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Love Hastings
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Join date: 21 Aug 2007
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07-10-2009 14:30
I thought this one was cute:

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Claire Silverspar
Pokes Badgers With Spoons
Join date: 31 Oct 2007
Posts: 5,375
07-10-2009 14:38
Cuuute!!!!
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Seven Okelli
last days of pompeii
Join date: 4 Dec 2008
Posts: 2,300
07-10-2009 14:41
From: Love Hastings
For those with custom shapes, have you used the avatar proportion guide posted elsewhere in this forum to check or modify your shape? If so, how did it go? Where you happy with the results?


Funny you mention it - I read through it this week because I was working on a shape for a new avatar and it wasn't coming out right at all. So I worked out the proportions - eyeballing it, but using the guidelines. It really came out well, I think. I'll post a picture when I get to my own computer.

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Kaimi Kyomoon
Kah-EE-mee
Join date: 30 Nov 2006
Posts: 5,664
07-10-2009 14:43
From: Bith Wierwight
Aw, thanks for asking -- I'm just really busy. But lurking like a...lurking lurker! I've been meaning to send out rez-day wishes, birthday wishes, comments on the lovely (and handsome) pics, and so forth, but I'm so far behind! It's going to be like this all month.

...and that reminds me I need to send Kaimi a message. :)
Don't worry about me - I totally understand.
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From: 3Ring Binder
i think people are afraid of me or something.
Lindal Kidd
Dances With Noobs
Join date: 26 Jun 2007
Posts: 8,371
07-10-2009 14:45
From: Amaranthim Talon
I want that!



Reminds me a bit of the Necromacer Queen in the Riddick movie


But...she looks like a stalk of celery dressed up for a BDSM party!
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Lindal Kidd
Kaimi Kyomoon
Kah-EE-mee
Join date: 30 Nov 2006
Posts: 5,664
07-10-2009 14:50
From: Tex Nasworthy
Oh! Good choices.
It's starting to sound like a party. :)
The peach cobbler sounds good... and the cool people of course.
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From: 3Ring Binder
i think people are afraid of me or something.
Lindal Kidd
Dances With Noobs
Join date: 26 Jun 2007
Posts: 8,371
07-10-2009 14:52
OK, let's play Guess the Avatar!

Who do y'all think is Littleme's Real Life Mom?

I guess: Seven O'Kelly. :D
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Lindal Kidd
Kaimi Kyomoon
Kah-EE-mee
Join date: 30 Nov 2006
Posts: 5,664
07-10-2009 14:58
From: Tex Nasworthy
Wow, I got a little distracted and forgot my usual "Howdy folks!"

I'd like to take a short break from the party planning to rant just a bit.

First a brief intro.
I have a son now 25 years old. He was born premature and as a result has had eye problems all his life. He lives on his own, has a job but no medical insurance. I was able to cover him under my insurance until he turned 25.

Yesterday he had outpatient eye surgery. His doctor says it went fine and after a bit of recovery he should be back to normal (normal for him at least). So, praise Jebus on that one.

Thankfully we live in Houston which has an excellent reputation for it's medical center and hospitals. Here's the part that bewilders me and pisses me off. The doctor gave us three choices for where to do the surgery. He stated that all three use the same equipment, have excellent staff, and that he had no reservations about any of the three.

Hospital A wanted $11,000.

Hospital B wanted $8,500.

We went with hospital C, which is a well known major hospital. I was very happy with the care we received there.
The bill from the hospital is $2,035.

Just to make matters worse if an insurance company was paying for this they would have received a huge discount and only paid about $1,100.

How did the US get to the point that medical care has become a bigger gamble than buying a used car?

Thanks for letting me rant a bit, but PLEASE I don't want this to spark a debate on health care issues. Thanks.

And now we return to our regularly schedule never ending thread.
Have a nice day!
You said it brother. Health insurance for The Big Spouse and me now costs more than my admittedly minuscule pension. (TBS is self employed.)

I'm very glad to hear that you could afford the care your son needed and that all is well for you at least, for now at least.
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From: 3Ring Binder
i think people are afraid of me or something.
Clover Jinx
Brat®
Join date: 21 Dec 2008
Posts: 316
07-10-2009 14:58
From: Lexxi Gynoid
Ah, but as I expressed at the time, it matters to me. I tower over people in RL. I selfishly want Mistress taller than me. :( Now I must start again the search for shape.


