From A Former N00b’s Progress Okay, I didn’t actually make anything marketable today, but I did: attend a reading in Steelhead City Library of E. M. Forster’s novella, “The Machine Stops,” read by Miss Riven Homewood. It was an enjoyable way to pass an hour or so. decide to delete the crap freebie house I had on the extra parcel, and rezzed the better freebie house (the one with rezzing instructions in French, alas). Once it stopped having some kind of Gallic tantrum, and I unburied the rezz box from 3 meters down so I could move it again, it…

Bobbo's dog Polly sacked out on couch…

Heading to Newfie New Year party at Bobbo Lundquist's RL house

I don't know why the woman in the foreground was grimacing at the Odd Ball a week ago. Her face was frozen in this expression. Is she offering to perform a naughty service, or just smiling? I'm the giant blue space neko floating behind her, an avatar I call Cerulean.

Tuna Oddball dips his partner amidst an alien invasion force at a recent Odd Ball. His events are truly mind-blowing.

I learned in Textures class that I need to optimize this image better to reduce lag. The original is huge and thus a smaller image may work.

And now I need to widen the template again. I did that once before, but lost the changes I made. Fortunately, someone has clearly explained how to do it. I’ve already saved the background images, need to upload them to the web after widening them.

As it happens, I had to sing a piece called “We’ll Dress The House” at my real-life church this morning, for a Pointy-Hatted Person. And now my virtual home is dressed, or mostly dressed, and ready to receive visitors at the party in just a couple of hours. There are still a couple of details to work out – such as how exactly does the streaming music work for my DJ (I have a pretty good idea that I just paste a URL in my “parcel music” boxen, as I have 2 adjoining parcels). A friend took a look at…