Aether Salon - Ordinal Malaprop on ‘Weapons!’
November 18, 2008 8:46 pmSunday night I spend ages trying to find a decent Babbage-proof dress to wear at the November Aether Salon, were Miss Ordinal Malaprop would be lecturing on the topic of ‘Weapons!’ After an hour in inventory I came up with something that was acceptable - not terrible suited, but acceptable and teleported to the Aether Salon at Babbage Palisade. Upon arriving, I was quickly assigned a lovely Victorian seat to wear, making it a bit more easy to blend in with the massive steampunk crowd that gathered to listen to Miss Malaprop’s wise words.
Miss Ordinal Malaprop
If you have never heard about Ordinal Malaprop before, you should be ashamed, as she is famous for an ingenious Illustration of the Cosmology of the Grid, making flaming LL less time consuming, and a wide variety of public available scripts which can be used as is or as a learning resource and many fun gadgets. Oh, and answering my often boring questions on the correct use of the English Language. That aside. ;)
About Second Life Weapons
Miss Malaprop’s talk was - as anticipated - enlightening, and she offered an easy categorisation for weapon owners. Personally, I think I fall under this category: “There are people whose _only_ real interest is in form. “Fashionistas,” if that is not an insulting term. A weapon is basically an accessory. It really doesn’t matter an awful lot quite what it does.” Sure, I’m totally happy with my Luger shooting blueberry muffins. :D
Another excerpt: “While preparing myself for this evening I was pondering on the nature of what a “weapon” actually is and really, the conclusion that I came to was that, at base, it is in fact a communications device. And not merely in the usual “only language they understand” sort of way. The underlying nature of a “weapon” is to communicate certain information - be that by a built-in protocol such as the Linden Damage System or via some sort of other more custom one.” I am only left to wonder what my Blueberry Shooting Luger & Couch gun communicate! ;) If you want to read more about Miss Malaprop’s thoughts on Second Life Weaponry, or benefit from the good advice she shares, I suggest you head over to the transcript on Babbage’s Ning Group General information on Miss Malaprop and her projects you can find at ordinalmalaprop.com.
Babbage & Cake
Right before I crashed, Dandellion - attending in classy steampunk robot gear - pointed out to me that not everybody seemed to be focussed on the nature and creation of weaponry. Some seemed more interested in the nature and consummation consumption of the tea & cake. Aren’t they adorable? (in a non pervert kinda way, thank you for needing to clarify that, RL media and in-world witch hunters! *sighs*)
You are a girl and want a gun?
Because I am in a giving mood - I’m feeling strange lately - and still a Virtual Girl with Gun, I’m buying the first lady avatar that replies here with the correct answer to ‘What was Ordinal Malaprop’s solution as to not have to use voice inSL?’ one of Miss Malaprop’s finest works, a vertical clock-loading pistol. You’re a bloke? Sorry, this is one of those cases of positive discrimination that sucks bigtime! ;)
10 Responses to “Aether Salon - Ordinal Malaprop on ‘Weapons!’”
It was semophore, a brilliant and wonderful invention, that should be implemented at standard by the Linden God
Correct! More info on the Semaphore Unbound and an example of it’s use.
You’ll get your copy of The Ordinal Wilks&Co Vertical Clock-Loading Pistol asap as I log in tonight, Miss Shockwave. Congratulations on the acquirement of such a fine gun! ;)
It is a free device used to sent visual signals across a distance. It has flags that you wave in a predetermined mannor, to signal letters, words, numbers.
I belive is is often used by the young Caledons, to communicate to their parmours from their windows without their parents knowing about it.
There are short cuts for “I love you”, “I hate you”, “Yes tonite!!” and “That anti-tank round just missed me you inconsiderate fool!”
Oh, Ms Falken, you are far too kind! I am not sure quite of the the message communicated by berry-based projectiles - perhaps it depends on context, the Language of Fruit is as we all know a complex one and as yet, alas, there is no Babbler for it.
(Given your description of my linguistic activities, I feel compelled to mention, yet slightly guilty in mentioning, that there is a slight difference between consumption - mostly affecting tea and cake, or indeed blueberries - and consummation - mostly affecting marriages.)
All flattery was sincere! ;) And thank you for correcting this one - even
unasked forvoluntary - I would not want to accuse those kids of consummation!Ms. Falken, it was a great pleasure to have you in attendance on Sunday. Thank you for the photos and for linking to the transcript also.
Darn, I wish I could have answered your challenge without that being cheating (having the transcript is handy) … I covet that particular gun.
And I’ll let the urchins know you have photo evidence they were hogging the cake.
One of them did manage to set off a small explosive later - perhaps after the cake ran out.
Yours,
Viv Trafalgar
Aether Salon of New Babbage
HOGGING?! We wern’t hogging nuthin! You said help yerself and we did and it was nice you never said “stop helping yerselfs” did ya? NO.
And hello Vint! Thanks for posting a nice picture rather than the usual posters all covered up with ‘wanted’ and ‘if seen please return’ like normal.
Hope ya had fun and got some cake in before Miss Trafalgar started slapping wrists :/
Please excuse me as I secure Mr. “Dredd Pirate” by the ears and haul him back to Babbage.
Nothing to see here folks!…. Pay no mind to the … well, whatever he is - go on about your business! … Lovely weather we’re having. Yes. Ahem.
That lad Bob. Always of looking for new ways to make things go boom. As Ringmaster of Le Cirque de la Fee Verte, He should be securing a net for my Human Cannonball act…
Thank you, Miss Viv, but they are free to hang around here. We have an urchins-are-welcome policy over at vintfalken.com (besides, I ate all the cake myself, so nothing for them left anyway. ;)) If they misbehave, I have close up snapshots too, I can always make a ‘wanted’ poster out of that if needed. ;)
If the urchins send me an IM, I’ll ‘attribute’ their avie-names in the photograph, I usually do that, but the Crash prevented me from taking note of them.
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