My Apmelito Vortex

My bosom buddy Apmel Goosson in his blog post My Avatar's Name is Apmel; Caught By A Vortex directed by attention to a cool tool. The above picture is the result of my labors. 

Create Your Own Same-Sex Marriage Ruling

Joe.My.God. today tips his readers about Slate's offer to create our own ruling, based on sentences, phrases, and concepts taken from rulings by Justice Anthony Kennedy of the Supreme Court, Judge John E. Jones III of Pennsylvania, Judge Michael McShane of Oregon, Judge Candy Dale of Idaho, Judge Orlando Garcia of Texas, Judge Timothy Black of Ohio, and Judge Richard Young of Indiana.

I thought I should share this amazingly cool tool with my own readership. This is where you go to do it: Slate/Outward; "Create your own (same-sex) marriage ruling"

My generated (same-sex) marriage opinion is:

"The plaintiffs are entitled to extraordinary remedies because of their extraordinary injuries. The state’s marriage laws withhold from them a profound and personal choice, one that most can take for granted.

The ban on same-sex marriage demeans gay couples, whose moral and sexual choices the Constitution protects. And it humiliates the children raised by same-sex couples. Under this law, same-sex couples have their lives burdened, by reason of government decree, in visible and public ways. By its great reach, the law touches many aspects of married and family life, from the mundane to the profound.

Even today I am reminded of the legacy that we have bequeathed today’s generation when my son looks dismissively at the sweater I bought him for Christmas, and, with a roll of his eyes, says “Dad … that is so gay.” The state’s marriage laws deny same-sex couples the economic, practical, emotional, and spiritual benefits of marriage, relegating each couple to a stigmatized, second-class status."

Essential Tools for SecondLife Residents

Last week I visited the Xcite store for the first time in ages. For safety I brought along my regular entourage, Guyke and Butch, those two can scare away any potential suitor.

Let me divert a little to give you an example from yesterday evening. The three of us were in a completely different store inworld checking to see if there was anything new. A woman came up to us and made unwanted advances towards Guyke and myself, I think she avoided Butch because he is so obviously a hardass and a screaming faggot (in his sublime and humble way). Well, I just simply tried to ignore the woman but Guyke wouldn't have any of that so he shouts out in local: "OK bitch, next time you walk into me I will need to kill you!", which made the woman turn her attention to other potential shoppers instead.

Back to the visit to the Xcite store. When we were looking around there, I saw these two invaluable tools/services for inworld dating and/or cruising.

First of all a "Virgin Restoration Service"

And then a "Virginity Detector"

I tried it out on myself and three of my friends. The results for myself and Butch were quite unexpected, as I was informed that the two of us are in fact virgins. For Dej and Guyke the detector almost burst into flames as it informed me: "Hell no, no way and no how are these guys virgins!" (Well, it really only said that they were NOT virgins but I chose to embellish a little.)

Xcite's webpage

Cool tool

On "Ryce Skytower in Second Life" I found a link to this cool tool that transforms any picture you upload.  There are tons of variations.

I tried out the watercolor and the pencil drawing on two of my pictures. This is how they turned out.