goodbye SLURL builder, you were the BFF

I knew this day was coming… SLURL.com is still there but references to the builder all go to maps.secondlife.com now.

But search there for Port Caledon…. and …. nothing.

Go to the upper right corner of the page, and find the new builder pop-up where you can build a map link.

So I guess SLURLs will disappear some time as well?

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/port%20caledon/80/55/25/?title=**%20DME%20Gadgets

2013 RFL relay for life event TEAWR

Time Essential Airship Wreck Rally

We did another fun rally this year for RFL Second Life.
It works something like this:

May 12, Saturday, 9am SLT

The ‘Time Essential’ Airship Wreck Rally is a whimsical event for the greater good of RFL and the entertainment of all of You. All fees go to Team Caledon RFL. All builds and judging is by volunteers, please be patient with our volunteers.

Here is the ‘Time Essential’ nature of our daring contest.

1. racers go off in five minute increments (Judge will supply SLURL for next Goal)
2. racers arrive Goal (must stop at marked phantom glowing goal—above circle target prim)
3. each Goal Judge records arrival time (will be compared to target script clock)
4. each racer ‘WRECKS’ part of their airship (edit vehicle for single prims, unlink piece, and then toggle unlinked prim to PHYSICAL) ((warning! Edit blue highlight prims only, never the yellow highlight root prim, please see notecard hints!))
5. Unlinked vehicle prim falls to target prim below stopped vehicle, bounces, and is judged for closeness to bullseye (judge notes bonus)
6. racer zooms off to next Goal (Judge will supply SLURL for next Goal)
7. repeat to end of course (planned for 6-9 Goals)
8. vehicle times between judges are added
9. bonus for ‘wrecked parts’ is subtracted from total time
10. single bonus for most Creative WRECK (120 seconds!) at finale once all vehicles have arrived

Black Ribbons will be awarded for ‘posthumous gallantry in the air’ for Vehicles lost or sim-crossing limbo’d

Gold Badge and Trophy Airship for First Place

Silver Badge for Second Place and Trophy Gadget

Bronze Badge for Third Place and Trophy Gadget

starting point in the skies of Port Caledon…
go to the DME Gadgets Factory Aerocourt !

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Port%20Caledon/110/60/29

Our very daring pilots:

1st place: Wrath Constantine
2nd place: Prof Garth Goode

11 things a mad spark should never do…

11 things a mad spark should never do…

Linked for your education and reference.

the Elegant Steampunk Exhibit Bare@Rose

Upcoming Monday, May 6

Poppy’s Place Galleria, Autopilotpatty Poppy

Greetings,
Attached is your invitation to an artist reception at Bare Rose Gallery where I’ve just finished hanging the Elegant Steampunk exhibit.  I hope you can join me on Monday at 3pm slt.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bare%20Rose/244/26/30

Fantasy Faire 2013 opens!

Reblogged from Prim Perfect:

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Fantasy Faire 2013 started today - and is already packed with people - as well as awesome stores and things to do.  For the first time, we will be there not merely to observe, but as patricipants. We have our own location, the Quest for the Golden Prim Explorers' Club (Oriental Branch) on Lotus Valley Dream (a glorious region created by Marcus Inkpen and Sharni Azalee of The Looking Glass) and this year our posts from the Faire will be including the dispatches from one of the characters in the Quest ...

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The weekend was totally unexpected and full of buzz... and I did not get into SL but for a few minutes. However, the reporting on Fantasy Faire looks great.

the Name is the Thing…

More thoughts on SL Names….

Most of what I’ve read of responses to Strawberry’s name meme seems to ignore Display Names. The use seems thin… and mostly pragmatic (as in, correcting typos, removing numbers, adding hypen-spouse names.)

With all the hoo-ha about name conventions according to the Linden-speak, it would seem that 2 years later (it was late 2010 that last names were disintegrated by fiat) Display Names are much ado about nothing.

True Names…. well, that is always important.

I’ve honestly never used the Display Name feature. But that isn’t to say it might not be useful. There are many options I use in my in-world visits, and many Firestorm options that I feel I could barely get by without, but cranking up my name with ASCII text or morphing my text identity every month just isn’t something important.

I think it would be a better feature if you could add content. For instance, when I run the T.E.A.W.R. in May, there could be ‘rally instructions’ floating over my head to help anyone just arriving at the start get oriented. Now I can build a ‘hovertext’ prim and wear that (I may, it sounds like a good idea now that I think on it) and folks won’t have to hear the same spiel six times as folks arrive on station for the rally to start.

Of course, my Role Play time in Caledon has fallen to zero.  Maybe I’d use Display Names if I was doing some RP character work, as that would cue folks that I might be NOT who I appear to be.  Because really, I often appear in different versions of myself and no one bats an eye at that.

Then again, maybe those who blog are not a good sampling of users to judge SL features by.

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Sometimes a name is everything…

Sometimes a name is everything…

Meme intructions: Copy and paste the following 8 questions and answers to your blog post, delete my answers and input your own! Don’t forget to link your post in this meme’s comments so everyone can read yours!

1. What’s your SL name? Darlingmonster Ember
2. What made you choose this name? Well, hey, when I arrived at immigration, the nice man asked me for my name, which is terribly vulgar where I come from, so I assumed he meant my ‘nom de plume’. I gave him a direct translation but he could not spell it and it didn’t fit into the form he was using. SO I grabbed the nickname that my Mother and various of her ‘clique’ had called me when I was little as my first name. I picked something I thought was ordinary as my last name from his list. I somehow thought you could change it later if you became well-heeled or established in business. NOT!
3. What’s your SL nickname, or what do most people call you? (if applicable) DME, Dimmie, Miss Ember
4. What’s your SL display name? Why do you choose to have one? (if applicable) I don’t have one. I might have one for some sort of special event, but I’ve never done that.
5. Do you like your SL name? Yes!
6. If you could change your SL name, what would it be? Darlingmonster Gnashteeth Ember… that sounds daring and adventurous.
7. What’s the craziest/funniest SL name you’ve ever seen? Ineedanother Catnap
8. What’s the coolest (your favorite) SL name you’ve ever seen? Open Book

Fun!

SL projects update 16 (2): Server releases; region crossings

Reblogged from Living in the Modem World:

Second Life Server (Main) Channel Week 16 Deployment

On Tuesday April 16th, the SLS Main channel received Monty Linden's HTTP updates, which were deployed to BlueSteel and LeTigre in week 15, after having previously been on Magnum for testing.  These updates can be briefly summarised as:

• More complete and more correct headers on texture and mesh fetches - these should ensure the viewer is better able to handle objects as they are downloaded to it…

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Border crossings on regions improves, and shows various camera oddities as well. Stay tuned......

Dreaming of Lotus Valley

Reblogged from Fantasy Faire 2013:

Dreams are being built...

ooooooo, cannot wait to walk through the Faire...