What About A Contest?

I was thinking - pffft yeah I do do that sometimes - about this several times today. In the back of my head or actively.

Let me just toss out this idea to you all and let's see how it flies.

There are in my possession 108 contributions of wonderful pictures in my project "Nakna avatarer i SL" ("Naked avatars in SL").

Even if we take away my own contribution, my contribution of Ars, my contributions of my two alts, Wild and Hedda, the contribution that was withdrawn and the entry number 108 - which really is just a sneak photo at an event, there are still 102 amazing pictures left.

I love them all for different reasons, but still I think that some are on the whole a tad bit better than the rest, and one could possibly even be considered the best in show.

What if I offered to pay L$ 25 000 to the winner, the rest get nothing.

I think if we could get a jury consisting of five people who were willing to go through all the 102 contributions and each give the ten pictures they like best points - in falling order from first to last - 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point(s).

From the jurors votes we could select the five or ten that get the highest total scores put these pictures out for popular voting. Everyone who wanted to take part would then be free to vote once on the three contributions they liked the best giving them the points 12, 10 and 8. Voting would of course be free of cost.

From the sum of the popular vote we would award the prize to the picture that got the highest score and the one on the winning picture would receive the prize money on Christmas Day, December 25th 2010.

For the final prize ceremony we could have a party on the field by my barn. I could get a DJ or two to play for us.

Just a rough idea yet! Please tell me what you think about it and if you have any suggestions for changes.

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P.S. I would of course not be a juror or take part in any other way than donating the money and the use of the field and paying for the DJ´s.

Rumours About Microsoft Continue

My friend Eddi Haskell reports on his blog www.eddihaskell.com  that the rumours concerning a Microsoft takeover of Linden Lab (the owners of SecondLife) still continue.

Ars Forever - Forever Ars

It´s my Ars rezday today. let´s party! Love you always, babe!

(Haha another boyband to celebrate him, I hear him grinding his teeth and muttering!)

Today Was Ars Rezday

October 25th, 2006, was the first day the avatar named Ars Northmead rezzed into SecondLife. Today would have been his fourth rezday.

As many of you already know Doug, the man behind the avatar, passed away on March 12th, 2010, after a battle with double pneumonia, so Ars will never again rez into SecondLife.

Ars was the most loving, caring and tender man I have ever known in any world. He was also among the most intelligent, warmhearted, creative, fiercely loyal, humorous, pig headed and stubborn men in both worlds. Hell I could throw all the positive adjectives in the dictionary at you, and some of the negative also - of course.  

But I am not impartial concerning Ars and never will be.

When I first came to SecondLife, I very soon received a few advances for partnering, setting up house together and what have you. People told me they loved me after an hour´s conversation, or four days acquaintanceship or - in the slow cases - three weeks.

I thought to myself, "What is wrong with these people? What the f**k are they talking about? I am never ever going there, they are crazy!" All that skepticism ended when I got to know Ars.

I remember the first time I noticed him, long before - well, a few months before - I ever dared speak to him personally. It was at the Devil Inside Club. The DI was at the time "the only" club to be for most of the gay men in SecondLife. I was shown to this club in the summer of 1997 by a friend named Drizz McMillan, who has since left SecondLife. 

Ars was wearing the cutest hat, which was what first caught my eye. After awhile I understood he was the DJ and I heard his voice and laughter - and I was charmed senseless.  

This was when my "Stalking Ars-period" started. I joined the "sarco sound group" and actually went to any and every set the DJ´s in that group ever played that were possible in my time zone. That finally ended when Ars and I started talking with each other. Then I was caught - forever. 

I have been rummaging through my overladen inventory for pictures of Ars. I found several hundred, here I would like to share a few with you all.

How To Get A Bubble Butt

David Wavey shows you how to get the best butt. Go for it, start working out!

For more useful tips on how to get yourselves a body in real life like the one you have in SecondLife visit David Wavey´s Fitness blog. You can learn more about David Wavey on his personal blog Break the Illusion.

I thank my genes for my beautiful bubble butt, my low blood pressure and my strong heart.

I first learned about David Wavey at www.eddihaskell.com

Pull Your Thumbs Out, Beatrice!

A gunman has been prowling the streets of Malmö, the third largest town in Sweden, at night lately and has been shooting at immigrants. At least 15-18 immigrants are believed to have been shot by this particular person.

The Attorney General of Sweden, Mrs. Beatice Ask, claims "she is following the situation closely" and that she is "concerned".

Today the Mayor of Malmö, Mr. Ilmar Reepalu, in an opinion piece in Sydsvenskan - "Malmö has had enough" - made an excellent analysis and summary of the situation and placed the responsibility firmly and squarely on Mrs. Asks shoulders. Mayor Reepalu  concludes, in his article, that the rule of law cannot make exceptions for certain towns.The people of Malmö have had enough now and must get their sence of security back.

In my opinion Mayor Reepalu makes a a brilliant analysis and a splendid summary of the situation. (Actually I am a bit surprised, because I never agreed with the bugger before...)

The Sweden Democrat Party, the xenophobic option in Swedish politics, has of course already drawn its premature and simplified conclusions. which most of us can completely ignore because they are not based on any analysis, but on their ingrained hatred and contempt for everyone and everything that is not like themselves and think as they do.

It is time to step ut to the plate, Mrs. Ask, and start taking some action. As my Ars always said; 
"Actions speak louder than words!"

Second Norway - Two Years Today

We love them, we love them and we love them again and more.

We Swedes do like to make fun of them anyway, as they do with us. The problem is the Norwegian jokes about us are never that funny, but we still laugh politely.

I honestly think there are no sexier, sweeter or more charming people than the Norwegians anywhere in the worlds, both real and second life´s.

 Second Norway celebrates it´s second rezday in SecondLife today to which I would  like to say: Happy Rezday Second Norway!

To celebrate this wonderful day I give you an old classic from the early 1960s,"The Helmer Bryds Eminent Five Quartett" with their protest song about "Norway". (It should however be noted that the song was of course made long before the Norwegians found oil in the North Atlantic Ocean...)



"Norway" the protest song

It is said that one should not generalize,
and say for example that "Germany is not good"
One really shouldn´t do that, but this doesn´t apply 
to the country where Norwegians live. 

Norway, Norway,it is a rotten country. 
Norwegians, Norwegians, a fucking band of robbers. 
Norwegians, Norwegians, they fish bad cod.
So if you see a slob, and he stinks like rotten fish 
He is undoubtedly Norwegian. 

Yes, the Norwegians they are terrible,
so ugly and so small.
With ties that are disgusting with Norwegian flowers on. 
They fool around and fuss, and yodel and go on.
One wonders when one see´s them, how stupid can you be? 

Norway, Norway, it never rises "frem".
Norway, Norway, with the thousand "hjem".
Norway, Norway, you stain on our earth. 
We can feel the stench all the way down to the Dogger Bank 
from your Norwegian smorgasbord. 

We should give a real blow to Norway as a nation,
because they have so ugly mountains and have bad pensions too. 
They don´t make cars and the bikes they make are lousy 
and their only great poet, he is named Peter Dass. (Note: Dass is slang for toilet in Swedish) 

Norway, Norway, is the world's worst country. 
Norwegians, Norwegians, they should be taken care of.
Norwegians, Norwegians, the people that the Lord gave 
a hopeless mind and a forehead that is so low 
so that the hat keeps falling off"