L$100 for all participants

This questionnaire will take 15 minutes. Those participants who complete the questionnaire will be given L$100. The payment will be processed on 1 March 2009 by "Hariharan Engineer" (name of the avatar). Thank you very much.

http://abis-44464.fec.anu.edu.au/questionnaire/start/second_life

A rate of less than $2US an hour?

Pep (I know Sterling is weak, and jobs in Macdonald's are harder to get, but I am still not tempted)

They didnt turn you down at Big Mac again, did they Pep?

They seem happy to take my money actually.

Pep (I hate the place, but my kids think it's post-modern to eat there occasionally)

A rate of less than $2US an hour?

Pep (I know Sterling is weak, and jobs in Macdonald's are harder to get, but I am still not tempted)

McDonald's. Sorry. Couldn't resist.

Argh....whoever put this survey together was tone deaf. I'm an ESTJ and I think of SL as ESTJ heaven with all the stimulation and little nobs and detail attention my ESTJ nature craves.

That said, the whole idea of competiton to "be the best" is a laugh. So much of what goes on in SL happens in my own head and really nowhere else. Put another way, we are all legends in our own minds. This works because a lot of SL is empty and it's easy to be cool when you think you are cool.

I can give an example. Some time ago, I walked into an escort club that was empty. The sign outside had not rezzed and I did not know it was an escort club. It was purple inside and dark. It felt as if I were walking on carpeting. As Iyoba I stand 4'8" and often have big hair in colors not found in nature. I think my hair that day was olive green. Getting a good shade of green hair (one that is not too garish) is hard work. Iyoba also dresses very modestly, usually in tea dresses made from only a few prims and flat shoes. Iyoba is light skinned African American or biracial. She has plain brown eyes and wears no makeup.

I went upstairs to poke around. I thought there was some kind of balcony I could reach through all those little doors. Instead, I found a bunch of empty purple carpeted rooms. I came out of one of the rooms and...I was not alone. I faced an extremely tall, muscular, female avatar in a mini skirt, high heel boots, and with the most amazing flowing, black, wavy tresses. I checked her profile. "I like to stand out," it said. She glared at me.

I had a feeling a scene was going to happen and it wasn't going to be pretty. Going where you're not wanted in SL even if it was sort of accidental is the cause of many fights. I started trying to talk my way out of this. "Excuse me, " I began. "I'm sorry. I thought these doors led to a balcony." I edged down the stairs. Ms. Stand out said nothing. In any crowd of typical female avatars, Ms. Stand Out would be a striking creature, but the one who really stood out would be me.

Of course, I also realize that Ms. Standout and I played by different sets of rules or maybe in different leagues. In short, we solved the same problem from different places, and each of us was a winner.

:: Scratching my head and still blissfully ignorant ::

Bah, I suck at these. I always stare at a question and think "Hmmm, sometimes I think this way, but other times I think the opposite." I am very uncompatible with binary answers. I can't complete this.

It asks your RL and SL age and gender.

It doesn't ask you to swear to it, though.

This reminds me of a situation in my office in which we all have to give our weights. (Long story.) One of the engineers said, "Let's say I'm 180 pounds."