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As I noted on the first page, my site’s title doesn’t have a good reason: I got the domain isle.tk (please don’t visit, <30 hits per month *might* get it back for me). Get it--Isle of Tk. But yeah, back in 01/00 I just wanted a nice short domain and they were free if I recieved 30 unique visitors per month every 90 days or showed tokelau island some cash and provided my own DNS (which I couldn’t cover at the time). I didn’t publicize it so after about 5 months mine went back. Meh.
But I figure, I like my consistent theme, so why not keep the left-over pieces around?
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Just got back from Freshman Orientation at College (which I’m not posting just yet simply to annoy ignorant passerbys). Went well. So far very impressed with the Tech Staff who seem not to be too fascist as is the temptation with IT work. No word anywhere about students and servers which is an absolute must for me.
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We’ve all played Rock Paper Scissors, Right? Well, how about against the specially programmed, anti-human Roshambot (who beat the top poker players in the country btw)? With Spock and Lizards?
Archive for June, 2003
Gamers missed the sexual revolution?
In EverQuest female characters sell for 12% less on online auctions, etc. And theres more.
But in playing the game, he found plenty of anecdotal evidence that female characters are valued less highly than are male ones, even though the real person behind the character can be of either gender. Castronova said he played the game as a female character a number of times, and would inevitably find other players assuming he was less knowledgeable or skilled. “I’m pretty experienced, but I’d still get people coming up to me and saying, ‘OK, honey, stand over there and watch what I do,’” he said. “Even though everybody knows the person behind the avatar could be either sex, the male avatars tend to be treated as more skilled…We’ve just taken sex roles from Earth and put them into Norrath.”
courtesy of Ars Technica
The past couple days my Uncle and Cousin were in from California. We all went to a nice little family reunion in Cleveland and I had my memory refreshed on my dad’s family tree. I also found that they had seen my site when doing vanity searches. Eeak! How embarrassing.
But my relatives were heading down to Oxford (Miami U’s town) for an alumni meeting which he seems to attend every year today. I had wanted to go along but missed them this morning when they were leaving for the drive. Darn. Had a lot of fun talking to the cousin over the past days. I will get to see them again before they go back for a few hours Sunday afternoon. So that’s okay I guess. Gonna miss them though.
I would’ve ended up driving all the way down to Oxford (near Cincinatti) today and then to Republic, PA (great grandfather’s old house, near Pittsburg) back to Ashtabula, and on tuesday down to Oxford again for orientation. Possibly a bit much. I’ll miss them though!