This matters to me as well. I wonder if it is a submissive thing? For myself I know it partly is. I'm just slightly shorter then my Mistress and have adjusted my height everytime she adjusts her's.

I tried the proportion kit but was not pleased with the results. Like many others, I felt too short. My AV is a mix of the RL things I like about myself and a few things I wish I could achieve in RL. I'm 5'4" in RL and have always considered myself average height until I moved in with Mistress and all her friends started calling me "short." Funny thing is I'm barefoot and they are wearing shoes when they say it.
Kaimi Kyomoon
Kah-EE-mee
Join date: 30 Nov 2006
Posts: 5,664
07-10-2009 15:01
From: Claire Silverspar
You know, I have never seen a gun in person. All I know about guns has come from fiction books that mention them, and me looking them up on google so I know wth the book is talking about lol.
I've actually fired a gun, at cans, on the rural property of some friends of mine. It was pretty fun. If I lived in a remote place I might even get one and learn to use it.
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From: 3Ring Binder
i think people are afraid of me or something.
Clover Jinx
Brat®
Join date: 21 Dec 2008
Posts: 316
07-10-2009 15:02
From: Maureen Boccaccio
I've found the perfect RL outfit for when I take over the world:

The perfect outfit for the Evil Overlord


May I be the first to kiss your toes?
Kaimi Kyomoon
Kah-EE-mee
Join date: 30 Nov 2006
Posts: 5,664
07-10-2009 15:14
From: Claire Silverspar
/me is glad we have the NHS, no matter how frustrating it can get.

Glad your son's surgery went well Tex :)
Honestly Claire, I loved the NHS long ago when I lived in England. It was a lot less frustrating for non-affluent people than our so called system here.
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From: 3Ring Binder
i think people are afraid of me or something.
Kaimi Kyomoon
Kah-EE-mee
Join date: 30 Nov 2006
Posts: 5,664
07-10-2009 15:15
From: Love Hastings
For those with custom shapes, have you used the avatar proportion guide posted elsewhere in this forum to check or modify your shape? If so, how did it go? Where you happy with the results?
I've been meaning to.
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From: 3Ring Binder
i think people are afraid of me or something.
Kaimi Kyomoon
Kah-EE-mee
Join date: 30 Nov 2006
Posts: 5,664
07-10-2009 15:20
From: Eli Schlegal
I know my vote doesn't count... but I vote for curvy anyway. :p
You know when I first came to SL I thought wow I can have something I've always wanted! But more than a little improvement over reality just didn't seem like me. I do have ridiculously long legs in SL. That DOES seem like me lol.
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From: 3Ring Binder
i think people are afraid of me or something.
Kaimi Kyomoon
Kah-EE-mee
Join date: 30 Nov 2006
Posts: 5,664
07-10-2009 15:22
From: Lindal Kidd
I did, Love.

I was very optimistic at first, but I found the results to be unsatisfactory (just IMO, of course).

First I tried the demo "correct proportions" shape. I thought it looked very unflattering and the head was way too large.

Then I tried modding my own shape. I enlarged my head bit by bit, finally ending up with a shape that was about 8.5 heads high (I started at around 10, eek!) I wore it for a few days, but eventually went back to my previous shape.

I guess my eye has been permanently spoiled by all the tiny-headed avatars, including my own.

In the end, I did enlarge my head a little...enough to have to re-edit most of my hair. But I'm still nowhere near the "artistic ideal". Nevertheless, I think I look MAHvelous.

Like anything else, the proportions guide is a GUIDE...and beauty remains in the eye of the beholder.
Yeah, the thing is looking too much like fl makes you look odd in SL.
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Kaimi Kyomoon
Kah-EE-mee
Join date: 30 Nov 2006
Posts: 5,664
07-10-2009 15:25
From: Love Hastings
The idea is to use the height of the head as the reference length, and adjust the body from that. To get an RL realistic shape. So I must have been too tall before, at least from that perspective.

Or your head was too small. ;)
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Kaimi Kyomoon
Kah-EE-mee
Join date: 30 Nov 2006
Posts: 5,664
07-10-2009 15:28
From: Madhu Maruti
Re: shapes, I made both of my own shapes, and I think they are fairly realistic...

