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Snapshot taken during contest courtesy of Grey Nacht With the success of my first 7Seas fishing contest held at The Starship Diner, a chapter has either ended or opened up.  Hard to tell which, but it's nice to have seen how this works.   Will make trophies for level up and 13th place at some point, and if there's a gap or two this weekend I'll announce more contests. For now the focus of

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This MLK Holiday Weekend I've got some "test Fishing contests" planned.  By then everything will have been set up and ready.  Even now the customs box is at Hydrangea; the fishing server's already been there going on 2 years this spring, so the fishing area is up for all your Dalek-catching needs.  Seating for those who want, music's usually KONAstream by default. Have to test the jackpot

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Oh this sucks It seems the best course of action to compose on the Blogger app is to compose it outside, then paste it in. The damn thing doesn't have landscape capability.

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New Year's Eve was busy busy, with THREE events.  First was New London.  I played Auld Lang Syne into the European New Year, the  handed the stream off to the next DJ, who rang in the UK. Sunday night was interesting in New Toulouse.  They've grown considerably in the short time I've been there, and recently revisted the notion of a working railway for their northern sims, or so it appears.

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Many Tardis products which rely on rezzer positioning are broken in Second Life.  Apparently they work by virtue of a fault in LL sim technology.  A parameter which was necessary for a myriad of extended functions but which shouldn't be possible. A blessing in the guise of a bug.  The gridwide upgrade this month caught and fixed it, slamming and damning folks such as Novatech, makers of

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Dear Steven Moffat, Thanks to you, I'm watching Doctor Who. I watched Eleventh Hour and my mouth was ajar the whole time. Here was just a television show which was easily worthy of a cinematic release. Some 32 years since I first heard of Doctor Who, I was finally brought into the fold.  This means that Matt Smith is my Doctor. As with many of my contemporaries, I started collecting DVDs for

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The 7Seas Fall Fishing Festival was idyllic.  Just a bunch of people with a common pasttime sharing laughs and creativity.  People in boats, hanging from fishing lines, perched on amazing builds... No politics,  no ego beyond pride in a job well done.  Looks like most everyone wanted most everyone's custom catches too :). For me the added perspective of having "worked" while meeting some of

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An exciting day.  Putting the new Daleks together, designing the fishing spot (I have several drawn and a few half-built) for the 7Seas Fall Fishing Festival. I finally got a stream URL for KONA that I can use and listen to.  Yes maybe you can hear them, but if I can't then what's the point I say!  As it is I can't hear my own Dieselpunk stream in Cartoon World (one of these days I'm going to

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Over ten days after baiting and perving me just for taking the time to be a friend and listen to her problems, former contact tried to drum up drama by notecard.  The clichéd "I was drunk and don't know everything I said" bit.  However a subsequent note suggested she knew enough of what she said; her attempt to apologize was not unconditional.   It was hinted (in ways I cannot mention here

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Toontown becomes more and more significant as Halloween draws near.  Sorry, you'll get that from a cartoonist/animator.  While I won't be making a new black cat this year, there will be hundreds of new kittens out in force next Monday morning, and I'll be around to help them.  Before that it's earning pumpkin heads on most of my toons while trick or treating the shops.  Difference being the

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Always gets in the way of everything.  Not going to have that treehouse party.  Just the thought of virtual dancing is making me feel exhausted. It won't stop me from DJing through the end of this month though.  It *appears* that I have Halloween Night on Bacchus.  I don't know how realistic it is with parties all over SL, and to be blunt I usually spend my Halloweens in Toontown Online (Seven

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October is an expensive month of domain renewals and catching up with bills.  For some reason there are an excessive number of big events in Second Life as well, and not related to Autumn, Halloween, or Oktoberfest (which most people run in September, which is fucked up in my opinion).  No, everyone else and their Gorean Grandmother has some big shindig going on in October. With Burn2 over I'm

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With scheduled events officially over, Burn2 remains through Wednesday for you to check out the exhibits and presentations with less lag. I think even though it took up only 4 sims, there were more "big" displays than in past years.  People who noticed Gulliver in '09 ogled or nonstop praise for post-apocalyptic builds for Tokyo Stage felt that to get their messages across with  GREAT   BIG  

