tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11627779463433257112011-11-22T20:43:49.812-05:00Telling: Like it IsContemplations of virtualityLalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.comBlogger1551100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-23140593943114412812011-07-24T11:28:00.000-04:002011-07-24T11:28:50.927-04:00Ch- ch- ch- ch-Changes!
Turn and face the strain...
The new home of Telling: Like it Is.
Friends and subscribers, and especially you who honor me by inclusion on your blogrolls, please change your links. It's a paid service, and I've signed up for a year, so that's where I'll be... none of that "bounce back and forth" jazz whenever Google appears to change its mind.
See you over there!
.Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-37342111916121751662011-07-16T08:34:00.000-04:002011-07-16T08:34:19.165-04:00Take Your Baseor, "Fake War II"
My favorite story by Crap Mariner is a lot longer than 100 words... It takes up most of this post in his blog, from almost exactly a year ago: "How to take a punch".
The latest schoolyard bully turns out to be Google... or people claiming to be working for and speaking for them, with regard to the "permitted identity" doublethink at GooglePlus. This guy may only be a lone Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-45584297238781042492011-07-09T12:27:00.000-04:002011-07-09T12:27:51.692-04:00The Pitfall of Early AdoptionAnyone who reads this blog has probably figured out that I have a great deal of respect and admiration (as well as a bit of envy) for the Oldbies of Second Life. It's a prime reason why I jumped into InWorldz with both pixel feet, too: to be a pioneer in a new world, and leave my mark on it... and yes, to sit back in my rocker a few years from now, boring the young'ns with stories of byegone daysLalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-61113762941803398722011-07-04T18:37:00.002-04:002011-07-05T06:08:21.691-04:00Seconderth (a deep map): Rizal Revisited
Rizal was one of the first regions to be added when Second Life went from closed to open beta, at the end of March 2003. I first blogged about it last August, and mentioned then that it, as well as Oak Grove, were being rebuilt on Mole Islands dedicated to the tasks. (The Moles, you'll recall, are more officially known as the Linden Department of Public Works.)
Last week, my invaluable Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-57895424770469229612011-06-26T12:34:00.000-04:002011-06-26T12:34:01.311-04:00The magic doesn't go awaySome time during the course of most people's lives, they reach a point when they're no longer anticipating getting older (a.k.a. "growing up"), and begin to... well, maybe "deny" is too strong a word, but they dodge the question of how long they've been around. And then, during a casual conversation they'll let something slip -- something like "Oh, I remember that..."
The common phrase to name Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-55245343143546087852011-06-19T12:18:00.000-04:002011-06-19T12:18:22.426-04:00"Resis gonna rez"Venue for Chestnut Rau's 4th Rezday: built by Zha Ewry
Sunday morning: second mug of coffee at hand, SomaFM's Drone Zone streaming in Winamp, thunder in the distance... time for the weekly blog.
A couple of days ago, I added the second Linden* to the list of people I follow on Twitter: "A small yoz-type object," as his profile says. The decision resulted from someone else I follow retweeting Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-8607123986646056122011-06-12T10:36:00.000-04:002011-06-12T10:36:46.116-04:00Conformity? I think not...My friend Ahuva recently ranted about something she read in another blog on the subject of "conformity" in Second Life avatar appearance. The OP (forumspeak for "original poster") opined that the majority of people in SL lack sufficient imagination. She apparently based this conclusion on the premise "You can look like anything at all, so why remain so recognizably human -- unless you're too Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-82436983977196939392011-06-05T13:34:00.000-04:002011-06-05T13:34:43.408-04:00"My grid's better..."If you're of "a certain age", and live in the US, you may recall an advertising campaign from the 1960s with a particularly insidious earworm jingle:
Lately, as various start-ups (and upstarts) vie for recognition and market share, there's been a lot of "My grid's better than your grid..." There's nothing wrong in my book with bragging about the virtual home you've chosen -- anyone who reads Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-82451959016173594152011-05-28T10:32:00.001-04:002011-05-28T19:11:48.873-04:00Fare well, Alisa
This is a very difficult entry to write...
Alisa Falconvale -- my partner in Second Life and InWorldz, and for whom both the InWorldz region and the pre-fab business is named -- has left Virtuality. She had no choice: personal finances, exacerbated by the general state of the economy and local conditions where she lives, forced her to disconnect her Internet service. She'd seen it coming for a Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-35055517002011603472011-05-22T15:28:00.000-04:002011-05-22T15:28:22.594-04:00Eye of the BeholderWhen old age shall this generation waste,
Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.'
-- John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
Though trained in the liberal arts, my career is in engineering. Perhaps that makes me more open than some to the idea of Geometry as Art...Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-71573714192720520732011-05-15T12:00:00.000-04:002011-05-15T12:00:17.233-04:00Bay City's ThirdRecently, the northern end of West Harbour has been getting a little... steamy.
The impetus was that airship -- just too cool to pass up, especially at the introductory price of a mere L$299 (I believe the offer is still current, if you want to get yourself one). It's a sweet ride, too -- simple arrow-key controls, nice leisurely pace, perfect for mid-altitude sightseeing. I've taken it for a Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-35229398399902782612011-05-08T19:38:00.000-04:002011-07-08T15:39:34.983-04:00Seconderth (a deep map) : Bay City Boardwalk
Bay City: one of the newer, and preeminent, themed estates in Second Life, with a strong community feeling and the organization to back it up. Until January of this year, only the right-hand group of regions existed on the Main Grid, but there was a nearly-identical duplicate on the Teen Grid. Then they were merged... the adult Bay Citizens reached out to their new younger neighbors, and now Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-23143557057809461792011-04-26T11:52:00.000-04:002011-04-26T11:52:25.331-04:00The Nuclear Option(or: "A Modest Proposal for the Elimination of Harassment at Second Life Welcome Areas")
When I was a sprout in Indiana[1], the high school I attended had an unofficial tradition during the first week of classes with the innocent-sounding title "Freshman Week". It was taken by certain "upperclassmen" (i.e., anyone in grades 10 through 12) as carte blanche to hassle, haze, and otherwise harass Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-71803402862750797912011-04-10T14:11:00.002-04:002011-04-10T21:28:30.733-04:002 years of InWorldz, Part II...also known as...
