Entries from August 2008
“Sometimes there’s a man, who, well, he’s the man for his time ‘n place.”
Since a three day weekend is upon us any minute now – yes we officially start the three day weekend at noon Friday — I need to get this blog entry done very quickly.
DUDE WEEKEND IS UPON US!
My better half will be [...]
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Tags: Random Thoughts · Santa Cruz
I think the foam waves under the huts has added a very nice look and feel. Plus they have sound. Check it all out on Meta Magic Studio sim (next to Los Arboles).
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Tags: Daily Photo
Working in Second Life has it rewards and trials. There are good days and bad days. Hell it is bleeding edge technology.
Now I believe with all of my soul that Linden Lab makes every attempt to provide a good working grid, but the complexity of this world makes 100% testing impossible. Things [...]
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Tags: Metaverse · Second Life · Technology
August 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Bono : Roy Orbison : Mystery Girl – The story
I first heard the story of Mystery Girl in the early 1990s of how Bono had a dream…. wait watch the first video…
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Tags: Cool · Music · Video
Tags: Daily Photo · Metaverse · Second Life
Paul McCartney & WINGS – Live And Let Die
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Tags: Music · Video
Cheerie Beery (Jen) has been working on a project that uses avatars to story board out advertising concepts. By using the tools of Second Life, advertising, marketing and branding concepts can be fully explored at cost effective prices. Here is a couple of pics from her most recent project for a local RL beach [...]
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Tags: Meta Magic Studio · Metaverse · Second Life
I got the news on Sunday that Chris Matthews, the infamous owner of Poet and Patriot Irish Pub, passed away on Saturday after a bout with lung cancer. He was only 61.
For those who never had the pleasure of meeting this man, let alone drinking in his fine establishment, please know that we have lost [...]
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Tags: Santa Cruz
Tags: Daily Photo · Meta Magic Studio · Metaverse · Second Life
The next two days will be review days of sim builds that Meta Magic Studio has (hopefully) developed to customer satisfaction. One of them is a final check off phase, where basically we turn over the “keys.” The second project is in next to last phase review which means the client goes through [...]
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Tags: Meta Magic Studio · Metaverse · Second Life
She declared that riding on the back of a convertible was just not for her. She led the parade on a rented elephant.
My wife’s grandmother passed away last week. She had a long run on this world, making it to 102 years of age.
The last few years were hard, but when I first met [...]
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Tags: Random Thoughts
Tags: Daily Photo · Metaverse · Second Life
Tonight is the draft for my main fantasy football league, the Trash Talkers. There are ten of us in the league which started back in 1999. It is amazing that seven of us started in the first year and are still in. One member moved away and the other two got booted [...]
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Tags: Sports
Tags: Daily Photo · Metaverse · Second Life
August 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I tried to Login into Second Life. Was stopped at the gate. With a “on line now” of 62,235, I got a throttle message at 12:10 pm pst on Sunday. It read:
Login failed.
Due to higher-than-usual load, logins to Second Life have been temporarily disabled. We anticipate logins will be disabled for [...]
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Tags: Metaverse · Second Life