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  1. Ceka Cianci wrote: when i have a bunch of questions..i always look to the red green show for just about any answer i need.. the answer is bound to pop up at some point..every show! no no don't bather thanking me..it's my pleasure..=-) Well then, I'll thank you! If not owning a TV has a downside, missing Red Green is it. I loved watching Red and the gang on my ex hubby's li'l TV in the bedroom. This may explain why we had no children. And why I may never again feel comfortable around a forest ranger. ;-)
  2. Kenbro Utu wrote: Madelaine McMasters wrote: Qie Niangao wrote: xIITaylorIIx wrote: Well thanks for the replies, that's certainly a downside to where I come from, then again I might not be seeing the entire picture with all this copy, transfer, modify stuff like finding somethig and texturing it myself to my own taste Reading between the lines a bit, I think someday you may want to create your own stuff from scratch (or maybe from templates), although that may seem daunting now. I'm not suggesting you drop everything and immediately learn to make stuff, but just realize that it's an option, and that lots of the best stuff in SL was created never to be sold. Meanwhile, maybe just explore more before obsessing too much about any particular outfit you find. There's a bewildering array of stuff, and a variety of different ways that stuff can be made--and just to keep it interesting, there's new stuff every day, and every so often a whole new way to make stuff, too. Qie, another forumite brought to my attention your use of the word "stuff". I can't resist... I still remember hearing this routine back in the 80s. My wife and I were watching in the living room on the television, laughing so hard tears were rolling. Just as the routine has finished up, our 5-year-old daughter walks into the room from another part of the house and informs us that she needs a purse, "to put her stuff in." She thought we were crazy when all we did was burst out laughing... Oh yes, and I think Qie had Carlin's sketch in mind as he replied to xIITaylorIIx. I heard a few episodes of the old radio show "Fibber McGee" and loved imagining his overstuffed closet. Here in SL, I'm known for keeping a backhoe in my closet (inventory) to help me dig out all my stuff. When I'm in the mood, I'll put odd stuff in my RL purse, just so I can pull it out in front of people to find the stuff I'm looking for. Oh, I do miss George. ETA: I'm still smiling over the story of your daughter.
  3. Qie Niangao wrote: xIITaylorIIx wrote: Well thanks for the replies, that's certainly a downside to where I come from, then again I might not be seeing the entire picture with all this copy, transfer, modify stuff like finding somethig and texturing it myself to my own taste Reading between the lines a bit, I think someday you may want to create your own stuff from scratch (or maybe from templates), although that may seem daunting now. I'm not suggesting you drop everything and immediately learn to make stuff, but just realize that it's an option, and that lots of the best stuff in SL was created never to be sold. Meanwhile, maybe just explore more before obsessing too much about any particular outfit you find. There's a bewildering array of stuff, and a variety of different ways that stuff can be made--and just to keep it interesting, there's new stuff every day, and every so often a whole new way to make stuff, too. Qie, another forumite brought to my attention your use of the word "stuff". I can't resist...
  4. Czari Zenovka wrote: Coby Foden wrote: Things to note: We cannot create subfolders under any outfit, all will be under the same main level under Outfits. Thank you Coby...great explanation and I learn well with "visuals." For the reason you stated above, I won't be using the Outfit feature. Because I participate in a variety of sim themes and have clothes specific to each, the ability to group outfits under sub-categories is VERY important to me. If I'm going dancing, I don't have to look through all my dresses, only those in the "Ballroom Gown" category, etc. Czari, you can achieve what you want by naming the outfits appropriately. I prepend my outfit names with category names. So I've got outfits that start with "Dancing-...", "Casual-...", "Nefarious-...", etc. That makes it fairly easy to find an outfit. The benefits of outfits make it worth that extra effort for me.
  5. Tari Landar wrote: Madelaine McMasters wrote: I haven't seen many episodes of "Cheers", Tari. But, I certainly understand the theme song, and friends have called me Ms. Claven. I live outside a smallish town, and have been here almost my entire life. It's nice to walk into a place and hear "Maddy!", even if it's in anger ;-) It's pretty neat that a group of you migrated from TSO to SL. I've left behind many circles of friends as I've switched venues over the years. It was pretty cool to migrate over with a lot of friendly faces. We became pretty close in TSO and it just got better here. Most of us have since parted ways somewhat, but not entirely. Fond memories. I think everyone likes having at least some place outside of home, that's familiar and friendly. I was going to post this video instead, so I'll share it as well. The song is just as fitting for me in sl as it is in rl. Problems or not, sl is a pretty beautiful world and I like it a lot The pictures are part of a two year environmental study my kids are taking part in. There are some interesting ideas in that video, Tari. Why do we find nature beautiful? Dennis Dutton gave a compelling TED talk about the theory of beauty. In it he theorizes that we find beauty in certainly natural landscapes because of the safety and opportunity they've provided throughout our evolution. Across the world, even in climates where such scenes do not exist, people will pick from a group of landscape images those which have lush vegetation (food), streams (water), climbable trees (to escape predators), worn paths (social opportunity) etc. One could imagine an evolutionary benefit in being able to quickly "feel" an environment's risk/reward ratio. We call that feeling... beauty. Angels playing with polar bears? Angels playing with babies? I'm either making the argument that Huskies are angels, or that play is important...
