Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated...

Did you really think I wouldn't be back? Not possible. I'm still around and still kicking ass though in the past few years it's all been in my First Life rather than the Second. Honestly, the FL is a lot tougher and more heartbreaking sometimes but it's also infinitely more rewarding. That said...

We have such sights to show you.

Ada Lovelace Day was yesterday!

Did you all know about this? I sure as hell didn't and that makes me ask myself..."WHY THE HELL DID I NOT KNOW???"

Ada Lovelace Day — Bringing women in technology to the fore

Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology.

Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines. Entrepreneurs, innovators, sysadmins, programmers, designers, games developers, hardware experts, tech journalists, tech consultants. The list of tech-related careers is endless.

Recent research by psychologist Penelope Lockwood discovered that women need to see female role models more than men need to see male ones. That’s a relatively simple problem to begin to address. If women need female role models, let’s come together to highlight the women in technology that we look up to. Let’s create new role models and make sure that whenever the question “Who are the leading women in tech?” is asked, that we all have a list of candidates on the tips of our tongues.

Don't know who Ada Lovelace is? For shame!!!!

Ada Lovelace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (10 December 1815, London – 27 November 1852, Marylebone, London), born Augusta Ada Byron, was the only legitimate child of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron. She is widely known in modern times simply as Ada Lovelace.

She is mainly known for having written a description of Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine. She is today appreciated as the "first programmer" since she was writing programs—that is, manipulating symbols according to rules—for a machine that Babbage had not yet built. She also foresaw the capability of computers to go beyond mere calculating or number-crunching while others, including Babbage himself, focused only on these capabilities.[1]

So yeah, the first computer programmer was a chick. LONG LIVE THE OVARIES!


I raise a glass in honor of all the awesome, tech geeky chicks I know. Every single one of you is made of win and awesome.

MIriam the comic book villainess

Chapter 2 - Page 4, originally uploaded by Hiro Shatner.

So lately I've been busy with a friend on this new project: a graphic novel created from SL images. The name of the project is Pre-Singularity Ulysses and my partner in crime is Hiro Shatner, a mostly reformed griefer who I like to grief on occasion myself. :) Check out the work so far and let us know what you think: http://flickr.com/photos/hiroshatner/sets/72157613028131467/

Stepping out of the digital world

Stepping out of the digital world, originally uploaded by Miri Antonelli.

Here I am playing with poses, clothes, lighting and very rudimentary post-processing since I don't have photoshop. The title is an altered version of lyrics from Kate Bush's "The Sensual World" which is itself based on James Joyce's Ulysses.

Hello LJ Friends!

Steampunk Doll1, originally uploaded by postmod_sexgeek.

Welcome to Miri's blog. Is it odd to have a blog for a virtual persona? Maybe but then in this day and age, is it really all that unusual?

Bloody BurlyQ

Bloody burlyQ, originally uploaded by postmod_sexgeek.

A very nice shot I took today while practicing for an upcoming gig. Don't worry...I'll make an announcement about it later.

The Doctress is in

The Doctress is in, originally uploaded by postmod_sexgeek.

What does one wear to DJ the birthday party of a twisted femme fatale like Delilahlee Westland? Why the scariest looking clothing and body mods you can!