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Thursday, August 9, 2007 - 8:33pm

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Today's OC Register's Marketplace section, page 2, featured a short article by Tamara Chuang, Register blogger
ocregister.com/gadgetress
There.com is a competitor with Second Life, located in Laguna Beach, altho their website says they're in Silicon Valley. They look reasonably cool, although I kept running into glitches on the libary computer trying to get anywhere beyond basic sign-up, which is free, of course. They are looking for developers, product designers, artists, and employees according to the site.
All members of There are invited, according to Tamara, to There's con at the Marriot, Dana Point, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
866-4U-THERE
866-488-4373

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Friday, August 10, 2007 - 7:20am

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I guess I'm not one of the cognoscenti but I did figure out that "OC" is Orange County in California because you reference Laguna Beach, and not in upstate New York where "American Chopper" is taped — but I have no idea what "con" is, unless you're up-front and telling us that we will be bilked out of our life savings with this venture capital deal. I guess I could google "Second Life" to find out what this is.

It would help if you were to tell us your interest or involvement in this project, if any.

Sam

(Edited by Sam Erica on 8/10, 8:14am)

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Friday, August 10, 2007 - 7:31am

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Con is Calicreole for convention.

Phil seems to speek some weird Californian Creole, which I hear from my Brother and Sister who lived out there for a while. (Back on the East Coast, we educated adults speak Shakesperean and contemporary English as needed.) The Calicreole has to do with an admixture of Standard Californian Nerd mixed with native Hakisack and a bit of the Jamaican Ganja dialect. I find the large majority of Phil's posts inscrutable. Even though I am a linguist I have a hard time when there is no subject-verb agreement, punctuation is used for mere decorative purposes, and almost no utterance is a complete sentence. John Dailey seems to speak the same dialect, which ever one of them speaks standard English might try providing us with comprehensible translations.

Ted

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Friday, August 10, 2007 - 8:19am

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LOL!

I did know what VR means Virtual Reality — but how many ordinary people would know that?

(Edited by Sam Erica on 8/10, 8:22am)

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Friday, August 10, 2007 - 7:37pm

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"Ordinary people"

Fanish: that's properly "Mundanes"

As in, like, i am so NOT outreaching to...

Almost as groty as sleeping with TROLLs...

(Hopefully I didn't just give John A. a woodie.)

So you go, "Dissin John, such a cheap shot...."

Nuff?

New VR venture stakes out territory in the OC - Con this weekend