Archive for the ‘introspection’ Category

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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