Taking a Short Very Happy Break
June 7th, 2008 by Benjamin Duranske
Virtually Blind will be relatively quiet for the next few weeks as my wife and I adjust to being parents. Our first child, a darling little girl we’ve named Charlotte, joined us very early this morning.
She and her mom (who made a rare virtual world appearance last week for this screenshot) are both doing great.
Of all the rotten things parents can do to a newborn, I suppose that posting a tiny, pixelated, round-headed avatar picture on a geeky law blog on the internet is right up there. So, my darling Charlotte, when you find this via search in seven or eight years, know I posted it with love and that I really do, deep down in my heart, understand that I am way less cool a dad than I think I am in my weaker moments.
VB will be back to normal in a bit. In the meantime, advice, encouragement, and ideas for automating this whole “changing” thing are welcome.
Related Posts on Virtually Blind
- Adding Value in a Copyright-Adverse Environment: " The Technium recently posted a fascinating article about adding..." (2 comments)
- Reader Roundtable: What Do You Wear to a Virtual Business Meeting?: "Second Life Insider has a short piece up this morning on business..." (5 comments)
- Clippings: Benjamin Duranske on WSJ Op-Ed Page, “The 3D Internet Will Change How We Live”: "I've got a piece on the WSJ op-ed page today arguing that it is time..." (6 comments)
28 Responses to “Taking a Short Very Happy Break”
Leave a Reply
Notes on Comments: Your first comment must be manually approved, but after it is you'll be able to post freely with the same name and email. You can use some HTML (<a> <b> <i> <blockquote> etc.) but know that VB's spam blocker holds posts with five or more <a> links. VB supports gravatars. Got a gravatar? Use the associated email and it'll show with your comment. Need one? Set it up for free here.
Woo! Congratulations!!! Being a parent is hard, but very very rewarding work :)
Best wishes for you and your family :)
Congratulations, Ben and all the best to your family!
Congratulations! Charlotte is a very lovely name.
Wonderful news, congratulations :)
Congratulations Ben! We’ll look forward to your return, but in the meantime enjoy this very special time with your new family!
Let me add my congratulations to the chorus. And, as embarrassing-stuff-parents-do-to-kids goes, posting a cute little avatar of young Charlotte hardly registers on the scale.
Great news. Congrats Ben!
Congratulations to you and the family. Wonderful news. Charlotte will never remember a time before web3D and the avatar.
Congratulations to both you and your wife, Ben.
well congratulation~~~
and ur website is really helpful to me~~
Ben –
I’ve been keeping an eye out for the news! Congratulations to all of you, and my very best wishes to Charlotte for a long, healthy, happy life full of wondrous things.
Congrats to the three of you!
Congratulations, Ben! Fantastic news, and I wish you and yours all the best.
TOTALLY AWESOME BEN!!! Congrats!!
Ok, now, while Ben is away, he told me to run things and take charge and act all judicial.
So…. beheadings in the town square at 2pm.
and a gold farmers against gold farming meeting will be heald at 3 by the swamp of Schmazzeroth
Great news! Congratulations and very best wishes for the future :)
Congratulations to you both! I hope get to enjoy the next few weeks with the new family member!
On our ongoing guest comment posts while Ben is away and Doubledown runs a muck…
I will discuss the current court case There.com vs Dr. Seuss
Aparently Dr. Seuss owns the rights to “there” “where” “who” and several other locations.
more info to come soon.
Congrats! As for automating the changing – if you’d like I can take a look at Charlotte’s LSL script and make some tweaks. It may be as easy as changing “integer gDoesPoop = true;” to false. Enjoy!
Congrats Ben – great name!
I am sooo curious to know if post #18 was actual LSL code or just being funny?
Congratulations!!! All the best wishes, enjoy these moments!
Congratulations and felicitations to the 3 of you. :>
Ben, congrats. That’s great news, but please get back to preparing more slides for Bao.
@23 – That is possibly the funniest thing ever left in the comments — particularly since not a single reader except me will understand it.
What do you mean no one will understand it? I kind of understand it, a little.
I understand it, too
For the record, @23 & 25 are from a couple of jokers I used to work with, and not from who they appear to be from. 26, of course, is straightforward. Somewhat amazingly, I actually miss these guys.
Congrats