My SL Feed - November 2013

From First, to Last, all of my SL Feed posts from November 2013. Some of them have fun links :-)

Welcome to "OCD Games!"

How about starting your week with this activity?:

Click "Inbox" in your web profile. Then click "Notifications" to access the "Notifications" tab. Hit the "X" to remove all the notifications in that page. Click again "Notifications" to reload (the "More..." button isn't advised here). Hit the "X" to remove all the notifications. Reload again. Repeat until feeling satisfied.

Amusement guaranteed, for hours!
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Today I want to celebrate the freedom I enjoy in my adult life. It wasn't a gift. It's a work I devote myself daily into, thanks to the adults that, helping me grow, taught me that my actions have consequences, and thus I am the responsible of them.

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I begin looking up for information about the criterion used by Blender when calculating automatically the margin between islands while unwrapping, and after finding nothing in the wiki nor a clue in other webs, and telling a friend, she and I end up reading the source code of the file where all this happens. Moral of the story: Yes, I will dig this deep to get an answer to my questions.
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Suddenly I've recalled when I heard, in a trial, "Justice does not protect the dishonorable person from the opinions that the own ill actions generate", smiled, and felt like sharing it.
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When after a first meeting I hear "he/she's a nice person, yes?", I can't help thinking "well, you wouldn't expect he/she confesses to be laundering money and psychologically abusing their kids on the first meeting, do you?"
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Once upon a time, pixels were relevant: http://www.noitego.pl/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/pixels_depression.png
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Blocked: http://auryn-beorn.blogspot.com/2013/11/blocked.html
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"I can hear the crickets in my mind" http://auryn-beorn.blogspot.com/2013/11/blocked.html (Picture taken at Kylie's place)

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"Memories that should die will never go. Because you know, you can't stay away from the trees. They'll always tell you again what happened that night, and the wind will forever tear your face."

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"I'm not different from everybody else. The dark secrets of my life hide behind broken doors that can't lock because I never knew when to shut up."

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Relationships in SL: http://auryn-beorn.blogspot.com/2013/11/relationships-in-sl.html (I know, such a new topic!)
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Great news! (I hope) -> http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Commerce/New-Merchant-Requirement/ba-p/2321469
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Yes: I've changed my mind. (And so the Blender books are out in Marketplace.)
http://auryn-beorn.blogspot.com/2013/11/ive-changed-my-mind-blender-books.html
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Winter is sneaking in. It does in the night, so you can't see it coming.

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"It takes the skill of listening, to know if the mountains will be your friends, or your sure grave. «Learn to listen,» my father always said. I understood the meaning when it was too late."

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"Often we find that there are no good choices, and even the lesser evil will lead us to a path of difficult times."

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There are times when I would scream to some people "really, there's not a «read my mind and model, unwrap and texture» button in Blender."
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Airhead me forgot that three upcoming events she signed up for are really that close in time. While I'm sort of off, eat a lot of cheese, brush your teeth regularly, and be nice to each other! (For I'd hate to miss the drama should it happen :o) )

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I'm almost done setting up for one fair, so I've taken a moment for break time:
http://auryn-beorn.blogspot.com/2013/11/another-meme-for-me-introspection.html
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Getting old and dying happens to everybody else. Then one day, you wake up with a gray hair.
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I feel for you, Logic. Please, don't jump off that bridge.

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Hello. Please excuse my intrusion. Do you happen to know where do I find a BFF?

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Hi! Are you a BFF?

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What has a girl to do, to learn what's a BFF?

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Somebody didn't wake up this morning much in the mood for humor... Sheesh...

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Soooo... I know I'm slow in this, but here it finally comes, my promised rambling:
http://auryn-beorn.blogspot.com/2013/11/maturity.html
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Guess who started writing for "Fusion" magazine :-)

November's issue: http://issuu.com/fusionmagazinesl/docs/fusion_magazine_-_november_2013
My "announcement": http://auryn-beorn.blogspot.com/2013/11/writing-for-fusion-magazine.html

Don't worry! I will not be writing about fashion, but a technical-of-sorts section with tips and tricks to help you improve your SL experience. I have many ideas to write about, and I also take suggestions if you wish.
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"The dance of the young widow. Twirling every night, pondering over crossing that door and making the pain to stop."

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Last night, the feed was a little playful, and I never saw the picture showing (now I do), so I couldn't add in time this link: http://auryn-beorn.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-dance-of-young-widow.html
(Processed version with, of course, a bit of my usual rambling - and a song.)
My apologies for the spam.
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"Dear Santa, no matter what you've heard about, I promise I haven't been naughty this year. I'm even wearing a Christmas hat. Thanks for your consideration." (Happy Tuesday!)

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Meet Scout, the most patient dog in the world: http://distractify.com/fun/humor/scout-is-the-single-most-composed-dog-on-the-planet/
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Next step taking on the world: Learning to make textures.

