I’m so weak. I did it. Yes, I did auction myself, and you know what? I pretty much enjoyed it. It was a really fun event even if I really didn’t expect to have fun.

Why did I do it? Because at some point I stopped feeling the pressure, and could take a decision by myself, on my own will. Because most of the people there are my friends. Because I love them. Because many of my lovers were actually on the auction block, and Mistress Codie wanted to support them.

And you know what? I don’t regret it at all. Well, not yet at least.

So, let’s resume a few interesting highlights:

• Yours truely and Gabby Panacek got on the block together and went for 50K late in the auction to adorable Botgirl Questi. We got 37500 from the sale. Half of 12500 went to Locks of Love. And myself and Gabby donated 10K to Rosie’s cancer charity. We kept the rest and splitted it, for ourselves to decide what to do with it. We are dizzy in anticipation about what Botgirl will want from us, but it may be educative. I feel a bit like a sexy lab rat, but I guess we surely won’t be bored with what she has in store for us.
• We apparently got the highest bid apart lovely blog superstar Zoe Connolly that went for 50K too.
• I won the bid on my very admired queen of bloggers, ultimate neko and fellow FIC honcho, Vint Falken for a little 17K and I must say this is probably the best spent money in my SL. You should know I am worshipping Vint since I know her, over one year and a half now. I always admired her greatly, and now I totally pwn her for a whooping 24h, I could not be more thrilled! Since her requirement was no sex (bummer) I will make her do a couple of work related things for me, including helping me to promote my new sim Rouge and other related tasks.
• I won the bid on lovely TheDiva Rockin coupled with Kat Glimmer. Gawd only knows what I have in store for them! *grins devilishly*
• I won the bid on my own girlfriend Nadine Nozaki for around 5K (Crap Mariner you cheap bastard!)
• Vint Falken actually won the bid on my own submissive lover Rheta Shan… and offered her to me! <3
• Rheta then won the bid on Zoe Connolly… and offered her to me too! XD
• And Zoe Connolly won the bid on… yes, Botgirl Questi! Making it the most interesting Domme/Sub autority chain in history!
• I lost the bid on Veyron (it went up to more than 30K) but I cut a deal with Jene that I could borrow Vey for a couple of hours, which honestly delights me.

In conclusion, I can only retain the positive aspects. It was ages I didn’t spend quality time with either Rheta, Zoe, Nadine and Vint. Yes, It will eat up dozens of hours of my time, but you know what? I never have enough for my real good friends. Maybe this will help me set my priorities straight and spend some time with the people I truely love and admire.

Thanks to everyone for morally supporting me, commenting on Plurk and my last blog post, and all of those who IMed me inworld, you put a big bright smile on my face. Thanks to Alidar, Jessyka, Gabby, Marx and everyone that were there with me at the auction, seriously, I wouldn’t have had the guts if you weren’t there for me.

And what about me and Gabby’s hard time with our new Mistress Botgirl? Stay tuned for more.

On Saturday evening, Plurkers, Twitterati, and various other SLebrities, took advantage of Codie’s absence by breaking out of their straightjackets and disguising themselves as doctors and nurses. As is generally the case when this group gets together, madness ensued. I offer as evidence the following photo:

Osiris and Roxette fashioned a Codie mask for everyone to wear and a group picture was required. Poor Kitty Lalonde wasn’t able to get out of her wheelchair, but we managed to roll her into place anyway.

Unfortunately, technical difficulties forced us to move the party to The High…Big thanks to Nexeus Fatale for generously offering the use of his club, so that we could continue the party!

Queen Coronet served as our Hostess with the Mostest (the most KY, that is) and Nexeus and Amanda Shinji kept the dancefloor packed with great music.

For more great pics from the party, check out Dakota B’s Flickr Stream. If there are more photos lurking about…please post the links in the comments!

And for the next party…hmmm…what should the theme be?

Yeah I really thought Chief D. Rockin would catch me, handcuff me and put me on a public display of humiliation for all my fashion crimes. But no, seems she thinks I’m an exemplary citizen for not committing the ghetto booty crime. Being used as an example of good taste on the SLFP is oh my flattering. Thank you Chief D. Rockin for not handcuffing me. Oh, wait. That would have actually been real fun! Guess I should start hanging out with giant prim boobs not assorted to my skin and wearing a ton of visible from space blang if I want her to catch me and make me feel it good. Will work on that.