  6. Jo Yardley wrote: Masculine Women! Feminine Men! (1926) I love it Jo. The more things change, the more they stay the same. ;-)
  7. valerie Inshan wrote: Thank you Hippie! Think I'll be fine as long as you carry my suitcases!
  8. Czari Zenovka wrote: Madelaine McMasters wrote: Perrie Juran wrote: Czari Zenovka wrote: Malanya wrote: Czari Zenovka wrote: Malanya wrote: Pssst... I think she may have meant you. Careful you may end up on her list I thought she probably meant me. I'm a redhead - not easily swayed and will end up on no one's list...unless it's a list of delightful men with whom to go dancing. I don't blame you a list of delightful men would be far more fun that being on her spanking list OR her nakie statue.. you know she is bad lol I know a few of you feisty redheads, don't change your haircolor Oh don't worry about the hair color change. *Grins* In fact, on the what do you never change thread that is what I wrote, except there was the time I went to a Baroque Ball and did wear a powdered wig but that covered my red hair. *Nods solemnly* All this talk of spanking and naked statues is concerning me a bit. Knew there was a reason I stayed parked in my skyhome. Can I ask what happens when you spank a red head. I keep hearing that no one has ever lived to talk about it. I had her bent over the island in our SL kitchen, and drove home the unfathomable humiliation by observing that her BS in chemistry and years as a forensic pathologist had brought her to this. Never mind that my BS in engineering and years in high tech had brought me to much the same place. It was still a win for engineering over chemistry. And I'm still alive. I would like to clarify that Maddy is not talking about me. Oh, I didn't make that abundantly clear, did I? Though, the fact that I am still alive is probably all the proof anyone needs that it wasn't you.
  9. Tari Landar wrote: I'm legally blind though. So I probably don't quite see what everyone else does, lol. Ooooh, you're just the kind of guest I love to entertain, Tari. There are those who don't mind the dust, and those who don't notice it.
  10. Dillon Levenque wrote: edited to correct having spelled Czari's name wrong. Her correctly spelled name was sitting right there about an inch of screen space away from where I was typing. Plus I'm well aware of how her name is spelled and can do it even without visual cues. Impressive, huh? Impressive? You're too modest.
  11. Perrie Juran wrote: Czari Zenovka wrote: Malanya wrote: Czari Zenovka wrote: Malanya wrote: Pssst... I think she may have meant you. Careful you may end up on her list I thought she probably meant me. I'm a redhead - not easily swayed and will end up on no one's list...unless it's a list of delightful men with whom to go dancing. I don't blame you a list of delightful men would be far more fun that being on her spanking list OR her nakie statue.. you know she is bad lol I know a few of you feisty redheads, don't change your haircolor Oh don't worry about the hair color change. *Grins* In fact, on the what do you never change thread that is what I wrote, except there was the time I went to a Baroque Ball and did wear a powdered wig but that covered my red hair. *Nods solemnly* All this talk of spanking and naked statues is concerning me a bit. Knew there was a reason I stayed parked in my skyhome. Can I ask what happens when you spank a red head. I keep hearing that no one has ever lived to talk about it. I had her bent over the island in our SL kitchen, and drove home the unfathomable humiliation by observing that her BS in chemistry and years as a forensic pathologist had brought her to this. Never mind that my BS in engineering and years in high tech had brought me to much the same place. It was still a win for engineering over chemistry. And I'm still alive.
  12. Czari Zenovka wrote: Malanya wrote: Pssst... I think she may have meant you. Careful you may end up on her list I thought she probably meant me. I'm a redhead - not easily swayed and will end up on no one's list...unless it's a list of delightful men with whom to go dancing. I'm having a li'l difficulty parsing the highlighted bit, Czari. Surely you wouldn't end up on a list of delightful men, but you might keep such a list? And I'm afraid you're already on at least one of my lists. I expect I'll end up on one of yours as well... hopefully a brand new one. I fancy myself a pioneer, I do.
  13. Melita Magic wrote: LOL not having read the thread yet I can already imagine some of the responses... Adding a WB Phil to the other ones I've seen lately... I'd be happy to log in and teleport you to a platform no one can see Czari if you want me to check out whether there is some error. I'm still on the old viewer and I can take a photo of your av and send it to you. Just let me know. I had a friend who was concerned about appearing naked and often asked me to check her out. I almost always saw her properly clothed, but often told her otherwise. I never told her she was clothed when not, so I did address her concern, even if exacerbating it. She was not wiley enough to ask me for photographic proof. Czari, I'd extend the same offer as Melita, but I've already taken the fun out of it. Welcome back, Phil. I didn't know you'd been away!
