After a weekend of walking the Cootes Paradise footpaths and sharing the delights of the world of nature with local hikers, birders and cyclists – it’s time to explore the virtual world! Second Life now has a new avatar – Karenina Mills. Hopefully, shopping for a wardrobe will be easier than finding a name. Karenina has already been invited to join McMaster Library Group Charter and McMaster Library Friends, so she is feeling very welcome in her new virtual community.
Board games and cottage vacations just seem to go together. Scrabble is definitely one of the standards. Online game competition was great fun but all those other players with their “hurry up” comments, gentle sounds of surprise and outbursts of laughter, in the real world, were greatly missed. Devoting time to the online version [classic for now, not speed] would certainly improve my spelling and vocabulary.
Recently there was a television documentary on the addictive nature of online gaming and for sometime there has been an advertisement cautioning others to intervene when they think someone is spending to much time playing poker on the internet. A strong awareness of and dialogue about this concern will no doubt be an essential component of this emerging environment. It is reassuring to note that reading has never been described as an addiction.
