Ivanova Shostakovich

This was used in a poetic song by Laurie Anderson. I find it deeply satisfying to listen to her voice.

waits for the guitar tuner

Tell me about it.

In SL, I'll have my land stream tuned into Kona Stream, or one of a couple different channels from somafm.com; Lush (chick music), or Secret Agent (spy music, not that I'm a spy... as far as you know).

condiment to go with concrete,

My friend list women to men ratio is roughly 2. It includes persons whom have passed away but does not include my own alts. Nor does it include business associations unless a friendship there also exists. Some of the men I have as friends began as strong flirtations that never went far, for various reasons. Some of them I never hear from again, although they remain, in my list. As far as I'm aware, none of those men are friends with each other. I honestly don't know what difference there might be between men in real space forming close friendships, and the same thing happening in SL. With a few exceptions due to proximity, I don't really pay close attention to how that happens. I tend to assume they happen the same way my own friendships with women have done, common interests, organized activities, important events etc... I could try to come up with a bunch of theories, but it might just be as simple as the difference being, what men come to SL for versus what they already have in real space. Their focus is going to determine the outcome. This is only a theory I just came up with. I have no idea of its veracity. If there is a wide spread belief among men in SL that making friends with other men, here, is difficult.. I think I'll approach those guys in my list and ask them. "Excuse me, I'm working on my dissertation. Would you mind if I ask you some questions about forming friendships with men in SL?" I expect full cooperation.

I'll just have to stalk search you in order to send messages.

Sorry. I meant, I sent you a "Hey, Welcome back!" IM in-world, in response to your lament.

Fixed.

I'd hang paisley swags from them.

Oh! I get it. Intimidation tactics. Would it help if I shouted and held a rake?

Death runs in my family. It's happened to the majority of us, for as long as any of us can remember. We're still trying to beat it though.

for a bag of marshmallows.

It's gone unnoticed, so far.

I'd love to be able to create a very small parcel on my land wherein no one can run scripts, including myself. Then llDie() items and timed demos would be just like regular items and demos.

I've read a lot of posts, points made in arguments, and commentary over the years. I lurked for quite a while. One of the things that draws me here is the evident high intelligence of the participants. You're all just a bunch of smarty pants. There. I've made the accusations. Let the self-defense commence.

It's just occurred to me that making a HUD have included size options would be easy.

I haven't been a new user for a long time. I have no idea what the new user experience is like today. When I was a new user, I had the fortune to have rezzed at Orientation Station, which had excellent tutorials, created by Metaverse Mentors, that I conscientiously followed and learned from. I don't poll anyone outside of SL on whether they've heard of it, or what they think of it. Any guess I could make about that climate would be that, only a shot in the dark. The creator of this video, in my opinion, made it, primarily, to get views and laughs and not much more. It's possible he didn't seek out any tutorials. He's included whatever he could find with which to ridicule, intentionally seeking it out and editing it all for maximum spin. Even the commentary is heavily peppered with ultimately meaningless strings of words that have very little bearing on what we actually know. I didn't find the video painful to watch as an avid SL user. I did find it painful to watch as a real adult, seeing it as a reminder of the puerile culture engendered and perpetuated by some of today's youth.

It's never really occurred to me that there might be a lot of people waiting on tenterhooks until they're old enough to jump in here. But I do take some comfort now in the idea that someone might check my profile and assume that I am, at minimum, 26.

while digging through heavy loam.

heard, a proper sequitur, and

where the verbs and the

I had hoped to see a date for the party mentioned in the title. What better way to see all our dances in real time, where any of us can press CTRL-S to resync the animation(s) whenever we want. Such power at our fingertips! Mwahahahahah!