The Tower

The Tower 

LEA FULL SIM ART SERIES for December 2012
by Rebeca Bashly

LEA6 Exhibit

Merry Christmas

Santa has been to our house :)

Virus Alert

There's a particularly nasty little virus going around called "FBI MoneyPak Ransom". We got it with it, and it's been a headache to get rid of, so if you would like: Copy down the instructions on this link in case it happens to you. You might also want to go ahead and download the recommended cleaners there so you don't have to mess with it so much at the time.

The virus looks like this:

It is meant to look "official".

The upper right hand corner has your IP address, internet provider and location. I blocked ours out to put it here. There's also a pornographic photo where the yellow box is (I also blocked that out).

You will probably have a hard time exiting the forced lock screen, so follow these directions carefully and install the recommended stuff now if you have the chance:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-fbi-monkeypak-ransomware

Cloud party

This is a beta new virtual world I was checking out after reading about it in SLU.

The rocks in the air behind me are the "sims" or other islands you go to.

The graphics are pretty smooth. Right now the world's still a little empty.

Weird fish-dude :D

http://www.cloudparty.com

SLU Party

Some snapshots from the SLU party at Cristiano Midnight's place. Our host actually could not speak--type, that is!--but threw a great party anyway!

Artemis Fate

Dr Fran Babcock doing pushups

Bebe Boyd and me

Ichago

Myf

Roxanne

Shiloh

pancake and Cristiano

Teeny

Sonya

Soen

Kacey!

What happens at GOHA when you leave your car in the parking lot.

The guilty party is Kacey Rossini. :D

Awards S14

Season 14 Awards
8/25/2012

Presenters:
Jack Belvedere
Josh Figgis
Kerry Gretzky

THE GLOBAL CUP - NA Division Trophy
WHALES

THE TOMBA CUP - NA Division Regular Season Champs
MOOSE

THE ARENA CUP - Euro Division Trophy
RAVENS

SKYTOWER CUP - Euro Division Most Regular Season Wins
STORM

THE TOILET BOWL TROPHY - Won in Best-of-7 Between Lowest Standings Teams
NA: ICE LORDS, EURO: FOXES

COURNEYOR TROPHY - Outstanding Teamwork
WHALES

HICKMAN TROPHY - Overall League MVP
NA: NIK GADE, EURO: TAMMED EMBER

JACKS TROPHY - Playoff MVP
NA: JEHUTY NIEMI, EURO: JOSH FIGGIS, NIK GADE

JEWELL TROPHY - Most Improved Player
NA: KRISTOFF JAMESON, EURO: KERRY GRETZKY

MERRICK-SABRE TROPHY - Outstanding Offenseman
NA: NIK GADE, EURO: KIBA RUBBLE

KLATA TROPHY - Outstanding Defenseman
NA: KARYNN WINDLOW, EURO: FALL GOALPOST

RODRIGUEZ TROPHY - Outstanding Rookie
NA: STAPLES PRICE, EURO: FRU DEEZUL

WIND TROPHY - Outstanding Goalie of the Season
NA: JEHUTY NIEMI, EURO: JEHUTY NIEMI

LUNDQUIST AWARD - Lowest GAA
NA: JEHUTY NIEMI, EURO: JEHUTY NIEMI

FALTA TROPHY - Most Goalie Wins
NA: STAPLES PRICE, EURO: STAPLES PRICE

IPR365 AH TROPHY - Most Goalie Assists
NA: STAPLES PRICE, EURO: STAPLES PRICE

STREET TROPHY - Most Player Assists
NA: NIK GADE, EURO: FRU DEEZUL

YUMAKO TROPHY - Best Plus/Minus
NA: NIK GADE, EURO: KIBA RUBBLE

ROLLAND TROPHY - Most Season Penalties
NA: KRISTOFF JAMESON, EURO: KACEY ROSSINI, GERHARD HESSE

BECKHAM TROPHY - Most Shots on Goal
NA: NIK GADE, EURO: MRC SPARTA

GUDKOV TROPHY - Outstanding Goal-Defense-Offense
NA: ABU SALAZAR, EURO: ALLAN GUDKOV

WACHMANN TROPHY - Outstanding Defensive Offenseman
NA: NIK GADE, EURO: JACKSON TOURNIER

VIDOR TROPHY - Outstanding Offensive Defenseman
NA: KARYNN WINDLOW, RONIN MCGINNIS, EURO: JAVIERITO NOEL