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Spanish proverbs contain some wisdom too. Three of my favorite ones are "a río revuelto, ganancia de pescadores", "nadie da duros a cuatro pesetas" and "donde dije digo, digo Diego". They contain wisdom enough as to evaluate the future of customer relationships of any IT project that bases its worth in comparing themselves to others.

However, I feel that today's favorite is "aunque la mona se vista de seda, mona se queda". Have a great day :-)
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My SL Feed - October 2013

From First, to Last, all of my SL Feed posts from October 2013. Some of them have fun links :-)

Sweet snakes. Are you sure that you can really tell who they are?
http://auryn-beorn.blogspot.com/2013/10/sweet-snakes.html

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Sweet snakes. Are you sure that you can really tell who they are?
http://auryn-beorn.blogspot.com/2013/10/sweet-snakes.html
(Of course, when I'm done, I find a better angle >.< )

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I can see Ima and Awesome having a lot of fun with this... :-) (Currently at FaMESHed, location pic link is in front of it.)

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"Hello. Have you come for the leftovers of me? I'll quietly wait."

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Two new tutorials!
Creating animated water textures in GIMP: http://auryn-beorn.blogspot.com/2013/10/creator-resource-animated-water-texture.html
Creating Zero lag animated water: http://auryn-beorn.blogspot.com/2013/10/creator-resource-how-to-create-zero-lag.html
Enjoy!
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Headache. Can't work today. This is your feed spam alert :o)

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Castles <3

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Castle Entrances <3

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Books are my best friends. Trees enhance that relationship.

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"Let me prove that I can read the future: If you pay for my fortune-telling services, I'll earn some money." (I'm impressed.)

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Every morning my cat asks for treat food, and every time I say "no". However, he always insists. One could think "if the previous 372 times I've said «no», what makes you think that I'll change my mind now?"

The induction principle. The induction principle clearly states that I have to prove my claim for *every* natural number, and so far I've only proved it for n = 372. I could crack in the future.

I'm thus, left, with only one possible conclusion from all this: My cat is a clever mathematician with deep knowledge of human psychology.
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I've decided that next time I'm called "hun", I'll reply with "yes, coochie snorcher sweetpie, topped in crusty ice?"
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A ladder to nowhere: http://auryn-beorn.blogspot.com/2013/10/a-ladder-to-nowhere.html

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Today I'm going to propose something that sounds revolutionary, yet it can help you alleviate the pain inside your fragile soul if you frequently feel offended when others interact with you:
If you don't like that others point out that you've said something stupid, then don't say stupid things.
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Life is what you make of it. Me, you ask? I like to pay attention to the small details that make me smile.

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Silence. At times, it doesn't imply one or another stance. At times, silence is just silence. Something to be enjoyed.

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So often, we look outside for what's been always at the reach of our fingertips.

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Accompanying my last release (Door Script V2), I've published four new tutorials.

Doors in SL: http://auryn-beorn.blogspot.com/2013/10/creator-resource-doors-in-sl.html
Land Impact (An explanation). Linking phantom and non phantom prims: http://auryn-beorn.blogspot.com/2013/10/creator-resource-land-impact.html
Introduction to sculpt prims: http://auryn-beorn.blogspot.com/2013/10/creator-resource-introduction-to-sculpt.html
Prim Generator: http://auryn-beorn.blogspot.com/2013/10/creator-resource-prim-generator.html

And the door tool itself: http://blacktulip-store.blogspot.com/2013/10/multi-doordrawercurtain-tool-v2-is-here.html

Enjoy!
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This may come as a surprise, but I do not work 24x7. I'm sorry if customers find unacceptable that I take weekends for myself. (Even that way, re-deliveries, double purchases and quick questions are solved immediately whenever I'm around.)
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Yes. I will be teaching tonight, in Halloween. My evilness knows no holidays.

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People respect nothing! Nothing, I tell you!
http://brojsimpson.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/the-shining-cat.jpg
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My SL Feed - September 2013

From First, to Last, all of my SL Feed posts from September 2013. Some of them have fun links :-)

Copy'n'Paste this to prove that you can copy and paste and let's take on the world \o/
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"Sitting among abstractions, my mind focuses in the essential and reaches her goal. But a curious mind will never stop in that goal: she will turn it into the beginning of a new quest."

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Firestorm's gift for their 3rd Anniversary is a cat. 22 scripts, one cat. Not the best way to make me a fan of SL's pets. Anyway, more information, here: http://www.firestormviewer.org/happy-3rd-anniversary/
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"They may tell you not to look back, forget and forgive. Specially when they know they're guilty for the darkness waiting for you, in your future."

