DJ World - 4th Anniversary

 
 

Oh what a night it was! What a beautiful, wonderful, laggy and nostalgic night. I haven´t crashed so many times since early in the spring of 2008.

The music was good, people were in a great mood and the chatting in local and IM was funny. Jeff Ellsworth, Ziggy Starsmith, Larz Kaz, Khar Indigo, DJ Insyx, Flad Dagostino, Justin Pastorelli, Flupke Bekkers, Adonis Lubitsch and Trace Junkers were all there looking hunky as ever - except Khar who was sweet and not hunky at all - together with a lot of avatars I had met in my early days and some I had actually never seen at all. Sasch Petrov, the organizer of the event, was even seen dancing with this awesome Jimmy-hunk I remembered seeing at Second Pride.

Sure there was a bit too much "gesturbating", after all the event was at the Arsenal club in Gay Zone Germany and our German brothers love their gestures as we all know. I only had to mute about three Germans to get a tolerable noise level.

Sadly though the organizers decided to cancel the event after the third or fourth sim-crash, when we had only gotten through half the line-up, but Sarco Halderman had done his set and the time was getting late in real life so I was not too upset.

Sarco´s voice sounded hoarser and sexier than ever, Millimina Salamander and I suspected he had a very bad cold or a throat infection. When I asked him after his set he told me he had been whispering so as not to wake up his man, Harley, who was snoozing away in the next room.

I also enjoyed listening to the music of Sasch Petrov, Ralphy Triellis and Karl Kalchek for the first time, I hope to hear them again in the future.

In short everyone was there - or wished they had been - and some of the straight people too. Both my bosom-buddies sirhc DeSantis and Apmel Goosson made an appearance and even ush Underwood, who set foot on a German sim for the first time ever if I understood correctly.

UPDATE: I just caught this news on the Gay World News blog: Due to sim lag issues and because it went offline and restarted each hour… we regrettably had to cancel the DJ Night for today. We hope to have again this great event at a later date. Thanks All for coming !

Following Hurricane Irene

The last few day I have been busy keeping track of hurricane Irene as she closes in on New York City, which apart from Boston further to the north and parts of Canada, is where I know i have friends and loved ones in the hurricanes predicted trajectory.

The good news is that it keeps losing speed, the bad news is that it can still cause a lot of damage! I am hoping and wishing for them all to be safe. Love you all, guys and girls!

Courtesy of New York Times: Hurricane Irene Tracking Map 

Are You Ready to Party?

From 10 AM to 10 PM (SLT/PST) it´s paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarty time with a collection of some of the best DJ´s that gay SecondLife has to offer at my old hangout place Arsenal for the 4th Anniversary of DJ World and the 30th DJ Night.

As I sometimes say:

BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!!!

Intermission - NOW With Added Value...

Above is the Bollywood version, beneath is the hunks having fun version. I love both equally. (I found the hunk-version on J.M.G.)

Take the Poll About Mesh

"How excited are you about Mesh?"

That´s the question my friend Eddi Haskell is asking in the poll on his blog this week. Go to Eddi Haskell´s Second Life and tell us what your opinion is.

Help I Need A New Body!

As you may remember my stepson Guyke took me to a few choice-stores the other day.

Well, I went back yesterday to see if I would find something I liked and I did. Because he had told me the clothes would need "a lot of fitting" I was careful enough to only buy one item of clothing though.

I bought a cool denim-jacket that looked really great on the store picture, but this is what it looks when I wear it...

In my third life I am so going to wish for a body like a clothes-hanger or demand that the vendor give me the numbers for the body shape that can wear their garments.

I have no patience for this... I am going completely crazy trying to get this prim to fit my body.

Perhaps I should instead make a shape for when I wear clothes and one for when I don´t, just like women who always get a shape for "with skirt" and one for "without skirt".

Breedable Animals

Does anyone still remember Sion Chickens? Ever since I dropped that crazy, costly and immensely lag-creating "hobby" I totally lost interest and touch with that community and any other breeding animal or vegetable in SecondLife.

Sion Chickens were all the rage for a while in SecondLife. Someone had actually figured out how to sell eggs (Sion Eggs), which when they were lain on the ground after a few hours would hatch into the cutest small yellow - male or female -chickens in different colors. These small chickens would after a while grow into ugly adults. If you had a rooster and a bunch of hens together the hens would start laying eggs, which in turn would hatch into male or female chickens and grow up and would in turn mate, lay eggs of new colors depending on which colors their parents had, hatch, grow up, breed... etc. etc. ad infinitum.

All the while they had to eat, the food was the real racket, the food could only be bought from Sion Corps. One plate of food was inexpensive, but you had to feed them all the time and relatively soon  you had many chickens that needed food. Because who wanted chickens dying all over their backyard in SecondLife, screaming pitifully to you that they were hungry?

I got my first four Sion Eggs as a rezday present from a then friend and business partner of Ars´s named Butch H****n - today he is by me mostly referred to as "that a**hole" if I ever think or speak of him - however I will not go into that ugliness today.

When the four eggs had hatched I promptly named them Uno, Dos, Tres and Cuatro. Uno was the only rooster, the other three were hens. These four were the start to my completely failed egg production industry, "McMillan Eggs - Simply the best".

Ars helped me out by building a basic chicken coup for me where I could keep my hatched chicken. The man was actually amazing through the following months, he just suggested we restart the sim more often than we had in the past. In the end I think we were up to five or six times a day and we still had our only tenant complaining about the lag created by my 25 adult poultry.

At first you could take the eggs you didn't want to hatch into Inventory, then Sion Corps "updated" so you couldn't do that without buying "proteggtors" from them.

I left the racket when not even the "proteggtor" would help because they "updated to make it more lifelike" and any eggs not hatched within three or four weeks would rot and go poof. That was when the racket finally dawned on me, I am only sorry to say it took a couple of months. I slaughtered my poultry, sent the remaining food to one of Sion Corps representatives with a few choice words and closed down the business.

Life was blissful after that. Ars was happy and the lag was minimal again. The amazing thing is Ars never once complained to me and I don´t think to anyone else either. He was loving and patient through it all, not until I shut down did he tell me that he had not been "particularilly happy about those damned chickens".

The pictures show the remnants of my venture, I keep them as a reminder of my foolishness and to stay away from breedable animals. Everything else from that era in my second life has been completely deleted from my Inventory.

The Sion Chickens were the first breedables to the best of my knowledge, then came the Sion Corn (which you could use to feed the chickens with but had to buy water etc. from the Sion Corps to grow), then the bunnies, the horses and the kittens and whatever...