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I'm sitting beneath a painting by Van Gogh of an outdoor café bathed in yellow light. It's a comfort zone in eastern Jackson Heights.  It's been some time since I've made the time to have someone fix me a casual breakfast. I had a scare this morning as my feet were swollen when I awoke.  Usually my ankles go down as I sleep and my feet are seldom edemic in the first place.  Things are getting

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Don't drink and drive. Ever. This means vehicles, heavy machinery, your fists, or an Internet-enabled device. You will always hurt someone. Always. You can devastate them with bullshit just by saying words.  Saying "sorry" and other expressions of apology are so rare these days.  It seems to be reserved for the brave or twelve-stepper while the rest gouge deeper out of a false sense of

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Nervous. Dreading.  Dreading nothing will get done today. Dreading I'll undergo a procedure.  Not good with lying on my back - well the last time he inclined me - and whine about the tourniquet. It was six years ago when I came for a ganglion cyst resting on the tendon on my other thumb. "I can give you cortisone." "That didn't work last time." "Then it should be excised." "Let's do it.

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It takes someone with courage to admit they're wrong or afraid in the face of impending destruction.  I was scared shitless on Saturday night. I hadn't felt like that since the night of 9/11.  We were very lucky in our community.  Two communities over there was damage from a tornado, and earlier in the local bus' route there were downed trees. Look at all the people who can't admit they're wrong

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Writing about a hurricane.  Not something we do here. I'm not good without electricity.  Like most people with thyroid probs, I run into problems with heat.  And with my thumb it will be quite a challenge to sharpen pencils and charcoals by hand.  With my immune disease (and for the umpteenth time: it's not AIDS) I  have a weak digestive constitution and get sick from food which is a tiny bit off

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A Weight Watchers habits evaluation years ago concluded I need to ask for help more. It's true. Aside from whining to friends about this or that, other than asking dad many years ago to drive me to the ER or staying at his place during bug treatment, I haven't asked for help. I've been alone with my current medical plight. Apparently I'm a susceptible candidate, and attempting to install my

Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14386600815736459742noreply@blogger.com0Midtown South Central, New York, NY, USA40.74208348271111 -73.9885718164551340.73480648271111 -73.99614531645514 40.74936048271111 -73.98099831645513tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8607217694291310573.post-61183741459767530112011-08-22T22:26:00.003-04:002011-08-22T23:43:46.266-04:00

 Well that was interesting! New Toulouse was hit by a hurricane over the weekend.  I missed the bulk of special effects by the time I heard about it, and arrived while the place was flooded.  I managed to hitch a ride on a roof that was adrift.  Several people sat on crates while it navigated through the flood waters in search of survivors.  At one point a couple of us heard what could have been

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Still coming down from last weekend.  It will be good to hit Toontown tonight.  But first a little offline work for some folks. A longtime friend from Cybertown - for whom I had high hopes once they upgraded their PC - told me the inevitable last night: he wouldn't be building anything in Second Life. High hopes because the ones who tend to mentally crash and burn when making the transition

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Summer & LightningSo this is what it's like to be a mock star... The ELO show went surprisingly well, even though - yes - my hand missed the fret bar like some spaz noob  avatar.  You know I even took the lowest common denominator route and wore tight jeans, just in case. Heh. I have to say the New London folk were very kind and turned a blind eye from the primcount of the instruments. Mayo -

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I spent too much money on instruments I may never use again.  I probably need 3x my prim alotment. Someone is BOUND to break their leg right before the performance... Have 3 more textures to make for the saucer, then it's set planning time.  Can use a sandbox I know.  Where things should be rezzed etc... I decided not to go with the spacesuit.  Can't have elaborate joint torii on your body AND

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I can't understand why people need to fill their screens with them.  At Show & Tell you could build the freakin' Taj Mahal, but some guy follows you with a HUD demonstration and half the people there wet themselves. Just another thing you can do that you otherwise didn't need to, except you can play with onscreen buttons.  It's the one thing which puts fear into the hearts of builders group

