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	<title>Second Ramblings &#187; Lance Corrimal</title>
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		<title>Public Service re: Caps Lock</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lance Corrimal</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s to all of you who use UPPER CASE too much:</p>
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		<title>Merry Christmas to Friends near and far</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 23:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Corrimal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas is a time for sharing, so I thought I could share one of my favorite Christmas stories with you&#8230; didn&#8217;t find an english translation, so here it is in the german original. Der allererste Weihnachtsbaum Hermann Löns (1866-1914) Der Weihnachtsmann ging durch den Wald. Er war ärgerlich. Sein weißer Spitz, der sonst immer lustig [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Christmas is a time for sharing, so I thought I could share one of my favorite Christmas stories with you&#8230; didn&#8217;t find an english translation, so here it is in the german original.</p>
<h3>Der allererste Weihnachtsbaum</h3>
<p><em>Hermann Löns (1866-1914)</em></p>
<p>Der Weihnachtsmann ging durch den Wald. Er war ärgerlich. Sein  weißer Spitz, der sonst immer lustig bellend vor ihm herlief, merkte das  und schlich hinter seinem Herrn mit eingezogener Rute her.</p>
<p>Er hatte nämlich nicht mehr die rechte Freude an seiner Tätigkeit.  Es war alle Jahre dasselbe. Es war kein Schwung in der Sache. Spielzeug  und Eßwaren, das war auf die Dauer nichts. Die Kinder freuten sich wohl  darüber, aber quieken sollten sie und jubeln und singen, so wollte er  es, das taten sie aber nur selten.</p>
<p>Den ganzen Dezembermonat hatte der Weihnachtsmann schon darüber  nachgegrübelt, was er wohl Neues erfinden könne, um einmal wieder eine  rechte Weihnachtsfreude in die Kinderwelt zu bringen, eine  Weihnachtsfreude, an der auch die Großen teilnehmen würden.  Kostbarkeiten durften es auch nicht sein, denn er hatte soundsoviel  auszugeben und mehr nicht.</p>
<p>So stapfte er denn auch durch den verschneiten Wald, bis er auf dem  Kreuzweg war. Dort wollte er das Christkindchen treffen. Mit dem beriet  er sich nämlich immer über die Verteilung der Gaben. Schon von weitem  sah er, daß das Christkindchen da war, denn ein heller Schein war dort.</p>
<p>Das Christkindchen hatte ein langes weißes Pelzkleidchen an und  lachte über das ganze Gesicht. Denn um es herum lagen große Bündel  Kleeheu und Bohnenstiegen und Espen- und Weidenzweige, und daran taten  sich die hungrigen Hirsche und Rehe und Hasen gütlich. Sogar für die  Sauen gab es etwas: Kastanien, Eicheln und Rüben.</p>
<p>Der Weihnachtsmann nahm seinen Wolkenschieber ab und bot dem  Christkindchen die Tageszeit. &#8220;Na, Alterchen, wie geht&#8217;s?&#8221; fragte das  Christkind. &#8220;Hast wohl schlechte Laune?&#8221; Damit hakte es den Alten unter  und ging mit ihm. Hinter ihnen trabte der kleine Spitz, aber er sah gar  nicht mehr betrübt aus und hielt seinen Schwanz kühn in die Luft.</p>
<p>&#8220;Ja&#8221;, sagte der Weihnachtsmann, &#8220;die ganze Sache macht mir so recht  keinen Spaß mehr. Liegt es am Alter oder an sonst was, ich weiß nicht.  Das mit den Pfefferkuchen und den Äpfeln und Nüssen, das ist nichts  mehr. Das essen sie auf, und dann ist das Fest vorbei. Man müßte etwas  Neues erfinden, etwas, das nicht zum Essen und nicht zum Spielen ist,  aber wobei alt und jung singt und lacht und fröhlich wird.&#8221;</p>
<p>Das Christkindchen nickte und machte ein nachdenkliches Gesicht;  dann sagte es: &#8220;Da hast du recht, Alter, mir ist das auch schon  aufgefallen. Ich habe daran auch schon gedacht, aber das ist nicht so  leicht.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Das ist es ja gerade&#8221;, knurrte der Weihnachtsmann, &#8220;ich bin zu alt und zu dumm dazu.</p>
<p>Ich habe schon richtiges Kopfweh vom vielen Nachdenken, und es fällt  mir doch nichts Vernünftiges ein. Wenn es so weitergeht, schläft  allmählich die ganze Sache ein, und es wird ein Fest wie alle anderen,  von dem die Menschen dann weiter nichts haben als Faulenzen, Essen und  Trinken.&#8221;</p>
<p>Nachdenklich gingen beide durch den weißen Winterwald, der  Weihnachtsmann mit brummigem, das Christkindchen mit nachdenklichem  Gesicht.</p>
<p>Es war so still im Wald, kein Zweig rührte sich, nur wenn die Eule  sich auf einen Ast setzte, fiel ein Stück Schneebehang mit halblautem  Ton herab. So kamen die beiden, den Spitz hinter sich, aus dem hohen  Holz auf einen alten Kahlschlag, auf dem große und kleine Tannen  standen. Das sah wunderschön aus. Der Mond schien hell und klar, alle  Sterne leuchteten, der Schnee sah aus wie Silber, und die Tannen standen  darin, schwarz und weiß, daß es eine Pracht war.</p>
