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 [...]
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Pride Cometh Before a Change in the TOS
As much as LL won’t come out and admit it openly, I think it’s safe to say that they appreciate alts. The good kind, of course. Not ones created to cause grief. Every time an alt is created, chances are the owner is going to spend money to make that alt look good. Linden Dollars [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]