You really *can* find anything to wear. Or be.

My new look.

I am totally in love with it!

:D

Survived birthday.

Saw "West of Zanzibar", a 1920's silent film at the Phantasmorgia Theater in Second Life. Lon Chaney in silent role. Was good!

Attended faboo shop opening in New Babbage as well. Got lovely outfit.

Played Zyngo. Too. Long.

And here's what's happening at the Caledon Library!

(meanwhile, back to work on editing Blaze of Glory and ( Read more... )

One of the things that always irks me about my supposed-good education is that every once in a while I literally trip over a HUGE gap in my knowledge that must be filled.

Thus, Walt Whitman.

I've been spending a lot of time in the Victorian part of Second Life titled Caledon and tripped across the library that has a variety of projects going on - ( Read more... )

Oh, like you're surprised.

Every year in Second Life there's an event called the Relay For Life, raising money for the American Cancer Society through a variety of events and so forth.

I had the fun chance to bid on getting some Really Nice Stuff from Noble Charron at Third Life and Farpoint - Noble Charron is the SL name of... Michael A. Stackpole. Yes, THAT Stackpole.

Didn't ( Read more... )

I guess this needs to be prefaced with a short story about how I learned to type ( Read more... )

While thumbing my way through various types of poetry in one of the Second Life Workshops I discovered the Triolet. Basically it's a rhyming poem with the odd (?) arrangement of

A   
B
a   - Rhymes with 1st line.
A   - Identical to 1st line.   
a   - Rhymes with 1st line.
b   - Rhymes with 2nd line.
A   - Identical to 1st line
B   - Identical to 2nd line.

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So I hear that renowned poet Elizabeth Alexander is going to be doing a poem at Mr. Obama's Inauguration. I heard one of her poems lately at a poetry recital in Second Life and I says to myself - "Self, maybe we should look into getting a book by this woman. After all, she sounds really interesting. And I bet that there's lot of them out there now ( Read more... )

... if you can get to it.

All day there's a conference - Living Game Worlds IV - Interplay: Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds - Dec 1-2

you can watch it streaming or in Second Life... VERY interesting!!!

Sitting in a virtual Irish Pub in Second Life with a virtual coffee typing on a virtual laptop while sitting at my desk in RL drinking a real coffee (with Splenda!) and typing on my real laptop ( Read more... )