I hear that NBC is clamping down on anyone trying to write about the Olympics, but let them write me up.
One of the great concerns about the upcoming Olympics in China is the issue of pollution, notable air and water.  The latest news is about water problems in the city of Qingdao where news about [...]

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Regular readers of Bananaverse might remember the tragic end to my beloved 1989 Toyota 4 Runner back in March. Since then, I have attempted to live without a motor vehicle by ridding my bike, or public transportation like buses and trains, occasionally getting taxi’s and bumming rides from friends. On the occasions that [...]

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Old school AC/DC - damn, I wore this record out

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Disclosure: I am a contractor for Cisco Systems and I develop their Second Life Virtual Campus. My opinions are my opinions!

Yesterday, Tuesday, June 24, I was at Cisco Live! SL all day. Lots of very well attended events going on throughout the days. Here are just three highlights:
11:00 am - John Chambers, [...]

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Crap Mariner has undertaken a wonderful effort to create a series of interview podcasts of Second Lifers who are doing a podcast and / or have done a podcast. The list of those interviewed is amazing.
Here is his show notes:
In honor of the Fifth Birthday Celebration of Second Life (blah blah blah trademark symbols, [...]

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photo by Crap Mariner
I am multi-tasking today but I made sure I was tuned into the 10 am PST / SLT keynote address by Philip Linden (Rosedale) and the new CEO of Linden Lab - Mark Kingdon which is the start of SL birthday bash.
As keynotes go - BLAAAAAHHHHHHH - Are you freakin kidding me? [...]

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As always, I love movies. Unfortunately I never seem to have enough time to go see them at the theater, so I am never current with my movie selections and reviews.
I am giving Stranger than Fiction a 4 Banana Salute. I really enjoyed the flick and it works great as a “date film.”
Harold [...]

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The community of Second Life®, along with the operators of the grid Linden Lab®, will be celebrating 5 years of metaverse existence. This years event starts June 23 and goes for two weeks.
Two weeks?!?
I remember year 3 when it was a weekend. And it was hard to get into the popular events and [...]

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Doing some work tonight trying to find various video and write ups on Los Arboles, when I came across this video done by Stuart Wharf of Pod Mafia infamy of Rich Desoto performing one of his great “modified” cover songs. The show is at the Los Arboles Amphitheater.  I believe it was filmed [...]

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Dedric filmed our final testing of the Cisco Packet Sort Game (development name was Data Sort)

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Cisco Live! Pavilion - Second Life
The final step in any development, is the deployment. The time that you release to the world your new offering. I always enjoy these moments and believe that they should be marked with some sort of celebration or at least a big cheer. But usually, with the [...]

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Lately I have been needed to be in two places at one time.  I am sure we all can relate to this issue.  Not enough time, not enough me to go around.  But in the metaverse, this issues is easy enough to fix.  Second avatar!
My back up avatar is named BananaStein Magic. He is [...]

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With the gears of work going 24 hours a day at Meta Magic Studio over the past three weeks, it has come to my attention that soda is a key component to keeping our little group running smoothly. Sure we do coffee, water and more junk food than is good, but soda consumption is [...]

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Over the weekend, it looked like Linden Lab® had done some drastic DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) inventory removal which of course got some residents worked up in a tizzy.
Now today, Linden Lab® announced that it had “inadvertently disabled some inworld content this past weekend.”
Oh sorry…..

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Dedric Mauraic - Genius Scripter - is putting the finishing touches to a collaborative game that will be used for Cisco Live!.  I am not going to give the details away but let me tell you that in our testing at the Meta Magic Studio, we were laughing and having a great time with the [...]

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