Avs Behaving Badly: Spamming Fans

You're at a concert of someone you enjoy in a private home.  You've been there before many times and are open to others enjoying the wonderful music you've enjoyed over these months.  Some character comes in, is chatting cryptically with his friend, and sends you, and everyone in the room, a notecard.  Many don't know that this person has nothing to do with the show or venue (private home).   This happened to me recently during a TB Andel show. "You" is me, Mikalis Karas.   Non-relvant 

EdDereDdE Laval: sorry lateest updates

Tweegy Felwitch: Lnn

EdDereDdE Laval: dump the older lol

You decline Music 4U by EdDereDdE Laval from EdDereDdE Laval.

Tweegy Felwitch: oops Ed . Looks like we interrupt something

Tweegy Felwitch: sorry guys

You: spamming people at a residence?

EdDereDdE Laval: hu? lol

Called out on his bad behavior, the spammer first pleads ignorance

then lols.

Tweegy Felwitch: what do you mean Mi?

You: notecard

EdDereDdE Laval: i sent him artists infos he thinks he doesnt need it

[2009/02/06 23:07]  Tweegy Felwitch: oh ok

EdDereDdE Laval: well mika you are free to decline

EdDereDdE Laval: but we got tpd here by tb andel and nobody tells us anything - is that optima? lol i guess not

[2009/02/06 23:08]  EdDereDdE Laval: and

 Apparently getting a limo from the artist (who is most gracious and friendly and would tp in anyone to enoy his show) gives one carte blanche to spam the room.  Then the spammer turns his attention to my profile and I silence him swiftly as he is doing this during the performance.  

EdDereDdE Laval: "Quick witted and friendly, I am always looking for fun and interesting people to share my sl with me" cant be true else you would fist look and judge then instead of denying right away but o

Tweegy Felwitch: ok Ed. im not feeling invited here . I don't want to bother anyone

You: Ed shut up

Tweegy Felwitch: omg

Tweegy Felwitch: not even polite

EdDereDdE Laval: we go babe lol this guy cant talk nice lol

You: I'm trying to enjoy the show

Appears I hurt the spammers feelings.  Could it have more to do with being called out.  At least spammer's consort had enough sense to say she doesn't "want to bother anyone," but she feels the need to run her mouth a little.  

EdDereDdE Laval: bye

You: feel freeto post the rest of my profile

Tweegy Felwitch: be polite..., thats good . ;-)

Yes, we all know spamming a room with your "artists" is polite behavior.  Guess I need to learn how to be "polite."   If you see either of these twits in world tell them, "I read about you in Beers With Mikalis Karas!"

Avs Behaving Badly: Mute is Your Friend

Are you ever at a club or a live music event and your local chat and sound starts to get inundated with the silliness of gesturebators or chat spammers? Mute is your friend!   Your Mute List is located under the View Menu.  You can add folks individually by clicking them and choosing "Mute" on the pie menu that comes up.  This silences them, their chat spam and gestures.  It also turns them into a gray motionless corpse eliminating bad dancing, bling and particles.  Truly, I say to you again, mute is your friend!    Are you using this tool? 

Second Life as a Real Life Engineering Tool

For those of us who can hardly build a box in world, it may amaze us that Second Life can be used as a real life engineering tool but Professor Matthew Traum of the University of North Texas says it's time that Second life be seen as just that. as a "a future tool for engineering design and testing." Professor Traum writes, in a blog for Design News, that he is using using SL in his Computer Aided Engineering class taught in the Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering at UNT's College of Engineering.  The article sets out some other real life examples where Second Life has been used as a real life engineering tool.  It looks like despite some of SL's desertions and technical issues that there lies potential for the growth of the grid as a serious academic and industrial tool.  

Daily Mail Fun With Mandy-Clone

Having reported the impending arrival of Peter Mandelson's avatar into Second Life. the folks at the Daily Mail decided to have a little fun and introduce their own "Mandy-Clone" onto the grid and set him loose on UK themed sims. Mandy-Clone visits London, Harrods Department Store, goes house hunting and ends up at a nude beach. Read the entire article here and wonder if this gives the Labour Party pause considering the less than stellar reception received.

Are You a Boxtard?

boxtard
verb |bäkstärd| [ trans. ]
the act of typing dialogue in the wrong box or chat window either from local to instant message, vice versa, or from instant message to instant message : Did you boxtard that last line?

noun |bäkstärd|
one who performs the act of typing dialogue in the wrong box or chat window either from local to instant message, vice versa, or from instant message to instant message : Cheetara is a boxtard.

DERIVATIVES
boxtardation |bäkstärˈdā sh ən| noun
boxtarder |bäkstɑrdər| noun
boxtardment |bäkstɑrdmənt| noun

Are you a boxtard?  Admittedly I'm a boxtard.  Many us are boxtards.  I believe that all of us have have a boxtard that we can point to and laugh.  Some call it "ww" as shown below but it is and will always be a boxtard.  

BT: oh wrong window 

BT: hehe 

Mikalis Karas: that's a boxtard 

BT: lol i ike that word 

BT: I am a boxtard 

[BT: I likeit.. I just say ww 

Mikalis Karas: you are a boxtard and the text itself is a 

Mikalis Karas: dual meaning

One of the best ways to avoid boxtarding is to close down chat tabs until your friend replies.  Also don't engage in IM's when you're having a special moment with that special someone: that way you avoid boxtards like this one.  

[2008/12/17 9:04]  Jenzel Rotterssman: have to send u chee's boxtarding.....

[4:09]  Cheetara Magic: oh rui

Having a boxtard in your group can be at times confusing but it also can be a great source of unintentional humor.  Have you boxtarded lately?