New Second Life Saviour Manifests: Mr Kneb Warns Against Bunny-Pony War

Insightful new thought-leader emerges in Second Life, so look for @StopClengBenk to start his libelous smears on the Twitter soon.

Cleng Beck at chalkboard

Also, it’s Bewbie Wednesday!

Please, won’t someone remember the chickens?

The first step for those who try to undermine our way of life is always to have us start fighting amongst ourselves. That way we are too busy to notice their machinations. They have succeeded in starting a grid-wide civil war between the bunnies and the ponies. Have you noticed that nobody is even talking about the poor chickens? Wake up people! They’re trying to tear us apart!

Via http://honour-mcmillan.blogspot.com/2011/01/inconvenient-second-life-truth.html

Weekly Tweets 2011-01-23

  • @rivenhomewood Are you sure the CEO's name isn't Lorem Ipsum? #
  • RT @JC_Christian ".@JillStanek, you pulled it after I wrote about it here http://is.gd/1tTOjr" #
  • My head is spinning from trying to figure out Euler (sp?) rotations. It's funny, but frustrating. #SecondLife #
  • @DarrellIssa Please don't waste our time "killing" health care reform. #
  • RT @Wonkette "Sarah Palin Never Existed http://bit.ly/i3mwTV" If only. Why is a quitter and a loser relevant? Must learn to look away. #
  • RT @JeffreyFeldman "House/Senate GOP wants to repeal health benefits to you that they get to keep http://bit.ly/fQRNf1" #
  • Help the Dems reframe the debate: call it the Cynical Posturing Health Care Repeal Act. #
  • Reframe the debate: "The Nyah-Nyah La La La You Can't Have Affordable Health Care But We Can, So There Act" #
  • @JeffreyFeldman If he ruled like Jesus we'd still be awaiting AL gov's glorious return. #
  • Let's REALLY Reframe the debate and follow @senatorsanders lead: Medicare For All, Single Payer plan. http://is.gd/83L36u #
  • @SOLDIER1 So very, very sorry for your loss. #
  • RT @JeffreyFeldman "Why is it that a mass email from Durbin RE "Stop Healthcare Repeal" leaves me feeling annoyed/queasy, but not inspired?" #
  • @JeffreyFeldman Durbin is my senator, feel the same way. And EMAIL! so last century! #
  • Attention #SecondLife hivemind: Can Plantronics .Audio USB behind-head headset work for voice? Win7, Imprudence http://is.gd/i4KAsZ #
  • Can't see this headset on list of sound devices in Imprudence, checked settings in Win7, worked before Vista upgrade http://is.gd/i4KAsZ #
  • @MoodyLoner LOL, or the "Whiny Socialist Losers Don't Need Healthcare If They Have Pre-Existing Conditions Due To Their Sinful Poverty Act" #
  • Possible Plantronics .Audio 645 and #SecondLife voice fix: plug mic jack in USB adapter, 'phones in computer jack. http://is.gd/Orq2fO #
  • @radioriel Radio Riel was IN the air! #
  • @ElrikMerlin Ah, Mesa Verde is special. #
  • Hey @SecondLie does this mean the Etch-A-Sketch Viewer 3D project is greenlighted? #SecondLife #
  • @ebertchicago I visited that shrine, or one like it, on a trip to Japan years ago. The gift shop was very interesting…. #
  • . @SecondLie "Shake to clear cache" also works on the Etch-A-Sketch for iPad #SecondLife app. The future is here. #
  • .@DarrellIssa Please don't waste our time with this needless posturing and pointless "repeal" of a bill that has already helped sick kids! #
  • @SOLDIER1 Thinking of you both. It takes time. #
  • RT @m_ethaniel "RT @GeorgeTakei: It's pronounced Ta-KAY, not Ta-KAI. But I don't mind Ta-KAI because that means "expensive." #ohmy #
  • .@GeorgeTakei ta-KEI it is, and may I say your awesomeness makes the universe a happier place. #ohmy #
  • @DarrellIssa I think you should take the lead on Congressional oversight. All who voted to repeal #hcr must cancel their health insurance. #
  • . @DarrellIssa you are holding back this country, but you are not listening to reason. #
  • RT @OhMeadhbh: done arguing with insurance companies. we'll know if the offspring has medical coverage in 2wks" h/t @AnthonyHocken #
  • RT @boobiewed "RT @StopCancer: 6-year-old boy is free of leukemia http://bit.ly/gLNb4j #Boobiewednesday #Boobiewed" #
  • RT @SecondLife "First blog post from CEO Rod Humble, about immersing himself in Second Life: http://bit.ly/f2lzpb Follow him @rodvik #SL quot; #
  • @rodvik That's the spirit! #
  • @rivenhomewood Dammit, FB has my email and phone already… I'd better check security settings AGAIN. #
  • RT @m_ethaniel "RT @HuffPostImpact: 9-year-old boy sells his toys to help Gabrielle Giffords http://huff.to/gEwfm2" #
  • What if we compare insurance plans side by side, given Rep, Gifford's level of care and see how quickly plans would theoretically drop her? #
  • @JudiNewall Did you get slammed with tweets saying #Twittleator I have it on both iphone and iPad, rock solid. Love the bookmarklet trick. #
  • Oops. Broke the Plantronics headphones that didn't work with voice. What do you recommend for #SecondLife ? My old USB ones were fine. #

