BFF…..??
[17:23] Truffles Fimicoloud: I HOPE YOU’RE WEARING YOUR BEST FRIEND BAND, ROS!
[17:23] Truffles Fimicoloud: BECAUSE I WILL NEVER TAKE MINE OFF
[17:23] Truffles Fimicoloud: I’ll BE A ROTTING CORPSE
[17:23] You: oh dear
[17:23] Truffles Fimicoloud: AND THIS RING WILL DIE WITH ME
[17:23] You: can virtual corpses rot?
[17:23] Truffles Fimicoloud: yes, but they smell significantly less than the real variety
After explaining Torquil….
(Mella argues for using first years as bait and gets shot down….)
[13:31] Truffles Fimicoloud: well then
[13:32] Truffles Fimicoloud: maybe we could get a REALLY LARGE bat…
[13:32] You: I feel slightly like getting one right now…
Have to Pee….
This is a transcript of part of the WoH town hall meeting. What the rest of the group was missing was Mella’s running commentary (and yes, I do have her permission to post this):
[13:26] Jadzia DeCuir: can the castle get a kitchen for students to raid or a bathroom to make secret potions in?
[13:26] IM: Truffles Fimicoloud: yay!
[13:27] Trystan Trevellion: Nice ideas. Vezy…what do you think?
[13:27] Vezy Qinan smiles
[13:27] Jadzia DeCuir: I would even offer my toilet that does whirlies for the bathroom
[13:29] Jadzia DeCuir: what about a bathroom?
[13:29] IM: Truffles Fimicoloud: finally, something about the bathroom situation
[13:29] IM: Truffles Fimicoloud: we’ve all been holding it in for months;)
[13:29] IM: Roswenthe Aluveaux: raise your hand girl
[13:29] IM: Truffles Fimicoloud: no no!
[13:29] IM: Truffles Fimicoloud: i can’t
[13:29] IM: Truffles Fimicoloud: too shy
[13:29] IM: Roswenthe Aluveaux: whatever!
[13:30] IM: Truffles Fimicoloud: you should say something
[13:30] Vezy Qinan: Yup, theres a few empty rooms around the castle Im sure could be used. So yeah do-able too.
[13:30] IM: Truffles Fimicoloud: ask for the state of the art flush toilets
[13:30] Sweety Sawson: I just wanetd to say I like the idea of barthrooms hehe girls need a place to hide when they are crying hehe
[13:30] Roswenthe Aluveaux raises her hand.
[13:31] IM: Truffles Fimicoloud: and the paper towel dispensers that are HANDS FREE
[13:31] IM: Truffles Fimicoloud: remember HANDS FREE toilets and dispensers
[13:31] IM: Truffles Fimicoloud: we need hygeine at hogwarts
[13:31] IM: Truffles Fimicoloud: HANDS FREE!!!!!
[13:32] Trystan Trevellion: Oops sorry Roswentha ! I missed that. can you go straight after Cassie please ?
[13:33] IM: Truffles Fimicoloud: we dont even have a chamber pot system here at hogwarts
[13:33] Trystan Trevellion: Vezy if you respond to that and then Roswentha
[13:33] IM: Truffles Fimicoloud: i cant imagine what the inside of our colons look like
[13:35] IM: Truffles Fimicoloud: im going to change my title to “SUPER POPULAR”
[13:35] You: I also think bathrooms would be a good idea, and in fact a (so-called “shy”) new person *nudges Mella hard* suggested it to me this week as well. A lot of girl drama (and even bullying) happens in bathrooms. (Done.)
[13:36] IM: Truffles Fimicoloud: HANDS FREEE
[13:36] IM: Truffles Fimicoloud: HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNDSSSSSSSS FREEEEEEEE
[13:36] IM: Truffles Fimicoloud: i dont want to get germy!
[13:36] IM: Truffles Fimicoloud: why am i the ONLY one who cares
[13:36] IM: Truffles Fimicoloud grumbles
[13:37] Roswenthe Aluveaux smacks Mella with a germy fish!
[13:37] IM: Truffles Fimicoloud DIES of EBOLA
[13:39] IM: Truffles Fimicoloud: i dont want to see any dull white tile
[13:39] IM: Truffles Fimicoloud: things had better sparkle considering tuition costs here at Hogs…
[13:40] IM: Truffles Fimicoloud: uniform upgrades cost!
[13:40] IM: Truffles Fimicoloud: they cost!
[13:42] IM: Truffles Fimicoloud: want some lemonade?
[13:42] IM: Truffles Fimicoloud: i can drink in here right?
[13:42] IM: Truffles Fimicoloud: i didnt see a no food sign
[13:43] IM: Roswenthe Aluveaux: i think it’s fine
[13:44] IM: Truffles Fimicoloud: im really going to need a bathroom after all this lemonade…
Easter Memories
I wrote this for the English school I work for in SL, so it is in a bit simpler English than I normally write, but I thought you’d enjoy the story nonetheless.