NADOKA OH TROPHY - Enforcer of the Season
NA: NIK GADE, EURO: NIK GADE

SALAZAR TROPHY - Most Hits
NA: NIK GADE, EURO: JACKSON TOURNIER

GRETZKY TROPHY - Most Poke Checks/Trips
NA: ABU SALAZAR, EURO: ABU SALAZAR

BEEKS TROPHY - Outstanding Passing
NA: JOSH FIGGIS, EURO: FRU DEEZUL

BENINGBOROUGH TROPHY - Most Face Off Wins
NA: DOC BENINGBUROUGH, EURO: NADOKA OH

GOALPOST TROPHY - Outstanding Captain of the Season
NA: NIK GADE, EURO: TAMMED EMBER

LUSCH TROPHY - Outstanding Veteran of the Year
BEAVIS BECKHAM

JAMES TROPHY - Outstanding Sportsmanship
BEAVIS BECKHAM, DEEJ KASSHIKI, JAVIERITO NOEL

HESSE TROPHY - NA Toilet Bowl MVP
JACKSON TOURNIER

MCMINNAR TROPHY - EURO Toilet Bowl MVP
MRC SPARTA

UPSHAW TROPHY - Team COBRAS MVP
SULLIE AUSTER

WARBURTON TROPHY - Team ICE LORDS MVP
JUSTIN TOMASSO

LYCIA TROPHY - Team MAMMOTH MVP
JAVIERITO NOEL

RENEGADE TROPHY - Team MOOSE MVP
FALL GOALPOST, KIBA RUBBLE, STAPES PRICE

ITOKAWA TROPHY - Team WHALES MVP
JEHUTY NIEMI

GRUMAIUX TROPHY - Team WOLVES MVP
MRC SPARTA, MYNAMEISBOB

FIRANELLI TROPHY - Team BLADES MVP
FALL GOALPOST

DINGSON TROPHY - Team FOXES MVP
KACEY ROSSINI

ROSSINI TROPHY - Team RAVENS MVP
JOSH FIGGIS

ROOGUS TROPHY - Team STORM MVP
KIBA RUBBLE

ZUHRAH TROPHY - Outstanding Referee of the Season
JEHUTY NIEMI

IXTAB TROPHY - Outstanding Farm Coach
JEHUTY NIEMI, KACEY ROSSINI

COPPOLA TROPHY - Outstanding Service to the League Award
MARJAN TOMBA

Snippet

Him: You will need a ruler, some clothespins, and a soft pillow.

Her: Mmmm

Him: Oh, and an alarm clock.

Her: Alarm clock?

Him: I know, it sounds like we're having a garage sale.

Her: lmao

State of the SL

I have been missing from SL for the better part of 3 months except for occassional forays in because of health and life troubles. It's nice to pop back in and see people I haven't talked to in weeks.

Hope to be getting back in on a more regular basis soon though and maybe keeping this page updated a little more.

Marjan Tomba is running the GOHA league in my absence and sounds like things are going a lot better than the end of Season 13 with all the drama-mongers now busy doing other things in SL. My wife at least is enjoying my limited time on the computer--between having more of me to herself and also being able to sometimes log in now since I usually hog the computer!

Snaps

Forayed into SL today to see how everyone's doing and snap some shots.

:)

GOALIE

ROMNEY

This is genius--found it posted on the SLU boards and thought I'd share it here too. Best part is Obama's lines lmao

 

My son got a shiner from a fall. I teased him and told him he should say he got it in a hockey fight, and "You should see the other guy!" He liked that.

 

TUESDAY

My First Auction

So tonight I did something new. My friend Pancake invited me to--are you ready? A live auction for butterflies. They are breedable creatures in SL. The auctioneer was on voice and busily auctioning off all types and genders of butterflies and other insects. Fascinating! Didn't realize there was such a thing. Pancake says the breedables community is a huge subculture in SL and they do many activities as a group--besides the auctions.

Where: The Borough

A scene of the auction park.

Tristan Careless had the line of the night: "My comment is that I have no comment." (I had the SL bug tonight where many avatars around me are standing sunken into the ground with their arms straight out. Annoying!)

This is the auctioneer, Eden Malik. Very pleasant speaking voice and did a great job entertaining the crowd while auctioning off the bugs.

Here is Pancake, watching the auction and trying very hard not to spend money. Very interesting evening, and I did learn something: Butterflies have penises. Nic Renegade tells me they also shit out their eyes, and eat through their feet, but I don't think I believe that.

[22:04] NikGade: A wise man once said.. "If you're catching butterflies... You better check whats between your legs."

We then visited a really awesome club called Organica, on Happy Clam Island. Friendly staff and patrons and truly amazing build!

Where: Organica

PHANTOM

 RAVENSWOOD THEATRICAL GROUP

This past year, I have become a fan of Ravenswood Theatrical Group in SL. This group is composed entirely of furries and they put out fantastic productions of RL plays and musicals. The sets are beautiful, the choreography lifelike, and the attention to detail is stunning. I highly recommend attending a performance. You can contact Alexiel Czaczkes in-world for information and schedules.

