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  1. "He put on his hat but didn’t get up. He thought about her until he fell asleep. He said “Goodbye” and hung up. He threw the dice and lost. He dialed and waited for her to answer. He left some money for her. He looked for her door number. The police arrived late. He walked into her building. He let her do the explaining. He gave up hope and begged. He locked his car and walked. She gave him that look of hers. He put a finger to his lips. He wiped his mouth and left. He slapped her across the face hard. He lit a cigarette in the dark. The police wouldn’t understand. Her little dog slept. Her voice had an edge to it." (From Aram Saroyan, "Film Noir," 2015)
    22 points
  2. I'm having a bit of an identity crisis. Here's today... And this past weekend. Because every baby diplodocus should be properly attired in a tutu and giant flexi hat.
    21 points
  3. I've gone just a little bit nuts decorating today. I think I love this picture the most just because of the chicken squint.
    20 points
  4. https://mattnight84.wordpress.com/2019/11/19/i-am-here/
    18 points
  5. Thanks to @Eva Knollerfor pointing out this great place
    16 points
  6. I was out earlier at the beach doing sunset shots. No shadows, just moving the sun around, gives very different images. Graphics just on high, no cropping or post processing.
    16 points
  7. Long time, no post! And I need to invest in poses.. 😂
    14 points
  8. 12 points
  9. Beachin' it, before winter sets in. And feeling particularly pretty in blonde today... Still haven't shaved though.
    12 points
  10. For some odd reason I seem to really like the houses that have, what would be in real life, a ludicrous number of steps up to the front door. The property pictured is not an extreme example, but just what I could find just now to picture as an example. (24 in this case) I'm wondering if anyone else out there has been counting? What is the longest / highest number of steps up to a front door in Belli?
    11 points
  11. Haven't finished moving into this camper yet, but so love the access to it. At first we couldn't figure out how to get from the road to our pretty Shenandoah! I derendered a couple of trees to show how surrounded it is by its own little cliffs. You CAN walk up the green slope on the lower right, but from the road that doesn't look like the right thing to do at all. It's quite steep. Eventually figured it out. There's two rock steps right on the road, and then a stairway by the creek. This is what you see as you walk up to the trailer. I send a hug to @Squishy Mole every time I come here.
    11 points
  12. just switched to a male avatar, albeit still furry because im degenerate trash pardon the terrible picture, im playing on a toaster, still havent gotten the new PC slapped together yet 7th floor is probably the only place in this game i can go to for greater than 2fps
    11 points
  13. Neph's baby doggos, Erebus and Charon. They so cute when they smell blood.
    10 points
  14. Rock steps!! In Domingos, so cool.
    7 points
  15. Ashton Village. The one below is located in Shady corners. 33 steps. edit: 34 there's a landing just out of shot, my favourite so far!
    7 points
  16. Sometimes, a random shot is so much better than the one I was actually trying to get.
    7 points
  17. So, @Amina Sopwith has noted that today is International Men's Day. I think it would be a good thing to celebrate that by highlighting the men in our lives (however you may gender yourself) who have made or are making a difference. I'll start, with four men (I could add many more), two from RL and two from SL. First, my dad. My father is a passionate idealist, and really smart man, and accomplished at pretty much anything he's undertaken, but more than all that, for me, he was the one who, from as far back as I can remember, made me feel as though I was someone whose existence was important, and valuable, and something to be celebrated. When I was a kid, my dad would watch for signs of the things that most interested me, and he would nurture these in me, and encourage me to pursue them. My father strongly supported (emotionally and, at times, financially) my choice of education and career. It was he, more even than my mother (who is also wonderful), who saw the first stirrings of my interest in feminism, and bought me my first feminist book (Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex; OMG it was a slog, but it changed my life). So much of who I am is his fault. Next, my RL partner. I won't talk much about him, because he really wouldn't want me to, but I will say that in providing a loving and endlessly supportive place for me, he has helped me achieve a kind of emotional stability that I really needed. Wherever he is, is home, and that home is always a place where I know that I have space to move and explore and grow, and that what I say, and what I believe, will matter. In Second Life, I have a number of men friends, old and new, but I'll start off with an old one. He's a bit of a goof, he tells terrible jokes, and he says and does things that have me facepalming constantly, but he is also someone with whom I feel entirely comfortable and free to be myself, and to whom I can say practically anything. He has forgiven me much that probably doesn't merit forgiveness, and there is no one with whom I more enjoy slightly idiotic rapid fire banter. He's pretty much a constant presence in the background of my SL, IMing me to say utterly stupid things that make me laugh. Just knowing he's there makes a difference. (And I'm not going to tell him I posted this because it will give him a swelled head, and he's bad enough in that regard already.) And finally, a newer male friend whom I've known for, I guess, a little less than a year, but who is sweet, and unassuming, and affectionate, and takes me dancing, and even flatters me that I've changed his mind about things. He chatters at me excitedly about his passions and interests, and said just last night that I was "kind of his SL bestie." It may be an illusion, but he helps me believe that my presence in SL is making a bit of a difference to someone else. And that makes a huge difference to me. So, who are the men who have made a difference in your life?