<p>Eine fünf Fuß hohe Tanne, die allein im Vordergrund stand, sah  besonders reizend aus. Sie war regelmäßig gewachsen, hatte auf jedem  Zweig einen Schneestreifen, an den Zweigspitzen kleine Eiszapfen, und  glitzerte und flimmerte nur so im Mondenschein.</p>
<p>Das Christkindchen ließ den Arm des Weihnachtsmannes los, stieß den  Alten an, zeigte auf die Tanne und sagte: &#8220;Ist das nicht wunderhübsch?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Ja&#8221;, sagte der Alte, &#8220;aber was hilft mir das ?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Gib ein paar Äpfel her&#8221;, sagte das Christkindchen, &#8220;ich habe einen Gedanken.&#8221;</p>
<p>Der Weihnachtsmann machte ein dummes Gesicht, denn er konnte es sich  nicht recht vorstellen, daß das Christkind bei der Kälte Appetit auf  die eiskalten Äpfel hatte. Er hatte zwar noch einen guten alten Schnaps,  aber den mochte er dem Christkindchen nicht anbieten.</p>
<p>Er machte sein Tragband ab, stellte seine riesige Kiepe in den  Schnee, kramte darin herum und langte ein paar recht schöne Äpfel  heraus. Dann faßte er in die Tasche, holte sein Messer heraus, wetzte es  an einem Buchenstamm und reichte es dem Christkindchen.</p>
<p>&#8220;Sieh, wie schlau du bist&#8221;, sagte das Christkindchen. &#8220;Nun schneid  mal etwas Bindfaden in zwei Finger lange Stücke, und mach mir kleine  Pflöckchen.&#8221;</p>
<p>Dem Alten kam das alles etwas ulkig vor, aber er sagte nichts und  tat, was das Christkind ihm sagte. Als er die Bindfadenenden und die  Pflöckchen fertig hatte, nahm das Christkind einen Apfel, steckte ein  Pflöckchen hinein, band den Faden daran und hängte den an einen Ast.</p>
<p>&#8220;So&#8221;, sagte es dann, &#8220;nun müssen auch an die anderen welche, und  dabei kannst du helfen, aber vorsichtig, daß kein Schnee abfällt!&#8221;</p>
<p>Der Alte half, obgleich er nicht wußte, warum. Aber es machte ihm  schließlich Spaß, und als die ganze kleine Tanne voll von rotbäckigen  Äpfeln hing, da trat er fünf Schritte zurück, lachte und sagte; &#8220;Kiek,  wie niedlich das aussieht! Aber was hat das alles für&#8217;n Zweck?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Braucht denn alles gleich einen Zweck zu haben?&#8221; lachte das  Christkind. &#8220;Paß auf, das wird noch schöner. Nun gib mal Nüsse her!&#8221;</p>
<p>Der Alte krabbelte aus seiner Kiepe Walnüsse heraus und gab sie dem Christkindchen.</p>
<p>Das steckte in jedes ein Hölzchen, machte einen Faden daran, rieb  immer eine Nuß an der goldenen Oberseite seiner Flügel, dann war die Nuß  golden, und die nächste an der silbernen Unterseite seiner Flügel, dann  hatte es eine silberne Nuß und hängte sie zwischen die Äpfel.</p>
<p>&#8220;Was sagst nun, Alterchen?&#8221; fragte es dann. &#8220;Ist das nicht allerliebst?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Ja&#8221;, sagte der, &#8220;aber ich weiß immer noch nicht&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Komm schon!&#8221; lachte das Christkindchen. &#8220;Hast du Lichter?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Lichter nicht&#8221;, meinte der Weihnachtsmann, &#8220;aber &#8216;nen Wachsstock!&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Das ist fein&#8221;, sagte das Christkind, nahm den Wachsstock,  zerschnitt ihn und drehte erst ein Stück um den Mitteltrieb des  Bäumchens und die anderen Stücke um die Zweigenden, bog sie hübsch  gerade und sagte dann; &#8220;Feuerzeug hast du doch?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Gewiß&#8221;, sagte der Alte, holte Stein, Stahl und Schwammdose heraus,  pinkte Feuer aus dem Stein, ließ den Zunder in der Schwammdose zum  Glimmen kommen und steckte daran ein paar Schwefelspäne an. Die gab er  dem Christkindchen. Das nahm einen hellbrennenden Schwefelspan und  steckte damit erst das oberste Licht an, dann das nächste davon rechts,  dann das gegenüberliegende.</p>
<p>Und rund um das Bäumchen gehend, brachte es so ein Licht nach dem andern zum Brennen.</p>
<p>Da stand nun das Bäumchen im Schnee; aus seinem halbverschneiten,  dunklen Gezweig sahen die roten Backen der Äpfel, die Gold- und  Silbernüsse blitzten und funkelten, und die gelben Wachskerzen brannten  feierlich.</p>
<p>Das Christkindchen lachte über das ganze rosige Gesicht und patschte  in die Hände, der alte Weihnachtsmann sah gar nicht mehr so brummig  aus, und der kleine Spitz sprang hin und her und bellte.</p>
<p>Als die Lichter ein wenig heruntergebrannt waren, wehte das  Christkindchen mit seinen goldsilbernen Flügeln, und da gingen die  Lichter aus. Es sagte dem Weihnachtsmann, er solle das Bäumchen  vorsichtig absägen. Das tat der, und dann gingen beide den Berg hinab  und nahmen das bunte Bäumchen mit.</p>
<p>Als sie in den Ort kamen, schlief schon alles.</p>