Tonight we had a special treat--the group performed Phantom of the Opera for GOHA at Chamonix City, in a specially built theater on Cross Check. GOHA thanks Alexiel Czaczkes for making this possible and those in attendance had a wonderful time for this incredible 3-hour performance.

You can visit them in-world or on Facebook:
Ravenswood Thtr SL

ZOMBIES

THE WALKING DEAD

If you're a fan of zombies, you don't really want to miss out. I've been watching since last year. I actually missed the first season, though I kept hearing about it and intending to watch. TV is not really my bag other than NHL and the occasional movie, so it was an effort to finally sit down, watch the entire first episode on Netflix, then start watching it on AMC last fall. Very glad I did. End-of-the-world done right, gory and exciting Sunday night TV. We almost ditched it last fall when things were getting a little too soap-operay with Lori and Shane and Rick. Who cares who's sleeping with who when the world's filled with zombies?

"Waking up in an empty hospital after weeks in a coma, Sheriff Rick Grimes finds himself utterly alone. The Walking Dead tells the story of the weeks and months that follow after the apocalypse. Based on Robert Kirkman's hugely successful and popular comic book series, AMC's The Walking Dead is an epic, edge-of-your-seat drama where personal struggles are magnified against a backdrop of moment-to-moment survival. A survivalist story at its core, the series explores how the living are changed by the overwhelming realization that those who survive can be far more dangerous than the mindless walkers roaming the earth. They themselves have become the walking dead."

Things got better once the matter of Sophia was settled. The writers listened to their audience and brought back the confrontations, zombies, and gore. While we still had to deal with quite of a bit of who's sleeping with who, total annoyance with the weak and drama-ho female characters Lori and Andrea, and Herschel's never-ending strange behavior, they focused less on that and you could really feel things coming to a head. My lone complaint would be, and my wife agrees, that the female characters have largely been very flat and predictable. We like Maggie (the farmer's daughter) and Carol, who both have been very interesting characters and seem more dimensional. We agree that if Glen or Daryl get eaten, we're going on strike! 

The season finale was killer. (Warning: Spoilers) Forced to leave the farm (who ever really thought it was safe, anyway?) due to an unexplained sudden influx of thousands of zombies walking across the fields, the group loses a couple members and finds themselves with no safe haven.  
We then also find out that everyone is infected--once you die, no matter how, you will turn. This wasn't a complete surprise for me, since some readers of the comic book series had hinted at it to me. I have not read the comics and don't intend to yet. I enjoy being surprised. The series reportedly hasn't followed the line of the comics much (to the comic fans' dismay) but reportedly, with the season finale last night, things are about to change. 

After the episode, we got into a discussion at home about where we'd go for safety if a zombie apocalypse occurred. At my house, this isn't weird, we threw a party last spring when that religious nut publicized his beliefs that it was about to happen. We even jokingly made up a map with the quickest and safest route to the gun store half a mile away, and drank a lot of beer.  Anyway, a prison seems like an obvious and fantastic choice. My daughter also brought up hospitals and large government buildings. Most government buildings are used to being overrun with zombies, though, aren't they? ;)

Finally we are rid of the dubious Shane, which you pretty much saw coming since the second season began. He leads Rick off into the woods, on a fools errand to find their escaped prisoner (who he murdered) and attempts to shoot him down like a dog. In many ways it was a shame, because the character of Shane could have gone a whole different direction, had he not gotten so focused on the love triangle between Rick, Lori and himself.

 Hershel's Barn burns to the ground! So much for safe home turf. So we've theorized that there is a large contigency of survivors inside that prison, perhaps led by Michonne (see below). Again, having not read the comic books, we're guessing. This is a fantastic turn of events, since we all agree that new characters are badly needed, and not just because the zombies ate some.

The character of Michonne, from the comics was introduced. I wasn't familiar with her and know nothing about her, still, but the scene was breath-taking. Whinyass Andrea had been separated from the rest and was running blindly through the woods, chased by hordes of zombies. She was about to meet her maker (eater?) when she was saved by a hooded woman with a sword who was leading two armless zombies on leashes! At home, we freaked out :D As the camera fades out, leaving us in total suspense over who this woman is and where she came from (and why the hell does she have pet zombies?), the audience sees, just behind the treeline where Andrea lays looking up in shock at her savior, a large prison. 

365

Bebe and I celebrate one year 3/18/2012 by laying around on a deserted island full of huge glowing roses. We managed to snatch a little quiet time, a rarity if you're involved in the virtual life of Jack Belvedere.

I find it a little hard to believe it's been a year since we met. My RL year has been nuts so I haven't been around in there as much as I used to, and I feel like I'm still just getting to know her sometimes.

 Here's to many more anniversaries!