• 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…

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

    Dusting Off An Old Friend

    September 3, 2011 - By 

    Yes, yes, yes, it’s a long long time since there’s been a new post here. We’ve been busy procrastinating to get ready for STEAM 5, which started on September 1. Well, I was ready at about 2am that morning, and Miss Lelani was ready at… 4am. As per usual, we concentrated on builds and sorting textures and left the actual building of the gifts for the last possible moment. In our defense, we can only say that real life got a little interesting, in the Chinese curse sense of the word, and every weekend in August ended up getting co-opted…

  • Get Excited and Make Things - the crown image is made of wrenches
    Dhughan - KittyCatS

    Studebaker has arrived! And He Shall Have His Own Bed!

    July 17, 2011 - By 

    It’s ridiculous of me to be so chuffed about the birth of “yet another rather ordinary kitten,” but this one has some traits that I find endearing: IM: KittyCatS Box – New Born Kitten: ▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼ New Born Kitten Fur: American Shorthair – Red Tabby Eyes: Genesis Meadow (Shape: Curious | Pupil: Big) Shade: Natural Tail: Genesis Ears: Genesis Version: 1.07 Owner: Dhughan Froobert 〓〓〓〓〓〓〓〓〓〓〓〓〓〓〓〓〓〓〓〓〓〓 MOM: Minnie Happy Birthday – SL8B Fur: Genesis – Smokey Eyes: Genesis Meadow (Shape: Curious | Pupil: Big) Shade: Natural Tail: Genesis Ears: Genesis DAD: Dash Happy Birthday – SL8B Fur: Genesis – Domino Eyes: Genesis…

  • 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
    Dhughan - Second Life

    Oh, For The Love Of Primkin And His Momma (and Poppa)

    July 10, 2011 - By 

    As a new virtual kitty uncle, I’m sure that these stats are dreadfully ordinary to most KittyCatS breeders, but it IS a milestone; the first kitten born to my Minnie. I shall name it Primkin, as it’s the first, it’s made of prims, it’s small, and it’s kin (the gender isn’t known until the box is unpacked, or “birthed”). The proud parents are snoozing in the background. I thought something might happen yesterday when Dash reached “100% Love,” while Minnie had reached the middle 90’s. She was having feeding issues of some kind a few days ago, fixed by taking…

  • 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…

  • Chameleonic Possessions doodle
    Dhughan - fashion - Second Life

    More Wonderful Things

    April 3, 2011 - By 

    Dhughan here yet again, still digging into my STEAM4 folders and finding wonderful things. This is just what happens when you encounter things as you open boxes and think “Hmmm, this would be quite unique if I add a little of this and that…” Et voila! A clockwork Gentleman of Japan, complete with fan and a clockwork facial tattoo. Needs only an obi, which I know I can get with another such outfit at either Ancient Tree Kimono or Aki-Kimono, a shop that was on the hunt. Sometimes when going through hunt items, sadly, a gift will not work with…

  • 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…