Callie Cline's new store...with cows!

Plush Lambda 175,168,22 - Funk's new location at Plush Lambda open next wednesday. It's listed in the search though and you can pop in and take a look, like I did. Which eventually involved cows again. I love the dancing cow.

That's Luth Brodie (of Reel Movement), Callie Cline, Gita (of Shine), Choice Sliter (of the Secondstyle blog, and moi.

She asked our opinion of the store build which we said looked nice. She then said we could tell her if it sucked. (paraphrased) We said it didn't And it doesn't. If I think a build sucks I'm probably not going to say anything at all, but if I like something I'm going to talk. It's a nice build, nice rugs (which can be purchased for 50$L) Almost bought a rug, but I have no place to put it being landless. :-(

Callie also has a free outfit for newbie program, any avatar 2 weeks and younger can have any outfit they want (under 500$L) Very thoughtful considering the huge influx of newbies.

The rush of new folk

Waterhead welcome area. Total madness 43 people and according to the linden blog SL has a million residents about a month before I thought it would. Amazing Tons of newbies confused and wanting to know where to go, waht to do and how to make money. I used live help to send a suggestion that they send some mentors and helpers down to the welcome areas fast because they were just overwhelmed.

Post updated with pictures of the map and the welcome area itself.

Freebie hair at ETD.

Elika's brought back two styles that she discontinued 10 months ago as freebie (1$L) hair. The styles are Sideswept and vixen: You can see them on Elika's blog The colors are limited to Auburn, Chestnut, Black, Dirty Blonde, and Silver. but I'm planning on picking them up because I wasn't in SL 10 months ago! Plus they're pretty. Now with pictures of me in the hair with distracting neko ears and prim eyelashes. Mwah ha ha.

Playing with dolls.

This post on Zoe Llewelyn's Designing Insanity blog for Boneflower, made me cry.

It just hit me all of a sudden.

You see, I'm transgendered, and I have always loved dolls. When I was young, I played with my sisters dolls. I knew I wasn't "supposed" too, but I did. I was always afraid of being caught and bad things happening. When I started wearing my sisters clothes, I felt pretty much the same.

A few years back maybe in 1999 I don't remember, I was given a doll. I had told this person that I had always wanted dolls of my own but never had any and she gifted me with one. I did then buy some dolls, but haven't done so for a couple of years.

It felt pathetic you see, for me a 39 year old "guy" buying dolls. I know there are adult doll collectors, but I just felt ashamed about it. It was bad enough that I'd never been on a date or had sex, but to own dolls. It just, well I just felt all rotten about it. and still do.

Which brings me to SL, which I guess is like dolls. So I'm still playing with dolls. I spend real money on virtual clothes for my doll. I feel ashamed about it, but I love playing my avatar just the same.

I think Zoey's post took me back to that time when I was a scared lonely boy, who wanted to be with the girls, play with the girls, dress like a girl and was very afraid, and played with his sisters dolls.

And now I'm a 39 year old man, who wants to be a woman, but can't, feels very lonely and afraid, and plays with virtual dolls.

I just had to stop writing there for a bit, right now I'm just sad.

Sometimes I get feeling so sad I just want to curl up in a corner and die. Anyway I'm just "stuck" as I call it. I don' t have enough resources and above all I don't want to hurt my family. I've caused them enough pain over "this" as it is.

So I will keep playing my pretty avatar and dream silly dreams and think impossible thoughts.

Mystical Cookie Designs

Mystical cookie designs , has scripted gadgets. I was looking for a replacement for my non working Siggy Romulus emote hud and a person on Fashion Emergency recommend the MystiTool. There's a freebie version (near the door) and a pay version with even more features.


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Yet another bloghud test

testing bloghud again. lets see if it works this time
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Caledon Haloween Maze in the sky.

Just one more post. :-)

I figured out I didn't need pictures with this one because that would spoil it.

The Caledonians seem to really go all out for events, and Halloween is no exception. There's a Halloween themed maze in the sky that you access via a skull that I belive is in Caledon 1 or 2.

