tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79139405136390455202024-02-20T18:14:09.548-08:00Endless VoyageWell, I have the blog, and you don't.
<i>So you will listen to every damn word I have to say!</i>Anna J Tsiolkovskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002434425155839572noreply@blogger.comBlogger339125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913940513639045520.post-10785805975242131132013-10-08T13:24:00.000-07:002013-10-08T13:31:37.210-07:00Thanks BloggerWinter sent me a panicked call yesterday when I rounded up my alts to give this blog another jolt of life. She could not access her Gmail or Blogger account. Password recovery was a no-go, as it asked for her cell phone (she never gave one) and amusingly enough, any special email boxes (she never created one). She could only list two contacts (me and another alt). Overall,Anna J Tsiolkovskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002434425155839572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913940513639045520.post-15092299206859471402011-11-23T12:46:00.000-08:002011-11-23T13:30:49.701-08:00A Time To Lay Down ArmsIf you've drudged through the archives, you might get the impression that I'm a strict 'evolutionist'. And you'd be right. It's fact, people. I can't really tolerate the general stupidity which says otherwise. I've often gotten into large debates over this, and I haven't seen anything to sway me otherwise.That being said, I don't generally bring it up, especially in real life, unless provoked. I Anna J Tsiolkovskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002434425155839572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913940513639045520.post-13645050027742411502011-11-22T14:01:00.000-08:002011-11-22T15:53:30.659-08:00The Incredible Invisible MinersStar Trek shows us a brilliant future where there is no hunger, no crushing poverty, and in general no want in any person. Everyone works not for their own gain but for the gain of humanity and the galaxy overall. Resources are plentiful and the only impediment is the time it takes to assemble whatever it is you're trying to make.And that is where Star Trek falls apart. Who mines the ores? I'm Anna J Tsiolkovskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002434425155839572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913940513639045520.post-39242142482831847352011-11-18T12:14:00.000-08:002011-11-18T12:53:11.347-08:00Does This Dress Make Me Look Too Tall?It's always nice when people find a hobby. Hobbies are similar to hair styles. Everyone has one and everyone thinks theirs is just the greatest thing ever and spend lots of time and energy into it. My personal hobby is, of course, this blog. The President's hobby is to bring about the socialist revolution as predicted by Marx and Lenin. That nerd who still hasn't left his parent's basement at theAnna J Tsiolkovskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002434425155839572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913940513639045520.post-84069448256765080542011-11-16T10:42:00.000-08:002011-11-16T10:50:36.482-08:00One Thing You Noobs Need To UnderstandAt Bear Infohub today:[2011/11/16 10:07] [redacted]: right, one thing all you noobs need to understand[2011/11/16 10:07] [redacted]: sl dont always work[2011/11/16 10:07] [day old account]: please help me[2011/11/16 10:07] [redacted]: they having issues right now[2011/11/16 10:07] [redacted]: [day old account], ffs stfu[2011/11/16 10:07] [redacted]: im trying to help, trying to explain[2011/11/16Anna J Tsiolkovskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002434425155839572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913940513639045520.post-45390126147613689322011-11-15T12:48:00.000-08:002011-11-15T13:27:38.075-08:00Hey Hey! Let's Make Vehicle Lemonade!I have found the perfect use for AnnMarie Otoole's endless Mississippi river of vehicles so ugly they wouldn't pass muster in SL 2003's shitty prim statue era. People have been bitching and moaning, but like my parents said, "Anna, make lemons out of lemonade." So, aside from the fact that they lag up sims horribly, are uglier than '60s era 'cars of the future', slam and push people off public Anna J Tsiolkovskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002434425155839572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913940513639045520.post-22530417011290893022011-11-14T11:44:00.000-08:002011-11-14T12:35:26.239-08:00RL Linkage Is The Only Way To Validate Your WorkAh, I remember Bettina Tizzy. She was a tad less than enthused about the art critiques of her Flickr stream given by me and my friends. Rendered speechless by our rapier wit. And undoubtedly bemused by our attempts to discuss how a sculpty androgynous statue hovering in a waterfall could Possibly Exist in Real Life. Yes, I remember Bettina alright.She's moved on from passively aggressively Anna J Tsiolkovskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002434425155839572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913940513639045520.post-12853194760285275462011-11-12T22:22:00.000-08:002011-11-12T22:22:00.512-08:00Mesh MoshFor most of its history, the prime building block of Second Life was the prim. It wasn't particularly hard to figure out how to make one nor how to shape it and connect it to others to build an object. If you spent a few hours a