Archive for April, 2007
My grade card: a lousy four (I think that translates to a ‘D’?)
April 30, 2007 11:55 amHero’s in SL
8:33 am
SL-hero #1: Cody.
They should have never released that hero costume thingie. It’s way to inspiring for some people!
Although I must admit, I’m curious who killed the cat.. euhm.. neko.
I’m surely going to follow up on this one. It’s always nice to see a Girl With Guns contribute her part to making the SL world a safe place for us all to reside!
SL-hero #2: Cristiano Midnight.
For the open letter to LindenLabs. Does this quote from Kean Kelly sounds awefully familiar: ‘Hm… $8kL missing from my balance, 12k items missing from my inventory, nobody online except (hippos) and all my attachments in my ass. Yeah.. it must be wednesday! Yay!’? Then do sign this letter!
Update: LL did respond to the letter on their official blog. More answers later this week. They promise. :D
The open letter:
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Official Wiki-update: Photography tips’n'tricks
April 29, 2007 4:56 am‘Lack-of-B’ sound & various encounters, travels and realisations from my 2nd life
April 28, 2007 6:54 pmMy ‘b’ was broken. And going alt+098 all the time is not really my style, thus I did one of the things I vouched I would never do:
When I returned home and wanted to work on the _actuall_ post, I decided upon fixing the ‘b’. At all cost. But I still find this lousy attempt at a podcast rather funny, so I added some sound effects… et voila! ;)
So, what’s new? Well, we now have signalisation at the hospital: reception, shop, cafetaria, room 1-8, teleporter, nurses classroom, OP1 and OP2 signs. I offered making a ‘elevator out of order’ sign too, but Hele promised it will work. Eventually. And thanks to the great Rejeanne Connoli, my STD’s coming on fine. :p
In the past few days I’ve had some problems with SLBoutique not listing the items I’ve added into my vendor in my seller’s account on their site, despite that I’ve tried everything: adding them again, adding them with different names, adding them with different permissions, resetting the scripts and even rezzing a new, second vendor. Which doesn’t list either. I went to help.slboutique.com to see how my ticket was doing, only to find that help was down. I now have a sellers account at SLExchange too. (Although I still prefer SLBoutique and hope they’ll respond to my ticket soon and things will get solved.)
A stranger abandoned his cat in my skybox. I’m rather sure it was not an accident, as the cute little animal looks like it’s carefuly positioned. I understand one would take a weekend off from SL with this fine weather, but I can’t understand people leaving their pets behind like this. :(
If anybody knows the owner, Woody Mills, please tell him to pick up his cat because - I’ve said so before - I am not willing to take responsability for a pet. Not even if it’s male and has cat’s ears. This cutie goes by the name of ‘Little Brown Cat’ and has lovely fur texture.
And if somebody else wants to adopt it, that’s fine by me too, but you have to figure out a way to take it home with you then. The poor, little, feline creature is still a bit afraid, I guess, as it doesn’t let me move it to a safer spot then on the stairs where everyone stumbles over it. :(
I’ve tagged along with Veyron to the Relay For Life Benefit Car Show where there were some great builds on display. An example: we’ve met this fine young man called ‘Vincent’ - sorry, last name slipped my mind, notecards and .txt files (edit: Vincent Serrurier) - who I think build the hawt car Veyron and I used as a background for the shoot. Well, he could open en close the doors. And insisted I’d include the car’s sexy butt in the snapshots. So I’m rather sure he has build it. Watch out for ‘Girls with Cars (and Guns)’ photographs on this blog during the following weeks! ;)
After Kilara Balnarring showed it to me, I’ve gotten myself a ‘Primfinder’ (from Crystal Gadgets). A very helpfull tool for building n00bs like me. It ensures a lot of ‘ow, yes I could do it that way so I need less prims’ moments and is also neat to browse through, just thinking about what you could do with all those lovely prims. How does the Primfinder work? You rezz the box it gives to you to the ground, click the prim you want on the Primfinder’s screen, et voila… the prim you chose is rezzed above the box, with you set as owner and creator. Neat! No? Everybody can get a primfinder-box from it and thus use it. If you want to try it out, feel free to drop by at my skybox where it’s set up. The route descriptin is still: take the teleporter at the Paradise Lost (slurl) terrace. Above the teleporter I have now put up a - pink - sign saying ‘VintLabs’ and with a huuuuge arrow pointing the right way upon it, as certain persons claimed it is hard to find.
