Dillon Levenque

April 13, 2017

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.

April 13, 2017

2 hours ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

I had to look at that pic a good long while to recognize me. I haven't had hair that long, SL or RL, in years. Oh, I looked so young once.

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?

April 9, 2017

Look at you, Ceka! Getting all nuanced and psychological instead of just running over him on your motorcycle! It's a side of you I'd never seen, and I like it. :-)

And Hi, by the way.

March 29, 2017

Hi Val, nice to see you!

March 28, 2017

I have seen other resurrections of the thread (here and elsewhere) but never posted to any because I hadn't seen the original. I should've; I was registered in 2009 and pretty active in 2010, maybe even very active. Somehow I didn't get in on it.

So thank you, Mo, for throwing it out here one more time. New forum, new look, whatever: I do believe it's my time to add my name to the long and honored list of idiots who have posted to this thread (or a thread of the same title elsewhere).

March 25, 2017

2 hours ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

How do we know you weren't lurking in the old one?

He was. I could tell, I'm psychic that way. 'Course, he didn't lurk a lot, because he was really busy taking pictures for the Feed, of him looking all suave and stuff with some gorgeouso lady while he boldly explored new worlds.

March 25, 2017

Hello, doll! I think Maureen kinda tempts everybody but that's another story. It is always such a surprise, and such a treat, to see you posting anything. And I see you at least have figured out how to do an avatar badge for this new version; mine just has most of my name (which I'm okay with). Like it.

ETA: You must have been adding the image when I first posted this; it wasn't here then. You look awesome. :-)

March 24, 2017

I am so IN for this thread. I have at least two Forum pics but they'll have to wait a few hours until I get home, read the new instructions for posting images, and get them in. One was during the Christmas season because I'm in a Santa hat with a candycane-toting shoulder pet, sitting at the bar. ALONE :-(. The other was when I arrived too late for 'Talk Like a Pirate Day' and you'd all gone home. I sat on a dead man's chest drinking rum with the skeleton of (presumably) the man in question. He didn't talk much (not at all, really) but he was generous with the rum.

I also went to a St. Patrick's Day party there once that was packed. Mags DJ'd it and did a fabulous job; her Irish lilt through the whole evening just made it perfect. I was kind of starstruck seeing all these heavy hitters from the Forum actually inworld. Maddy made the appetizers, and they were like you'd figure.

Yay, I did images! And from my HDD, too. In the text on the left when you edit (where the Attach paper clip is) you can select 'choose files' and it jumps right to your computer, letting you got anywhere that goes.

As usual, the above picture has some terrible flaws: my outlandishly tight pants hadn't rezzed quite yet, resulting in that wavy look on my thigh. I failed to notice the 'DJ' title floating in the background over what looks like it might be a PortaPotty. That's me: click and move, click and move. Anyway, there's proof: I was at the Hangout. A lot more than twice, too.

March 23, 2017

15 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

Hi Dillon! I was wondering why you weren't around here when I dropped by earlier! :-)

I don't know the book, but I think I've seen it advertised on the subway here. I will check it out (even if it's not "chicklit" -- I've decided to try expanding my library to books that don't end in marriage or feature slightly crazed but lovable bff characters! ). I'm always looking for really effective and affecting articulations of feminism, LGBTQ and Trans-positive thinking, or perspectives on POC in literature because they can be really powerful teaching tools. It's not hard to explain social justice in logical or polemical terms, but I've always believed that literature can be especially be an especially effective supplement because they engage the empathetic imagination: they help us see things differently through consciousness and experiences that are not our own. They humanize abstractions. I think that's what makes them pleasurable in a way that theoretical arguments and tables of stats never can be (as useful as those are as well).

You are well, I hope? Have you been helping Snugs keep Maddy out of trouble?

It isn't really to do with social justice—well, actually it is but not in the way we usually think of that in North America—but it's very much to do with feminism and women. It's only a couple of paragraphs, but it's very good. The French officer is a guy, by the way, as is his correspondent. In any case it can be introduced with a minimum of background so yes: it could be instructive, I think.

As for your question: we all wish. If Snugs and I were the team assigned to keeping Maddy out of trouble she'd be Snugs, I'd be Shrugs. Because that's about what I'd do when someone came around yelling "Maddy did ......"

Nobody can keep Maddy out of trouble. Maddy IS trouble. She's nefarious, Scylla. Right through to the bone.