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Hmmm... I don't think I've ever seen a guitar player with convincing animation in Second Life.  And while I've seen a mock-up Wilburys concert once, it was a bit weird and I'd have just wanted to dance to the music regardless of who or what was on stage. The pressure's on to put together something special this Saturday for my set at the New London Festival.  Well for someone like me it's

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It's been a good week.  While it's easy to be moved to write when there's misrepresentation or bullying to bring to light (I'll gladly leave irrational hate and fibbing for the schemers to spew forth), it's always great when things fall into place. Removing certain groups from my list was very therapeutic.  I have one friend left whom I made in "that place" and I get a strong impression they're

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She's put banlines around her building and I'm gonna ask her for a refund? Yeah right. Over 2 weeks left on the Clockhaven meter, almost a month since I said good riddance. That's a lot of rent lost. On the bright side: good riddance. To hipocrisy, false politeness, and juvenile behavior not attributed to urchins. The only thing I'll miss there are Edward Pearse's events at The Clarendon for

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What an inspiration Relay For Life weekend was.  I wore the tag for Giant Snail Relay team, seeing how clammy the other tag had become and how I was told I wasn't needed.  Tindy had done practically all the work on the Snails' campsite, so I had a feeling no one would be relaying for them.  Racer suggested I put out my Snail shirts and Whoish vendors to bring in more donations; the team went gold

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Relay for Life weekend.  With my involvement in the New Babbage campsite build trashed (apparently  *not* due to any Amishesque shunning), I've dropped hints about participating in the relay itself (which I've wanted to do since Dr Fran told me there was an actual relay) in a public forum, which have thus far gone unresponded to.  I gave their RFL team captain the benefit of the doubt that they

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Google+ is having an identity crisis. It doesn't know whether it wants to be a social network or a datamining racket. Despite its having been around since the 90s it somehow fails to realize that there are many levels of personae on the Internet and that there is no simple black and white when categorizing them for inclusion. Let's go over the key categories so Google has a point of

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Unlike the fiction I've been serializing, New Babbage proper does not have a patch resembling a residential district. I took a close look at New Toulouse's covenant.  It wouldn't be the right place for the sort of treehouse I have in mind.  Otherwise seems very nice: themed but not role play, similar to Bay City in that respect.  Don't know about the prospect of a zombie hunt though... Even

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A busy weekend.  Completing a series of portraits depicting the forefathers of Steampunk is paramount.  I was told it was thought I'd left the project.  No more than anybody else, as there were no further meetings and no group notices.  Seems I haven't stopped blogging about it in the interim.  They don't know it though... Final Relay For Life DJ gig will be on Sunday from 7-9am SLT in Bay City.

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With SL8B over, the next thing to look forward to is Relay For Life.  I'm working on some art for New Babbage's place there.  I should have both that and the first of my shop art this weekend. I made a scripted headset but it seems it may have a finite sequence set.  I need to find which parameter is setting the limit and stopping the animation. Bought a large TARDIS for an upcoming party. 

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Anybody else notice how Victor1st Mornington ranted libelously (last I checked he did not correct this aspect of his blog post from earlier in the year) how Whovian Ebak claimed exclusivity in hosting Big Finish audio dramas (which of course Ebak did not), yet did that very thing at their presentation by claiming he and his buddies were the exclusive go-to's for Dr Who fans in Second Life? The

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It's only my fourth but I'll have to agree with other bloggers that it's the best one in some time.  Lots of great exhibits wherever you turn, even though some left out the magic and SL part from their content and only worked on recruitment recruitment sales pitch sales pitch...  The point was to bring the places there and let them on their own think: "I gotta go to this place!"  yes, I'm

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Ah summer... If it stayed this temperature throughout July it'd be fine. Fortunately it's always comfortable temperatures in Second Life.  Even the TARDIS reports conditions outside.  I suppose I should check what it is at SL8B next time I land there. (click this pic for the full size) Btw extreme lag has a very interesting effect on an arriving TARDIS.  They have trouble - well, mine has

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I'm Baaack I was a little busy. There's this thing happening.  It's starting today and going through the weekend. Circumstances last night didn't permit me to tour all of it lag free, so I'll have to see it with the rest of you in molasses. Other than some danceball animations, nightlights and a transporter, my SL8B exhibit Transfigurations is script-free.  It's also sculpt-free with no

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Let the artwork commence... Snurky is getting assistance from an interesting source for her snail this week.  Look for her at the track this Sunday with a special sponsor ;) I'm tallying topics for my SL8B project.  See, I list topics, then I draw these topics.  Specifically sketch the first in detail, draw sequentially for the middle, then perhaps - well idunno for the ends, but I'll find out.

