtech","tag-secondlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}