irony of ironies,
just after yesterday's post subtitled "Come on in, the water's fine!",
i (and all my neighbours) had a reminder that things in-world are basically just a bunch of ones and zeros.
here's what happens when those ones and zeros get jumbled up :-P
it's actually more than just my skybox losing artificial gravity and crashing 500 metres to the ground :-P
as you can see, the water in the pool has somehow managed to retain its integrity, even though the aluminum walls of the pool are nowhere to be seen (that transparent, eh?) further, the real mess is _inside_ the skybox, with prims from sea-level, and prims from the sky, all mashed together in some kind of awful Philadelphia-experiment gone really, really awry... and that's not even taking into account the bamboo and coconut emerging through the floor and walls in patterns which would make Picasso proud.
i don't have the heart to take a pic of the scene inside.
and! i wonder what my neighbour immediately to the north of me (rightside of the pic) thinks of returning home from work to find a holodeck in her front yard... so much for architecture 'in-keeping' :-)
i honestly have no idea how long it will take me to get things sorted :-P
and i was _so_ looking forward to a bit of peace and quiet today, which happens to be my fourth anniversary in the blogosphere :-)
ah well, at least some of you might be able to put your feet up and relax today :-) if you can, please do find time to read Gwyneth Llewelyn's reflections on the first Workshop on Communication, Education and Teaching, held at the University of Aveiro in Portugal. apparently, i'm not the only educator who thinks that a strong case can and should be made for supporting and enabling text-based chat in learning environments :-)
oh yes. one more piece of conference news to share: in conjunction with this year's Redesigning Pedagogy conference (organised by the National Institute of Education, Singapore, on the theme of 'Culture, Knowledge and Understanding'), a book has been published in which i've contributed a chapter. The editors are C Shegar and R A Rahim, and it's titled Redesigning pedagogy: Voices of practitioners, published by Pearson Education. My chapter's entitled Adolescent perceptions of space and place in virtual and photographic environments; it's a throwback to my PhD research back in 2005.
in all things, give thanks :-) and i honestly thank God that - mess (and messier aftermath) notwithstanding - it's another breathtaking sunset in the Imzadi sim.
Amen.
