Recent upgrades to Los Arboles include a storm sewer system to help reduce the amount of water that has been flooding the underground areas. This system should not be confused with the sanitary sewer system. You can tell the difference by the smell. Trust us!
Phase one of the storm system installation has been [...]

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So when I get my grubby and stumpy hands on a new sim, the first thing I do is set the land to group - or make sure it is deeded to the right group. For this sim, the group is Meta Magic Studio - lol.
Once that is set, i make sure only group [...]

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I awoke this morning at 6 am and checked in-world to see if Meta Magic Studio sim was there - AND IT WAS! Happy Happy Joy Joy.
Picture of the new sim - note connecting drawbridge from Los Arboles. Of course, by end of today, this sim will look completely different. Ahhhhh, [...]

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Was in Second Life at 1:00 am on Wednesday (Aug 13) and still no sign of the new Meta Magic Studio sim.  My bank account shows the money gone to Linden Lab.  My Second Life account shows me owning a second sim.   But no sim?!?
Here is a pic of me looking south from Mirror’s [...]

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Meta Magic Studio had been putting off purchasing an open space sim on the Second Life® Grid for six months due to thinking about doing a sim on the OpenSim grid. But after reviewing that space, it was decided that we should go ahead and drop the cash for the open space sim on [...]

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Two videos in one day - Banana must be CRAZY! - The Who performing Baba O’Riley

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The theme has been - “Caught Ya Dancing” at MMS lately. So it is important to show how cool I dance and after a long search, I found this clip from Pulp Fiction.

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Just a quick couple pictures of Los Arboles - August 2008.
Here is a wide picture - lots of stuff there and still over 6800 prims left.

Los Arboles, Second Life - August 2008

New tiered seating as been added to the Los Arboles Amphitheater. Plus lots of new texturing.

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On August 2, I posted an entry on my New Shoes. I got a few comments in SL about them and a few suggestions where I could find similar types. So this morning, while I was waiting for a client meeting to start, I checked out Happy Bivouac on Koreshan.
The store features World [...]

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A few months back, Crap Mariner started putting rivets on some of his textures for his wonderful clock tower on Edloe. I loved that type of texture detail. While most people will never notice such detail, for me it is what I look for in builds. Nothing extravagant or overwhelming, just little [...]

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Sculptie Chairs
First let me state that I adore sculpties. For those of you who do not know what they are, here is the intro on them from Second Life Wiki:
A Sculpted Prim, or sculptie, is a prim whose shape is determined by an array of x, y, z coordinates stored as RGB values in [...]

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Old Shoes

The old Banana has been wearing the same shoes in SL now for about six months — and the same style for about one and 1/2 years. So it was time to get some new shoes.
But where should I get them?
What message will my new shoes tell about me?
After thinking about this important [...]

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August 1 was my 46th birthday. 46?!? Jeez, if I had known that I would live this long I would have taken better care of myself. Yet, I found myself not really thinking about getting older. Maybe I am just in denial, or maybe I have come to terms with my [...]

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Sorry, for not updating Bananaverse. Between work and social, I have not been sleeping, nor had any time for the blog. But here is some quick news of what I have been doing.
On the work front, I am knee deep in four projects including some fun stuff with Cisco and a cool sim [...]

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World of Warcraft Dispatch
On Saturday, July 12, 2008, at 12:47 pm PST, the Gnome Warrior Bananadoo-Ravencrest of the Knights with Honor guild attained the level of 70 while questing in the Blade’s Edge Mountain. While this moment has long been overdue, it is still a milestone for the gnome.
The level 70 barrier was attained [...]

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