It's rather impressive and easy to get turned around in and I intend to go back and see the bits I missed and take more pictures

It's not dangerous or anything though I did shoot some scripted creatures I thought might be dangerous (you never know they could start talking to me about blingtris or something) with my Ordinal Malaprop Pocket Revolver
The Halloween decorations in Caledon remind me of Halloweens in small town Illinois for some reason. Quaint, but fun.
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Tired

Been a long day, having the bathroom fixed to make it more accesible, which continues tomorrow, I need to edit more pictures but I'm really to tired to do it so just a simple text post.

Ordinal Malaprops new Slurlblogger version is out, it's very useful and very much improved over the previous version which was pretty good. I met Ordinal too.

I'll be blogging Alaska Metropolitans Black Widow costume.

And the luminosity jackets

And adding a picture of the freebie ETD hair to the post I did earlier.

And posting about the newbie rush

Zzzzzsnore.

Caledon Tesla Society

Object-Name: Slurlblogger v0.4
Region: Caledon (231680, 261888)
Local-Position: (188, 161, 23)

Caledon Tesla Society? I wonder if they are friends with the mice with hats

SL economy.(zOMG stipends!) and other matters

Been reading a bit on the Official Linden Blog about the changes in the stipend for new premium accounts. It's dropping from 400$L to 300$L.
zOMG Stipends! (You can get a zOMG stipends t-shirt from Ordinal Malaprops shop in Caledon. Gotta have some fashion content)

I got to thinking that though SL has an entrepreneur and professional class, it doesn't really hwave a working class and I don't think that's a good thing for the SL economy in the long run. But I don't know what to do about it. In RL store owners hire clerks and workers and whatnot but in SL the don't need people to man the cash registers or sweep the floors or clean up the aisles.

Personally I've been trying to find work and it seems that there's not much besides being a stripper or a ho. And though I thought about it I don't want to be a ho. I could tolerate stripper or dancer but I don't really want to do those either. I think my avatar is pretty enough to model but in SL, everyone can be pretty enough to model and content creators just do the modeling themselves most of the time.

I've been trying to start a marketing consultancy in game, to try to help stores reach their customers better and sell more, but I've not had any luck at all with that.

I think it's time for content creators to start hiring, live models (Blaze Columbia does this), customer service representatives, a diverse modeling stable for ads, building assistants, (Here place these ads on that wall, space them pretty evenly, while I'm making more hair), security. Just something to integrate new content creators into the economy besides being consumers.

I also think it's past time the Lindens themselves hired people to serve as guides, police officers, and eyes besides the traditional "Lindens" I've been reading Slashdot threads on SL and so many people have a bad experience when the first join because they don't know where to go besides the places with lots of people in them on the map. They're so used to MMORPG's they need SL equivalents to newbie quest givers. Sure there's places like the Shelter and NCI but LL needs to do it themsevles on a massive scale. live people on the starter islands telling people that there's more than sex clubs and casinos.

Torrid Midnight is back in SL.

Torrid Midnight of TorridWear and iki fame, one of the famous "Midnight City Girls" is back in SL. See Torrid's blog

Basically she's not going to be designing, just shopping, hanging with friends, but she does say she'll probably be back at the Second Cast podcast. Yay! I'm one of those who is a "Torrid voice" junkie.

Have fun back in SL, Torrid.

Reuters SL presence

Reuters has a new HQ in SL and an SL focused website

The move's been discussed on various places including Slashdot

But the cool thing is the Reuters HUD. it's free and it puts SL related headlines on your screen and other news. You can see story summaries in your chat history, click on a button to go the web page for the story or click on another button to be taken to the "room" in Reuters SL HQ where you can discuss the story. Sort of turning their HQ into a kind of news/discussion IRC server, only with bling, furries and fashionistas.

Their HQ sure seems to have a LOT of visitors, rivaling ETD!

I think this is something to be watched closely, it sure is interesting no matter what.

Poppy Designs, kyoot!

I had seen posts about Poppy Designs on PXP quite a few times and the thoughs that ran through my head was "That looks "kyoot", I'l have to visit sometime"

So of course, I never got around to doing so.

