Tagged...

Thanks, Laleeta. You shouldn't have. No, really. You shouldn't.

It goes like this:

• Link to the person that tagged you
• Post the rules on your blog
• Share 6 non-important/habits/quirks about yourself
• Tag 6 random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs
• Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website
• Let your tagger know when your entry is up

Okay, 6 random things about me:

1. I like whisky, but I'm a snob. I'm tackling a bottle of Glenmorangie at the moment, but my all-time favourite is Balvenie Doublewood. And I've had a few bottles of Bunnahabhain recently. I'm also in the pro-peaty Islay malt camp, so I like the occasional Laphroaig.
2. I won't watch or read anything to do with Harry Potter until a year after the last movie has come out. I suspect I will love it, but it's just been totally overexposed.
3. I... like... yoghurt. Sheesh.
4. I spent some time today evaluating the differences between Genshi, Mako, Cheetah, Jinja2, and Django templates. Jinja appeals because it's conceptually similar to Django's template language, but more powerful... but then again, harder to extend. Genshi and Cheetah have unappealing syntax. Mako has its roots in HTML::Mason (via Myghty) and I used to love H::M to bits back in the early noughties. So I think I might look into that some time.
5. Fucking blogger fucked up and raped itself in the arse so hard while I was writing this post that I had to ditch it and start again.
6. I don't know anyone with a blog who hasn't done this meme already.

So I'm not tagging anyone. Ner.

Where Penn is this week

Reasons for absenteeism from SL, number #3638:

"I've been busy building a streaming radio station with online playlist requests."

KazooKeylele - what the Internet was made for!

Pirate Seagull Ghosts

Quaintly Tuqiri: I like how the seagull flies right through your house

Penn Euler: Yeah, ignore him :P

Quaintly Tuqiri: Impervious to walls and minor obsctacles of that nature

Penn Euler: Ghost seagulls

Quaintly Tuqiri: LOL

Quaintly Tuqiri: They don't look scary enough!

Penn Euler: From the crew of a seagull pirate ship that foundered on this island hundreds of years ago

Quaintly Tuqiri: o.O there might be buried treasure here!!

Penn Euler: Not scary enough? see, that's what they *want* you to think!

Quaintly Tuqiri: Oooh I geddit, it's a disguise

Quaintly Tuqiri: Sneaky!!

Penn Euler: Yes, apparently the ship was carrying a load of roman amphorae

Quaintly Tuqiri: With wine?

Penn Euler: Yeah, *roman* wine

Quaintly Tuqiri: Ooooh...

Penn Euler: But the captain seagull, he got greedy and drank the ancient booze, and ordered the helmsman seagull to "pull over," because he wasn't feeling well

Quaintly Tuqiri: LMAO

Quaintly Tuqiri: What a waste of great booze

Penn Euler: And sadly, because seagulls have brains slightly smaller than dried peas, the helmsman obeyed, and thus the ship crashed into the rocks

Quaintly Tuqiri: Oh noes!!

Penn Euler: All aboard were lost, and the cargo of fine ancient wine sank to the bottom of what is now the harbour, and the souls of the seagulls were doomed to roam/fly the land until their captain can "get a goddamn painkiller"

Quaintly Tuqiri: LOL

Quaintly Tuqiri: How is he gonna get one??

Penn Euler: Good question

Penn Euler: I left some out on a plate, but his poor little ethereal beak went straight through them

Quaintly Tuqiri: LOL

Penn Euler: It's a tragic tale, to be sure

Quaintly Tuqiri: Indeed it is

Quaintly Tuqiri wipes away a tear

I went to a wedding

Can you believe that until very recently I'd never been to a wedding in SL?

Don't worry, I have now. I was invited to the wedding of Chezza Slade and Busta Rustamova.

"It's gothic", said Charisma as she tp'ed me over. I threw on a tuxedo and some eyeliner. That should be enough, right?

Wrong. This was gothic like... well, see for yourself:

I couldn't take my cam off the bridesmaids, who were ethereal in their beauty, standing neatly in a line.

The service itself was unnervingly normal, though.

And the happy couple, dressed in black and red or not, looked great:

The house that Penn built, pt. IV: Credits

Credits to the makers of the all the lovely things I used in making this house:

First of all, I found the incredible Distressed texture shop. I could wander round in here for ages gawking at all the lovely stuff. Some of it is good enough you could just frame it.

Here I am, gawking:

Secondly, Rhode Design. As you may know, I make sculpts. I could, theoretically, make all the sculpts that I needed for the house. What I actually wanted, thought, was to just get on and glue the darn thing together, so I was happy to splash out for for some nice ready-made sculpts. Rhode Design provided the full-perms door, windows, stairs, and curtain sculpts. The curtains even came pre-assembled with the open/close sculpt-changing script.

Here I am on a stairway to nowhere at Rhode design:

Lastly, the inimitable Torley Linden's own sim, Here. There's a ton of stuff here. Er, at Here. I came for the placeholder textures, and was reminded of Torley's library of other free textures, some of which are a bit spacey but other of which might be useful. Here I am expanding my consciousness with Torley's textures:

But you really should have a good look round the whole sim. There's some lovely stuff here, like this enormous, glowing, 80's robot:

The house that Penn built, pt. III: Interior

The interior of the cottage I built, unfurnished. Here's the ground floor, with the front door on the left, and the stairs and back door ahead. The walls are roughly plastered and given a pink wash, while the floor is staying a neutral beige carpet. 

The ground floor again, but taken from next to the back door. You can see the heavy oak beam that holds up the top floor here:

This next picture show the overall interior space very well. You can see the chimbley going right up one gable wall, with hearths on both levels, and the dog-leg stairs. I love interesting interior spaces like this:

This one is taken from above the landing on the left of the last picture:

The top floor has a lovely spring-green colour scheme which complements the pinknes of the walls and carpet. Note that the curtains downstairs are red, but up here they're green. Although this is an attic space, there's plenty of light, with four skylights and a gable window:

Here's the front door up close:

And the sculpted curtains, which open and close in three stages:

So the current quest is to find furniture to fill this place!