Both photos taken from my walk this morning – Seabright Beach, Santa Cruz – 8:45 am

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Back on April 19, I posted a couple of photos of work that had been completed in Second Life for Cisco Systems.  Here are a couple more pictures from the rebuild of the Cisco Live area including the inside of the Photo Sphere and Video Center.  The biggest change was a refresh of the “look” [...]

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A couple pictures of the Meta Magic Studio Research Lab on Los Arboles in Second Life.  The lab is open to all unauthorized personnel at all times.  Please be careful of the red buttons.

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April 26, 2006 at 9:05 pm was my birth in Second Life, or rez day.  Three years later, I am still pursuing my metaverse dreams of making a living using virtual worlds to pay my physical world bills.  There have been moments of absolute highs and the lowest of lows.  Technology at the bleeding edge [...]

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Just posted for your audio pleasure is show #7 of Dive Bar Radio.  On a personal note, I think Russo is a natural for podcasting.  Check it out here.

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I just got back from the local The Home Depot, located on 41st Avenue in Capitola and I am not happy.  As all my friends know, there is a disease in Santa Cruz called “Indifferent Customer Service.”  It is a plague upon our beautiful area and it needs to be stopped.
Now usually I enjoy my [...]

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I usually avoid talking about charity preferring to keep these matters private but this morning I was thinking I should talk about Kiva.  I first heard about Kiva back in March of 2007.   As stated on their website,
Kiva’s mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty. Kiva is the world’s [...]

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Old January Look
Back in January of this year, I started a rebuild of Los Arboles.  While I liked most of my work, I was never happy with the art-deco bridge and escalator and the whole MMS office look and layout just never did it for me.  But with limited time available in January, I just [...]

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Posting a couple of pictures of two projects that were recently developed by Meta Magic Studio for Cisco Systems.   The first was an updating of the successful Cisco Live build that we did last year and the second was a demonstration build of Cisco EnergyWise Office.  Both projects were installed at Cisco Systems Virtual Campus [...]

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Spent a few hours checking out the updates in WoW on Friday night.  While doing it, I realized that Bananadoo was close to earning an Albino Drake for having 50 mounts.  Only needed four more, so I worked on it and here is the prize.

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Dive Bar Radio is begining to get it sound together, so now I am begining to promote it.  My first campaign will be using Facebook since I had some credit via Go Daddy.  I signed up for a 12 day ad run just to see what it does – and how much it costs though [...]

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Timmy and Vince at SCH3 hash 461

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Rod drinking away his wealth

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Another example of a great waste of bandwidth brought to you by the same idiots that produce Dive Bar Radio.  We present Episode 1:  Five Minutes with Russ and Gammie.

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Yesterday I started work at 6:15 am and did not finish until 3:30 am today.  For the record that is over 21 hours with a couple of small breaks for food and nature.  At one point I started humming Bud Light “Man of Genius” songs.  Why?  Who knows, I do not drink Bud Light.
Here is [...]

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