Talking about building, there is so much still to learn for me and the Linden Gods are about to introduce something new and very exciting: Sculpted prims which I don’t understand anything about (yet), but I do think I’ve crossed another milestone in my Vint-learns-to-build-epos. Behold: the wrapping for my Paw’ed Neko Eyes. A bit primmy, I know, but still… it’s ok? No? If you don’t like them, blame it on Hele, as she has put the shelves in the hospital shop in the first place. If we still had the old rating system, someone would have voted my building rating 1 up so it would say ‘+3′ for this, no? :/
*pfffiew* *more later* *whipes sweat from the front of her head*
RL Job Opening at Rezzable Productions Ltd
April 27, 2007 8:27 am
Lately a lot of us - where ‘us’ is PL/HK Estates/Zhivago straff - are creating our own ‘medics’ outfits. We just can’t all look the same, right? This photographs features Trinity Clift with a lovely self-made nurse’s outfit and really really really awesome self-made white clogs at the Indiana Heart Hospital. Luckily she’s soon transfering to the Zhivago clinic (clogs included)! The clogs are available at the shop and worth every penny of the 200l$ she asks for them. ;)
I wanted to ‘test-run’ my green medics outfit, by giving away ten of them on SLBoutique, but strangely enough, SLBoutique’s website does not update the items listed in the vendor. At all. Not even after +17 hours. So just IM me in-world if you want one (and promise to give me some feedback).
And as goes for any hospital, we are still battling over staff parking spaces, but Helena found the perfect solution: just park inside the hospital!? I still wonder if that’s allowed where it comes to sanitary regulations. Luckily at least the nurses are as ingenius as to park the ambulance on the heli deck. ;)
I wouldn’t wager on this…
April 26, 2007 9:57 am
Laetizia takes a very good stand as she says the Linden Gods are wussies after all. OMFG!!! Land of the free, my ass too! ;)
And LL isn’t the only one giving in to the USA (’s laws). SlExchange recently decided to discontinue the sale of items related to gamble. The writer of this blogpost has a good point when he raises the question: ‘What’s next? Our Xcite?‘ when reading ‘At this time we have only disabled casino-style items and are not yet clear whether other items will also be disabled or when.’ on the official SLexchange blog.
Maybe we can start a web based bookmaking company for SL? Place your bets, at which time will the following events occure in our Secondlifes:
The rating system is replaced by a ‘crimal record’, only accessible to premium members.
Same-gender partnership on file is no longer possible.
LL needs to know about ALL of your bank accounts before you can enter the grid.
Meta-booze must be concealed in a brown paper bag when exploring PG area’s.
We must pledge allegiance to the SecondLife Hand, kneel to the Linden Gods and recite theTOS before building class may start.
Linden Gods and business partners are the only one allowed to have nukes in their inventory.
The official LindenBlog reports about the ‘Axis of Evil’: X-Box Live, WoW and Kaneka and about how their are endangering the further existence of our Grid.
Billions of L$ are spend on ‘no sex before partnership’ campaigns, yet utter n00bs get prim babies and the-anti-griefer-brigade is desperatly in need of fundings.
LL locks the borders of the grid. Except if you are able to prove you have a job waiting for you in-world and succeed at getting a ‘Green Hand’ or immediately pay for a premium account, you can not join anymore.
Health insurance is added: if your job doesn’t include that benefit and you don’t own premium membership your account is terminated when being shot on damage enabled land.
LL takes over Kaneka. Officialy to give them more freedom where it comes to avatar looks, better clothes and decent builds. Unofficially: ‘Man, those pipelines look neat!’
N00bs need to work tripple shifts as dancers, just to be able to pay for basic building classes.
The take-over on Kaneka isn’t going as well as expected. LL redraws its Linden Gods from all sort of different post and orders them to work on the take-over. Which leaves no Lindens to take care of the giant flood of Abuse Reports filed.
Philip Linden is crowned king at the cathedral. LL forbits reuters to write about the mass amount of avies gathered in the nearby sims, ripping the prim of their bodies, crying out for less lag and attention for the RAM-impaired in this virtual society.
Does anybody else feel like playing Nostradamus Linden? ;)
