Codeine source of. Codeine. Side effects of codeine.

We are cyber pioneers. Relish every moment. Legends are being made.

Admittedly, the photographer’s a friend of mine. Admittedly, it was for a club that some other friends of mine are starting. Admittedly, I’ve had my “what the hell am I doing?” crisis and my family and SL and RL friends have all pounded through my thick skull that I shouldn’t waste my body-modesty or concern on a video-game avatar.

I found it relaxing – I didn’t have to do much, the photographer just posed me however and pinged me for costume changes. I read a book, got caught up on my surfing and webcomics, and that was it.

As far as how my avatar looks – about as far away from me as possible, mostly due to gifts from my SL friends. I kind of thought that was the point.

In fact I tend to be drawn to people with interesting looking avatars in that regard and certainly not to people who are Hollywood’s vision of beauty. My girlfriend for instance is rather short and very shapely. Actually shape and size is of little difference to me, it’s a person’s expression of style that catches my eye. For instance, I found myself striking up a conversation with an older, rather portly looking human male avatar the other day because I enjoyed his rather interesting style of dress (very 1950′s Hawaiian/lounge style).

Anyway, feh. I don’t think too deeply about all this stuff and I’m always happy to tell people where I get my skins, hair or anything else. Just a question? What did you expect from the photo shoot? I’m curious. The only time I’ve had a professional shoots done in SL, it has been with friends of mine, so it was done pretty tongue in cheek and I enjoyed the experience.

But we all have priorities there. For me, it’s exploring; finding mysterious, wonderful places (even if they are gorgeously romantic); and (eventually) building things and doing business. But a virtual shag on virtual shag (or a pixelated martini) just doesn’t make much sense to me (especially if it costs).

But I do have a followup question for Marilyn Murphy, who posted above. How do you know that SL (like the Earth) is round? The fact that one can see a curved horizon, when one is “at altitude” doesn’t necessarily make it so! Technically, in a round (spherical) world, one would be able to fly straight along a fixed latitude or longitude bearing, and return to one’s starting point without ever turning back.

And if this is really the case in SL, then I’d love to know how far one has to travel to return? And even if one could, it still wouldn’t mean that the “SL Universe” is itself round. It could (for example) be negatively curved, and would then be a torus. In that case, you could still fly in one direction, and return to the place from which you started…but only after traveling in either of two directions: parallel or perpendicular to the torus’s equator.

This may sound like an impractical issue, but it isn’t. It’s precisely related to how Linden Labs defines the “topology” of SL in its server network. If they actually permit one to (say) fly off SL’s Eastern boundary and immediately find oneself flying back into SL across its Western boundary…and if the same applies to the North and South boundaries, then their world is probably toroidal. But I haven’t seen this happen; when I try to “cross the boundaries,” I just run into gray walls.

Has anyone seen the other side of these walls? And if not, where’s a virtual Einstein when we need one?

It may sound strange, but I’ve never actually seen my female avie naked. Maybe I have a few loose toys in my attic.

Not everyone is out to be ‘different’ or ‘cooler’ than RL. Some of us are content with a visual similarity to augment our textual (and soon to be vocal) personality expression in SL.