That night I went home and sat for a few hours trying to figure out how to use my sisters email account, and finally got a message sent to Thom and went to bed. The next morning Thom had replied with and address for me to telnet to. So I telnet to Sprawl and then did the 'connect guest' and then there is Thom paging me to @join him. after many typos I finally got there and he started to explain to me how to do every thing from talking, emoting, remote emote and paging (or in moo terms ", :, +, and '). I was amazed by all of it and soon had @requested a character named 5-Wheeler for myself. That night I stayed up all night learning how to do everything that I could. I met many interesting people and found it cool that people from all around the world were in the same room as me. I have learn to watch my complaining about being tired at night cause the person I whining to could be 12 hour ahead of me in Singapore and its the middle of the day for em.
After a few weeks I made many friends and some enemies. I also went from being 5-wheeler to Wafer (or sometimes Nilla pending my mood) I got this nickname cause, well I love those cookies and I eat them all the time, and went I met Thom, Mushroom_wench and the rest I was eating them, I was reffered to as the guy with the wafers. On some occassions I will be Nilla_wafer@Nabisco but I get in trouble on sprawl cause people think Nabisco is a MOO (ok enough about my names). I have even sent out Nilla Wafer boxes to fellow mooers across the the world cause they did not know what they were. So some of these friends were talking about other moos and I was like "There are more of these things???", so people started giving me address to other moos and slowly I expanded to the 31 moos and 2 muds that I am on these days, though I am not on all at once. So slowly I made new friends and got close to many people and actually drove out and met many people IRL (In Real Life). I live in Michigan and have traveled to toronto, ohio and all over Michigan to meet many people, I have also attend one small MOO Bash where people from all over get together and hang out, so I have met many many mooers. There are a few out there that I really would love to meet.
About MOOs, well basically they are place where people from all over the world come together to build and create things or just hang out and chat. There are many stages of moo players, the builders, programmers, and wizards. Being a builder is character that just is starting out, that is what you are first when you get your character, you then can get a progbit from a wizard. Programmers are people who can make nifty little verbs that do a bunch of kewl stuff. Moos run on codes which at some point a programmer coded, but the highest level on a moo is the wizards. These are people who keep the moo running smoothly and watch out for trouble maker (people who hack the moo to bring it down). Well on all my moos I have gathered 2 wizbit and alot of programming bits. The programming code is sorta easy to learn the basic stuff but there are way harder things to learn, but manuels do exist to help out people learning.
So that is about it on the history of my mooing, next I will give a brief description on a normal day of a person who is very addicted to mooing. This is what I been doing as of the week of writing this, it varies since I work different hours and such.
I wake up at 7am and log onto a couple of moos while I eat breakfast, change then head out the door to work. I work from 9am to 2pm teaching kids from the age of 6-15 how to play rollerhockey. I come home eat some lunch and play with my cat for a little while then head back to the computer. I check mail and log on to the moos again and moo and moo for a few hours. About 7pm my sister will boot me off so she can use the computer and then I whine until I get the computer back. About this time I get some dinner and eat it while I am on the computer (could be why some of my keys stick, got food in the keyboard). And as of recently I been watching the olympics while mooing but usually listen to some cds to past the time. Around midnight or so I get a night snack usally consisting of a cool glass of milk and a box of Nilla Wafers and munch and type away the night. I usually get to bed around 3-4 in the morning (and my boss wonders why I am tired at work). and then the cycle starts all over again. Sprawl being my very first moo my age on there is about 1 year and 4 months and as it looks I do not plan on quiting for awhile it is just to much fun. So well if you see this cookie anywhere page hello.
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We continue to debate, he brings up points concerning problems with the US and children without vaccines because no medical coverage for them. I bring up the absence of competitive marketing in a socialist society. We continue on long into the night (day for him) and exercise each others brains and debating techniques. Although neither of us convinces the other of his point, we enjoyed our debate and end it with, "I'm too damn tired to go any farther, we'll continue this later."
So to me this is an example of the MOO. In addition to being able to talk to friends totally casual, it is a forum. A forum for practicing speech and debating techniques. A forum for learning about other countries and cultures first hand by speaking with a member of that culture. The MOO is a whole new world, devoid of physical pain and based more on an intellectual level. Here I can have fun and exercise my mind in a way that we can't all do IRL (In Real Life). Here I can be who I want to be without society "tying me down." Here I can be who I am...and not be judged for that.
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