Easter Memory
My family has never been very into celebrating holidays, and neither did we have any extended family nearby with which to celebrate. Usually on Easter, we would wake up, and hunt for eggs that we had dyed several days before. My mom was an artist and loved to dye eggs in weird patterns. My brother and I also got an Easter basket filled with chocolate, candy, and a few small toys. Sometimes we got a larger toy, such as a stuffed animal. When I was in junior high and high school, I usually went to sunrise Easter service at my church. People who go to church would wear new white or light-colored dresses and suits, and my mom always bought me a pretty, new Easter dress every year. After that, my family generally sat around a lot until we had a special lunch with chicken and artichokes, and then everyone would sleep the rest of the day.
One memory I remember in particular is one with which many Japanese might identify. We lived in California at the time, near San Francisco, and I was probably about 10 or 11. It was a few days before Easter, and we were dying eggs. I was slowly lowering an egg into blue dye, and my mom was behind me telling me I needed to be careful and not get the dye all over everything (which was something she did a lot). Just as I covered the egg in dye, there was an earthquake. It felt like a giant picked up the house and then dropped it from ten feet up. The earthquake caused me to throw the egg up and behind me, and it hit my mom in the face. The egg was wet with dye, which went all over my hair and her face and shirt. Luckily, it didn’t stain to bad, but at least I could claim that it wasn’t my fault that I splattered blue dye everywhere.
Like a kid in a candy store…
OK, I am seriously a geek. Really. Truly. Not ashamed of it either! Rather proud of the fact, actually….
I got a new video card for my birthday (coming up still). I just briefly mentioned to my dad that I thought my computer would work much better with a new video card. Honestly, I think he just wanted an excuse to go to Fry’s. Heck….I wanted an excuse to go to Fry’s!
Of course, I had to call Mirawyn last night and tell her that I was getting a new video card, which led to a half-hour discussion on the merits of various dealers and adding extra RAM. Mirawyn is one of the few women I know I can call with tech news and she’ll not only appreciate it, but be able to converse with me about it in detail. There was an interlude where I attempted to explain the character which Truffles decided to make in World of Hogwarts (Mella Noma…daughter of Carson Noma) , in which she has decided that Ros is her new very best friend and desperately needs a makeover. Tomboy Ros is so far not very impressed and has dubbed Mella “Hogwarts Barbie”. That should prove interesting roleplay in the future. ;p
So far the new card works great! I went with a little lower specs than I could have, so I wouldn’t overwork my power supply too much. I’m rather leery of power supplies after seeing more than one computer burst into flames. Second Life runs beautifully, and I finally get to see what it is supposed to look like when you turn on all the advanced graphics features. Avilion also loaded up in record time, which is probably the slowest loading place that I know of. I tried out my broom on the Quidditch pitch as well, and was pretty impressed. Very happy with the results!
The Age Old Question…and some others
So…I tried to warn people about Danton and Truffles in the same room. This was at the S.S. Galaxy last night.
(This is a little long but there was so much I edited out that is just as funny)
[16:38] Danton Thirroul: Of courseNinja have a fatal flaw in their skills- one thing they cannot defeat of overcome
[16:38] Danton Thirroul: Pirates
[16:38] Truffles Fimicoloud: dont be silly
[16:38] You: Ninjas are much better than pirates
[16:38] Truffles Fimicoloud: pirates dont exist
[16:38] Truffles Fimicoloud: pure fiction
[16:38] Danton Thirroul laughs
[16:38] Danton Thirroul: How amusing you are.
[16:38] Truffles Fimicoloud: *rewrites history*
[16:39] Danton Thirroul: Everyone knows Ninja are jealous of Pirates as pirates get all the girls 9and boys) and Ninja live with their parents still
[16:39] Truffles Fimicoloud: pirates can’t even SPELL properly, what ninja would fear the grammatically inept
[16:40] Danton Thirroul: Pirates do things like invade nations and set up places where every vice known to God and man is available, while Ninja… well… they are just failed shinobi really…
[16:41] Truffles Fimicoloud: poor show of ninjas tonight…
[16:41] You: I have 4 words: rusty knive vs. katana
[16:41] Danton Thirroul: I am being IM’ed by odd Ninjas not even AT this event!
[16:41] Truffles Fimicoloud: there are OTHER ninjas?
[16:41] Danton Thirroul: I have two words- katana v cannon
[16:41] Truffles Fimicoloud: i planned this outfit for MINUTES
[16:41] Truffles Fimicoloud: they’d better not show
[16:42] Danton Thirroul: Truffles if they do- will you kill them with your MAD SKILLZ?@
…
[16:42] You: well…neither had trebuchets
[16:43] Danton Thirroul: trebuchets are over rated
[16:43] Danton Thirroul puts on his ballista
[16:43] Mirawyn Rhiano: I’d like to see the trebuchet.