Phlox Rox!
Typical party scene above, no big deal, right? Ah, but it was a very big deal -- it was a live beta test of InWorldz' new script engine (dubbed Phlox by its main author, Tranquility "Tranq" Dexler) on the Birthday sims.
Last week, I noted the gawdawful lag one had to fight to move anywhere, let alone see the displays, and lamented, "Too bad Phlox was too new to Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-21142610660143121942011-04-02T16:43:00.001-04:002011-04-02T16:47:52.847-04:002 Years of InWorldzI thought briefly about calling this post "IWz 2 B", but I think I've played the "B" card often enough... and besides, that abbreviation is a Second Life thing, and if there's one thing InWorldz unarguably is not, it's SL.
Which is, of course, why those of us who go there do so.
Anyhow... April 1st is known for more than Fooles; it's the anniversary of the founding of InWorldz. Johnny Knight Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-37991673862964439102011-03-30T20:49:00.000-04:002011-03-30T20:49:28.801-04:00Ahhhh, go fly a...I suppose you've heard of Kitely by now? If not, to learn everything you could want to (short of creating an account), go to this blog by Ener Hax, and this one by Maria Korolov. Both are chock full of replies by the founder of Kitely, Ilan Tochner.
So is this: a follow-up blog by Ener, wherein she meant to gather questions for an email interview, but Ilan jumped in and answered them in the Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-46464179134399144902011-03-20T22:02:00.000-04:002011-03-20T22:02:30.149-04:00I'm baaaack....Yes, I bought a new computer* to replace the fried one... I missed my pixellated friends! Twitter, blogs and forums just don't cut it, though they helped immensely to stay in touch.
And by the way, all you "SL goes best with Facebook" advocates -- especially the ones who work for the Lab -- can cram it.
When the previous computer died, I also had to leave this unfinished on the build platform Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-47197201541704775202011-03-13T10:32:00.000-04:002011-03-13T10:32:26.562-04:00Seconderth (a deep map): SS9BNine years ago today -- March 13, 2002 -- someone who was not an employee of the fledgling Linden Lab logged in to "Linden World", the alpha version of Second Life, and by doing so became The First Resident:
Legend has it (and I see no reason to doubt) that Steller stayed logged in overnight, building. First to be rezzed, a prim at a time, was this cabin:
Followed by The Beanstalk:
Not bad Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-53259501465684970072011-03-05T16:08:00.000-05:002011-03-05T16:08:28.118-05:00Excused AbsenceI've been absent from this blog for far longer than I'd like. No, I haven't died... but my computer did. The results of the autopsy haven't been released, but the likely cause of death was a power surge resulting from a lightning strike during last Sunday's thunderstorms -- which, incidentally, also fried my DSL modem (replaced this past Tuesday, at no charge - thanks AT&T!).
[It may not Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-40893171774064883532011-02-12T12:27:00.000-05:002011-02-12T12:27:31.570-05:00Getting ItThis began three days ago, after New World Notes published an interview they conducted with Rod (@Rodvik/Rodvik Linden) Humble, the new CEO of Linden Lab. I was alerted to the publication through Twitter - specifically by a tweet from my friend Gnome Bhodi, who used to be Ghosty Kips in SL:
"... It’s foremost a tool where you can make and do whatever you want." OMG ROD HUMBLE GETS IT! http://Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-31262377968667227092011-02-05T18:29:00.000-05:002011-02-05T18:29:12.530-05:00Seconderth (a deep map) : The Great Second Life Railway
In the northeast corner of Mocha is an unassuming little trolly stop, with no other indication as to its use...
...but if you wait long enough*, something much like a pre-WWII interurban rail car will come bumping along over the border from Olive, and you can ride it across four full sims, and parts of two more, to the region called Purple.
It makes three stops between its termini -- the Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-2152034895636574472011-01-29T17:50:00.000-05:002011-01-29T17:50:26.690-05:00Milepost 10,000
It had to happen eventually... and it finally did. On January 26, some anonymous person in Souderton, PA (a Bucks County suburb of Philadelphia, as it happens) became Visitor 10,000 to this blog. The hit was generated by a link from Google Images to the overview shot of Perry posted last July, shortly before the 5000th visit.
That dashed line indicates that I forgot to check Sitemeter and Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-59174773837024652762011-01-24T21:14:00.001-05:002011-01-24T21:21:21.122-05:00Seconderth (a deep map) : I-World Island
The Oldest Prim on the Grid is a larger-than-real-size US 5-cent piece (a.k.a "nickel"), created almost 9 years ago (11 Feb 2002) by James Linden as a proof-of concept for the application of photographic images -- "textures" -- to prims. It, or a copy of it indistinguishable from the original, is preserved in a museum on the region called I-World Island.
I-World Island, in turn, is the sole Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-12140024362436535342011-01-16T21:05:00.000-05:002011-01-16T21:05:48.383-05:00Seconderth (a deep map) : A CorrectionRemember this?
