I’m trackside at Second Life’s Relay for Life Strength region, cheering on the Survivors and Caregivers lap. Soon we’ll step out on the track ourselves. I’ve been MIA from Steelhead for most of the summer – too much other stuff pulling focus – but at least for today I’m inworld supporting the fight against cancer.
Yes, I’m being dogged (or rather kittehed) about it. I have the day off and today is a school day for learning Blender. Currently, have read through chapter 3 of Blender Graphics by John M Blain (first edition). I’m doing some of the learning modules on Gryllus.com later today, too. But this Retopology class came up, and as I can never attend Maximo’s classes during my normal work week, this is too important to miss. Must not ragequit, must not ragequit. OM. NOM. NOM. So hey, I was able to follow along for a while, and when I got stuck,…
If you’re going to sell virtual products, you’ve got to market virtual products. I get a LOT of emails from various marketing groups (I have IMs set to go to emails). Most of those messages are about new products, and they get deleted immediately, because the SUBJECT LINE tells me nothing about the new product. Most inworld marketers waste the title or subject line by using it to say “New! At Mystore!” Or they say “Brand Name at Big Shopping Event” or even goofy messages like “Check notecard for the new stuff! Kiss-kiss!” What??? I have to go inworld to…
This time. THIS TIME, I will make this stick. It’s a question of repetition, practice, and going through the available online training systematically. When I was much younger, I learned some complicated software for work from scratch by just being dogged, using it as much as possible, and repeating lessons until I had the moves memorized. As I gained skill, it became less “work” and more “play.” To this day, when I’m trying to get something done that doesn’t look possible, I tell my caller “let me play with it a little,” and I almost always succeed in getting something…
Attributed to Loki Eliot by Nalates Urriah:
We will be hosting a very special Question and Answer meeting on Wednesday July 2nd at 7AM SLT in the Firestorm Auditorium with Oz Linden Technical Director of Second Life and possibly Pete Linden Director of communications at Second Life. Topic: The Future of Second Life.The discussion will ONLY be about the future of our current beloved platform ‘Second Life’ and will not venture into the new platform currently under development. Lets hear what LL has planned for Second Life as there is plenty of time for questions about the new platform at a later date. via Firestorm Viewer –…
Whatever happened to virtual world Second Life after the flurry of hype and influx of brands in 2005 and 2006? You dont hear much about it nowadays. Actually, Second Life never went away; it was the media and brands that once flocked to it who melted away. The worlds existing community of around 1m users carried on with their virtual lives much as they had before. via Virtual world Second Life to be reincarnated, with Oculus Rift | Technology | theguardian.com. Some on SLUniverse poo-poohed my post of this story there, since I thought it was funny to add a…
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I almost forgot, there’s another wild show by the secretive duo that may or may not be 2 daffy French robots. They’re playing in Steelhead St Helens tonight at 9pm SLT. Kind of late for me, but I’ll stay up as late as I can. I wonder… maybe it’s time to bust out the Giant Racing Snail and slime the dance floor. The stream will be carried by Krypton Radio, I think – I happened to tune in while working on something for the monkey, and heard Willow Leafstorm making an on-air announcement about the event. Tune your media player…
My to-do list today of everything I didn’t need to get done Created a spreadsheet of all my Markeplace items Put the mesh screens on sale on MP and Caspervend Sorted inventory at the Mieville Inventory Sorting Party hosted by DJ Ktadnh Accidently deleted a bunch of STEAM IX gifts instead of sorting AUGH Called it a day and decided to have a lovely beverage at dinner My to-do list today of what I meant to do FIRST THING and left to the end, undone: List new Grid Explorer’s Pith Helmet, Men’s Brocade List new Grid Explorer’s Pith Helmet, Men’s…