✐ About the new name of this blog

I'm having a really bad toothache, so I don't have much energy to write, but I wanted to explain why my blog have the new name and what it means. The easiest way is to show you a video on YouTube.



Information about the Pineal Gland
 "Dr. Rick Strassman, while conducting research on the psychedelic dimethyltryptamine (DMT) in the 1990s at the University of New Mexico, advanced the controversial hypothesis that a massive release of DMT from the pineal gland prior to death or near death was the cause of the near death experience (NDE) phenomenon. Several of his test subjects reported NDE-like audio or visual hallucinations. His explanation for this was the possible lack of panic involved in the clinical setting and possible dosage differences between those administered and those encountered in actual NDE cases.
Several subjects also reported contact with 'other beings', alien like, insectoid or reptilian in nature, in highly advanced technological environments where the subjects were 'carried,' 'probed,' 'tested,' 'manipulated,' 'dismembered,' 'taught,' 'loved,' and even 'raped' by these 'beings' (one could note the strong similarities of these bodily tests/invasions in other psychedelic experiences throughout time, outlined in Graham Hancock's "Supernatural". Basing his reasoning on his belief that all the enzymatic material needed to produce DMT is found in the pineal gland (see evidence in mammals), and moreover in substantially greater concentrations than in any other part of the body, Strassman has speculated that DMT is made in the pineal gland."

More information here:
@ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineal_gland
@ The Pineal Gland is a Gateway

✐ Changes

I changed the name of the blog today, the name "Living in the Virtual World SL" is outdated. I don't spend much time there anymore, I guess I'm just bored and fed up with the virtual world and I've been a resident for almost 6 years, so maybe it's time to move on. I still have my land though, it's beautiful and a bit hard to give up. The short times I am logged in, I don't go anywhere, just hang around on my land, alone.With the 'Busy Mode Button' activated, I have no energy to talk or meet people and the few times I've been out partying the 1-2 past months, I've been aloof, just listening to the music and watching my avatar dance, not much "perving", not participating in the local chat or answering if a stranger IM's me.

I'm fed up with the social life in SL, the local chats are mostly spammed with gestures, like "Hooooo", "Tune", "Awesome", etc. Not to talk about the annoying hosts/hostesses repeatedly gestures, often in a "Gesture Hud; "Party on", "Tip the DJ", etc and all the "Welcomes" from a gesture hud, so impersonal and annoying. I don't tip them anymore, why should I, they're just a nuisance to me. Same with the DJ's, if I don't like the music, no tips. I do give "Linden Love" (lol) when the host/hostess are personal and are able to carry on a conversation, or at least trying to and when I like the music the DJ plays.

Second life have changed a lot since I joined, now it's more like a reflection of the real world. A virtual world for the owners (Linden Lab) and the merchants, based on commerce. The changes that have occured over the past year and upcoming ones, are just made so the residents have to or want to consume more. Mesh is a great example of that, it means you have to buy everything you already have, but in mesh. Linden Lab have also announced that they will change the server based code, so you can't log in with older viewers anymore, well you can, but all other avatars will be gray. All these changes also means you need a powerful computer, if you don't have that, you have to buy a new one.

But the most crazy thing about the commerce in Second Life, the items you buy are NOT real, it's all virtual. If the servers or databases crashes, you have nothing. I've spent quite a lot of real money during my  years in Second Life, I don't regret it, at the time I had fun there. But now when I'll leave, it will be all gone. The only real money I spend in SL now is the rent for my land, don't know for how much longer though. Yes, it is beautiful, but it's not real, it's just a piece of a server, located in San Fransisco, that I have decorated. I'm looking at Second Life from the outside now, but I still have a toe attached. I mean it's been such a huge part of my life for 6 years, so it's kind of a process to totally let go.

✐ This is the End my Friend

I'm losing my interest in Second life, the time I spend there get's less and less. When I'm logged in I usually don't go anywhere, only once in awhile. I mostly stay on my land alone with the 'Busy Mode Button' activated, sitting on a tree trunk on the roof of my house, listening to nature sounds and meditation music.

Then we have all the changes Linden Lab have introduced during the year; new ugly viewers, new TPV rules, mesh, pathfinding, etc. I feel that SL more and more is becoming close to the real world, where they come up with ideas that forces us to consume more. Take 'mesh' for an example, only visible in viewers that are based on V2 code and the plan is to close server access for V1 coded viewers, like Phoenix (my favorite viewer). Anyway, why introducing 'mesh'? For us users it means we have to buy everything we already have, but in mesh. A clever idea of Linden Lab and the merchants to make more money.

After 5 years and 9 months, this fat lady is starting to warm up her voice, prepaired to sing her last song. And that will be when Linden Lab close the access for V1 based coded viewers, when I can't log in with Phoenix anymore.

(Friday, 9 March 2012)
Interview with Oz Linden | Treet TV 


(Saturday, 17 December 2011)
Rockcliffe University hosted a Q and A session with Jessica Lyon and Nigma Sterling. 

It's all about making:

$ Profit $

The end of Phoenix

Well, Good Luck, Linden Lab, but this time I think you have gone to far. Yes I know you own the platform but with really pissed off residents, that probably will leave, specially we "oldies", the ones with the credit cards and the money, and not the teenies or newbies., I predict that Second Life will be an old memory, not so far away. You're trying to make SL into an online game that you think will attract new ("willing to spend $$") residents. Here's the truth, at least for many of us, Second Life have been a Virtual World, where we can meet people from all over the world, having fun, dancing, chatting, music, etc. And NOT a game. You couldn't handle that the TPV developers managed to make a better viewer than your own, did you?! And do you really think that you can "make it" in the competition of really awesome online games, with years of development behind them, I don't think so.

Well, a bunch of credits and "Thank You's" to the Phoenix/Firestorm team, and other TPV developers, for their voluntary and hard work to make viewers that the resiedents really likes. And a special 'Thank you' to Jessica Lyon, who have worked so hard (and still is), being like the spider in the net, cordinating everything, keeping us informed about Linden Labs plans for the future, besides being a part of a team that makes the best viewers in Second Life. Thank You Jessica!

Later: (12-18-2012)
After half a bottle of vodka, clubbing in SL is so boooring. The good old clubs have closed :-( What's left and the few new ones, are just a big YAWN. Sure there are a few exceptions, still some good DJ's left. Well I'm gonna finish my vodkadrink ( 7 PM CET/ 11 AM SLT) and go to sleep. I'm bored to death and very sleepy. Don't think I will miss SL when the "big changes" on the server side is implemented and Phoenix becomes "unusable". Unless I just stay on my land and don't see anyone, the coming of  the "Gray Ones". Wonder if my own avatar will "bake" properly....hm?!