• Second Life avatar sitting on a market stall stacked with empty inventory boxes
    Building - Dhughan

    Listened to Radio Riel: Una Música Brutal Last Night, It Soothed The Savage Builder

    January 10, 2012 - By 

    Dhughan here, recommending Music For Builders. Whilst messing about with floating lanterns that fell 500 metres and buried themselves in abandoned mines in Steelhead St Helens, I listened to an excellent programme, hosted live by Carter Denja. Radio Riel is essential to maintaining one’s cool while excavating down to the Second Life water table to find physical objects set to float… wait for it! on the surface. My other floating lantern, which Miss Bug made in a class project, floats so enthusiastically that it would go into space if not constrained by a ceiling. Clearly, more study (my take, break,…

  • Steampunk robots dancing cheek to cheek
    Building - Dhughan - Second Life - Steelhead Shanghai

    Dhughan Suddenly Reappears Out Of Nowhere And Makes Stuff #SL #ItsAnAltThing

    January 10, 2012 - By 

    Yes, yes, Dhughan here, very slack of me to disappear like that. I happened to be very busy avoiding as much work as possible during the holidays. Back again in good old Steelhead Shanghai, and there certainly are interesting things happpening this week. —- Chinese New Year 2012: Year of the Dragon – Breathing Fire into the New Year Chinese New Year is the longest and most important celebration in the Chinese calendar. The Chinese year 4710 begins on Jan. 23, 2012. Chinese months are reckoned by the lunar calendar, with each month beginning on the darkest day. New Year…

  • Get Excited and Make Things - the crown image is made of wrenches
    Dhughan - Second Life - Virtually Anything

    Not Possible In Real Life: Star Destroyers Over Cathedrals

    July 10, 2011 - By 

    It’s Sunday, let’s go to church: Constable’s “Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop’s Garden” is massively improved by these Star Destroyers, no? Yes. Of course. This would be quite easy to accomplish in Second Life, as star destroyers are actually more common than cathedrals there. As an occasional churchgoing man, it might be amusing to turn up for Morning Prayer at the Anglican Cathedral wearing the new “steam punk Zeppelin” new-player avatar. In unrelated news: my KittyCats pet Minnie has informed me that she had her first kittenbox! Miss Lelani and I have been quite distracted with the creatures (her pet…

  • Second Life avatars dance around a bonfire in fantasy garb.
    Dhughan - Second Life

    One Thousand 19th Century Books from the British Library

    June 14, 2011 - By 

    Dhughan here, finally had a mo to do a spot of housekeeping inworld; enjoying the many wonderful things from the latest STEAM hunt and thinking about building a home Egads! The British Library has made 1000 books available on ye olde steampowered iPad!http://i.tuaw.com/2011/06/12/put-a-thousand-books-from-the-british-library-on-your-ipad-for-f/ I just love finding apps like this, and I think you’ll be excited too. The British Library has released 1000 books from its 19th Century collection into a free iPad app that includes novels, historical works, poetry, philosophy and scientific books. As I was not able to ship my own library over when I emigrated from my…

  • Get Excited and Make Things - the crown image is made of wrenches
    Second Life - Steelhead

    More STEAM4 Marvels and Wonders

    April 3, 2011 - By 

    Yes, yes, Dhughan here. The prizes for “best hunt gifts” were announced at the Wrap Party on April 1st, and they were: 1st place, Gold Trophy, Mayah Parx for EPIC TOY FACTORY 2nd place, Silver Trophy, Janeel Kharg for ANKH MORPORK 3rd place, Bronze Trophy, Emedea Morgenstern for Rag Dollz 4th place, Copper Trophy, Lenny Kenyon for HAVEN TOWNSHIP 5th place, Iron Trophy, Oriolus Oliva for GOLDEN ORIOLE I’m only about 20 percent through with sorting (and it’s a very slow process as I’m constantly getting quite distracted by all the marvels and wonders I’m finding. However, I see that…

  • Dhughan - SecondLife Steampunk

    Steam Hunt 4 Completed… now to clean up the mess

    March 28, 2011 - By 

    Dhughan here, it’s been a long few weeks since I last blogged. Sorry, busy, building, learning, fixing, tearing out hear prim by prim, blah blah blah! At long last, I have had a chance to complete STEAM 4: The Hunt as a hunter, not just as a creator. And now I have to clean out my inventory as I go. First, a short word to my fellow shop-owners and content-creators.   Please, please, don’t make it so difficult to find the gear, or make it difficult to navigate around your place while searching for it, or set it up so…

  • Second Life cows and bulls
    Building - Chameleonic Possessions - Dhughan

    Dhughan Triumphs Over Adversity …mumble…Bally walking sticks had stumped him

    February 17, 2011 - By 

    Dhughan here, having returned from a trip to a strange, sandy land to consult with an alien entity concerning a technical difficulty. With this help I was able to work out how to use Mme. Kamilah Hauptmann’s open source cane control script so that I could use her charming and clever Gentleman Jim and GJ Cane AO’s with one of my humble walking sticks. I spoke with a being who wore the sigil of a green lantern on her chest (their homeworld is most impressive), who traced the fault in my ivory-handled stick to either an incorrect rotation around its…

  • Second Life : Keep Calm And Carry On
    Dhughan - SecondLife Steampunk - Steelhead Shanghai

    Dragonlands Hotel: Shops, Rooms to Let, and Den of Iniquity #SLRP

    January 2, 2011 - By 

    The anti-vice factions are beginning to flex their muscles in Steelhead Shanghai; although it’s deservedly famous for its architecture there have been rumblings in the local news organ that a volunteer battalion may be forming up. *A notice appears in the places frequented by merchants, guns for hire, and bar/saloons where military types would frequent. The message itself is complete nonsense, unless you are skilled in military cryptography to decode the message, even then, the message is further in Latin, making it that much more difficult to translate. Once translated, it reads* Greetings, We, the repressed and downtrodden members of…

  • Second Life avatar sitting on a market stall stacked with empty inventory boxes
    Building - Second Life

    Otterly Fun

    December 31, 2010 - By 

    see more Lolcats and funny pictures Dhughan here; just dipping a paw to test the waters and update a little. Shall be building and repairing items for Miss Lelani’s new digs in Steelhead Shanghai, and fortunately it’s near water. Whether in human form or not, it shall be otterly fun.

  • Happy girl: me thinking about learning 3D modeling Overwhelmed girl: Me learning 3D modeling, covered by texts: shit ton of hot keys, smooth shading terrible, Ctrl-Z Ctrl-Z Ctrl-Z
    Second Life

    The Great (Steampunk) Race

    November 30, 2010 - By 

    Spent an enjoyable few hours inworld for the first time in ages… what finally brought me back was recalling this excellent moving picture. Sadly, I missed its recent replay on the vid-box but perhaps I shall find more clips online. Originally considered a critical flop, The Great Race was a specular box office hit, along with another Steampunk-esque race move of the time, “Those Magnificent Men and their Flying Machines”. It was nominated for five academy award, and won one Oscar. To this day, it still retains a “75% Freshness” rating at Rotten Tomatos (per Wikipedia). via The Steampunk Tribune:…