Hello, goodbye… and it’s not a The Beatles song ;-)
I’ve been writing this blog from June 2007, that’s some like 4 years and a half, not a short time at all. But you know, sometimes one needs to move to new paths and possibly this is the right time to do it.
I’m facing deep changes in my RL in the next months, i feel a bit less attached to SL too, i presume it changed in a way i find difficult to feel connected as i was before. Not trying to speak like an old cranky man like “My times were better..”, just saying for several reasons i can’t feel so into Second Life to write a regular blog with some quality (it never was too much quality, lol). So i think it’s time to stop blogging in “A Crimson world”.
I’ll keep writing and posting shots and almost blogging in my Facebook page (you can see a widget of it in the sidebar), i mean, i won’t stop writing and posting things, only i prefer to do it in other system, like Facebook is.
Also i will keep using Flickr and other microblogging tools like Twitter and Plurk (links also available in the sidebar).
What i mean is, i’m not leaving SL, i’m not stopping posting about SL, but i stop doing it in a blog, that’s all. After the project of Soup Radio ended i just feel the need to change the way i express my SL side or actually the SL side of my life(s).
Many thanks to all of my readers in this blog, love you, people!!!
A house built on quicksand
If you follow me in Twitter or Facebook you probably read about that change of home in Second Life i’m into now. I will resume the story: One of the estate managers told one of us the estate owners have not be around for some time and none of the managers had any news about or from the owners, also they were not sure someone was actually paying Linden Lab the monthly region fees.
We were a nice group of friends living in that sim, so we just didn’t renew our rentals and removed all our prims before they would be removed and deleted. We decided also to look for a new place all together… and we are now in that process. 
We found a couple of nice sims we would move to, so you will have soon-ish some pics of a new place. 
Well, all together is not actually a big drama, just an inconvenient, but anyway this makes you think about the nature of Second Life. This (virtual) world is made of people and full of what that people makes, it is dramatically dynamic and time has a special relativity in it (the SL cycle of day/night is 4 hours and it seems like the REAL time cycle of SL, 6 days in one, 6 years in one).
It seems one should not feel attached to “something” in Second Life, or even to “someone”! Places and objects change, they get destroyed, deleted, rebuilt continuously. People come and goes, you meet new great people and suddenly that one you really liked doesn’t come “inworld” so often. About people, the good thing is you can link with them in other ways (email, other social networks, etc.) but what happen with the places or the objects in a virtual world like ours? I presume that’s why a lot of people, including myself, love SLphotography, it’s the way to “keep” those places or objects, to keep the memory of a virtual world.
Will rebuild my home soon, will be maybe better than the old one, and i will enjoy doing it. That’s part of the charm of Second Life, the ability to change everything again and again… only to change it again. Some way is fascinating how we expend time and energies in houses built on quicksand, but maybe it’s only the illusion of permanence we need, the illusion of living in a world that never changes.
Everything come… and goes
So i’m here, seating on a bench in an abandoned train station somewhere in the grid, with my friend Kevin, talking about this and that:
So yes, Kevin, it seems the Teens will be officially in the Main Grid… yes, we talked about this two years ago… no, i d0n’t think either this will change much, Linden Lab made some clear changes to the maturity levels of content and regions some time ago…
Oh, Kevin, yes… also heard something about the new CEO of Linden Lab… Rod Humble, right? Well, he comes from managing The Sims series in Electronic Arts and also he was part of the team who managed EverQuest so… maybe i think he can make some interesting things for Second Life, let’s see what happens with him… and let’s be patient, we all know the resident can be sometimes really demanding… Well, call me naive but i think things will go better from now…
The new web style profiles in Viewer 2.5 Beta… i think they should do some work on them, they places the side bar to reduce the windows in screen and now we need a giant window to check someone’s profile… and takes a lot to load compared with the traditional profiles! Well, let’s think it’s in Beta still and they will work on it… It’s nice, Kevin, we think alike about some things!
Oh, yes.. i met a man i like a lot! *smiles* Yes, but well, let’s see what happens with that, we met not much ago but i like him, he is just sweet, fun and really sexy! *winks* I’ll tell you more about him soon.
So, yes, Kevin, my friend, everything come and goes… life is nice, isn’t it?
Love Thursday: Second Life®
I don’t remember who started this thing of the “Love Thursday”… Possibly it was Berry, but anyway, i think is a lovely idea, to write a blog post about something or someone you love. And specially today, Thanksgiving… So, since this is my first “Love Thursday” post, i’ll start saying THANKS to Second Life®.
Well, thanks to Linden Lab, and to Philip Linden (or Philip Rosedale, as you prefer), for making this amazing world and for keeping it up together with all the residents inside of it. I love Second Life because it gave me the possibility of meeting people from all over the world, with different views, opinions, visions…
I love SL because thanks to it i decided to learn myself Photoshop, GIMP… and some other software related with images, video and 3D creation and edition. And because it helped me to improve (not enough, lol) my English, and made me think about blogging and writing. I love SL because it opened my mind to my creative side with new unexplored options.
I love SL because i met there WONDERFUL friends, amazing creative minds, fun, caring, loving and amazing. Because it gave me the opportunity to share experiences and moment with these friends, to laugh with them, to cry with them, to share much more than a simple conversation.
I love SL because i can build my dreams (and my nightmares) in it and i can share them. Because is a strange world full of crazy and awesome people. Because all you can find inside that world is build by someone like you, another resident.
I love SL because it can cause PASSION in its residents, passion to love it and even to hate it.
I love SL because, after being more than 4 years in it, it can still surprise me.
I love SL because my pixel soul lives in it. 
Ursa Major… my home
This last times were really time of changes… after more than two years and for some private reasons i decided to sell Ursa Major, my sim in Second Life. It was not an easy decision, but i need to concentrate my investments in the so called “Real Life”. Anyway, the new owner is a good friend, Thaumata, and the sim will remain with a similar project, almost the same group of people we always were with new neighbours and new projects. So… with all the Ursa Major topic… i’m really happy about how all was fixed finally.
So even this meant the end of a lot of projects at the same time it meant the start of some new ones and new illusions. Thanks to Thaumata, to all the Ursa Major residents…
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