Tempus Tommy

A Dane living in The Netherlands

Tuesday, September 16, 2003  

Ok - to make things even more grotesque. After begging for a laptop and finally getting it home, a mail had arrived when I got home offering me a table and a computer AT school. I was rejected for that in august, and it was exactly this rejection that got me started on the whole begging-for-laptop experience.
Sometimes it's just so.......*sigh*
At least I can write now, even though I have been slowed down quite a bit.

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Living room at home changed color from lime to cream - at least half of it, since I have to much in my living room to be able to paint it all at once...
It looks SO much better, and it really lets the light in.

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I found a RPG I never came across before - it's text-based and RELLY cool!
Alter Aeon is the name, and I'm hooked already. The good thing is also that the game allows for over 200 different social emotes, which is REALLY good for my research. Some are really funny like:
/oz = "You bite the head off a live pigeon and throw its body to the crowd!"
/snowball = "You conjure a snowball from thin air and throw it at yourself."
/stomp = "You stomp about, generally pissed."
Last example proves that it IS possible in some games to act out negative emotions - something that is impossible in f.ex. EverQuest
Link to Alter Aeon (also entrance to second MUD Banished Lands):
www.dentinmud.org/
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archives:

Trying to make the central heating work again.

links:

game-research.com

gamasutra.com

Susana Tosca (My former advisor)

dutch in dk (A blog: twin blogger - mirrorwise)

Klastrup's Cataclysms (my friend)

Bygballe's blog (my friend)

Louise's thoughts (my friend)

Frank Schaap (a Dutch researcher working in the same area as I)

Nick Yee's Hub (an Online Study in MMORPG)

books on my desk:

Michael Argyle:
"The Psychology of Interpersonal Behavior"

Danii Elkonin:
Legens Psykologi (The Psychology of Play)

Erving Goffman:
"The presentation of Self in Everday Life"

Erving Goffman:
"Behavior in Public Places"

Erving Goffman:
"Frame Analysis"

Lisbeth Klastrup:
"Towards a Poetics of a Virtual World" (not yet in press)

Edward Hall:
"The Hidden Dimension"

update Feb. 23

mail:

tommyblogger@hotmail.com

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