My (online) name is LaeMi (and, yes, I am aware that sounds rude in English, but tough ;-). It is phonetically very similar to my real name (similar enough that I used my very-English middle-name at school ;-). My name roughly means "loud storm". I guess I was a noisy newborn!
I am a computer/network-technician with primary-school teacher qualifications as well.
Here is a picture of me:
OK, it is actually my Virtual Reality avatar. Age it 15 years and put on a dozen kilos if you want a slightly better idea of what I really look like. Maybe I will put a real picture up one day..... YEAH, RIGHT! ;-)
My avatar is short and not over-endowed in the chest department (much like me in RL, though she is a lot thinner than I really am these days). She is not a child-AV and I do get rather sick of people assuming because I don't have a Napoleon complex that I am an AgePlayer. In fact, as a registered school teacher I am legally required to report potential child abuse to relevant authorities, which in my book includes Age-play sex (NOT AgePlay in general though - most AgePlayers are not sex-players, but they get tarred with the same brush as the perverts, sadly).
Weekends, I usually mess around in Virtual Reality in the morning (East Australian time) as I get off-peak Internet then. Monday to Friday, I am a full-time computer technician for a large local company. I walk to and from work (50 min each way) to try and control my weight (with moderate success). I don't own (or want to own) a car, and walk everywhere I can. I take a taxi if I am really in a hurry, which is seldom.
Presently, my VR environment of choice is Second Life which is a bit clunky and limited in the back-end, however has a VERY usable front-end from a content-creation perspective. I have looked into other VR environments such as OpenCroquet and while they are technically impressive, until they provide - in their mainline environment - a content creation user interface that doesn't require you to be half-way through a Comp.Sci. degree to build anything of substance, I am unlikely to use them. The SecondLife client is now OpenSource and on the server-side is the OpenSim project which is coming along nicely (see the Impact link below).
I am Australian-born and speak only English, so don't ask me if I can read your tattoo (if you can't read Chinese/Japanese/Korean, what a fool you are getting characters tattooed anyway).
I like licorice, Mexican food, Cheesecake (though I usually have to settle for cheesecake-flavoured low-fat yogurt), jellyfish (to look at, not to eat -- yich!! Jellyfish have 4 brains - which is 3½ more than many humans!!), the colours red and blue and feminist SF/F writer Sherri. S. Tepper.
My role-models are Ellen Ripley (Ridley Scott's Alien), Jinnian Footseer (Sherri S. Tepper's True Game series) and Daria Morgendorffer.
I use Kubuntu Linux on my home computer.
I run out of things to say about myself easily.
LaeMi Gallery (includes nude picture)
Hello Dolly meet my VR companion.
sURL: Murkey Swamp a SL-URL to my home in SecondLife.
Impact my virtual home in my private OpenSim space.
Random stuff about my computer(s)
My (sporadically updated) BLOG at blogger.com
The BLACK Page - depression and ennui. :-C
My SL feature requests (external link) feel free to vote for any you like.
Turning an old boy-mouse into a foot-pedal for SecondLife fly mode
SLeXchange is where I sell stuff for SecondLife. This link is to the PG-rated stuff, there is a link on the page to see Mature Content if you are open minded enough to handle it ;-) I am presently making just enough off this to cover my SL-playing costs ($US8 a month for virtual land rental and a bit spare for content upload costs) which I am happy with. I don't really have any expectation of ever making any real money off SecondLife (I have a day-job as a network technician for that) but it is nice when one's creative outlets can self-fund.
CafePress has a few mostly-SL-related things for real-life use. Witty(?) T-shirts and the like.
ARM THE WHALES at CafePress. A more serious product line.
