G&S Vulos as messengers & Papyrus writing 101

QH Resources & Guides

Well isn't this a whole lot of role-play fun!

Thanks for showing us how it's done, Claire-Sophie.  I'll be trying it out soon

Foray Literary Society notes and plans

Communty News & Events

Very cool!

Besides Pride & Prejudice I've read:

• Pride & Prejudice & Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
• Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James
• Longbourn by Jo Baker, 2013, retelling Pride & Prejudice from the servants’ point of view

Might have to go on a binge re-reading and join you in December

Ephemera is back ~ and in Regency Somerset!

Business Announcements

That is good news!  Thanks, Merry

P.S.  I've moved this to Marketplace: Business Announcements.

Technology reveals story behind medieval book, The Aberdeen Bestiary

History

Technology reveals story behind medieval book, The Aberdeen Bestiary

New technology has revealed an ancient book owned by Henry VIII was not intended for the royal elite but was in fact a tool for teaching.

Digitally enhanced photography has uncovered the revelations about the lavishly illustrated medieval book, The Aberdeen Bestiary.

Interesting news about illuminated manuscripts.  So beautiful!

Second Life: New Perk! Prim Limit Increase

Gaming

Some extra-prim fun from Inara Pey!

A journey to the source of prims in Second Life

Second Life: New Perk! Prim Limit Increase

Gaming

You're very welcome! 

It's actually really new news as there wasn't any hint of it before it actually started happening on Tuesday.

Now what will you do with those extra prims??

Second Life: New Perk! Prim Limit Increase

Gaming

Lab reveals LI / prim allowance changes in Second Life in full

However, on Thursday, November 3rd, the Lab officially announced that they are increasing the Land Impact allowance for Second Life regions. The new allowances are:

• Full Regions:
  
  
  
  • Mainland: 22,500
  • Private estates:
    
    
    
    • 20,000 at the same tier price OR
    • 30,000 for an additional US $30 a month (+a one-off US $30 conversion fee to add / remove the extra 10K allowance)
• Homesteads: 5,000 (Mainland and private)
• OpenSpace: 1,000 (Mainland and private)

A tad disappointed that Private estates won't get the Mainland allowance of 22.5K but I'll take the extras on Homesteads and OpenSpace.

Second Life: New Perk! Prim Limit Increase

Gaming

This deserves a topic all of its own!!

Go Premium for 50% Off* & Enjoy Our Newest Perks, Plus an Exclusive Gift!   

New Perk! Prim Limit Increase

Premium members are entitled to a Linden Home and can own parcels on the Mainland. Now, we're raising the limit on the number of prims you can use in those spaces. This means you will have more prims and creative flexibility to decorate and customize your own space.   Land impact (object) capacity on Mainland Regions will go from 15,000 to 22,500 - that’s a lot more building capacity!

In addition to this, we will further carry the prim limit increases to the private estate regions shortly.  Keep your eye on our blogs for more information!

An episode of Designing Worlds comes out later this afternoon which talks more in-depth about this new perk. We’ll update this blog once it’s available.

WOOHOO!!

What are you Reading? v2

Book Lovers

Not my regular genre, but I absolutely loved The Nix.

 

Meet Samuel Andresen-Anderson - stalled writer, bored teacher at a local college, obsessive player of online video games. He hasn't seen his mother, Faye, in decades, not since she abandoned her family when he was a boy. Now she has suddenly reappeared, having committed an absurd politically-motivated crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the Internet, and inflames a divided country. The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high school sweetheart. Which version of his mother is true? Two facts are certain - she's facing some serious charges, and she needs Samuel's help.

As Samuel begins to excavate his mother's - and his country's - history, the story moves from the rural Midwest of the 1960s, to New York City during the Great Recession and the Occupy Wall Street movement, and back to the infamous riots at the 1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention. Finally, the trail leads him to wartime Norway, home of the mysterious Nix that his mother told him about as a child, a spirit that can take the shape of a white horse, luring children to their deaths. And in these places, Samuel will unexpectedly find that he has to rethink everything he ever knew about his mother - a woman with an epic story of her own, a story she has kept hidden from the world.

Well-drawn characters; I was rooting for some and really hoping others would get their just deserts.  Loved the insights, including the guys that play a fictional MMO called Elfscape.  The team leader spends five hours a day just in preparation for "having fun" later in the evening with his crew.  A cautionary tale for sure

The plot kept me guessing and I ended up binge-reading to get to the conclusion.

Highly recommended!

CdT & "TB" Family heirlooms, Chair Louis Philippe 1830 - 1848

House & Garden

Looks fabulous, Zed!  What a great project, to be able to model from your rl family treasures.

Thank you for the brief history of the Louis Philippe style, it's definitely one of my rl favourites.  Yes, I have one of those sleigh beds