Yesterday, I met Francesca Poppy during the "Lalique Square Cowgasm Incident" and I knew I would just have to visit to look at the "kyoot" that I knew was there.

Poppy Designs is a collection of stalls that contains "kyoot" lingerie, "kyoot" t-shirts and much much more.

I just had to pick up a few of the fashionista t-shirts (30$L apiece) this one is the "Must Shop" shirt. Yes, it's the Cow again, it makes me happy.

She also has a selection of "kyoot" Halloween shirts that are available for a limited time so go snap em up.

Hair and skin is the usual, I think.the jeans are from OPIUM Everday and the shoes are Hansen Primero's, I'm a bit fuzzy after the "incident" too much milk.

Seen in World: Yes
Review Copy: No
Friends List: No.

The Lalique Cowgirls

It all started so innocently, I just wanted some Luth Brodie poses from Reel Movement to put in my Picture Perfect pose stand and I was then going to head to a sandbox to take some pictures, But as I was about to TP out I saw a couple of dots on my mini-map in the middle of Lalique. I figured they were fashionistas and I always like meeting new fashionistas so I decided to say hi and maybe chat a little. Lo and behold the two dots were Luth Brodie and Francesca Poppy of Poppy Designs. I game them my usual, "OMG, You're famous." greeting I give whenever I meet a content creator, and we started talking.

You know fashionistas,we love showing off our cool new finds, and old favorites and our favoirte silly toys. At one point I put on my Jooky costume from Starley Therian, And then out came Jooky doll, which led to Luth pulling out.... The Cow! Blain Candour's dancing Cow. The cow of joy, All Hail the Cow! There were three of us, then four and then 5 and then I rezzed another cow (It's moddable and copiable!)and made it BIG so we could worship it's greatness in the manner of the Jooky statue at the Pixels in Pink Relay for Life camp.

The cows made us happy, the cow makes us smile, all must love the cow because there is magic in this cow. I am not kidding, this is some cow. Besides the dancing, it moos, and plays music and when you're wearing it you have a funny/cute walk. The content creators were down because the recent bugs caused LL to turn off the save clothing item feature in the Appearance menu. Which prevented them from actually creating content. But the cows made them laugh and forget their troubles for a while.

I of course, being a blogger took screenshots to the hard drive for furture blackmail, I mean informational purposes of course. :-).

Some of the Personages involved:

Luth Brodie
Francesca Poppy
Me, your friendly neighborhood blogger
Callie Cline
Joanna Cramer
Shai Delacroix
Roslin Petion

I invited in a DJ friend of mine, Vent Rust, who likes seeing what interesting outfits I'm wearing. We met while shopping at Panache back in our early days, After commenting on my outfit, a suit from 1-800-Bettie, she got herself a cow.

Someone had a an Octopus that we found we could wear over the cow to make it look like it was dancing

I believe we actually did scare people off, mwah ha ha
Fashionistas are kerazy, but in a good way.

Some build comments

I visited Lalique square a couple days ago and I really like the build. It's not an island or anything just a sort of shopping center. It's nicely laid out and organized. It's got Reel Movement, Casa del Shai, Shine, Callie Cline and others.

It reminded me of Six Kennedy's Gurlywood sim which is also a very nice sim build. You got a large, mostly empty central area and then stores around the perimeter. Just follow the walkway around and you'll see everything.

Guess what you see when you first pop into GurlywoodL Signs and information! Very smart.

You know what I like about Six? She is always improving things. She pays attention and she learns. She's also one of the better marketeers in Second Life.

Here's to Lalique Square and Gurlywood, hurrah.

Willow Zander is posting again on PXP. Yay!

Yes, it's that important to blog about. She knows where to find the "kyootest" stuff and I "lubs/luvs/lurves" (take your pick) her upbeat and funny PXP posting style. There's the neko ears and prim eyelashes too.

See, I'm a third string blogger, I go to all the cool new places after all the "really cool and knowledgeable" fashionistas have already been there.

I can barely keep track of some of my favorite places and there's so many ones I haven't been to. I still haven't visited Elka Lehune's Boing Fromage, I think. See, I can't keep track!

