OMG!!! Things are changing fast!!!
I’m a resident nine months ago, and still the speed of Second Life surprises me. Of course i’m not talking about grid performance (SL still use to mean Second Lag) i’m talking about all the rest, houses, business, places, people…
After a long time trying to have a bigger store, finally the plots near mine in Roosa were for sale. Hard, but exciting time building, as always. From here i want to thank my love, Eric, for his support and patience, and my friend Khamudy for his help.
Then, suddenly, Eric and me decided to do “the BIG step” (no marriage, this will be in december, the other “BIG step”). Just some clues, is quite big and can have 15000 prims inside. More information about this soon… i’m too excited right now. 
So, as you can see, things are ready to change again soon…
Places to visit in Second Life #4: The Ivory Tower of Prims
The Ivory Tower of Prims, originally uploaded by Raul Crimson.
The temple of knowledge!!! Here is where i learned to build, well, at least at basic level.
The tower has information moduls explaining how to use the SL building tools in an easy and funny way. I think this place must be a “compulsory-to-visit” place for all new residents (aka n00bs) after Orientation Island, and normally there are no people caging around .
The building is nicely done, the moduls are really easy to understand, useful notecards are given in each modul. After this place i think is a good idea to take a look at Idea City, another building course, but in “intermediate level”.
Ethics
Reading a really interesting post from Chloe Streeter’s blog some ideas came to my mind. She does an interesting reflexion about “standard” beauty in Second Life and talks about using ethics to select our shape.
All her text pushed me to think in use of ethics in my life, i try to follow my ethics in my acts. Anyway i think my ethics are exclusively valid for me, so i don’t try to “sell” them to others.
First of all i’d like to say i consider everyone is absolutely free to do what he/she considers the best, with just a couple of limitations:
- Never to harm,to hurt or to force others.
- Always between adults.
If you take a look at my Flickr images you may think i have a “relaxed” morality, specially about nudity. Maybe this is true, i don’t think nudity is “bad” and i don’t consider it something “private”. Of course i’m never nude in public places for two reasons, i love clothes and i respect others. In the other side of this, i consider sex as something really private, you will never find sex in my images.
About guns i have some opposite ideas. I like some images of people wearing guns, they can be really cool, but, at the same time, i think most of the problems we have in the world are caused by weapons. So i will never post an image of me with guns.
Places to visit in Second Life #3: Ave Maria
Fighting in the Dojo (Voice Beta Version), originally uploaded by Raul Crimson.
Some days ago Kham and me were exploring Ave Maria sim. I don’t know what are they building there, maybe a future urban RPG sim, Midian City style. Anyway, is a good place to explore, with some interesting pose balls. The textures are quite good, as the distribution of the streets.
One big bad thing, some buildings have a small space between them, really small but enough to fall in. The problem is that normally are deep enough to be impossible to jump off and the sim is NO FLY, so you need to pan camera looking for an animation to sit or teleport to go out of this pits.
Nice places to visit there:
- The church: quite dark, i presume is catholic because there is a confession cabin there.
- The police station: say hello to Martha when you go in. Nice suspects room.
- Office building: Nice textures, but in some floors the ceiling is too low, so the camera angle can have some problems.
- Chinatown: Specially nice the Dojo (in the image) and the street market.
As you can see we were trying First Look Voice .
SL Governor election 2007: Results
SL’s Concerned Residents: Final Letter on SLelections, originally uploaded by VintFalken.
Here the transcription of the letter:
Dear Residents,
Thanks for participating in the 2007 SLelections for Governor. Before we announce the winner and the new Governor of Second Life, we would like to thank all the residents who participated in this SLelection. Your candidacies were strong, your platforms inspiring, and your campaign posters excellent! You have shown us many excellent paths for Second Life’s future.
However, we had some minor problems with returning the SLelections 2007 voting boxes into our inventory. They were, um, lost. Luckily upon contacting Live Help, the Lindens were able to tell us the following:
“We were pleased to see all the Residents participating in the democratization of Second Life. After discarding the votes of the residents that are not registered with our Identity Verification System, it is clear that the community wishes to re-elect Philip Linden Governor of Second Life. We are very happy with that, as this means we can keep our current jobs in the Linden Administration. Thank you for voting.”
Congratulation to Phil on his reelection. Please note that any protests of election results will be considered broadly offensive and offenders will be Abuse Reported. Despite any discrepancies you may think you see, we stress that this does not represent a change in our position, and we remain committed to the same democratic principles we have held from the start.
The Concerned Residents
The election was done, and it seems to be a… ehem… “winner”.
Philip Linden has been reelected as Governor against all predictions :-/ .
I want to thank all the residents that voted me, the people that pushed my candidature (i will never forget Mr. Peenie’s help).
After this poor results i decided to end my political carreer, now will be the time to travel all over the grid doing conferences about the Climate Change in the Grid (also called Windlight) earning at the same time millions of L$ (if Al Gore does it, i can do it too).
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