Even I am happy about this: New Orleans wins the Super Bowl 31 – 17 against the Colts, best remembered as the guys that snuck out of town in the dead of night. Got beads? Want some virtual ones? Check out my virtual store online or inworld in Tintafel. Yes, yes, I’m pimpin mah beadz, but at least the setting is appropriate. Mardi Gras! It’s this Tuesday – are you ready to party in New Orleans (or New Toulouse)? It’s time to earn your beads and go wild, girls and boys! You can give or gift these beads to friends,…
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I created another Pacific Northwest Coast-style bracelet, photographed it, embellished the image with my gimpy GIMP skillz, added it to my otherwise empty XStreetSL inventory, and got the thing listed. #Completed I’m not sure if it depicts an Eagle or a Raven, but I think the Raven in PNW Indian art usually has a bluntly pointed beak, and this one looks more like a raptor’s hooked schnozz. It’s for sale on XStreetSL, it’s in a box in my mostly-empty shop inworld, and it’s also in a vendor that I just got working, that was given out in an excellent “Sell…
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@Ordinal’s announcement has caused a stir of sympathy and dismay amongst the #SecondLife #Twitterati. It distresses yet comforts me to know that even the most accomplished and celebrated builders struggle with completion issues, ennui, and an overriding desire to chuck it all into the outer darkness and do something, ANYthing else for a while. I wish Ordinal Malaprop a rejuvinating break, and hope for a very speedy return. That said, I’ve now wasted about two months since my belated burst of builder’s mania, with a mostly finished house on bare land, plus an empty shop building on another plot of…
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Okay, this is really, really… weird. I was in a class at Caledon Oxbridge and realized that it was a little more basic than I needed (though it was about making them, it was actually about finding and wearing clothes and attachments). So on a whim, I whipped out my iPhone and tried to log in my alt to see what would happen (yes, I know it’s possible to log in with multiple computers and laptops, but this… this is an iPhone, people). And… succeeded. But in a truly odd way. From Northwest Indian Images He’s a wizened little boy…
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The people at Linden Labs who created Second Life… or at least, created the framework for their subscribers to create Second Life content for them, have a lot to learn about how to retain new subscribers. Apparently, they think one way is to disband the Mentor program… ::shakes head in disbelief:: and then wonder why their stats are trending downward. A number of SL bloggers have commented recently on the well-known but disturbing statistic that although Linden Labs/Second Life claim to sign up 10,000 new subscribers a month, they actually retain only about 10% of those new “Residents.” Some think…
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I now own 3 parcels of virtual land, all in the same “sim” so that I can put out some of my prim-heavy, nicer furniture. I’m thinking about renting a simple house that I put on the third parcel, to replace the very nice but very primmy house that was offered for sale on the parcel. The experience of buying the third parcel was pretty fraught with tension, because I was trying to figure out the mysteries of the “group tier discount.” The Land Use Fee (also known as a Tier Fee) is a monthly charge in addition to membership…
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Now that I’ve bought my silly little plot of land in an unfashionable corner of Zindra The Unnamed Continent, I’ve futzed around with putting freebie buildings on it, but have already screwed up the “tiki hut” I picked up somewhere. I’m working on building a more elegant islander house, though, so may soon be shopping for textures. However, I spent too long at it; Today I have a “SLangover” from a poor night’s sleep, which was not entirely due to “new builder’s befuddlement.” My partner Rock Fall, who’s inactive in SL, greeted me with bad news when I returned with…