Category Archives: Second Life

Cajsa Fast Five: May 30th

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Fast Five I had most of these five posts to post yesterday, but then sort of chickened out because well, there’s so much drama. So the little icons are sitting on my desktop hollering post me, post me, you coward! So here goes.

  1. Dear Ionic – Aemeth Lysette calmly and respectfully explains the personal ramifications of IP theft bringing it home from the nameless, faceless “corporation” to the individual level. None of us are perfect. I did not seek and get permission to use those photos of Angelina Jolie et.al. in my dream post the other day. I have copied some of my songs back from a burned CD so that I could share more than 5 copies of a playlist I made, circumventing Apple’s 5 copy DRM limit. (I made a playlist of music for the nurses on my ward when I was in the hospital.) I recognize a certain level of hypocrisy. But that we are all fallible does not license flagrant and repeated theft.  Continue reading →

Why Does The H & G Expo Make It SO Hard To Shop There?

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I have now spent three days attempting to shop at the Home and Garden Expo to support Relay for Life. With all of the shenanigans with Ionic ripping RL tiny artists (seriously don’t even argue with me – that case is closed), I wanted to go and BE SUPPORTIVE of the event and charity.

And then I actually tried to go.

The first morning, I had like an hour. I found a slurl someone had posted and ended up in an area that was really not interesting. I had a little time to explore though, and didn’t feel like being “SHOP AND GET OUT” so I wandered. Then I crashed. Then, when I tried to go back, the sims were offline. All of them.

I asked on plurk and was told “Yeah that keeps happening.” I can’t validate that. But I know that for the rest of my log in time that day, they weren’t back.

The next day I had about 30 minutes, it was crunch time. I had a short list of things I REALLY wanted and creators I REALLY wanted to support. Lag. Ok, I know they’ll be lag. Lag. I ask – is there a list of slurls? I get point to THIS. This is not a list of slurls. This is a list of slurls to the SIMS. WHO IS ON WHAT SIM? HOW DO I GET THERE?

I also was shown a map I can’t blow up nor read. I tried to read the maps at the event but again they were so small I can’t read them. It seems like it SHOULD blow up so maybe that’s just my PC. Continue reading →

Oh shoot she’s koot

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I’m rarely a red head. I usually stick to platinum blonde or black but when I tried on Glam Affair’s new Cleo skin I knew red was the way to go. I added one of the freckle layers and squee’d. Sometimes I just love being cutesy!

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Hybie Is Wearing:

Skin: Glam Affair – Cle0 – Artic – 07c with freckle layer
Hair: Magika – Wait 01
Eyes: IKON – Ardent Eyes – Skyfall
Necklace: Paper Couture – Amethyst Nest Necklace
Top: AVALE – Malay – Adorable
Pose: Savoir Faire Poses – Casual 02

This time the word “flap” will not appear in the title of my post. Oops, wait.

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I’m not sure whether it’s from living on the ground for a change (rather than in a skybox) or what, but I’ve been in a fey mood lately. Lucky for me, Evie’s Closet always has great Petite items, and all of them lend themselves to tineh little wings and cuteness. So here I am, cavorting about and being small, yep.

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Outfit: Evie’s Closet Flora flower fairy (for petites) – Yellow
Wings: From the Evie’s Closet Eden fairy (for petites) set (the leg vine is from this set too)
Hair: Wasabi Pills Amandine petite mesh hair in jungle
Avatar: Mynerva petite in light drow

My Linden Place In The Sun

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I found this flamingo in my inventory and could not resist not even a little bit. It’s a perfect way to spend my beautiful day in the government housing I actually call home.  Further proof that a life of luxury and leisure is not impossible in the linden ghetto, I suppose. Continue reading →

Flap, flap

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Well, see, first I bought a house, then I renovated, and then I moved into it, and then I unpacked… Therefore it’s been a while since I’ve set foot in this magical land of Second Life. When I did log in, I found myself packing and moving! All moments of irony aside, I had to admit that it’s 90% easier to move house in SL. No blisters, for one, except on my trackpad finger.

When I returned, I also found a store of lovely things waiting for me. The Arcade skin from Pink Fuel, this outfit from Ingenue, and hair from Lamb. Feels like coming home, yep…

(Ah, GOSHDARNIT, I just noticed the halo of alpha around my hair in the above shot. Internal swearing! Look below instead, at the pretty hair with no alpha halo. Mesh, you remind me of invisiprims, sometimes.)

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Eyes: Mutsu pure black eyes
Earrings: Ellabella Rainbow Peace
Lip ring: Ellabella Sweetly Bount
Lashes: vintage
Tattoo: Katat0nik treat tattoo sleeves 3
Hair: Lamb These Days in milkshake
Skin: Pink Fuel Harley in peach shade, at the Arcade (skin #6)
Thing tattoo: Wicked Tattoos born evil
Wings: Wishbox dusk wings, group freebie
Shirt: Ingenue Fontaine in Sunshine
Skirt: Ingenue Sonia in Pique, in blush color
Boots: Lassitude & Ennui Phoebie boots in blush
Socks: Schadenfreude Thistle Luisa knee socks

A Long Weekend Getaway

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It’s a long weekend for my avatar and I’ve got a new shop that got me beach ready in a hurry. Lacuna has released breezy maxi skirts and gorgeous toned bandeaux for sunning yourself on relaxing island days that are perfect as our thoughts turn to sunshine and the beach. Continue reading →

Teach Me Something: Planning

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I am ready to plan with my notebook and laptop tucked neatly into this fabulous tote from BSD Design Studio. The fun and flirty skirt is from the brand new store, Lacuna. it comes in all sorts of happy, stripey color combinations.

Strawberry Singh’s Teach Me Something meme appeals to me. To be honest, I do not do a lot of the memes and challenges because what with all the weekly challenges from colors, to Disney characters, to concept challenges to these weekly memes, a person can easily lose track of their own blogging and become just one more iteration of the various weekly themes. However, this meme is particularly fascinating. I would love to learn about skills people use in their real lives – and get an insight into their interests and passions outside of Second Life®.

In my professional life, I probably spent more time planning than doing. After all, there were lots of volunteers and members for the doing, carrying out the plans we made. I did all sorts of planning: planning for conferences, board meetings, dinners, auctions and other fundraisers; planning lobbying campaigns to pass legislation, planning electoral campaigns for candidates and for ballot measures, strategic planning for long-term growth and development. All these kinds of planning have unique challenges, but there are some core elements that they have in common. That is what I thought I might teach.

How to plan.
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What Does My SL Actually Look Like

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With all of the photoshopping and windlighting and fancy things we bloggers do to pictures, it’s easy to forget that this isn’t the usual SL’ers experience. Some people come onto the grid and don’t even know HOW to change the lights. Personally, I remember someone teaching me how to make the sun come back as being a brilliant day. I got lamps for my SL house just FOR WHEN IT WAS DARK. I literally didn’t know what else to do. Continue reading →