Randall's Character:

Hello, I'd like to introduce you to Randall, he's short, witty, frequently morose, obsessed with women, and makes a lot of of innuendo-laden jokes when he's nervous.

The Best SL Radio Station:

What do you think is the best radio station in SL? I like the Best of Second Life, abbreviated BOSL. It almost always has some good music streaming. Oftentimes I don't like to leave home because a good song is playing.

And now, I can take BOSL radio with me wherever I go because it has its own homepage. Just go to http://boslradio.com/ to listen. If you want it for your parcel's audio stream, select about land and put this in the audio tab: http://justlisten.boslradio.com

A Recurring Problem:

What do you do when someone is wearing the same shirt or hair as you? For me, the problem is sometimes clothes, but usually it's hair. There are only about four decent hair styles for men in SL. Do you just ignore it? Maybe derender the person so you don't see them and it doesn't bother you as much? Or do you immediately change? I always change. 

Everything Dies:

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. That was the highest and most mendacious minute of "world history" - yet only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths the star grew cold, and the clever animals had to die.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth and Lies in an Extra-Moral Sense

Greetings:

I've been trying out some different greetings and replies just to spice things up. In a previous post, I mentioned my "hope and despair" reply. That actually doesn't work very well. People always think something is wrong. So I've changed it up.

Now if someone asks me how I'm doing, I say "I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up." That works much better. Usually they remark something about roller coasters not being able to go up forever and that at some point a roller coast must go down. Thereafter the conversation segues into a deep philosophical conversation about whether suffering is the price we pay for moments of happiness.

Incidentally, that's a line from The Fault In Our Stars by John Green. It's the reply that Augustus Waters used when asked how he was feeling. He was on a roller coast that only went up. The best answer to that is to say "and it is my privilege and responsibility to ride all the way up with you."

I have a new greeting too. Some people like it, but others not so much. The greeting is "how's your online love life?" That has led to a couple of unfortunate defriendings.

The Avatar Reader:

What does your avatar say about you? I met an avatar reader and had my avatar read. I wasn't wearing my favorite hair though, so I'm not sure if it was an accurate reading. Here is what she thought my avatar said about me (this was at Fogbound Blues):

#1- I am friendly

#2- I like this place

#3- I care about my "rig"

#4- I am probably over 40

What she had to work with is shown below. What does your avatar say about you?

My God, My Heart:

Hands on your breast can keep your heart beating.-Jenny Holzer