just ignore and let this one die

Me too.. The turduckens are so moist and juicy; they've been around for several years now, at least I think I first started hearing about them nearly 10 years ago, and finally tried it, loved it. I love crawfish tails so would probably like that too. Mixtures of textures and flavors intrigue me.

I have an agreement with my son. I don't go on msn/myface/facebook and he doesn't sign up for SL.

Pep (He's 14, but is almost as literate as I am; what I am more worried about is that my 11 year old daughter might already be inworld - she has a seriously amoral attitude.)

Well yeah, but you have 'kid kids'. My son is 27, AND he is the one who nagged me into coming to SL in the first place. He was here a long time before I signed up, which I finally did, just to shut him up. Can usually find him in some seedy neko bar. We live very different SL lifestyles, and usually he doesn't show up unannounced. He rezzed at my house because he has his preferences set to arrive at the last place he left from. Otherwise, if I want him, or vice versa, have to IM him and wait half an hour for an answer, just like in RL.

i think i eat the chocolates just for the messages. i currently have two at my computer. "Spoil yourself today" and "Remind yourself that it's ok not to be perfect"

I really love all the "first" pics people are posting of their avatars. You all seem to have had a sense of self right from the beginning, me i'm still evolving.

I didn't. I haven't posted mine, I look like a hand drawn cartoon.

Even better is a turbaconducken -- a turducken wrapped in bacon

http://bacontoday.com/turbaconducken-turducken-wrapped-in-bacon/

I actually remember, when I was a kid, the arguments about who would get up to change the channel.

Sounds similar to my family situation . . .

Pep ( . . . but it annoys him a lot more hanging around in the freezing cold after a party for a lift home than such delays disturb me. )

I actually remember, when I was a kid, a succession of family members getting up to change the channel in silent conflict over which of the channels to watch.

Pep (Starting with two, then three . . . )

i remember our first remote control tv. it was wired, but the wire was only about 5' long, so it was actually easier to walk over to the tv and change the channel/volume than to get up (anyway) and try and fish the remote up from the floor and fumble with the little buttons.

I remember our family being the first to get a color TV.

lol, sable; I remember waiting FOREVER to get a color tv. And wow...the first time we saw "The Wizard of Oz" in color...I realized why everyone had gotten so excited about the scene when Dorothy's house lands and she opens the door in Munchkinland!!

Wasn't that just magical! Like being at the pictureshow (as my deceased grandmother used to call but only in your home.

A few months ago a friend lost his remote to his puppy's teething phase. We had a fond reminiscence of all the phases of channel changing history we've lived through.

Those big "clickcha-clickcha" push buttons.

The dial that Dad would yell at us for rotating too fast.

The wired remote.

Wireless remote with 3 buttons.

Today's remote that is capable of controlling every doohickey within a city block as long as you can figure out the damn codes.

We talked about the arguments over who's turn it was to change the channel and when its your turn to pick what to watch...oh my channel 2, 4, or 8? Then there were 5 channels then cable...

I was just reading about the call for applications for the 2010 Linden Prize and just realized that Treasure's group - Virtual Ability, was the co-winner last year for the inaugural prize. Uhm BELATED CONGRATULATIONS TREASURE! Hmm, how did I ever miss that! Well done and hope you didn't blow it all on hair and shoes. Just joshin' ...

Actually we shared a lot of it with our group members, it's the people that make Virtual Ability. So why should they not share in that reward? (I personally didn't qualify as I am on the board), and we still have most of it. I couldn't get the board to agree to one hair, one pair of shoes, nothing along those lines. We bought some things for our sims that we've been wanting, small things but still, it's the group that benefits......we are redoing our one sim, VAI Sanctuary, which is sort of our 'entertainment sim' and when it's done, it will move over to attach to my sim, Cape Able. We are cautious and thrifty with our money, in full mind that a great deal of it comes from people's donations, you don't want to be unworthy of that, or careless in how it's used, therefore, I actually had to buy my own hair and shoes, which looking at my inventory size, I seem to have done ok on my own. Thanks for the belated congrats.

OMG the dial, had forgotten about the dial channel changer.

My older siblings used to make me stand and hold onto the rabbit ears to improve the reception for the cartoons they were watching

That was my job too Josh. I got pretty good with aluminum foil just so so I could watch with everyone else.

Congratz on the win and putting credit where credit is due, I love that




I kind of miss the sound of that old knob

Hugs to you Lula. I think that finding out one is lovingly remembered by friends from the past would give almost anyone a good feeling, and I can see you're being careful not to burden her with having to do too much remembering/entertaining etc at a time when other things are at the forefront of her mind and energies. My best wishes go out to her, and big hugs to you.

And husbands have to sleep sometime

Growing up in rural, mountainous Montana, we got one station, and that was staticky at best. We kids tooks turns holding the antennae for each other during Saturday morning cartoons, and then flipped coins to see who had to hold it for Dad to watch "60 Minutes" on Sundays. The rest of the time, the TV stayed off. Was too much of a hassle to deal with it, plus the basement was COLD!

Oddly enough I seem to have way more energy for helping other people clean their kitchens than I do for my own. I think it might be because I know I'll be gone before it starts to get messed up again.