Goes To Eleven

class ResidentF (float moneyF = 1500.0);
class ResidentM (float moneyM = 48.0);
int marriage (ResidentF, ResidentM, prenup, TRUE);
{
//Residents may now create child classes.
float funds = moneyF + moneyM;
define.prenup.class:MyObjects (ResidentF: Car, House, Kids, Dignity, funds*0.5, Alamony);
define.prenup.class:YourObjects (ResidentM: funds*0.5);
return.to.lawyer (prenup, funds*0.1);
//Pre-nuptial agreement is now verified.
marry.classes:(ResidentF, ResidentM, "Couple");
//Happy day!
}

int honeymoon (maritalsex==TRUE, protection==TRUE)
{
integer minutes = 2;
marital.sex (Couple, minutes);
sleep.until (11:35);
}

int lifetogether (kids==FALSE, maritalsex==Forget.About.It, protection==N/A)
{
cycle Life = (class GetUp, class Eat, class LookForJob, class Sleep);

buy.apartment (funds*0.25);
buy.furnishings (funds*0.25);

continue.cycle (Life, year*30.0);

add.to.cycle (class Affair, ResidentM, end);
wait.years (2);
discover.affair (killhusband TRUE, jail TRUE, endallcurrentcycles TRUE) ;
)

//See you in hell!

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Now that I've got my voice recognition software, I think it's safe to tell you all what happened. I was riding my bike to the local pizzeria the other day, and while going downhill, I hit the wrong break for my front wheel, instead of my back wheel. I went flying forward, and leaned off the side of my bike, breaking both of my wrists, and dislocating the right one. I am now typing through a microphone. I can barely move my right thumb, which basically renders my Xbox 360 useless for the summer, and school starts in three weeks, or just under it. I get sort of a break when it starts, though, as I get somebody to do the work I specify orally on paper for me. I also get a break from gym class, which is sort of a relief, because the fact that they even call it a physical education implies that I'm learning something. Actually, that's not true, I've learned that I can get out of it if I just decide to go out on my bike and fall down a hill, breaking two of my Radiuses and my right Ulna. Anyways, I should be out of my cast in four to six weeks, although the left one may come off in three to four weeks. Until next time.

-Lane

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It all started when I read an NPR story about how your avatar becomes what you are not, and fulfills the gaps your real life personality may have. I began to think about how I feel a lot more comfortable typing certain things than saying them aloud to people, even over voice in Second Life. The next thought came to me when I made a new friend in Second Life. I saw that she typed properly, so I walked forward and greeted her. We turned out to be a lot alike, and now we've been hanging out. Only just now did I think that it would be significantly more difficult to do that in real life, and realized it was because Second Life, even if you are identical to your avatar, and act the same way in-world and in real life, acts as a sort of "mask" to your current personal insecurities and boundaries, and therefore gives you the courage to move forward and take steps, figuratively and literally, into communities you would never approach in real life, or say things that you would never say to somebody's face, simply because your avatar is what you aren't, and the other person doesn't know that. As long as they think that that's you, you can both masquerade as who you aren't, and not know that's what you're doing. This is just a note saying that, whoever your friends in Second Life seem like they are, they probably aren't.

-Lane

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Hear that, folks? That is the sound of malicious DLLs not being on my hard drive. Why is this sound occurring? Because of the geniuses down at Bleeping Computer. An extraordinary helper named Shaba helped me clean my computer of several infections in a matter of days. Honestly, go there if you have any virus problems. Completely free of charge.

On a side note, all comments with the string "a href" are being junked.

-Lane

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So, I've recently decided to start making applications in Game Maker Language, a programming language similar to JavaScript developed by Dr. Mark Overmars. I will provide any application I make as an attachment in an email, all I ask is that you leave your email address as a comment. I currently have a music playback engine that works with MP3, WAV, and MIDI formats available, and coming up is SUI (Start User Interface), a polished launcher application for basic and customized Windows applications. Yes, all of my applications will be in the .exe format, so Mac users and Linux users without VMware, you're out of luck.

-Lane

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As a resident in Teen Second Life, I have made some significant strides. Speaking at a conference, influencing a policy change, and getting to work with some fascinating people, including Katharine Berry and Barry Joseph. Of course, there's always the people who get in my way when I'm really angry. I apologize to these people. One tenth of the time, I have a horrible temper, and I take it out on whoever does anything remotely wrong or annoying. For this, I am genuinely sorry. Instant message me in-world (Cheesepuff Barnard), and we will work something out so that I may make it up to you. Again, I am genuinely sorry. Here are a list of some notable people who probably don't like me because of something I've said in an anger strike.

Saryn Fanwood
Katharine Berry
Owl Patel
Reggie Clifton
Darckk Trilam

Not to mention the literally hundreds of noobs I've argued with. Again, please, please contact me. I would like to make this up to you.

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good feeling? When Mad TV does an entire comedy skit in Spanish and I'm the only one laughing.

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