What Is This Crap? http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/ Those who deny the existence of robots may be robots themselves. en Copyright 2010 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:36:29 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Storytelling @ 6PM Tonight bookshelves in the clocktree Why not inflict them on you over Voice? Here's the announcement:
[5:03] Skylar Smythe: "Cynics Cabaret" tonight at 6pm SLT - Hosted by Crap Mariner at Club Noir - Noir Storytelling and Live Mic - Bring your dark edge microfiction to perform and share at this unique bi-weekly event. Don't miss it! Club Noir tonight at 6pm http://slurl.com/secondlife/Royal%20Mountains/142/17/2930
And that's how to write an announcement. No hype. No bullshit. No best-in-the-world crap or ask X for a limo retardedness. Just quick and stick-to-the-facts. See you there, folks.]]> http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2010/02/storytelling_6pm_tonight.html http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2010/02/storytelling_6pm_tonight.html Storytelling Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:36:29 -0800 Seats three, only one prim, and works great upside-down? three on a 1 prim bench Yeah, just add woodgrain and grey to make it perfectamundo. Made by someone with Ninetails as a last name... just edit and read the creator when you visit and the store is first in their picks. (If you're too lazy to do that, well, just go lick an electrical outlet, okay?)]]> http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2010/02/seats_three_only_one_prim_and.html http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2010/02/seats_three_only_one_prim_and.html Edloe and Five Islands Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:48:04 -0800 Burn contemplating the flame (2) Saw something last night that makes me wonder if it's time to set the Clocktree on fire and welcome what I hope will be The Second Coming Of D- SHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! contemplating the flame (Don't want to scare him off... must remain patient... quiet... quiet little thoughts...)
"BLACK AND WHITE" by Jackson Browne Long before you ever saw your chances You were gonna burn this city down Tired of the fashions and the dances Tired of the people standing around Ticking like a bomb in the night And you knew you were right Black and white Blame it on the time it took to leave here Blame it on the ones who slowed you down Blame it on the kind of friends you knew here Blame it on the sickness going 'round Going round and round in the night With your heart out of sight With your world burning bright Like a moth 'round a light Black and white The pictures of a life in flames Black and white The picture of a life remains And the search you half remember Setting out on at the start Is burning like an ember in your heart Time running out, time running out For the fool still asking what his life is about Time running out, time running out Time running out, time running out Yeah, beyond a shadow of a doubt Time running out, time running out Tell them that you've gone to find a person Someone you lost track of long ago Tell them that it's someone you need worse than Anybody else you'll ever know Ticking like a bomb in the night You were strong, you were light You were fast, you were bright Then you were gone in the light Black and white The pictures of a life in flames Black and white The picture of a life remains And the high ideals and the promise You once dressed the future in Are dancing in the embers with the wind Time running out, time running out For the fool still asking what his life is about Time running out, time running out Time running out, time running out Yeah, beyond a shadow of a doubt Time running out, time running out]]> http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2010/02/burn.html http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2010/02/burn.html Edloe and Five Islands Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:24:40 -0800 Home home Yeah, I'm a happy robot. And yet, I really want to rip out the diving board and put the airship back there. Not that I ever used it as my office much. And even if I did use it as an office, what will i use the office level of the Clocktree for after that? Hot tub? Best to keep things as-is (until the compulsion drives me insane).]]> http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2010/02/home_2.html http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2010/02/home_2.html Edloe and Five Islands Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:09:06 -0800 Cypress O'Clock Cypress is getting his radio show archives up on his site soon. cypress and the podcast This will make it easier for folks who think that 7PM on Mondays is not Cypress O'Clock. Yes, Cypress has an O'Clock now. Being the Official O'Clock Designator of Second Life, having given the term "Grace O'Clock" to the masses before you knew what Grace O'Clock was, I declare Cypress O'Clock. What other O'Clocks are there? Well, there's Kyle O'Clock, Paisley O'Clock, and even Effinjay O'Clock. I'd say there's a Metanomics O'Clock, but you know what? That crap is during the day... screw you people with no lives or jobs that let you play online all day! Now if you'll excuse me, it's Shut The Fuck Up O'Clock and.. well... I'll shut up now.]]