Plum powder

 

Of course, making digital clothes mostly benefits avatars and such.  It's a great thing that Second Life has a near bottomless pit of apparel to choose from.  I suppose it would be both inconvenient and slow to give up the simple sketch on a piece of paper, but don't forget that the Internet is a digital medium.  So the next top model is logically an avatar, right?  So scan that sketch into a wireframe, and send some digital clothes to me so I can have Mary's avatar wear them.  If they're good enough.

Ha!  I was right about the plum powder's making a sauce.  I made a sauce yesterday for my fried noodles, and it was a great success.  Very tasty, and easy on the stomach too.  If you were to browse the Chinese grocery store you might come across Hoisin sauce, which is a plum sauce.  You may recognize the flavor on your rice paper wraps, I think they always use Hoisin sauce for that stuff.  But the plum sauce I made yesterday is to match the flavor of India style fried noodles.

Mary's outfit today is mostly made of old clothing layers for system avatars, at least 10 years ago.  Mary's avatar is a mesh avatar, which is more realistic and better looking.  Anyway, these clothing layers I used today are akin to body paint, thus you can make out the nipples and such.  Plus they are lower in detail, not due to a limitation of the clothing layer but just lazy programming.  Looks good though, I think.  But the skirt is a mesh skirt.  If you were to search for that skirt on Marketplace, you would find going for 0 to 250 Lindens.  I guess it comes from a template that anyone can use and reuse.  Even though the skirt is everywhere for sale or for free, it's still a great looking skirt.

Business as usual

 I don't know what happiness is, but I am going to go ahead and build a house here for my wife as I planned.  It seems that Natty has found herself some other guy.  She had always been free to do so, and who can blame her?  She put up with me and my business for over 6 years, been by herself and kept her virginity, it has been very lonely.  However, I can't marry her if she gave up her chastity.  Forgiveness aside, I'm an old man and not well-endowed.  Loneliness it a fact of life to me, I don't know of any other kind of life.  But I can't say, "I'm just going to do my job then get the fuck out of here".  It's not that simple- Allah chose me to look after Mary Unknown7.  So I'm going to build a house her for my wife, and try to find happiness in marriage, to see if it existed for me.  I guess it makes sense to build the house first, huh?

There's nothing special about Mary's outfit today.  It's a greyish outfit I put together from separates, and she's not even wearing heels today.  All the items are freebies.  I think the top and skirt are pretty high quality.  Not the boots, but I do like them anyway, and I use them often.  I don't design clothes, I simply have too much other stuff to do.  But if we can take designs from real life and turn them into digital apparel for avatars, I'm sure the vice versa is possible, and generate a real world revenue for whoever does so.

Qur'an 20211223

 In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

61.  Among them are men who slander the Prophet and say, "He is an ear."  Say, "He listens to what is best for you, he believes in Allah, has faith in the believers, and is a mercy to those of you who believe."  But those who slander the Prophet will have a grievous penalty.

62.  To you they swear by Allah in order to please you.  But it is more fitting that they should please Allah and God's messenger if they are believers.

63.  Know they not that for those who oppose Allah and God's messenger is the fire of hell, wherein they shall dwell.  That is the supreme disgrace.

64.  The hypocrites are afraid lest a chapter be sent down about them, showing them what is in their hearts.  Say, "Mock you!  But verily Allah will bring to light all that you fear."

65.  If you question them they declare, "We were only talking idly and in play."  Say, "Was it at Allah, and God's Signs, and God's messenger that you were mocking?"

(The Repentance 9:61-65)

Xanadu

 Oh Natty, I hated having to look at that.  It made me very unhappy.

This is my cup of tea, folks.  I sipped on it while Mary was singing.

Qur'an 20211222

 In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

51.  Say, "Nothing will happen to us except what Allah has decreed for us: God is our Protector."  And in Allah let the believers put their trust.

52.  Say, "Can you expect for us other than one of two glorious things?  But we can expect for you either that Allah will send you punishment by God Self or by our hands.  So wait: we too will wait with you."

53.  Say, "Spend willingly or unwillingly.  Not from you will it be accepted, for you are indeed a people rebellious and wicked."

(The Repentance 9:51-53)

Movie night

 Hi Natty!  Oh I'm sorry Honey, I wrote yesterday's blog on time, but for some reason it didn't publish until today.  I am quite annoyed about that, but what to do except say that I'm sorry.  I hope that everything is going great with you today, and you are healthy and enjoying your life.

Last night was movie night as well.  No I wasn't being lazy, I am a fashion magazine.  Rather, I don't watch enough movies.  But it takes a lot for a movie to catch my interest if it were not nostalgia.  I guess I had a more open mind when I was younger, or perhaps I didn't really care too much back then.  It's another action movie!  "No Time To Die" (2021).  I'm sorry Honey, you can choose a girlie flick and I will watch it.  I can't help but compare this movie with the previous Bond movie, "SPECTRE".  The previous movie was so good right until the climax, which got way too cheesy, and spoiled the whole movie.  "No Time To Die" is so much better.  It's still a little bit cheesy, but forgivable.  And the gadgets are back to being awesome!  I just wonder, why he did not use his wristwatch to purge the nanobots.  The humor is slight, but at least there's some.  And please, the villain has to be an ugly old man.  UGLY OLD MAN!  No more of these young or young looking bad guys!  I wonder who's going to be the next James Bond...

I've been thinking of how the Covid virus mutates into different strains, and how the latest strain dominates the infections while the other strains seem to disappear.  It's just the same old virus, but with a new set of weapons.  Since the virus can mutate into a more dangerous strain, perhaps a strain can be engineered to seek and destroy itself, and destroy the coronavirus altogether?

Movie night

 Hi Natty!  How wonderful it is to see you again.  You are fabulously dressed, "immaculate casual".  Those are Doc Martens!  I used to have a pair of Docs, then I ruined them by wearing them to work at the pizza joint (I thought they were designed to be labor shoes?)  It was meant to be, I wore them while I could, my feet were size 9 then now they are at least 11.  Those are some beautiful plants, by the way.  Is that the Farm Girl you're with?  She grew those plants?  They are perfection!  Remember that color Natty, that dark green is what I call "well-watered green".  Just because you dump a lot of water on a plant, doesn't mean it will drink it.  The person who nurtured those plants is very talented indeed.  My mother thinks I have green thumbs, but only certain plants flourish under my care, the others refuse to live.

Tonight is movie night!  "Nobody" (2021) is an action movie.  Sorry Honey, you can choose a girlie flick and I'll watch it.  I didn't figure Bob Odenkirk to be an action star, but he's absolutely great at it.  This movie is almost like "The Equalizer"...  My favorite part is after Hutch takes down the gang of assassins that infiltrated his house, then he sits 4 survivors down on the couch, and forces them to listen to his life story as they slowly die.  Now that's a captive audience.