Location: In front of Linden Lab’s in-world property

Well now, folks, the cat are rite out of the bag, I reckons.

I are offerin’ my cornsiderabul technical skills to Linden Lab since Ol’ Wiggly ‘splained tu mee that Cory Linden were the Cheef Technomological Occifur o’ Linden Lab.

Now since Cory am as unemployed as a typicul hillbilly, I knows that King Philip am a-gonna need him sumbuddy else hoo kin fix stuff.

I are his man. Cornsidur this:

WUN) I keeps my truck runnin’ most o’ the time

TU) We kin run them-thar Linden servers in an earth-frendly way on Shine

TREE) I needs steddy wurk

FO) Ol’ King Philip needs awl the frends he kin git

FIFE) I am an egg-spert coder.  I gots mee one o’ them-thar coder rings frum the Crackurjack box.

SEX) I knows all about Wind-light, this-hear new way tu look at Secund Life.  My ol’ cabin were full o’ both wind n’ light becuz o’ the holes in the walls and roof.

I dun put these-hear credenshuls intu an empty Shine jug n’ left it at Linden Lab’s headquarturs.  I told Mistophur Rosedale I wood bring sum full jugs if’n hee cood hire me.

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For sure Pappy! I’d say SL and all digital environments (not to mention real life) could use a good dose of Hillbilly wisdom.

As you know, Pappy’s neo-luddism is the subject of my research essay “Hillblly in Cyberspace” since he seems to share some of the values expressed in Glendenning’s “Notes Towards a Neo-Luddite Manifesto” that first appeared in the Utne Reader 38/1 in 1990.

She succinctly defines the Neo-Luddite as:
“citizens - activists, workers, neighbors, social critics, and scholars - who question the predominant worldview, which preaches that unbridled technology represents progress.“

(don’t know why she left hillbillies out!)

I also think Pappy might even connect with some of Donna Haraway’s vision in her “Cyborg Manifesto” - and I mean that in a good way. It’s a thick essay, but she explores the borderlands between organism and machine reminding us of the value of our animality in resisting total incorporation.

In Pappy-speak, that might look like:

“thur iz sum gud wizdum in my critterhood”

Amen to that!

I second that! Noone has a better resumee then Pappy. Get your CV over there quickly If you need some technical advisors call me back

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