Demystifying the scripterati

mememememememememememe!
just in case you forgot. it's about me!

Sort of like the muppet 'Beaker' ?

The first computer I ever used was a PDP-11 at a university. I think that was 1976 or 77. I played Lunar Lander on it -- badly, because I was barely old enough to know how to operate the switches.

I first programmed using LOGO turtle graphics on an Apple. Can you call that programming? Then I learned a bit of BASIC on a Radio Shack TRS-80 MC-10 and Hyperion "portable" PC. By portable, I think it meant that it wasn't actually bolted to the floor or something. It was much like the early Compaq portables, with an 8088 processor. The MC-10 was a "computer" that plugged into your TV, ran only BASIC, read programs from a cassette tape, and had a whopping 4 KB of RAM.

After that, not much for years until I took first year comp sci at college. Oddly enough, their computer lab was filled with diskless XTs no more advanced than the old Hyperion. I lost interest in programming after that -- it really didn't interest me -- and studied theatre instead.

Then, about 10 years later, I played around with programming LEGO Mindstorms and finally stumbled across SL. I wouldn't think of myself as belonging to Prokofy's much-reviled "scripterati", even if the admission makes me less cool. I'll try harder, I think. Tonight, I'll spend at least 20 minutes sneering down my nose at someone and practicing my fuck-you hedonism. Maybe then, I'll truly belong.

Scripterati Lesser Initiate Vilhelm Dougall, reporting for duty!

In RL, I'm a college student majoring in computer science. Programming is gradually becomming my existence.

In SL, time not spent putzing around in the sky is spent making cool little accessories for my avatar. It is my goal to eventually make it so every little piece of armor or decoration has some practical function. Examples: my armband can report my altitude back to me if I ask it; my belt provides me with expanded flight capabilities for when I find myself on land that prevents me from rezzing a vehicle. Eventually, I'm installing an anti-push script in one of my boots (although I didn't write that one... </lazy>. I'm not too sure what to make my shoulder plates, do, though. Can attachments spew particles? I kid, I kid.

I like to script things that I think would be neat to have. Things that are useful to me. Vehicles, environmental meters, and the like. It makes me feel useful.

When I was a kid... I had an abacus! Hah!
And I also counted with my FINGERS! Beat that!

hehe I remember dumbfounding my 6th grade math teacher...

"How many fingers do you have?"
"5"
"So how high can you count on them"
"31?"

Hi I'm Strife, know as BlindWanderer in other realms. Been programing since middle school, started on my Ti-83. Moved up to QBasic, C++, and finaly Java. LSL wasn't so hard to grok, not that I have mastered it, still learning much. There are times when i'll look back on a script writen not long before, and shake my head in disbeleive at how badly writen a block of code is.

Spent too much of my time registry diving in windows. Have writen a couple small extentions for IE.

I joined SL with some friends from URU. Their teaching style was a little unorthadox, they took me to building competitions. Just about everything I had to teach my self. Scripting was no different. The first script I modified I broke; was the Black Streak Bike Improved (later LL patched the bug my broken bike revealed, apparently ground vehicals shouldn't be able to fly).

Pfffft. You might be shocked to learn that the Black Streak Bike still makes a superb flying machine.