Back in December 2006, Los Arboles was born in the metaverse of Second Life.  For the last three years, it has been my home and work place.  Many of my friends do not understand the connection one can create in virtual worlds, so this might not seem like a big thing.  For those that do [...]

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Time for another Things I Think as of Today, and as always they are subject to change.
Random

Doesn’t matter how talented Roman Polanski is, he had sex with a drugged up 13 year old.

One thing I learned on my Jury Duty, under 16 is REAL bad in California.

Sports

The 49ers have been a very pleasant surprise this [...]

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First there was Los Arboles, then we got Nowhereville to move next to us.  Then came Crap!
Congrats to Crap Mariner and all the residents of Edloe – Two Years Anniversary!

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Los Abroles continues to evolve like much like most of Second Life.  Here are some photos of what it currenlty looks like as of May 25, 2009.

As you can see, we have completed the main bridge to Meta Magic Studio, revamped the bridge from Los Arboles Central to Pirate Town / Rich Desoto’s home, and [...]

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Are people more willing to bash some one because we are not as exposed as in the physical world?

I just read Prad Prathivi of Metaversally Speaking blog entry So Long, and Thanks for all of the Fish! and I am sad.  Sad that Second Life is losing a great blogger.  And sad that individuals with [...]

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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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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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Banana Stein – April 2009

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I will be at the next Cisco Tech in Second Life on April 14 at 8:00 am.  Here is more info on it!  (If you would like to attend but have no clue on how to start in Second Life, just drop me a line and I will help you out.)
“Improve Your Green Practices with [...]

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I posted the third show of Dive Bar Radio yesterday.  This episode was more of a “sound tour” in that all I did was record religion from last Thursday’s Surf City H3 religion.  I edited about 10 minutes out just to keep the show down to 20 minutes.  Overall I am pretty happy with the [...]

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Cisco does a great job with their TechChat series.  If you want to see it, please join them in Second Life.
Cisco EnergyWise – Improve Your Green Practices with Cisco EnergyWise
Date = April 14
Time = 8am SLT
Location = Bandwidth Stage, Cisco Systems Sim 4, Second Life
Meta Magic Studio will be there providing support.

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I just finished up a test machinima using the Second Life platform.  I was looking at the a few issues such as light source, shadows, frame rates, textures, animations and just how many shots are really needed to make a four minute film.  I learned lots putting together “Dancing Bananaphant” which took about three hours [...]

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