{"id":141,"date":"2009-05-20T14:42:54","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T13:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=141"},"modified":"2009-05-20T14:51:14","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T13:51:14","slug":"peggottys-mirror-worlds-and-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/05\/20\/peggottys-mirror-worlds-and-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Peggotty’s, Mirror Worlds and knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I have written before about Sid Corleone who is bringing my home town <\/a>and some local businesses into SL and it appeared here on virtual worlds news<\/a>. I just popped into the Great Yarmouth sim to take a look and ended up in Peggotty’s bar<\/a>. This is a real bar in Yarmouth, and one we used to start our nights out in my late teens all those years ago.
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\nIt is named after the Charles Dicken’s character who lived in an old upturned boat on Yarmouth beach. Now it is in SL even more cultural references are combining. I have to say just seeing the outside and walking up to it gave me goosebumps, way more than just looking at a photo (an I am an old hand at this stuff so should expect such reactions).
\nYou can also have “Chips off the market” which are much more famous than I ever thought given the Dragon Sir Peter Jones drove DJ Chris Moyles all the way to Yarmouth in his lino to experience.
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Of course this will not be as personal to everyone out there, but imagine a place you remember having a good rendition or tribute in SL or some similar world.
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\nWhilst on the subject of mirror worlds too I was lucky enough to attend the roof closing ceremony at Wimbledon last Sunday. In conversations with someone there asked if any other tennis tournaments have a roof. There was some thought and discussion and I pointed out the Australian Open does. I knew that because Piper and Gizzy had built a working roof on the Second Life stadium and not becuase I had been there and seen it.
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\nThis mirror world rehearsal and knowledge also came into play on a recent trip to London. I was heading for Pall Mall, but walked over Westminster bridge, past parliament and round past the treasury and the back of horseguards. I was then in a short piece I had never walked before, when I arrived at these steps
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\nI instant recognized them from the car racing game Project Gotham 3 on the Xbox 360. Having driven laps lots in the past I knew where I was and where I needed to head too. I looked to the right and sure enough there was the other part of the course.
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\nNow PGR3 is not a training game for navigation, but the fun elements of driving the cars around did bring me to a level of understanding that I would not have had otherwise<\/p>\n