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"I believe" (Test)

Processed: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aurynbeorn/9686826752/
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Just a little bit about the picture from this morning:
http://auryn-beorn.blogspot.com/2013/09/i-believe.html
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My graphics card says "kill me," but I tell her "please, just a few more pics and then we can go back home."

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"We know your secret."

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Of course I have a life!
It consists of observing people and the world through that window called "computer connected to the Internet." Then I'm disconnected for eight hours every day. I think it has to do with overheating.
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I don't know why, but I was expecting my skirt to fall, leaving me in a complicated situation.

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Look mom! I rigged a plushy!
http://auryn-beorn.blogspot.com/2013/09/look-mom-i-rigged-plushy.html
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Aha! So this is what I had to do, for the blood reaching my brain! I wish I had known before. So many years wasted...

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It seems I have to keep an eye closer than what I thought to what a cat could learn: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-4tzGjpgPFAw/UjcVQzWgb5I/AAAAAAAAidM/YFczjCJHEgY/w456-h450-no/av07rYX_460sa.gif
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Even the longest journey begins with a first step. One of my long to-do lists was to make a little more "web-admissible" the content of some classes I've taught. Well, I've finally started. If you like reading, this is the link:
http://auryn-beorn.blogspot.com/p/tutorials.html
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"I know. Nobody saw it coming. They need to see the blood. If there's no blood, there has to be no pain."

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Certainty is Death. Life is only all the distressing questions that lead us to the end point.

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I don't know if it's wrong laughing about this... but I'm doing:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2330885/What-did-The-badly-stuffed-animals-left-little-dignity-afterlife.html
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Life and Death (or, "Friday rambling time" - You've been warned!):
http://auryn-beorn.blogspot.com/2013/09/life-and-death.html
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Through dangers untold, and hardships unnumbered... I mean, I've published a very important resource for creators. Permissions - Basics. Where? Here:
http://auryn-beorn.blogspot.com/2013/09/creator-resource-permissions-basic.html
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Understanding, trust, communication, intimacy... Yes, well, all that helps, but knowing when you would need the coffee pot to be refilled, and refilling it... That, my friends, that is the sign of True Love.
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"I wonder... If I can reach my dreams."

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"I wonder... If you know that I'm thinking of you."

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"I wonder... Why I didn't think of this on Tuesday."

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"Magic Mirror, Magic Mirror, who is the most...? Wait! What does that laughter mean? I haven't done my question yet!"

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In two hours I resume the Blender classes. Basics on UV mapping and texturing. My last slide today says "Holy mother of all distortions, Batman!" Promising.
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Friday morning "what the heck were you thinking of?" link! \o/
http://31.media.tumblr.com/2fbecebd439298965fa6c3d8b7ee5b8e/tumblr_mqtec7RvlB1rk3c1qo1_400.gif
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I use to have lively conversations with myself when I'm mowing the lawn, ironing, etc... Today's topic is "Why do people bother so much about liars, if they won't listen to a non-flattering truth anyway?" We haven't reached to a conclusion yet.
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"Trust. My leap of faith."

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My SL Feed - August 2013

From First, to Last, all of my SL Feed posts from August 2013. Some of them have fun links :-)

"Time": A masterpiece
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/08/xkcd-time-comic/
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First time I join a "meme"!
http://auryn-beorn.blogspot.com/2013/08/a-meme-for-me.html
(I know... Shame on me...)
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"And so she emerged from the waters, looked around and said, «isn't it Tuesday today?»"

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Give me my chocolate back!
http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net/photo/aQq8NPq_700b_v2.jpg
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I've learned a new word! Squeamish.
(Now I know of a lot of people I could use it with. Is that a wrong thing?)
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"I could blame it to loneliness. But it's me. I chose the wrong path of opening my doors to strangers. Now I want it to stop, but I'm already tied to my delusion of company. I need more." (Happy Tuesday!)

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Has this always been there...? "You will not post [...] (vi) Post, display or transmit any Content or conduct or host any activity that is sexually explicit, or intensely violent."
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"There are moments when my mind shuts the lights off and plays its own movie. That's my clue for break time."

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One picture, one story: http://auryn-beorn.blogspot.com/2013/08/one-picture-one-story.html
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"Your tears mean nothing to me. I've learned to read your soul in all the blood you leave behind your deeds."

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If you think about it, "The Lord of the Rings" isn't but a metaphor of marriage: Frodo puts the ring on, and his friends never see him again.
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SSA will be rolled to the remaining of the grid during this week. Get ready your viewer if you haven't yet!
http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Featured-News/Project-Sunshine-Goes-Grid-Wide/ba-p/2148427
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Ever tested how many features and prims could be supported by a specific script, and started laughing each time it crashes by a stack-heap collision? That's how I have fun.
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Mathematicians see doors, gems and flowers where you only see a box. Their job is to discard the external appearance and focus in the essence, the shared features, the differences and the uniqueness.

