I’ve been tromping around the GossipGirl sim because I’ve never really been there.  Little did I know, it’s actually closing soon.  At least, that’s what I gathered from the street fair, rides, vendor booths and signs saying ‘Goodbye GossipGirl’.  Could always mean something else, I’m sure.  Today’s look is nothing out of the ordinary…  I think.  I can’t really see what I’m wearing through my hair.

Hair: Tiny Bird – Velma – Dragees (Hair Fair gift) [SLURL]

Skin: Pleiades, tan – Maea, brown hair, freckles (free and open source) [SLURL]

Dress: “anuenue.PetitelowerDress (Lucky Board) [SLURL]

Pants: *Alg.*  Side Slit Denim Pants (old in store gift?) [SLURL]

Shoes: {Cherry} Dailey Ballet Flats – silver (recent freebie from somewhere) [SLURL]

Socks: CONCRETE FLOWERS- RETRO SOCKS -COLOURS/PLUM- (in store dollarbie) [SLURL]

Necklace: HPMD* pendant-duck- s  (chest) (old group gift) [SLURL]

Pose: **Ray Skin** 05 (came with some free outfit) [SLURL]

Big Bad Blogger Challenge, I have failed you.

Pose from ImpEle [SLURL]

I’m glad Alicia came up with a BBBC topic for today, because I haven’t had much going on my my SLife and I’ve been wearing the same outfit for a few days.  She wants to know

If there was someone you could trade places with for one day in Second Life, who would it be and why? Bonus points if you find this person and snap a picture with them!

I know exactly who I’d switch places with, but because she scares me and is a self-googling, name calling, finger wagging crazy cat lady, I’m going to refrain from using their name.  On one hand, I want to understand how she’s made it where she is while being publicly insane and know more about the drama that has gone down between her and a group of individuals representing a certain Californian college.  On the other, griefing is fun and it would be easy to grief myself.

I must admit, I don’t know much about this person and the drama, but it’s interesting and the college individuals previously mentioned share most of the same feelings I have about freedom of expression in Second Life.

Just in case, I’m going to say this up front.  I’m leaving names out because I’m a shitless bystander when it comes to serious drama.  I’ll admit it.  I’m a no-one in Second Life and should I make the wrong people mad, I could lose what I have.

But, hey, I had to write my BBBC post about something!

You’ve been given a sim of your very own to use for free for one year.However, there are 3 rules. It cannot be residential, it cannot be commercial, and it has to be open to the public. What do you do with it?

Well, first off, I’d freak out.  No way I’d have enough money to afford my own sim that I’m not making money with, so I’m obviously loaded.  After spending a few hours setting up prim noobs and running them over with cars I would just start building.

I love retro future styling and I’d probably make at least part of it reflect that.  Perhaps four identical builds themed differently with a central meeting place where they all mesh together.

The whole build would be scripted and controllable via HUD… moving and changing lights, bridges, robot houses, raining penises…  complete chaos.  The island would be Mature because one of the quadrants would just be straight up internet memes.  Walk in through a goatse gate and catch a lemonparty on your way to the Hopkin green frog hunt.

On the ground would be fairly normal, but in the sky I’d love to let anyone do whatever they want.  If you’re offended, leave.

I would call it ‘lulz’.

If for some reason you’ve been living under a plywood cube and then somehow made it to my blog, Zindra is the name of the continent the Lab plans on shipping all ‘mature’ content to soon.  Exactly when I’m not too sure.  Thankfully the only land I occupy is on a private island so the Lindens can’t do anything about my particle sperm spewing penis throne.

Right now, the theme of Zindra is something out of the near future with sharp lines, lots of glow and a pretend dam generating pretend electricity.  I didn’t care too much about the buildings.  There’s roads that stretch from one side of the sims to the other.  Sounds like a perfect opportunity to hop on my little scooter and do some driving.

Well, you’d think that.  There are these beautiful intersections with modern stop lights and walls to keep you from crashing into other turning cars.  The problem?  These intersections are built where FOUR sims connect!  FOUR!  To make a left hand turn, you have to move through three sims!  Needless to say, I had some problems:

Today, she wants to know

How long have you been a blogger? How has it enriched your life?

I’ve blogged for a long time, back before they called it blogging.  I had ‘online diaries’ on a bunch of different platforms, some that are long gone.  Free Open Diary is a site that merged into Open Diary and wiped all the old accounts.  My Dear Diary holds a bunch of my old poetry.  Zanga and Blogspot held onto my high school woes until I moved to LiveJournal after getting an invite code from a friend, back when you had to be invited to the site.  I moved from that to designing my own websites hosted on free platforms, trying to disable popup and banner ads.  After while, I just broke down and purchased my own domain and hosting.

I’d say over all, I’ve been ‘blogging’ for at least 10 years and I’m not even old.  It’s hard to think people have probably been out there typing away for years longer than I have.

As far as enrichment goes, I don’t think I’ve gotten much out of it until more recently after I’ve found myself in Second Life.  In real life, you’re one of the zillions of blogs online and no one cares that you hate your science teacher.  In Second Life, you’re only one in a thousand or so regular bloggers.  If you want to be someone, Second Life is the place to try.  Without much effort, I’ve found my way onto the friend lists of several residents who I feel are on the A-list (or at least some special ‘list’).  With a little more effort on my end, maybe someday I’ll have people piddling when I approve their friend request.

Hair: *TRUTH* Kensei 2 – Dark Choco (in store dollarbie) [SLURL]

Skin: Pleiades, tan – Maea, brown hair, freckles (free and open source) [SLURL]

Nails: nail ST 075 Green&Green (picked up free en masse from somewhere)

Glasses: <SE> Rodeo Drive Eyeglasses (I’ve had these since I started SL, 199L) [SLURL]

Eyes: InSight ~ Cartoon Brown – L (75L) [SLURL]

Top: Naith Smit Design – (NS) Womans open office shirt-black 3 (probably an old hunt gift) [SLURL]

Tank: [IE] Rich Plain Tanks – Green (old in store dollarbie) [SLURL]

Pants: CONCRETE FLOWERS- JEANS CHECKER -GREEN- (weekly dollarbie) [SLURL]

Necklace: CONCRETE FLOWERS- BLOX NECKLACE (weekly dollarbie) [SLURL]

Boots: HOC Apparel – Knee Boots (40L) [SLURL]

Antlers, ears and tail: Eat Rice! Freebie Christmas Kit (old Christmas gift, store is closed)

Poses

CCJ – crouch peace pose (FreeStyle HQ) [SLURL]

*Luth* Shoes 13 (DSN sampler) [SLURL]

Location: Straylight [SLURL]

All the words on my blog (except SLURL, it was HUEG) in cloud form.  Whoever thought clouds would be a good way to organize information was stupid.  They’re only pretty to look at.