Cute, though.

March 23, 2017

I do believe this is the first time I have seen a thread that within itself contained relevant posts by Maddy, Snugs, Scylla, and Laskya. I like it!

Scylla, it's lovely to see your name again (no offense, Laskya, it's just Scylla's the one I knew first).

This will probably bore the hell out of everyone else, but since you mentioned finishing your PhD (I congratulate you) in chicklit—KIDDING! PUT THAT DOWN!—I've been heavily promoting a fairly new book I brought home recently. It's a novel, set mostly in the Middle East. Starts in Iraq after the end of Desert Storm (that was the war about Kuwait); ends in fairly modern times still mostly in and around Iraq. There's a passage in which a couple of fairly central characters are talking. One, a French officer, talks of women and feminism in one of the most powerfully moving things I've read in quite a while. I re-read it several times. The book can be tough: Iraq in the last twenty years has not had a happy time and some very ugly things happen, but I whole-heartedly recommend reading it. You'll know the passage when you see it. "The Girl in Green", Derek B. Miller.

March 15, 2017

9 hours ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

Is anybody out there?

Smiling. On my very first look on the very first day the new SL Forum comes online who do I see kicking the doors open but you. I cannot tell you what a pleasure that was. It was nice to see right here in these two pages so many other names: Maureen, Pamela, Treasure, Perrie, Luga(I can't attempt the rest) and the ones I missed because I was in a rush. I like that the forum software grabbed a representative fragment of one of my old saved images to do my avatar badge.

I know I've been absent from the SL Forum, from inworld, and from the Feed (no excuse for that) but I will improve (I'm like wine in that regard I hope).

It's almost over but I'll wish you a lovely Pi Day anyway. It was absolutely lovely to see you, just as it always is.

May 23, 2016

Prokofy Neva wrote:

Always discouraging new people, right Alwin?

Sure, there are, but they are filled with biased and sometimes nasty oldbies with ideas about how things should be done.

I could see a real advantage for a college that gave customized courses in what people actually need for their businesses instead of all the hippy theory of the open source cult that comes with the free courses.

? Business?

The OP asked about building and scripting. Both of those are part of the curriculum with NCI, Builder's Brewery, The Ivory Tower of Primitives, and more. Have been for years and bless all of them for their contribution. No bias of note, yes oldbies (duh), no nasty.

Christian, from your post I get the impression you are asking because you are yourself capable of instructing and are not wanting to be a student.. Either way, I"m sure if you contact any of the organizations I mention they will be happy to oblige.

May 17, 2016

Chrismaky wrote:

Nooooo, lol. My original post didn't come across as well worded as I wanted it to be. I will never say do away with the ability to create your own stuff because I love that concept. But my first response to you was what I was trying to say.

Oh, really? Perhaps you should re-state your position, then. Your OP was quite strident, and later you doubled down in a post telling us we needed to learn new things and expand our knowledge. To that I say, learning new things is wonderful and I've enjoyed doing that all my life. I've learned many new things in my time in Second Life. About art, music, literature, even history (my favorite subject). But I don't NEED to. I've developed many fondnesses and friendships over the years here, for both people and places. I can be perfectly happy among them if I never learn another thing, to be honest. Here's what you said:

"It is 2016 and SL is still loaded with a lot of terrible looking high prim non-mesh items, especially in its marketplace. Now I am a bit biased because I'm a hardcore mesh addict and I like to have my items, objects, clothes and myself look nice. But a lot of people it seems still prefer (and alot of designers continue to make) non-mesh stuff. Why? Mesh is more realistic, better looking, resizeable, and is much lower in prim/land cost.

Do you think there should be a push to make SL 100% mesh?"

Amusingly enough, though you later denied even thinking about clothes, it's listed third of four in your little list, there. So yeah, you WERE including clothing. You should consider going all the way back and withdrawing most of what you said in your OP, leaving the perfectly legitimate statements that (in your opinion) mesh objects are far more attractive than prim objects, and asking the question you asked at the end.

If you had done so, my response would have been that I disagreed with your sweeping statement, although there's little doubt that done right mesh is capable of some really lovely stuff. I wear very little mesh clothing because it doesn't fit my shape well. Female tops only come close my bust size in XS, but they're so small everywhere else I have to alpha my entire upper body to wear. Male tops actually fit pretty well, and I have a few nice men's sweaters in mesh, but the selections are limited. Don't bother telling me the proper avatar dimensions for all the mesh sizes are defined (to a point)—I don't WANT to alter my shape. It means something to me. It looks like this on purpose.

