An Afternoon in My Second Life

So to start, I have to say that my first life is pretty damn cool. I've got every techno gadget I can dream of, a kick ass house, a huge toy collection, a beautiful and equally kick ass daughter and of course, my very own super geek of a husband. However, my first life is also laden with responsibility, bills and, sadly, all the inconveniences I experience because I cannot fly. That is where my Second Life comes in and steals the show. With Second Life, I can waste tons of time doing all sorts of fun shit without leaving my house; like dancing with minatars, teleporting to a country rife with zombies, checking out digital strippers and of course flying! That is not to say a Second Life is all fun and games, in fact the interface is setup with a very complex social structure. If I wanted more things to worry about, I could get a job, develop my own land, create a store, study in one of the schools or utilize their highly developed economic system to make some real life money. But that's just not my thing, so I say bring on the digital tomfoolery

This me, Wednesday Steampunk, dancing awkwardly in a New York themed ballroom. Not terribly exciting, but I do have a pretty cute avatar.





Here I am perusing some sexy Christmas lingerie. I don't know why my Second Life character or anyone for that matter would need to look like a sexy version of Santa Claus but to each their own.







WTF! A giant anime looking cat!











You know what the best part about riding a roller-coaster in Second Life is? Not having to wait in a freaking line. Sadly, this wasnt as fun as I thought it would be but the graphics were killer.








Here I am, riding in a rocking horse. Definitely couldn't manage that arrangement in my first life.









This is the price list from the "Curves Strip Club."
Just in case you were curious. It is 300 L$ (Linden Dollars) for topless, 600 L$ for naked, 750 L$ for a private lapdance and 1000 $L for a private lapdance with sexmoves. According to the current exchange rate, One US dollar is worth roughly 259 L$. That's a pretty cheap lap dance if you ask me.


Flying over dolphins, hell yeah!












Oh, no! A mere seconds before I was murdered by Zombies! (Apparently those green things are Zombies) Take that first life, in Second Life I can survive being murdered.








Gratuitous dancing!







More gratuitous dancing!












Snowman ATTACK!








And lastly, my home Caledon, a 19th Century Steampunk Victorian village. Aside from offering the variety of amenities essential to Second Life existence, Caledon is home to Oxford University which takes you through an in depth Second Life tutorial without which I may have never figured out how to dance. or just about anything else.

Look at how smart I am, aka. Assignment 10

Assignment 8 - Wolf Man says....

1.All english words containing the letters "eue?”
Queue, queued, queues
WolframAlpha “words containing eue”

2.How much potassium in 4.7 oz of banana?
477mg
WolframAlpha “4.7 oz banana”

3.How old was Barack Obama on the day you were born?
21 Years 6 months 6 days
WolframAlpha “August 4th, 1961 to feb 10th, 1983”

4.Date and time of the next total solar eclipse in Eugene?
4:52 pm PDT | Sunday, May 20, 2012 (2.581 years from now)
WolframAlpha “next solar eclipse eugene oregon”

5.What is the minimum and maximum price of google stock since it went public?
Max: $ 552.09
Min: $ 257.44
WolframAlpha “google price”

6.Link an image of the barcode for UPC 01234567890
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=+UPC+01234567890
WolframAlpha “UPC 01234567890”

7.How many vertices does an icosahedron have?
12
WolframAlpha “ icosahedron”

8.Distance from Eugene to Tokyo?
4886 miles
WolframAlpha “ Eugene to Tokyo”

9.Average Oregon income per capita?
income per capita | $ 20940 (1999)
WolframAlpha “Oregon”

10.What is the Morse code for your first name?
* -- -- --
J | * *
I | * -- * *
L | * -- * *
L | * *
I | * --
A | -- *
N
WolframAlpha “morse code jillian”

What I think of Shane and his BS.

As requested I wasted an hour or so of my afternoon today reading up on Shane and is little REI incident. I Cant say i am not biased because I came into this thinking he was an idiot and after reading his blog laden with shameless self promotion of his stupid hipster t-shirts, I still think he is a grade "A" idiot.
Why? I am glad you asked. It is not because he took a picture of the ATM, though I do not feel the need to fuck with people with guns myself, it is how he handled the situation after the fact. One of the first comments i read brought up the very point i intended to make, is that Shane acted with complete disrespect for everyone involved. Because Shane is a cool vegan anarchist (with an iphone none the less, go figure captain hypocrite) he felt the need to mouth off instead of maybe even considering to act like an adult. Really, he must be at least 25, show some damn respect, even if it is to what you consider "fake cops."
In the real world or maybe just in my ideal world, someone may have thought for a second that these guys have a really dangerous job. And despite the fairly innocuous act of taking a picture of them, it is probably a small sign for alarm when you have the potentiol of being robbed and killed everyday on the job. So maybe if Shane had responded to their concerns without being a douche bag (according to his blog I am the godzillion and one person to call him this), he would not have been arrested and in the end I wouldn't have had had to read his stupid blog.
But of course if he didn't act like such a douche bag (godzillion and two) no one would buy his stupid shirts and he would go back to being another lame ass hipster in a sea of lame ass hipsters trying to find some other way to self promote his extreme averageness.

A blog I actually like! ;)

Blueprints
This is a blog I enjoy reading because it has a lot of interesting up-cycle sewing ideas for families and kids. I used this blog as a guide to make some clothes for my daughter. Check em out below!

T-shirt to baby dress recon and Twirl Skirt:

This makes me feel like Sisyphus

Nobody Likes a Bogan