    6 points
  18. Oh, this'll be easy, Scylla. First...Dad. He's been ever-present in my decade of storytelling here, so that shouldn't surprise anyone. He was passionate, pragmatic, highly skeptical and, though he'd never admit it, an idealist. He was the best at what he did, whatever it was, and he could do anything (except run his business like a damned business, a deficit I clearly inherited). I wouldn't say he made me feel as though my existence was to be celebrated, but more that it was a gift to be appreciated. It took my parents nearly 20 years of "trying" to produce me (and only me), so there was no doubt in my mind that I was appreciated, but it was not a free ride. Both Mom and Dad admitted that trying to produce me had been challenging, but also a lot of fun, so "don't get a big head over it". It was clear from early on that I would take after him, not mom. I loved getting my fingers in, and was curious about, every damned thing. I provided the perfect excuse for Dad to haul out his inner child, and for Mom to proudly proclaim she had two children, born 50 years apart. "Hi, Kids!!!" was her daily affirmation of this. Until I moved away to graduate school, he was my constant companion in chaos. Years later, I would have the great and nervous pleasure of hiring him to help my design team. I didn't reveal our relationship (the company president knew) until people started thinking it was impossible for two people to be so very odd without sharing genes. I am my father's daughter. It was bittersweet when Alzheimer's took him away. Bitter in that the magnificent man who'd raised me was fading away, but sweet in that the little boy inside was playful and happy to the very end. He was the best playmate I'll ever have. My ex-hubby is pretty cool, too. I don't know what he saw in me and if you ask him now, he won't know either. For the dozen years we were together, he was a reliable sounding board and tolerant of my odd sense of humor. He was self confident enough to be an idiot in broad daylight, taking pressure off me and endearing him to my father (who paid him handsomely to marry me, and demanded the money back at our divorce). I received bittersweet news just this morning. He's been promoted to nearly C-suite level in his company and will be relocating, with his family, to the Twin Cities. I've been "Aunt Maddy" to his four kids, and co-confidant to his wife, so this will be a serious loss for me. I may finally have to make good on my promise to start hosting get-togethers for friends and neighbors, as my parents did when I was young. It's difficult, it's exhausting, I don't like it, but it's good for me. Mac (my pseudo adopted, 25yr old asshat) is making a big difference in my life. There appears to be nothing I can do to stop it. I blame Dad for starting me down this road by caring for him when he was little. I can't forget seeing Mac sitting in his lap when he was barely two, while Dad read books to him, and watching Dad haul out his inner kid for a third lap around the joys of being a child. Like so many of the remodeling projects Dad started and never finished, I'll pick up the hammer and saw and keep working on Mac. To his credit, Mac, like every other man who's important to me, tolerates me. Maybe that's all it takes to be special to me? In SL, @Parhelion Palou has probably made the biggest difference. He doesn't know it, he won't believe it, and we can all laugh at how he did it. Years ago, he gifted me the "Li'l Devil" avatar. That's all it took, but he was the one to recognize and act on it. His inner child (he has the male "Li'l Devil") saw the potential and I'm powerless to resist it. @Beth Macbain Dad first saw Mom at a bar (Dirty Helen's Sunflower Inn) in Milwaukee, in 1947. He told his buddy "That's the woman I'm gonna marry." Two weeks later(!), she proposed to him. Four years later (?!) they married.
    6 points
  19. This. All this for me. He was a real asskicker, take-names-later type. I cannot count the number of times I hated him for it, and today, I cannot possibly thank him enough. I am who and what I am because of him most of all and I genuinely like what and who I am.