Blender: I’m about to do something very stupid

We have just repackaged Jass-2.3.5 so that your entry to meshes next week is well prepared. The brief list of fixes/features is:

  • NEW: Mesh support: A fix to the Collada-1.4 exporter.
  • NEW: Mesh support: We now also distribute the avatar.blend
  • FIX: removed old “pyc” files python compiled sources.
  • NEW: the factoryreset program has been rewritten.
  • FIX only jass-pro: multi part bakes now independent of choice of parent part.
  • FIX only jass-pro: Precision regression caused by missalignements in UV map

customers: You will find the new jass-2.3.5 pub and free in your personal download folder and we hope you have bookmarked it so that you can get hold on the new release with 2 clicks

first time users: get a free copy of jass-2.3.5-pub from our shop in SL:  http://slurl.com/secondlife/Jass/145/193/25 or purchase the jass-2.3.5-pro version from the same location.

via Jass-2.3.5 with limited mesh support «.

Blender? Blimey, Begin @ The Beguineing, Sheepishly

Dhughan attended yet another class on sculpted prims, and came away shaking his head at choices offered if we want to get serious about making stuffs again – and not get too frustrated at our inability to make anything besides blobs.

Sculptypaint, for all its excellent freeness, is really limited in its usefulness. It’s marvelous for producing simple-ish geometric shapes, which can also be twisted and textured in the program. It’s a steller smoother, if a sculpt has been produced with a different program. But for detailed sculpting, or a carved or high-relief look, not easy to use.

So hey, it looks like I might have to try the most famously not-easy-to-use sculpt programs out there, Blender.

As the class recommended, I’d got the JASS2 route, and do the recommended version installs of the different required components… and then start to take classes at Builder’s Brewery, and look at the tutorials online, and all that. Because there really are some interesting shapes required for some of the funny, silly, or slightly creative ideas I’ve been struggling to “virtualize.”

NOTE: Please read the pre-requisites for the classes on this page. It is important to remember that while I will make every effort to help you in class if you are having trouble or are unfamiliar with something, the classes must be able to continue at a decent pace. If you are unable to keep up in class, please bear in mind that classes will be repeated (I do the same new class at least twice in the week it premieres.) and many of my students do, indeed, take them again.

via Blender Classes – TAMA Products.

But I took a break from thinking about building, and making stuffs to put in shops what don’t suck rocks.

MySheepsTheyAreDed_001

First, I took my herd of sheep out for a spin (thanks to the Church of SecondLientology‘s excellent popenmagnate’s generousity). Hit a few clubs.

MyDedSheepPosse_001

Here’s the Blarney Stone in Dublin, after I was baffled by the “age verification” barriers. Whut? I’m like, one meelion years old in Second Life, as I could see by the ominous “scroll back and back and back and back to the year of your birth” menu.

