A few things changed yesterday. Philip's back in the driver's seat, M's out.
Among the things I'm most curious about are the layoffs. Did Philip let M break the bad news to his friends so he wouldn't have to, or are some of the old timers getting job offer letters?
EDIT: And on October 19th, he's off again.
25 June 2010
18 June 2010
Dots!
My first vid evar! This is the Dots avatar I made a couple weeks ago.
There's no sound yet, I haven't gotten that far yet! Mix of WeGame (for capture) and VirtualDub (for crop and polish.)
And the second vid! Here's the Pink Invisible Unicorn running about.
There's no sound yet, I haven't gotten that far yet! Mix of WeGame (for capture) and VirtualDub (for crop and polish.)
And the second vid! Here's the Pink Invisible Unicorn running about.
BBBC 2010: Friday
Today's Topic: If this is your first BBBC... What did you get out of your experience? Do you think it will change the way you blog in the future?
It was a good opportunity to check out a lot of bloggers who weren't on my reader. I don't usually blog general interest topics anymore, so that was kind of retro. (grin) And something I read led me to experimenting a bit last night with making SL video, which was a lot of fun! If I can figure out how to edit the video, I'll post some up.
It was a good opportunity to check out a lot of bloggers who weren't on my reader. I don't usually blog general interest topics anymore, so that was kind of retro. (grin) And something I read led me to experimenting a bit last night with making SL video, which was a lot of fun! If I can figure out how to edit the video, I'll post some up.
17 June 2010
BBBC 2010: Thursday
Today's Topic: Blogger's choice! Write about anything that's on your mind!
Watched the Lindex drama yesterday. Sad that the CEO felt the need to say something when the value bobbled. Not the best time to sell, great time to buy.
Watched the Lindex drama yesterday. Sad that the CEO felt the need to say something when the value bobbled. Not the best time to sell, great time to buy.
16 June 2010
Bah, who needs polish?
Viewer2 v2.02 just made me laugh.
"Darn. You have been logged out of Second Life"
Almost as good as hippos. ;)
"Darn. You have been logged out of Second Life"
Almost as good as hippos. ;)
BBBC 2010: Wednesday
Today's Topic: Is your avatar more or less your current biological age? Do you portray a younger avatar, or older? Why is this?
This one's a poor fit for someone who's constantly changing their avatar. I'm one of those people who flips appearances regularly, and several of those looks aren't remotely human. When I'm looking human I tend to look younger, but that's because it's a challenge to find skins that make it easy to appear between 25 and 75. I've been known to appear as anything from a dragon to a potted plant to a walking collection of ping-pong balls.
This one's a poor fit for someone who's constantly changing their avatar. I'm one of those people who flips appearances regularly, and several of those looks aren't remotely human. When I'm looking human I tend to look younger, but that's because it's a challenge to find skins that make it easy to appear between 25 and 75. I've been known to appear as anything from a dragon to a potted plant to a walking collection of ping-pong balls.
15 June 2010
BBBC 2010: Tuesday
Today's Topic: How hard do you think it is to find a relationship in SL? If you have an SL relationship, have you met in the physical world? Would you meet them? Do you think it would change your SL relationship if you met?
I see lots of people in a wide variety of relationships in SL, so if you're looking I imagine it's not too hard to find something. I'm happy when I find an acquaintanceship is turning into a friendship, but it's a fairly rare event for me.
I've met a couple people in the physical world that I first met online or on the grid. It's interesting to see which relationships are forever changed by a physical meeting, and which don't pause to notice.
The big difficulty of online relationships of any sort is the blanks. Our assumptions and cognitive baggage about gender, race, social status, disability, age, etc. We tend to fill in the unknowns about other people with our hopes and fears, and the reflections of ourselves we use for that often have nothing to do with the person behind the other keyboard.
I see lots of people in a wide variety of relationships in SL, so if you're looking I imagine it's not too hard to find something. I'm happy when I find an acquaintanceship is turning into a friendship, but it's a fairly rare event for me.
I've met a couple people in the physical world that I first met online or on the grid. It's interesting to see which relationships are forever changed by a physical meeting, and which don't pause to notice.
The big difficulty of online relationships of any sort is the blanks. Our assumptions and cognitive baggage about gender, race, social status, disability, age, etc. We tend to fill in the unknowns about other people with our hopes and fears, and the reflections of ourselves we use for that often have nothing to do with the person behind the other keyboard.
14 June 2010
BBBC 2010: Monday
Today's Topic: Write about three positive things going on in your Second Life.
* Whether they're a delight to build with, try out the latest toys, or just sit around a virtual beach and chat about the simple and serious things in life, I know some great people.
* The new viewer 2 version now has an option that allows the sidebar to go over the window instead of squeezing it!
* I'm getting better at making sculpts. Tatara has been a good tool for me.