    6 points
  20. It would be great if you abandon a plot, your avatar can’t get it back for one month.
    6 points
  21. The Toad Hollow plot took 9 minutes to be claimed.
    6 points
  22. For anyone looking for a trailer/tiny house: I resurrected my original work avatar for a month to see what the trailers were about (and to grab the textures. etc.) Got a lovely parcel in Toad Hollow which I'm going to release as the month has come to an end. Closest to the river; view of a bridge to the front right; side right has a rocky outcrop which obscures the houses; the trailer behind is at a higher level (the slope between looks really nice if you add some tall grasses and/or wildflowers; trailer to the right is at a lower level and hidden from view. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Toad Hollow/158/57/26 I'll release it at 6PM SL time (that's in about 15 minutes)! Good luck!
    6 points
  23. I think I own every suit ever made in SL at this point:
    6 points
  24. Oh boy! I don't know my father. He left when I was three, after having an affair with my mothers teenage cousin. I saw him rarely until I was ten, but have only unpleasant memories. He lives a mile away and we are strangers. My grandfather died suddenly when I was seven. My mother had men friends for a long time but I never got on with any of them. This all sounds very dark, and yet........ my growing up made me strong, and independent. The only person I could rely on was me. I had to fix things. I learned skills, often the hard way. It made me a survivor, and so my father, by being who he was had a profound positive effect on who I am. Had he been around, there would have been conflict.
    5 points
  25. Mr. Sennhenn, my teacher in high school English and Literature. He was a little, wizened martinet who constantly challenged me in a subject I thought I was already pretty good in. Remember John Houseman's character of Professor Kingsfield in "The Paper Chase"? Like that. Neil Armstrong. I met him before he became the First Man on the Moon, but after he'd become one of the first astronauts. He taught me that heroes and icons are also just regular people. Richard Feynman. I never met Doctor Feynman, but I learned from him to never stop being curious and asking questions. Along with him, Doctor Martin Jischke, one of my engineering professors. Dr. Jischke would pick up a piece of chalk at the start of class and begin at the left side of the room with a first principle, like F=ma. From this, he would fill all the boards with one equation after another, lecturing nonstop clearly and without notes, until at the end of the hour he had explained how to design a rocket nozzle, or an airplane wing. He taught me what Knowing Your S*it looks like. Robert A. Heinlein. Another man I never met, but whom I have always admired and learned from.
    5 points
  26. My Dom/husband, whom I met on SL, and whom I miss every day. My brother, whom I also miss every day. My grandfather. I miss him every day too but he had a good innings. My son. God I love him. Mr Harrison. I wouldn't have applied to Oxford if you hadn't made me. The male staff members at my son's nursery. They are the best and my son adores them. My driving instructor from years ago. Thanks Stefan, I know that wasn't easy, even if you did make a lot of money out of it. My boss. You're a gem. My male friends for being, between them, every single possible incarnation of what it means to be a good man. I guess my dad. I miss him too, not for all the right reasons but ultimately I guess he did his best.
    5 points
  27. there’s a pile of computer parts on my desk right now and I’m still using a 13 year old laptop to play SL because I’m lazy
    5 points
  28. Beautiful shots, Lara! This one sort of reminds me of the ending of the first season of The Umbrella Academy.
    5 points
  29. Good luck for releases today I got the only abandon I regretted abandoning back today which is nice hope you all get what you want!
    5 points
  30. Those circles are public gallows for naughty residents. 😉
    5 points
  31. Second Life has needed better chainsaw physics for a long time.
    4 points
  32. BOM skins don't require ALM off. I always have ALM on and BOM works fine with it. How textures work in Second Life: There are three separate textures that might be used on any given part of an object. 1) The diffuse texture, which is what we traditionally think of as a "texture", which has the colors and transparency for each surface. 2) The normal map, which describes the texture of a surface. 3) The specular map, which describes the reflectivity/shinyness of a surface. They are handled by completely separate textures - they're not "components" of a single thing. Normal maps and specular maps are only usable with ALM on. BOM only applies the diffuse texture, but the normal and specular maps can be applied exactly the same way they are now. You don't have to "turn them off" to use BOM. You can use BOM to set the colors of your skin and a regular applier to set texture and shininess. BOM skins are the "default body skin" - that's the entire reason for the existence of the project. If changing ALM changes the colors of your skin your viewer is broken.
    4 points
  33. "Did you get thrown through the window of a viewing room at the hospital? Because that's the ONLY reason I can think of that you have that on your arm. Gods help the poor mother." That's my friends!
    4 points
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