Phone Scam

I had heard about this scam for awhile, but nothing remotely adventurous ever happens to me so I didn't think more of it.

The guy calling me early this morning spoke broken English in an Indian or Malayan accent and told me he was from a "Microsoft Support partner". I could hear he was in a call-center of sorts because there were many talking around him.

The company had received a warning that my computer had been infected with some really bad virus. I was not to worry though because he was calling to help me remove it from my computer. If I would please start my computer he would help me at once and my computer would be virus free in a few minutes.

I was relieved that I had heard of this scam, so I knew exactly what to do. I thanked him kindly for his amicable offer and told him I had the situation under control. As I said "Goodbye" to him he was shouting at me not to hang up.

If it had been later in the day (phoning before 9 AM on a Saturday morning is criminal. or should be) and I had been more alert I think I would have listened to him and then pretend to start a sex chat with him. I would have begun by telling him he had a sexy voice. Next I would ask what he was wearing and and what his body stats were. After that I would ask him to remove a garment, just for me... etc., etc.

Payback Is A Friend From the Past

I saw this on J.M.G. and felt the need to re-post it.

Isn´t it totally hilarious when old girlfriends remembers ones sins from the past on a social forum as one is  trying to be "holier than thou"?

I cannot help loving Courtney, purely platonic of course as I am not into women... (Clarification I do not want to risk losing  my membership in the Rhino Writers group.)

RL Photo Exhibition & A Colorful Rezday

On Thursday I was invited by tthe gallery owner Aake Roffo to a exhibition opening at his gallery at Yadkin. The exhibition was called "Houses in RL" and featured the first life photography of Kaja Lurra, well known sim landscaper in SecondLife.

I liked the pictures a lot and even bought a beautiful one showing some old beautiful blue tapestry. As I am mostly a people person here are some pictures of the visitors at the exhibition.

My buddy Emarald Harvey and his sweet avantgarde wife Zigadena Gabardini

Party people

Beautiful Svessa Hax  flanked by Aake Roffo and NE0 Timeless

After the gallery opening I had originally planned to retire because I had a early morning meeting in first life on Friday, but Kandinsky Beaumont and Apmel Goosson convinced me I would have time to drop in at a rezday party.

The rezday party was for SaveMe Oh, famous and/or notorious performance artist in SecondLife. She has made her whole public existence inworld into art by behaving rudely and by being obnoxious and cantankerous. Sometimes I find it amusing and am wholeheartedly entertained, at other times not so much.

Apmel and Kandi had been appointed as my caretakers by my little sister Millimina Salamander when she went off on a first life adventure for a couple of days. When I learned this I could not refuse them any more so I crashed the rezday party.

Luckily Apmel had warned me beforehand that it would be colorful, but what I saw when I was teleported in was the most amazingly bright cacophony of colors in all imaginable shapes and forms. It was a veritable bombardment of the visual preceptors (i.e my eyes). Occasionally we would also have shoals of sharks attacking us. I presume the shark is her totem-animal, but I am not sure.

I enjoyed the experience thoroughly but after about half an hour my sight was suffering from an overdose and it was time for me to sneak of to bed.

The rezday girl SaveMe Oh

At Ewa´s Mardi Gras

Tonight I dropped in at my friend Ewa Aska´s Mardi Gras celebration at the Gimli Theater. The event was packed with avatars from Sweden, Norway and everywhere else when I arrived but I had "grey issues" so the pictures I took where pretty useless.

The picture above is from later in the evening, when the crowds had thinned out, and shows me enjoying the music of DJ Peppe, who was a good surprise. He played great slow music that put the couples in a romantic mood, if they weren't there already.

An acquaintance of mine complained "Not all of us have someone to hug!". When I offered him to come to me, he just laughed and teleported out of the place. Imagine... well, better luck next time perhaps...

The Laird is Shocked

So as the reluctant royalist that I am, I will now share the good and the bad news with you, my dear readers!

Lets start with the good news. Here is the relevant announcement in English that was sent out yesterday from the Swedish royal household.

The Much Honored Bock McMillan, laird of Southern Charm and prince of Cascade Falls, was happy for the young family and that they were all doing well, even if his thoughts also went to the poor harrowed father who must have had an awful sleepless night. (Why cannot women have the consideration to give birth during office hours, say between 9 AM and 5 PM, when fathers are up and about anyway?)

The shocking news came today when the Swedish royal household made the following announcement.

"Friday the 24th of February a cabinet meeting was held at the Royal Palace to mark the birth of a new heir to the throne. At the cabinet meeting, The King informed the Government that the Princess will be named Estelle Silvia Ewa Mary, with the given name Estelle. The Princess was assigned duchess of Östergötland."

Luckily the laird was seated when this announcement was handed to him by HRH Callum Beamish, prince of Cascade Falls and ambassador of Sweden to Southern Charm. 

The poor laird went pale and started shivering when he read the announcement then he cried out in agony "Estelle? Silvia? Ewa (with that unfortunate spelling)? and Mary?. Have those Swedes gone totally insane? These are no names for a future queen of Sweden, what happened to Margareta, Christina, Victoria, Ingeborg or even Blanche, after that sweet old princess from Namur?" 

It took a long while for the laird to recover from this blow but finally, with a visible effort, he collected himself and with a deep sigh and a beautiful little smile said "Well, we cannot expect all royals to have our impeccable taste. We will  have to accept with fortitude what we cannot control."

Rhino Writers

"Now forming, Rhino Writers is a gay bloggers group in Second Life, believing there is power in numbers. Formed by Avacar Bluestar & Eddi Haskell, we want to raise up the art form of blogging to a new level.

Description of Rhino Symbol:

Purple Rhinoceros

The purple rhino made its first appearance in December 1974. It was created by two Boston gay rights activists: one source names Bernie Toal and Tom Morganti, another says it was Bernie Toal and Daniel Thaxton. The entire campaign was intended to bring gay issues further into public view. The rhino started being displayed in subways in Boston, but since the creators didn’t qualify for a public service advertising rate, the campaign soon became too expensive for the activists to handle. The ads disappeared, and the rhino never caught on anywhere else.

As Toal put it, “The rhino is a much maligned and misunderstood animal and, in actuality, a gentle creature.” But when a rhinoceros is angered, it fights ferociously. At the time, this seemed a fitting symbol for the gay rights movement. Lavender was used because it was a widely recognized gay pride color and the heart was added to represent love and the “common humanity of all people.” The purple rhinoceros was never copyrighted and is public domain.

Requirements:
Must have posted more than 3 articles in the past six months. And be at least 90% gay :)


IM any member for your group invite, subject to Rhino Checkpoint’s approval (Official membership chairperson TBA).


Our first item on agenda is to create clicker boards (one each) for each of our members’ blogs for placement in the Rhino Writer’s booth at Second Pride 2012. Dimension detail to follow shortly in group notice.


Avacar & Eddi"
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Well, I fit the requirements so of course I joined when I was invited. There is a shortcut on my blog to the page that is being set up at GWNews.

Ewa´s Mardi Gras

My friend Ewa Aska is throwing a combined housewarming party and carnival tomorrow, Friday February 24, 2012, at 1 PM.

Mardi Gras beads are compulsory and clothing optional if I choose to deliberately misread her invitation. (Although knowing Ewa as well as I do, I think you will be kicked off the sim if you come only wearing beads - if they do not cover all of your interesting parts (boobs, penises and asses).