What's this? What's happening? What's going on?
Here we are again with just a little relaxing avatar styling session, with no particular hook to tie in a subject with anything I'm wearing. Sometime you just gotta go random. Picture it: July 2025, it's finally hot in Stockholm and the world is going to hell in a handbasket. Meanwhile I'm zoning out with... Continue Reading →
I started the Christmas month this past Sunday by rolling out of my bed and slumping down on the sofa, landing straight into the start of Last Christmas that just happened to be on "old school" TV. With all those streaming services at our fingertips, it's refreshing to just watch what happens to be on... Continue Reading →
The phrase "better angels of our nature" was popularised by President Abraham Lincoln, though apparently he didn't coin it. Nevertheless, it probably is one of the stronger thought provoking expressions used in an inauguration address. Sadly, as strong as that speech may have been, it did not stop the civil war. One can only wonder,... Continue Reading →
I ain't gonna lie, I have mixed feelings about the whole PBR materials thing. For those of you who haven't been in Seconde Life™ in a while, PBR stands for “Physically Based Rendering” and bringing PBR to Second Life means updating the basic calculations of how light is represented and interacts with our favourite virtual... Continue Reading →
Of course Pride is still necessary! Hard earned rights are all to easily overturned and we can't become complacent. Not to mention all the places in the world where acting on the love that dare not speak its name can still land you in prison, or worse, a very unfashionable shopping mall. The horror! Although,... Continue Reading →
It's a cliché that gay men aren't any good at sports and that fat kids always get picked last to join a team for games that require physical fitness. As mother nature, or whomever doles out these characteristics, saw fit to hit me with a double whammy (i.e. make me the fat gay kid), it... Continue Reading →
Hope is the thing with feathersThat perches in the soul,And sings the tune without the words,And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard;And sore must be the stormThat could abash the little birdThat kept so many warm. I've heard it in the chillest land,And on the strangest sea;Yet, never, in extremity,It... Continue Reading →
Let's be honest, Second Life™ isn't a properly fulfilling substitute for a happy real life, but who can blame us for escaping into this fantasy world even if it doesn't truly promote mental health. Many of us will create a Second Life that is so painfully perfect, our real lives will never measure up to... Continue Reading →
While I haven't turned my tiny Second Life™ habitat into a mini winter wonderland just yet, in real life the weather gods have been rather enthusiastic with the white powdery stuff, as if Stockholm is some kind of flawed cake they're desperately trying to cover up. It's been kinda nice the past couple of days,... Continue Reading →
I haven't been in Second Life™ lately, especially this past week. My workdays are long and while I still enjoy styling my avatar and the occasional bit of tweaking of the decor in one of my virtual homes, I have to admit that when I come home late, Netflix and the sofa has been a... Continue Reading →
Billy Beaverhausen 