Ode to disappearing prims

Now appearing in sim Baileya: An ode to disappearing prims

How to Disappear Completely by Radiohead

That there
That’s not me
I go
Where I please
I walk through walls
I float down the liffey
I’m not here
This isn’t happening
I’m not here
I’m not here

In a little while
I’ll be gone
The moment’s already passed
Yeah it’s gone
And I’m not here
This isn’t happening
I’m not here
I’m not here

Strobe lights and blown speakers
Fireworks and hurricanes
I’m not here
This isn’t happening
I’m not here
I’m not here

(*#*&#(*@&#)(@* MY PRIMS ARE DISAPPEARING!!! (()(#$*+_)#(

yeah, someone said on IRC yesterday that even the fountain in the WA disappeared (but the water apparently remained)...

Prove that your prims existed. Only then will I weep for you.

A long, long time ago
I can still remember
when those prims would stay in one spot
I thought the Lindens would make it be
A very top priority
To keep the prims from moving 'round a lot

But May and June made prims quiver
With every patch they’d deliver.
Prims suffer random jerking
Number inputs not working

I can’t remember if I logged
When this bug emerged like digital fog,
I should just go whine in my blog
The patch the cube-prims got snogged.

Oh why? Why must my primitives die?
Drove Cubey's airship to the Grey sim,
But the airport ain't nigh
Them good old boys would be rezzin' torii and cry
Singin’, "Where's the page to be unsubscribed?"
"Where's the page to be unsubscribed?"

...

(okay, so I'm not about to parody an entire Don McClean song. I'll leave that to Weird Al)

where oh where has my little house gone,

oh where oh where can it be....




Much to my surprise I logged in yesterday to find my house gone. I have a simple house, only 5 prims. But it was gone.

Silly me kept walking in the back door and falling to the ground trying to figure out why.
Did my floor turn phantom ?

Takes a longer look back, after falling through a third time, and sees oh, the house is gone.

And silly me had no current back up. So off to retro fitting my first SL house, which I had saved a copy of and making it into what the last house used to be.

I am thinking "Don Maclean, not Arlo Guthrie", does that thought have any merit?

All them long-haired hippie pinko-commie freak so-called musicians are all the same.

Clearly you've invented that, for my post clearly was not edited for type-os.
*waves a pendelum back and forth*
Yes. Yes. There are no aliens. It was a weather balloon.

Prims disappear here
manipulated with care,
savor emptiness

I forget to mention that I like the lyrics and parody lyrics and not the haiku too.

Keep 'em coming folks, it's nice to have pleasant threads to read.

"You've lost that prim appearing,
Now it's gone, gone, gone..."

"That was just a texture,
Just a dream,
That's me on the corner,
That's me on my parcel,
Losing all my prims..."

"Taking away, the textures and shapes that made a prim,
Fretter and waste the hours in an offland sim,
Picking around on a piece of ground for what's not found,
Looking for someone or something that went on a whim!"

"Where can it be, missing from my door?
Gone 'way, went into legend lore,
Can't you see, it's an awful fright?
My prim, made my home look a sight,
All I wish is my prims to stay
But then hey, don't you leave me this way,
Next stop, if you hang outside,
Be near land, you do not have to hide,
Where can it be now?"

"Well since I was a young boy,
I played the Second Life,
From one place to another,
Some desolate and rife,
But I ain't seen nothin' like it,
In any gambling hall,
That deaf dumb and blind sim
Sure disappears Prims all!"

And of course...

"My prim is back and they had autoreturn on,
Hey na, hey na, my prim is back!"