Randall Ahren

It this the same song: I cannot get the video to play in your link.

Qie Niangao wrote: I'm not sure why this newbie was stuck with General-only settings (is that the default? I certainly hope not!), but hers were set General only, and she was stuck, unable to navigate to any of the green dot-populated places she saw on the Map. She couldn't even walk there without bumping into a mysterious maturity fence, and although the "fence" explained itself, there was no way she could be prepared to understand that explanation, nor what to do about it. I finally managed to explain all that to her, just before she had to log for RL. As helpful as I tried to be and as grateful as she was, I very much doubt she'll ever be back. Eight days ago, I met a new resident on her rezz day at an infohub when she still appeared as one of the default avatars. I gave her a couple of landmarks for freebie items and she tp'd off. A while later, I sent an IM to see how she was doing. She complained of boredom. She wanted to know what people do in SL. She had changed her profile to say "Come and un-bore me". I said that she could ride a tram, bowl, and sail. She responded that "but, it's all virtual, right?" I replied you can even have sex in SL. That intrigued her. I sent her a landmark for NC Adult's skybox so she could see what one of the beds look like. She initially had trouble with the maturity restrictions, but worked out the solution in minutes. This is the message that I received from her yesterday: "i'm jsut really hoooked on this game right now." She's on constantly now. Going here, going there, raving, formal dancing, and other activities. For me, it's been a personal renaissance. She often invites me along and I see the wonder of the world through the eyes of a new resident again. She does all of this with the new viewer. I've recommended Phoenix to her many times, but she has never bothered to download it. Sometimes, a resident just needs the proper motivation.

Mayalily wrote: Since there was thread about what looks hot on a guy, I thought let's do one about what looks good on a female (human avatar). No fair saying no clothes please. Okay, let it roll.... Definitely need some clothes, although less is often more. Ask any pole dancer what nets more tips. Dancing w/o clothes or dancing with just the right amount to titillate the imagination. I saw your avatar in another thread. She looked pretty hot. You probably get a lot requests for teh sect. I was raving yesterday with my friend at a club and to me she looked smoking. Shorts, long legs, high heels, bare-midriff top, long dark hair. She thought she looked too slutty though and switched to something more conservative. She gave me brain burn; her image has been seared into my memory.

Here's some specific advice regarding the proper equipment from another blog (Across the Grid w/ Lindal Kidd). She recommends you check out Dark Delights and in particular recommends the model having "Real" in its name. There is a freebie version and one that costs a few L$ having more features. @Ian: very handsome. If I were gay, I'd be on you like a rat on a Cheetoh. Start nibbling on you ears and work my way down to your toes. @dres: I like the like of body hair. Nobody likes hair in their mouth.

Willow Danube wrote: I had my Kudo button disabled from my preference settings. I fixed that and now I can see the kudo buttons again. Yes, that was the problem. I unchecked the box and it now operates as expected. My brain's buffer limit must have been exceeded, causing a stack heap collision error. A script reset should put me back in the default state.

There was a film about a shy teenager that paid one of the more popular girls in his school to act like she was his girl friend for awhile. He went from geek to chic overnight. Something like that might work in SL. Davier could pay a couple of the ladies to put him in their picks. Think of it as advertising. LeeHere Absent posted in her blog about something similar: You know how people put their friends in their Second Life picks tab? He's in dozens of them... He's smooth and he's virtually agile. He does romance as a charming and gracious gentleman dancing on the ballroom floor with as much ease and skill as he does nasty kink in leather and chains. And he can be a very, very naughty boy. Anybody know who is? He would be a great fashion consultant, because he knows what the ladies want as opposed to what they say they want.

I think the key is making SL more available, as in through a browser. LL made some headway in that direction already with their limited beta. Right now, it's too difficult to get in world and people are locked out for long periods of time. That's one of the reasons for the popularity of the forums. If you can't get in-world, you can at least post about it.

I was just able to repeat the bug. I saw a kudo button available in the scripting forum. I logged in and it disappeared. Here's a screen shot of the kudo button as it appeared before logging in: Below is a screen shot after logging, in which the kudo option has disappeared:

There seems to be problem with the kudo system. I was going to give you a kudo yesterday for your fashion advice, but the kudo button dissappeared after I logged in. I think someone did manage to give you a kudo though.

Harry, you can rent land to place a magic box. I've seen the service. It's just a plot with row after row of magic boxes. You might try the Open-air Marketplace, across from the Mole Mart.. This is the group here: http://world.secondlife.com/group/cf5c4dca-b2ce-0bf9-d070-84401c84bd60 If you want space for a percentage of sales, I'm sure someone would be willing to take a flyer on you. It only takes one prim for a magic box.

