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Lula Svoboda
desert dweller
Join date: 10 Jul 2008
Posts: 356
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08-30-2009 12:02
In RL I am the leader of a pack of squirrels. They follow me everywhere because they think I'm nuts.
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Scylla Rhiadra
Gentle is Human
Join date: 11 Oct 2008
Posts: 4,427
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08-30-2009 12:17
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. . . . Oh yeah. I saw those too! *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. I'd like to do more cool stuff with books here than I can. SL really sucks (as I think I have had occasion to say elsewhere) when it comes to its handling of publishing and reading technologies. Notecards are barely a step above plain text documents, and can't even be searched in-world. Commercial technologies for books, like Thinc Book, produce pretty looking toys, not really functional e-texts. The in-world browser can't handle anything but the simplest digital texts from the web. Sooooo, one ends up, mostly, merely directing people, using their nonSL browser, to resources that were designed online without any reference to a real VW environment. I'd say that LL needs to fix this if they want SL to be taken really seriously by educators, but then educators don't seem to use "books" anymore anyway in their courses.  *gripe gripe gripe*  _____________________
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Vivianne Draper
Registered User
Join date: 15 Sep 2005
Posts: 1,157
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08-30-2009 12:25
Oh yeah. I saw those too! you so did not. none of you know what my life is like. its hard being a replicant. i had to watch while deckard killed my girlfriend with the cunning use of lifelike giant dolls. life is tough for a replicant. you people have no idea. |
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Scylla Rhiadra
Gentle is Human
Join date: 11 Oct 2008
Posts: 4,427
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08-30-2009 12:29
you so did not. none of you know what my life is like. its hard being a replicant. i had to watch while deckard killed my girlfriend with the cunning use of lifelike giant dolls. life is tough for a replicant. you people have no idea. Did too, did too!!!! I was doing some shopping in the sim next door, and just happened to look over ... And what are YOU complaining about? The four year lifespan of a replicant is like TWICE that of most SL avatars! _____________________
Scylla Rhiadra
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Ramonna Villota
Registered User
Join date: 5 Mar 2007
Posts: 15
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08-30-2009 12:33
Rutger Hauer for the win.
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Vivianne Draper
Registered User
Join date: 15 Sep 2005
Posts: 1,157
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08-30-2009 12:36
Did too, did too!!!! I was doing some shopping in the sim next door, and just happened to look over ... And what are YOU complaining about? The four year lifespan of a replicant is like TWICE that of most SL avatars! /me looks pointedly at my res date |
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Briana Dawson
Attach to Mouth
Join date: 23 Sep 2003
Posts: 5,855
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08-30-2009 12:36
Rutger Hauer Preggo with prim boobs sexxing the population of small towns, for the win.
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Briana Dawson
Attach to Mouth
Join date: 23 Sep 2003
Posts: 5,855
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08-30-2009 12:37
/me looks pointedly at my res date Runs screaming from the thread! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa I CANT DO THAT ANYMORE!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA _____________________
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Scylla Rhiadra
Gentle is Human
Join date: 11 Oct 2008
Posts: 4,427
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08-30-2009 12:49
/me looks pointedly at my res date Wow. That's . . . um . . . too bad. Maybe you should visit Philip Linden to talk about changing that. I hear he's always up for a good game of chess ... _____________________
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Vivianne Draper
Registered User
Join date: 15 Sep 2005
Posts: 1,157
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08-30-2009 13:20
Wow. That's . . . um . . . too bad. Maybe you should visit Philip Linden to talk about changing that. I hear he's always up for a good game of chess ... but wouldn't you rather play a nice game of global thermonuclear warfare? |
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Scylla Rhiadra
Gentle is Human
Join date: 11 Oct 2008
Posts: 4,427
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08-30-2009 13:32
but wouldn't you rather play a nice game of global thermonuclear warfare? Ugh. That ALWAYS ends badly! In fact, I've been told that the only way to win is not to play . . .  _____________________
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Vivianne Draper
Registered User
Join date: 15 Sep 2005
Posts: 1,157
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08-30-2009 13:37
It did not end badly when Darmok and Jalad were at Tanagra
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Pserendipity Daniels
Assume sarcasm as default
Join date: 21 Dec 2006
Posts: 8,839
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08-30-2009 13:45
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. Pep (is not a replicant.  )_____________________
Hypocrite lecteur, — mon semblable, — mon frère!
