From the monthly archives:

December 2006

Another new me

December 30, 2006

I decided I wanted a better skin than the “Hot n Hairy” one I bought early on, and I also wanted prim hair that worked well with the skin. So after trying lots of demos, I decided on “Dusky hairy” by Max (available only in brown) and two hair styles from Naughty Designs. In this photo I’m wearing “Gabriel’s Hair” in sable.

Dusky by Max and Gabriel by Naughty Designs

Close runners-up were “Tawny hairy” and “Tawny red” by Max (if they had a hairy redhead, I’d have gone for it); “Dante” tan and light from Naughty Designs (fewer choices in facial hair and lack of chest hair did them in, although having a crew-cut option was very attractive); and CMFF’s “Hairy Male” and “Hairy Male 2″ (which are nice photorealistic skins, but they have no options except a well-done built-in crew-cut). The Naughty Designs hair options were plentiful and well-done, so I pretty much confined my looking to them. Even so, I needed to tweak my head shape a bit (come to find out the shape was doing more than the size to give me a bad fit with this hair).

All in all, I’m happy with the L$4,600 I spent. I may even go back and buy a premade shape from by Max. Although I’m pretty happy with my shape, it’s a bit tall. I’ll live in it with this skin and hair for a while before I try anything else, though.

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Dragon dance

December 30, 2006

There was a dance in Limbo tonight (every other Friday night at 7 SL time), and it was lots of fun. I tried dancing as a Spirit Dragon for a while, but it’s awfully big and disorienting. I also tried playing an elven drum for a while. But here I am dancing with an artsy shot up at flying/dancing dragons.

Dragon dance

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I hope it survives

December 29, 2006

I’m having a ball in SL (and I’ve certainly ploughed in enough money already), but the instability of their infrastructure is worrisome, especially in light of their exponential growth. I just hope they can keep up and keep the grid open more consistently than they have so far since I joined.

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RL calls

December 26, 2006

I’ll be away from SL for a couple of days.

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Spirit Otenth

December 23, 2006

Here’s a closeup with my personal color and texture choices (for now, at least!):

Spirit Otenth

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