<p>Beim kleinsten Hause machten die beiden halt. Das Christkindchen  machte leise die Tür auf und trat ein; der Weihnachtsmann ging  hinterher. In der Stube stand ein dreibeiniger Schemel mit einer  durchlochten Platte. Den stellten sie auf den Tisch und steckten den  Baum hinein.</p>
<p>Der Weihnachtsmann legte dann noch allerlei schöne Dinge, Spielzeug,  Kuchen, Äpfel und Nüsse unter den Baum, und dann verließen beide das  Haus so leise, wie sie es betreten hatten. Als der Mann, dem das  Häuschen gehörte, am andern Morgen erwachte und den bunten Baum sah, da  staunte er und wußte nicht, was er dazu sagen sollte.</p>
<p>Als er aber an dem Türpfosten, den des Christkinds Flügel gestreift  hatte, Gold- und Silberflimmer hängen sah, da wußte er Bescheid. Er  steckte die Lichter an dem Bäumchen an und weckte Frau und Kinder. Das  war eine Freude in dem kleinen Haus wie an keinem Weihnachtstag.</p>
<p>Keines von den Kindern sah nach dem Spielzeug, nach dem Kuchen und  den Äpfeln, sie sahen nur alle nach dem Lichterbaum. Sie faßten sich an  den Händen, tanzten um den Baum und sangen alle Weihnachtslieder, die  sie wußten, und selbst das Kleinste, das noch auf dem Arm getragen  wurde, krähte, was es krähen konnte.</p>
<p>Als es hellichter Tag geworden war, da kamen die Freunde und  Verwandten des Bergmanns, sahen sich das Bäumchen an, freuten sich  darüber und gingen gleich in den Wald, um sich für ihre Kinder auch ein  Weihnachtsbäumchen zu holen. Die anderen Leute, die das sahen, machten  es nach, jeder holte sich einen Tannenbaum und putzte ihn an, der eine  so, der andere so, aber Lichter, Äpfel und Nüsse hängten sie alle daran.</p>
<p>Als es dann Abend wurde, brannte im ganzen Dorf Haus bei Haus ein  Weihnachtsbaum, überall hörte man Weihnachtslieder und das Jubeln und  Lachen der Kinder.</p>
<p>Von da aus ist der Weihnachtsbaum über ganz Deutschland gewandert und von da über die ganze Erde.</p>
<p>Weil aber der erste Weihnachtsbaum am Morgen brannte, so wird in manchen Gegenden den Kindern morgens beschert.</p>
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		<title>New worlds</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 08:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Corrimal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seems that writing whimsical little stories about Second Life is the thing to do now&#8230; So here is it: New worlds &#8220;There are millions of worlds out there, they say. I don&#8217;t know about millions, but there are at least several thousand, if not more. The problem is, when you spread out a few ten [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Seems that writing <a href="http://becunningandfulloftricks.com/2010/10/23/jetpack/" target="_blank">whimsical</a> little <a href="http://www.cubeyterra.com/2010/10/the-oldbie/" target="_blank">stories</a> about Second Life is the thing to do now&#8230;</p>
<p>So here is it:</p>
<p><strong>New worlds</strong></p>
<p>&#8220;There are millions of worlds out there, they say.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know about millions, but there are at least several thousand, if not more.</p>
<p>The problem is, when you spread out a few ten thousand people over several thousand worlds, the average world is pretty empty.</p>
<p>You know that, you&#8217;ve been there, in a way.</p>
<p>Remember how it was on Secundus, where there was way more land than people? You would have to travel for days to meet another living soul, and it would be sheer luck to meet up with one of your friends. Now imagine that, multiplied by several thousand.</p>
<p>All this time since the exodus from Secundus after the First Ones left for good, I&#8217;ve been travelling all the news worlds, trying to find her &#8230; the woman that I&#8217;ve lived with for years on Secundus. So far, no trace of her.</p>
<p>The problem is, on every of these new worlds you start from scratch, you see. New name, new body, new face &#8230; and new friends. Unless you&#8217;re one of those rare types who don&#8217;t mind sharing the real self behind the avatar. Then there is a chance that you recognize someone from a previous life. But for most of us, entering a new world is like being re-born. So how do you find someone when all you know is that someone&#8217;s previous life? Especially with how everyone was sent hurtling off in some random direction when Secundus blew up?</p>
<p>There&#8217;s one small chance that I can find her &#8230; her love for growing things and her passion for making growing things &#8220;do her bidding&#8221;, so to speak. I&#8217;ve got gardening terminology coming out of my ears by now, but I&#8217;ll be going to every horticulture tradeshow on the grid until I find her.</p>
<p>Then I&#8217;ll try to find our mutual friends from back on Secundus. That&#8217;ll be even harder. But what else is there to do, when most worlds are empty, or reduce you to some kind of passive consumer of pre-digested content? If I wanted that I would still own a mediaPC &#8230;</p>