I agree, both look great to me and much realer than most.
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i think people are afraid of me or something.
Kaimi Kyomoon
Kah-EE-mee
Join date: 30 Nov 2006
Posts: 5,664
07-10-2009 15:29
From: Claire Silverspar
heh, if he was it'd get nicked in seconds round here lol. With or without him in it. :/
Note to USAers - she means stolen.
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Kaimi Kyomoon
Kah-EE-mee
Join date: 30 Nov 2006
Posts: 5,664
07-10-2009 15:33
From: Madhu Maruti
*laughing* for the benefit of our international friends, let me out myself as an American who does *not* own a gun and has no desire to. There are a few of us, contrary to our global reputation as a nation of gun-toting citizenry. ;)

And yes, I have fired a gun before, and no, I didn't particularly enjoy the feeling of power it gave me. It's not a type of power I value for myself, or wish to experience again.
I'm with you. My own experience was fun but I never wanted to repeat it.
And I'm kind of horrified by the number of people who think they are a good problem solvers. By which I am not referring to any one here.
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Kaimi Kyomoon
Kah-EE-mee
Join date: 30 Nov 2006
Posts: 5,664
07-10-2009 15:37
From: LittleMe Jewell
I did not really get a feeling of power when I started shooting. For me it is mostly the plain simple fact that my constitution gives me the right to have guns so that my government cannot as easily repress me - and now that the government is trying harder to take them away, I decided it was time to own a few.
I am interested in this topic from another point of view. But I was not aware of any new efforts to stop people from owning guns.
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Kaimi Kyomoon
Kah-EE-mee
Join date: 30 Nov 2006
Posts: 5,664
07-10-2009 15:39
From: Skell Dagger
/me is off down the pub to celebrate a friend's birthday. In the meantime, here's something 3Ring might appreciate:

http://qoatg.smugmug.com/gallery/8845199_NkG4Z/1/586197627_EBHPr#586202644_dZ4dE

(Those with aversions to pretty boys in makeup need not click ;))
He's my favorite AI contestant ever.
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Rioko Bamaisin
Unstable Princess
Join date: 16 Aug 2007
Posts: 4,668
07-10-2009 15:40
I seen too many people and children being shot in this city,shots fired every single night,sometimes several times a night.(Read the police log for my town,it will blow your mind..) Admittedly I live in a crappy city with high crime. But It doesn't really endure me to guns. When married,we use to own guns,but I never went near them.
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Kaimi Kyomoon
Kah-EE-mee
Join date: 30 Nov 2006
Posts: 5,664
07-10-2009 15:41
From: Allegria Kanto
I just got a bill for some tests I had done (which insurance covered 100%)... The billing was for $8,900, but the insurance contract paid in full @$2,200. I don't get either...
The system is set up for maximum profits for health care providers and insurance companies.
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Nika Talaj
now you see her ...
Join date: 2 Jan 2007
Posts: 5,449
07-10-2009 15:43
There are a lot of folks who think Americans all own guns. I don't, and in my circle of acquaintances, very few do ... but I was surprised at the high proportion of households myself. 2004 survey on firearm ownership in the U.S., Harvard University:
From: someone
38% of households and 26% of individuals reported owning at least one firearm. This corresponds to 42 million US households with firearms, and 57 million adult gun owners. 64% of gun owners or 16% of American adults reported owning at least one handgun. Long guns represent 60% of the privately held gun stock. Almost half (48%) of all individual gun owners reported owning >=4 firearms. Men more often reported firearm ownership, with 45% stating that they personally owned at least one firearm, compared with 11% for women.

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Kaimi Kyomoon
Kah-EE-mee
Join date: 30 Nov 2006
Posts: 5,664
07-10-2009 15:47
From: Rioko Bamaisin
That is how HMO's work. If they are contracted with a certain hospital or Doctor, the bill will always be cheaper Tex. That is why HMO's require referrals from your PCP. When your doctor refers you out of his physician network or hospital, he is saying"That's okay we will approve funding of this,even if this doctor is not in our group." Which is why that will rarely happen unless the network does not have a certain specialist or machine. It's a pretty complicated system but it does make sense if you know the inner workings of HMO's.
I'm happy with my very large HMO its everything under one umbrella no paper work or leg work for the patients. Three generations of my family have used it and been treated very well when we needed to be sent to outside facilities. I just wish everyone could afford such good care. It was so great when I was working and it was part of my compensation.
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From: 3Ring Binder
i think people are afraid of me or something.