It's the full map of Second Life as it was on November 23, 2010, which I posted at the end of the first part of "Seconderth". There have been some changes since -- such as, the addition of yet another continent full of Linden Homes, about half the size of the squarish landforms you see there, south and east of the original continents (and which all, curiously, have the same name:Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-29164782667484829732011-01-09T20:21:00.000-05:002011-01-09T20:21:10.567-05:00An "Avatarian" DilemmaIt's been more than two months since I first floated a trial balloon about a literary webzine to collect and publish stories with what I call an Avatarian slant -- which is to say, they include elements to be found only in virtual worlds. This idea pounced me from out of nowhere, after I read Cubey Terra's "The Oldbie", and Pathfinder Lester's response to it, "Jetpack". It received much Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-78971506582291440922010-12-31T20:53:00.000-05:002010-12-31T20:53:39.023-05:00Loose Ends and New BeginningsAs I begin writing, this planet has turned beneath the sun's light so that the imaginary line projected through their centers is about to coincide with what humans, in their unbridled urge to enumerate, analyze, and categorize things, have elected to call The Prime Meridian. That is, it is about to be midnight in Greenwich, England, as the civil calendar (another result of long-term social Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-28695974055423322282010-12-25T21:06:00.001-05:002010-12-25T23:40:52.772-05:00Getting a Move OnIf only relocating one's home in physical space was as easy as Take into Inventory, teleport, and re-rezz...
First of all, recall that the successful interview that necessitated this move took place on December 3. A mere thirteen days later, after intense Internet research into where to live (thank the gods for Google Map!), who to hire to get me there (also Web-based), and a frantic four daysLalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-13333215353236236062010-12-06T19:36:00.000-05:002010-12-06T19:36:22.291-05:00Nick o' TimeThis is one of those extremely rare occasions where I'm going to talk about the organic part of my existence, rather than the avatarian. I'll try to keep it brief.
The last time I had a day of work was May 1, 2009 -- which immediately explains why my online presence has been so constant since then. I've exhausted my unemployment benefits, and this past Wednesday (December 1), after paying the Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-52829076471428519492010-12-05T15:04:00.000-05:002010-12-05T15:04:35.789-05:00Three Years OnIt's been a busy 12 months since my last rezday...
In January, I managed to work through the scattered tutorial posts in wikis and forums to install and configure an instance of OpenSimulator -- first as a standalone on my PC, then connected to OSGrid. I discovered there that I had a modicum of the Pioneer Spirit; reduced to an aphorism: "Make it yourself, make do with what's there, or do Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-83693869679963701322010-11-27T20:23:00.002-05:002010-11-28T10:35:37.966-05:00Seconderth (a deep map) : Perspective
Floating (or suspended, as you will) above Teal, as well as above his Particle Lab, Jopsy Pendragon keeps an old workshop that displays a number of interesting things about Second Life, circa 2007. One of them is the above map. There's a couple of inaccuracies -- the region of Mauve didn't come online in 2003, and Gibson did -- but map historians know that the most beautiful are not always theLalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-51989701764777530902010-11-26T14:44:00.000-05:002010-11-26T14:44:41.997-05:00Seconderth (a deep map) : Gibson
Gibson is the last region to be reviewed in this series. It is the first (but not the only) sim in Second Life to be named for a real, living person: William Gibson, who coined the word cyberspace in his 1982 short story "Burning Chrome" and who is a founding author of the cyberpunk movement in science fiction with such novels as Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive.
The original "Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-16259408621109999142010-11-25T11:24:00.000-05:002010-11-25T11:24:03.178-05:00Seconderth (a deep map) : Darkwood
As noted before in the entry for Bonifacio and Dore, and shown on the "June 16, 2003" World Map (see, for example, here), one of the first five community projects was a fantasy/medievalist roleplay area called "Dark Wood". When the Color Sims were added, just a few days before the official opening of Second Life, two other regions were created as well. It's my assumption that was done for theLalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-42617730215165314232010-11-22T13:52:00.000-05:002010-11-22T13:52:11.797-05:00Re: VersionThis may very well be the last post I write about the meta-issues of Second Life. My reasons are probably clear (if not tediously repeated) to my regular readers -- all dozen of you -- but in case this is someone's first time here: I have disengaged from SL to the point that I no longer care how it is run, or by whom, or whether it continues to exist.
As a parting shot, however... let me tell Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-66632076020363082332010-11-20T21:14:00.000-05:002010-11-20T21:14:10.889-05:00Seconderth (a deep map) : Slate
The Second Life Wikia's entry on Slate has (in part) this to say about the region's earliest days:
The great thing about Slate in those days was the total lack of commercialism. Each person [who] had land in Slate was there just to have a house; not only that, but a "natural" looking house. Many folks had treehouses (Ananda Sandgrain, for one, as well as Ezhar Fairlight's perpetually unfinishedLalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-34664952006456791962010-11-16T16:11:00.000-05:002010-11-16T16:11:00.577-05:00Equinox, for SolsticeWe have the distinct honor of being one of the invitees to occupy a store in the village of Equinox on the InWorldz region named "Dream e'Scapes". They promise a different seasonal build each quarter of the year -- right now, it's a ski resort.
Owned by Talia and Jack Fournier, and built almost entirely by Saera Pfeffer. I haven't asked Sae if she did the terraforming, too, but I wouldn't be Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-15722320716843131052010-11-12T14:00:00.001-05:002010-12-05T17:52:47.401-05:00InWorldz Best
Community
It's already a cliche to say that the best thing about InWorldz is the people in it... but you know, cliches get started because they're true.
Take the scene above: a bunch of friends kicking back, at the end of a very long day for each of them, in the brand new Equinox Lodge. The cuddlers on the couch are the owners, Jack and Talia Fournier. The other person on the couch is the Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-16760787984158137672010-11-05T16:43:00.001-04:002010-11-05T16:57:03.094-04:00Seconderth (a deep map) : Olive
On the June 19, 2003 World Map of Second Life, Olive is denoted as a sandbox region. In fact, it was the first entire sim devoted to that purpose, as compared to Morris and Plum (and later, Natoma), which have smaller public sandbox areas within their borders. Thus, you might not expect anything to remain from its first days on the Grid... and you'd be right.
