As much as I've attempted to grow a thick skin throughout my life due to being transgendered and part of many "minority groups" it's one thing to face down an oppressor face-to-face, it's another thing to deal with one that's faceless. One which can morph with each new account in a nearly obsessive manner to simply find their 'joy' in the emotional and psychological torture of you own person in SL.

Regardless of reasons, and the misshaped brains that they originate, it...

I hope this post doesn't come off soppy with emotion, but it's something that I think I'm not singular in this sort of experience. Namely, it's the experience of being around in any crowd (maybe fitting in, maybe not) and not really finding any sort of social or emotional connection to those in the crowd. I'm not sure if it's simply that I don't talk enough or find the right kinds of crowds to socialize in, but I tend to notice no matter how I change my attitude or my methods of communication, there's...

As I'm trying to wear out my mind enough to get some slumber before I have to turn over my half-busted bicycle to the repair shop on Monday I've gotten the keen interest to find non-english sims throughout the Main Grid. And I'll tell you, Secondlife truly never sleeps. Just by looking through one of my older landmarks to a merchant that resides in a large cluster of sims that are primarily owned and operated by Japanese individuals, I found a quite an interesting variety of locales. Granted, like...

I remember the first time I used a search engine, it was Yahoo! just after they went .Com instead of being at their .Edu original address (which at the time redirected users to the .Com one). It was amazing to have the information that thousands of other people compiled into the search index itself. At the same time, there were other sorts of search engines coming out that took advantage of meta-tag data that one could insert to define the content of the webpage itself. Like the old human indexed...