Dillon Levenque

Au contraire, Madame. I am proud to be a Corsican and shall defend it to the last! Although truth to tell, I haven't visited my pretty cottage (not my work, either: I am rather utilitarian) in quite some time. Nonetheless, Corsica for me. Like Xerxes, I had some catchup to do. I was last here before the end of Page 41, it seems. I'll add a quality to a comment Xerxes made. Some people are consistent. They don't swing with the current, they don't shift in the breeze. I don't know him but from his posts on this Forum I suspect Xerxes himself to be one of those people. Clover I know is, same goes for Madelaine (obviously: the Jack Elam crush has always given me post material), and Marianne to the Nines, as everyone knows. I hope I am one of those also. Although there are some who are consistent that we might wish would go away. Hmm, how to word this?. Okay, Jeopardy question! Category is Forum Descriptions. Six letter word, second two characters are frequently written as $$. I'm pretty sure we can all name one, but at least he was consistent. Good or bad, I prefer that quality in people.

A shopping guide? A shopping GUIDE? Wow, Clover. You're lying in wait for a guide to where to shop (for some no doubt big deal event, but still). Good luck with that, Rhonda.

I was thinking earlier today about Aislin's mention of the Pepster. I caught a considerable amount of flack from him and even more from someone who became his almost worshipful apostle. Oddly enough, at the moment they are both pretty much irrelevant. Both, in my opinion, placed a lot of emphasis on how important they were; how much content they provided. One of them even announced on the Jive? forum (I don't think I got in during the RA days) that the post count showing for him in the forum was too low and he'd written a script to keep a more accurate count! True story. He may have started not liking me when I mentioned it in a post and asked, "How lame is that?" The great thing is that for me and I think for a lot of us, we know we're irrelevant. The entire inworld population of SL at any given time is about a third of the population of the city (in name) where I work. It calls itself a city; most people would call it a cowtown although agtown would be more accurate. In any case it's one town in California containing a tiny fraction of the world's population, but it has three times as many occupants as SL, a worldwide entity, has at any one time. And the Forum? An even tinier fraction of SL! So yeah, we're ALL irrelevant. Who cares? My personal reason for being here is mostly the pleasure of the conversation (this was my first ever online forum of any kind) although it's nice to learn things, too. Relevance is not part of that. I really like the way this new version is structured so I hope it sticks around. Of course, I actually AM relevant so it's easy for me to say stuff like this. Ebbe personally responded directly to one of my posts on the last forum. I'm so doggone important it's a wonder I don't just swell up and float away.;-)

Deltango, I'm within a decade or so of being as far from 40 as you are from 0. I've had the "if I'd known then what I know now" thoughts, of course. I think it's probably a very common reflection among people who reach what in the States is called 'middle age'. In the years since I personally was of that age group, the idea has for me lost all its luster. I wouldn't trade my youth for anything, and the more I think about it the more I'm glad it happened just as it did. Dumb as I was, I was me. Not only that, but recalling those incredibly dumb-ass moments later in life was instructional. As in, "Oh. So that's what she meant by saying that." We actually do keep learning as we age, assuming we're relatively cognizant and open to learning. It's pretty nice, actually. Wisdom is a good thing. Someone once said to me, in a private conversation, that I'd started out here as a neophyte but had become one of the 'wise old women of the forums'. That's possibly not the nicest thing anyone ever said to me but it's definitely in the top three.

And about an earlier post in this nice thread that Aislin started: I'm pretty sure Snugs starts shaking her head the instant someone runs up and starts a sentence with, "Maddy....".

Regarding what Innula just said: I just went ahead and posted when I started there; didn't even learn about the "Introduce Yourself" thing until well after the fact at which time it was too late: they'd already taken my measure. Chance to make good first impression (the sales technique people tell you that's SO important) blown.

But we were wise beyond our years. Weren't we?

I so liked doing the Bliss thread, and the way people responded just re-enforced that. So thank you for mentioning it; I just read it through start-to-finish (I've looked at it now and then over the years and I always wind up doing just that: front to back). Since Quinn added her blog post about the surprise birthday party which I was told was gonna be the Cast Party for the "Twice" thread—you're all a buncha creeps!—I do have a favorite picture from that. Dancing with the (almost) naked lady that burst from the birthday cake and who is wearing a Minnie Mouse hat that I gave her to make her an honorary member of the boomer generation. The pic is one of yours, from your flickr :-).

Thank you for the Janelle clips, Maddy :-). And while the "Twice" thread was something else entirely, we all had an absolute blast doing it. And we did some bonding, too. As one of our mutual friends put it, "We all fell in love with each other..." doing that one.

