Hello smile

I'm Siobhan Curran/Kisa Naumova, and this is my weblog. I tend to write about stuff like crossdressing, Macs, code, cats, wine and Second Life, but in general it's just an ongoing conversation about all sorts of stuff. If you'd like to know a little bit more about what this all is, I recommend starting on this page which has a little bit of info on who I am, and what I'm trying to do — or you could dive into my five years worth of archives if you like.

Otherwise, feel free to close this box and explore...

How To Scare The Living Crap Out Of Yourself In Second Life

Step 1: Go to the build you're most proud of

Step 2: Edit some of the seating in preparation for a talk you're going to give.

Step 3: Delete one of the seats

Step 4: Hit ctrl-alt-shift-1 to look at the stats because the sim feels laggy

Step 5: Wonder where all the solid objects have gone

Step 6: Consider the possibility that the seat was linked to the whole build, and you've just deleted it all.

Step 7: Panic

Step 8: Realise that ctrl-alt-shift-1 is the keyboard shortcut for "Client > Rendering > Types > Simple" and not "View > Statistics Bar" like you thought.

Step 9: Relax

doh

Miss K

How Photoshop Started

John Knoll on the origins of the world's most ubiquitous app — (via the Photoshop Blog)

Lippy

I hated my lips when I was growing up. I can't pinpoint the date, but one day I remember looking in the mirror while I was smiling, and noticing that they were enormous.

Great big bloody swathes of pink plastered across my face.

It must have been — I guess — around the time when I first really started worrying about my appearance. I'd just got to secondary school, and the laughable bowl-cut hair-do that I'd had for the past eleven years was swiftly replaced by a more 'trendy' layered cut. I hated the 'roundness' of it, and started obsessing about having hair that had straight sides.

But yeah, sorry — lips...

I hated how big they were so much, that I started training myself to suck them in slightly whenever I smiled, to the extent that it stuck as a habit to this day.

See? :unsure:

I mean, there's an obvious irony here. Large (very) red lips are a positive boon when you're a trannie, and there's me having spent so long forcing myself to hide them I'm now having to remember to smile normally whenever I'm dressed.

For maximum effect :smile:

But hey. This post isn't really about my ongoing instability as regards my self-image and such. (Nor is it particularly well-written, but then, I am extraordinarily hungover)

It's about the Really Quite Painful™ split that appeared (somehow) on my lower lip about a week ago, and is refusing to heal.

Split lip

I've been smearing it with Vaseline in the hope that it will (a) heal, and (b) stop bloody hurting, but I'm wondering if anyone on the internets has any Top Lips Tips™ that might help?

Blisteze... :smile: It helps me when my lips get dry and cracked/split... tastes horrible though!