Elfay´s today

Me, Diana and Mari (Photo courtesy of Joetonight Starship)

Bock as Buddy (Photo courtesy of Joetonight Starship)

Enjoying Elfay Pinkdot´s "Coffee and Pajamas Jazz Show" at Circe´s Sunset Jazz Club. Today was "The Buddy Holly Show" as I hope you see.

And right in the middle of the show my Internet Service Provider  was taken down by lightning...

With the Dudes at The Marina

Yesterday my SecondLife started with a visit from Elorian Scarbridge and Butch Diavolo. They stopped by for a grand tour of Southern Charm. During the long tour we had a good conversation, it turn´s out that Butch actually knows almost everyone I am acquainted with in SecondLife.

Afterwards we continued on to Butch´s set at the wonderful new venue Chade Dagger has built on Hinterland. It´s called "The Marina"!

 

Chade Dagger

Sven Sharktooth

On Rebranding of SecondLife

On her blog "Dwell On It" Tateru Nino last week raised the question of a possible rebranding of SecondLife in 2011, in the post "Second Life rebranding in 2011?"

This was my reaction to that idea:

Why the hell mend something that is not broken? I do not share Tateru´s notion that SecondLife sounds "creepy" or is a "lousy brand name".

I would ask the marketing department at Linden Lab to carefully reconsider any changes of the brand name, other than the one I mention in my comment. There are lots of other things that the marketing people can focus their meddlesome energy at to attract new users.

For one thing they could reintroduce the wonderful and thought-evoking slogan “Your World – Your Imagination”.

Another thing they could work with is that awful pseudo-religious logo, I never liked or understood that ugly hand and eye thing.

A third thing is should the vampire-role playing be given such a prominent exposure, why not instead  focus on the community building efforts of all kinds that are going on in-world?

Secret Message To Taco

To Mr. Taco Rubio, Esquire

Dear Sir,

I have received your latest message in our most recent discussion in IM. It was forwarded to my e-mail.

My response is, that whatever number or amount you say I am now asking for the +1-rule to be applied. According to the Kindergarten rules I cannot be beaten now, because I was the first to call for the +1 rule.

Hugs you lovingly +1

Bock

(P.S. Don´t even think you can confuse me with a godawful  Google translation, I may laugh but I will not budge an inch.)

Maud Who?

Yes, I did choose the worst possible picture of her

Maud Olofsson is a Swedish politician. She has been the leader of the Centre Party of Sweden (Centerpartiet) since 2001, and Minister for Enterprise and Energy since 2006. She served as Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden between 2006 and 2010.

Maud Olofsson has now announced that she is stepping down as leader of the party. Good rhythms I say!

Her greatest accomplishment as leader for the party was to betray the party´s voters by suddenly forcing through a complete turnabout on the party´s longstanding position against Nuclear Power. She has always had a great knack of talking down to people and being overbearing.

I long for the day when I can say, "Maud who?"

Transatlantic Greetings

I sent an e-mail greeting to Ars´s family for Liberty Day and yesterday I got a response from his sister Marsdeb Yoots (the family´s avatar name).

In the message she asks me to "Tell everyone in 2^nd Life hello for me."

So there goes, I fulfilled my obligations, and of course I told her you all said hi back!

Upcoming Election for Board of Directors of Second Pride 2012

Second Pride and its LGBT Festival finished it´s 2011 edition. The organization is not permanently owned by any person, it has democratic elections each year to allow anyone to get involved and be part of the next Board of Directors to organize the event.

SP 2012 ELECTIONS ARE HERE! Make a change, get involved, go to http://www.secondpride.com/

Register to be a voter for elections (Not needed if you already registered a previous year).Click here http://www.secondpride.com/secondpridevotes.htm and follow ALL steps for registration.

APPLY TO BE PART OF SECOND PRIDE 2012!

Elections are coming up and you may register to become a Second Pride Board member and join the adventure of organizing the biggest LGBT Festival in Second Life!

Challenge, Teamwork, Creativity, Perseverance, Dedication, Optimism, Leadership, Imagination, Respect, Change, Purpose

WE NEED YOU  

TO HELP US WITH YOUR SKILLS AND TALENTS!

Applications are open from June 25th until July 9th 2011!

Apply for a position on the Second Pride Board of Directors here

http://shortlinks.secondpride.com/boardapplication

Submit your details to be part of the 2012 staff helping the Board here

http://shortlinks.secondpride.com/staffapplication

Second Pride - To serve, support and empower 

the diverse LGBT communities of Second Life!