I tried and failed numerous times to create and bake a simple sculptmap of a blob. It was just a practice blob, and I got it to work ONCE, which was encouraging. But every other time, the steps seemed to be different. Things weren't on the menu that had been there before. My inner volcano erupted, and much screaming, bad language, and tears of frustration ensued (luckily no one else was home except the cat, who wisely chose to remain upstairs).
Yes, there’s been a lot going on in my First Life. Nothing bad, just stuff that was interesting or engaging. Of course, the election news was good for me and other reality-based life forms. And also mundane things like new episodes of favorite television programs, family get-togethers on weekends, and one or two very sad events that really brought everything to a halt for a while. After that, it was easier to just watch TV and read news and blogs. I’m inworld now, goofing around in Cafe Wellstone watching the People’s Bailout show with Lizz Winstead. I just happened to…
And now we’re blogging, we’re blogging, we’re blogging…. and Tweetering too. Watching #PeoplesBailout #RollingJubiliee from within #SecondLife @LizzWinstead, originally uploaded by Lelani Carver.
Hmm, this little one-seater biplane looks pretty sweet, and I’m told the animations are cute. Second Life has been working lately to make being a Resident fun again (aside from the bug reports that aren’t interactive anymore and the lack of communication by the Markeptplace team with Merchants. Anyway, this gift is free to paid members and people with “concierge” level membership (ie they own entire islands and estates and pay a boatload of monthly tier (which most try to make up with rents or product sales).I might have to check it out using one of my viewers that has…
An interesting development – Ciaran Laval noted that Second Life Marketplace is running some kind of contest to name new Female Skins subcategories – the prize is $L2489, enough to pay for a month of front page ads. Of more specific interest – some of the things I make (fountains, floor lamps and desk lamps) are going to have their own categories. My friend Mistletoe might possibly be interested in the new expanded Food and Drink categories. Hmm. Recreation and Entertainment/Food and Drink Add “Foodâ€. Under “Foodâ€, add the following: Add “Fruits & Vegetables†Add “Vegetables†Add “Meat, Fowl &…
Please sign the petition to let the people who signed the petition to let Texas secede, secede. Is that so hard to understand? https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/grant-god-fearing-tooth-challenged-cousin-wives-and-uncle-husbands-texas-petition-secede-us/gN9SN37q
Fun fact: as I’m interested in Japanese culture, steam powered rail, AND I’m a Second Life (SL) resident it amuses me to stumble onto this: the slang or colloquial term for “steam train in Japanese is “esu eru” which is a transliteration of the letters “SL” which probably stand for “steam locomotive” in English. Weird, but fun, right? SL esu eru, short for steam locomotive – steam train The hiragana (Japanese syllabary characters used for foreign words for this is: ãã—ゃ That’s it, just a little germinatin’ going on. via How the Japanese chop up English | Teflnet Also, check…
Hands bloodied and soaked from the waist down, Rudyard Kipling was happy. Not just happy, "utterly, supremely, and consummately happy," the famed author wrote, lying on the bank of the Clackamas River next to the first salmon he'd ever caught. Today, historians and fishermen say it was actually steelhead Kipling and his two companions nabbed that day in June 1889, but it's a minor discrepancy in an otherwise fondly written account of the trip that has resonated with anglers and local residents for more than a century.
As it happens, it’s my fifth rezday today, but the silly typist had some ridiculous singing practice thing and then was procrastinating on a web project. But hey, here’s another example of “good press” for Rod Humble, Linden Labs, Creatorverse, Patterns, and oh, yeah, Second Life. It makes perfect sense that Humble would wind up at Linden Lab, the company best known for the virtual world Second Life. It’s as successful a canvas for the communal creation of a virtual world as there’s been. It’s been a viable digital canvas for about a decade now has been populated by users…
I’m looking for information on the latest update of Linden Lab’s Patterns – for some reason screenshots were not working for me, where previously Steam has a hotkey of F12 that automatically sets up a screenshot and saves (in a kind of obscure folder) as private, or on their overlay console as a public shot. At the Patterns community forum, I ran across a discussion of materials testing that has been added to Wikia. Someone else pointed out there needed to be another study based on the isosceles triangular pyramid and the prism shape, so I expect the fellow will…