Fast, Easy And Fun!

I just listened to Philip's talk, and I was so inspired that I...

...made this available free on Xstreet.

Artificial Life + OS grid update

The opensim grid was updated to 0.6.9 yesterday or today. I've been running a pool of carnivores for 12 hours and I'm seeing no signs of memory leaks! If things continue to look good it might be time for setting things up to add more species.

LL CEO change 2010

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. ;)

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.

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.

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.