A few weeks ago I found the Chicagon soccer stadium.
While I was there, they asked if I wanted to join there group, so I did. What the heck, this is ethnographic research at its finest.

A few days later I got an e-mail asking if I wanted to join the Liverpool team. There was no tryout or anything, just a note saying that they have practice at 2:30 SLT(although the date/location was unclear). 2:30pm is in the middle of my real world work day, but this is research after all.

I went to the Chicagon stadium, but noone was there so I IM'd the team captain and he teleported me to the Liverpool stadium.

Captain: Where's your kit?
Me: What's a kit?
Captain: You know, your uniform
(some random bystander): Welcome to British English
Me: Where do I get one?
(captain gives me the shirt, shorts, and socks, and I put it on - see pic below)
Captain: Wait - don't you have a male avatar?
Me: Nope, Why?
(captian gives me a male avatar)
Me: Oh, this is a human-avatar only league?
Captain: Do you have another Furry avatar?
Me: I'm not a furry, I'm a cat !

So not only were they discriminating against cats, but overweight-ers in general!

Then, today the league website announced that "too many negative individuals, the lag, the costs and time challenges meant we had little alternative but to move on." Not sure exactly what happened, but I guess I'll have to find somewhere else to conduct my research :)

A while back I found a cool gothic castle, appropriately on the island of No. The first floor had a few lounge areas with pose balls, the second floor had some musical instruments that you could play (video in progress), and the third floor seemed empty. I went back a few days later to try to get some video of Virtual Bailey playing the bongos - the place was packed and I was greeted by the Mistress of the manor. Yikes! Exit Exit!

So now it all makes sense. The seemingly empty third floor actually contained stripper poles! I SWEAR I didn't know their function when I clicked on it the first time. But of course I knew the next twelve times that I clicked them while trying to capture some video of Virtual Bailey bumping and grinding.

Following the sports theme, today I found a place for miniature golf.

1. Get a putter


2. Wear the putter - unfortunately this meant I temporarily lost my paw.
   
   


3. Touch the green spot to rez a ball.


4. Appraoch the ball until it turns blue.


5. Switch into mouselook mode (M key) and "aim at the hole".


6. Hold down the page down key - the longer you hold, the harder the putt.
   
   

It's pretty tedious until you get the hang of it, and I gave up after the snowy hole. Perhaps I'll try it tomorrow when some others are online.