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
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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Here’s an opportunity – there are a couple of plots in Steelhead Shanghai available that are already set up to be light industrial slum-like factories with horrible working conditions complete with worker “housing” nearby. It’s like the future site of Foxconn, but they’re still stuck making the iSteamphone. Contact Moon Elf, Mad Builder, and Reluctant Slum Lord TotalLunar Eclipse inworld for more information. Available light industry/factory buildings in Steelhead Shanghai (a couple of 1024s, with housing for workers?) via Available light industry/factory buildings in Steelhead Shanghai (a couple of 1024s, with housing for workers?) – Second Life
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Southwest Indian pottery Tintable - white base color Low prim decor for your Southwestern or Western themed build $L30 via Second Life Marketplace - @DF@ Southwestern Swallows Pot
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Uni-dimensional! Shows very little wear! Looks very well on rough or polished floors. Easy to clean. Adds genteel style to your Victorian, Steampunk, or Edwardian roleplay $L25 via Second Life Marketplace - @LC@ Gently Used Persian Rug (c/m/nt)
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Blue “Chagall” Glass Wall Fountain with scripted sounds on/off and volume controls. You can reduce the sounds to 1/4, 1/2, and 3/4 volume as well as mute by touching the glass. Turn on projector lighting by touching gold lamp (one side only, other side is normally lit). Turn it into a nice window by hollowing a wall to the right size and stretching the fountain to fit. 10% of the price of this product will be donated to support the Anglican Cathedral in Second Life on Epiphany Island. $L75 via Second Life Marketplace – @LC@ Chagall Wall Fountain w/Projector Lighting…
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As streaming music on Second Life is a huge, huge part of my preferred immersive experience, this may be a useful issue to track: Rumors have surfaced that the owners of FMOD have pulled from their website archives the zip files used to build FMOD libraries. Recent attempts to build 3p-fmod locally seem to confirm the rumors. Kokua uses an open source solution, openal and gstreamer010, for streaming audio. We have provided this solution to Linden Lab for inclusion in the SL viewer. The changes can also be applied to third party viewers. via Kokua team provides an alternative to…