day teasing prims, you'd probably at least learn to build a simple house in a week.Of course, you needed to texture it, but that wasn't too hard, either. Select the Anna J Tsiolkovskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002434425155839572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913940513639045520.post-11757755111564922512011-11-12T11:27:00.000-08:002011-11-12T11:38:12.500-08:00Up By Your Bootstraps IIIOk, ok, this is THE final post on this subject for the next month. I promise.It occurred to me that the failure of textures to load properly and thus fail to pass their instruction onto new residents can be easily rectified by making a simple hovertext nearby. I've noticed that I've seen that load even in laggy clubs, identifying the tip jar for the musician playing that night. It's not as if youAnna J Tsiolkovskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002434425155839572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913940513639045520.post-58378337234707206172011-11-12T10:05:00.000-08:002011-11-12T10:05:00.205-08:00Up By Your Bootstraps III was reading Prokofy the other day and he hit upon another good idea for encouraging retention: create a panel which displays the multitude of things to do in Second Life.So, for instance, you'd have a panel showing War Sims for Call of Duty-esque games, and a panel to some social clubs if you're into making friends, and a panel to a sandbox and building lessons if you're into making objects andAnna J Tsiolkovskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002434425155839572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913940513639045520.post-61984926470564830992011-11-11T16:21:00.000-08:002011-11-11T16:21:00.371-08:00Bumper to BumperI was driving down the road when I collided head on with a giant Trojan horse powered by rockets. It thoughtfully said, "Sorry", pushed me out of the way, and jetted down the highway."Huh," I said, "That's strange. But Second Life is always strange. Mayhaps someone's vehicle went out of control."Further down the road, I smashed into a wood burning locomotive. "Sorry!" It said as it shoved me Anna J Tsiolkovskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002434425155839572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913940513639045520.post-40797887719234736662011-11-10T15:36:00.000-08:002011-11-10T16:19:39.172-08:00Up By Your BootstrapsHow is it possible that Linden Lab, through three changes in leadership and countless hirings and firings of employers, have still not managed to create a good orientation program? I've been observing this for some time, and it is shocking that the orientation process has seemingly became worse than when I took my first steps five years ago. It was thought that by allowing residents to create Anna J Tsiolkovskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002434425155839572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913940513639045520.post-52547224449378084492010-06-10T16:08:00.000-07:002010-06-10T16:33:33.812-07:00Happy EndingsI find it funny that most movies end with everyone pairing up like the nuclear apocalypse has rained down upon us and they need to repopulate the planet.It may seem strange and bizarre, but two people can work together and not hook up. It happens quite often. Half of my class of sixty or seventy people are single, after being in the same classes for the past five years. And most of the rest are Anna J Tsiolkovskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002434425155839572noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913940513639045520.post-77968504665738046932010-06-09T18:44:00.001-07:002010-06-09T19:36:36.463-07:00Men in SkirtsSome newspaper recently decided that the best way to lampoon the Philadelphia Flyers (who are off at the moment chasing the hockey championship) was to [poorly] photoshop one of the players in a skirt. With the caption, "Looks like Tarzan, plays like Jane."The initial reaction will probably be, "oh, but who cares about that ol' rag?" Well, that 'rag' just happens to be the Chicago Tribune, which Anna J Tsiolkovskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002434425155839572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913940513639045520.post-69902810737326985182010-04-07T15:20:00.001-07:002010-04-07T16:25:38.249-07:00The Ol' SouthIs it so wrong to love the Old South?Uh... lemme think.YES.Do you know what the Confederates were? Do you know who instigated the entire revolt? I know the word they use for such people: traitors. Yes, they were traitors. When you try to rend the country in two and actively attack it (and yes, you idiots fired first at Fort Sumter), you are a traitor. Do you feel pride in that? And why did Anna J Tsiolkovskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002434425155839572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913940513639045520.post-86592604052101783582010-03-13T20:57:00.000-08:002010-03-13T20:57:00.133-08:00Leaving the WorldI think if I leave Second Life, it will be with a whimper, rather than a bang. I don't think I really have much choice in the matter. I'm not a particularly famous person. I just sit here in my little corner of Blogger, playing in my box more or less to myself.Eventually, the only thing left of me, the only evidence of my presence in Second Life, would be a profile inworld and this