<p>But I guess I should be going &#8230; don&#8217;t want to bore you to death with my ramblings &#8230; and besides, I have some more worlds to check today before I turn in.&#8221;</p>
<p>I swill down the last drops of my synthetic coffee and start to rise from the bar stool.</p>
<p>All of a sudden, the woman on the next stool produces a strange, green, glowing flower from her purse, holds it out to me, and says &#8220;I made this &#8230; isn&#8217;t it pretty?&#8221;</p>
<p>I begin to tremble.</p>
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		<title>An open letter to Philip Rosedale</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 09:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Corrimal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A very well written little thing, originally written by Marx Dudek on her blog. Such a shame that Phil won&#8217;t see it. Needs to be reposted on every source possible. Dear Philip, You indicated that your return to the helm would result in a return to transparency. While many of us have been waiting and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://marx.inworld.sl/2010/10/07/are-you-listening-an-open-letter-to-philip-rosedale/">A very well written little thing, originally written by Marx Dudek on her blog. Such a shame that Phil won&#8217;t see it. Needs to be reposted on every source possible.</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Dear Philip,</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>You indicated that your return to the helm would result in a return to transparency.  While many of us have been waiting and hoping for this, it seems that we have the same opacity we learned to endure under Mark Kingdon.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>If you want to instill confidence in us, Philip, you’re not going to do it with a quick Tweet that “SL is growing, not failing.”  This is not communication, this is PR.  If Second Life is indeed growing, tell us how it is doing so, something that gives us the confidence that you’re still genuinely connected with what’s happening in the grid.  Because, Philip, the global economic catastrophes of the past few years have conditioned us to be deeply suspicious of voices that declare “Relax, everything’s just fine!”</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>At the present time, there is absolutely no reason for us to believe that Second Life is growing.  The mainland is pockmarked with large swaths of abandoned parcels and plots of land are selling for as low as a L$0.5 per m2.  We’ve just seen massive Lab layoffs, and the Lindens we relied upon to help us have been replaced with temps equipped with problem-solving laminate cards and no apparent sense of the grid.  Mark Kingdon was fired in the middle of SL7B and no explanation was given.  The Community Gateway Program was closed.  The Teen Grid is being shut down.  European offices that were just opened have been shuttered.  Avatars United has been closed.  And now the announcement that discounts for non-profits and education are being eliminated at the end of the year.  Oh, let’s not forget Burning Life has been stripped of its Lab affiliation – as well as its name.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>This is not to say that all of these decisions are terrible.  Avatars United was a bad acquisition idea from the outset, and I hope that Mark didn’t spend too much money on it.  I get the feeling, though, that Mark burned through a significant amount of the Lab’s money on his blind vision for the company.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>As we enter into Second Life’s seventh year, the company seems – to many of us who are kept on the outside – to be forestalling bankruptcy for as long as possible.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>The grid is starting to feel like Iceland.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>We realize that Second Life beats with the heart of a corporation, not a democracy.  We agree to Terms of Service, rather than forging Constitutions.  We don’t get a vote – except for the money we spend on premium memberships, land auctions, estate purchases, tier, classified ad fees, show-in-search fees, and Marketplace commissions.  Yet that money is truly the lifeblood of Second Life.  For a very long time, I’ve tried not to become overly cynical about it all, but it’s becoming increasingly difficult to remain positive.  I look at my Linden Dollar balance and I wonder if now is a good time to cash out everything but the essentials, and I know that I’m not alone.  Money talks, and lately, it seems that our money is the only voice that we have left in our little vitual world.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Second Life is wonderful, and there’s no other grid out there that can touch it.  That does not, however, mean that Second Life can’t fail.  