You know you've spent too much time in SecondLife when...

Oh my, posted by my friend Brielle, I am so busted! I have definitely wished for variations on #2, #3, #4 (I tried to zoom in on something in my own Lj the other day!), #8 and #10. #11 is probably not far behind.

You know you've spent too much time in SecondLife when...

1. You see a cute guy/gal at a bar and you want to right click on them to read their profile.
2. You stand naked in front of the mirror wishing there was a slider to reduce your belly.
3. You walk out of the mall, realize your car is at the far end of Timbuktu and think "I'll just fly. Where is that F button?"
4. While surfing on other websites you have the urge to zoom in on things with your mouse wheel.
5. You instintively stick your arms out to the side in front the mirror to check your appearance.
7. You look for stacks of green dots on Google maps.
8. You try to click on locations on Google maps and then look for the Teleport button.
9. You've begun measuring distance in SIMs instead of miles or kilometers.
10. You reach your hand out to edit the size of your TV and feel disapointed when that line of white light doesn't extend from your hand.

Anyone want to add signs of their own? Brielle adds:
11. You look at something to buy and wonder who many prims it has, then try to check!

12. You look into your closet and wonder where your favorite SL outfit has gotten to.

Yay - The Pentacle Quest succeeds

Wiccans will be allowed to place pentacles on graves, VA says
Associated Press
Last update: April 23, 2007 ˆ 9:28 AM
http://www.startribune.com/484/story/1138325.html

Wiccans will be allowed to place pentacles on graves, VA says
( the whole story )

technopeasantry marches on

X-post of my post to ipstp

Here via sbisson, what a great idea. Dr. Hendrix's rant was interesting and so were all the commentaries thereon.

Most of my published work is articles, photos or artwork but I would like to offer here one of my poems, "published" only in a small chapbook given to other players in my Vampire the Masquerade LARP. I just look back on it with great fondness.

http://www.conjure.com/nightthings.html
( or read the poem below cut )

two items from the email

On of the educators on my SL library list posted this. I thought it was interesting enough to post though I am skeptical about what is meant and the significance of the last assertions.

Watch on YouTube

glumbert.com

An interesting article by an archivist in Library Journal made this interesting observation -

The Library of Congress (LC) comments in a Council on Library and Information Resources report about the ebb and flow of availability of web content: "The web is growing steadily and at the same time is continually disappearing. The average life of a web page is only 44 days; 44 percent of the web sites found in 1998 could not be found in 1999.

My web site is remarkably persistent, I guess. Although I admit I have been thinking about taking down most of the links pages, which are probably full of rotten links anyway since I haven't had time to update anything except my religion pages in a long time.

Peace Conference and my weekend

So, Saturday was the Peace Conference I have been trying to get CoG folks to attend. I wasn't particularly successful at it, but I did enjoy the conference. The morning keynote speaker was Yolanda King, who used the event to tout her new self help books and workshops. I wasn't particularly impressed. But Azim Khamisa who did the afternoon keynote was quite compelling, telling the story of the foundation he started after his son was killed by gang violence. His son worked in pizza delivery and evidently the gang called in a false order in service of getting someone to have a youngster shoot as an initiation. It sounds almost like an urban legend, doesn't it? *shudder* The 14 year old shooter was sentenced to the adult prison system (Azim wrote Schwarzenegger asking him to commute Tony Hick's sentence but hasn't heard back). He founded TKF, a foundation dedicated to breaking the epidemic of youth violence. It was powerful stuff.

I also went to an excellent community panel that included our chief of police, Robert Davis, who made headlines the year he came into office by observing Ramadan with the Islamic community, Maha ElGenaidim, an organizer from the Muslim community, Rabbi Dana Magat whom I've met several times before at interfaith events and Enrique Flores a young Latino man who started a organization that gives scholarships to 8th graders to go to private high schools and provides mentors to help them. Mr. Flores grew up in East San Jose and works with kids practically in my own neighborhood. I definitely plan to check them out further.

I admit I left before the last activity of the day. I didn't dialog and come up with a simple and profound act. I went out with Don and talked about CoG and upcoming interfaith things like the Goldin Institute in Cartagena this fall.

Making for a really long day, I then went to the Eleusinian meeting. This was a chance for folks who have put on the NROOGD Eleusinian over the years to share their experience with what worked and what didn't. It was quite interesting and worthwhile but having had to get to the peace conference by 7:30am, leaving Nette's at 10pm meant I was pretty much toast.

On Sunday I was involved inworld with a RenFaire style speech class. I had gotten resources together for it and hosted it at the Rose & Crown. We had about a dozen people for about an hour and a half and it was quite fun. I hope to have Sunday gathers fairly regularly.

Sunday evening Russell got home from his Sacred Connections weekend and we watched the film Children of Men which we hadn't managed to see in the theatre last year. Wow. It is a classic dystopian story by P.D. James and I was very impressed by how well the story was told with very tight dialog and evocative images. I will be very interested to watch the dvd extras because it had to be an interesting film to make as well as to watch. Wow.