Fáilte / Welcome

This blog will currently be used as an additional resource to my Second Life field studies. Any information I gather will be organized and displayed on this blog for the duration of this 3 week study.

For introductory purposes, I'll briefly share some information about myself, and my Second Life avatar. My name is Joshua McCarthy, and I am a senior attending Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. My studies are focused in the area of multimedia, with a bit of personal interest in digital animation. Outside of class, my interests include music, (I play the guitar, along with several other instruments) astronomy, various sciences, and gaming.

My avatar's name is Ted Fujita. I picked this name after a famous meteorologist, Dr. Ted Fujita, mostly known for his studies on downbursts and the Fujita scale to rate tornadoes (F0-F5). My avatar's basic image is somewhat reflected of my own. Take out the chiseled muscle tone, and you get the basic idea of what I look like.

So with that, I hope you find my near future research valid and interesting. The upcoming three weeks shall be quite informative. Until then...