When neighbors are rude it doesn't matter what reality you're in!

I have a small property (512 square meters) in Second Life which I visit from time to time. SL is a great virtual reality site where you can make friends, create and have a lot of fun. You can also have a lot of grief there too! Just as in real life, the avatars that exist there, exist in RL too. As such you might well find yourself with a neighbor that doesn’t seem to care much about common decency.

Here is a picture of my property (see my home). You’ll note it is hemmed in on all four sides by some type of construction. No big deal as I put up a hundred foot tower where my little avatar lives at the top of. But, all is not well. It seems the two houses (labeled 1 and 2) have erected ‘no pass barriers’ that my avatar cannot penetrate. I have to fly up pretty high to get over them is I want to visit a neighboring property. How Rude!

No I can’t do much about house 1 as there is never anyone there. The avatar’s name is AnitaK Larimore.  At some point, I’m hoping she will either abandon or sell the property. House 2, on the other hand is owned by a group called H2 Properties and judging from the member list (see pic) they are more than likely a group of brainless twenty year olds who don’t realize that they still have this place. Duh! Someone in this group decided to plant two trees that infringe on my property. Double rude! So, I decided that until such time as I can reach them to place two leaking toxic barrels that smoke right next to their house. Every once in a while the ‘winds’ blow the smoke right into their ‘love nest’. What fun!

Waiting on the last turn of the dial for planet Earth!

Somewhere deep in the bowels of the earth, there stands a man who is reaching for a dial that unlocks the safe of global disaster. Only he doesn’t know that. He thinks that ‘change’ is actually good for his planet. So, without further thought, he turns the dial to the first number:

2 – The amount representing the amount of carbon released to the atmosphere in 2005 when drought conditions in the Amazon Rain Forest caused the world’s largest carbon sink to reverse itself and release 2 billion pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere. KLUNK – the first tumbler falls into place.

1361 – The new solar constant which is reduced from it former strength. The sun is going towards a thirty year long solar minimum. KLUNK – the second tumbler falls.

388.92 – The number in parts per million of CO2 that are in earths atmosphere. A number higher than at any time in the last half million years. KLUNK – The third tumbler locks solidly into position.

20 – The number of feet the oceans would rise if the ice on Greenland melts, which it is. An event that could disrupt the deep thermohaline layer in the ocean and trigger another ice age. KLUNK – The fourth tumbler is in place.

Now, there is but one more number to be turned. No one knows what that number is…yet!

A Pink Floyd Massage

The weather gets a bit nasty!

As this sort movie clip shows, we had a day that looked more like a scene you'd expect to see in December. What had been a regime of seventy degree cloudless days rapidly turned into a more wintery scenario. Just goes t show how fast things can change in the month of November!

I take no credit for this!

I know where mine is!

What can you say about Ron Paul?

Ron Paul,

• doesn’t have 70 Million in his campaign chest! We the People support him, not a bunch of special interests.
• writes his own speeches! He doesn’t need to twist his meaning around to fit the crowd he's talking to at the time. It’s always been the same speech. Less government and more power to the states!
• doesn’t us a teleprompter! Telling the whole truth and nothing but the truth all the time is easy! No props required.
• has served his country in Congress for over 30 years! He doesn’t need to run for President. He feels obligated to help when help is needed.
• is a doctor. He’s brought children into this world who are now grown and voting adults! Think about that for a moment.
• stands firmly in the center of the political spectrum. Right about where most of the rest of us stand also.

This election season, I ask that you forget about party affiliations and look hard and long at both Parties. Each has had a role in getting America to where it is today; on the very brink of disaster. Ron Paul is the only candidate who has stood for so long in the middle of the political spectrum and now, I think, the majority of American’s are standing there with him.

Please consider voting Ron Paul into the Office of the President in 2012 so we can get about the business of turning the country we all love around. My name is Dan Owen and Ron Paul is my candidate of choice!