One need only look at the demise of Blockbuster Video this year – a company that roared over the competition by early innovation, and yet died because management seemed deaf to changes in customer needs and choices.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Second Life is wonderful, but for most of us, it is not a necessity by any means.  Any more than a daily Starbucks double-espresso cappucino is a necessity.  Life in a virtual world truly is a luxury hobby.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Second Life is wonderful, but our concerns falling on deaf ears time and time again … isn’t.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Let’s face it, to the majority of the aware online community outside of our world, Second Life is a joke.  But to several hundred thousand of us, it is worthy of a grand swath of our free time, our social time, and our creativity.  The larger online world doesn’t “get it” – but we do.  We bring our friends in and we show them around and we take them shopping and we ease them through the various rites of passage and we help them become the next wave of enthusiastic residents.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>We are the evangelists.  But like all evangelists, we need a message.  We need vision.  We need to feel as though we still belong.  That we still matter.  “Where there is no vision, the people perish.”  And right now, there seem to be a lot of promises and a lot of reassurances, but no vision.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Your only Twitter post since SLCC is a seemingly-terse response to a comment from someone who stated their opinion that SL was failing because you don’t pay attention to social networking.  Your response was “Oh yes I do! Plus, SL is growing, not failing.”  If Second Life, at the end of 2010 – in the wake of massive layoffs, firings, cutbacks, closures, rate increases, and resident attrition – is indeed growing, then you need to explain to us how this growth is occuring.  You seem to forget that we no longer trust that a company means what it says when it doesn’t provide evidence to back up irrationally exuberant claims of growth and stability.  Stable, growing companies do not need to assure anyone that they’re stable and growing – its self-evident.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>When communication fails, guessing and rumor and misinformation step in.  Case in point, the Microsoft buyout rumor.  I doubt I’m not alone in speculating that Linden Lab is seeking a buyer – perhaps somewhat desperately.  Which leads us to ask, “Who might that buyer be, and how will it impact us?”  And the flip side of the question, “What if Second Life is selling, but there’s no buyer – what then?  Just how dire are things on Battery Street right now?  And what happens if the time comes when we’re told that Second Life is indeed going dark?  Will we be given the time necessary to back up years of memories?”</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>These are questions that are being asked, Philip.  If our fears are unfounded, then you need to talk to us – and soon.  But more importantly, you need to listen to us, and prove that you’re listening to us by having a conversation with us.  And not just one token Tweet, but regular and substantive conversations with your residents.  Because we are so much more than customers.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Or at least we like to think so.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Show me you’re listening.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Please respond.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Best Wishes,</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>The Avatar Known as Marx Dudek</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>PS: Give us back our identity.  We are not “Residents in the Second Life™ Virtual World”.  We are Second Life.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Look of the &#8230; I dunno, &#8220;default&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://secondlife.eregion.de/2010/09/25/look-of-the-i-dunno-default/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 09:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Corrimal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All these &#8220;look of the day&#8221; pictures sure are fun, and interesting, but I think everybody also has a &#8220;this is the real me&#8221; look&#8230; not necessary one that looks like the person in real life, but that tells you how the person thinks of himself or herself&#8230; Here&#8217;s mine: Jeans: DMC Jeans &#8220;Stranded&#8221; Sweater: [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All these &#8220;look of the day&#8221; pictures sure are fun, and interesting, but I think everybody also has a &#8220;this is the real me&#8221; look&#8230; not necessary one that looks like the person in real life, but that tells you how the person thinks of himself or herself&#8230;</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s mine:</p>