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I now have a better idea as to what shape my SL8B exhibit will take - literally. But first, the art.  I've put in for next Monday and Tuesday so I've got four days, but I want to have the textures done by then and spend most of that time scanning, prepping, and placing. I also have a name for it, but I can't tell you yet.  I have a party set and need to look into where I can add it to an events

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So we can now add squatting on Linden Land to AnnMarie's offenses according to a post brought to my attention. @Rodvik & Company: this is what happens when you condone bad behavior.  You reinforce that behavior and the child - or in this case a mentally unstable individual - believes what they're doing is okay. And by that I mean it's clear to her (can't speak for the person but the persona is

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Now back home (but insufficiently settled), I resumed drawing.  It's a healthy thing, like breathing. There are many things on the plate that I need to get through; no spinning it to make them fly off into oblivion. For one I've paid rent on that small shop in New Babbage for the past 3 months.  The space gave me the inspiration for a series of "prints".  Yes I know: I'm working backwards and

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I was this close to taking out a new stream last Friday to celebrate my return home that night.  But with short notice who'd come? Anyway there's a big weekend coming up for Bay City for their third anniversary.  It's also my second since the gallery opened there.  Am doing a dance party featuring music from the 20th century (I'm that ecclectic normally anyway).  Again it will be to raise money

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Yes, some things are worse than a neighbor with bedbugs. Staying at dad's is definitely high on the list. Being devoid of a gamer's mousepad or Photoshop are certainly among them as well. When you can isolate the bed from "visitors" with a non-toxic spray, why suffer in a state of deprivation and verbal unpleasantries? So I'm going back home tomorrow morning. I'll move back out for another week

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As you may have read from my post from March 18 (Giving & Getting), Dr Who fandom in Second Life has its pro's and cons.  With the help of that network I was able to determine which TARDIS system best suited my needs - as well as carry off its functions with just the right level of immersion. I also wrote about the sense of community in some places and lack thereof in others.  These were all

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I spent money like a pig this past weekend.  I really did. I suppose for most of its users DCL's upgrade was a good thing.  I suppose the new HUD for the sonic was what they'd prefer: custom graphics over blue dropdown menus.  And maybe with today's hearing-impaired society the selection beeps on the HUD were at a comfortable volume. Personally I don't plan to go deaf from a HUD. I wasn't

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So I had it all planned out for that special table.  Victorian style wooden flat files with a raised board for displays.  It was looking great.  I was planning the woodgrain for it.  I had designed ornate black iron handles for the drawers. Then the light went on. 3 prims per handle, 2 per drawer, 4 drawers, knob for pull-out board, 2 props for back of display board, 2 brass cradles for hinged

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Japan relief stuff... I think for Japan it's easy: a designer shirt with Anime style art on it. What could I make for Relay for Life? I can think about Giant Snail Races shirts, both for Racer to raise funds toward track expenses and for their RFL group. What about New Babbage?  My art isn't wearable in the steamlands.  Not for anyone in character.  No ties, no T-shirts.  Yeah I can make

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I help little old ladies cross the street. I stay with someone who had a bad fall until help arrives. I help pull people apart when tempers run high. Do you turn away and keep walking? What are you?

