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Bitter-sweet birthday bash and other sheds
This week, Linden Lab is celebrating Second Life’s 8th anniversary. Eight years, in technological terms, is an era. I’ve been around SL for half that time, and I can assure you, it still feels like 2007. Personally, I think that “shortage” of accomplishments, other than keeping the world going “round” and people logging in, is…
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Not water lilies, please
The SL waterways are full of water lilies, as if the Nymphaeaceae were the only nice looking water plants in the world. Yeah, yeah, I know: they are very similar, the Nymphaeaceae (the water lily family) and the Nelumbonaceae (the lotus kind). Don’t look at me that way, I didn’t give them those names. So for a long…
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AAPPAA Style
With so many visits to Asian-themed sims lately, the acquisition of a couple of Ryusho Ort’s builds (see some of his works in two previous posts, [1] and [2]), and a 4096 sq.m. empty lot, it was a matter of time –a very short time–before I turn the prims to face the Orient. It may sound…