So I would vote 'no'.

May 1, 2016

Does it get boring around here? Yes.

Does it have to be that way? No.

I personally like threads where we get a bit silly, because I'm like, you know, frivolous. But I'll step into a serious conversation if it interests me. The problem isn't LL, it's not even the mods. It's the Forumites. A discussion is only as good as the people who engage in it (and we have had plenty of worthwhile discussions here, as Pamela suggested).

You have something to say, say it. If it gets interest, it will get replies.

ps: I accidentally posted this as a reply to Pamela; I had to delete that one. I meant to reply the thread and to the OP.

April 29, 2016

Madelaine McMasters wrote:

Phil Deakins wrote:

We younger folks don't understand the word 'cats' in that context, Rhonda

Here's your context, Phil...

Dillon has

imagined

I'm the one in the striped top and glasses @2:01. Never mind that the recording is from 12 years before I was born and that I look more like Waldo (than Wenda) in a striped top.

Oh really. Imagined, huh? I shall leave it to the other posters here. Yay or nay: is the be-spectacled blonde in the striped top Maddy's doppleganger or is she not?

She does a little 'rawwrr' along with the claw gesture: very stimulating. ;-)

And btw I love that song, and just about every other Coasters song I've ever heard. Great group.

April 22, 2016

I am mildly fascinated by qwaszigarble's posting history. Joined yesterday at 8:41 PM Linden time. Five posts, of which only the OP remains.

Posted April 3, 2016 · April 3, 2016

Celestiall Nightfire wrote:

SosiaalinenKokeilu wrote:

Just forcing people into experiences without their consent, and giving them no way to leave them.

Hmm... Using the Firestorm viewer is an

option.

Problem solved. ; )

*chuckling*

*waves*

Using Second Life at all is, I believe, an option. I dunno about other operating systems but on my Windows PC I can always click on the red box with the big 'X' in the upper right and be gone.

April 3, 2016

Always funny to me when Yahoo gets in the big fnancial news, something they of ciourse do quite often these days. When I worked in Santa Clara I commuted from home by train. I took the bus from the train station to where I worked in the mornings, but most afternoons I walked from work back to the train station. My route took me through a bunch of Silicon Valley's heavy hitters: Intel, HP, Applied Materials (who you've never heard of but were by a huge margin at the top of the heap in the business my company was in).

One of my best 'short-cuts' was the big angle I could take through a certain business complex whose parking lots were arranged so I could walk almost an unbroken diagonal heading for the train staition, essentially angling acroos two square blocks. Not sure of the name. Orchard Parkway, or something like that. Entrance was on Kifer, a few blocks west of Lawrence Expressway. It went almost all the way back to the Central Expressway at the other side.

Anyway, Yahoo's first (I think) really professional location, once they moved out of the garage, was in an office in a corner of that complex. Cars parked in front usually had the "Do you Yahoo?' license plate frames. Couple of times I walked past, they were all out on the lawns in front with canopies set up, eating appatizers and drinking beer and wine because they'd just landed an account or opened another office or something.

My, how they've grown. :-)

ETA: It's called Central Technolohgy Park, and it does in fact extend all the way from Kifer to the Central Expressway. Affymetrix now occupies the space Yahoo once inhabited, but it looks like they have the whole building; Yahoo was just usiing the southernmost rectangle. That happened when I was still there; I'd forgotten that. Yahoo by the time I left was in a their own purpose-built just for them humungous multi-story complex over by Lockheed, at the edge of Moffett Fielld.

March 27, 2016

Kelli May wrote:

We get to find out what happens when an irresistible moron meets an immovable tw*t.

If I didn't have a personal reason to keep the signature I use, I'd use that quote as my new one. Just realized we've both had our signatures for a long time (you probably longer than me) and both have to do with rocks. I like that. :-)

March 26, 2016

I realize it's Saturday (Sunday, even, in half of Asia) but there's the chance here to make this the Friday thread of all time. Now that Steph and bebejee are engaged in conflict, we should all just step quietly away and let the two of them snipe on. An all-out, no slur spared steel-cage death match of arrogance, ignorance, and entitlement.

