Coal's Notes http://www.lovelymachine.com/blog/ blah blah blah, imagine something witty here. en Copyright 2007 Mon, 02 Apr 2007 22:24:55 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss The Secret Life of... memes? I've fallen behind on the not-a-meme challenges again. I didn't even get around to doing the challenge I proposed. And what do I have to show for myself? Noth- oh, wait. New laptop. Right. :) It's shiny and sexy and filled with Vistahatehatehatehatehate. Vista is very pretty in an evil no-I-don't-want-to-do-what-you-want-me-to-do sort of way. But the shift key is just a little off and so I keep hitting the up arrow and being miserable. I'm still learning my way around it, so bear with me.

Anyway, that's not the secret that I'll reveal in answer to Vint's challenge. Below the crease, my revelations...

]]> http://www.lovelymachine.com/blog/2007/04/the_secret_life_of_memes.html http://www.lovelymachine.com/blog/2007/04/the_secret_life_of_memes.html not-a-meme Mon, 02 Apr 2007 22:24:55 -0500 Not-A-Meme Challenge #9 Woot! I get to propose the challenge this Sunday! What should I have folks seek out? I've only done a few of the challenges, but happily Dolmere's been keeping track of what has been done.

My challenge is somewhat related to Jacek's... what has SL brought to your RL? And don't say "a better appreciation for my loving family" because we won't believe you. :D

My response coming later.

]]> http://www.lovelymachine.com/blog/2007/03/notameme_challenge_9_1.html http://www.lovelymachine.com/blog/2007/03/notameme_challenge_9_1.html not-a-meme Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:15:53 -0500 Blah blah blog You may not have noticed (and definitely won't have if you're reading this in a feed reader or some consolidated blog rolling thingie) but I changed the image over at the left edge of my page. Just to switch things up for a bit. Also added a twitter module on the bottom right, which, no doubt, I'll be as bad at updating as I am this page. In fact, if you look at it tonight, it will tell you I'm currently reading.

Well.

Technically I guess I am, right? I'm reading what I type.

I know, I know, I'm grasping at straws here.

]]> http://www.lovelymachine.com/blog/2007/03/blah_blah_blog.html http://www.lovelymachine.com/blog/2007/03/blah_blah_blog.html Just Random Stuff Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:26:40 -0500 I don't have antennae in real life... I'm leaping back onto the not-a-meme bandwagon and answering the most recent question...

Do you consider your avatar an extension of yourself, or a character you can control? (question posed by Jacek)

]]> http://www.lovelymachine.com/blog/2007/03/i_dont_have_antennae_in_real_l.html http://www.lovelymachine.com/blog/2007/03/i_dont_have_antennae_in_real_l.html not-a-meme Sat, 10 Mar 2007 22:36:35 -0500 I feel like I dropped my keys down the elevator shaft! Um, oops. So I forgot my blog password. *blush* Yup. Firefox has been helpfully filling it in for me, and... somehow the autofiller got scrambled. :P Took me forever to figure out how to go in and fix it - Movable Type's "password hint" that I entered was a hint for me to remember my password (which is what you would think a "password hint" would be), but apparently I was supposed to put down my birthplace, because that's what the password recovery thing asks for and compares to what you put in the "password hint" field. Blah.

Anyway, quick summary of what you missed because I couldn't babble about it here: intended to take a holiday, had to cancel last minute due to family medical stupidity, work, work and more work, bought some stuff at the Ayeshe's Angels yard sale, and the weeks went by in a blur other than that.

I'll be back to posting "normally" (well, normal for me, lately) soon.

