Thoughts on a third-rezday plummet

When I first came to Second Life, three years ago last Sunday, I was mostly intrigued by the idea that you could make things there, in this “virtual world” where the laws of physics would be perhaps kinder, and more mutable, than in the real world.
Although we all know that the difficulty of The First [...]

How to keep a geek happy :)

I am out of frame to the right of this picture, in the Homestead Island Sandbox on OSgrid, one of the OpenSim-based grids on the net. It’s a bit lonely in terms of socializing, and things crash and otherwise don’t work more often than in Second Life say, but still…
That little semi-transparent flying saucer that [...]

Eat at Joe’s!

No, no, wait, that’s not it, hold on… I mean: buy boats at Dale’s Motorsports! :)
I have finally finally finished populating at least the first set of products (“products”) on the tiny parking space in Busy Ben’s Vehicle Lot that I won six months of lease on in the lottery, as previously mentioned. [...]

My commercial empire!

I mentioned last time that I won a spot in Busy Ben’s Vehicle Lot, in the Boats section.
Monday was the first day we could move in, and I’ve moved in!
Well, sort of:

Right now the only thing you can actually buy is the Preview Version of the Seaspray 1.1; a nice 1-prim 1-rider zipping-around boat with [...]

Blake Sea Ferry

I have a vendor spot in the “Boats” area at Busy Ben’s Vehicle Lot, and I’ve been working on a boat to sell there, hanging out in the Blake Sea – Azimuth rezzing area as a workspace for no particular reason. And every once in awhile a big empty boat would pass by.
The other [...]

The Photography of Prandi Capalini – show opening!

Art opening tomorrow! You should go! Everyone will be there!

The Photography of Prandi Capalini
an exhibit of the SL photography of Prandi Capalini
at The Small Gallery, Shengri La
Sunday November 1 – Sunday December 13
From his first postcard to Snapzilla 6 months ago, Prandi has provided a unique view of Second [...]

Bumper Snails and other wonders

The official week of Burning Life is nearly over for the year, but I think the sims and many builds will be up for another week, so here’s some more pictures of fun stuff. This time it’s all about things to delight your inner child, courtesy of the SL Kids.
There is a ton of [...]

Lighting the Lamps

I love the idea of the RL Burning Man. And when I dream about going to Burning Man, I often dream in particular of going and being a Lamplighter. I’m not sure why; I think it’s in my nature to want to be one of the people who bustles around making places work, [...]

Burning Life 2009

As previously noted, I tend to avoid big Linden-run Grid-wide celebrations, on the theory that they are likely to be laggy and disappointing. Two years ago I helped out slightly at the VAA build in Burning Life 2007. Last year I apparently completely ignored Burning Life 2008.
But this year, maybe because I have [...]

Game! Three Colors!

I made a game! It has three buttons, and five lights! Look!

It used to have only two colors of lights (red and green), but the game was too easy. So now there are three colors of lights (red and green and the new yellow!), and it is not as much too easy!
Each [...]

Immersiva

You should really really go if you haven’t. And go back again if you have! Just sayin’…

Yet more made things!

I taught the ThingMaker about cylinders (hence the PacMan shapes, from cutting cylinders) and about sort of vaguely monochromatic color schemes (hence the orange one upper-left, the first time that code got exercised).
Woot yay. :)
A next thing to work on: teach it about things that aren’t quite so circularly symmetrical…

Over (and under) the Bounding Main

The caption on a lovely Callipygian Christensen snapzilla photo the other day reminded me of the Steampunk Hunt, and I actually managed to find a little time to spend on it. As Calli says, the exploring of new places is at least half the pleasure of the hunt.
Some of these Victorian Steampunk [...]

Who you callin’ goo?

We start this morning’s entry in the Thingmaker Weblog :) with a picture of five more things that the Thingmaker made yesterday:

(See also bigger.)
I like the upper-left one because of the weird flickering pseudo-texturing that it has, due to almost-overlapping prims. That’s something that I would normally never think to do when building by [...]

More things!

Failing to resist the urge to post more and more and more pictures of things made by the Thingmaker, I enthusiastically present more pictures of things! Note that one of them involves prims that are not ovoids! Technology marches on!

Thingmaker!

I made an SL thing that makes other things! I call it “the Thingmaker”. ’cause it makes things.
Here is a picture of it:

(It doesn’t actually matter what it looks like, it could even be just a plywood box but then it would be hard to tell from all of the other plywood boxes.)
Here’s [...]

Vrooooooom

Having picked up a copy of AM Radio’s lovely roadster (Michele and Chestnut both wrote up the event), I naturally wanted to drive it around. I was frustrated on one racetrack, designed more for puny go-karts than big muscular roadsters that want lots of room to devour. Then Michele suggested the big empty [...]

Odalisque

In the last few days, two different artist friends independantly sent me landmarks to Odalisque, with IMs of the “you HAVE TO see this” kind. And this is my landmark to you: you have to see this. Ideally you should see it before you read the rest of this, ’cause I’m going to [...]

Arcana

I am for some reason Rather Sleepy, so I am mostly going to point to the press release and the SLURL (more or less) for the “Arcana” show currently going on in Caerleon. (I lurve the artists of Caerleon, but I for the life of me cannot spell the name of their sim.) [...]

Art Box

This is another “pictures of a neat artsy place to go” sort of post. (The next one probably will be, too, unless I get distracted.) In this case the neat artsy place to go is Art Box (that link goes to their web page, where you’ll find a SLURL an’ all). And [...]