blog. Pretty Anna J Tsiolkovskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002434425155839572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913940513639045520.post-68750135968131882352010-03-12T08:35:00.001-08:002010-03-12T08:39:09.990-08:00Auto-Page?Blogger's doing some kind of auto-paging thing which many people are claiming eats their posts and disappears them into the ether.Since I'm lazy, if you find anything missing which you most desparately need to read RIGHT NOW, do not hesitate to leave a comment or send an email. It's not like I'm doing anything else at the moment.Update: Sigh, and that html glitch is back. If I add a link using Anna J Tsiolkovskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002434425155839572noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913940513639045520.post-57945126937804196612010-03-06T22:09:00.000-08:002010-03-06T22:16:06.559-08:00Flow ChartI was going to make one for normal people, but it involved too many feedback loops and the picture got messy. Therefore, you'll just have to be satisfied with this graphic I made in class, where I show you the general thought process behind those in Second Life who live and love to shrill.Anna J Tsiolkovskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002434425155839572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913940513639045520.post-61248596453057242072010-02-27T20:09:00.000-08:002010-02-27T20:10:04.430-08:00Sometimes.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913940513639045520.post-79584091726792487112010-02-24T09:18:00.000-08:002010-02-24T20:34:54.079-08:00Trek Annoyance #3I mentioned last post that having the warp pods/nacelles/emitters/rockets exposed on weak struts is clear evidence that Star Fleet's engineering and design sector were lobotomized by the medical department next door. Now I'm going to thrash the entire Warp Engine itself.The warp engines are about as well designed as the Chernobyl reactor. There are, maximum, one or two safety systems in place. Anna J Tsiolkovskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002434425155839572noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913940513639045520.post-63771082919601382362010-02-23T09:05:00.000-08:002010-02-23T09:36:40.167-08:00Trek Annoyance #2Continuing my mini-series...Someone in Starfleet really wants to see his or her ship designs fail easily and in spectacular explosions. There is no other explanation for the fact that the warp engine pods are projected out from the protected main hull on thin and likely weak struts.Not just Starfleet. Everyone else in the known galaxy places the engines well clear of the body as well. Except for Anna J Tsiolkovskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002434425155839572noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913940513639045520.post-83006777850309947212010-02-22T11:07:00.000-08:002010-02-23T09:06:41.369-08:00Trek Annoyance #1Star Trek (TNG) is in reruns every so often on the SciFi (sorry, 'Syfy' sounds dumb, I'm not using that name) channel. I like Star Trek. It's interesting. But too often, I'll shake my head at some of the more idiotic oversights or actions taken by the crew. Or some of the glaring oversights in technological or social applications. There are many. For lack of anything better to write about, Anna J Tsiolkovskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002434425155839572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913940513639045520.post-50914501347123894312010-02-15T19:22:00.000-08:002010-02-15T19:38:06.198-08:00It HAS Been SaidJessica Holyoke over at the Alphaville Herald (I refuse to link there, you'll easily find it on your own) is changing the name of her articles as she believes she's more 'Fox News' than ordinary Op/Ed of a newspaper. It's something about setting her news pieces apart from her editorials although I can't say she's ever made a distinction between the two (which she says as much in the article).Anna J Tsiolkovskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002434425155839572noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913940513639045520.post-31869403239655632362010-02-09T16:05:00.000-08:002010-02-09T16:08:36.322-08:00Movies are Bad"Cop Out"I've only seen the commercials and I already know that this will be a terrible film. I feel as if directors think we (or at least I) are stupid and have the memory span of a jellyfish. The entire concept of 'white guy and black guy work together' has been done to death. Perhaps it wouldn't be so boring if they did not adhere to the same tired stereotypes, dialogue, and plotlines.I think Anna J Tsiolkovskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002434425155839572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913940513639045520.post-29468907397466200902010-02-07T11:02:00.000-08:002010-02-07T11:15:37.346-08:00Hate mails!Today I got hate mail!"I think you r a communist stifling the free speech and expression that is our God given rights. maybe you shuld try listening to WE THE PEOPLe who do not agree with your stupid agenda. Tath's why we voted Obama in! To get rid of stupid communists like you!And why do you hate linden labs? Oh, becuz you r a communist that is why. What is next? Are you going to hate Intel? HP?Anna J Tsiolkovskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002434425155839572noreply@blogger.com0