<p><img src="http://secondlife.eregion.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/lotd-20100925_001.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Jeans: DMC Jeans &#8220;Stranded&#8221;</p>
<p>Sweater: Navy Blue Ribbed Sweater</p>
<p>Shoes: My! Boat Shoes in tan (not for sale yet)</p>
<p>Skin: Belleza Skin Thomas V2 SK3</p>
<p>Hair: =BG= Gearhead Double Clutch White tips, seriously deprimmed and linked to a beany hat from the inventory library</p>
<p>Boat: Trudeau One &#8220;Love&#8221;</p>
<p>Location: <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Orwood/171/38/22" target="_blank">Hanayama</a></p>
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		<title>Look of the year &#8211; 2010</title>
		<link>http://secondlife.eregion.de/2010/09/03/look-of-the-year-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Corrimal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Style card: T-Shirt: T-Junction &#34;PWND&#34; (freebie) Jeans: DMC Claw&#8217;d Jeans X Shoes: Maitreya Desert Boots Glasses: Solar Eyewear Naos &#34;Look of the year&#34;, because I&#8217;m perfectly happy to run around in the same outfit for more than a few hours, unlike some other people I could name&#8230; =-=-=-=-=Powered by Blogilo]]></description>
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<p>Style card:</p>
<ul>
<li>T-Shirt: T-Junction &quot;PWND&quot; (freebie)</li>
<li>Jeans: DMC Claw&#8217;d Jeans X</li>
<li>Shoes: Maitreya Desert Boots</li>
<li>Glasses: Solar Eyewear Naos</li>
</ul>
<p>&quot;Look of the year&quot;, because I&#8217;m perfectly happy to run around in the same outfit for more than a few hours, unlike some other people I could name&#8230; <img src='http://secondlife.eregion.de/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':P' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Blue Mars&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://secondlife.eregion.de/2010/07/30/blue-mars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Corrimal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got a notecard in SL where someone talks about being in blue mars instead of SL&#8230; here are a few quotes&#8230; Blue Mars brags advanced graphics, no lag and mesh orientated content (this means the clothes are fabulous). And here&#8217;s a picture of those fabulous clothes: Is it just me or is that a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I got a notecard in SL where someone talks about being in blue mars instead of SL&#8230;</p>
<p>here are a few quotes&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>Blue Mars brags advanced graphics, no lag and mesh orientated content (this means the clothes are fabulous).</p>
</blockquote>
<p>And here&#8217;s a picture of those fabulous clothes:</p>
<p><img src="http://secondlife.eregion.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/bluemarsdresses.jpg" /></p>
<p>Is it just me or is that a really sad joke?</p>
<p>And don&#8217;t get me started about &quot;fabulous graphics&quot; in general. My laptop runs SL in ultimate and Blue mars looks like I have dirty, grey glasses on while running SL at minimum.</p>
<p>&quot;no lag&quot;&#8230; of course not, with no users&#8230;</p>
<p>Anyways, BM needs another 5 years to mature. And even then it won&#8217;t be competition for &quot;real&quot; virtual worlds like SL and others, simply because of the missing &quot;your world, your imagination&quot; principle&#8230; in BM only people who can afford their own sim can create their own world.</p>
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		<title>The sorry state of men&#8217;s fashions in Second Life</title>
		<link>http://secondlife.eregion.de/2010/06/28/the-sorry-state-of-mens-fashions-in-second-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Corrimal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been following seven different men&#8217;s fashion blogs for about two weeks now&#8230; &#8230; and it has almost convinced me that &#8220;men&#8217;s fashion&#8221; in Second Life basically means &#8220;gay vampire teen elves&#8221;. Someone prove me wrong please. Seriously&#8230; there are so many awesome designers out there, making such awesome stuff for women in so many [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been following <span style="text-decoration: underline;">seven different</span> men&#8217;s fashion blogs for about two weeks now&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230; and it has almost convinced me that &#8220;men&#8217;s fashion&#8221; in Second Life basically means &#8220;gay vampire teen elves&#8221;.</p>
<p>Someone prove me wrong please.</p>