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Dagmar Heideman
Bokko Dancer
Join date: 2 Feb 2007
Posts: 989
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08-30-2009 13:47
/me looks pointedly at my res date Maybe you should visit Philip Linden to talk about changing that. I hear he's always up for a good game of chess ...  |
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Oryx Tempel
Registered User
Join date: 8 Nov 2006
Posts: 7,663
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08-30-2009 14:12
Studied Mining Engineering and worked briefly in that field till moving to WA, where, shockers, there ARE no mines. So am now working in nursing. Mining is more fun.
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Argent Stonecutter
Emergency Mustelid
Join date: 20 Sep 2005
Posts: 20,263
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08-30-2009 14:17
Notecards are barely a step above plain text documents, and can't even be searched in-world. _____________________
Argent Stonecutter - http://globalcausalityviolation.blogspot.com/
"And now I'm going to show you something really cool." Skyhook Station - http://xrl.us/skyhook23 Coonspiracy Store - http://xrl.us/coonstore |
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Rihanna Laasonen
Registered User
Join date: 22 Nov 2006
Posts: 287
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08-30-2009 14:46
A few years ago, I was an editor and copyeditor, specializing in the nonprofit, academic, and scientific/medical arenas. Did a lot of work for government contractors, and most recently for a very well respected scientific journal. Then I left DC to "follow my dream" *rolls eyes* of living in the mountains and have been either unemployed or working at a restaurant ever since. So that question tends to make me twitch these days. My instinctive reaction is "I'm an editor", but if people ask for elaboration....
And it's really not about defining yourself by your job. It's about choosing your career according to your definition of yourself. Regardless of where I'm employed, I'm going to be looking for patterns, looking for disruptive anomalies, looking for ways I can rearrange things to smooth the patterns out, polish them up, bring out the strengths that were hidden, make them better than they were before. That's why I'm an editor, not because of any particular job I do or don't have. What is SL doing for me? I'm used to my computerized passions being mine alone, that no one else I know shares or really values -- certainly not what I get paid to do. So when I joined SL, I was thinking of it solely as a place for fantasy worldbuilding. Over time, I've come to realize there's a huge community here that represents the same people I'm used to working for in RL, but I haven't figured out how to connect with them yet. _____________________
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Vivianne Draper
Registered User
Join date: 15 Sep 2005
Posts: 1,157
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08-30-2009 14:47
Studied Mining Engineering and worked briefly in that field till moving to WA, where, shockers, there ARE no mines. So am now working in nursing. Mining is more fun. THERE WAS IN RAMBO!!! |
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Argent Stonecutter
Emergency Mustelid
Join date: 20 Sep 2005
Posts: 20,263
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08-30-2009 14:49
No mining in WA? West Australia has some of the best deposits of iron ore in the world!
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Ciera Spyker
Queen of SL
Join date: 25 Mar 2008
Posts: 424
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08-30-2009 15:06
THERE WAS IN RAMBO!!! wasnt that done in oregon? Cant remeber it was before my time. |
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Anya Ristow
Vengeance Studio
Join date: 21 Sep 2006
Posts: 1,243
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08-30-2009 15:27
You should have split "computer technology" into (programming & admin) and (design). I find there's a world of difference in the personality and world view of the two groups.
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Vivianne Draper
Registered User
Join date: 15 Sep 2005
Posts: 1,157
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08-30-2009 15:30
wasnt that done in oregon? Cant remeber it was before my time. I never watch movies made before my time either. This is why I am happy that I am 390138953 years old. Because I would have cried if I never had seen the African Queen. |
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23rdDjin Negulesco
Unfinished Build Master
Join date: 30 May 2007
Posts: 661
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08-30-2009 16:14
i didn't realize The African Queen was THAT old...
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"What am I in the eyes of most people--a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person--somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then--even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart." -Vincent van Gogh
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Ciera Spyker
Queen of SL
Join date: 25 Mar 2008
Posts: 424
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08-30-2009 16:16
duh, never said i didnt watch it, its just been so long ago that i dont remember watching it. I watched the african queen as well.
how about the black lagoon? those where fun movies. |
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Maggie McArdle
FIOS hates puppies
Join date: 8 May 2006
Posts: 2,855
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08-30-2009 16:20
Runs screaming from the thread! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa I CANT DO THAT ANYMORE!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA /me points at Briana's rez date. _____________________
There's, uh, probably a lot of things you didn't know about lindens. Another, another interesting, uh, lindenism, uh, there are only three jobs available to a linden. The first is making shoes at night while, you know, while the old cobbler sleeps.You can bake cookies in a tree. But the third job, some call it, uh, "the show" or "the big dance," it's the profession that every linden aspires to.
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