well.. according to the common media: have a lot of SLex and PRODUCE prim babys???

Sorry Vint; but in the light of the most popular topic on your blog lately, and seeing this graph on Hobsons page, it made me think of the human RLexual response cycle:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plateau_phase#Plateau_phase

(or.. is it just me….???? lol )

Production only fills a void that it has itself created..
(John Kenneth Galbraith)

Veronique: without any particular reason I recall a quote from one of my RL av’s favourite writers - Bulgakov (The heart of a dog):

‘And what to say while you’re eating. Yes, my dear sir. If
you care about your digestion, my advice is - don’t talk about bolshevism or
medicine at table. And, God forbid - never read Soviet newspapers before
dinner.’

Your thought is interesting, although I’d be curious to hear also the explanation for the initial spike and the deep valley shortly afterwards, within the same context. :-) (otherwise such a timeline seems inconvenient, at best :-) (I do have some explanation, however, would be interesting to hear your opinion)

For me the association is much more straightforward - you can take a look here and judge yourself. But maybe it is just me. :-)

Well, my best guess would be that the spike is anticipation. Yet again, I could be wrong. :p

*lets Veronique and Dalien word-play further*

Vint: and then the dip is… ? :-) I will post my interpretation after Veronique explains how the hill and the pit fit her theory :-)

@Dalien.. within the same context??? You asked for it..

well.. I guess the spike is the males excitement, followed by the females deception..

and to put a scaling to the timeframe: maybe the looong horizontal - plateau- at the end are the 3 minutes or so it takes to smoke a cigarette???

oh yes.. and a last one for the road.. cant help it.. I love this extract out of your association :

“Since all spikes of a given neuron look alike, the form of the action potential does not carry any information. Rather, it is the number and the timing of spikes which matter.”

lmpao

btw: why the quote? is it because of Galbraith? guess that many times he is misunderstood..

*** females disillusion that is … ***

( or both :-p )

@Veronique: hmm. interesting. I did suspect you would get some kind of a sad story into the picture. And indeed, the dispersion in males’ characteristics is quite high. Sorry for that. :)

About the extract: yes. I can totally agree with that.

Ok, my interpretation was much more of a happy-end version. Add another graph of the same kind to the left of it, and you will see it. The excitement over the new technology has a successful adoption of the old technology.

And the quote - it was mostly about reading.

Hmmm. Can there be a happy ending when the end result is less then the most ‘high’ one?

And Veronique, and to put a scaling to the timeframe: maybe the looong horizontal - plateau- at the end are the 3 minutes or so it takes to smoke a cigarette??? => still LMAO =d

As for the spikes, I think they can still differ in quality. =)

I think there’s no such thing as “end result” :-) - just continuous series of discoveries…

The “complete” Gartner graph..

question is: is SL a social network, a virtual world, or..??

http://tijdblogs.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/08/22/original.jpg

Thank you, Véronique.

No ‘metaverse’ entry on that one? =)