Posted in RL, Uncategorized on December 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I didn’t grow up celebrating Christmas, but the past ten years or so, I have put up a tree because it’s beautiful and festive.
Three years ago, I spent Christmas night sitting up with my cat Cyrano, and he died the next morning. Now, I take down the tree on December 26, and I remember.
Holiday’s over. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wishing you all the magic and wonder of the season.
Posted in Uncategorized on December 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not going to pretend to remember all the stuff my Jewish grandmother would like for me to have remembered. I also didn’t marry a Nice Jewish Boy. But I do remember enough to know that it’s time to wish all of my friends who celebrate it a happy Hanukkah.
Posted in Openspace, Second Life, Uncategorized on December 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I should preface anything I say here by saying that yes, I have a sailboat in Second Life. Anyone who has visited Harbour has seen it tied up at the dock.
Regardless of what’s sitting at my dock, I don’t really consider myself part of the sailing community. This is, in large part, because I totally [...]
Posted in Second Life, Uncategorized on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I participated in my first Photohunt last night. A Photohunt is a venture where a group is given a location (or, in the case of last night, a selection of locations) and given 60 minutes to bring back their best snapshot from that location. No photo manipulation, just the 4:3 aspect snapshot you took, so [...]
Posted in Second Life on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Second Life blog today unveiled the first bit of work from Big Spaceship: the redesign of the Second Life home page.
I was a little underwhelmed, and I posted my immediate thoughts in response on the SL Forums:
Part of design is organizing visual data, but the first glance at the screen shot gives the impression [...]
Posted in Second Life on December 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What is it about the holiday season that compels us to put Santa hats on things and consider them decorated for the holidays?
I noticed as I wandered the grid that rather than replacing objects that are regularly on parcels, some residents — me included — have simply dressed up common objects with santa hats.
Wearing a [...]
Posted in Second Life on December 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the things about Second Life that’s fascinating and frustrating is how transient some beautiful places are. I have learned the hard way to stop and smell the roses, because the lovely spot you found today may be gone literally tomorrow.
So I appreciate it when someone lets you know that the build isn’t going [...]
Posted in Second Life on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last year, I jotted down a “12 Days of Second Life Christmas.” I got a few laughs with it, and then I stuffed the notecard back into inventory. When I dusted it off a year later, I found that it had become a bit of a time capsule. Catchphrases that were relevant a year ago [...]
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