I wore a bright green titler over my head: “YESS MY SHEEPS ARE DED…. jeeeez.”

They were a big hit, especially when I backed into corners and the dance animation went into a flat spin. The people at the Blarney were funny, but the music wasn’t what it was when I first got there and got rebuffed by the age barrier, so I started looking around for places to take the kids out for the evening (now I will need to figure out how to make breedable goats for people who can’t stand the idea of talking pregnancy bellies so they can say the exact same thing).

And then I noticed an event happening that was a COULD NOT POSSIBLY LOSE situation: a Barnyard-themed dance party with prizes for best in farm animals.

MyDedSheepPosse_002

I couldn’t find the place at first, very pretty rezz area, though. I thought this sign was a teleporter, clicked “Sit,” and hello, photo op. Deal widdit.

Yeah, they were nice, but a little “meh” on the sheep. And the music was kinda not there for me either.

MyDedSheepPosse_003

That’s me in the corner, losing my faux sheepskin religion. In the foreground, two pretty ladies wearing awesome tats and not much else.

That’s an egg basket, in case you were wondering.

MyDedSheepPosse_004

The horsey guy and the little rat-girl were getting down, but my sheep were broke-dancing.

MyDedSheepPosse_005

Remember that moment in “Napoleon Dynamite” suddenly goes from hopelessly dorky hick kid in scuffed moon boots to badass urban funky dancing machine? Kind of like this, but with spurs.

MyDedSheepPosse_006

The hammerhead shark was a nice touch, but where were the frickin’ laser beams on his head?

Then I met up with Mist in virtual Oahu. I was prepared to be not that impressed, as there are a lot of tropical places in Second Life, but this place made me gasp.

Visit Beautiful Oahu North Shore

I KNOW, it’s gorgeous. There’s rental areas with super upscale cliff cottages, less expensive over-water unfurnished places, public areas, and merch. Really, really nice Hawaiian merch – and I should know, because my typist has dragged me there about… 7 or 8 times.

The textures, sounds, and lush beauty were absolutely spot-on.

Visit Beautiful Oahu North Shore

We sat for a while just chatting while watching the big waves, after Mist showed me around. It was clearly time to get out of that dark steampunk outfit (really an excellent one from BlakOpal called Desert Explorer that I’ve been wearing nonstop for… more than a week, so it was a bit crusted over).

Then this crazy magical Second Life experience crashed over me like a giant wave.

Mist took off for a short time to confer with her partner about their virtual vaca, and I wandered down the beach. Very pretty, nice area, and hey, is that a killer whale? I had to get a closer look, so I instinctively “touched” it to focus the camera on it, but clicked “sit” by mistake.

Visit Beautiful Oahu North Shore

What? WHAT? I’m a frickin whalerider now! And it’s driveable!! So off I went.

And then I saw the Arizona Memorial (the original one, not the “newer” temporary one that’s in Tucson at the moment (sigh). Just out of shot, in front of the orca, a lei floats on the water, with a label – “[someone] Resident Remembers…” and a shiver went up my spine in RL.

I’ll have to return there and have some quiet time, it’s not for lighthearted screwing around. It’s traditional to throw a lei in the water when leaving Hawaii, or to bid farewell to a loved one at a seaside memorial service.

Anyway.

Visit Beautiful Oahu North Shore

Look at that wave! Wow, I remember when waves were piddly little things.

Visit Beautiful Oahu North Shore

Uh, maybe we better get outta here, Willy.

Visit Beautiful Oahu North Shore

Hi, Flipper! eh-eh! Eh-eh! Eh-eh!

Visit Beautiful Oahu North Shore

All too soon, it was time to free Willy.

Visit Beautiful Oahu North Shore

Watching another wave. This never gets old.

Visit Beautiful Oahu North Shore

Hangin’ out wit my friend Flipper. Had found a free group-gift surf shirt so I wouldn’t get sunburms.

Visit Beautiful Oahu North Shore

Splashy! Splashy!

Visit Beautiful Oahu North Shore

See? See? isn’t this AWESOME? The nicer rental areas like this one have security orbs, and no one was around, but still – look neighbors, no walls!