<p>Seriously&#8230; there are so many awesome designers out there, making such awesome stuff for women in so many different styles&#8230; why does men&#8217;s fashion have to be uniformly ugly, with only a very few notable exceptions (and even those exceptions are becoming pretty boring by now since they are all just repetitions of the same thing)?</p>
<p>I mean&#8230; how many different tuxes and &#8220;good suits&#8221;, how many different sneakers and jeans, how many different t-shirts does a guy need?</p>
<p>In SL, where clothes don&#8217;t wear out? One of each, with the single exception of t-shirts from T Junction maybe <img src='http://secondlife.eregion.de/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>And when a guy as those &#8220;one of each&#8221;, what is left?</p>
<p>Not much unless you want to look as if you&#8217;re wearing a costume.</p>
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		<title>Ding Dong The M Is Dead!!!</title>
		<link>http://secondlife.eregion.de/2010/06/24/ding-dong-the-m-is-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Corrimal</dc:creator>
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		<title>So long, and thanks for all the shit&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://secondlife.eregion.de/2010/06/10/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-shit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Corrimal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted on SL Universe: I am really sad about this. I sat for a couple years on an email address, and today SL officially died to me, so I used it. I wrote to the email address you use as a Linden when you leave LL. I talked a bit to Cristiano, and he encouraged [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Posted on <a href="http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/general-sl-discussion/45427-linden-lab-anticipates-staff-reductions-4.html#post951004">SL Universe</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>I am really sad about this. I sat for a couple years on an email address, and today SL officially died to me, so I used it. I wrote to the email address you use as a Linden when you leave LL. I talked a bit to Cristiano, and he encouraged me to post this, so I&#8217;m going to. here is what I wrote to that address. The subject line was &quot;so long, and thanks for all the shit&quot;.</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Hello, and goodbye,</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>As you know, we&#8217;ve had a major restructuring this week. By that I mean</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>the new CFO has fired* a bunch of people so that the shareholders (I</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>will not capitalize that word) can make more money off our blood,</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>sweat, and tears; their ball of confusion is a higher priority than</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>ours.</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>for the tl;dnr crowd, save your time, I&#8217;m simply saying management has</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>been fucked, is fucked, and will always be fucked, because they don&#8217;t</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>understand the product and will never care about the people who make</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>it. For those who like to read, have fun!</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Sadly, I am among those cut for the greater good &#8211; which I think makes</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>me not the greater good. I would like to thank you all for these</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>glorious 6 years, except I&#8217;m far too pissed off to do so. Instead, for</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>my departure letter, I&#8217;d like to single out some gentlemen who&#8217;s</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>particularly poor leadership caused this in the first place. Here come</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>some shoutouts!</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>*Philip &#8211; I was super-sad(tm) when you couldn&#8217;t get your head around</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>what you tried to create, much less take any responsibility for it.</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>.</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>*Mark &#8211; You are a penis. And not in a good way.</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>*Bob &#8211; The balls you have to do this cut after having a job in which</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>you have never actually interacted with your product are enormous, and</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>I admire that. There is a special room in hell for you, and if I&#8217;m</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>lucky, the devil will let me off my &quot;mow this lawn, with your teeth&quot;</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>job for a few hours every day to punch you in the face, while I get</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>lemonade. If I&#8217;m unlucky, I will get no lemonade.