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Steve Cavers (AKA, "Cubey Terra") is a software tech writer and metaverse content developer living in Vancouver, BC.
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- I just accidentally sabered a bottle of Scotch. http://t.co/WGnlNs3J | 1 day ago
- While cleaning out my storage closet, I found my high school year book. Now I'm firmly mired in the muddy ruts of memory lane. | 1 day ago
- Dear ice cream truck with loudspeaker electronic music going around my block: DIE DIE DIE. That is all. | 2 days ago
- I liked Mythbusters better when the spent more time showing the process than the actual test, and didn't blow up EVERYTHING. | 2 days ago
- The school is playing "Rock Around the Clock" over the PA. I feel like I'm in a Happy Days episode. | 2 days ago
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Author Archives: Steve 'Cubey' Cavers
Northern Voice 2011: Why am I going?
Months ago, I signed up for a conference that I knew nothing about for reasons that weren’t actually clear to me at the time. It was, admittedly, kind of an impulse buy. I’d heard of Northern Voice, I knew it … Continue reading
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Sim-on-a-Stick: Everything is better on a stick!
Do you like sausages? How about pancakes? Sure you do, they’re awesome — especially when you have them together. And through the magic of modern food processing machinery, these two brillant foods come together and are made better when they’re attached … Continue reading
Posted in SL, Tech
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Bacon chocolate chip bacon cookies with bacon
This recipe is actually almost identical to my regular chocolate cookie recipe, but substituting bacon for the eel meat. The Ingredients 1 cup butter 1 cup brown sugar 1 cup white sugar 2 eggs 1 tsp vanilla 1/2 tsp salt … Continue reading
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Now FREE: Seven classic Terra airplanes
In a move that is sure to shock the aircraft world and make people doubt my sanity, I am making seven of my classic Terra airplanes totally free! That’s a discount of roughly 100%. Drop by the runway at Abbotts … Continue reading
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Oh my… USER
In the original Tron movie, the programs saw users as their gods, essentially. In that movie, when a program dies, he casts his eyes to heaven and cries, “Oh, my User!” Obviously, the concept of the user as a god … Continue reading
Get my Cubicle Dweller books for nuthin’
As everyone knows, I’m a very famous* author of all kinds** of books. Until today, my writing was only available at my Cafe Press store or Amazon.com and only in ridiculously obsolete paper. For those of you wanting to read … Continue reading
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Will Kitely fly?
Having noticed a bit of Twitter buzz about Kitely, the latest Second Life spin-off, I decided to investigate. Unlike the other spin-off worlds, Kitely targets Facebook users by letting anyone with a Facebook account create a single-region, SL-based virtual world. … Continue reading
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Not a Gamer
As I’ve mentioned before, I have wasted — I mean “spent” — a lot of time in Second Life, so it’s probably natural for the average person to assume that I’m a hard-core computer gamer. I’m not. Really, I’m not, … Continue reading
The Bacon Brownie Experiment
IN A WORLD… where meat meets dessert in a choctacular pigsplosion of flavour, two Second Life oldbies set out to do what few have ever accomplished before. Bacon fused with chocolate to produce the ultimate sweet and savoury creation. The … Continue reading
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Where’s the action in SL?
I logged into Second Life a couple of times recently with the idea of exploring and engaging in things I don’t usually. So I started with the Search window. It’s so amazingly hard to find a link to anything good, … Continue reading
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