Does Size Matter?

 Does Size Matter?

Well frankly yes it does.

 Over the last few weeks I have been trying various  Second Life  Browsers and on many  occasions I have noticed that avatar scaling seems to be very different.

  We all know that we can make our avatars  as tall as possible or as short as possible and my own avatar has pretty much remained at around  SL 6 foot 4  which of course in RL terms would make me very tall indeed.

 Now on scaling alongside other avatars that used to be pretty much an ok size in comparison to many other (human) avs.

What I have noticed recently is that  some of the newer avatars appear to be around 9 feet tall ie  HUGE compared to me. Is this a browser thing or  somehow has  the scaling that keep  most things in proportion disappeared?

  I dragged a friend of mine  for the pic above to try and show the difference. At that time I was using the Phoenix Viewer and  he was on Viewer 2.  We tried to line them up  equally and there is a distinct difference and no  not just because he has a male avatar!

 I had the same  using Imprudence Viewer and also on Viewer 2.

 Visiting a few shows it has been  rather odd to  see what I see as normal size avatars (scaling comparison)  and then a range of really oversized avs on my screen.

 Is it just me or is anyone else seeing this too?

At the very last minute!

At the very last minute that I have free  before scooting of to the Vodka and Cake party I shall be attending for New Years Eve tonight, I thought I'd come back to my blog  just before the New Year  kicks in.

 What a year it has been!

In between between dashing off to Dublin for Metameets earlier this  year,  packing a huge house up and kids,  settling into a new country,  trying to finish my next album 'Groove Passion'  (hopefully out early next year) and  starting a new and very exciting  project for Music in Virtual Worlds  I have had  my spirits kept up ( not the alcoholic type btw) by a plethora of wonderful people online.

 5 months ago I moved to Denmark and am now the proud owner of a very run down but beautiful  farmhouse which is in desperate need of love and attention and  an awful lot of  filler and  paintwork.

It is not  so easy to live in  another country and I try to keep up a bit, so each day  I read the Jyllands Post Thoughtfully but not always accurately translated by Google.

Biggest laugh so far has been this wonderful translation about  the recent eclipse that had me in stitches for days.

'Today's lunar eclipse began at .6.29. The end is the total.
Clock 8.40 will moon be gone, but when you must hurry to look up, while the Moon is about to crash'



My last blog for this year goes out  in thanks to the following people, who have at some point  have inspired me, made me laugh  and made a difference to my life  during the last year. It is by no means a comprehensive list and forgive me if I forget someone.

Joja Dhara, for bringing  people together through Metameets and becoming a close and dear friend.

Bevan Whitfield, for  our seriously long chats and laughs, my  confidante and Volcano girl extraordinaire.

Malburns Writer and Tara Yeats for being my generous  smart and  wonderful friends  and colleagues  in particular on Grumpy Old Avatars  and Metaverse Week in Review each week.

Ziggy21 Slade for being so generous after I closed Menorca and offering me a login place.

Loki Popinjay  for being the most patient man in the whole world when my macbook failed.

Ticious Trottier for being  a great friend and confidante

Chantal Harvey  and Elfay Pinkdot  for being so damn cool, beautiful  and also being awesome Volcano Girls

Sean McPherson for being  exceedingly generous and simply wonderful.

Timeless Prototype for  being so damn cool and fab 

Epred.. who is now a famoooose TV personality and still appears to be normal ;)

SecondLie for truly making laugh so much  I have had to buy a new keyboard after spilling too much coffee on it  reading his tweets 

Jon Himhoff from Rezzable  for his  advice and also for providing such an awesome  project with Heritage Key.

Dousa Dragonash  and Robustus Hax  at MBC  for being one of the most exciting media companies in SL  and for taking on the daunting task of filming and producing  Grumpy Old Avatars  this year.. thankyooooo

Kevin Tweedy aka Mystical Demina   (Extreme Reality) This is one seriously smart and talented guy!

The team at Reaction Grid, Chris and Kyle you are simply amazing!

Chris from Pandion Studios .. you simply Rawk!

Kirsty Hawkshaw for being not only an  amazing singer but a beautiful person.

All the guests on Grumpy Old Avatars this last year who have been fantastic

and thankyou to all the new friends I have made this year



and a very  BIG hello and HUG to my new niece Lola who was born tonight 

 Notable Musicians that I follow so  please do go and  check  their music out.

Reis and Aldo 

CJ Wray 

Zak Claxton

Christopher135 Quan

Jana Kyomoon

Torben Asp

EMCEE2

 and  finally,

 My Prediction for 2011 is ......

That This

Will  become This

This is for You.

There have been Way too many times this year that death has stepped in through the door of our lives.

 I am so saddened to hear the loss of another exceptionally wonderful person, Delinda Dryssen

(Denise Williams) who passed away only yesterday.

 Todays  post from me is  short simply  because

  being able to say something very eloquent and express my thoughts in a meaningful way in type isn't going the way I want it to

some days it's just too damn hard.

 But for those of you who are my dearest friends who I know this year between you all
 have lost
 a Mother, a Child, a Wife, a Husband, a Grandfather, an Aunt and a Best Friend.

 and to those others who really DID make  a difference in their lives even at the very end

 This one is for you.

  

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