Recently I’ve been tag teamed by the dynamic duo from Tribe Islands, namely Driftwood Miles and Alexxa “I’m not Mrs Driftwood Miles” Despres. I mean there I am innocently browsing my own blog and Drift abuses me about The Villa … this could be self inflicted and then I quietly lurk in my evil drow wizard tavern inworld and Ms Despres accosts me! I was an innocent party in all of this but it did remind me of The Jack Linden office hour.
I’ve blogged before about the lack of office hours, or user groups as they are now known. We used to have a lot more and one of the more popular ones was The Jack Linden Office Hour, some of which can be found on the wiki: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Category:Jack_Linden_Office_Hours. These archives have been preserved by residents.
Basically what happened was you’d arrive and find two dragons strategically placed, most weeks anyway, they would be there. I’d try and stand in a normal spot away from the madding crowd and then Jack would come and talk and sometimes the fireworks would fly! There are plenty of missing archives, the infamous Septmeber 10th 2008 invasion of the Ad Farmers meeting, which saw the clash between Cytherea Eagle and Sarah Nerd in the twinkie – *CENSORED* flashpoint! I have that log but it’s not suitable for the wiki! There’s a link to it via Sarah Nerd’s old blog at your2ndplace, thankfully there via the wayback machine, which you can read here, but be warned, serious swearing! I keep meaning to bring my own old your2ndplace posts over here, but it takes so much time! There were also some strange exchanges in that September 10th meeting, such as:
Resident: jack r u accual a linden
Jack Linden: yes, I’m afraid that I am!
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