On the other hand, the SL Wikia Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-32466908745028358802010-11-02T17:22:00.002-04:002010-11-02T17:31:53.549-04:00Seconderth (a deep map) : Mocha
[Yes, mocha is also a color, not just a flavor at Star*ucks]
A sufficiently enlarged copy of the June 19, 2003 World Map shows a pushpin icon stuck into Mocha and labeled "WizWorld". According to the SL Wikia, its fate among the themed community experiments was similar to "Native American Village" (which never even got a map icon):
Mocha was supposed to be a themed sim, but it failed rather Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-39692611189218720412010-10-30T22:31:00.000-04:002010-10-30T22:31:15.516-04:00Seconderth (a deep map) : Green
As I mentioned last time, Brown (upper right in the above photo) and Green began as duplicates of, respectively, Boardman and De Haro. Green was a "camp" sim, but the only remaining resemblance to De Haro is the central pond and the "creeks", and a solitary freebie supply kiosk at its eastern edge. There is also a copy of the original cabin still on the sim, but when you consider that the Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-47159915092143562262010-10-27T15:36:00.000-04:002010-10-27T15:36:17.819-04:00"Avatarian" webzine - a Prospectus (of sorts)Wow.
Just... wow.
As I wrote the other day, the sudden appearance of two excellent short-short stories on the blogs of their respective authors (links in that previous post) put the idea in my head about an anthology of those and others in the sub-sub-genre of Avatarian fiction. The response was amazingly immediate and amazingly positive -- so much so, that I thought I'd better get a firmer Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-77657397015160400482010-10-27T01:02:00.000-04:002010-10-27T01:02:32.929-04:00Seconderth (a deep map) : Brown
As Plum and Lime were clones of Ahern and Morris, so Brown and Green began as clones of Boardman and De Haro. With the exception of Linden-made artifacts copied from one to the other, the similarity ends there. Whereas Boardman at least looks like a mid-20th-Century suburban village, albeit an abandoned one, Brown more closely resembles a late-20th-Century exurb: a collection of residences Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-89873799661322809532010-10-25T20:06:00.000-04:002010-10-25T20:06:04.066-04:00Seconderth (a deep map) : Teal[letting the Avatarian webzine idea simmer for a few days... meanwhile, back on track]
Anyone in Second Life who's done anything with particles (besides curse their use by amateur griefers still trying to crash sims with them) has Jopsy Pendragon to thank. Perhaps they've even made the pilgrimage to Teal and the Particle Laboratory to learn from the master -- more likely, his notecards and Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-38340713452471486782010-10-24T15:24:00.000-04:002010-10-24T15:24:03.157-04:00Odds and Sods[thanks to The Who for the title]
First, a little bragging:
Amsterdam, in the InWorldz region called -- what else? -- Nederland. Almost all of the buildings are from Koshari Mahana's Four Winds, and the big sculpty trees (such as the willows you can see in that photo) are from Julia's Hathor's Creative Fantasy...
And then, there's these: in the foreground, Alisa's "Crate Cabin" and the Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-29726658077587900432010-10-21T01:14:00.000-04:002010-10-21T01:14:28.991-04:00Resisting Futility
Eight sims remain to complete the Seconderth deep map. I've been averaging two per week, which puts me on track to finish before my RL-imposed deadline of December 1. But I'm fighting against more than mere Time... I'm fighting what feels like a lag spike does in-world, and its name is "Why bother?"
Before I go on, be clear about this: I'm not fishing for encouragement. I've got plenty of Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-7688595038904316802010-10-18T21:53:00.000-04:002010-10-18T21:53:57.895-04:00Seconderth (a deep map) : Rose
"... by any other name," Rose might resemble its cousins among the Original 16, sims like Hawthorne or Stanford: unable to avoid the workings of time and change, a great deal of it empty, yet holding in it a relic or two of its earliest year on the Grid. In Rose, that would be the parcel in its southeast corner called "Champion Square" (lower right in the photo), owned since Christmas Eve 2003Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-24124989173581811582010-10-16T23:42:00.000-04:002010-10-16T23:42:57.335-04:00Seconderth (a deep map) : Blue
The story of Blue's beginning is the story of another community project no longer there. Unlike Little Tokyo (Sage), Venice (Bonifacio) or "Native American Village" (never even appeared on the map of Oak Grove), all vanished with almost no trace... also unlike Yamato in Dore, where the buildings remain but few know why... Americana is remembered. Memorialized is more appropriate.
It feels,Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-71514367895517751472010-10-15T12:37:00.000-04:002010-10-15T12:37:51.070-04:00Space to Grow 2Alisa commented on the last one (see below): "I can hardly wait to get moved in."
So we didn't wait. It took most of Wednesday to get the buildings located:
Then yesterday it was time for 'finishing' touches (Ha ha... we're builders; you know the tweaking will continue!). Alisa rezzed up a bunch of trees from her collection, and I threw this light pole together, textured to match the color Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-12657572889339659502010-10-11T23:11:00.001-04:002010-10-11T23:13:19.111-04:00Space to GrowMy partner Alisa and I are, frankly, obsessed with building. Though we have other aspects in common (age; musical tastes; we're both single and we're both smartasses), building is what really brought us together after first meeting at Industrial Dreamz in SL almost five months ago. The prospect of building without limits to either size or number of prims, added to a fledgling market in which Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-27215755898466715812010-10-10T22:52:00.001-04:002010-10-11T02:01:09.077-04:00Seconderth (a deep map) : Aqua
Aqua is another paradox: two of the main themes this series has developed -- preservation and "benign neglect" -- coexist nearly side-by-side here. This time, however, there are no Lindens involved.
Photo credit: Bino Arbuckle
June 19, 2003, three days before the official opening: Aqua empty except for that copy of Avatar Central (also empty, it appears). At the time, the original one in Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-86413508553045899842010-10-06T19:12:00.000-04:002010-10-06T19:12:32.308-04:00Seconderth (a deep map) : Sage
OK, move along, folks.... Nothing to see here.
No - seriously. There's not a prim to be found in all of Sage any older than 2005, nor any archived photographic evidence of the themed community "Little Tokyo" that was pinned to this square on the June '03 map.
