Otenth Paderborn's virtual existence
Part of the expansion of Orcadia was made possible by a partnership between nox Pinion and I: Muckle Green Holm will house nox’s building efforts in the sky, while the ground level will provide an experimental and sales space for my terrain files.
The current maze in Muckle Green Holm has gotten enough positive comments that I’ve started work on other maze and labyrinth terrains. It’s still somewhat of an experimental process, however, as these photos will attest:
Madcow Cosmos has another high-prim temporary installation! This time it’s his 3D interpretations of tarot cards. Check it out! It will be up for a few weeks.
Every once in a while, I get a conference IM from Beth Odets, sent to all her online contacts, inviting us to drop by for music or other fun. Last night I decided to do the same, and I invited people to join Bromo Ivory and I in Muckle Green Holm, where we were playing with my elven drum set. What fun it turned out to be! Thank you to all who joined us and created such a great time.
Luckily, I had just taken up the gamelan set that I put out in Shapinsay last weekend, because we ended up needing those as well.
On Saturday, 7 June, we celebrated the second annual Værð, or Warming Day, in Orcadia with a dance and amusements. Wyre is just over a year old, and has been joined by Hoy, Shapinsay, and Muckle Green Holm!
Edwina Heron, the Countess of Swoonsbury, set out amusements in Hoy, including two kinds of bumper vehicles and swan boats. Jameson Despres, the Thane of Shapinsay, arranged romantic settings throughout that island and below the waves. Muckle Green Holm was transformed into a sim-sized maze, a recreation of the maze created by the utopian community of New Harmony, Indiana, in 1814. And Soliel Snook, the Marchioness of Giggleford, entertained an assembled party with ’80s pop and music. (Wings turned out to be the order of the day. Below the group shot are photos of me and of nox Pinion.)
Soldiers of the Queen – An Online Museum of Authentic Victorian-era British Military Photographs
Antique Images of Her Majesty’s Armed Forces Brought to You Through Great Peril From the Far Corners of the British Empire
(Tip of the hat to Hexidecima at Steamfashion.)
So far it only goes back to 1885, but eventually the online Sittings By Decade (Hansard) will go back to 1805.
Hansard, the Official Report, is the edited verbatim report of proceedings in both Houses of Parliament. Hansard is not a verbatim account of debates in Parliament. It seeks to eliminate “repetitions, redundancies and obvious errors”.
I very much regret the late reminder, but tonight, as every third Tuesday, you may find me at home at Ormsby Hall, Little West Sniggery, Caledon Murdann for a literary salon from 5:00 to 7:00 pm SLT. Tonight’s starting point:
Sir Timothy was a fluent speaker, and when there was nothing to be said was possessed of a great plenty of words. And he was gifted with that peculiar power which enables a man to have the last word in every encounter,—a power which we are apt to call repartee, which is in truth the readiness which comes from continual practice. You shall meet two men of whom you shall know the one to be endowed with the brilliancy of true genius, and the other to be possessed of but moderate parts, and shall find the former never able to hold his own against the latter. In a debate, the man of moderate parts will seem to be greater than the man of genius. But this skill of tongue, this glibness of speech is hardly an affair of intellect at all. It is,— as is style to the writer,— not the wares which he has to take to market, but the vehicle in which they may be carried. Of what avail to you is it to have filled granaries with corn if you cannot get your corn to the consumer? Now Sir Timothy was a great vehicle, but he had not in truth much corn to send.
—Anthony Trollope, The Duke’s Children, chapter 26
Linden dollars, that is, in contributions to the American Cancer Society Relay for Life in Second Life. This Sunday I will be privileged to have a date auctioned off.
I had the pleasure of having my portrait done by Mr Jaksoi Pak for the auction vendors:
There’s a thought-provoking post about social norms and privacy at Grace McDunnough’s blog, Phasing Grace: Upholding Social Norms
Reflecting upon my early Second Life social experiences and those today I see dramatic changes, especially related to social privacy. For example, part of the subtle but consistent reinforcement from the early community was that the separation between one’s Second Life (SL) and real life (RL) was assumed, and the merger of those two was the decision of each individual to be exposed, discussed, etc. at their discretion and without prompting and if shared, certainly held in the utmost of confidence.
I’ve left a comment with a few of my perceptions as a resident of Caledon, a Quaker and Unitarian Universalist, and a middle-aged avatar (since November 2006, when we had already passed our first million residents).
A new pastime for Caledon? Documentary evidence: vintagephoto: Auto Polo