Rabid Cheetah

An ENGLISH pub? On St. Patrick's Day? We are not amused lol jk

Well, time to get out the bagpipes... Annual Belli St. Patrick's Day Parade - Ruthsburg Bridge

It turns out it fell asleep right after I tried to ride it. It did eventually wake up. Other horses were sleeping as well, so this was unrelated to my interaction with it.

Finding a diner, and dancing on the counters, when no one is there...

I...uh...I think I killed someone's horse...sorry...uh...

If any of you have read the excellent Mars series by Kim Stanley Robinson, there's a part where Nirgal, a Martian-born young man, visits Earth, and finds looking at the horizon very disorienting -- Where's the curve? He realizes Earth really is a bigger planet than Mars, and even notes that it finally made sense to him that ancient Earthlings thought the world was flat: They couldn't see the obviousness of living on a giant sphere, the way you can, via the curved horizon, on Mars. Ergo, I submit the Nirgal Hypothesis: The Linden Lab colony takes up a very small portion of a huge planet -- A planet so huge that the horizon still appears as a flat line even from very high heights. That said, an undergrad at the University of Bytes and Bits, "Moody" Judy Mehberg, has recently published a paper where she proposes that the SL map isn't a map of the world, but rather a map of the universe. More specifically, it's a two-dimensional representation of four-dimensional space (at a given time in fifth-dimensional time-space), a giant tesseract of pocket universes strung together. These three-dimensional universes, more commonly referred to as "regions", are of uniform size: 256 meters by 256 meters by 5000 meters. They are, for the most part, linked to four other regions on the x-axis and y-axis, though there are many notable "dead end" regions that lack a fourth regional entry/exit point. For example, you can enter/exit Lemontal from the North, South, or West, but not from the East. Her paper doesn't go into much detail about these anomalies, much less the isolated island regions that lack any entry/exit point other than cross-dimensional teleportation. Pictured: An explorer enjoys the sunset on a nascent region

"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down these ban lines!"

I have an alt who I roleplay is the exact age of my main account. So she's a few months past 17.

I was nodding along, for the most part. Until you got to the rant about communism. At that point, I started...

It wasn't originally my idea. Someone sold, on The Marketplace, an entire pack of BBQ grills and dead meeroos lol I can no longer find it on the Marketplace, so I guess I've got a collector's item.

I haven't done breedables since way back in the day, before I went vegan. While I don't crave the taste of meat, I do miss the spirit of a good ol' fashioned Meeroo BBQ...

Welp, this thread certainly bread a lot of popcorn for me *nom nom nom nom*

The one with the puppy. Yes, I know. I have a dirty mind...

Tree houses? Hmmmmm...why not just build your own? I did that over two years ago, any time I rolled a home with LL-owned trees on the parcel. Of course mine were more the Calvin and Hobbes definition of a tree house. Just two prims: One for the floor (stretched cube to squeeze it into a flat rectangle, with a hole in it for entry), one for the walls (cube with a giant hole in it so it lacks a roof), and a simple wood texture from either a Linden pack or the original textures the viewers provide. So, OK, more of a tree FORT than a tree home. But I even threw one into each tree on my trailer parcel near Lake Whateveritscalled and the Whateveritscalled "Grand Lodge" (hey, it's been two years since I owned any parcel in this game, so I forget the names of places). Then I connected them all with a rope 'n' plank bridge mod-yes/copy-yes I got cheap off the Marketplace to create an overhead walkway network between each of the tree forts. And of course I measured everything meticulously to stay under the 15 meter height limit. Then I decorated the inside with a free shell made by the person who ran Cabinet of the Curious (sorry, I forget your name, I rarely play SL any more and my memory has dimmed as I've gotten older), and a whole bunch of fantasy-themed stuff. This was all for an alt who's avi was one of the basic mesh Linden avis for new accounts -- an elf. Note that this was all before the Elven Glen or whatever it's called part of Belli had been created. Sorry for the lack of pictures of what it looked like -- my inventory of Second Life pictures is almost as big as my in-game inventory of objects lol

I don't know if I have a picture of it, but my favorite hat is still the freebie flaming sombrero I got 17 years ago...