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I realized some songs I'd like for Saturday night's playlist are on vinyl, and that I never got them on CD.  Oops.  That still leaves plenty to work with for a perky, optimistic set to celebrate spring.  Beware - this is going to be upbeat; bubblegum might be "served" as well. My original parcel in Bay City is now the home of a newspaper publisher. This should be fun! I've been charmed by New

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I'm looking to have violations addressed and to enforce phantom and temp for rezzed automated vehicles intended for Linden routes use, and enforce removal of scripts which bypass autoreturn rules. http://www.petitiononline.com/scmobile/petition.html If you have posted images in flickr of AnnMarie or similar vehicles which fall into this proposal's concerns, please take a moment to add the

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I call them all Scourgemobiles.  You've seen them on Mainland roads, unpaved roadbeds, and SLRR tracks: trucks, cars, buses, ice cream trucks, garbage trucks, tanks, etc. Names she uses in stuff & as a landowner: ============================== AnnMarie OToole AnnMarie Oleander AnnMarie Resident Groups of note she belongs to: Protected Route Interest Group - officer SL Transit Authority - owner

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A final draft of the petition has been drawn. I watched as AnnMarie oToole/Oleander/Resident hung back with her output then poured it back on, as well as resume discussion on a JIRA as though her thousands of scourgemobiles were her (her usual "I cross that region yea many high numbers each day" wackiness).  It's time we cleaned up Mainland once and for all. The Scourgetrolleys have indeed held

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I figured if anyone looked up my name or the names of any of my places in group search they'd show up in results, so I went with Cartoon World & Beyond. Recent releases of Phoenix have introduced many Viewer 2 features while preserving the classic interface (the UI is only a facade; pushing a button one way is no more integral to a look than pushing is somewhere else. LL just don't want to

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The parameters of the petition keep changing.  Interestingly, while anyone who has tried to reason with the one responsible for the scourgemobiles is given a response laden with fictional statistics, the number of these things out on the road has definitely gone down.  Maybe somewhere in that brain a conscience is stirring. They're still an issue and continue to violate SL's usage terms on many

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If I understand a prominent Linden, the following among many other offenses is perfectly okay: 1. Unfair use of region resources 2. Adfarming (what else would you call dozens of scripted objects on Linden land which simultaneously solicit a product?) 3. Pushing (vehicles which shove you if they don't just drag you under, whether you're in a vehicle yourself or not. I've been pushed into

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For those who wandered here from elsewhere, allow me to explain what banlines are.  They're an illusory form of security in Second Life.  A designated perimeter can be set to block specific people, everyone, everyone except friends, everyone except members of a group, everyone except those on a guest list, permit only those who pay a fee, and so on.  When this is set, a kind of forcefield is not

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I wasn't feeling very holidayish this year until I came across Divvivity in my hoverboard travels on Snow Day. Suddenly I remembered that I had a party just about every other week when I had the diner in Turtle Dove last year.  What happened?  Well, it's time to make up for things with a Party! The annual East Coast Countdown will be held this year at the Starship Diner in Hydrangea from 8:

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Three more rezzers, one of them a "bus stop," were found in Heterocera since last writing.  I've updated the list I keep inworld. Last weekend I sent Snurky to go for an ex-Scourge-sion. hahaha It was interesting. Not a minute or two into the ride it offered to sell the car, claiming the vehicle was free and the price was for the automated script.  Even if that's the case, using these creators

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So during my break, instead of working on the comic and some new T-shirt designs for the gallery, I went on a mission to track as many Rezzers I could find on Mainland responsible for the Scourgemobiles.  It's very possible that i've missed some in Sansara for the reasons brought up last post.  I continue to be in awe of what residents have created.  It's really quite nice, from ambitious urban

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  As mentioned previously here and/or on Twitter, I've taken to going to places in Second Life either via TARDIS or hoverboard over teleporting or by Stargate. The folks at New London have given me my own TARDIS landing spot on a moon just a ways from a Judoon ship.  I've mastered three different routes from The Starship Diner to TMA Nessus and the railyards of Gluphasia.  I've easily navigated

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A fate befell Snurky yesterday during the Giant Snail Races.  Some preteen hacker (probably - aren't they all?) had placed replicator cubes around the area which brought Hawthorne down during the filming of the Second Chance Race. Snurky logged back in to be told the region was unavailable and that she would be redirected to a nearby location.  One would have thought that meant the Governor's

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Just to get things straight: I am a Mark I EMH (Emergency Medical Hologram) who has fun masquerading in the visage of The Doctor - which happens to be what the crew called me - in search of intriguing Kodak Moments. And I'm enjoying the hair. I'm not a completist and truly no yesman when it comes to any fandom.  But I'm deprived of backstory for a better understanding of my subject and lack