LeeHere Absent wrote: I'm tremendously pleased and flattered, you smooth texter, you. Thank you...very much and most sincerely. Just call me Sexter. @Maryanne, you commented that you found others who consider the written/typed use of english an artform in SL. My conversations tend to be highly abbreviated and include artistic faces =^.^=. I also spelled great incorrectly. Should be gr8. @Dresden, ok I had to research this. Evidently, it means pulling a cover over someone's head while in bed and flatulating. That would be pretty weird to do that by yourself.

Maryanne Solo wrote: To find others who consider the written/typed use of english an artform, was something I had not expected from SL. Ur g8! lol (0.o)y. @Ceka, what is a dutch oven? @Venus, I'm gonna have to go to one of your DJ events, just to see what you sound like. @Faubio, try Radegast. It's text based, but has voice. Might reduce system requirements down to where your pc can handle it.

You get a lot of tips?

Davier Faith wrote: If you're referring to the poseballs, it does nothing for me--it's the intimacy, the closeness, the sharing that I'm after. I mean without those, you have nothing: no feelings, no desire, no truly intense anticipation. To... stain that by jumping on some pose balls seems a little crude, when words and ideas seem superior. Just looking at the labels on some of the beds in the furnished multiscene had me laughing--do women like that stuff? If they don't, will they tell a man they do because they think he expects it? Regarding paragraph #1 above, it goes a bit beyond poseballs. The poseballs merely provide animations and without an essential avatar accessory, the animations will look stupid as will your avatar. In addition, please remember that you are a man. Women prefer a strong, confident man that knows what he wants and goes after it. You're writing like you're a woman. Regarding paragraph #2, yes they like that stuff, some of them anyway. I suggest you take a field trip to Orgy Island, observe, and report back. Notwithstanding, what is it that you like? It isn't all about what the ladies want. @Willow, a freenis? OMG No! The first lady that sees that will laugh and he'll be traumatized for life.

<Randall takes a knee and thanks the Linden gods for the power of edit, because otherwise he would look like a complete idiot.>

Davier, you're border line too attractive now. It may be necessary to include this disclaimer in your profile "don't hate me because I'm beautiful." OK, you've got the looks, but what about the essential equipment? Nothing would be worse than to finally get the lady of your dreams, only to find that your sculpted hardware doesn't measure up. Actually, the ladies are pretty kind, but the guys can be quite cruel. That's why I refuse to participate in group activities. ps: I think Willow can give you a few pointers about choosing the right equipment as well. There was one post I recall in which she seemed quite knowledgeable about different brands and models.

The new CEO of LL is known as Rod the god and he listens. Send him a tweet: @rodvik He thinks there are two types of people in SL: (1) those that build and (2) those that should. Test your faith.

I love it Cerise. It even has voice.

Lee, are you leaving? I guess that is the meaning of your name, LeeHere and now Absent. I've been reading your blog. Really fascinating. I'm adding your blog to my RSS reader. I consider it to be one of the most thoughtful and interesting SL blogs that I've come across. Hope to hear from you again. <Bows deeply>.

@Perrie, I agree. Could be some security issues. Probably best to use an alt. @Sonja, yes you cannot see anything. It is text based, so to get an idea of your surroundings you have to type describe and it will inform you of surrounding objects and avatars. Thereafter you can type move to followed by the avatar name that you wish to chat with.

This is what got me into SL: I'm not sure it was this lecture. It could have been an earlier one. I used to have a blog that would pull recently uploaded photos from flickr having the tag astronomy. I noticed that one of the photos that turned up was about a lecture in SL. I had heard of SL before, but I had not realized it was used for scientific lectures. Intrigued, on a boring winter night in January 2010, I joined SL to see what it was about.

Ian Undercroft wrote: I've noticed an odd phenomenen whereby American women seem behave very strangely when they hear English spoken with a British accent. LOL! You should see them around rockstars.

Perhaps you made the same mistake that I initially made. You have to type "login" then your user name followed by your password. From the instructions, it appears that you need only to input your user name, but it must be preceded by login followed by your username and password all on one line. @Knowl: I stumbled across this because I was looking for something that would translate my voice to text so that I would not have to type, but this does the reverse. It translates text from everyone else to voice.

You're probably like Imnotgoing Sideways. You type really fast and you're cool with that.

Ever try TextSL? You can login into SL from your browser if you don't mind a text interface. Just go to http://www.textsl.org./ It seems to be based on an ajax build. It is intended for visually impaired people because it will read everything to you in a robotic voice. However, I do not understand how a visually impaired person is supposed to type in the commands. If they can't read the output, how can they type in the input? You can teleport around and chat with other avatars, but there seems to be no ability to send or receive IMs. It's a rather interesting experience. To navigate, you type describe and it tells you who are the avatars around you. You can type move to followed by the avatar name, and it moves you there. Does anybody know of any more advanced text based SL clients?