SLUniverse Forums - Blogs - Ben Hoark http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/blogs/ben+hoark/ Second Life discussion forum and photo sharing en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:26:12 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/images/styles/bingo/misc/rss.jpg SLUniverse Forums - Blogs - Ben Hoark http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/blogs/ben+hoark/ Do The Newbie Jerk http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/blogs/ben+hoark/154-do-newbie-jerk.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:36:01 GMT It's the newest dance craze folks.

Here's what you do:
Walk up to random strangers and ask for money.

Ask for friendship as soon as someone talks to you, and get huffy when they turn you down.

Walk into a club and pester the dancers with questions about how to make money. Or walk up to people who are busy building, and pester them instead.
I was a newbie once. You were a newbie once. All god's chillun were newbies once. There's no shame in it, and I don't have a problem with it. Smile nicely and be polite and I'll even help you to move on from your newbie status.

Just don't be a Newbie Jerk, ok? ]]> Ben Hoark http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/blogs/ben+hoark/154-do-newbie-jerk.html Augh! My Computer Died! http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/blogs/ben+hoark/77-augh-my-computer-died.html Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:52:51 GMT :cries:

Well...ok, it didn't exactly die, in fact I think that the main computer is fine. But my display died -- and this on my lovely new(ish) MacBook Pro. Fortunately it's still under warranty, so getting it fixed shouldn't cost me anything.

So for the moment I'm back on my cranky old PC, and generally staying out of SL, which does not run well on it, and amongst other things tends to kick the fan into noisy overdrive as the graphics card heats up.

So far the withdrawal symptoms haven't been too bad... ]]> Ben Hoark http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/blogs/ben+hoark/77-augh-my-computer-died.html Who Did I Say I Was? http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/blogs/ben+hoark/63-who-did-i-say-i.html Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:59:44 GMT Time to join the blogging madness. As it's all about ego, I'll start with a few words about myself, for anyone who is interested. This is not all of me, but it will do.

Apart from Second Life, I play World of Warcraft (occasionally), I like strategy games such as the various versions of Civilisation and Age of Empires, and some FPS shooters, especially Unreal Tournament, again in its various versions.

I have three premium accounts in Second Life. My original account is nearly four years old, and a store-keeper. He makes the money that the other two accounts live off. The other account (the one that isn't Ben) lives in Caledon, and is far more polite and gentlemanly than Ben. He would be shocked at some of the places Ben visits.

I like the books of Terry Pratchett, H P Lovecraft, J R R Tolkien, and (just for variety) John LeCarré's "George Smiley" stories.

I like detective stories and television serials.

I like old horror movies. Anything more recent than Hammer, and I'm not really interested. I have a special affection for those horror movie damsels-in-peril.

I'm a long-time Doctor Who fan, both the old and new series.

I have a rather dry sense of humour, but I like off-the-wall, madcap humour.

I am very chatty in emails and messages, slightly less so in real life.

If you are female, I will flirt with you, but am just enough of a gentleman to back off if you make it clear that it is unwelcome. Don't take me seriously.

I am older than you think. ]]> Ben Hoark http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/blogs/ben+hoark/63-who-did-i-say-i.html