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Snurky starts her career as a snail racer this Sunday.  The theme is "cute animals," so what better choice for Snurky Snoodle than to be a poodle? In other news, I saw a Vulcan wearing Starfleet Medical pajamas last week.  It's flattering to see that my 7Seas catchables are appreciated. I suppose I should make some more; if I choose to throw a pajama party then Sevhen has nothing trendy to wear

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Giant Snail Races was to have been Snurky's gig.  Or that's how I feel. When I first ran the Relay For Life through Skybeam in May, it was in part to test the waters and in part to give Snurky something to do.  When they mispronounced her name I thought: okay well maybe this wasn't such a good idea.  Little did I know at the time that they mispronounce  EVERYBODY'S name.  While I've had fun and

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I have a problem with darling bloggers. Just like darlings of the financial world back in 1929, who CAUSED history by instigating a buying frenzy which became the Stock Market Crash, these bloggers rattle off blather about the end of Second Life in much the same way: they're the greatest perpatrators to the cause, usually just to sound important. Is it an intentional objective or do they just

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The New Doctor Who 5th Series DVD offers the best you'll ever see for a TV show. The episodes carry a cinematic quality to them. The plots won't insult your intelligence; only once was a key plot aspect predictible (which is a pretty darn good record). These intriguing stories have brought something very special to the UK: a time for everyone to sit together on a Saturday afternoon and watch

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Well that was fun.  Halloween should be observed for a week. I had plans to take the week off in fact.  Due to a scheduling conflict with my boss I was compelled to work Thursday and Friday and use those other days for sometime in December.  Still, there is a perverse pleasure in working for only two days while most others worked five. I've got some fun photo ops ahead of me with those avatars

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The experiment seems to be working.  It's not so difficult to make prim hair the way I want it, and without lagging a sim.    Also since part of my costume relies on an alpha prim, I cannot afford to have it clash with alpha hair. I'll be sequestered in my TARDIS tonight to complete the hair and work meticulously with appearance sliders.  You can't peek till Show n Tell.  Well, I *might* wear

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What should I be for Halloween? For Second Life I mean.  In Toontown, Count Fishy will be a skeleton, Kertruffle a bee, with Quackerella and Lucky Toesies as supertoons.  On Sunday the new black cat will get vampire and supertoon suits courtesy of Kertruffle, who has 3 tasks to hand in. It's an existential dilemma.  I want it to be twisted because just about anything I come up with will have

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So I hear the Lamplighters finally made it up to the temple during a USA night time - to dance on the its ashes on the final day.  I'm sure they're very proud of themselves for throwing away their duty to the community and keeping to themselves for most of Burn2.  It's not why I sought them out.  I really thought such an established group would have upheld its practices at least long enough for

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Day off from work yesterday for "F" things: flu shot and preparing for the 7Seas Fall Fishing Festival.  The FFF started up this morning.  This Saturday evening is the Childs Play fundraiser, when all 7Seas vendor sales go to the cause.  So take time out from whatever you're doing and buy bait n fish.  In fact, come to the FFF where some of the best custom catches are in one place. (Or to

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Yesterday there wasn't even a notice for an evening procession.  No dots on the map over the village.  You know where the rest of us went :) Tindallia Soothsayer wore her Burning Snail again, which is a breathtaking build.  See her race with it in last Sunday's Giant Snail Races. After so much work it's great she can get more use out of it. Yesterday was her 5th rezzday too.  There was a big

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Last night was a lot of fun. I hadn't realized so many people felt the same way about the temple ceremony as I did.  Someone said: "Now it finally feels like Burn2," and that's what it's about! No one can take the nontangible away, but to get enough random people together to save an event is hard to come by.  Enough of us wanted this.  Thanks to all who made it happen!  As long as the official

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Last year the highlight of my Burning Life experience was dancing with the Lamplighters.  They'd play percussions in their campsite, then lead a run through the main events tent and the legs of the Man, past roadside campsites, away from the lag of the lower, more densely populated regions, all the way to the crystal temple.  There participants could generate their own lag with anyone who wished

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I've learned something from 15+ years in cyberculture: most of the people who "died" haven't at all.  Not in our understanding of the word at least.  They've left the online world, changed their persona without telling anyone, or staged it for attention. Several have attended their own memorial service to find out what people thought of them or get off on seeing friends sad for them.