Thank you! I'd forgotten all about that one and you're right, it was hilarious. I even made a pilgrimage myself :-). "Our Lady of....what???". Someone will remember. I think she either spawned one of Janelle Darkstone & Marigold Devin's hysterically funny picture threads or maybe they were just around the same time. Remember those? The little Girl Guide selling cookies, and the zombie? Absolutely brilliant stuff.

You're right, but I should have made myself more clear. I researched SL on Google, and there is a wealth of knowledge there. Also because of the way Google works you can type, "What is a prim in Second Life" and get answers. Sometimes learning that way is better, or at the least way faster, than taking courses. You'll no doubt learn way more in the latter, however.

This question does take me back. A guy at a place I used to visit when I first started SL mentioned that he had some apartments to rent. That sounded like a great idea; I could actually log on in my own space with a little privacy (apparently I was really into skinny-dipping back then because I always seemed to log in wearing little or no clothing), so I asked how much they were. He asked me how many prims I needed. I actually managed not to blurt out, "What's a Prim?" but I was of course without a clue. I just mumbled something about having to think about that and let it go. I soon made possibly the first of a great many visits to Google on a search for information.

Dog (Wolf? Hound of the Baskervilles?) least likely to be asked, "Excuse me. Is this seat taken?". Holy smoke, that is one large (beautiful, but large) canine!

No point worrying; it won't help. They're out to get us, and they are relentless little furballs.

Really? What, are you jealous because you hadn't thought of that, or is it just too over the top?

Unfailingly.

While I freely admit I did not carefully peruse your handy list of emotions, for me (and being massively selfish I tend to be way more involved in stuff if I relate it to me personally) 'Worthless' would be the most destructive, by far. I'll get more 'other-people-involved' with my Most Constructive: 'Loving". I actually would have preferred 'love' but it wasn't on offer. Much as I've always cringed at the Burt Bacharach song done by Jackie Deshannon, the message in the title will never be wrong. All we can get. I've never learned (although I've read up on) the real techniques of CPR. I learned the lifesaving skills way back in the dawn age. Before I learned to French kiss. Don't EVEN ask me why I mentioned that; mighta had something to do with mouth-to-mouth. Ya think? /me settles down. And a Happy Birthday to You, Rhonda. :-)

Oh yeah. You pull out your phone at the grocery store, brother, you better have your cart and yourself out of the way. Otherwise I'll just stand there looking at you and quite obviously listening in on your little convo. Hey, it's a public place, right? To be honest I tend to do that to anybody who starts up a phone convo close to strangers; I'll just look right at 'em so they know I'm listening. Hopefully the message will get through—step away from the people to take/make this call.

I don't get all worked up about china.....but I have to say that picture shows some pretty damned exquisite stuff. I do not believe I have ever seen china with a realized design on the inside of the cup. Beautiful work, and just another entry in the "a human did this. No, really" log. People continue to amaze me, and how cool is that?

My first thought was, "Why in the hell are you flying above the Chrysler Building in a hot air balloon???!!!". And then I realized to whom I was addressing that question. Answered.

The first time I ever got properly suited up for a cleanroom— hood, facemask, goggles and the full-on bunny suit—in an all white outfit of course, I looked in the mirror to make sure I'd covered everything and that was the very first thing that popped into my mind. It's possible I have screened Episode IV a few too many times.

I am virtually never on these days (I plan to stop not being inworld but the plans have yet to come to fruition) so I'm not the droid you're looking for. I am only commenting here to tell you that in my experience SL is a warm and welcoming place for nerds. Hell, to most of the "outside" world we're ALL nerds just for being part of this. Trust me. I have also found that people who've thought they were introverts have become extremely social and outgoing here. This place, I think, encourages that (by 'this place' I meant SL, not the Forum even though the same can be said for it). So jump right in. I've only one caution: be very careful not to fall in love too easily here. I'm not saying you shouldn't, just that you should be constantly aware that it's super easy to do so and that the results are not always what you'd hope for.

Lexxi's date in the caption is July 2010 meaning my recollection is a bit off—I thought we met after the Secret Santa deal in 2009; must have been 2010. Was the first Hippiestock 2011, then? And blue jeans! Patched blue jeans at that. Woohoo. Theia showing a lot of cleavage is entirely in character with how I recall her from the Forum convos. Janelle's leather (thank goodness not latex) outfit did make me smile (she doesn't visit the forums these days so she'll never see that. I'm safe). And I never met Chris Norse but just from the way you mentioned him and the fact his avatar seemed quite personalized tells me he is/was someone I might enjoy talking to.

Must be Ms. Marbach (hope I got the name right). I can not even imagine you with dark hair, which leaves me three candidates. I have never seen you in blue jeans (I wear 'em all the time, you never do) so now I'm down to two. Neither gives me a clue, except maybe the one on the right, in the black—omg is that latex???—looks more domme-ish and I know that was where you started. Is the other one HER?