You don't have to read far in either the official Second Life forum (or whatever that thing is), or in SLUniverse, before you find Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-29455472200506806262010-10-02T19:59:00.001-04:002010-10-02T22:57:53.348-04:00Seconderth (a deep map) : Plum & Lime
There's not much to see in Plum, and even less in Lime, but almost everything there that hasn't been temporarily rezzed in the sandbox area has been there since the regions opened in May 2003.
The Welcome Area predominates -- originally designed for Ahern by Alberto Linden, this one has not been replaced, as Ahern's was two years later. In fact, Plum and Lime are, essentially, clones of theLalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-61560907899300351952010-10-02T00:50:00.000-04:002010-10-02T00:50:56.482-04:00Of Rats and CanariesEveryone who grew up with/in the English language knows the phrase "rats deserting a sinking ship," right? But do you know what it means?
Nobody likes rats. They got a bad reputation early on, as plague carriers -- but hey, the rats didn't do that deliberately. "Oh, let's go get infested by plague-bearing fleas, so we can reduce Europe's population by a quarter!" No, don't think so. They Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-67117848624962450172010-09-26T20:47:00.001-04:002010-09-26T20:52:16.741-04:00Seconderth (a deep map) : Gray
On the World Map from June 19 2003 , there are ten "pushpin" icons denoting themed community projects. We've already seen four: Lindenberg (Tehama), Wild West Town (Oak Grove), Venice (Bonifacio), and Yamato/Shangri-La (Dore). Two have vanished; one is in fragments; one retains the buildings in more-or-less good shape. None retain any sense of community. Of the four in the Color Sims, onlyLalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-91986961188556340602010-09-22T01:49:00.002-04:002010-09-22T16:22:30.789-04:00Can't get there from here...[yes, I will be returning to "Seconderth"... soon, I promise]
Back in August at SLCC10, Pathfinder (John Lester) gave a keynote speech wherein he invoked not only Watership Down, but a novel by Vernor Vinge titled Rainbows End. Two days ago, I finally got up off my procrastinating tush and went next door to the library, in hope that their copy was on the shelf. It was.
I read a tad more than Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-75706899292107807122010-09-17T10:46:00.000-04:002010-10-12T01:59:39.130-04:00Commission AccomplishedLast night, I delivered the second part of my first commission as a custom builder: the megachurch. When I posted about it three weeks ago, all I had to go on was a footprint size (60 meters square), and a photograph of a front elevation of some anonymous church somewhere in the US (do megachurches exist anywhere outside the States?)
A bit more than a week later, I had the basics:
That was Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-91386061235347411972010-09-14T19:25:00.001-04:002010-09-14T19:28:59.168-04:00Another Tale of Two KingdomsWhat has gone before:
There are two magical kingdoms, X and Z. Part of the magic operating in both is the ability to make things out of basic raw materials -- let's call them "blocks" -- which appear out of thin air at command, and at no cost. The supply of blocks is theoretically infinite. (There are limits, but not based on scarcity of materials; rather, each kingdom sets a maximum number ofLalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-68167479725458956242010-09-13T23:44:00.001-04:002010-09-13T23:50:50.902-04:00A Tale of Two KingdomsOnce upon a time, in a magical kingdom called X...
Person A invents a widget. It's intended to be used by other people who make things, as part of their finishing process. As widgets go, it's a good one, and just might be popular. She decides to put copies of it up for sale, as much to find out how well her widget is considered as to realize any income from the sales. Since displaying a Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-84928885812803845832010-09-11T21:01:00.000-04:002010-09-11T21:01:33.006-04:00Tree of Trees
soror Nishi's latest work, "Tree of Trees", opened today in the region called "IBM Exhibit C". If you are not already a fan, you're likely to become one after exploring this masterwork, which is a grand summation of all she's done in the last three years.
Use the World Map to get there -- I did -- it has a landing point, where you find yourself inside this:
... about which she says in her Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-64699853158759873632010-09-10T11:35:00.000-04:002010-09-10T11:35:14.787-04:00Seconderth (a deep map): Tan
I haven't been able to learn, yet, whether all 14 of the first batch of "Color Sims" came online simultaneously, or not. Assuming that they did, I've chosen to read the map from south to north, and from east to west in each row; making Tan the first (and Slate the last, before finishing the series with the noncolor sims of Darkwood and Gibson).
Tan resembles some of its older cousins to the Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-22687042719554264302010-09-03T14:31:00.000-04:002010-10-12T02:02:04.234-04:00Catching upAnother "loose end" post; they happen, from time to time. But, I'm at another convenient rest-stop on the Seconderth blue highway (winks at Iggy O). Well, actually, Tan will be next. Blue won't be posted for a little while, but when it is, it might turn out to be the longest post of the whole series. Folks who remember Americana will know why.
So...
Emerald: (yeah, had to say it, one last Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-75141066397396100422010-09-01T18:31:00.001-04:002010-09-01T19:04:09.776-04:00Seconderth (a deep map) : Immaculate
Compared to the intentionally planned communities of Boardman and De Haro, and the village into which Harald and Joan Nomad transformed Kissling, Immaculate seems almost an afterthought. Without its four distinctive landmarks, it looks just like its older neighbors -- Da Boom, Ritch, Zoe -- precisely because it was not planned. It also appears to have spent the years since its first Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-34559046050731869002010-08-27T15:49:00.000-04:002010-08-27T15:49:07.889-04:00Seconderth (a deep map) : De Haro
Welcome to the Camp! I guess you all know why we're here...
Simultaneously with Boardman, De Haro was created as another managed community, but with an entirely different style: that of an American "campground" typical of the first couple of decades post-WWII. If you're my age (give or take 10 years), your family may even have rented a cabin for a week or two in a place that looked like Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-53366293340689333082010-08-25T12:48:00.000-04:002010-10-12T01:59:39.133-04:00CommissionedOK, this is strange...
Maybe you remember: three weeks ago, I blogged about the synagogue I built in InWorldz. It's been sitting on Falconvale's main sales floor (we have two now, each 150 meters square -- Hah! to SL and their antiquated 10-meter size limit) waiting for a minyan to inquire about it.