> http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2010/02/cypress_oclock.html http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2010/02/cypress_oclock.html Podcasts Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:04:58 -0800 Prim cheap... My prim miserliness continues, with my focus now on the fishing dock in the SE corner of the park. Yeah, there's that skating ice still there. Hope wanted to keep the skating going for as long as possible, so I haven't pulled it up yet. When it comes up, I figure I'll be spending 4 or 5 prims on reeds. However, there's still the matter of those deckchairs, which are 3 prims each. 12 prims for seating a whole lot of nobody, but I don't want to remove it completely. (I don't have any idea what I'd want to put there if I cleared it all, eh. So, I'm going to pull those up and put in just a pair of sculpty-benches. Savings of 10 prims. The steps from the ground to the deck can be turned into sculpties... savings of 2 prims there. Tried to turn the spiral steps into sculpties, but didn't quite work out. Oh well. Would have saved a dozen with that. And a lot for Hope, too. (Will keep that on my to-do list.) Since I never run any tournaments, there's no point to putting out the scoreboard. Probably no point to the vendor, either, but I'll leave it there for convenience's sake. (Unless I just want to put out the 1-prim news sign and let that designate the fishing area.) The junkpile out there, up against the road berm, that's a matter of pride. Yes, you heard it right... I've always had a junkpile somewhere to remind me of the heady building days. (I really need to put some ferns and weeds there to fill out the nastiness.) http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2010/02/prim_cheap_1.html http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2010/02/prim_cheap_1.html Edloe and Five Islands Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:06:23 -0800 More... the Tunes inSL site this weekend, so I got them added. Slowly but surely, the site is filling in and building up. I think I've asked this a hundred times in the past month, but it bears repeating:
  • What do you find useful about the site?
  • What do you find frustrating or useless about the site?
  • What information on the site is the most helpful?
  • What information do you need, but it's missing from the site?
No more attaboys and good jobs and well dones... take off the gloves, roll up the sleeves, and let's keep refining this thing. And if you haven't gotten yourself added to the site, well, just drop me a line at tunesinsl (at) isfullofcrap.com with whatever information you want posted there. Don't let all those URLs and different sites scare you. Just search for yourself in Google, copy-paste into a notecard, and send it. You'll look back and laugh at how easy it was... heck, someone who's already done it... it wasn't hard, right? How much time did it take?]]> http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2010/02/more_1.html http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2010/02/more_1.html Music Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:40:43 -0800 Seeing the light beams of light at night in clocktree park The brighter the light.]]> http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2010/02/seeing_the_light.html http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2010/02/seeing_the_light.html Edloe and Five Islands Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:25:34 -0800 Spacenavigator spacenav from g. blackburn Even the robot finds it difficult to get away from. I used to give these away at random as gifts, but they've raised the price on them from $50 to $90. The price of stuff is not supposed to go up like that. Competition and innovation means the price of the same stuff is supposed to go down, not up. I guess I'll be giving away less of them as gifts.
After I saw it in her offices, Ms. Blackburn gifted this to me yesterday. If you knew the backstory, you'd realize that things have now come full circle. I couldn't stop laughing at the karmic balance. (And if you don't, well, some things that happen at SLCC are not for the squeamish or ticklish.)]]> http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2010/02/spacenavigator_3.html http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2010/02/spacenavigator_3.html Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:14:41 -0800 The Liar's Chair tonight live 2010-02-07 (94 out of 365) The bagheaded bastard SecondLie bought a chair to support the show. Just one of the 5kL chairs, nothing fancy. Maybe I'll try to one-up him with a 10kL or a 20kL chair when I finally get this last card paid off. Tonight Live has done a lot to get the word and sound out about music on the grid, but in the end, with M's "killer ap" being more like "killer apathy" from the Labbies, nothing that anybody does will amount to much. Oh well. At least it's good for a tip, ja? And it lets others know: I give a shit.
