Christmas Songs

Twinkle, Twinkle, Avatar

Written 21 December, 2011

Christmas Songs

Okay, counting down to Christmas with assorted ridiculousness!

My oldest readers might remember Sweetie's spontaneous Christmas song, made up on the run in Second Life:


Sweetie: (Saved Sun Dec 09 05:01:18 2007)

[2:00]  Sweetie: oh Linden tree oh linden tree, your lagging but we love you

[2:00]  Sweetie: oh linden ttree oh linden , we cant' copy or tranfer you

[2:00]  Sweetie: yoru bulbsa re bright  adn on full brght

[2:00]  Sweetie: i look at you

[2:00]  Sweetie: in forced midnight

[2:00]  Sweetie: oh linden tree

[2:00]  Sweetie: oh linden tree

[2:00]  Jeremiah Pintens: HAHAHAHAHAH

[2:00]  Sweetie: we gather round you faithfully

See? Done in less than one minute!

Then there was this one:

Twinkle, Twinkle, avatar
I"m not sure quite where you are
Though I know you're standing there
All I see are shoes and hair
Twinkle, Twinkle, avatar
Your alpha texture's gone too far

Sweetie's brain should be a military secret!

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Dress for the Weather

I just know these underdressed avis are going to catch a cold.

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The Lindens Don't Understand the World They Created

Thank You Very Much, I'm Not Twelve Years Old.
I Have No Desire to Be a Frigging Vampire

Written 15 December, 2011

The Lindens Don't Understand The World They Created

Nothing does more to convince me the Lindens don't have a clue about Second Life than their ads FOR Second Life.

The ad above greeted me full-page today when I went to the Second Life website.

How can the Lindens be so clueless about their very own world?

The Lindens could be advertising what makes Second Life truly unique: making things, doing wondrous things you couldn't possible do in real life besides turning your avatar into a pixel vampire, creating art, creating community, exploring, learning new skills, making friends and maybe even meeting your future real life partner (as I did), being a citizen on a new frontier.

Instead it's Second Life mundaneness: vampires, buying shit, and fake families.

For god's sake, put Torley in charge! Torley gets it.

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Whimsy From Above

Whimsy Kaboom as Seen From 150 Meters Above Whimsy

Written 15 December, 2011

Whimsy From Above

Whimsy is lovely from above.

Whimsy From 150 Meters

Whimcentricity, Viewed From 150 Meters Above Whimsy
Eccentricity Can be See Along the Top Border
The Volcano Pele is Visible at Bottom Center

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Dragon in the Blue Zone

Written 15 December, 2011

Dragon in the Blue Zone

A few days ago I was watching a group of visitors on Whimsy. One avatar was a dragon. I watched as he or she rezzed and sat upon a saddle and invited another avatar to ride.

As they flew away I started taking snapshots.

Then they crossed a sim line and crossed into the blue zone.

The blue zone is where you go when the asset servers are trying to sort out your location. You appear to fly away into space, often high into the sky or under the water or ground.

If you're quick, you can get a snapshot.

I invite my readers to send me their blue zone pictures for posting here.

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Problems at Ballet Pixelle

Written 14 December, 2011

Problems at Ballet Pixelle

Over the weekend Sweetie and I and our friend and Sweetie's conspirator-in-training Elysienne went to see Ballet Pixelle's production of The Nutcracker.

Things started well. They really did. But then the sim began to crash. Repeatedly.The stage-- which was on another sim-- and dancers on it would disappear. The music would continue to play, but chat and IMs stopped, meaning it was time to relog.

Each crash delayed the performance by 10 minutes or so, which must have been frustrating to Ballet Pixelle staff and dancers.

After the third crash we gave up and went home to play K.R. Engineering's Pentadee dice game.

Pictures follow.

Things Got Off To a Good Start

The Audience After the First Crash

The Dancers Slowly Rezzed....

Things Were a Mess After the First Crash

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Phoenix Gets Mesh!

Written 14 December, 2011

Phoenix Gets Mesh!

The Phoenix team has just released a mesh-enabled version of their Phoenix viewer! Download now!

If you've already downloaded, download again, as the first mesh version had a couple of bugs that have been fixed in the just-released update.

So cool to see mesh!.

Here's the Linden boat that's free to paid subscribers, with and without mesh capabilities:

Here's the Linden Boat Without Mesh Enabled. Pretty Horrible, Huh?

Here's the Boat with Mesh Capabilities. Big Improvement!

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