meme! Sunday, January 27, 2008

stolen from creamy!

You Are An INTP

The Thinker You are analytical and logical - and on a quest to learn everything you can. Smart and complex, you always love a new intellectual challenge. Your biggest pet peeve is people who slow you down with trivial chit chat. A quiet maverick, you tend to ignore rules and authority whenever you feel like it. In love, you are an easy person to fall for. But not an easy person to stay in love with. Although you are quite flexible, you often come off as aloof or argumentative. At work, you are both a logical and creative thinker. You are great at solving problems. You would make an excellent mathematician, programmer, or professor. How you see yourself: Creative, fair, and tough-minded When other people don't get you, they see you as: arrogant, cold, and robotic

What's Your Personality Type?

You Are 52% Abnormal

You are at medium risk for being a psychopath. It is somewhat likely that you have no soul. You are at medium risk for having a borderline personality. It is somewhat likely that you are a chaotic mess. You are at medium risk for having a narcissistic personality. It is somewhat likely that you are in love with your own reflection. You are at medium risk for having a social phobia. It is somewhat likely that you feel most comfortable in your mom's basement. You are at medium risk for obsessive compulsive disorder. It is somewhat likely that you are addicted to hand sanitizer.

How Abnormal Are You?

I'm average abnormal... or normal abnormal... how boring...

legalese/licensing: moar clarification and explanation Sunday, January 20, 2008

As much as I'd like to avoid getting into the licensing legalities of my skins, I feel I need to clarify and further explain in greater detail the rights and limitations of licensing terms.

My skins are licensed under a BSD License. While the usage rights imparted by the BSD license are equivalent to public domain rights, the skins are not public domain--I have not abandoned my skins and I still maintain my copyrights on them. There isn't any contradiction between copyright and giving the rights to modify and/or redistribute. The copyright just serves as a legal tool that provides me with the ability--via the BSD License--to give out those rights to modify and redistribute my skins [1].

However, these modification and redistribution rights aren't unconditionally provided--my copyrights, while allowing me to give such rights, also allow me to restrict them: you only get these rights if you follow some basic rules (as stipulated by the BSD License):

• Leave my original copyright and license notice intact with your redistributions. This notice actually protects you by clearly stating that you have the legal rights to modify and redistribute my skins (just in case you're accused of stealing molesting something...).
• Leave me out of any endorsements or promotions of your redistributions--unless, of course, you get my permission. This is actually just for my own good. I hate attention ^^;;

So what happens if you exercise your modification/redistribution rights without following these rules? Nothing! I really don't have the interest, resources, or malice to do anything against you. That said, be nice and you'll enjoy the karmic rewards you'll get in return! ^^

(P.S. I'm back! I has teh Internets again! /yay)

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[1] While copyright and redistribution are very much intertwined with regards to monetary compensation, they become somewhat dichotomous entities in this case, where such compensation is nominal and the scope of the copyright is fairly unrestrictive.

Lfºy PSDs Monday, January 14, 2008

Photo credits: Hair by Kin Keiko, Eyes by Toast Bard

Sorry I'm late!

I haven't worked on the skin since last week (still has girlyish fingernails and toenails--it's really just Lfº!)... so I'm not making them available as a ready-to-wear skin in world (PSDs only)!

Lfºy PSDs

Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, europe Saturday, January 05, 2008

日刊セカンドライフ has a really nice post about some shape settings that work great with Cf0 and Lf0. I can't understand Japanese, so I had to rely on babelfish for an English translation.

So yeah... long story short... when babelfish translates "用シェイプ数値" into "Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, europe" it really just means to say "shape..." On the other hand, if I ever start a rock band it's totally gonna be named "Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, europe."

That said, I'm not using babelfish for any more translations... I'll use it only if I want rock band names...

[Update] Seems like Cf0 goes nicely with men's hair from Armidi... ヘ(^_^ヘ)(ノ^_^)ノ

Cfº PSDs Friday, January 04, 2008

Photo credits: Hair by Kin Keiko, Eyes by Toast Bard Single light eyeliner & blush light-pink skin without freckles. Minor differences/changes from previous skin (Lfº):

• Lighter, more pinkish skintone
• Eyelid creases are lighter and closer to the eyelid edge
• Eyebrows are thicker in area, but less dense
• Lips are slighty less pouty

Ready-to-wear skin in Suffugium. PSDs on MediaFire.

P.S. if you're a Photoshop Ninja, you could fairly easily combine features from this skin with any of the previous skins (although changing the overall skintone might require more work--I'm planning on making some kinda tutorial for this soon) ^^

meta Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Metadata. Wikipedia sez it's "data about data," but really it's not that Zen-cryptic. It's just moar information that further describes some other bit of information--like something that tells you who created a certain file (like when you go into "File," "Properties" on a "Word" document), or in my case, where you can get the PSDs that correspond to a certain a skin.

Soo... while I kinda doubt that a lot of peeps who've purchased a "ready-to-wear" skin from my Suffugium vendor will ever read this blog entry, I've placed "metadata" about my skin in the "Description" field of the skin (right-click the skin and select "Properties")--namely a URL referencing the PSDs--because if you've purchased an "open" skin, you should have the PSDs as well (again this is kinda a cultural change--I'm just hoping that more people will investigate permissions, properties of the items they acquire in SL).

Oh, and if you happen to be here lookin' for PSDs:

Lfº PSDs
e generation PSDs