SF0 Mentor: A Noob No More by susy derkins, Meta tron
October 16th, 2007 7:35 AMI ate my fingernails. I wonder about sf0 tasking etiquette. I thought about how I might be a little autistic, having so much trouble understanding social interactions.
Then Mink answered back, liking the plan and with thoughtful comments! Ah, the trepidation of the little grasshopper being spared a beating from the master´s stick...
By then I have gotten myself busy with task preparation, considering using the tree after all, but not the helium balloon.
Mink pointed out that "a real fish seems a bit cruel unless you document taking it to a loving home afterwards!". Is only fair to acknowledge that I hadn´t really thought about the future of the fish: it was just a beautiful something that moved, no more. But why if the fishbowl got broken while trying to remove it? An awful sight, a fish in the sidewalk! Should I leave beside a net and a plastic bag so that someone could readily adopt it? Or some acetone for ungluing it safely? And food? And an umbrella?
Then I noticed that I had mistakenly listed The Villian as my collaborator in this task. Mmmm, and I couldn´t change it back to Mink. Then I tried to go back and reread Mink´s message, and it was nowhere to be found. But I had messages from The Villain. WTF? And then Praxis was all plagued with differently shaped Villains. Aaaaaah, OOOOOK!
So I wrote to my mentor:
Oh, the epiphany! SF0 is Calvinball!!!
I was going nuts here pushing buttons frantically to try to fix whatever I had done to misplace Minka from my list. Literally shaking...
But then, as the "players" screen got increasingly black, I wasn´t so sure:
Wait, I think is not a case of consensual identity theft, but evil body snatching! He ate my mentor! The Little Red Riding Hood redux!
But how could one be sure? What if The Villain is many others, as in an army of sock puppets? Or how about the Villain being Minka and the others in the same sense that Todos somos Marcos?
And a message from my mentor came back:
What if we're all just one other person pretending to be lots and really its just the two of us playing? What if it goes further than game? What if everyone you know is in on it? Your neighbour, your teacher, your mum... your gold fish. How can you be sure, I mean really sure that you're not in on it? Are you really you? Have you ever seen yourself in the same room as you? I thought not.
Trust no one: CONSTANT VIGILANCE.
[tee hee hee]
Villainatron x
A perfect Zen whack! Who could ask for more?
I really have to call my mum...
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mink, you are naughty.
Susy, I assure you this is not a simulation.
that I know of.
Good mentor choice. Glad you are getting into sf0 during the revolution. It must be very disorienting. The same happend to me for the Rubin invasio. I had no idea what was happening, but I knew that I liked it here.
One part of this task that I hope Mink does cover with you is how to link, embed images and video and size/space stuff. Covering some of the technical aspects of proof writing is is something wanted to get across in creating this task, in addition to the obvious philosophical grooming. So if you still have questions in that area, don't let her off the hook.
A revolution to join, raining votes, high level players declaring me their friend... it doesn´t get much better than that.
And if Mink is right, my mom can help me polish my css skills!
er, yeah, my zen like approach to mentoring really boils down to the fact that you seemed to have all the bases covered on the super glue task! I also must say I can't see that you've missed anything with the links and embedded image above either. However, I do solemnly swear to be your number one go-to girl for advice and opinion! I just hope I am able to be as helpful to you as my uncredited mentor was to me when I started playing.
btw, thanks for everything Mouse ; )
What about super hot cool awesome crazy wicked cool tricked out flippin sick grease frying supercool air-conditioned algid arctic biting chill chilled chilling chilly coldish frigid frore frosty gelid nipping nippy refreshing refrigerated shivery snappy wintry magazine style formatting!!!
why did you include nipping and nippy but not nappy?
WoW! Spar...I like all the adjectives you use..very classy...
My secrets revealed!
Just so you know I am completely impervious to structure!
On formatting
Spar asks about formatting
- Formatting has its place in making stuff pretty
- Formatting allows us to colorize content.
- Formatting gives us size, boldness and text changes
Structure gives us more
- Sound semantic structure helps make it useful
- Structure tells us how important it is
- It tells us how strongly a word should be treated.
Structure matters more
- If formatting went away, structure would allow you to read
- And would allow you to know things about the data
So did you do it?
What happened to the Goldfish...
WHAT DID YOUR MOM SAY!!!
IS SHE JOINING SF0?!?!?!