Prove yourself to no one. Curry no one’s favor. Suck up to no one. Stand or fall on your own merit. Name drop no one. If you’re not worthy on your own, you won’t be worthy on someone’s shoulders. Be you at all times. This will not always be easy: relearn. Not everyone will like [...]
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Foot Traffic
Hello, gentle reader. You are accompanying me on my walk today! It really is amazing that I can go on a lunchtime stroll and write a blog at the same time – without wires! On a small device I can hold *and* type with using the same hand! Youth, do not take these wonders for [...]
Wisdom from Burroughs
If, after having been exposed to someone’s presence, you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia. We don’t like to hear the word “vampire” around here; we’re trying to improve our public image. Building a kindly, avuncular, benevolent image; “interdependence” is the [...]
Looking Back – Part One.
Writing about myself is, more often than not, discomfort incarnate. I am my own most difficult subject, which frustrates, as few things consume me more than the desire to be known and genuinely understood. In the interest of letting thoughts flow as freely as possible, I ask you to indulge my stream-of-consciousness as I attempt [...]
Year Three.
December approaches, and so does my third rezday. Two months ago, I spent L$50,000 – yes, about 200 US dollars – to have Damien Fate design a custom furry avatar for me. To be fair, I paid for it with proceeds from my shop. Still, earned inworld or not, that’s a substantial sum of money. [...]
Black Thursday and the Culture of Relevance
I attended Codie Redgrave’s memorial installation at Rouge last night. Botgirl said it so perfectly – you could not explain to anyone outside of our unique culture how a screenful of mostly-gray attendees attempting to walk through a molasses-murk of server lag to stand amongst row upon row of identical, digitally-engraved tombstones could tug at [...]
How to Succeed in Business … by Trying Your Little Heart Out
Too much caffeine. Bad bunny. You’re supposed to be sleeping right now. Making things is one of my greatest joys in Second Life. Sometimes I daydream of winning the lottery, or finding some generous philanthropist with whom I strike up a conversation about virtual worlds. I give such a winning testimonial about Second Life that [...]
Clear Cache, Reboot, Restart
This is a really terrible habit of mine, and one that I have not been able to break, in ten years of writing online. I am starting my blog over. Again. The past year and a half in RL was difficult for me. It left my mind in a very unhappy, unsafe and uncomfortable place [...]