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I can see I need to do some Christmas shopping for Count von Hirvi. I am picturing him in a powered Jacques...
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L'art Antique: Lots of New Products!
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Where is your shop, M. Vordun? I cannot seem to find it in SL Search.
Sims and Courts - Conclusion
Communty News & Events
I hate to do this to you, Mr. Callaghan, given that you are generously volunteering your time, but perhaps when you have completed your research into the Court of Carlos III, you should publish yet another up to date list - which I realize, given the nature of Second Life, may again go out of date quickly.
What are you Reading?
Book Lovers
I have recently completed the third in a trilogy of novels by Hannu Rajaniemi, a Finn with a PhD in maths and physics who lives in Scotland and writes in English. The books are science fiction: The Quantum Thief, The Fractal Prince , and The Causal Angel, and they look into the matter of what may happen when life is digitized in a quantum multiverse. They aren't easy reading, and they become more challenging as they go along, because they shift your whole paradigm of what may constitute life and identity - but despite your growing apprehension of strangeness, they carry you along, and you care about the characters.
The author also pulls in the archetype of the honest thief, the tradition of storytelling that includes Robin Hood, Arsene Lupin, and Simon Templar - leading you perhaps to a little more understanding of what may lay at the heart of such icons, or at least the particular icon of Lupin, and why they fascinate us so much in their race to hide or transform their feet of clay.
There is an equally interesting interview with Dr. Rajaniemi in the Guardian, interesting to me particularly because in part it explores the matter of how the language we are speaking, and our relationships with a particular language or languages and the people with whom we tend to speak it, can transform our personas and our ways of relating with the world.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/nov/09/hannu-rajaniemi-quantu...
What are you Reading?
Book Lovers
I have just finished reading, in reverse order (the sequence in which I found them at my local second hand bookstore!) three of the first four volumes of a really absorbing series by Barbara Hambly: A Free Man of Color , Graveyard Dust , and Sold Down the River (diligently seeking the second book, Fever Season , now - I may have to break down and turn to Amazon!)
The books take place in the 1830's in New Orleans and the surrounding bayous, and feature as the main character Benjamin Janvier, or January, a well-educated francophone "free man of color" who must negotiate the growing injustices of a New Orleans in transition from French to American domination, marked by increasing curtailment of rights, security and general respect for the so-called "colored" (genetically mixed) population of Louisiana that accompanied the generation-long evolution from Creole to "Kaintuck" (upriver American) dominance. Because the books are mysteries, we gain particular insight into the changing role of the criminal justice system in the abuse of racial minorities in the decades that followed the Louisiana Purchase and the War of 1812, but the author explores a wide range of the issues of the times.
Barbara Hambly is known for her works of fantasy, which I've also read and enjoyed, but this series absorbs me and broadens my historical insight in a way that leads me to believe this is the series she was always meant to write. I can't believe I didn't stumble on it until this year; Free Man of Color came out in 1997.
Rental Etiquette and Supporting Your Community in Second Life
General Discussion
Now that I share responsibility for a homestead that's half ocean, I am starting to appreciate the challenge of prims. My partner and I keep several hundred prims unused to facilitate intersim sailing for our whole community, with rezzing rights allowed to everyone for the same reason, and most people respect this and use the rights as intended, to facilitate sailing, battle, and community RP. However, every so often we'll discover quantities of prims and scripts that other people have left just sitting around. Sometimes it's not their fault - we've all been logged out by the system and had trouble getting back on - and sometimes they don't realize that the lag that ejected them has left hulls sitting around on mountaintops, but sometimes they're just too thoughtless to come back and clean up. Sometimes they think it's a joke, too, but when more than a handful of prims are left, it isn't a joke for anyone trying to move.
Olavi and I can't be sure of logging on absolutely every day in order to clean up after others. Because litter makes intersim sailing and RP more difficult for everyone in the community, it becomes a community problem, not just our own.Those who don't control their prim litter are robbing all kinds of responsible community participants of the enjoyment that their investments of rent, tier and RP time should bring them. It's very tempting to send bills to a few people - if only collection were possible.
Period Clothing Options for Mesh Bodies! Twelfth Night Designs! (UPDATED)
Apparel
I was about to post the following question and then realized the answer was in the link provided in MariaJosefa Baudin's response above:
"What about shoes? I purchased Slink feet for myself because I couldn't resist some shoes...if I went for a Maitreya body, would shoes bought for Slink feet work with it? or is it possible to wear Slink feet on the Maitreya body?"
The answer is that I can't wear the shoes directly on the body, but I can wear the feet, and hence may still wear the shoes while wearing the feet! Thank you for sharing that very useful chart, Mme. Baudin.
Period Clothing Options for Mesh Bodies! Twelfth Night Designs! (UPDATED)
Apparel
That's very reassuring. I may yet invest in a mesh shape, therefore. And appliers will certainly fix the issue of looking slim-hipped and flat-stomached even in the largest mesh size in the dressmaker's box.
Period Clothing Options for Mesh Bodies! Twelfth Night Designs! (UPDATED)
Apparel
This is slightly off-topic, but I've avoided mesh bodies because I like to customize shape to my own preferences and character needs. Is it possible to edit the details of a mesh shape, and if it is, does the editor need to invest in any particular tools to do it?
Marchioness Conygham was FAT in 1820! I haven't been able to find any mesh clothing that will show more than a slight plumpness, although the system shape allows me to pad her as much as I please.