March 25, 2016

You would have way too much fun tweaking that thing, Maddy. And that's really the whole point, something the author of that article missed altogether. A quote:

"Needless to say, this wasn’t programmed into the chat robot. Rather, the trolls on Twitter exploited her, as one would expect them to do, and ruined it for everybody."

"Trolls' who 'ruined it for everybody'? NO! It was just some dumbass Microsoft PR guy becoming yet another victim of the "Oh, cool. I'll go on Twitter so my (fans/backers/constituents/interested people/whatever) can message me directly. It'l be great!", and of course it winds up being like Doctor Oz or hundreds of other people. In most of those cases, the person going 'live' on Twitter failed to consider the fact that there existed a whole bunch of Twitter users who disliked the person, and who would relish the chance to say so IN PERSON, as it were.

The Microsoft PR guy must have failed to consider that there were a whole bunch of Twitter users who knew a great deal about the algorithms driving most 'chatbots' (as we call them in SL) and would delight in exploiting that knowledge to the max to manipulate their stupid Twitterbot. These were not trolls and they did not ruin 'it' for anybody. It was a hellaciously dumb idea. I bet there were code monkeys all over Microsoft screaming, "NO, NO! Do NOT do this!".

March 25, 2016

Madelaine McMasters wrote:

Dillon Levenque wrote:

You can drop a Rawr just by way of rebuttal, to show how fierce you are. I like when you Rawr. ;-)

Just to be clear, I imagine you wearing bibs and an updo as you sashay down the walk.

At first I thought, "Sashay? Dang, I thought my walk ani was fairly mild compared to some I've seen", but then I put it together with the bibs and updo and realized you were talking about the rehearsal.

Maddy and I were both 'members of the wedding' at a mutual friend's wedding recently. I was a bridesmaid, she was the PASTOR, if you can imagine that. In fact, she did a very nice if completely unorthodox (not Unorthodox Jewish, unorthodox period) service in which she probably didn't painfully offend anyone (she may be disappointed in her effort in that regard).

At the rehearsal I had my hair in a favorite sorta updo and was wearing bib overalls. The sashay was the 'Bridesmaid's Walk'. We went up (and at the end of the service back down) the aisle one at a time, slowly. The built-in walk was the most outrageous sashay you ever saw in your life.

It's a good thing that all our gowns for the real service were mesh; if we'd have been wearing flexi formals the guests at aisle-side would have suffered eye injuries!

March 24, 2016

Madelaine McMasters wrote:

Rhonda Huntress wrote:

BDSM in 500 words or less ...

Two hundred thirty five, ignoring the introductory paragraph. I applaud your efficiency.

Regarding Disneyland. My one childhood day there was made immensely more enjoyable by my parents, who wound me into a lather of anticipation over it. Standing in line was made bearable by observing the people ahead of us and making up silly stories to match their look and demeanor. What I remember most about that day (and my entire childhood) is not the rides, but Mom and Dad.

I own a go-kart in RL. It's not the sort of thing a grown women is expected to drive down the road in my neighborhood. That's half the reason I do it. My shy neighbor has been in ill-health for years. When I zoomed into her driveway, stopped at her feet and offered her the wheel, she demurred. I became insistent. She acquiesed. When she returned from her short spin down the road, she was giddy. So was I.

She recently asked (to my great surprise) if there was a kind of go-kart she could take to the market. I offered my Miata, she demurred. She doesn't drive stick, so we struck a compromise. She now admits that riding in the snow with the top down is more enjoyable than she expected. That makes me happy, and I can hope that when she remembers these experiences, she remembers me.

I like "forcing" people to do things I believe they'll enjoy, and I like winding them up in anticipation. It can take effort, but it's worth it.

If this is as close to being Mistress Madelaine as I ever get in RL, that's just fine.

;-).

(And there we go Rhonda, 500 on the nose.)

That's also as close as you get to being "Mistress Madelaine" in SL, at least as far as I've ever seen, and It's just fine with me, too. Quite fine, in fact. For some reason reading that post had me smiling inside and out.

You can drop a Rawr just by way of rebuttal, to show how fierce you are. I like when you Rawr. ;-)

March 23, 2016

I just wanted to jump in quickly to say I've been following this thread since the beginning and while I've enjoyed everyone's response (especially Freya's) to the self righteous prig of an OP, I must say the whole tone of the thread has improved mightily ever since Message #76.

:-)

March 21, 2016

*waves*

Nice to see you. :-)

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