Unlike the ingots....

My copy says the author is Robert freedman; where is this David Rhodes coming from?

I will argue that peak LiveJournal had more reach than peak Second Life. No one ever thought they needed a corporate/ org presence on Lj, which is one of the things that made it feel authentic back in the day.

To contrast, average attendance for one day of the Warped tour is about 20k to 50k per venue.

I remember so much hype about SL as the Next Big Thing & that libraries, universities & organizations needed to get on board. And today I checked Wikipedia to see the reach at its peak: "The maximum concurrency (number of avatars inworld) recorded was set at 88,200 in the first quarter of 2009"

Fun fact: according to the back cover, this publisher also had titles on making money through blogging and making money via MySpace.

In other news, man on the inside S2 filmed at Caltech, which is a dead ringer for the lsu quad, except for a fountain/reflecting pool lsu lacks.

Have you watched Pitch Perfect, shot on the Lsu campus? Lots of locations you'll remember like new music Bldg, parade ground, Greek theatre

Why no, I dont know how to use photoshop, how did you know?

The two moral conundrums of this age:
1) how to combat Islamophobes who falsely ally with people actually fighting antisemitism
2) is kink shaming sometimes appropriate

Fun fact: Lewis McArthur's middle name is ...Ankeny. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_A...

Goalball, a sport for the blind, having national championships in December www.opb.org/article/2025...

I suppose this is why (other) teachers are mandatory reporters for child abuse.

Time to make that one serious TMBG song trend...

Number 6 and number 7? (Makes hand motion, hello fellow kids)

"The great Bayou Bury-off"