* Whether they're a delight to build with, try out the latest toys, or just sit around a virtual beach and chat about the simple and serious things in life, I know some great people.
* The new viewer 2 version now has an option that allows the sidebar to go over the window instead of squeezing it!
* I'm getting better at making sculpts. Tatara has been a good tool for me.
13 June 2010
BBBC 2010: Sunday
Today's Topic: Why did you become a blogger? How has it enriched your life?
I'll have to get in the time machine and head back to 2006. (Insert Dr Who music here) I joined SL in May that year, didn't start the blog until September. No intro post. I'd just gotten my First Land. I think the main reason was to have a record of ideas, doings, reference sites, SL locations, pictures... A journal.
The enrich part of the topic is easier. I've met a lot of people, both through blogs and on the grid because of the blog. I never would have taken on Avatar Toolbox if I hadn't had the blog. Some months it has gotten thousands of hits. It got easier for me to write essays of all kinds the first year. Seems practice applies to writing too. I suspect the blog and AT have influenced more than one contract offer in the last few years as well. I've got a dated history of much of the goings-on in SL, something we don't really have officially as the Lab has changed blog and forums more than once and jettisoned the past.
I'll have to get in the time machine and head back to 2006. (Insert Dr Who music here) I joined SL in May that year, didn't start the blog until September. No intro post. I'd just gotten my First Land. I think the main reason was to have a record of ideas, doings, reference sites, SL locations, pictures... A journal.
The enrich part of the topic is easier. I've met a lot of people, both through blogs and on the grid because of the blog. I never would have taken on Avatar Toolbox if I hadn't had the blog. Some months it has gotten thousands of hits. It got easier for me to write essays of all kinds the first year. Seems practice applies to writing too. I suspect the blog and AT have influenced more than one contract offer in the last few years as well. I've got a dated history of much of the goings-on in SL, something we don't really have officially as the Lab has changed blog and forums more than once and jettisoned the past.
BBBC 2010: What is it?
Somehow I talked myself into joining one of those "we all blog the same topics" memes. Post every day for a week, shared topics offered. Big Bad Blogger Challenge 2010
09 June 2010
Working around memory leaks
A cannibal pool at 11 hours.
I'm an impatient sort, so I've been doing experiments on using listeners and llDie() in an attempt to find out what was causing the leak(s) so I can continue. Moving the llDie() call to a state without an active listener has helped. If you're interested in what I did, click on the pictures below.
I'm an impatient sort, so I've been doing experiments on using listeners and llDie() in an attempt to find out what was causing the leak(s) so I can continue. Moving the llDie() call to a state without an active listener has helped. If you're interested in what I did, click on the pictures below.
07 June 2010
Continuing AL, or Little Challenges of OS
I noticed some of the seeds were floating... Did some followup and I think I will wait on this. We're due to have a server software upgrade in the next week or two, and some of the fixes in that may help. (click on the pics if you're interested, there's more info on the Flickr pages.)
The other issue has been with the cannibalistic life. It uses chat to negotiate energy transfers, and that's been causing the region to go down with OOM issues. The software upgrade is supposed to fix several OOM errors and it also offers HTTP server functionality, so hopefully one or the other will work for the negotiations.
The other issue has been with the cannibalistic life. It uses chat to negotiate energy transfers, and that's been causing the region to go down with OOM issues. The software upgrade is supposed to fix several OOM errors and it also offers HTTP server functionality, so hopefully one or the other will work for the negotiations.
06 June 2010
Watching the Pools.
It's been interesting to watch the colors develop.
We're talking about making an ecology so I'm modding the scripts so they can eat one another. The first cannibalistic run caused the regions exe to run out of memory, so I'm experimenting with closing the listeners manually instead of letting state change handle it to see if that helps.
We're talking about making an ecology so I'm modding the scripts so they can eat one another. The first cannibalistic run caused the regions exe to run out of memory, so I'm experimenting with closing the listeners manually instead of letting state change handle it to see if that helps.
03 June 2010
I think I'll leave this set overnight...
Grow, my children, grow! (insert mad laughter here)
I wonder what they'll look like after a couple days?
I wonder what they'll look like after a couple days?
Artificial Life: Bringing a Grid to its Knees
I'm sharing a play-area grid of 4 linked up opensims with a couple friends. Yesterday we decided to explore artificial life. We're starting with a "simple" sessile form and plan to build up as we learn.
Got the basics working. I've also managed to bring the grid to a grinding halt. Now I'm looking for the best way to set things up so we can both keep the experiments contained and clean up the accidents. Ah, hindsight.
Got the basics working. I've also managed to bring the grid to a grinding halt. Now I'm looking for the best way to set things up so we can both keep the experiments contained and clean up the accidents. Ah, hindsight.
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