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It's a busy time in SL this month for me. There's: - TMA's annual sukkah building contest. Working on that one. - TARDIS expo where we design boxes and consoles.  Still up in the air what to make for that as I get only one shot and have about fifteen ideas in my head. - FFF has become 7Seas' autumn equivalent of a Fishiversary.  I plan to have a spot. - Snurky has Burning Man.  I'm taking off

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I forgot to mention yesterday that I saw Rose Tyler's dad on the train. No really. I didn't realize it until I heard him say good-bye to someone he was traveling with. I looked up; British accents aren't very common here you know.  He sat opposite me on a right-angle seat at 45 degrees (we all do that here - well, most of us) and was dressed conspicuously clashy: black pinstripe suit,

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"You heard right! WITS is having a THREE day Back To the Academy 50% off sale; all products. [Who Island Main Store Only] As you know Time Lords and Ladies need a TARDIS at the Academy. So it's time to pick up your new TARDIS and accessories. LM enclosed!" What's up with this notice Snurky got? Someone running a Whogwarts or something?!

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So maybe it was too yellow. I've added wood trim, which looks fine for the exterior.  Not too sure about the trim inside.  It may be less distracting for future murals and vendors if the wall segments had a common gradient. Once the first chapter of the comic is up and Snurky's Burn2 is set, I think I'll make more art on tee's and set up the parcel beside my gallery as a park with a kiosk of

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I never realized (which translates into "I didn't pay attention because I ran inside before the façade rezzed") until the other day and watching the first of a three-parter from series 3 that the town square The Doctor frequently parked the Tardis for extended visits was in Second Life and in a rezzable area, perhaps for the purpose of allowing Tardis owners to refuel.  I see Sevhen and I will

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Learning more about my Tardis, I've set a personal landing point by the freebie dumpster. There are two more sets of levers which offer locations: one is for landing locations set as private, the other for what might be recent locations.  And a third which works with commands to list all landing locations in a specified sim. 3 out of 2 ain't bad. From first hand experience the DCL network

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In response to the article re The Future of Teens and Second Life   I was hoping they'd be restricted to the PG regions, but there is a problem: controlling accessible, audible and visible content from the borders.  Two years ago I had land in a PG region, and right on the border was a glass building with photos of explicit sexual acts for sale.  A little higher up and further to the west

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I dunno - can a building have too much yellow? It's bright and cheery with the potential to ward off Bloodlines stalkers.  The old parcel is empty for the moment.  Maybe I'll put a small, lowprim park there, or maybe a little kiosk like the kind I always wanted a small parcel in Nova Albion for. The comic is progressing slowly, perhaps a bit too "safely."  I just want things to look good

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Rethinking my strategy for Cartoon World.  I definitely want to redo the ground level building. What if it resembled Club Lapis on the inside?  Club Lapis is an elegant 1920's Art Deco nightclub I made in VRML for New Year's Eve celebrations.  Personally I find the concept a bit too elegant for my sensibilities. At some point in a VRML creator who spent time in Cybertown will always think back

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I've got both bad news and good news for Bay City. First the bad news: Dellybean North has left, and with her a lovely Art Deco structure in Falconmoon.  (Actually I'm keeping the Pineapple Building there until I'm ready for maneuvers) The good news?  I own that parcel now, right on Gershwin Boulevard.  This was a street I named, so this location holds much significance for me as well as a bit

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Shmoo brought up Tron the other night when I showed him the concept poster.  It's funny; Tron never crossed my mind.  However it made sense that it came to others'. I'll tell you why this isn't like Tron.  First of all, Tron was about someone who existed in a representation of what someone deluded was a computer environment.  This wasn't about people in an alternate dimension or cyberspace. 

