Eshi’s pain, originally uploaded by GoSpeed_Racer.
Eshi’s latest build is so painful to see. It boggles the mind how a parent can be so cruel. The damage stays with the children all their lives, haunting them. 
Author Archive for GoSpeed Racer
20
Jul
Eshi’s pain
Hmmm, seems I am considered a celebrity of sort in SL as I have been asked to join the RFL Kart race Saturday afternoon. Oh maybe it’s the name? They really should ask Turbo Racecourse since her name sounds even faster than mine! Even though I am named after the cartoon character I am not that big a fan of vehicle races in SL. Face it, vehicluar activities suck if you cross sim boundaries. Fortuantely the track we are racing on is enclosed in one sim so that problem is not present.
Here’s my wheels for the race:
Crap Mariner showed up at the same time and we both took several laps around the track to get used to it.
Hope I don’t get smeared against the outer wall.
Thankfully I do have some sources of inspiration for racing:
Dick Dastardly, Muttley, and Penelope Pitstop:
Vrooom!!!! See me race Saturday at 5pm SLT here: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Autosports/5/247/36
If I lived in Nowhereville….., originally uploaded by GoSpeed_Racer.
Just pondering a possible move to Nowhereville next month. Right now I hang with the Benthams on the mainland. I saw where Crap Mariner announced some vacancies on the island and I put my two cents in. We’ll see what comes up. Perhaps me and Rav will move the KONA Radio studios here.
Oh, on a funny note I had a classic comedy moment at Blue Heron last night. An artist by the name of FunkyFreddy was playing and his voice caught my ear, it was so familiar. “Hello, McFly!” came to mind. He sounded like Crispin Glover! On a lark I shouted out’ “Hey! say this: Hey You! Get your damn hands off her!” … He said it over the stream! OMG, so funny. Frogg Marlowe IMed me and said he got the joke. 
Kinda nice to knock one over the fence.
When the darkness passed Go’s eyed were dazzled by the brightness and she quickly closed her eyes, placing her hands over her face. Slowly she opened them, flinchingly at first and peeked through her fingers. So bright! Whites, yellows, greens, grays and blues. Her eyes slowly adjusted and she slowly turned her head right and left. My God, it was so unreal. The brightness was spectacular and the colors so vivid and yet so muted. Hyper-realistic. She was in a small one story structure open on one side with small metal boxes embedded in the opposite wall. Mail boxes? Yes, mail boxes. The air stirred and suddenly she felt a chill.
Oh My Goodness it was cold! She shivered and wrapped her arms around herself in an effort to keep warm. She turned around and walked towards the opening to get an idea where she was. Oh, the sky was so bright! What setting was this sim on? Fine Day? Turning left she could see a wide road with houses on either side. 2048 Sq Meter parcels maybe? Turning left she saw a service road and that was paralleled by a busy highway with vehicles. Funny, the cars and trucks moved so smoothly and for the whole length of the road she no sign of a sim crossing. No dips or wrecks or cars flying off into the air. In fact it seemed she could see for several sims away.
“Wow, it is like I can see well over 512 meters” she thought. She saw mountains that were in fact well over 4000 meters away. Whoa, was this a new viewer? Maybe a super sized sim of some sort? She shivered strongly. She looked at her arms and they were bumpy! She “looked” at her inventory and selected a long sleeved sweater. To an outside observer it would have appeared that her greenish tank top slowly morphed into bright blue, long sleeved sweater. Shoes, my feet are cold, she thought. A pair of black tennis shoes appeared on her feet, followed up with a pair of white socks for good measure.
Having taken in her environment and satisfying her creature comfort needs she began to ponder where she was. Map, map, that will help me, she murmured to herself. Hard as she tried she could not bring up a map, but a red beacon pole became obvious off to her left. If I can’t map I can’t teleport, maybe I can…. , nope, no flying allowed. “Got to hoof it”, she conceded.
She turned left and walked down the road, keeping to one side. SL drivers were the worst. Never can tell when they’ll lag out of control. Wait… Where are my HUDs?, she wondered. She closed her brown eyes and slowly opened them again. No, HUDs were still gone. Her Friends! Where was her list??? She tried hard, but could not visualize her friends list. Was this some sort of Open Sim? She looked at herself again and concluded that if it was then it was not one she had experienced before. This was her favorite Nora skin, ETD pants and oh, Ginny Talamasca Wrap Sweater (royal). Even this Bad@zz lily tattoo on her left breast was here. I am either on a new grid (IBM maybe?) or some obscure part of the main grid. At least I have my stuff.
At 250 meters she stopped, looking for obvious signs of a sim boundary, but the world looked seamless. Slowly she preceded and felt nothing as she walked the extra 6 meters towards the presumed sim boundary. She heard a noise and looked over her shoulder. A small yellow jeep came towards her and quickly passed her on the road. Without the slightest jerk or dip into the ground the vehicle passed and turned right at a stop sign.
The red beacon was off to her right so she decided to turn right at the stop sign where the jeep did. Her feet were getting a little uncomfortable; She hadn’t walked this far in a long time. When you can TP or fly, why walk?
Looking down she noticed the grass for the first time. Would you look at that!, she gasped to herself. How many prims did it take to do a whole yard? These were no particles or temp rezz grass, each leaf was a solid entity. All sorts of lengths and shapes and colors. Browns, greens, a few yellow ones. Not only grass but weeds and dandelions too. She stooped down and pulled out a dandelion plant. Why? She didn’t know why, she was just curious. Out it came with about 4 inches of root too. There has to be well over 200 prims for this plant, she thought. And the dirt? Not particles for sure, it was infinitely tiny pieces, prims.
