Timothy Horrigan's InSL (and OutSL) Writing and Other Creative Samples

Timothy Horrigan (with much help from Tammy Nowotny); November 2008—January 2009

• You can see a PDF version of this portfolio at:

  • http://www.TimothyHorrigan.com/documents/insl-writing-samples.timothy-horrigan.pdf

• You can see my "Timothy Horrigan, Metaversalist ad" (which was designed to funnel people to the very page you are now reading) at:

  • http://www.TimothyHorrigan.com/timothy-horrigan.metaversalist-ad.html

Second Life-related samples:

A page about my "SesquiTammy" book and clothing store:

• http://www.timothyhorrigan.com/documents/2ndlife.textbooks.html

The stores is located at:

• http://slurl.com/secondlife/Amsterdam/186/99/26/

I have been selling clothes and Second Life-related books, as well as real life textbooks, using the Amazon.com affiliate program. I promoted the web page and my store using Google Adsense/Adwords placements targeted at the United States, Canada and the Netherlands (as well as Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands until I noticed an excessive number of non-productive clicks coming from those territories.)

An October 2007 article: "CSI Comes to Second Life": (about the "Down the Rabbit Hole" episode of CSI:NY)

• http://www.timothyhorrigan.com/videos/2ndlife.csi.html

A review of Kelly Services's Second Life island (built by The Wishfarmers):

• http://www.timothyhorrigan.com/documents/2ndlife.kelly.measuredprogress.html

This page gets a significant number of hits from people who know little or nothing of Second Life, since I have several links from pages related to educational assessment testing. (Kelly recruits test scorers for my former employer, Measured Progress, of Dover, NH.)

Three blurbs promoting land I bought from the Linden auctions for development and resale:

1. "*FOR SALE* 1024 on corner of Sedge sim":

   • http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/real-estate/22071-sale-1024-corner-sedge-sim.html

2. "green mainland flat land in Jirasan... good to go!":

   • http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/real-estate/14720-green-mainland-flat-land-jirasan.html

3. "ZapZak land... several parcels":

   • http://secondsurvivor.com/SecondSurv/showthread.php?t=4048

Other Writing Samples:

My 2008 Election page, promoting my candidacy for the NH House of Representatives:

• http://www.timothyhorrigan.com/election2008.html

A page promoting my novel The Forgotten Liars:

• http://www.timothyhorrigan.com/tammi1a.html

A press release for a 2006 Congressional Candidate forum in New Hampshire:

• http://www.timothyhorrigan.com/documents/dfa060202.pdf

• http://www.timothyhorrigan.com/documents/dfa.060204.html

2006 letters supporting Carol Shea-Porter for Congress:

• http://www.timothyhorrigan.com/documents/carol_shea_porter_letters.0608.html

October 10, 2008 DailyKos Diary about a Congressional Campaign Debate Between Carol Shea-Porter & Jeb Bradley

• http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/10/154612/21/855/626636

• http://www.timothyhorrigan.com/documents/dailykos.081010.shea-porter.bradley.html

February 26, 2008 DailyKos Diary about Net Neutrality:

• http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/2/26/104622/007/405/464366

My Amazon.com Spotlight Reviews of Anatoly Fomenko's "History, Fiction or Science?" vol. 1 & vol. 2

• http://www.timothyhorrigan.com/documents/fomenko.review.html

Estimated Snow Parameters for Vehicle Mobility Modeling in Korea, Germany and Interior Alaska: CRREL Special Report 95-23:
with Roy E. Bates (US Army Cold Regions Lab, 1995)

• http://www.crrel.usace.army.mil/techpub/CRREL_Reports/reports/SR95_23.pdf

• http://www.timothyhorrigan.com/documents/SR95_23.pdf

Web Videos:

These short videos were created using found footage and iMovie.

"The Secret Life of Brittany Murphy"

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-w705e3rFE

• http://www.timothyhorrigan.com/videos/brittany-murphy-video.html

"LolliBank" aka "It's Not the Money Man" aka "Citizens Bank"

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wa7_kP42K8

• http://www.timothyhorrigan.com/videos/not-the-money-video.html

My Second Life Building Samples:

My Mindulle Freebie Store: Mindulle 240/152

My Gallii Freebie Store: Gallii 158/140 (next to the legendary Free Dove)

Brucehenge: Oppeano 52/132 (Second Life's only neolithic Bruce Springsteen shrine)

Timo's Blue Beach House: Dada 96/190

Resumes:

Timothy Horrigan's chronological resume in Microsoft Word format:

• http://www.timothyhorrigan.com/documents/horrigan_resume_2009b.doc

Timothy Horrigan's chronological resume in HTML format:

• http://www.timothyhorrigan.com/documents/horrigan_resume_2009.html

Tammy Nowotny's functional Second Life resume:

• http://www.timothyhorrigan.com/documents/tammy-nowotny.resume.2008a.doc

Timothy Horrigan's writing samples (a PDF file with much the same content as this page):

• http://www.timothyhorrigan.com/documents/insl-writing-samples.timothy-horrigan.pdf

[December 20 2008] This page originated as a list of writing and editing samples I submitted in late September 2008 for a Web Editor opening at Linden Lab.

• You can see the original page at:

  • http://www.TimothyHorrigan.com/lindenlab.080927.html

• You can see a slightly later version at:

  • http://www.timothyhorrigan.com/insl-writing-samples.oct2008.html

• You can also see a PDF version of this portfolio at:

  • http://www.TimothyHorrigan.com/documents/insl-writing-samples.timothy-horrigan.pdf

• You can see my "Timothy Horrigan, Metaversalist ad" (which was designed to funnel people to the very page you are now reading) at:

  • http://www.TimothyHorrigan.com/timothy-horrigan.metaversalist-ad.html

One thing which may be interfering with my job search is that the web tools I have been using since 2004 have been fairly simple. I have built a fairly large and worthwhile website using these tools— TimothyHorrigan.com has over 300 pages (even though very few users bother to look at more than one or two of them.)

I do everything on an old MacMini. I do most the text editing with OpenOffice.org, which is a great free program. In fact I would still prefer to use OOo even if it was as expensive as Microsoft Office. I clean up the HTML files with TextWrangler, which is the freebie version of BBEdit. I do my image editing with GiMP and Graphic Converter and occasionally OpenOffice's draw module. I ftp the files to my web server with Fetch.

Those are all great products, and in fact for a Mac user like myself they are indispensable. But, none of them are buzzwords which recruiters search for, not even OpenOffice.org. (Minor digression: recruiters tend to use experience with the most familiar names in software as metonymys for the skills needed to use the software. <RANT>So, for example, instead of asking for writing and document-creation skills, recruiters look for "Microsoft Word experience," even though there are other— and in many cases much better— word processors and desktop publishing packages. Instead of looking for number-crunching and data analysis skills, recruiters look for "Microsoft Excel experience," even though Excel is spectacularly ill-suited to many of the tasks people use it for. Excel is a nice spreadsheet, but it's a horrible database engine and an even more horrible data-visualization program.</RANT>)

See Also:

• My home page

• My novel The Forgotten Liars

• My Second Life page

• SecondLife.com