SL/Christening my new graphics card by sitting

(Time to donate Larry my old card)

My computer went kaput and I upgraded to something grand. Make that over a grand. It has a shiny new graphics card that makes Second Life seem like an (almost) new experience. Wow! I've always loved the graphics at Myg's site and now I can see what all the fuss is about.

I cannot wait to upload some pictures.

Yetrates asked me what it was like, and I said for the first time I could see little bumps on nipples, for example. Or I could see trees dropping their leaves somehow. Bling took on a whole new level of importance and significance.

The whole atmosphere changed. It was a like a shift.

The moon seemed bigger, and brighter thanks to the new graphics card. Watching Elle build her shopping empire I actually thought she was building quicker thanks to the general lack of lagginess.

All seemed less foggier.

One of the first things I noticed upon getting the new graphics card was that I was doing an awful lot of sitting.

Here is my first pic: Me sitting while Elle is building.

SL/Be Back...

Next update might be Friday as I've got some other business to attend to...

Encounters in Welcome Area pt. 13/Total Babylon

Lapsing into Babylonese

Soy met a German wearing the same necklace which somehow sparked Babylonese.

Jan: can i help you...
Soy: sorry, just looking at your necklace
Soy: i collect those
Jan: ist a same to your
Soy: yes
Jan: you obtain a VIENA Freebes
Soy: non
Jan: you Know?
Soy: que?
Jan: i donunderstand to many spanisch
Soy: was?
Jan: ok ja
Soy: negative
Soy: yo
Soy: wassup?
Jan: ich verstehe dich nicht
Soy: wassup?
Jan: go way plase

Later Soy met Aribella and asked her to listen to some sounds from his Inventory. She declined.
Aribella: I can't soy
Soy: why can't?
Aribella: because I'm so cold I need the heater on...and I have to have the door open for that, and it's early Saturday morning...
Aribella : ok, that was kinda long-winded
Soy: what??

Soy had to admit, he'd heard a lot of excuses as to why women had their speakers off, but that was the first time he'd heard of speakers off due to heaters in the cold, especially since it was summer.

Soy: it's summer
Aribella Lafleur: it's winter
Soy: no, it's summer
Nezz: AH HAHAHAHA

It was (finally) established that in her part of the world it was winter, while in Soy's it was summer.

As a stoner, Soy couldn't resist a proposition:

"I want to get high where I'm currently at in summer, if you'll join me by getting drunk where you are at in winter."

SL/Terror

Overheard

"i met someone honest to goodness today who couldn't identify the U.S. on a map that i had whipped out"

Who's in bed?

I told a friend in France I was going to bed, since it was nearly 1:30am in Florida. In France it was nearly 6:30am. He told me he'd already been to bed and that he'd gotten up two hours earlier (at 4:30am).
I was chuckling at the fact that I was going to beat France to bed, yet France had already been to bed.
France was an early riser (and an early-to-bed'r).
I love the internet.
I love this world.

SL/Welcome, Assed

I've seen many interesting interviews with new residents, so I wanted to give it a try with this conversation with Assed McBride

Patric: how are you, Assed?
Assed McBride: hi
Assed McBride: i arrive today
Assed McBride: im brazilian
Patric: i like your name
Assed McBride: where are you?
Patric: by the big door to the club
Assed McBride: do you have a pot?
Assed McBride: i dont understand
Assed McBride: my english its not so good
Patric: your english is very good
Assed McBride: how can i get some money?
Patric: you can make money here on Hippie Island, but i don't know how
Patric: thank you for asking, though
Assed McBride: okey
Assed McBride: are you smoking hemp?
Patric: hemp family
Assed McBride: yeapp
Assed McBride: i like that
Patric: do you smoke?
Assed McBride: here in brazil its legalized practilly
Assed McBride: i smoke today
Assed McBride: some ours ago
Patric: is that why you chose blond hair?
Assed McBride: i dont now
Assed McBride: know
Assed McBride: i put enyone
Assed McBride: no pcience
Patric: no science?
Patric: i see
Assed McBride: pacience to choose and choose
Patric: just pick and go
Patric: pick and go, me too, basically
Patric: i got dressed over time
Assed McBride: hoho
Patric: i went nude for like 3 or 4 weeks
Assed McBride: im going
Assed McBride: see you
Assed McBride: nice to meet you
Patric: then slowly added clothes
Patric: nice meeting u too
Assed McBride: i will practice this
Patric: have fun
Assed McBride: thanks
Assed McBride: seya
Assed McBride: last one
Assed McBride: hehe
Assed McBride: how can i fuck here?
Assed McBride: having sex?
Assed McBride: its possible?
Patric: well, depending on your name
Patric: i have a feeling you will have sex many times
Assed McBride: okey
Assed McBride: thats good

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Another Interview followed this one, minutes later. This one with 'Assasin' Decosta Slade, which you can read here.

SL/overheard

"With the advent of voice, I hear there are now Opera singers who will show up next to you and do a little singing for tips. Troubadours, they used to call them."

SL/Welfare Island/Overheard

"if i dress up as a king even though I'm in the very back of this line do i have the right to jump over someone in front of me if the person in front of them isn't there?"

"i went up and down the line, not a single bow tie"
"do not tip the Uncle Sams"
"what the hell is this one doing sitting on her ball?? not illegal??"

"Everyone is to be commended for their postures in this line!"

SL/Encounters in Welcome Area pt. 12/

More life and death drama

Darwin Dallagio came to the Welcome Area and at first bumped into people, as happens sometimes when you arrive inworld.
Then he got his act together, and stood at the star in the center of the room, quietly, where incoming people showed up.
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"Darwin, you hanging out where people first arrive?" asked Soy.

"You trying to figure out where they come from?"

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Pep Talk

After the last 'flying Marios Bros attack' Soy finally had enough:

"I listened to you urge calm, Pep, since the last attack, but, listen, you're still the only one with open wounds on your back."

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When the helicopter showed up minutes later it caused panic, due to the unknowingness of how hairdos would react.

1st Life/shopping

Creamer with built-in caffeine

While at a 7-11 this morning I noticed a type of creamer with a black label that caught my attention. Stok, it's called, and it's really a container of caffeine you can plop in your coffee, looking exactly like a creamer would.

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Book-buying line vs. grocery store line

While at Barnes and Nobles today I realized how much more relaxing it was to be in a bookstore checkout line versus a grocery store line. In the bookstore line you can at least sample the merchandise. In the grocery store line you can sample the merchandise, too--if you want to explain to the cashier why your box of crackers has already been opened.

Sometimes I don't want to budge while in the bookstore line, reading a particularly zesty line perhaps. In the grocery store line I'm always counting the number of items to be scanned in front of me.

Math seems to be a hidden part of the grocery shopping experience. Maybe that's why I'm not a big fan. Chances are, grocery shopping can affect your budget for the week, so you must stand there and do all kinds of boring calculations in your head. Book buying is pretty much done on a whim, with the non-math side of your brain, and that's maybe why I like it.