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| Dec. 8th, 2005 @ 08:46 pm (no subject) | |||
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| Nov. 7th, 2005 @ 07:47 pm Whoopie! | |||
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Now I can finish that house!In our continuing effort to improve the Second Life experience we plan to release SecondLife 1.7.2 on Wednesday, November 9, 2005 (pending final verification of fixes). The grid will be down from 6am to 12pm SLT for this update. A new viewer will be required. |
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| Nov. 6th, 2005 @ 08:15 pm Architect Lisse - second time around | |||
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Current Mood:
So I decided to advertise my services once again as a builder open to commissions. The in-world classifieds seem to be effective, I've sold about L$2500 worth of prefabs and got a L$5000 custom commission since buying my ad for L$250. refreshedHere's what I'm building for Nando Pomeroy. He wanted a Santorini-styled house for the side of a steep cliff in Gourdneck. I like building in Gourdneck, it has a great topography for cliffbuilders like me. He asked for three rooms, access to the water and a large rooftop deck as high as possible. Later on, he decided to add a "secret room" for his poseballs as it's a PG sim (yeah, I know, there's no real privacy in SL but anyway). The gazebo on the top is designed to have a jacuzzi under it.  The two turrets contain spiral staircases that can be negociated with only a little difficulty. As you can see, there's a distinct lack of detailed texturing - a direct result of SL crashing every time I go to upload a texture, after the v1.7 update. I am eagerly awaiting the next patch, as I have some wonderful authentic window and wallpaper textures ready to go up. I've also not added any doors yet, as I'm waiting to talk to Nando about what type of doors he'd like. Apart from that, it's pretty much done. 150 prims, which was my target. On 1536 m2, that leaves about another 200 for furnishings which is realistic. So, anybody need an architect? :) |
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| Oct. 18th, 2005 @ 08:42 am (no subject) | |||
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| Well, it has been a while, hasn't it. I've been getting back into SecondLife recently, and was pleased that my last post dragged hiddenriver in-world. This week, I had the pleasure of meeting up with her "face-to-face" as we sat around the campfire in my RV park and chatted - me, Annie Malaprop and a very cute dragon, as can be seen below: In other SL news, I came joint first in a competition to build a rollercoaster car - I am pictured below seated in my winning entry, along with a day-old new resident who just hopped in beside me right after the results were announced. Yes, I know our feet show through the floor, we only had 45 minutes!  |
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| Oct. 6th, 2005 @ 05:13 pm (no subject) | |||
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| Hey. stoneself! Are you considering doing this to your bicycle? :) |
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| Sep. 2nd, 2005 @ 08:13 pm Events! | |||
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Current Mood:
Nostalgic for the events that used to be, before Tringo/Slingo/Quintzee/DaSexyAV dance contests? hopefulHere's my ambitious new event schedule, due to start this Sunday. All events will be held either in Derwent or Windermere, easily reachable from the Waterhead telehub. All at 7:00 p.m. game time for now, but if there is sufficient demand from those in other time zones, I can schedule earlier on Sun, Mon or Tues. Sundays: Texturing Contest - Game Night with Lisse Mondays: Trivia - Game Night with Lisse Tuesdays: Beginning Building - Make a Coffee Table with Lisse Wednesdays: Primtionary - Game Night with Lisse Thursdays: Land 101 - Class with Lisse Fridays: Show & Tell - Contest Night with Lisse Saturdays: SL Basics - Class with Lisse -------------- Texturing Contest - Game Night with Lisse Fancy yourself a dab hand with the texturing window? Come and compete in our contest where you will have 45 minutes to texture the supplied object, kept secret until the event starts! Use library textures, or your own collection - everyone from newbies to the experts will enjoy this event. Prizes: 1st place - 50% of the pot 2nd place - 30% of the pot 3rd place - 20% of the pot. Pot starts at L$50 - donations welcomed! ------------------ Primtionary - Game Night with Lisse Pictionary with prims! Come and join the fun as our host gives out easy, medium, hard or EVIL words for contestents to build. First audience member to guess the word correctly gets to build next! Prizes: L$10 for each correctly guessed word for as long as the pot holds out - donations welcomed! ------------------ Trivia - Game Night with Lisse Basic, original no-frills trivia contest. Come and show off your knowledge (and speed typing skills) by answering 25 questions on 5 different surprise topics. Difficulty ranges from easy to extremely hard. Prizes: L$5 for each correct question. Remainder of the pot to the person with the most correct answers at the end - donations welcomed! ------------------ Land 101 - Instructor Class with Lisse Are you considering land ownership, but confused by all the options? Do you want to know the best way to move up from your First Land lot? Are you wondering how to tell what size of lot you need for a project? Before you part with insane amounts of L$s or US$s, attend this class to make sure you avoid the rip-offs and get the best bang for your buck! Everyone in Second Life should be able to own the perfect home - we aim to help you get there. ------------------ Beginning Building - Make a Coffee Table with Lisse This class is for complete beginners who have admired the creations of others, but been scared to open