And I Will Be Remembered As A Penguin...

Via 'Second Life' Lessons: Cisco, IBM Pace Corporate Push Into Virtual Worlds:

A penguin has been showing up at Cisco's public events lately. Attentive and civil, it never causes a disturbance, but sits quietly on a seat and listens courteously to the presentation on routers, or optical networking, or IOS software, or whatever the topic of the day happens to be. Although the only one of its species in the room -- everyone else is human, although some are rather eccentrically dressed -- no one gives it a second look...

A penguin with good manners... my mother must be so proud... and my father, perhaps in a more grounded response, would say, 'What the hell are you doing?'. That my father got Open Source and Free Software may not have allowed him to connect the dots to Tux, but hey. Life goes on - or not.

The article goes on (5 pages, in case you didn't read from the first link):

...Back to that penguin. As it turns out, it is a prominent Second Life blogger who goes by the name of Nobody Fugazi. In real life he's a programmer -- hence his genuine interest in Cisco products. "He's very cool, very funny and we welcome him to our events," says Renaud. "He just likes representing himself as a penguin."...

Hey. Thats me. And... why do I like representing myself as a penguin, you ask? OK, here's a list:

• Easier to look around without a huge human av to get in the way.
• No need for shampoo.
• I like sushi.
• I like Linux
• Less laundry
• I can stay stationary and people may not notice me at all (stealth penguin mode)
• Chicks love penguins
• Escorts don't proposition penguins, and neither do men whose interest is in other men.
• It's just fun.

Will being a penguin go to this blogger's head? No. Still just a blogging penguin with an unfortunate human streak, though it would appear that now I'm typecast. My SecondLife acting career is in ruins; I'll only be remembered as a penguin.

And you know - that isn't so bad. :-)

Nothing to see here, move along... oh, but bring me back some California Rolls. Love those things.