]]> http://www.lovelymachine.com/blog/2007/03/i_feel_like_i_dropped_my_keys.html http://www.lovelymachine.com/blog/2007/03/i_feel_like_i_dropped_my_keys.html Just Random Stuff Sat, 10 Mar 2007 20:17:19 -0500 Raindrops on Roses Okay, so I'm trying to keep up with the not-a-meme. I feel like I'm running with the cool kids or something. ;) This week's challenge is courtesy of Mera Pixel, "What you like most about SL". I was going to say the people, but she says we're not allowed to. My first instinct was to plop up some shots of some of the great builds I've seen around SL, and claim my fave thing is peeping inside other people's imagination... but you know, that's cool, but it's not what keeps me coming back, even when I've had a crappy day at work and am desperate to get away from the computer.

]]> http://www.lovelymachine.com/blog/2007/02/raindrops_on_roses.html http://www.lovelymachine.com/blog/2007/02/raindrops_on_roses.html not-a-meme Sat, 10 Feb 2007 16:45:47 -0500 Two Newbie Locations So Dolmere has decided we're doing a "not a meme" blog thingie where one of us posts a challenge twice a week and the rest of us blog about it. This week: Name Two Newbie Locations, or more politically-correct: "name two new resident locations". My two are below the crease.

]]> http://www.lovelymachine.com/blog/2007/02/two_newbie_locations.html http://www.lovelymachine.com/blog/2007/02/two_newbie_locations.html not-a-meme Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:03:03 -0500 Shelter Shenanigans Friday was a big day - a bunch of the Shelter regulars met to discuss the fate of Swinside - or to listen to Travis discuss it anyway. :) The meeting was going really well until it took a left turn at language rules and went plummetting off the rails. It was a good hour of struggling before things were back on track. Is fuck still a swear word if you use it as an exclamation and not to denote a sexual act? What's the difference between offensive nudity and ignorant nudity. If you haven't got any "bits" to show, are you still naked if you take your clothes off?

]]> http://www.lovelymachine.com/blog/2007/01/shelter_shenanigans.html http://www.lovelymachine.com/blog/2007/01/shelter_shenanigans.html Just Random Stuff Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:23:23 -0500 The Lost Posting I hate it when I've a nice entry all written out and then something happens and I lose it all. :( I wrote last night about hosting my first full length episode of Building Shelter yesterday. I was poking around doing some other stuff and hadn't hit publish yet. And *wham* laptop overheated and I lost the whole kit-and-caboodle. No, I do not know what a caboodle is. (pause while I run around in circle because there was a big hairy bug in my office!!!) The Brewer's Dictionary tells me that one's caboodle is one's possessions. Who knew? Well, presumably the folks at Brewer's, I guess.

]]> http://www.lovelymachine.com/blog/2007/01/post_10.html http://www.lovelymachine.com/blog/2007/01/post_10.html Just Random Stuff Mon, 08 Jan 2007 22:12:13 -0500 Who wants a holiday from SL? Not me! I was jonesing for SL-contact because I'm on holidays in the UK and the laptop decided it doesn't want to run the new upgrade. :P But I lucked out - by a weird bit of coincidence, right when I was online trying to decide where to go for supper, Mike Mission was on his way to meet a few other SLers at a pub. Henrietta IM'ed plum Hartnell (who had to back out of the pub night because of dental-work stuff) and he called Mike, then passed Hen Mike's mobile number (who passed it to me through gmail) and I called Mike. He wasn't far from my hotel and was kind enough to swing by in a taxi and the two of us went off to the pub.

The pub, whose name I don't remember (Red Lion? Maybe?) was down a side street off another side street. I might be able to find it again by triangulating on the restaurant with the fun fabric flames outside it. Maybe. At any rate I got to meet Kumi and I7o and the four of us (plus Mr. Kumi - pity him as he had to put up with our SL chatter all night) had a great time.