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Cheese is my shiny and a good reason for divorce:
http://auryn-beorn.blogspot.com/2013/08/cheese-is-my-shiny-and-good-reason-for.html
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I still am not clear about if this I'm writing is the longest piece of documentation of my career, or my memories. Twice.
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I've suddenly wondered, if you work in the porn industry, what are NSFW pics? Dressed people?
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"When you look a script for a long time, the script is also looking deep inside you" (I think that was Nietzsche)
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I signed up months ago and never used it (typical me), but I think I'll finally give it a go. Check me out there if you wish:
http://www.plurk.com/AurynBeorn
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My SL Feed - July 2013

From First, to Last, all of my SL Feed posts from July 2013. Some of them have fun links :-)

If we could propose an anthem for SL, my votes would go for this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyhrYis509A (Barbie Girl)

« I'm a blond bimbo girl, in a fantasy world
» Dress me up, make it tight, I'm your dolly
» You're my doll, rock'n'roll, feel the glamour in pink,
» Kiss me here, touch me there, hanky panky...
» You can touch, you can play, if you say: "I'm always yours" »

(Full lyrics: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/aqua/barbiegirl.html - Isn't this song just brilliant?)
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"You may add only 20 interests."
*curses*
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I better clean my pixels before SSB is switched on. Wouldn't want problems rebaking because of that! (Happy Tuesday!)

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I'm a complete music illiterate, so I've started to be educated in the topic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vZLVJwXP-U
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This is the cutest partnership-wedding-whatever vow I've ever read:
«I promise to learn how to build so that our home will no longer fall from the sky when I decide to edit.»
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At times, when I listen to people complaining because they don't want (they say "need") to learn all the basics first, for all they need (they say) is to just find a tutorial that shows that exact thing they want to model, I can't avoid imagining a person about to have surgery and the surgeon saying "I don't need to learn all the basics of human anatomy first... Just tell me where I should cut to open, and I will learn the rest as I need it." (I know, I'm a boring old school academic.)
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It's not that I'm a curmudgeon. It's that I pride in collecting an extensive variety of pet peeves.
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Did I hear, "Martini Time"? (Happy Tuesday!)

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"Soon in my life I understood I had been a mistake. I tried hard to be loved. I walked like a shadow so I would not bother."

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"I only wanted to be a little girl and daydream in my naive inner world."

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"But I had to renounce to dreaming and be the dream of the life you never had. I worked hard."

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"I did everything you wanted. I locked myself in the cage you wanted for my mind."

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"And now, after twenty years of abandonment, you say you're proud of me? It's too late, father."

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It's too late: http://auryn-beorn.blogspot.com/2013/07/its-too-late.html
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Interesting. The word "troll" only shows in the headline, not in the article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-22839359

The relationship, then?(Of course, neither the media manipulates, nor others use the only apparition of the word, the headline, to manipulate themselves.)

Note: Related links not contained in the article using the word "troll" don't account
as the word "troll" showing up in the article itself.
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This is practical sense: http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net/photo/amX0q9o_700b.jpg
(I once had a similar thought... I got a student from someone that I thought was a friend... and when that student started being a huge pain, I first wondered "What have I done to this person, to send me such a nasty student?" It turns out, the "friend" hated me!)
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I'm not sure I have a brain at all. More than ten years since I started gardening, and today I've had this bright idea: "wait... perhaps... if I put the bag inside this big trash can, I will not have so many problems to drop inside all the leaves, etc from sweeping, the lawnmower... OH DOH!" (How did I manage to survive until today? Good thing that breathing is automatic.)
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There are details to polish here... but I think I have the foundation for my own "mirror" :-)

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I think I could get used to this skin.

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*This* is the only proven method that will quickly give you the desired six-pack: http://hazmeelchingadofavor.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/six-pack-en-cinco-minutos.jpg
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My teaching look today: Mini Carbon skirt (The Secret Store), Lace shirt (Sakide), Earrings (Yummy@C88), Gos shoes & glasses, Truth hair

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Venus was right. Now my teaching look is complete.

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When I was a teen, purchasing a walkman meant purchasing a device that would only play music. How, nowadays, purchasing similar devices means to carry an advanced machine that by default tracks you and sends a lot of information you're not aware of, makes me wonder. Specially, about why we are eagerly accepting this as something normal in our lives.
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Often I feel like the ant of that fable: working all the summer to then spend the winter quietly at home, harvesting your hard work's fruits. What the fable doesn't tell you is that in autumn you will likely have your house flooded because of the rains. So a bit of time spent in the pool, learning to swim, isn't a bad idea after all.
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Happy Tuesday! (Does the statue count?)

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History of my life: http://i.minus.com/ibaDjk7AeIcvxv.gif (and likely, of all serious programmers and sysadmins out there.)
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