Laura | Dave | Modesty
Modern Love
When Amy Taylor caught her husband David Pollard’s avatar — Dave Barmy — having sex with an animated woman named Modesty McDonnell in Second Life, “I went mad,” she said. “I was so hurt. I just couldn’t believe what he’d done. I looked at the screen and saw his character having sex. It’s cheating as far as I’m concerned.”
It’s not clear if the couple actually met in the game, but David & Amy did meet online, and after living together for two years they married — in real life & in the game.
Early in the marriage, though, Amy’s SL character, Laura Skye, caught Dave having sex with a call girl in Second Life, so she hired a virtual private detective to investigate her husband’s online activities. The end came when she found him cuddling a woman on a sofa in the game. “It looked really affectionate,” said Amy. She filed for divorce the next day. And now she has a new man, someone she met in WoW. See David & Amy in real life here.
Second life, real life, it’s just life.
6:18 p.m.
- Me: Hey, be careful!!
- The Cat:
- Me: That was awesome. Did it hurt?
“Heaven Or Las Vegas,” Cocteau Twins
“The firefly squid (watasenia scintillans), also called the sparkling enope squid, has special deep-blue light producing organs called photophores — by flashing the lights on and off, it can attract prey before trapping it with its tentacles. It’s also the only cephalopod species which have color vision!”
These squid are sweet, but the viper & hatchet fishes and the umbrella mouth gulper eel — well, they’re horrifying. Simply horrifying. Odd Looking Marine Animals, indeed.
I always find something interesting here.
Night Crows — They come into town to sleep at night, they stir up the neighborhood with their sheer charisma!
I don’t have any idea what this is or where it came from — but the colors are so pretty. When I look at the pictures that I’ve posted to this blog, all together, I can see that I am definitely drawn to a particular palette.
Deep thinkers: The more we study dolphins, the brighter they turn out to be.
At the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Mississippi, Kelly the dolphin has built up quite a reputation. All the dolphins at the institute are trained to hold onto any litter that falls into their pools until they see a trainer, when they can trade the litter for fish. In this way, the dolphins help to keep their pools clean.
Kelly has taken this task one step further. When people drop paper into the water she hides it under a rock at the bottom of the pool. The next time a trainer passes, she goes down to the rock and tears off a piece of paper to give to the trainer. After a fish reward, she goes back down, tears off another piece of paper, gets another fish, and so on. This behaviour is interesting because it shows that Kelly has a sense of the future and delays gratification. She has realised that a big piece of paper gets the same reward as a small piece and so delivers only small pieces to keep the extra food coming. She has, in effect, trained the humans.
Her cunning has not stopped there. One day, when a gull flew into her pool, she grabbed it, waited for the trainers and then gave it to them. It was a large bird and so the trainers gave her lots of fish. This seemed to give Kelly a new idea. The next time she was fed, instead of eating the last fish, she took it to the bottom of the pool and hid it under the rock where she had been hiding the paper. When no trainers were present, she brought the fish to the surface and used it to lure the gulls, which she would catch to get even more fish. After mastering this lucrative strategy, she taught her calf, who taught other calves, and so gull-baiting has become a hot game among the dolphins.
Clever clogs! Read the rest of the article here.
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Super slow motion video of a ladybug taking off in flight. I had no idea they were so Back To the Future. Except a Delorean doesn’t have badass unfolding wings.
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