I hope to log into SL on Monday and take some pictures for the blog, I did attempt to log in this morning, but the grid was down. Meh! Makes me want to do the "stabbity" thing to the next Linden I see on the grid, and I have a rather large pink handled katana for the "stabbity". Just kidding, I lurves the Lindens, except when the grid is down, there's bugs in the client, and missing images, and slow texture loading and slow frame rate and griefers n' stuff.

More seriously they should reduce the frequency of releases to do more testing. They also ought to encourage more people to do the testing on the Beta grid, perhaps offering $L to those who do. They really need to optimize the client, they ought to hire some console developers or assembler programmers for that. :-)

Review policy

#1 I am not a formal reviewer like the Second Style folk, the PXP people, or the Linden Lifestyles gals

#2 I don't have a lot of readers.

#3 If designers want to drop review copies on me, that's okay but...

#4 I can't guarantee a review and I don't want this blog to feel like work. I only have so much free time. I will always mention if I receive a review copy.

#5 I'm a positive sort of fashionista so I blog if I like something.

#6 If I don't like something, I'm not going to write about it.

#7 No piece of clothing is 100% perfect, but I will try to focus on what I like about an outfit rather than any flaws.

#8 I tend to prefer classic "real life" looking clothing, but I am not a photo-realistic sort of gal. I could not fairly review some things, like silks or some of the more risque clubwear. I do like a bit of retro now and then.30's 40's 50's early 60's. To me Rosalind Russell, Katharine Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly and Camelot era Jackie Kennedy are style icons for the ages.

#9 My Av's butt is set to look good in system skirts, not pants. My ass will not flatter your pants. My av is tall and skinny, like certain models, which is notable in certain clothing. My av is also pale skinned so if your colors are designed for the faux tanned skin shades they might not look so good on me.

#10 My RL tastes affect my SL tastes, which means I like clothes that I would wear in RL as mentioned above and I favor the same colors. .So I'm probably not going to mention any Japanese schoolgirl uniforms even if I think they're cute.(Though the St. Solaera uniform is tempting)

#11 I tend to favor certain designers for certain things, but that does not mean that I don't think other designers don't do good work, because they do. I think I've found something I liked at almost every store I've visited.

#12 I can be a bit silly at times so you might see a zOMG every now and then

#13 I'm not an expert photo manipulator or expert on SL in game photography but I'll do my best to show off things I like in a flattering (but simple) way.

Bloggy Lateness about the Luminosity cords.

Y'know, editing my pictures on my 32 MB Linux box. would be faster if I didn't try to have a dozen layers in the things. :-) Really, GIMP performance isn't that bad on this thing as long as I don't go too complex, and I doubt a recent Photoshop would run on a 32MB Windows box. (I'm running GIMP 2.2.11)

Sol Columbia released these fall cords and wrap tops last week.

The cords are the stars of the show, being utterly great looking. At first I thought they were a touch too shiny and then I realized that instead of being the rough ugly cords of my youth, (ugg Sears Tuffskins turned me off of cords forever in RL) they're the modern pretty velvety sheeny cords.They come in the usual rich fall colors and come in both belted and beltless versions As you can see they mix and match very well with other Luminosity releases, like the Sahara jacket and vest and the Wayfarer oxford. They should also look awesome with Sol's new jacket releases.

Yeah, it's a big image but I wanted to get as many of the wrap tops and cords in it as possible, and closeups of the butt on the cords which even look good on my skinny freakishly skinny butted Linden mesh skirt wearing avatar. Look at the detailing!

The wrap tops are nice too, I can always use more basic layering pieces. They're cut well too, not too low not too high. The colors are really good, I have RL twinsets in colors very similar to the cobalt blue and wine colors.

I would however like to see some not so fitted shirt/jacket meshes from Linden Labs. And fix that damnable system skirt for those of us who don't want to go prim mini's.


I'm wearing my usual hair, ETD Maaliyah in Mahogany, Tete a Pied Sophisticate 4 skin in Rose Dark, Shiny Things Lollies shoes, and the Tete a Pied Heiress bag which I don't think has left my avatars arm for more than a few minutes since I got it. I've also got on my Frameworks Chiq glasses which means no Lynnix Muse prim eyelashes. (Every fashionista should own prim eyelashes!)