[16:43] Truffles Fimicoloud: its on ros’s head, MM
[16:43] Truffles Fimicoloud: we are the only one’s without ballistics it seems
[16:43] Danton Thirroul moves around Ros so when he fires his ballista it does triple backstab damage and WINS!
[16:44] Danton Thirroul spits coke as he realises Roswenthe really DOES have a trebuchet on her head!
…
[16:47] Truffles Fimicoloud: pirates you’ve drawn on your wallpaper DO NOT COUNT AS REAL
[16:47] Danton Thirroul: And do not get me started on the mad Ducth pirates!
[16:47] Danton Thirroul: Ducth pirtaes with names like Captain Lucifer!
[16:47] Truffles Fimicoloud: I’m going to have to edit wikipedia a bit before this discussion continues…
…
[17:01] Danton Thirroul runs off to get his Ikea Death Set!
[17:02] You: Oh….I love IKEA
[17:02] Mirawyn Rhiano: I think you’re sorta using them….
[17:02] Mirawyn Rhiano: IKEA!
[17:02] You: I like to sit in the little 200 sq foot room and pretend I live there…make pancakes
[17:02] Mirawyn Rhiano: I want Ikea!
[17:02] Truffles Fimicoloud: we have a bookshelf from IKEA, i like to sit around and HATE it
[17:02] Danton Thirroul: Ikea is Zen
[17:02] Danton Thirroul: Zen… is Ikea
[17:02] Truffles Fimicoloud: IKEA is the antithesis of ZEN!
[17:02] Truffles Fimicoloud: oh Pottery Barn, how I yearn for your overpriced goods
[17:03] Danton Thirroul: Fruffles- just because you cannot see the Buddah in Ikea does not mean it is not there. Only that your eyes are broken
[17:03] Danton Thirroul: Sit and watch some Ikea
[17:03] Truffles Fimicoloud: buddhas, pirates, you seem to see a LOT that doesn’t exist;p
[17:03] You: Truffles is from California…they got them weird idears out there…
[17:04] Danton Thirroul: California- (nods) that explains much
[17:04] Truffles Fimicoloud: *BLAT*
[17:04] You: Yes, yes it does…
[17:04] Danton Thirroul is *BLATTED*
[17:04] Truffles Fimicoloud: does this belt make me look fat?
[17:04] Danton Thirroul: Pirates SO exist
[17:04] Truffles Fimicoloud: will you note the little ninja’s stars on my belt, ros
[17:04] Truffles Fimicoloud: those are genuINE little ninja stars
[17:04] Truffles Fimicoloud: some call them deadly
[17:04] Danton Thirroul: the prolem wit prates is of course modern pirates are rather nasty
[17:05] Mirawyn Rhiano: If California explains Truffles, what explains Danton? 
[17:05] Truffles Fimicoloud: delusional?
[17:05] Danton Thirroul: inbreeding
…
[17:10] Truffles Fimicoloud: didn’t they all drink alcoholic beverages back then due to the poor water supply?
[17:10] Danton Thirroul nods
[17:10] Truffles Fimicoloud: anyone could have been a pirate by that logic…
[17:10] Truffles Fimicoloud: we could *gasp*, ALL BE THE CHILDREN OF PIRACY
[17:10] Truffles Fimicoloud: which would explain all acts of poor spelling
[17:10] Truffles Fimicoloud: well, don’t look at me, I’m of british lineage
[17:10] Truffles Fimicoloud: we didnt have british pirates
[17:11] Riko Kamachi: lol coruse we did
[17:11] Riko Kamachi: course
[17:11] Truffles Fimicoloud: HOGWASH!
[17:11] Truffles Fimicoloud: not on MY wikipedia
[17:11] Riko Kamachi: lol
[17:11] Truffles Fimicoloud: *edits rapidly*
[17:11] Truffles Fimicoloud: *whistles*
[17:11] You: having known Truffles for some time, I can safely say…
[17:11] You: I’m never using Wiki again
[17:11] Danton Thirroul: It was the Dutch actually
[17:12] Danton Thirroul: Followed by the French
[17:12] Truffles Fimicoloud: nonsense, I’m only at the “k”’s
[17:13] Truffles Fimicoloud: *coughs* maybe in SOME 7th grade textbooks, but we ALL know that the british were busy sipping tea until the late 19th century
[17:13] Truffles Fimicoloud: then they invented evolution
The Requisite First Post
Truffles talked (more like harassed) me into getting a blog for my geekish exploits, so this will include stuff about Second Life, gaming, being a geek chick, and other random musings.
All I have to say is that I built a trebuchet in Second Life yesterday. I think that sums up a lot…