So... Monday afternoon, while Alisa and I were up there doing something or other, a visitor Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-65830796195358918112010-08-24T10:24:00.003-04:002010-08-24T11:10:08.708-04:00Seconderth (a deep map) : Boardman
05-19-2003 15:15
Announcing the grand opening of Boardman - a new, distinctly different region designed for those looking for a simple way to establish a home in Second Life.
We will cut the ribbon on this new area on Tuesday, May 20th, at 4 pm. Boardman is located north of Clara. Use your landmark for the Amphitheater and fly north. A Linden will be there to answer questions.
Welcome to theLalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-37259691974097975972010-08-22T22:19:00.001-04:002010-08-22T23:25:44.609-04:00#sltweetup!
I forget now which evening it was (Wednesday?), or even what got it started (#emeraldgate?), but somehow Toxic Menges concocted the idea for a party for SL Twitter-ers; a.k.a. a Tweetup. Skate Foss volunteered her gorgeous tropical island sim, Matanzas, and it took very little time for a consensus to decide that 11 am SLT, Sunday, would accommodate all of the necessary timezones.
Five hours (Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-9748836125029094322010-08-15T19:24:00.000-04:002010-08-15T19:24:33.786-04:00Jungen Raus!Someone whose blog I recently began following just royally pissed me off:
Since an under age user can wear any avatar, I would insist on there being some clear indication on the avatar that they are under age. Obviously there would need to be an indication of this on their profile, but it wouldn't hurt to include it as a symbol or something on their name tag to broadcast to all users that the Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-78068449443104748282010-08-15T01:21:00.000-04:002010-08-15T01:21:57.374-04:00Seconderth (a deep map) : Kissling
The map above bears a date of June 16, 2003 -- a mere five days before Opening Day. I suspect that was when the image was recorded, and that it's a little older... but not much. Note, first of all, that the community projects in Bonifacio, Dore, and Oak Grove now all have map pins, and the Welcome Area in Ritch is no more. More significant, of course, is the addition of four more sims, of Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-20763958726514121342010-08-13T18:31:00.000-04:002010-08-13T18:31:38.770-04:00Rebirth of a NationI've been well and truly scooped -- twice! -- on the way to this post... but hey, that's no reason to not publicly and pictorially welcome LittleBlackDuck Lindsay's Victorian reconstructions to InWorldz.
Back on the 25th of March, I had the sad task of reporting the withdrawal of the 9-region Nation of Victoriana (along with its 4 adjacent open-water sims) from the Second Life grid. The Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-23048252295852759282010-08-11T14:09:00.001-04:002010-08-11T14:15:13.515-04:00Seconderth (a deep map) : Bonifacio & Dore
The recorded history of Second Life's open beta (which, after all, only lasted 11 weeks) is highlighted by collaborative group projects. We've seen the first one: Wild West Town in Oak Grove. Parallel community projects, started at about the same time, were the first builds to appear in the regions of Bonifacio and Dore. There's an implication in the written record that those regions were Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-6319734610224664822010-08-10T00:25:00.003-04:002010-11-21T10:24:00.423-05:00Seconderth (a deep map) : Rizal, Morris & Ahern
Tens (or possibly hundreds) of thousands of avatars have found themselves here since these regions were first added to the Grid on March 31, 2003. Even though the Welcome Area in Ritch was still shown on the April 1 map...
Starting today, the newbies will be arriving in the new welcome area on the border of Ahern and Morris - the new regions west of Lusk. (Until today they were arriving in Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-84075818180998691182010-08-08T17:08:00.000-04:002010-08-08T17:08:10.768-04:00Milepost 500016 September 2009, this blog first appeared, with three posts copied over from a ning.com "network".
24 January 2010, not long after I ripped into United Nations Citizen, it received its 1000th visit.
2 April 2010, in the midst of the fracas over Second Life's preemptive Terms of Service, came Visitor #2000. Because she left a comment, I know who that was -- thank you, Brinda!
3 June 2010, Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-79604523601769742372010-08-07T18:34:00.002-04:002010-08-07T19:02:40.223-04:00Seconderth (a deep map) : Oak Grove
In the January '03 Grid map (when Clementina and the Luskwood sims were added; see here, for instance), there's an attraction noted in Zoe that wasn't there in the November '02 map: Wild West Town. By April of '03, the map designation had moved to the new region of Oak Grove. I can only assume that the builds themselves were moved; both the SL Wikia and the official Second Life Wiki are Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-74176853429325919862010-08-03T21:03:00.001-04:002010-08-03T22:00:26.162-04:00Seconderth (a deep map) : Jessie
April 1, 2003: Second Life Beta goes from closed to Open. To coincide, Version 0.5.0 was released the day before, and seven new regions appeared on the map. Unfortunately, all of the surviving copies of that map (see above) are very small and terribly out of focus (probably from previous frequent enlargements). Also new on that map are landmarks with the now-familiar red pushpin icon, Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-62034357552286119252010-08-01T18:56:00.000-04:002010-10-12T02:00:03.478-04:00Zen, and the Art of...... Making Stuff
I was going to write this post anyway, as a short fluffy brag-piece (with some shameless promotion thrown in -- after all, I'm "in the business" now). But then, just before beginning, I had the good fortune to read Iggy O's latest post, Two Ways to Play & Virtual Worlds. Iggy, it would appear, has led a model life (pun most certainly intended!).
When I built a kit then, the Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-60359600239634725772010-07-31T17:53:00.000-04:002010-07-31T17:53:53.209-04:00The Pause that RefreshesI think a few of my readers are old enough to remember that phrase as an advertising slogan for a cinnamon-enhanced, carbonated cola drink distributed by an obscure company in Atlanta, Georgia... they may even remember it paired with a drawing or two of Santa Claus enjoying said beverage. Of course, the point of the ad was "refresh yourself with our product," but the other available (thus, Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-48006758799167919082010-07-27T00:40:00.001-04:002010-07-27T01:01:25.218-04:00Crisis? What crisis?