  14. Czari Zenovka wrote: Sassy Romano wrote: She said that it was difficult to get to and would require removal to see the label but yes, if it's capable and budget is a concern, there's movitation there Thank you Sassy & Maddy (has a nice ring to it ) for your wonderful info. Yes, my PSU has no info on the side that I can see and I can't see the other side of it just by taking the side panel off, there is another metal "wall" that I assume is connected to the MB and I'm not about to mess with that. I have been hoarding Christmas gift money until I could decide what I really, really wanted to spend it on. It is just enough to get a decent 650W PSU. Since I'm going to make sure I buy one with a single 6-pin connector to the graphics card, do I still need to be concerned about "rails?" I'll guess that your current PSU is basic and has only one 12V rail. So paralleling two molex connectors should not be a problem. It's just a matter of being sure the PSU can handle everything. If all you have is the motherboard, GPU, one hard drive and one optical drive, it's probably big enough. More sophisticated PSUs with 6 and/or 8-pin connectors may power each connector with different 12V circuits, so the GPU vendors must allow for that if they use more than one 6/8-pin connector. Your GPU has only one 6-pin connector, so there is no worry. The GPU should never draw more power than the 75W allowed over a 6-pin connection. Similarly, the PSU should be designed to provide at least 75W over that connection. The 8-pin connections are specified for 150W.
  15. Sassy Romano wrote: Czari, go back and re-read what I said about adequate power on a single 12V rail. You just want to make sure that the power supply isn't dividing it's total power between multiple rails. Although you're not likely to run into a problem, go for quality, not just the cheapest "hi-power" one that you're presented with. Oh, the good ones are also usually very efficient (cheaper to run!) and have entered into voluntary certification. Read here for more details http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/80_Plus In simple terms, if you have an 80% efficient power supply, 20% of the power from the wall socket is just being converted to heat. Draw 200W and that's 40W doing nothing but warming the room slightly but you're paying for that and getting only heat from it. My PSU right now is reporting 97% efficient, that's just 8W warming the room from 249W drawn. A very highly efficient PSU, while not being the only factor, should be a further guide as to the design and quality. This does bring up a consideration for Czari's current power supply. If it has completely separate 12V rails, feeding different pigtails, it may not be possible to "Y" two of them together into the single six pin connector using the harness that came with her GPU board. Czari, can you give us the make/model of your PSU so we can make sure you're able to use two 12V Molex connections to power the GPU? Also, there's no need to upgrade your PSU if it's actually capable of powering the new GPU along with the rest of your computer. It may look nicer to have a 6-wire cable going directly from the PSU to the GPU, but once the hatch is closed, you won't see it.
  16. I don't think I've purchased anything to wear since Six posted the OP over a year ago, so I don't change anything much. But there are a few true constants in my wardrobe. I very rarely change hair. I made my own skin based on some web template I found years ago, which I never change. I've made custom tattoo layers that have moles arranged in constellations. I have Orion on my back, the Seven Sisters above my left breast and The Big Dipper on my tummy. Here's Orion... I also wear my homemade "Anne Francis" mole. It's actually a spinning globe of the nighttime Earth. I like knowing I can lick the world whenever wish... And I also always wear a pocket watch. My grandfather gave his broken pocketwatch to my Father back in 1952 (or 54, I can't remember). Dad gave it to me when I graduated from engineering school. It still doesn't, and never will work. The idea being passed down with the watch is that we should not be slaves to the clock. Here's a picture of the watch pinned to my bikini bottom... When I visit nude venues, I'll wear an untied men's necktie to cover my top and my pocketwatch to cover my bottom. I have had offers to wind it. That's another reason to keep it broken.
  17. I haven't seen many episodes of "Cheers", Tari. But, I certainly understand the theme song, and friends have called me Ms. Claven. I live outside a smallish town, and have been here almost my entire life. It's nice to walk into a place and hear "Maddy!", even if it's in anger ;-) It's pretty neat that a group of you migrated from TSO to SL. I've left behind many circles of friends as I've switched venues over the years.
  18. Bree Giffen wrote: I have an idea. LL should turn off no-vehicle avatar flight and turn off teleportation. Make it so that everyone has to walk, run, bike, drive, take a plane, mass transit, whatever. Location would really matter. Hubs would truly be hubs. The journey would once again be part of the fun. As it is, there is no travel... travel and transportation aren't necessary. We can have parties at the sim borders!
  19. Vooma Voom wrote: What u on? As near as I can tell, she's high on life. ;-)
  20. Shelby Silverspar wrote: bumped Your bumping woke up LL, Shelby! Nice work! ;-)
  21. Shelby Silverspar wrote: Go Ceka go! Oh dear. I fear the camomile tea has done its work, and Ceka is counting kittens. It'll be up to you and me to save the forums from spam, Shelby! Um... oops, I'm actually going outside to kill ants. Can you fight off the spammers until I return, or until someone at LL notices? I knew I could count on ya! ;-)
  22. 7-13-2007 Four year old Barbara (Babs) Bronikowski has to drive her three year old brother Brandon home from the playground after he drinks one too many lemonades. Babs' role as designated driver would continue for the next 86 years.
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