…Even Cooler. But if you didn’t know this already, it’s not too late for you to redeem yourself by subscribing to his YouTube page. After all, You’ll want to be the first to know when teleportation is possible in real life using a Wii remote, some optical sensors and a cheap Dell.
People often ask why I am called Blue… usually joking “Gee, I wonder what Blue’s favorite color is?” at which point I step in with the obligatory punchline “Green“.
Azul - Blue, as a name, is chosen for other people as much as it is chosen for me. Blue as a concept is a cipher that almost anyone can emotionally project their own meaning upon, and that almost every human is familiar with in one form or another.
Голубо - It’s the color of sea and sky. It’s a primary color and a hue most often used in my days as an art student (neither the cheapest nor the most expensive pigments.)
藍色 - Blue is roughly 440–490 nm, and can be described as Cu(H2O)52+
Bleu - It’s a cheese, it’s a music and it’s a feeling. It’s my grand-uncle’s dog, and my good friend’s cat.
파란 - The word blue is of Germanic origin and often describes a kind of glass, which in French just happens to be my last name.
πλε - Blue is what you call an umpire at a baseball game…those bums wearing the blue shirts that you yell at for your team who are not allowed to. (If you don’t like one of my calls please remember to say “Blue, YOU SUCK!” and I’ll reply with a wink.)
Blau - One day, in considering universal names for my Linden account, I started thinking about color’s use as symbol in spirituality, when a song from one of my favorite albums was shuffled to the top….
The album Fantasma by Cornelius (the Japanese Beck, they say) has been on my heavy rotation list since it was released in ‘97. The fact that few people I talk to know of it is a CRYIN’ SHAME. I was extremely fortunate in catching the Fantasma tour when it hit Seattle and it was as weird and hilarious and rockin’ and beautifully thoughtful and spiritual as any one evening could be.
It’s one of the reasons I’m a Blue
If you’ve never been, Kevin Kelly has a blog that’s just crammed full of good stuff. This particular post struck me as being especially high in goodness.
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/01/better_than_fre.php
Sung to the tune of Video Killed the Radio Star
I heard you on the IRC in Ninety Two.
Then later MSN and AIM and on Yahoo.
I wasn’t 1337 and hadn’t gotten into MOO.
Em-em-oh
They took the credit when they made it all 3D.
Rewritten for the Tolkien nerds as RPG.
And now I understand the profits you can see.
Em-em-oh
I met your Tauren.
Em-em-oh
My Night Elf ganked him.
Virtual killed the flat avatar
Virtual killed the flat avatar
Z-axis came and broke your heart.
Em-ah-em-em-oh
And now we meet here at my crib in Sony Home.
The isometric, it just seems so long ago.
And you remember the chatrooms in Habbo.
Em-em-oh
The networks hate it.
Em-em-oh
User-created.
Virtual killed the flat avatar
Virtual killed the flat avatar
On my phone and in my car, we can’t rewind we’re HDR.
Em-ah-em-em-oh
Em-ah-em-em-oh
/dance
Virtual killed the flat avatar
Virtual killed the flat avatar
In the office, in the schools. The new state tax on griefing rules.
Metaverse has caused you strife. Put the blame on Second Life.
You are a flat avatar
You are a flat avatar
Virtual killed the flat avatar
Virtual killed the flat avatar
Virtual killed the flat avatar
Virtual killed the flat avatar
-the Blueggles
- Yes they are…they infest all of my various offices.
What are those Labbits doing? Smorkin’?
- Yes. Don’t smork. It’s bad for you.
Yes, after some waffling (Mmmm…waffles) I’ve finally finished my inworld office and would like to welcome main grid residents to stop by on Wednesdays from 4-5pm SLtime when I’ll be available for a multitude of reasons; SL questions, Photoshop help, commiseration re: Trot Nixon leaving the Red Sox (omg!) and more.
See you there 
Welcome to Blueblog the unofficial, unsanctioned and off-topic blog of Blue Linden*. Nothing you find here will be crucial, or of immediate benefit to anyone. It is intended to be optional entertainment, not at its finest, but hopefully not completely without merit.
For relevant and timely info regarding Second Life, make sure to check the REAL news at blog.secondlife.com.
Virtually yours,
Blue
* by unofficial, unsanctioned and off-topic I mean that this not an official site of Linden Lab. Although I work at Linden Lab, all content on this site is posted by the site operator without the review or approval of Linden Lab. All statements and opinions expressed here are my own. All wit and wisdom contained herein are (c) Blue Linden, the rogue AI.