I was at soror Nishi's "No tier, no tears" party a couple of nights ago (she gave up her land in SL; see above), when Botgirl asked me, "Lalo, when are you going to give up blogging about virtual archeology and get back to crisis-of-the-day stuff?"
Well... First of all, I'm not even halfway through the task I set out for myself. 20 sims down, with 27 more to go. But this is how I answered: "Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-16595944487012973652010-07-25T20:13:00.004-04:002010-09-07T09:16:41.603-04:00Seconderth (a deep map) : Tehama
We come, finally, to the last of the First 20 -- those regions which were created before Second Life went from closed to open beta. I saved it for last of this group because, since May 2008, Tehama has been my home.
By a quirk of fate, and the existence of the basement museum at the Governor's Mansion, Tehama also has something most other regions lack: a record, however slim, of its earliest Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-1415597814839919762010-07-24T20:53:00.000-04:002010-07-24T20:53:19.156-04:00Seconderth (a deep map) : Perry
The entry for Perry in the Second Life Wikia consists entirely of these two paragraphs:
Perry was formerly home to, in 1.0 and 1.1, Devlin Gallant's mansion, a "honey store" and a marina, as well as an old Linden-controlled educational event area.
As of SL 1.4, and continuing into 1.7, most (about 95%) of Perry has been annexed to Luskwood, maintained by the Luskwood group and forming "Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-70858368153679739562010-07-21T14:25:00.000-04:002010-07-21T14:25:35.995-04:00Seconderth (a deep map) : Lusk
Lusk: home of "Luskwood", the oldest furry community in Second Life -- perhaps the oldest continuous community of any kind, and which now extends across most of four contiguous regions. It celebrates its birthday a mere three months after SL does, in late September. While much has been rebuilt (compare the first image above, taken a few days ago, with the one taken five years ago*), many Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-11835336304723278752010-07-17T17:07:00.000-04:002010-07-17T17:07:27.820-04:00Seconderth (a deep map) : Clementina
Clementina -- to SL history buffs (I'm not the only one, after all), it means one thing over all others: the Governor's Mansion. Built in Linden World by Steller Sunshine as a residence for herself; the majority of prims display creation dates in July 2002, and I have deemed it the Fifth Oldest surviving object in Second Life.
It's not really a mansion; it's a villa, with living quarters at Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-80986073436079434782010-07-13T23:16:00.000-04:002010-07-13T23:16:24.908-04:00Transworld Syndrome"I've grown accustomed to the face..."
soror Nishi wrote another thought-provoking post in her blog the other day, in which she named and described a relatively new psychosocial phenomenon: "Third Life Syndrome", or TLS.
TLS is that strange condition where we seek to replicate our SL looks in other worlds. In fact, for many, and for myself in a small degree, our enjoyment of a Third Life is Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-54520154217131583292010-07-13T00:31:00.004-04:002010-10-12T02:03:57.693-04:00The Transworld ReportBefore I get back to Seconderth (16 posted, a mere 31 left - oy veh!), it's time for another one of those "loose ends" posts. I haven't just been busy on the blog.
Inroads into InWorldz
Taking a cue from some "evangelists" in SLUniverse, I created an account in InWorldz back in early April -- mostly to reserve the name, though why anyone else would want to pass themselves off as Lalo Telling Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-30917118266140750662010-07-12T20:39:00.000-04:002010-07-12T20:39:26.506-04:00Seconderth (a deep map) : Stanford
Not for any particular reason, but some region had to be the last of The Original 16 to be posted in this series, and Stanford drew the straw. It's another mostly empty one, but unlike Clyde (due to recent abandonment, with 3/4 now for sale) or Federal (due to recent abandonment with none of it for sale), Stanford appears to be deliberately empty. It is dominated by the only build that datesLalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-86449669752186566062010-07-09T20:54:00.001-04:002010-09-06T12:15:41.474-04:00Seconderth (a deep map) : Federal
Another tale of Opportunity Missed... but the reverse of my experience with Clyde. You may recall that this effort (which for the longest time had no title) was triggered by a post at SLUniverse asking "What are the oldest remaining places in Second Life?" Among the first to respond to that question was the founder and owner of the forum itself, Cristiano Midnight, regarding his builds in Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-33150449545562971512010-07-04T20:43:00.003-04:002010-07-17T21:55:45.923-04:00Second Life™, Liberty, and the Purfuit of HappinefsToday is the 4th day of July -- when, in the course of human events, a democratically-elected body of representatives of certain geographic regions on the continent of North America once all signed their names to a document which declared them, and thereby the people they represented, as free and independent states. In doing so, they quite literally pledged their lives, as well as their fortunesLalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-46843341282856536612010-07-03T23:03:00.001-04:002010-07-03T23:04:35.251-04:00Seconderth (a deep map) : Shipley
From regions nearly bare of historical items -- or nearly bare, period, as what occurred in Clyde -- we come to Shipley, which has a large number of artifacts from the Elder Days packed into its eastern edge (the foreground of the above image). Most of that land is group-owned, and is known as Shipley Shores.
This house began as a Linden freebie, and was embellished with decks and awnings byLalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-91522641042149684412010-07-03T19:03:00.001-04:002010-07-03T23:12:57.366-04:00Seconderth (a deep map) : Hawthorne
Dominated by RacerX Gullwing's Snail Races, Xenophile Neurocam's Club Symmetry (the green half-dome), and Nympheas Textures (the butterflies, where she sells, among other things, textures to make "Jewerls" [sic])... Hawthorne is another of the Original Sixteen to be nearly devoid of remnants from the days of its first occupation.
