Time for the first edition for the new year. More motion than usual this time around.
Added
- Cupid Linden (seasonal role account. Reactivated, but needs a profile update)
- Wolf Linden (role unknown; 5 January)
Absent
- Jack Linden (Executive Director of Product, “including Land, eCommerce (Marketplace), Search and some elements of the Viewer”; 6 years)
- Marius Linden (role unknown; 5 years, 5 months)
- Pixie Linden (Office Management Team;1 year, 4 months)
- Taka Linden (Product Manager: Communication, voice, IM, improvements; 1 year, 7 months)
- Wallace Linden (Conversation Manager; 1 year) (again)
So, Torley’s still not returned to the database this week, and Wallace has gone missing again. It’s not the first time that Wallace has abruptly vanished from this database, although it is interesting that it should be on the anniversary of his being hired. I’ve tried contacting Wallace, but haven’t gotten a reply.
Jack’s absence is no surprise, as his departure at the end of the year was previously announced.
That leaves us at 252 Linden accounts, down 3 overall from 255 last week.
Disclaimer: The data here is drawn from Linden Lab’s Second Life grid databases. If the information here is incorrect, it’s because Linden Lab isn’t providing correct data.
PS: You might have noticed that no Linden account has been created for soon-to-be CEO, Rod Humble yet. That’s because he hasn’t yet been hired by the Lab. That’s happening later in the month. He’ll have to go through the dreary paperwork and HR process that comes with all new jobs, and a Linden account is in there somewhere. Right now, Humble probably knows no more about Linden Lab than you or I. Perhaps less.
Odd on Torley. He was mentioned as active at another’s office hour today.
Absolutely. Still active, but the DB isn’t reporting his account. The Lab databases are flaky sometimes, and occasionally someone goes missing for a couple weeks or so.
Torley must have gone wherever my shoes and hair disappeared to last year
Hopefully HE will return from beyond…
I wonder if this Tweet of his from about noon today means anything:
“May your last boss fights never be anticlimactic.”
Here’s another tweet from Torley, dated Jan. 4:
@GeoMeek and all, I’m still at Linden Lab. THANK YOU for caring. At least I didn’t die in a snowboarding accident like Avril Lavigne. :p
In Torley’s case, I don’t think there’s anyone who doesn’t just think it’s one of the Lab’s glitches. Still can’t raise a peep out of Wallace, though – but it’s a bit much to expect that people at the Lab will respond to me.
There were one great big Lion called Wallace; His nose were all covered with scars,
He lay in a somnolent posture, With the side of his face on the bars.
Now Albert had heard about Lions, How they was ferocious and wild,
To see Wallace lying so peaceful, Well, it didn’t seem right to the child.
So straightway the brave little feller, Not showing a morsel of fear,
Took his stick with its ‘orses ‘ead ‘andle And pushed it in Wallace’s ear.
You could see that the Lion didn’t like it, For giving a kind of a roll,
He pulled Albert inside the cage with ‘im, And swallowed the little lad ‘ole.
Marius was the head of accounting.
Wolf Linden is code developer in the open source / scrum / snowstorm team. He reports about his work in the Snowstorm Daily Scrum:
https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Snowstorm_Daily_Scrum_Archive