“Amazing! What detail! This sim most be hosted on a super computer of some sort.” So far she had yet to see any water on her short trip. That was truly odd. Landlocked sims were rare indeed and at the edge of every sim or estate was a wide ocean.
Go came to another 3 way intersection and looked right. The beacon was parked right over a two story brick house. It was oddly familiar, but not in a discomforting way. Home, it felt like home. A smile spread across her scarlet lips and she quickened her pace. Every step brought her closer to the front door. Every step brought a stronger feeling of HOME!! She could sense more about the place, feelings, sounds, sights, music. She’d never been here before but she knew it. Knew it well. She cut across the yard and walked up to the front door.
She had her first feelings of doubt, fear. “I have no idea where I am, yet I am so eager to come to his house and knock on the door. Am I nuts?” She turned around and looked out at the cul de sac the house was in and felt very alone. She turned towards the door and felt comforted again, the fear evaporating away.
She summoned her courage and pressed the doorbell….
08
Jul
Blue Light Special
Blue Light Special, originally uploaded by GoSpeed_Racer.
I think one way to describe me is thus: You know how they put these ultra bright, blue colored LEDs on electronic gear nowadays? That’s me. I have a function and a purpose, but damn do I shine brightly. If you live in the light then my little beacon is noticeable and welcome. If you dwell in the dark then I am a major annoyance blinding you with my brilliancy. The dark dwellers would rather I tone it down, or even shut off. Some would like to put tape over me. Perhaps they should come over to the lighter side of SL and join the rest of us festive lights :). There is room to spare in our constellations!
I am what I am and that’s all that I am (Popeye)
In SL we all have reputations. Some good some bad. Good and bad are relative terms in that certain traits will get you far in some areas and stop you in others. Lately I’ve been called out for being pushy, egotistical, and being the center of attention. Certainly being called that makes one pause for a moment and question their own behaviors. I began to think things out and try to identify why they would say that.
What I came away with was that I was being told to shut up and tone down. Being told to shut up doesn’t sit too well with me. Toning down, well what am I to do? Dress like a nun? Sit in the corner? Abandon some of my interest? I don’t think so. Not going to happen. Period.
I am not mean, I do not stab friends in the back, I do not betray my friends and abandon them. I do have my own interest and I vigorously pursue and promote them. From Flickr pools, Music, Web 2.0 sites, and SL groups I have my hand in a lot of things. I am friends with many,many people with similar interest. Many are well known and many are obscure but incredibly fascinating. I’d never be where I am now by being a conforming wallflower. If my personality offends or rubs you the wrong way I am sorry. For everyone I may irk there are others who like me just the way I am. And I like who I am which is the most important thing.
Pffft, some people complain that I have so many pics of myself on Flickr. Get over it.
07
Jul
One great night!
Wow, what can I say about the launch of the Rouge sim! I’ve been to a lot of parties, launches, and special events in SL, but this one took the cake. It is certainly a tribute to the popularity of Codebastard Redgrave and her retinue of friends and fans that the event was so well attended. At one point I counted 86 people in her Class-5 sim at the peak of attendance.
Attending was a veritable who’s who of the SL BLogging, twittering, media and plurking spheres. Here’s a few who attended:
Paisley Beebe
Rosie Barthelmess
Crap Mariner
Roslin Petion and Dakota Buck
And an artsy fartsy pic of me
GoSpeed
06
Jul
Rouge liftoff
Seems I was a bit naughty last night. My pics are halfway down….
http://sl.shiroi-hana.net/?p=12#comment-10
and one of my own…
more to follow when I catch up on sleep .
As many of you know I am not a very sexual person in SL. I don’t have a partner, date, cyber, or dance with partners. It’s just the way I choose to be in SL. I often find myself in situations in SL and outside of SL (like Plurk) where I feel a bit uneasy or simply out of place. That being said I do like to look good and present myself as someone who is attractive and fun to be around.
When news of Codie’s sim opening party made the rounds I was in a bit of a quandry. I hesitated applying for a “press pass” and being a DJ, ultimately waiting until the last minute for a CodeRed invite. You see, it feels like I don’t really fit in with her crowd as I don’t partake in a lot of the activities they do. Codie and some of her friends are very flirtatious and amorous. The RL me would turn beet red if I were to be a recipient of that. And I couldn’t really give back either for the same reason (plus the RL spouse would strenously object!). Still, I do admire her for the things she has accomplished in SL. I know she is also a very kind and generous soul too, perhaps that is what draws me too her despite my awkwardness.
Anyways, I went and had some fun. Harper blew up Stephen Venkman, I was impressed with Eshi’s work on the sim. and saw Zoe pole dance!
My Flickr set is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gospeed_racer/sets/72157605990179173/
Here’s Steve before he blew up!
Zoe Connolly on a pole:
Argent and Vidal, You know, Vidal reminds me of the marionettes from the Thunerbirds series:
GoSpeed
P.S. : Oh, I didn’t snap a pic of it, but there was something embedded into the hillside with a giant doobie stuck in it. Until I zoomed way out did I see it was supposed to represent Codie’s lips and not her hoo-haw. Why she’d ever stick one in her hoo-haw I don’t know, but for all I know it could have been a tribute to Tijuana .
DJ GoSpeed @ Clockwork 6-7pm SLT
After a prolonged absence I will be back at Clockwork tonight from 6-7pm SL.
The Theme? Whatever strikes my mood.
Hope you can make it! Meet me in world at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Topgol/244/138/68
or tune in via KONA Radio at http://www.konastream.com