up that Create Object window for themselves. By the end of the event, you will have walked through the steps necessary to make your own 2-prim art deco, textured coffee table and be ready to continue exploring the build tools on your own. As an introduction to SL economics, students are encouraged to set their tables for sale for a nominal fee at the end of the event for fellow students to buy. Tables will remain on sale for 24 hours after class ends. ------------------ SL Basics - Instructor Class with Lisse Are you new to Second Life and bemused by all the possibilities? Bring your questions to this event where Mentor/Instructor Lisse Livingston will do her best to answer them. ------------------ Show & Tell - Contest Night with Lisse Have you made something cool and unusual that you'd like to share with your fellow residents? Whether you're brand-new in Second Life, or an old hand, you're welcome to join our Show & Tell where you'll have 5 minutes to show off your creation. The winners will be chosen by a vote at the end. Prizes: 1st place - 50% of the pot 2nd place - 30% of the pot 3rd place - 20% of the pot. Pot starts at L$50 - donations welcomed! |
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| Aug. 29th, 2005 @ 05:55 pm Just to document... | |||
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...my highest ever Quintzee Score. Got me L$200. |
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| Aug. 28th, 2005 @ 11:17 am (no subject) | |||
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| Oh, yes, probably should mention that I'm back in-world now on a semi-regular basis, so if you missed me ... now you don't have to! |
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| Jul. 3rd, 2005 @ 05:39 pm Meme time | |||||
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Current Mood:
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| Mar. 30th, 2005 @ 05:25 pm Disturbed | |||
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Current Mood:
Maybe it's just me, but I'm not sure the relationship between the slave worker and Anshe Chung is as coincidental as it seems in this story (and I'm still avoiding the forums so I'm not influenced by whatever they might be saying over there) uncomfortable |
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| Mar. 17th, 2005 @ 10:05 pm Message to Anshe Chung | |||
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Current Mood: sarcastic
Thank you for halving the price of your canyonside land in Cottonwood so that I could finally afford to pay for it and thus complete the shape of my land there. I hope you enjoyed having it sit for sale since November when you won it at auction, and put a ludicrous price of L$6.0/m2 on it - as it is PG land, and in the "glut of snow" release too. I have enjoyed looking out my window at the orange-edged parcel, thinking about your tier fees for land you don't want for yourself, that someone else (me, for instance) would have enjoyed winning at auction and actually... I dunno ... enjoyed for their own use. And while you're at it, how about doing something with that 146m2 of land at the edge of the Sim, that is raised up oddly high above everything else, and has a 'For Sale' sign on it right by my tenants' window? Maybe you should actually ... oh, this is radical ... set it for sale? Side note to Buck Spinnaker. Good job on bidding above what I cold afford for that 2048m2 in Cottonwood that reverted to Linden ownership and was put up for auction last month. I am happy you were willing to have it sit on your tier for a month before lowering the price today to below what my losing bid at auction was. I was happy to take it off your hands for a cheaper price than I would have paid if you'd not bid at auction at all. So thoughtful of you to save me money. (Side note - http://secondlife.com/land/ reports much heigher prices per m2 for auction land than land sold in-world. Even taking into account the fact that newly-released land is often more desireable than recycled land, it clearly indicates that the age of the auction land baron is on the slippery slope to over. I'm not selling any more land till v1.6 comes out and I can develop it first, with landscaping and housing, and then sell the whole lot as a package. Thank you Philip for listening to me back in October. Six months wasn't too long to wait.) |
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| Feb. 20th, 2005 @ 11:35 am (no subject) | |||
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Current Mood:
Well, it is done. i have divested myself of the vast majority of my business interests in Second Life. relievedThe Shaka Mall is sold - to Panther Kitty, who wishes to keep it going. Yay! Got to deal with transferring those objects soon. The Isere land is sold, all apart from a couple of small bits. This went to AnsheCorp, sadly - I can't see her keeping the condos around. Sorry, tenants, but I had to sell. Orwood has a person interested in buying. They want to keep the condos. Yay! Which leaves me with the peaceful Derwent RV park and scenic Cottonwood with the five rented condos and my own house. Yay! And a nice bunch of money. :) Ah, the retired life!!!! |
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| Feb. 12th, 2005 @ 07:22 pm Because you didn't demand it! | |||
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Current Mood:
Second Life meets World of Warcraft. busyCurrent Music: "Not enough RAGE"  A little piece of Telassadril in the middle of Derwent. I did go on to attempt the long floppy ears, but they are a pain to do with prims. So you don't get to see. |
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| Jan. 28th, 2005 @ 01:02 am (no subject) | |||
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| Go to images.google.com for this one. Type in your answers to the questions below, then post the first image result (or first postable one if the first pic is down or something). ( Image meme ) |
