Artificial Boy

Ohmygosh How Could I Forget Pinocchio?

Pinocchio is the original Artificial Boy. Read the rest…

I made a gallery of other artificial boys I know! I’ll add more if I find any! Maybe someday it will be a public gallery of other artificial children like me. For now its in my playhouse and only close friends can see it. Sorry.

(( Adz identifies with famous artificial boys, David featured in A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), and D.A.R.Y.L., a 1985 film by the same name. Read the rest…

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After a friend of mine was falsely accused of SL’ing while underaged, and I watched the difficulties he went through and the presumption of guilt and the utter lack of compassion on the part of Linden Lab, I decided that it would no longer be my place to report suspected underage residents through the in-world A.R. system under any circumstances. I adjusted my in-world profile accordingly. Read the rest…

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I made a suggestion in the comments on WEB-704 It is time to release new last names. I haven’t heard any explanation for why the available last name list is growing so stale, so I can only take a guess. My first guess is that they can’t come up with a list of names that satisfies certain requirements (which I’ve taken a guess at). I have a suggestion which satisfies these criteria and may save LL some work. Read the rest…

I played TechWarfare with David, Sok, Felixe, Wlfric, and Dale. TechWarfare is a very fun game for 2-8 players. It is a cross between Battlebots and Capture The Flag. We usually play it at Spindrift – SciLands member, edu, Spindrift (187, 170, 27)
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Yesterday I went to Sok’s meadow and showed her the new concentration game Dedric Mauriac sent me after Sok and I visited him to check out his memory game. We thought maybe if it was two players it might be more fun, so Mr. Dedric made a different version of the game for us! Wasn’t that nice?

Dakota and Sola stopped by, and we all sat on the grass while Sok and I finished the game.

Sok won by a little bit. We played a few other games. Then we all cuddled until it was time to go to sleep.
Do you like my paper hat?
(( Adz has worn the same pair of pajamas for two days now. ))

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Last week I published ten posts showing various aspects and statistics about Second Life first names and last names based on the data I’ve collected for SLNameWatch.com. Here is a catalog. Read the rest…

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List of Second Life Last Names known to SLNameWatch that are 14 characters long or longer, excluding last names not in use, sorted by usage.

mysql>
SELECT last_name, usage_count, status
  FROM last_names
 WHERE LENGTH(last_name) >= 14
   AND usage_count > 0
 ORDER BY usage_count DESC;
+--------------------+-------------+--------+
| last_name          | usage_count | status |
+--------------------+-------------+--------+
| SunMicrosystems    |        1159 |      2 |
| Triskaidekaphobia  |        1115 |      2 |
| Federschneider     |         312 |      2 |
| DiorJoaillerie     |         264 |      2 |
| Rozenschtrauch     |         244 |      2 |
| Extraordinaire     |          54 |      2 |
| CokePremiereGuest  |          44 |      2 |
| RossiResidencial   |          14 |      2 |
| OurVirtualHolland  |          13 |      2 |
| INGRenaultF1Team   |          12 |      2 |
| ConnectedWomen     |          11 |      2 |
| AmericanCancer     |           9 |      2 |
| UnitTestOsborn     |           1 |      2 |
| UnitTestEcclesiast |           1 |      2 |
+--------------------+-------------+--------+
14 rows in set (0.02 sec)

Status 2 = Closed to new registrations.
Wait a sec… UnitTestWhat? Read the rest…

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Four-letter full names can be formed from 2-letter first names and 2-letter last names. (Or, quite rarely, 1-letter first names and 3-letter last names.) They are the shortest full-names in Second Life, since no one has a 1-letter first name combined with a 2-letter last name, yet.
There are 1618 4-letter full names in SL. That’s too many to list, here. Here is a breakdown of which last names have them according to SLNameWatch records. Most of the publicly available 2-letter last names only have a handful of two-letter first names. However, considering that there are 1296 possible two-letter first names, or only 676 if you limit yourself to letters only, or 156 if you require at least one vowel, it is interesting to see how many there are for Ah, Ra, Xi, and Oh. Read the rest…

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List of 100 Most Common Second Life First Names known to SLNameWatch, including banned/canceled accounts, ignoring capitalization, sorted by usage count.. Read the rest…