Thoughts after 5 days on Second Life

"What are you doing on this Second Life site?" my wife said to me. "What's wrong with your First Life?"

Well, there are two things that I cannot do in real life. The first one is fly and the second one is dance. I can do both in Second Life and do them very well, thank you.

The ability to fly around the World is just fantastic. It is definitely worth getting an account on Second Life just to experience the sensation of flying. I have dreamed about doing this for years and experiencing it first hand is really cool.

The ability to dance is more of a personal thing. I am such a klutz when it comes to dancing. I have no rhythm at all. Hey, look at me now! It is just hilarious!

I made some money in Second Life

After 3 days wondering around Second Life, I finally sat down and camped out at The Pham. I made L$10 in about 2 hours. Now that is around US$0.34 at today's exchange rate. I probably shouldn't quit my day job at this point, lol.

I can see how people can waste hours online immersed in Second Life. It is really a make believe world and reality can be distorted. Actually, I am kind of enjoying making some of the dance moves in Second Life that I would never be able to do in Real Life.

Second Life

Well, I just signed up with Second Life and so far so good. It was kind of fun flying around. Here is me relaxing at the Regina Spektor house. I have not had a chance to play around with changing my body parts yet.

We Are The World

Posting "The PCR Song" blog yesterday got me thinking about the "We are the world" song. It brought back a lot of memories. It was fun seeing Michael Jackson when he was younger.



"We Are The World", U.S.A. for Africa

There comes a time when we need a certain call
When the world must come together as one
There are people dying
Oh, and it's time to lend a hand to life
The greatest gift of all

We can't go on pretending day by day
That someone, somehow will soon make a change
We're all a part of God's great big family
And the truth - you know love is all we need

[CHORUS]
We are the world, we are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
so let's start giving
There's a choice we're making
We're saving our own lives
It's true we'll make a better day
Just you and me

Well, send'em you your heart
So they know that someone cares
And their lives will be stronger and free
As God has shown us
By turning stone to bread
And so we all must lend a helping hand

[REPEAT CHORUS]

When you're down and out
There seems no hope at all
But if you just believe
There's no way we can fall
Well, well, well, let's realize
That one change can only come
When we stand together as one

[REPEAT CHORUS AND FADE]

BTW, the "USA for Africa" in the title stands for "United Support of Artists for Africa."
Wikipedia entry for We Are The World.

Today Show on 20 years after the original recording:

Who's Your Daddy?

It is hilarious. This is the best line...
...PCR, when you need to find out who the daddy is. Who’s your daddy?...


The PCR Song

There was a time when to amplify DNA,
You had to grow tons and tons of tiny cells.
(Oooh) Then along came a guy named Dr. Kary Mullis,
Said you can amplify in vitro just as well.

Just mix your template with a buffer and some primers,
Nucleotides and polymerases too.
Denaturing, annealing, and extending,
Well it’s amazing what heating and cooling and heating will do.

[Chorus]

PCR, when you need to detect mutation (detect mutation)
PCR, when you need to recombine (recombine)
PCR, when you need to find out who the daddy is (who’s your daddy?)
PCR, when you need to solve a crime (solve a crime)
[Repeat Chorus]

(PCR) To all the scientists out there doing PCR, Bio-Rad salutes you with the all-new 1000 series thermal cycling platform.

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