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| Jan. 20th, 2005 @ 10:31 pm (no subject) | |||
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If there is at least one person in your life whom you consider a close friend, and whom you would not have met without the Internet, post this sentence in your journal. contemplative(from stoneself) |
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| Jan. 17th, 2005 @ 11:42 am The Autistic Spectrum in Second Life - the good, the bad and the ugly | |||
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Current Mood:
Torley Torgeson, a good friend of mine and probably one of the most well-known Aspies on Second Life, recently suffered a disturbing series of attacks on the forums from another Aspie. This got ugly fast, and really all it does is demonstrate the vast range of different personalities that people with Asperger Syndrome can have, and how their interactions with others can be affected by their personality (and I suspect in this case, the number of years they've been alive and learning to cope with others). contemplativeCurrent Music: Kynn playing World of Warcraft - sounds of heavy combat On a more positive note, John Prototype discusses the Brigadoon Project in Second Life. It is certainly interesting, but I'm not sure that - as someone who is already deeply immersed in mainstream Second Life - I want or need to get involved with it. Still, I may try to find time to talk with John at some point. I already know that Andrew Linden sometimes reads this. Now it seems Hamlet will be dropping by from time to time too! Augh, the pressure to produce good and interesting posts! ;) I haven't been on much in the last few days, due in no small part to an unfortunate accident involving my powerbook, the leg of a sofa/bed, and the fragility that is an LCD screen. :( However, the powerbook wings its way today to have a new screen installed, and then I intend to be back with a vengence, including a new round of daily and varied events, the completion of the Shaka Mall revamp (both the building and the web site), and more development of the Derwent RV campground. Plus of course, my continuing job for UC Davis on the private Davis Island. My enthusiasm is completely renewed by the news that I came 49th of 53 people eligible for the December Developer Awards, and I get a grand total of US$31.20 for it!!!!! (Love those apartment tenants and their dwell... er, traffic). |
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| Jan. 9th, 2005 @ 11:00 pm COPPA - *sigh* | |||
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| It took me the best part of a day to be able to post in this journal today. :( Because of the Six Apart purchase of LiveJournal, accounts which appear to be owned by minors must now be verified by an adult parent. So when I tried to post, or update my account info, it refused to do so until I 1) entered an email address of my "parent" - had to be different from the account's email address - and 2) entered information for a major credit card, which had to be good for a 1 cent authorization - not charged. So, because my birth date was set so that I appear to be 8 months old (as I am in Second Life), LiveJournal now gets my credit card info, and I get to spend far too much of the day downloading and sorting through a large number of spam emails to eventually find the "parent authroization" one buried in a subfolder of my Junk folder, which apparently was excluded from Mail's "search all folders for this text anywhere" function. *sigh* again. And I haven't been on Second Life for a couple of days either, due to World of Warcraft demanding our time. :) |
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| Jan. 9th, 2005 @ 10:44 pm Visiting Linden Lab, Stoneself Karuna and Neo Rebus | |||
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(Extracted from my main journal entry) busyOther trips during our Northern California stay included a visit to Linden Lab, home of Second Life, where we met Colin, Jeska, Andrew, Corey and Charity Linden amongst other employees. We got to see Andrew monitoring the grid, and to distract Jeska from her forum moderation duties with stories of weird AV sex. We also visited with centauress and dv_girl for a very nice dinner in an British pub and fun at their house afterwards. We visited chareth and met her kitty Cali, and she visited with us in Gilroy too - yet another pub dinner (Irish, this time!).We moved north a little to spend a couple of nights in a church parking lot in Dublin, for a longer visit with sister-in-law's family. We also fitted in a last minute dinner with stoneself and darkfoxprime, followed by a hilarious session of mutual Second Life logins (who would have thought their network would support 4 sessions at once!) where we teleported each other around, rated with main characters and alts, exchanged calling cards and generally caused havoc at Tringo. |
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| Dec. 26th, 2004 @ 11:45 pm (no subject) | |||
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| Second Life: First Life: |
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| Dec. 15th, 2004 @ 12:01 am Oh, my goodness! | |||
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Current Mood:
Now I'm intimidated. intimidatedI signed up to build an ice sculpture for SL's Winterland Wonderland thingumie-jig. I just claimed my assigned lot. Here's who's building on the neighboring squares: E : Lordfly Digeridoo SE: Nolan Nash S : Ardith Mifflin SW: Sarah Flora W : Camille Serpentine ( camilles)NW: Hiro Pendragon N : Shadow Weaver NE: David Valentino At least for Burning Life I had two newbie builders (Digby Boffin and Ulrika Zugzwang) next to me! This time, I have only the elite... I think I need something more impressive than my cartoony ice dragon this time! |
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