</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>As the wheels on the bus failed to go round and round, I can only</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>shake my head and think &quot;told you so&quot;. From the early days through the</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>lunch menu and on into the future**, we have constantly provided a</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>substandard product with no accountability for it, despite the best</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>efforts of many of the people that got shit-canned today. I&#8217;d be able</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>to make a strong argument that the people laid off today were the</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>people who kept the fucking waterlogged boat afloat, and that the</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>executives named above are the entire problem. Time will tell.</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>For those of you who still have a job, I have nothing but admiration</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>and a strong advisement that you GTFO. This isnt a huggy situation,</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>this is a corporate situation in which your work is judged by managers</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>who don&#8217;t understand wtf you&#8217;re even doing, and sadly, don&#8217;t care.</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Nothing you ever paid me for was worth this, you jerkoffs. Since this</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>won&#8217;t go to the people you actually</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>liquidated/fired/terminated/torleyated/whatever I will be posting this</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>elsewhere so that everybody will have the opportunity to understand</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>what you just did.</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>I&#8217;d like to close with this wonderful quote, which I think sums up how</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>we all feel:</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&quot;I&#8217;ve labored long and hard for bread,</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>For honor, and for riches,</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>But on my corns too long you&#8217;ve tread,</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>You fine-haired sons of bitches.&quot;</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>- Black Bart, 1877</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Love, Peace, and Hair Grease,</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Taco Fucking Rubio</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>AKA _Linden, AKA KGB Linden AKA Fink Linden, AKA Spy Linden AKA CIA Linden</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>*Firing people sucks. Make other people do it.</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>**There is no future. You blew it.</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>P.S. if you are reading this, you still have a job there. I understand</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>that you probably have survivor&#8217;s guilt &#8211; &quot;why do i have my job when</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>so many good people don&#8217;t!?!&quot; &#8211; please do not dwell on that and</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>understand that you have your job because some shitty manager who is</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>trying to save his/her job made some decisions on how to best do that,</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>so that a director trying to save his/her job could say &quot;look i&#8217;m</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>shaking things up&quot;. Don&#8217;t dwell, just let today be a wake up call to</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>you as a reminder that this is a company, not a family, and the rich</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>eat themselves. You aren&#8217;t rich, start looking for a new job now, you</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>will be next. Love you guys!</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Last edited by Taco Rubio; Today at 12:56 AM. </p>
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