Visit Beautiful Oahu North Shore

My Sheeps, They Are Ded

Long story. It started with a Tweeter from Philip Linden, saying something rather tactless about tip jars:

Note to cafe owners: Don’t use an opaque tip box. People are sheep.

The next thing I know, the Church of SecondLieology sent me a herd of sheep, but they were dead on arrival.

I think.

What does this glowing, circular arrowy thingy do when I clicky-clicky??

Maybe I’d better ask the new guy.

MySheepsTheyAreDed_001, originally uploaded by Lelani Carver.

Weekly Tweets 2011-01-16

  • I am about to get my RL bewbs squoze. #BewbieWednesday is on Monday this week. I assume physics are enabled. #
  • And… all squoze. #BewbieWednesday #
  • Dammit, Ducks. #
  • Good thing I don't watch sports on TV #
  • Its Bewbie Tuesday in my family. RL sister just went into surgery. #dammit #
  • @MsKoro Have done, getting updates, thanks so much. About another hour to go. #
  • .@socratic iPhone contract up in June. #buhbyeATT #
  • @SecondLie As long as Pocket Metaverse runs on VZW/iPhone its Good Enough if unlimited data plan. #
  • Why I'm changing doctors: "Thank you for calling the office of Dr. Oldskool. The office is currently closed." For lunch. No voicemail. #RL #
  • Dr Oldskool doesnt call with test results, office only open 2 days a week. Dr Girlgenius called me SUNDAY, office open 6 days a week. #
  • My RL sister, the Amazon, is doing very well. She went home same day as surgery. My bewbs are A-OK even if not physics-enabled. #
  • @MsKoro Thanks, she's recovering nicely, I talked to her on the phone that afternoon. #
  • On the other paw, my unscripted RL cat probably has a chronic, slow-developing form of feline leukemia. I will need to set #PILLZ reminders. #
  • Oh no, Not more change! #
  • Headed inworld shortly after spending part of day with RL family. Fun, but will need a tasty beverage. #SecondLife #

Online profiles: A curiosity in #SecondLife

Yep, web-enabled profiles are here and have been for a while apparently. When I looked at mine just now, I realized I needed to fix some outdated stuff.

The land is still for sale, though, and my new project is progressing although RL commitments cut into building time. Prices have been reduced and it’s finally showing in search.

Also, I put out some freebies on both parcels – a silly Ceiling Cat T- shirt I made using a photo I took at last year’s Chicago W00tstock nerdfest. Drop by, pick one up, mock my dumb half-finished build, listen to the radio in the gazebo and change the stations to your heart’s content.

The shop is open though not a lot of stuff out: it’s next to the water tower.

http://my.secondlife.com/lelani.carver

Walking is hard. So is flying.
Crashing is surprisingly easy, however.

My SL blog is at http://www.lelanicarver.com
My Twitter page is at http://twitter.com/LelaniCarver

Some of my Tintafel land is for sale, a 512 and a 1024. I’ll still be building things there, but am emigrating to Steelhead St Helens.

Most interested in music, art, and other cultural offerings on SL, and dancing too. I’m also a SciFi geek. I was a Highlander fan, therefore I own many virtual swords…

Second Life land in Tintafel

512 Primlot on the West side of Tintafel

512 “Greenhouse” on the west side (contiguous with larger 1024 parcel)

Best for last:

Second Life land in Tintafel

1024 parcel adjoins Greenhouse 512 parcel

1024 “Nursery” on the west side, contiguous with “Greenhouse”

Possible in Second Life: Leyat Propeller Cars

Leyat Propeller Car

This is just the kind of impractical yet endearingly retro design that would work well in Second Life as a scripted vehicle.

Before the world completely gave up on the notion of flying cars, manufacturer Leyat decided that we can fly without ever leaving the ground; all we need is an overpowered engine and a dangerously light chassis. Sporting an 8 horsepower radial plane engine and an over-sized wooden propeller, it took a while for Leyat to come up with a relatively safe design. Originally planned as a 3-wheeler, this idea was scrapped when the prototype crashed over, and over and over.

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