There is, however, a rough gem in the northeast corner (upper Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-39985267789345694462010-06-29T19:25:00.000-04:002010-06-29T19:25:53.748-04:00Seconderth (a deep map) : Taber
Looks empty, doesn't it? As a matter of fact, the southeast corner (upper left) was vacated and terraformed flat a few days before this photo was taken. As far I know, it's still for sale... but as we all have come to know, things can, and often do, change overnight.
However, Taber -- nestled between Natoma and Welsh -- is brim-full of artifacts from the Elder Days, and most of them can be Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-19770313426185392062010-06-28T13:51:00.001-04:002010-06-28T13:57:12.642-04:00Seconderth (a deep map) : Zoe
Another "before and after" look: above, March 29 2010 -- below, June 21 2010.
The differences between those are subtle (except for the megaprims in the southeast corner), consisting mostly of the relocation of two major builds from Zoe to become Hiro Pendragon's neighbors in Varney. They were replaced by a large house, admirable not only for its architecture but its interior appointments -Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-50438304652700412010-06-27T21:56:00.000-04:002010-06-27T21:56:25.868-04:00Seconderth (a deep map) : RitchWe now resume our regularly scheduled program, already in progress...
Short entry this time...
Even though, some time in January of 2003 -- when the next four sims were added to the Original Sixteen -- the Welcome Area was moved from Natoma to Ritch, no trace of anything that old remains in the region now. Almost 3/4 of it is owned by Dix Donovan, whose home can be discerned on top of that Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-73891505591948276242010-06-24T14:05:00.001-04:002010-06-24T18:40:38.087-04:00Interlude: San Francisco AftershockLife is change... how it differs from the rocks.
Coincidence, probably... Synchronicity? Maybe... though there are better-tutored Jungians among my readers who might be able to discern if I was tapped into the collective subconscious of SL Residents.
Anyway... Three weeks ago I was doing some infrastructure maintenance on this blog, creating pages for special topics and going through the tags Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-15595112634558147362010-06-23T13:33:00.006-04:002010-07-09T21:15:39.279-04:00Seconderth (a deep map) : SL 8.25 BThe Ten Oldest Objects in Second Life
circa 1999: Philip (Rosedale) Linden starts Linden Lab.
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February 11, 2002: James Linden applies a photographic texture of a US 5-cent piece ("nickel") to a circular primitive (actual size unknown, but closer to that of a quarter) as a proof-of-concept; hence, creating The Oldest Object to still be found in Second Life. An instance of it is now Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-44547609997921966482010-06-20T18:23:00.000-04:002010-06-20T18:23:50.909-04:00Seconderth (a deep map) : Minna
Most of Minna belongs to "Divivity", a landscape and home furnishing business owned by Div Epoch and Vivianne OFlynn (who was "Vivianne Fairlight" in beta). They've been in Minna since the spring of 2004, but their first greenhouse, originally built to sell flowers for Christmas 2003, was moved there. In the above photo, it's the small blue roof at right center. Its oldest parts are dated Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-11251251043301221002010-06-19T21:51:00.000-04:002010-06-19T21:51:08.120-04:00Seconderth (a deep map) : Clyde
I have intended to post this series in the same order as the sims are displayed in my online album... but developments beyond anyone's control, in the last few days, have caused me to change that for Clyde.
As reported on June 10 by Jezebel Bailey in Your2ndPlace: The Lily Pad Lounge, a live-music venue which has existed since 2003, closed and the land was put up for sale. It was located Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-77409637996281453412010-06-18T18:15:00.003-04:002010-09-06T22:18:04.464-04:00Seconderth (a deep map) : Stillman
You may have noticed, if you've been looking in on this series, the highlighted Attractions on the map: A through M, 13 in total. After 7-1/2 years, two of them are still there: "The Man" in Natoma, and the Free Bazaar in Stillman.
The build itself is not the original (it dates from 2006), but the location remains, and so does some of the original content. There are some special Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-49087304274796476792010-06-18T13:22:00.000-04:002010-06-18T13:22:33.688-04:00BBBC 6: Post MortemFinal topic:
If this is your first BBBC... What did you get out of your experience? Do you think it will change the way you blog in the future?
If you're a veteran.... Did you find this year to be harder or easier than previous years? Did you have fun? What did you get out of it this time around? Do you think you'd do it again?
It was my first BBBC, but now I'm a veteran, so....
I got two Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-37309760555673880102010-06-17T11:22:00.002-04:002010-06-17T11:33:56.900-04:00Impenetrability[BBBC 5: "Blogger's choice! Write about anything that's on your mind!"]
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less.'
'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you CAN make words mean so many different things.'
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master-- that's all.'
Alice was too much Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-16452603263844058712010-06-16T16:36:00.001-04:002010-06-16T21:02:57.595-04:00Seconderth (a deep map) : Varney
The first of the overviews was taken in March of this year; the second, two months later. I was out showing a new friend some of the 'ancient' builds nearby, and did a double-take, "Wait a minute... Varney's not empty anymore!" And so it goes, in Second Life -- the single adjective that comes most often to my mind is ephemeral.
Even so, two major builds -- in both size and historical Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-33056134689869931392010-06-16T01:51:00.002-04:002010-06-18T13:34:02.607-04:00BBBC 4: Old wine in new bottlesDay #4 of the BBBC:
SL Bloggers - Is your avatar more or less your current biological age? Do you portray a younger avatar, or older? Why is this?
RL Bloggers - Do you lie about your age? Do you think you act your age? Are you where you thought you'd be at your current age?
Funny you should ask...
Back around the first of the year, as I was contemplating expanding my virtual presence into Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162777946343325711.post-41964891212085620902010-06-15T18:12:00.001-04:002010-06-18T13:32:34.128-04:00BBBC 3: RelationalHere we go again -- Day 3 of the BBBC, and the topic is, well... personal.
SL Bloggers - How hard do you think it is to find a relationship in SL? If you have an SL relationship, have you met in the physical world? Would you meet them? Do you think it would change your SL relationship if you met?
RL Bloggers - Would you start a relationship with someone you met online? Would you have a problem Lalo Tellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com0