geek pride week!

The Home Sim celebrated its first Geek Pride Week, starting on Tuesday, May 18 and culminating with International Geek Pride Day, on Tuesday, May 25. Geek Week was also our official sim opening and an opportunity to share our vision for our Home and the work we have done since February with friends, neighbors, and SL residents in general.

Among the various events we used as an excuse to celebrate our geek pride, we had a book discussion, several concerts, an art show, and a themed party. Here are some of the highlights:

• The League of Extraordinary Dorks Book Club met to discuss ChatBrat Pippita's pick this month, which was The Reader, by Bernard Schlink. We had one of the best book discussions we've had since the beginning of our book group, I thought, and this meeting also saw some new people join our regular cast of characters. 

 

• Bone Mosten, resident geek, put together some of his awesome art pieces and helped us celebrate our geek pride with class. Bone's pieces are still out if you want to come visit, and they are free for you to take!

• Framulox Ezvalt, Dorian Horten, and Harper Messmer played amazing and very different concerts to a very crowded coffee house. 

• We also had several group hangouts, one of them being a pink themed party to celebrate AngieBabe's second rez day, and a couple of impromptu geeky madness sessions that just kind of ensue whenever (1) Ariel Wingtips is around or (2) more than three of us find ourselves at the same place looking for something to do. OF COURSE doughnuts, fire, and bubble wrap were involved!

On behalf of the CTRL+Shift+H sim team, I thank you for coming to share our home and our vision for this place, for being fun and supportive friends, and for just letting your geek flag fly high! You guys make this place feel like Home.

80s party

Last Sunday we had our most successful Sunday themed party to date. Everyone got their full 80s vibe on and joined us for a walk down memory lane with DJ Sweez Tempest, who delighted us with the top 100 songs of that decade. We shared impressions, anecdotes, and a lot of song-related stories. It was so much fun!

Here are some of the outfits and my favorite lines of the night:

[20:34] PT Beardmore: I would take a bite out of Prince's "pancake"!

   [20:34] Kaydence Rodeyn: ok, dancing with pac-man just made my weekend

[22:02] Polly Paperclip: Coy, here, eat this power pellet!

[21:36] Foxie Moxie: You people represent everything that was wrong with the 80s.
[21:37] Owly Indigo: omggggg foxie is a yuppie

[21:37] Foxie Moxie: From up here, you look like an untapped market 

As usual, it all leads back to the realization of how truly geeky we are. [20:25] PT Beardmore: we are partying inside a computer. lol Oh, and ONLY if you are ready? This happened. Oh, how we love our friends.

party in pink, come see some art!

Join us tonight for another themed Sunday. We are celebrating AngieBabe's second rez day by bringing the pink out of inventories. The party will begin a little early than usual, 7 pm SLT, but feel free to drop in whenever you are ready! Here is your taxi.

In addition, we would like to invite you to take a walk around the sim and see Bone Mosten's art show. He is a resident on our sim and is helping us celebrate Geek Pride Week by sharing his art with us. Please take a copy of the pieces you like. Bone made them free!

sunday nights on the home sim!

Hello homies! I am very happy to reemerge from the darkness of finals week and have time to do some bloggage! As you know, we have been having themed parties on our sim for about a month. They are getting more exciting every week. I have some photos to share with you from the last couple of parties that I did not blog.

On Saturday, May 9, the Home Sim hosted a Baked Goods! party. This was in honor to our baker extraordinaire, Ms. Samantha Kazakov, who both delights and tortures us via Plurk with her amazing creations. People took this theme very seriously, as the photos below show.

Three of the costumes Ariel was able to photograph (nothing was rezzing for me that night!)

Chatty, Fram, Cat, and Sam looking DELICIOUS!

This is a view of the overall chaos that ensued once Ariel showed up!

Sitting on chocolate is not as bad as it looks! Here we are at the end of the party: Owly, Sam, Kay, Chatty, and Cat.

And here are my two favorite photos of the night, and yes, they both involve Foxie! The first one shows him dancing on top of the giant cherry and Fram very relaxed floating on his own damn chair. I believe the phrase was "This cherry has met its match!".

The second one is sneaky Foxie trying to... kill someone? Who knows. It is full of awesome.

Alright! Now we got to the Steam Punk Party! Yay! Kaydence Rodeyn is a new resident on the Home Sim. We like her because she has piggies and is super nice. Also, she and I keep coming up with the same costumes for our themed parties, so she MUST be cool, right? Last night she had us over for a housewaming party/steam punk fun and everyone looked great. Among the best costumes, we have:

Steam punk squirrel gets to go first, of course! :)

 Our hostess: Kaydence Rodeyn

Sam looking awesome in her new teal dress and her... arms.

 Coyote Pace

Further Monday

AngieBabe Perl and Chance SecretSpy

Ariel Wingtips

Owly Indigo

meeeeee!

New exciting things are happening on the sim this week! Stay tuned! :)

of mice and bunnies

Don't freak out, not real mice. And bunnies? Well, we have all kinds on our sim. However, this time I am introducing two new stores that opened on CTRL+SHIFT+H last week: Dark Mouse and [[Bunny B]].

The extremely talented Mouse Mimistrobell just opened a satellite shop on our sim. We are SO excited to add Dark Mouse to the Home sim family. Mouse makes the best jewelry on SL and if you don't already have some,

1. You are insane.
2. You need to get some NAO.

My favorite are the stain glass bangles you can see below. I would buy them in RL if I could!

Here is Ariel wearing some Dark Mouse pearl earrings and necklace. She said this is only the second set of jewelry she's ever bought on SL. She just could not resist! Mouse also did a blog post on the new store last week. She took some beautiful shots of our sim. Thank you, Mouse!

And where are the bunnies, you ask. Patience, peeps, we're getting to it! Mr. Lachlan Causten has opened a satellite of his [[Bunny B]] skin store on the sim!

He is currently in the process of setting up but I could not wait to tell you the news. I am simply in love with his skins, especially Fumie. Can you guess why? LOL.

Make sure to stop by and check out the new stores! They are super close to each other so you'll only need to make one shopping trip!

two new stores on the sim!

We are delighted to welcome DreamWalker McCallister to our sim! She is the owner of Tasteless Designs and a freelance scripter and designer. What a perfect fit for Ctrl+Shift+H! Make sure to come visit her new store, grab your 75 free gestures, maybe get the 100% pure evil t-shirt (only 50 L$!), an awesome photocube, an avatar pager, some original art, a visitor monitor, or some of her other very geeky gadgets!

 Tasteless Designs on the Home sim!

 My favorite item in DreamWalker's store: the nuclear heart.

Another new store on the Home sim belongs to Spock Jupiter. He has a recruiting office for United Federation Starfleet. He is still in the process of setting up, but plans to have a registration board, some posters, and other stuff to sell. Visit his store on the sim!

In the meantime, I will finish knitting this sock while Angie signs me up!

[15:25]  AngieBabe Perl: i'll sign you up for the starfleet academy! lol
[15:25]  catalina Mistwallow: do itttt