Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy ...

RUN, don't walk.

My word, I never realized Jig was an Ogre, or had reason to associate with such things.

then you qualify as a "tonker" (assuming there are, or have been, at least a few Tonka toys laying about at times...).

Hmm I think I like being a Tonker.

This. And in RL too.

Nor do I care what type of shoes people wear, unless their feet hurt and then I will try and find out why. (So maybe I can help.)

We're all on this crowded, sweaty commuter train together, do things like that really matter?

Especially since not everyone's job really reflects 'them.' Often it is where they ended up, instead.

I moved to a bigger city where often the first line is "so what do YOU do for a living" or even asking about money and type of car. Sets my teeth on edge every time, although in RL I am very good at putting the polite face on. Was raised that often people do not "mean to" do something rude so don't embarrass them by even blinking about it.

That poem "Miniver Cheevy", I used to read it and (acknowledging and liking the self parody in his writing of it) other than the drinking part, thought, "that's me."

Is that bloggy enough? I don't do polls, though.

When looked at just right, these forums are some of the best entertainment you'll ever find.

*this user agrees

It wasn't wrong. Check your inbox, I sent you a PM

Elora and Ciera - Thank You. That's what SL should be.

This is exactly that. Any one can brag. I was with a man that was a prostitute and professional cheerleader fiend and it tore me up for years after we split - YEARS. From 19-22 i lived with a professional football player who had just retired - he was 20 years older than me. I drove a Porsche 911 Turbo, spent massive amounts of money, went to lots of parties and did "the scene".

If that is what Ciera says she is, then I have seen her and seen the hell people like her do to the lives of the women who are married or with the men she is notching in her bed post.

And I did not even go into the sheer amount of physical abuse i went through for 3 years. When the guy is a recognizable professional football player - even getting slapped in the face in front of a cop outside the L.A. city courthouse doesn't get you help.

So screw that. Her post was crap to me, she stepped on a lot of people and there is a whole world of freaking pain delivered in the realm she comes from and she is part of that pain because she leaves it in her wake.

Sharing can be hard and sharing can be easy, but bragging is just ugh, and plenty of people know everything about me in SL, my RL phone number, address, everything along with my RL history, so i don't need to go dropping posts about blowing 60k a week or any such idiotic madness because its stupid. I blew maybe 5-8k in a month and thought i was living the high life and cannot even begin to imagine blowing 60k a week and not having anything to show except bragging about it on a SL forum and on a Myspace page in the most condescending way possible.

For me, her initial post struck a nerve that will probably be sore for he rest of my life.

And i really hate when things strike a nerve in the forums. The stress is just bleh.

Yeah have to agree with Briana here. I have much more to say on the subject,but I don't feel like getting banned today. Tomorrow I may feel differently. The sad thing is though,she is proud of it. Sad life she must have.

/me goes back to read the middle pages...

ETA. Oh.

I am Elmer J. Fudd, millionaire, I own a mansion and a yacht....

I am the Computer Operations Administrator for a Data Center of a company that has been in operation in my city for over 150 years. I have grown very sick of my job...especially when I am not working on a project...the days drag and it can be very boring. I am also on call 24/7 but can usually handle most pages by logging in from home after work hours and on weekends. I would love to venture out to a different type of job...but I have job security and these days that is just too important.

Unfortunately, I will probably spend the rest of my life doing what I'm doing...

Thanks for the continuing publicity for my services, Ciera!

Pep (that's another $6,000 of ghost writing fees in the bank. )

I have had similar experiences and expect to have more to what Ciera describes here, although mine aren't so extreme, but close. For example I have been in clubs where I have seen people blow coke up other peoples bums with straws, I observe stuff like this but don't get involved.

Now there is a sig alert if ever there was a sig alert. Dekka! I am scandalized!

So, in this small sampling, we are heavily involved in computer technology (not surprising), media and entertainment (again, clearly sl offers a venue and opportunities) and educaton (I guess, teacher have tons of time on their hands or something )

Now, is sl offering us what we need in terms of an environment to reach our potentials?

Special education educator of middle school children here. I mainly work with students with Autism, Downs Syndrome and CP. Its not a terribly high paying job, I'll never be famous or rich but the rewards I receive are huge, more so than most people will ever know.

*That*, Jig, is a really good question. A *really* good question.

Speaking for myself and from the strictly parochial perspective of a scripter: not so much. There is far too much functionality omitted from scripts, requiring unreliable kludges like bots or cobbled-together external web services. This limits what we can do with the platform to support all these interests, most especially including education. And that is very frustrating to me.

So, more often than not, it's just an entertainment platform, and I end up building and scripting as entertainment, producing product that is (one hopes) entertaining. It could be--should be--much more.

That part is sad to me also.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate.
All those moments...
will be lost in time...
like tears...
in rain...

Time to die.

It IS a good question..I had to stop and think about it for a few minutes. For me SL allows me to do things I don't get a chance to do in RL. I am a very detailed oriented person..at work and out. I have always envied creative and artistic people...I appreciate good art and creative thinking. SL gives me that chance to be creative..and because I am so detail oriented I think I do good quality creations. I do a lot of custom work and get to know a lot of different types of people that I wouldn't normally meet. SL is a great outlet for me so I'd have to say that SL is offering me a positive environment.

From the opposite end of the scripting spectrum; I have seen both myself and others learn lsl and then go on to other languages. Skills that are now part of my RL job. I would imagine that the same could apply to any content creation, with skills learned or mastered being used to advance careers.

It has also been stated many times here in the forums that SL has enabled people to have inter-personal relationships that would not have been possible otherwise due to various RL circumstances. This is one other area where SL helped me personally. I was able to go from a seemingly inescapable dark place, out into the real world and working again.