Hanging out with my sis

After talking with my sister about creating content for IMVU, I talked her into checking out SL. I invited her over to the public orientation island so that I could walk through the help stations with her. We met a nice person, Stormie Easterwood who came along to help her out as well. It’s a bit awkward for her to walk around, but she is getting the hang of it. We spent a good while chatting with each other while setting on a sign.
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Buddha Layering

Flix Saiman found an interesting Buddha at Valkyrie Manor in Lime. He explained to me that he first through it was a sculpty until he took a closer look. It turned out to be 39 layers of contoured textures setting in front of the next to give the appearence of a 3D object. It was a bit impressive to look at how it was put together. Alpha clipping didn’t seem to be much of a problem either. We could get about a 90 degree viewing angle before the Buddha became distorted. The creator is listed as Grocon Emoto.
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Fiamma Blue for sale

Mastermind Parx notified quite a few people that he was selling his Formal/Casual/Urban clothing store for men for 40K L$ OBO. The store was new: no traffic, income, or user base. Land was purchased yesterday. 45 items would come with the store along with PSD files. All clothing appeared to be created by two people: Armani Pasterelli and Paulie Cinquetti. Mastermind claimed that both accounts were his alts and had been deleted. Paulie is a popular person on the teen grid from what I found through google and had attempted to sell a business for 250 US$ last year. The store looks great, and I had considered going into clothing before. If the alts had responded, I probably would have invested.
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Arcade Fun

I decided to head on over to W-Hat to see what is new. I haven’t been here in ages. I found an arcade building in their mall. I had fun playing phrase invaders and go to the end, thus successfully saving the earth. Their were some pretty odd phrases that I had to type. I got a scode of 1270 points. How high of a score can you get? There were plenty of other games there as well such as Freestylers:Rock, Zombie Meltdown, VectorZone, Fist of Discomfort, Freestylers:Groove, Wack-a-Mole, Skeeball, and Cruise Control. When all was said and done, I even had a few tickets to grab some cool prizes.
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Greenhouse Assembly

I helped out my in-laws today with putting the roof on their greenhouse. Once the plastic was up, the inside not only echoed, but became very hot. Everyone quickly suggested that the fans may be the next thing to install. The sides of the greenhouse will also roll up to help a breeze to pass through the area and a black net goes on top to help build up some shade. Lots of little things still need to be put into place, but the hardest part is finally over (getting the roof up). My uncle had the same kind of greenhouse as well, but his was much taller. Although it was just him and his friend, they had some pretty heavy equipment to help them manage the plastic at the peak of the roof.
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To the key of G#

Rather then releasing the dark energy of the universe, Pooky Amsterdam takes the advice from her co-host, Hydra Shaftoe, and hums to herself as they begin to host tonights episode of The First Question. Guests tonight are Easy Babcock, CInders Vale, Greyark Hightower, and Jorie Teichmann.
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Strumming along

I was playing with my guitar tonight and I figured why not just use voice chat and have my own little show while looking out across the water. I started out just setting on the docks at woodbridge and little later I saw the grumpus tourboat make its rounds. I sat down and continued to play my guitar while touring the five islands. I’m not much of a player myself. I just purchased an electric guitar a month ago to help me get grounded. no one is around to make a sound except me, the ocean, my guitar, and the pitter of the grumpus.
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The Gray People (Muted)

The vio conference today had a griefer causing a lot of trouble. Rather than deal with listening to him cause problems on voice chat, I decided to out-right mute him. Amazingly enough, his avatar turned gray and rendered as an avatar imposter no matter how close I got. Amazing. I think I found a bug with the feature as well. As soon as I unchecked “render avatar imposters”, all of his textures showed up as normal. Toggling mute and rendering imposters on his character did not turn him back into gray.
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Sculpt Madness

I’ve been playing with a lot of tools with sculpties. I am becoming frustrated with the inability to make simple objects. The best that can be done is to make rocks. Hard edges are hard to make unless you double-up vertexes. Some programs allow you to double them up on the edge, but they equally distribute points along the depth rather then doubling up the first pair on the top and bottom. I’ve also got “flaps” to worry about if the edge does not have a solid path to the center of each side. I just want something that can convert a few prims in SL to a 1-prim sculpty. Argh!
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CSC in Second Life

I’ve been working on a project for a month now. My company is now officially in Second Life. It’s our 50th anniversary and we are celebrating with a private party.

On November 26, 1968, we became the first IT services company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. On April 16, 2009, we rang the closing bell at the NYSE.

In the virtual environment, we have fireworks, a guest book, games, integrated web- chat, branding videos playing, RSS feeds coming in-world, chat bots, automated group invitation bots, branded registration, cloned islands, load balancing, and more. Everything was made by CSC employees. It’s been a tough month, but I’ll probably get time back to start blogging again.
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