Even without the usual iTunes gift certificate blowout, it was a brutal holiday season, and it didn't let up in January. But I think things are settling down, and I can keep climbing that hill until I reach zero again. For what? So it can all go to a RL house which will need furniture and cable and repairs and taxes and everything else? Rusikoff's "Life, Inc." is not telling me anything I didn't already know: the corporations and kings have set the board for the game, and the pieces we are forced to become just keep getting lured along. Am I one of those gamepieces? Or am I the robot... who is pretending to be a toy... or is that a toy pretending to be a robot? Or am I the walking satire of all the Labbie lies and mistakes and policy blunders, shaped like the pop-culture mystery phenomenon who was ultimately revealed... and faded away? Which am I? All of them? None of them? If I start again, will I just become myself again?
"HURT" covered by Johnny Cash I hurt myself today to see if I still feel I focus on the pain the only thing that's real the needle tears a hole the old familiar sting try to kill it all away but I remember everything what have I become? my sweetest friend everyone I know goes away in the end and you could have it all my empire of dirt I will let you down I will make you hurt I wear this crown of thorns upon my liar's chair full of broken thoughts I cannot repair beneath the stains of time the feelings disappear you are someone else I am still right here what have I become? my sweetest friend everyone I know goes away in the end and you could have it all my empire of dirt I will let you down I will make you hurt if I could start again a million miles away I would keep myself I would find a way ]]> http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2010/02/the_liars_chair.html http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2010/02/the_liars_chair.html Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:08:13 -0800 Fireplace stone fireplace This fireplace is the awesome. Okay, so it's 2 prims for the fireplace, 1 prim for the chimney, 1 for the grate, and 5 for the fire. Total of 9. Old fireplace was 11 prims, plus 4 for my chimney. Savings of 6 prims. And it looks better. Dragomir's got a bunch of other stuff at his mall, so I'll be grabbing them and tossing a few bits and pieces here and there to continue to window-dress.]]> http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2010/02/fireplace.html http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2010/02/fireplace.html Edloe and Five Islands Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:35:57 -0800 Silence triumph cove taking a break When I think of supported of live music on the grid, Blaze Columbia is high on the list. And when I think of M Linden's statement that music is a killer ap on the grid, I can't help but think that music is getting slowly bled to death and killed by M's apathy. Spacejunky... sinking. Menorca... hiatus. Who next? 2010 was the year for music being reviewed as a use-case for the platform, but since then we've seen nothing on it. Instead, we've seen him mass-friending on this early-alpha Avatars United toy he purchased and lots of buzz on Viewer 2.0. We're supposed to be overjoyed that tier prices will stay the same, even though performance hasn't improved much, capacity hasn't increased, and many of the old limits we've deal with are still in place. (Lotus123 Linden/Mitch Kapor has often said that the Lab's revenues are like a hosting company, so we're all supposed to be glad that we'll paying the same for servers that are continuing to show their age while we're all needing to demand more from them?) I guess we'll see how much Viewer 2.0 will help... or hurt things more.]]> http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2010/02/silence.html http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2010/02/silence.html Music Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:26:37 -0800 Avatar Untied Who the fuck is X? Who the fuck is Y? Who the fuck is Z? 99% of the people in my list won't even notice I've done this, and it won't make a damn lick of difference to them that I have. It's just a click. A pair of eyeballs in the metrics. And those who do notice and give a damn, well, they'll understand why I am doing it and ponder doing it themselves. Looking around... 300... 400... 