]]> http://www.lovelymachine.com/blog/2006/12/who_wants_a_holiday_from_sl_no.html http://www.lovelymachine.com/blog/2006/12/who_wants_a_holiday_from_sl_no.html Just Random Stuff Sat, 02 Dec 2006 16:33:46 -0500 Woo post #100 Yeah, it's kinda lame that I'm only at 100 and Dol's at something like 283 (actually, I could go look at the stats to see the exact number, but I'm too damn lazy). Speaking of lazy, I hope everyone had a lovely holiday, if, indeed, they did have a holiday. :)

I had to work this morning, but it wasn't too bad because apparently the holiday had everyone else was in a good mood too. :) This afternoon, I made bread (from scratch for the second time ever, go me!) and did a lot of little online chores, like uninstalling Norton AntiVirus (which hates SL and keeps telling me it's viral, "Hello? That's the point!") and replacing it with AVG. So far so good. I also tried to go hang out on the latest preview grid, which crashed me at login repeatedly (even after a complete un- and re-install). Hrm. Ominous. How do you bug report when you can't actually get to the Help menu?

]]> http://www.lovelymachine.com/blog/2006/11/woo_post_100.html http://www.lovelymachine.com/blog/2006/11/woo_post_100.html Just Random Stuff Thu, 23 Nov 2006 20:43:55 -0500 Mmmmusic, Professor! One more picture of the Mel Cheeky concert:

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She really does have a great voice. :) After the concert I made my way over to the Bighorn Lodge, where my buddy Henrietta Strangelove was spinning world music. :) There were some streaming issues and Joseph wound up giving out the stream's URL so that we could listen using iTunes or Winamp.

I've never been entirely clear (please feel free to add to my comments and 'splain to me, Lucy) on how streaming through SL works - does the music actually get fed through the SL servers or does the client just supply QuickTime on your computer with the URL and the connection is between you and them? I always thought it was the latter, but there's been so many complaints of poor streaming quality in SL of late that I wonder if maybe it isn't the former - Stream Eaten By Packet Loss, News at 11.

]]> http://www.lovelymachine.com/blog/2006/11/mmmmusic_professor.html http://www.lovelymachine.com/blog/2006/11/mmmmusic_professor.html Just Random Stuff Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:16:07 -0500 Mel Cheeky does the Exile Thang ...and because with me it's either feast or famine: here's the third post of the evening. :D

Mel Cheeky played tonight at the Exile stage (is playing as I type, in fact). I think I may have implied in an earlier post that it was Thursday, but the silly Thursday-holiday has me confuzzled.

Dazed enough to forget to point everyone at Jaycatt's blog posting about Frogg being on MTV. Yes, our very own Frogg Marlowe, the friendly-neighbourhood amphibian-at-large! Wow! Frogg reveals the important fact that he makes his living off our tips! Egad! Tip better! Someone remind me!

]]> http://www.lovelymachine.com/blog/2006/11/mel_cheeky_does_the_exile_than.html http://www.lovelymachine.com/blog/2006/11/mel_cheeky_does_the_exile_than.html Just Random Stuff Wed, 22 Nov 2006 20:20:55 -0500 I knew I would forget something... Also attended Hen's rezday party this past weekend. :) I think it's really cool that we get an extra event to celebrate! Plus, in SL, growing old gives you street cred, not wrinkles.

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Hen DJ'd the party. plum Hartnell has the same rezday and showed up to join in the party. :) I wasn't able to stay for the full thing because of the Wii.... er, RL commitments. Yeah, that's it. Not Zelda at all. Heh.

]]> http://www.lovelymachine.com/blog/2006/11/i_knew_i_would_forget_somethin.html http://www.lovelymachine.com/blog/2006/11/i_knew_i_would_forget_somethin.html Just Random Stuff Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:24:15 -0500 I guess that's why people keep diaries... I'm not going to apologize for not having time to blog anymore. I mean, what's the point? If I just sat around blogging all the time I wouldn't have anything to blog about.

So, what do I have to blog about then? Um... well... um... okay, there was... uh... and that thing... er...

Heh. Okay, let me throw some pictures below the crease.

]]> http://www.lovelymachine.com/blog/2006/11/i_guess_thats_why_people_keep.html http://www.lovelymachine.com/blog/2006/11/i_guess_thats_why_people_keep.html Just Random Stuff Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:07:27 -0500