Seen in World on my skinny non-influential butted avatar?: Yes.
Review copies: yes
Friends list: No

Waaah, I need more time. and rambling miscellany

I nate being busy. especially when I can't log into SL. Maybe tomorrow.

I'm also still behind on blogging. The box I do the photo editing on is sloooow (294 MHz!) an annoying when I have lots of layers. (32MB of RAM!) I'm probably going to have to start editing on the Winbox because it's some faster, though not 7x faster. However that box is often occupied. If I didn't have Midgar (this box) I'd never get online.

Apologies for lateness, I've got a post about the Luminosity cords that is way overdue and Sol's released new jackets. Oh that woman reads minds.

I should also mention Tete a Pied's new skins for guys. (No I'm not planning on trying them out, I'm a girl, tee hee) They look "nice" on Roslin's blog

I'm also betting that Alaska Metropolitan's new costume would look awesome on my avatar because my av has the best cleavage evah

"Evah" reminds me of Willow Zander Who is taking a break from PXP

I like Willow, her blog posts and PXP posts always brightened my day. I'm glad she's going to keep doing an occasional post on her blog, that way I can still get my "Willow in neko ears fix" She also has the best nicknames for "everybody" except for one, and that's my nickname for Barnesworth Anubis.... Barnesiepooh Anubikins. Cutest male av evah! He's like the Anderson Cooper of SL.

Hmm I stil haven't seen many SL fashionistas in person.

Ahh might as well bite the bullet and finish up the picture editing and other stuff.

Hair.

Let's get this right out of the way, though I do own hair by other designers, to put it in the PXP-ish vernacular: I'm Elika's *****. I love ETD hair. I think it's the best hair in SL. It's the textures, zOMG the textures. Elika's fricking amazing perfect textures.

ETD Maaliyah in Chestnut. The hair that almost wasn't released. But thank goodness it was. I wish I had hair with enough body in real life to have this style. I love this hair.

And in Mahogany. Personally I prefer red-browns and dark reds, which is why I so love Elika's Mahogany color, its "my " color This hair is to me, what Patootie is to Salome Strangelove

ETD Bonita, I think Roslin Petion of Tete a Pied suggested this. Sol Columbia has worn it as well in Luminosity ads.

Front

and back

But a couple of weeks ago I decided to branch out a little hair wise and try some hair by designers who are not Elika. So I did some blog searching and asked on the Fashion Emergency group and found some nice hair.

Sachi Vixen of Adam n Eve released this nice updo with subtle flexi recently. I didn't know she had a shade like this. When I think Sachi, I think skin. (Really, she does some fine skin work, especially with the eyes)

The style is called Marnie:

She also has one of the best signs in SL:

For great justice! Move Zig! (yep, the AYB meme isn't dead yet)

I've seen Sachi hair in action and it's good, realistic looking flexi, not bad flexi. Shes got som really nice looking "Rapunzel" style hair to wear with her gowns and costumes.

Rita Groshomme of Empyrean Emporium has this very lovely retro updo called Snood, recommended to me by Roslin , the sly woman. She just had to recommend this hair, so that I'd buy it and then just have to buy a suit from 1-800-Bettie,which she also recommended to me.

Snood comes with snoods and a color change hair bow. And it makes me want to star in a retro "Girl Friday" style machimima.

X'Clusive has this hair called classical in this great dark red. yes, it's rather Sabrina-ish hair. That's because I first saw it on there on Linden Lifestyles :-)

Six Kennedy is known for her sassy and sexy youthful styles but she recently did this very lovely Audrey Hepburnesque updo called Abundance:(She also has a VERY Audrey hair called Audrey inspired by Breakfast at Tiffany's)

I'm luvvin that hair ornament.

I have a few more styles in my inventory I need to do pictures of. Yeah, I'm a lazy blogger. :-)

And again, Though I love all the hair in my inventory, To put it in the PXP-ish vernacular: I'm Elika's *****, That girl makes the best hair evah! The BEST!