Author: Otenth

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More mazes

I found a list of mazes somewhere, and I’ve tried out a few of them this evening:

  • Chamcook/33/141/98 is a very well done, complicated hedge maze. The land is for sale, so perhaps it won’t be around for long.
  • Europa/8/25/28 is really pretty, and very different. The maze is inside a glass-block structure, and instead of solid walls between passages, there are pillars set too close together to move between them. But you can still see through, which is actually rather disorienting.
  • Louise/159/182/36 is an invisible maze. You need to follow the pattern on the ground. It’s a simple maze, but rather meditative.
  • Sami/249/85/34 is a hedge maze. I didn’t really enjoy it; the texture used in the hedge was really disorienting.
  • Avilion Grove/114/64/22 is another very simple hedge maze with romantic poseballs in the center; actually, there are two centers!
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Exploring the new neighborhood

I decided to take a walk on the road that runs through my property. My first excursion set out to the northeast and then took every left turn in order to come back around. On my way I found this lovely little roadside church, St. Guilhelm-la-Deuxieme-Vie.

SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/or/196/32/89/

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Moon over maze

I was poking around the Morris sim (which is part of the Ahern welcome area), and in the sandbox were two large, rotating moon-like prims up in the air. When I went into the hedge maze in Rizal (the adjacent sim), I discovered that there were some great views around some of the corners!

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Goodbye to Hurricane

Well, I’m just a flip-flopper! I decided to sell my land in Pockwock and just rent instead, and I picked land in a very nice sim, Hurricane, owned by HolyHell Cassell. I created a small hill with a spring and stream, and modified the Rockridge home that I bought:

But I remained ambivalent, and sympathetic to the philosophy of immersion, and also became enamored of the cobblestone roads on the Linden lands in some of the mainland sims. This morning I discovered a sweet parcel in Pruni for sale at quite a reasonable price by Sarah Nerd. Yay Sarah Nerd! She runs a couple of freebie locations and also sells land at really good prices. So here ’tis:

(I own the land to the right, as well as a little slice between the road and the water on the left; I also bought another plot in the opposite corner of the sim.)

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Quaker land in Quaker

I decided to buy land for the group I created, so that if someone clicks through to a location they can find a space and materials focused on Quakerism, instead of just finding my personal space. So I went searching for 512m2 beside protected land in a PG sim. There are some interesting little spaces out there. None just grabbed me, though.

And then I found it: There’s a sim named “Quaker.” It was fully owned, mostly by two groups, and it’s a Mature sim. But really, how could I not want to have a Quaker space in Quaker? I contacted someone from each of the large landowner groups, and one of them was willing to sell land. I completed the transaction yesterday, and now I’m working on a meetinghouse and benches that will stay under the 117-prim limit. It will be a bit of a challenge to create something that’s attractive.

Here’s the SLURL to Quaker/156/22/31.

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First Look viewer

I’m using the First Look viewer, which is a test version of the SL client software that runs on the live grid (in contrast to test viewers that run on the beta grid). And it is great so far. Seems much faster and smoother.

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Quaker update

I’ve created the group “Religious Society of Friends Quaker”. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to show up in a search for “Quaker”. I’ll have to see what to do about that. Maybe a classified ad. I should probably go to the FGC or FWCC and find out if there’s a good freely-copyable tract or two I can bring into SL (not that I wouldn’t be able to get permission, considering who I know!).

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Quakers in SL

I haven’t had much luck finding other Quakers in SL. When I search on “Religious Society of Friends” I don’t get anything. “Friends”, of course, gets all sorts of things that aren’t related to Quakers. And then “Quaker” does get a few hits. There’s a group (that doesn’t seem to have a way of admitting new members, and which is very small) called Quaker’s sword, but I’m not sure they’re really about being Friends.

In doing a Google search, I found two SL bloggers who mention belonging to a Quaker meeting: Rik Riel and Caliandris Pendragon. I haven’t looked them up yet.

I’ve been wondering about converting my Rockridge model house into a meetinghouse. I already removed the kitchen, so there’s a large room in the back that would be nice for a meeting room. I’d just need to make benches and get pose balls and animations for sitting in worship. Being uninvolved with Friends right now in RL, it seems a little weird to be thinking about, in effect, creating the setting for a worship group in SL, but I do keep being drawn to the idea.

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Hatchling machinima

I figured out how to select clips; add titles, subtitles, and transitions; and export a Quicktime movie from iMovie, but I can’t figure out how to zoom the image area, so there’s a black area over to the right. But you’ll still be able to get an idea of how the hatchling egg roll went.

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New Year’s Eve on the Isle of Wyrms

There was a drum circle/dance and a hatchling egg roll on the Isle of Wyrms last night. The dance ball for dragons and hatchies was giving out the same animation to all the hatchies, so three of us lined up and were dancing in unison for a while. Hatchie line dance!

I took a movie of part of the dance and the egg roll. I’ll see if I can edit it down to a clip and figure out how to post it. The egg roll is a contest where hatchies get inside hollow prims (egg-shaped, semi-transparent, and physical) while set to “always run” and try to push one another out of the “nest”. There was a L$3,000 prize. I, alas, did not win (although I was also not the first pushed out).