I have created a subscribe-o-matic for relatives, friends, and neighbors to receive event notices and personal news. Touch the small heraldic device at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Murdann/130/127/27 if you’d like to subscribe.

I’ve been cleaning up groups, and realized that I don’t need House Heidrun for tenant management any longer, thus this solution.

I’m broadcasting from my music library on random today. Listen at http://music.otenth.org.

That time of the month has rolled around once again!

Please join me, and our host Steadman Kondor, at the Caledon Mayfair City Hall, 6-7:30 pm SLT. I don’t know what I’m playing yet, but it’s sure to be fun!

Dame Ordinal is gone: Ordinal Enterprises has been de-rezzed, her Engine is deleted, and Twitter has remnants of her messages. A shocked group gathered in Caledon this evening, and the Guvnah has enable building on the sidewalk. Many messages have been left already.

I became a Radio Riel presenter in September 2007, less than a year after I joined Second Life. That’s before I even had my horns! The intervening years have seen many changes and a lot of growth both for Radio Riel and for me as a DJ and music fan.

Radio Riel is in the midst of beginning an important new phase: Gabrielle Riel has set incorporation as a nonprofit as a major goal for 2010. The first change to take effect was the discontinuation of hiring out Radio Riel presenters as DJs for events. (Midgard Music: Adventurous Audio is my new DJ and event business.)

One of the changes that the new nonprofit goal brings to Radio Riel is an increased emphasis on professionalism (which is not to say that we didn’t behave professionally before!). And as these first few weeks of 2010 have gone by, I have discovered something about myself that I didn’t know before: I don’t want to be a professional DJ!

And so, I’ve resigned from Radio Riel.

I count everyone involved in Radio Riel as my friends, and that will continue (and I hope, continue to deepen with time). I count them all as my colleagues, and that will continue as well, as I will continue to play my idiosyncratic programs either for my own pleasure or for anyone to whom I hire myself out.

I’m tremendously grateful to Gabi, and to the Radio Riel staff, clients, and listeners, for helping me to recover a robust pleasure in music and awakening in me a more adventurous audio spirit. I’ve grown so much, in so many ways, through being a part of Radio Riel, and I intend to continue to do so as a listener.

I’ll be playing tonight from 6-7:30pm for Terpsichore Tuesday in Caledon Mayfair, hosted by Steadman Kondor. Please come join us!

Happy New Year!

Otenth Paderborn will be at home, Friday the first of January, 12 noon til 4 pm SLT. Conversation and Dancing. Midgard Music: Adventurous Audio. Tipjar for D’Argo’s medical expenses.

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Miss Diogenes Kuhr addresses one of my favorite topics:

There is no difference between so-called “first life” and the unfortunately named Second Life.

If you are doing something…whatever you are doing and whatever context you do it in: it is life.

Do you enjoy it? Does it help you pass the time when you are not doing shit that someone else is making you do? Then it is valid. No one, and that means NO ONE has the right to tell you that you need to “get a life” or that you “have no life.”

That is the heart of her argument, but it is placed within a truly first-class rant (with exceptional cursing). Do go read the whole thing.

Original image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vintagehalloweencollector/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

. . . in the long sweep of history, we aren’t that far removed from the days when people fell in love, and sometimes married, through letters. WoW has taught me a lot about how the basic nature of humans is almost impossible to suppress.

The post is good, but the comments are great.

via WoW, The Virtual And The Real – Ta-Nehisi Coates.