Amanda Crisp

I feel awful for saying this - but I've caught myself looking at Rezz-Dates a lot in the past year before interacting with people.

I'm not sure what my Cat calls me, but he does this a lot...... Should I worry?

On this day in 1934, a massive storm sends millions of tons of topsoil flying from across the parched Great Plains region of the United States as far east as New York, Boston and Atlanta. At the time the Great Plains were settled in the mid-1800s, the land was covered by prairie grass, which held moisture in the earth and kept most of the soil from blowing away even during dry spells. By the early 20th century, however, farmers had plowed under much of the grass to create fields. The U.S. entry into World War I in 1917 caused a great need for wheat, and farms began to push their fields to the limit, plowing under more and more grassland with the newly invented tractor. The plowing continued after the war, when the introduction of even more powerful gasoline tractors sped up the process. During the 1920s, wheat production increased by 300 percent, causing a glut in the market by 1931. That year, a severe drought spread across the region. As crops died, wind began to carry dust from the over-plowed and over-grazed lands. The number of dust storms reported jumped from 14 in 1932 to 28 in 1933. The following year, the storms decreased in frequency but increased in intensity, culminating in the most severe storm yet in May 1934. Over a period of two days, high-level winds caught and carried some 350 million tons of silt all the way from the northern Great Plains to the eastern seaboard. According to The New York Times, dust “lodged itself in the eyes and throats of weeping and coughing New Yorkers,” and even ships some 300 miles offshore saw dust collect on their decks. The dust storms forced thousands of families from Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas and New Mexico to uproot and migrate to California, where they were derisively known as “Okies”–no matter which state they were from. These transplants found life out West not much easier than what they had left, as work was scarce and pay meager during the worst years of the Great Depression. Based on my grandparents descriptions, I'm pretty sure it was not like this...

On a related note - I tried one of the "other" SL-similar grids once and was back here within a week. If I'm going to see people dressed like the cast of Jersey Shore with "male attachments" on their foreheads, I want them to at least be MESH forehead-"male attachments"...

I suppose that "I agree -and- disagree" So far as "stuff" is concerned; we do have better stuff.... So far as "what is Second Life; that's still widely diverse; ~For people who want to make stuff; if they have the technical skills - they can ~For people looking for sex; they still can (and be obnoxious about it) ~For people looking to network for RL relationships, they still can (and I wish them luck; they'll need it) ~For people looking to Roleplay - they still can (altho the RP presence is dwindling for various reasons) ~For people looking to club - Definitely possible Is it a Game or a World? The answer is "yes" depending on who you talk to. As in Real Life; perception is everything :-)

Here are the IKON eyes;

I use IKON mesh eyes. They also have the coloration around the outer eyeball *but* with Bento heads a precise fit is possible and the coloration-thing is not really noticeable. To adjust my eye height I control/select both eyes and adjust up-to-down (most people put their eyes too low). IKON eyes can adjust front-to back using the included HUD. I also found that when I went Bento, if I just opened new eyes from the box and wore them -the initial fit was spot-on, but that may just have been a lucky accident.

I'm showing an even 35,000 items. I need to shop harder :-)

When I saw the title of this thread, it sounded like Yoda was taking on some racially-antagonistic thugs... Yoda: "Head-Skins ! Win you shall *not*!"

Amanda slips back onto the Thread and hits it with the Adrenaline...... Happy Cinco!

SL is the ultimate dollhouse for me :-) It's not enough to have a skybox away from distractions; all my furniture has to match....

Well, I did it ! Bought a Catwa Bento head last night that (thus far) is tweaking close enough to my original face to make me happy. Not photo-ready yet, but making progress.

Sadly, some people are just jerks!

I am SO stealing this comparison :-)

I was reluctant to go to a mesh head, but the thing that sold me was my nose....... System avatars had difficulty doing non-deforming noses (especially small noses) and in photography - a mesh-head nose is MUCH easier to shoot, get good lighting effect - its just shoots better. Same for mesh eyes - better control for photography. I stayed with a Lelutka "Stella" head until late yesterday, when I made the jump to a Catwa Bento head. I am still tweaking, but using the sliders gives it that "classic head" feel and the range-of-emotion you can animate is also a plus for photography.

Unfortunately, Pop Culture seems define "what is a vampire" in SL; not Bram Stoker. Klytyna hit it right on the head also when she brought up that Bloodlines and some questionable behaviors were also at fault; Vamps got a bad rep as spammy and those things linger. Probably why you see "No Bloodlines in Premisis" in some clubs ( same as some places discourage Gor - themed RP in a non-theme environment tends to annoy the other patrons ) Personally, I LIKE classic vampires myself. Old-fashioned sleep-by-day, blood-drinking, pale-as-death, "I hate Stakes" vampires; but I'm the minority it seems. New-Age vamps sparkle, and seeing a bunch of them can be like being at an old Elton John (sequined/glitter costume) concert from a few decades ago :-) This is sad, because one of the more erotic SL avatars I've ever encountered was a "classic vampire"; but that was probably also her Player's ability to create and play a good Story.

Skye and I live in Kress on the Mainland, on a large sky platform that we share with several animated pets; two cheetahs, a house-cat, two foxes and a GIANT rabbit that I am still trying to get a saddle on (I'm originally from Oklahoma and a Rabbit Rodeo sounds like the ultimate flickr-opportunity). When not at home or at some event (Skye DJ's, I Host and play at being a photographer) than I am SHOPPING at "the trifecta" of stores (Not saying which due to the advertising ban) or at one of the many shopping events. I also role-play at Asphyxiation Point, but that's just getting going for me.

Wow! Thank you so much! I keep flirting with the idea of going from my current Lelutka head to one with Bento, but I'm not moving until I can get a demo head to look closer to my current Stella head :-)

I work an odd "overnight" schedule here in the US and so I frequently wind up being on in "European" or "Pacific" time zones; I kinda like it that way

This was me -just prior- to going Mesh

I had this happen once in the Firestorm viewer. I wound up detaching and taking off everything, then converting back to the Test avatar. After that as a precaution I cleared cache, rebooted my PC and Router and -somewhere- in all of that the problem was fixed. I was back to saving outfits normally.

Here you go! http://allrecipes.com/recipe/254804/chef-johns-nashville-hot-chicken/

Nashville Hot Chicken :-) Hot Chicken Info

I had a dear friend who came over to SL at about the same time from the City of Heroes online game community (THAT dates me). We chattered back and forth on our CoH Guild and within SL and then one day he just stopped...... A mutual friend from that Guild forum lived a few doors down from him in Louisville and informed me that he'd suffered a massive heart-attack and passed a few days prior while coming home from his 50th birthday party.

I do only slightly better than that, I'm near Nashville and my Partner is from southern Canada. We have an ACTIVE virtual life however :-)