While then, read The do and don’t of booty on SecondLife Fashion Police blog.

I got commissioned by Jacek Antonelli of Cuddlefish Junction to make a demo of her Bubble Ride product, so I thought I could as well make it artsy and nice to look at. So I used Windlight to capture this movie, using a mix of presets and custom settings for the sky and water. I then made the final cut and editing using Sony Vegas.

Hope you will enjoy it, especially on this extended downtime day.

High resolution version available here:

WMV Format (60 megs very high res)

Flash Format (high res)

*drumroll!* Sorry for lagging that much, I was too busy to do a decent post announcing the winners for the Boudoir Rouge Photo Contest. Let me first say that this was for fun. And I had a lot of fun. And I was flattered and honored by every submission to this contest. Being your model was symbolically very important to me, it really honored me greatly to have you all doing that for me.

This said, one reason why I hate contests, is that I cannot make everybody win. I was tempted to take the whole L$12000 and split it in 10 parts and shower everyone. But as every contest, the point was to try to encourage talent. To those who didn’t make the cut, don’t feel left out, your work was all so nice it was very painful to have to choose just a few ones. It was in fact so painful that I added a 5th winner and ended up in a split that made me add L$1000 in prize money.

So, in reverse orders, the winners are:

5th PLACE: TIE (L$1000 each) - Jacek Antonelli and Harper Beresford

Jacek’s entry is awesome and got very little processing, all lighting and angles are from inworld lighting, and I like the portrait cut.

Harper’s an awesome inworld photographer. She may not postprocess but she definitely have much talent. The lighting, angle and framing are just perfect. Very good job.

4th PLACE: L$2000 - Cicciuzzo Gausman

I would have favored a larger format for this submission but never mind, it does look awesome. The hazy treatment, the lighting, the angle, the motion blur, the atmospheric is awesome.

3rd PLACE: L$2500 - Vint Falken

I mean…. XD…. Do I really have to comment? Hilarious, charming, flattering. Vint actually never took any studio pictures of me, it’s good if she took one single picture of me ever apart that. But her entry into the matter is spectacular, as she is. When I saw that shot, I laughed for the whole day. I love that girl.

2nd PLACE: L$2500 - Elease Graves

This is actually my desktop wallpaper. Stunning. The treatment is awesome, and the mix with illustration too. I just want to lick it. Elease always impressed me and she just keeps getting better and better.

1st PLACE: L$5000 - Mylena Aquitaine

Gosh girl! That kicks ass. The whole 4 picture set is outstanding. The lighting, soft ambiance, but especially the angles and her choice to do what I cannot do with Boudoir Rouge, use framings where we cannot see the faces. But she dares doing it, and with delicious results. I picked this one as my favorite but each of them submitted were pure delight. You deserve that 5K up hand Mylena.

I want to wholeheartedly congratulate and thank the other participants to the contest: Amanda Shinji, Véronique Lalonde, Osiris Pfalz, Rheta Shan, I know you girls knows I love your pictures and I will pay your prize in kisses and love.

OUT OF CONTEST HONORABLE MENTIONS

The following pictures were submitted out of the Boudoir Rouge Photo Contest period but were too outstanding to avoid. There is 3 posts that especially got my attention and that I would like to share.

All winners will get their prize inworld tomorrow night. I am so honored and proud of all of you participating and coming to my humble event to encourage me, your friendship is dear to my heart and I shall honor it. Much love.

Codie

Theres a lot of rambling going on about the Lindens enforcing their trademarks. I won’t get in the hype before having all the details, but let’s say it’s nearly impossible to enforce now that it’s spread everywhere. I won’t do like my crazy adorable GF Rheta Shan and purge my blog of every mention of the trademarks. Tho, that was insanely funny, I will wait for a Cease & Desist letter to put on my wall before I do that.

To add more humorous flavor to the debate, let me give you a tweaked up version of my favorite song, by Crass. The original is called “Do they owe us a living?” and my version is called “Do they owe us a SL?”. So put the pitchforks down and cheer up for a bit.

Original song here.

Original lyrics here.

DO THEY OWE US A SL?

Fuck the corporate minded, here’s something I want to say,
About the state of SL, the way it treats us today.
Inworld they give you shit, drop you in the pit,
You try, you try, you try to login, but you can’t because they’ve fucked you about.
Then you’re a prime example of how they must not be,
This is just a sample of what they’ve done to you and me.