800 friends... JD Salinger was right. It's a world full of phonies. Instead of getting back to the sea and sky and dirt and sun, we've spent so much time and effort to cover up this fake society we all live in with yet another even more fake and superficial one. The "Beta" on the logo is a lie. It's Alpha. Early Alpha. It's crap. It's something that makes Google Wave look useful. It's no Facebook-replacement... it's freaking Facebork. Coins to customize your profile? Bullshit... Plurk lets you do that from the get-go, and Twitter even lets you set a wallpaper. Portability? I can update Twitter from everywhere. Blog? I've got my own, thank you. If folks don't want to follow it, fine. Pictures? Already got Flickr, and the groups and tags and such. Groups? Yeah, it would be nice to have more than the 25 for announcements, but then, I can follow subscribeomatic feeds via RSS and Twitter and other means. (I'm about to start wiping out the friends list of folks who Friends Conference Spam all the time.) And where's the Block and Mute functions? Blech. I have enough on my plate than to run a maze that's being maintained and upgraded by a team of developers that should be working on the main SL product's flaws. The time and bug-suffering for this pit of problems to get integrated into SL's website and SL proper are going to be a security and functionality nightmare for everyone. And if XStreet's GOMing and mis-inegration and draconian policy changes are any indicator of what midset will be involved with the integration of this tool, well, maybe me iPad and Kindle and Nook aren't such a crazy idea at all. I'll go back to what I used to do all the time before SL and social media: reading books, petting cats, and napping on the patio as the sun goes down. Let me know when it's integrated into the viewer and when I have no choice but to use it or someone's got something there that actually helps and saves time and effort. Until then, enjoy the endless uniting and spamming orgy in the sloppy, messy heap of tangled code-shit.]]> http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2010/02/avatar_untied.html http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2010/02/avatar_untied.html LL WTF Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:34:44 -0800 Elvis-natured robots? robot elvis with the new key (2) He said "Thankyouverymuch" and left the building. But not before... robot elvis with the new key *sigh* He can be such an embarrassment. THEY SAID "EVIL NATURED ROBOTS" NOT "ELVIS-NATURED ROBOTS!" Ugh.]]> http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2010/02/elvisnatured_robots.html http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2010/02/elvisnatured_robots.html Music Sun, 07 Feb 2010 07:57:13 -0800 Prometheus on the rock sitting on the rock in grumpus harbor Rezzing one after the other, adjusting position on the rock, sitting on each... it takes time to get things right. Playing with windlight settings... let's go with darkness... only my eyes, the antenna, and the clock on my hat appear. I think I need some fireflies in the reeds. Amazing what you can accomplish using less and less prims. Perhaps when I finally reach 1 prim for everything, there will be so much that I cannot see through the amazement. sitting on the rock in grumpus harbor (2) This weekend, I was asked why I do all this. I'm not sure. And when I look back over my transaction history and the credit card statement that's dedicated with SL purchases, the timelogs I keep for what I do with Tunes inSL... it still doesn't quite make sense. Perhaps I just do what I do because I love doing it, and it doesn't matter what the reaction is or if others take up the standards or the fact that there's never going to be any kind of triumphant payoff. Just do whatever you do because you love doing it. sitting on the rock in grumpus harbor (93 out of 365) Even when things look dark, there's still light somewhere. That's what matters.
"LOVE OVER GOLD" by Dire Straits You walk out on the high wire you're a dancer on thin ice you pay no heed to the danger and less to advice your footsteps are forbidden but with a knowledge of your sin you throw your love to all the strangers and caution to the wind And you go dancing through doorways just to see what you will find leaving nothing to interfere with the crazy balance of your mind and when you finally reappear at the place where you came in you've thrown your love to all the strangers and caution to the wind It takes love over gold and mind over matter to do what you do that you must when the things that you hold can fall and be shattered or run through your fingers like dust]]> http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2010/02/prometheus_on_the_rock.html http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2010/02/prometheus_on_the_rock.html Edloe and Five Islands Sun, 07 Feb 2010 07:55:16 -0800