Welcome Home, Guyke

The lost son has returned to SecondLife after a very long visit to Finland. Kill the fatted calf, pull out the barrels of beer, it is time to celebrate!

Backlash

Photo by Smedenborn on Flickr

The summer in Sweden has come to a sudden standstill with heavy rains and thunderstorms - at least in the southern parts of the country.

Short summer rains can be reinvigorating and clear the air, but when it just goes on day after day it is really uninspiring. I am feeling moody.

For the first time I feel like I am fleeing my first life when I decide to log into SecondLife for a chance to wear my sun glasses.

My Next Building Project

Ever since I first saw the wonderful work of the Swedish furniture designer Nirvan Richter, I have been in love with it. The first time was already in 1993 and - as I am never fickle in my feelings - the love still persists.

From the start this easy chair has been my biggest favorite (together with his huge cupboard), it comes in at least 1440 variations, believe it or not, and every chair is made to order. I am the happy owner of one. I remember I showed it to Ars when I bought it and he loved it also.

You can see all of Nirvan´s wonderful furniture at his company Norrgavel´s website (The website is unfortunately only in Swedish, but you can find a lot of the company´s old catalogs on the Internet with translations in English).

When The Much Honored Bock McMillan, laird of Southern Charm and prince of Cascade Falls, at a meeting of his council today declared that, "All production of candlelights will cease immediately and all my clans efforts shall instead be directed at building this easy chair for my households use and enjoyment.", I was thrilled!

With my limited building skills it will be difficult, but I am hoping this project will get me back on the building track and make me improve. I still want to make Ars proud.

P.S. Nirvan, please don´t worry, I will not be selling it! 

Interfering Wendi

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch today appeared at a British parliamentary hearing where he denied all knowledge of anything and claimed to be humbled by the whole phone-hacking scandal around "The News of the World".

Well he is lucky to have a tigress for a wife. Wendi Deng Murdoch, who seems very agile and packs a good punch. provided all the action at the hearing by singlehandedly quashing an attack on her husband by a comedian with a paper plate loaded with shaving cream.

I don´t usually support attacks but today I wished for about ten seconds that Wendi had been just a little slower...

W.T.F. - UPDATED

Strange things are going on in SecondLife.

Today I ran my alt Wild for the first time in a very long while. This is what he looked like on his own screen... All ruthed with boobs and a strange skin and only half of his clothes and the soles of his shoes.

I relogged and cleared caches and loaded inventory for the longest while, but still nothing changed.

Everytime I tried changing shape or skin or clothing I got the system message "Cannot change appearance until clothing and shape are loaded". Wild cannot go to appearance either.

So I left him there for two hours and then tried again and I still got the same message.

When I looked at Wild on my own screen he looked like this. As you see he is wearing his skin here, his shoes and all his clothes but the shape is all f**ked.

So you computer savvy guys and girls, what can i do to get my beautiful Wild back looking like this...

UPDATE: And after help from NE0 and Jeff we have Wild in all his unadorned beauty back! Thanks guys!

For future reference I am adding what Jeff told me here:
[11:53]  Jeff Ellsworth: (Saved Mon Jul 18 20:18:13 2011) hey Bock:)
[11:53]  Jeff Ellsworth: (Saved Mon Jul 18 20:19:28 2011) for the avatar stuck like that....try detatching everything and changing to the CHARACTER TEST avatar.....its just the boy next door av actually
[11:53]  Jeff Ellsworth: (Saved Mon Jul 18 20:20:22 2011) do this in a less populated sim like Pooley and let the inventory load before moving around
[11:53]  Jeff Ellsworth: (Saved Mon Jul 18 20:20:51 2011) then try logging out and changing to the usual av after relogging
[11:53]  Jeff Ellsworth: (Saved Mon Jul 18 20:21:13 2011) also clear caches before relogging.....might help
[11:53]  Jeff Ellsworth: (Saved Mon Jul 18 20:22:16 2011) since the av hasn't been logged in a while it may be a hud or attachment no longer compatible with the viewer or whatever
[11:53]  Jeff Ellsworth: (Saved Mon Jul 18 20:22:54 2011) so add those one at a time and look to see how the appearance reacts to it
[11:53]  Jeff Ellsworth: (Saved Mon Jul 18 20:23:47 2011) also be sure your viewer is updated fully

In Support of Same-sex Marriage

This is Lady Gaga with "The Edge of Glory". (I saw it first on J.M.G.)

Interesting story unfolding in the video, I was starting to get steamed about the dear Lady glorifying adultery... Well watch it, you will see what I mean.

I Am Leaving Facebook

As some of you may have seen in a comment on this blog my beloved brother in-law Andrey Messmer has been kicked out of Facebook.

This fact and all the other rather disturbing facts that have been unearthed considering company controlled social networks like Facebook and Google+ have forced me to come to the following conclusions,

1. I will delete my account on Facebook at the latest on August 1st, 2011. (I understand that it may or may not take longer for my profile to disappear there, but thats Facebook´s problem.)
2. I will never create an account on Google+ or any other of those similar social networks.

I no longer wish to be part of any "network" where I, my family and my friends are not welcome!

Bock McMillan is as much I as the person with the name I was given at baptism. In fact there is only one single Bock McMillan while there are a multitude of men in Sweden who carry my real life name. (...and playing around on the web I actually just found another man with my exact full name - two first names and a surname - but 4 years older than me living in Minnesota, U.S.A.)

Bock may in someway be even more me than my real life self, because being Bock I can do and say things that I only think about doing or saying in real life. Through Bock the parts of my personality that are otherwise censored or subdued  due to "other considerations" are allowed to show themselves.

UPDATE. The deed is done! My account will stay deactivated for a period of two weeks before it is permanently deleted, the message from FB said.