Do they owe us a SL?
Of course they do, of course they do.
Owe us a SL?
Of course they do, of course they do.
Owe us a SL?
OF COURSE THEY FUCKING DO.

Don’t want me anymore, cos I threw it on the floor.
Used to call me sweet thing, I’m nobody’s plaything,
And now that I am different, ‘d love to bust my head,
You’d love to see me logout, ‘d love to see me dead.

Do they owe us a SL?
Of course they do, of course they do.
Owe us a SL?
Of course they do, of course they do.
Owe us a SL?
OF COURSE THEY FUCKING DO.

The SL that is owed to me I’m never going to get,
They’ve buggered this brave new world up, up to their necks in dept.
They’d give you a banhammer for something you ain’t done,
They’ll make you an epitomy of everything that’s wrong.

Do they owe us a SL?
Of course they do, of course they do.
Owe us a SL?
Of course they do, of course they do.
Owe us a SL?
OF COURSE THEY FUCKING DO.

Don’t take any notice of what the public think,
They’re so hyped up with WoW., they just don’t want to think.
They’ll use you as a target for demands and for advice,
When you don’t want to hear it they’ll say you’re broadly offensive.

Do they owe us a SL?
Of course they do, of course they do.
Owe us a SL?
Of course they do, of course they do.
Owe us a SL?
OF COURSE THEY FUCKING DO.

——————–

Sorry for that lame attempt at humor but I couldn’t resist. It does share a part of truth, toward the fact that LL may be a business, which I have nothing against, we still are investors and citizens of this brave new world. I have a very high level of tolerance usually and I especially feel for the Lindens, as I do practically the same job. But sometimes, the administrative decisions are taken without consideration of the backlash effects on our population. As much as I’m a Linden fangirl, some of those decisions are really hard to backup and swallow. Some of us, even the more moderate of SLitizens, will sometimes need to vent it out a little. And I prefer doing it the smart ass sarcastic way. *smiles*

What an awesome time I had at SL4B last year. It’s where I met some awesome people like Stephen Venkman and his lovely wife Kimberly Mirabeau, among a ton of other interesting characters. It’s where I created my Art Monolith, and this was one of the most memorable time I ever had in SL.

Now, lovely great lady of arts Shoshana Epsilon, which is also the Art Director for SL5B, asked me if I could help organizing and selecting artists for this year’s SecondLife Birthday, and of course I gladly accepted.

Read more on SL5B website

How cute is that. How never dreamed of riding a bubble? Well this is the perfect occasion as Jacek Antonelli AKA Cuddlefish launches her new product, the Bubble Ride, a clear bubble vehicle launcher. You herd right! One touch on the bubble launcher and it pops you a new bubble, you click on the bubble and you ride it! You pretty much go with the wind but the bubble has controls that allows you to change direction and go upwards/downwards. Of course it doesn’t turn on a dime but hey! It’s awesome and it’s beautiful and not possible in real life. And it’s awesome fun.

Click here for more information on the event, straight from Cuddlefish Junction webpage.

Furthermore, as of sheer vanity, just check who’s on this Cuddlefish Junction poster, floating delightfully. I is purring in delight. ^^

(image borrowed shamelessly from Cuddlefish Junction website but I’m sure Momma Cuddlefish will forgive me (gropes! gropes!)

Oh no, not again. Sights.

Lovely Roxette Wise tagged me with yet-another-blog-meme, this time about books. Okay since I’m a good sport, let’s do this:

The Book Meme

1. Pick up the nearest book. (of at least 123 pages)
2. Open book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences
5. Tag five people!

(Goes and fetch the closest book…) Oh fuck. Which is a very old edition of Linux Unleashed. From 1995. Ugh. You really asked for it, this promises to be very dull. It came with Slackware 2.2.0 BTW. Yes, I’m that old.

So on page 123…

Notational Conventions Used to Describe Linux Commands

There is a set of accepted notational conventions used to describe, in a concise and consistent way, the correct syntax for any given Linux command. This specifies what options or parameters you must use, what options or parameters you can use or not use, and so on. Sometimes this set of conventions is used to give a complete and exhaustive listing of a command’s syntax, showing every possible command and parameter.

There, that’s even 4 sentences if we count the title.

Now the victims. Ugh. Sorry guys. I’m not tagging anyone this time, this brings too much hate. *grins*