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 Integration Complete It's mostly internal and therefore undetectable.  Creative output would show the change in some cases.  Aside from planning my Burning Life project, I'll be focusing on my comic.  The time is right I think.  I've thought about this all very carefully: as a fan, as an inspired artist, and as a comics professional (yes, I still see myself as a comics professional): - Will

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I've been here close to ten years. I've followed a conflicted existence in virtual life, being a fantasy creature while avoiding role play groups like the plague (refer to Trek Sim personae in I, Holodoc; I've paid my dues).  But Voyager landed and it was time to explore culture and just get immersed into what the world had to offer. Any world. Anyway, after having mastered everything from

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It's affecting both my real and virtual lives. In a way this is good.  My food intolerance test steered me clear of foods that were slowly killing me, and the weight has been coming off.  No, I don't look like some fanboy by choice.  Not from walking 1-3 miles a day and no binges.  Most of this truly isn't me. Vitality kicked in for the first time in years this past weekend.  I can't say my

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After my experience at Burning Life and the obvious antipathy of the organizers for the general populace of participants and eagerness to corrupt the integrity of the project, I told myself I'd never invest too much of my soul and energy into a project again for an SL event. That's not to say I wouldn't participate or make anything interesting when I did.  I'd make something I'd feel is

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It was entirely by coincidence.  During my diner's debut party in April, GoSpeed Racer detected & called out to RacerX Gullwing.  He was in the neighorhood because that following Saturday was a crosscountry snail race for Relay For Life, and the route passed the northern portion of my land in Hydrangea. I made a viewing platform, complete with refreshments, deck chairs, a donation kiosk from The

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I'm a 2-time survivor where I work. When I started in 2002, it was for Email support of their subscription website. During that summer they added a subsite for the UK, and in the fall I took on lead agent for their new Canadian subsite. I had by then contributed many pre-written responses for known technical and billing issues. I'd also proven I could switch between USA and British spelling

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I have to say it's been a long time since I enjoyed fishing.  7Seas' 2nd Annual Fishiversary.  Looks as though they learned from last year and prepared 2 regions for mini-spots plus a central region for their own setup connecting together like a giant L in southern Sansara Continent. I built a blast from the past googie style pier with a sign which makes me think of the NY World's Fair.  It's

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The debut of The Starship Diner was a success.  I like it where it is, and I like having the back fence for vendors and the freebies dumpster.  I filed a ticket with the LDPW to make a viable connection with the road from my asphalt parking lot, and Michael did the deed within two days. Now I need to find a good spot for a community board.  Then of course there's a spot lower down on the slope

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Nova Albion's 6th anniversary is less than a week off.  Second Life's first self-themed mainland community, with its paved roads and canals, is intended to be the picture of neo-urban affluence. Residents have used their double-prim quotas to form a distinct skyline.  Even before adfarms were outlawed, very little of Miramare and Grignano had them. Many of NA's faithful settled when it was new

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Spirits of the H-Atoll Join us on this special stroll Guard this land which we extoll Carved out from a route by mole. See the sunrise every four See the sunset just before See the northern coast beyond See the ships and swaying frond. Let no banline mar our mirth As we invoke this rebirth Let this be a happy place Put a smile on every face May I do these needy lands The justice my calling

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Last night some of us pondered more names for the diner.  It became evident that from that location one could potentially see both the sunrise and sunset. It's looking more and more like the diner will be better suited toward the western part of the property, with the back wall to the banlines and an "out back" type area with a dumpster (freebie dumpster like at SL6B?).  This would afford

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...Naaaaaame that diner! The natural first choice to me was "The Eat n Run Diner," which was the working name when I had Plano last fall. But then, you have to think about it.   Even when I had my overhead light scripted as a danceball, even with the Zorba line rezzed, people would naturally gravitate toward the bunny ball.  Maybe it should be called "The Bunny Hop Diner." "The Hydrangea Diner

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...though it was a tense auction.  They'll never be the same for me after Turtle Dove.  The important thing is that I got the land, which will be my future home and my future playground. Now comes the big question: What do I call the diner?

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On Sunday morning I took down The Golden Yak Diner. For 2-1/2 months it was my winter getaway, with its cozy interior and panoramic view of the snowy landscape outside. I carefully packed the diner in its designated folder, naming the sections of parking lot asphalt, preserving the Stargate entry lines, the two signs, the booths... Starting this month I'd pay $5 for tier until the land I'd

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