What Is This Crap? http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/ Make gravity your bitch. en Copyright 2008 Sun, 11 May 2008 15:32:32 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Mother's Day kittycats Um... I won't tell Nardo if you don't, okay?]]> http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/mothers_day.html http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/mothers_day.html Edloe Sun, 11 May 2008 15:32:32 -0800 Texas alamo 1 Uh oh. They have cannons! alamo 2 Lots of maps and historical information inside the Alamo, but... no basement in the alamo Why isn't Pee Wee Herman's bicycle buried under it? Let's check out the State House: texas state house 4 It's mostly mallspace (Sylvester Turner is on sale for 500 lindens), but has an art gallery, too. seal crap 1 Yes, the white suit is partially inspired by Marvin Zindler, who closed down the Chicken Ranch, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, yadda yadda. Felt funny parking the av in the seal here. ann richards I still don't understand how she could kick Claytie's ass but get steamrolled by Shrub. Oh well. Knock back a tequila with Molly for me, Annie.]]> http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/texas_1.html http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/texas_1.html Sun, 11 May 2008 10:24:54 -0800 Cross-dimensional Relaycast? half a hips Heron Island blew up while Tanglewood rolled along. What I find amusing about this is that Frogg and Jay are in the same room in RL, face-to-face like a musical Bouvard and Pecuchet, but the SL platform fails to the point of one vanishing from view of the other. It's one of those kinda things that could get you standing on a soap box in Hyde Park raving for at least two ours on the nature of space and time.]]> http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/crossdimensional_relaycast.html http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/crossdimensional_relaycast.html Music Sun, 11 May 2008 06:29:43 -0800 Playing hooky from Grace Grace's set in the Elf Lands earlier in the day... grace among the elves 5 So I figured twice in one day would be, like, totally stalker-weird or something, so when Dolmere tossed me a note about this Building Shelter thing at Wingo, I hopped over. It's a builder contest kinda thing where you have to build using raw prims. No scripts, no textures. You've got 10 minutes to build something based on the topic and then there's 2 minutes of voting by the aghast audience. Closeup on idiot robot: crap the builder Yay. shelter building 1 I don't remember what the topic was for this one, but "a tube full of tennis balls" is a line out of GTA4 and it kinda stuck in my mind. So, I went for broke with it and played it surreal. Then... shelter building 2 Slight industrial accident. Pass the Bactine, please. shelter building 3 This one was about someone being so lazy, they had a remote to do something. Remote-controlled toilets get them EVERY time, I figure. shelter building 4 I liked this one. shelter building 5 I'm not sure what this one was about, but I wanted to do a concentric sphere radiation kinda thing and the light switch with blood drops followed from that. I tossed my winning back in the Shelter tipjar along with some extra because they do neat things. I should wing by there more often.
It's a neat thing they do there, and it's at 6PM Saturdays... same time as Grace, unfortunately, but if you've caught her at Glass Earth and Freudian Slip and other performances during the week, she'll just slash you with a whiskey bottle instead of killing you outright for missing a show, right? Hurts. So. Good.]]> http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/playing_hooky_from_grace.html http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/playing_hooky_from_grace.html Sun, 11 May 2008 06:18:20 -0800 Rivets rivets in rails It's going to take a while, but detail-work is always worth it. Plus, it's the same texture everywhere, so it'll load lickety-split. Sure, I could stick to shiny chrome or basic shiny metal edges, but that's boring. I abhor boring.]]> http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/rivets.html http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/rivets.html Edloe Sat, 10 May 2008 13:34:42 -0800 Iron iron men Humans pretending to be made of iron while an iron robot pretends to be human.
I was working on a Matzoh Man, but all those damn prims! Ugh!]]> http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/iron.html http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/iron.html Sat, 10 May 2008 12:06:20 -0800 Relaycasting chaos max dolmere 3 Wait. Prankster Island? Did Merry Pranksters move or something? I read SLMC like anyone else, sure, but weren't they on Basilisk? I really can't keep up with things anymore. Oh well.]]> http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/relaycasting.html http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/relaycasting.html Music Sat, 10 May 2008 07:33:28 -0800 Dynamic elements dome marble 1 dome marble 2 dome marble 3 The water texture acts as a flowing marble highlight in the interior dome glass. I may hunt down something more subtle in tone so it doesn't obstruct the night sky as much. I did a check of the island's prims, and the prims I'm accountable for is a bit over my budget, so I'll be snipping a few things out here and there to get it back under control. Shouldn't be too hard... a rose here.. a flaming barrel there... the unused elevator platform in the sky...]]> http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/dynamic_elements.html http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/dynamic_elements.html Edloe Sat, 10 May 2008 07:29:41 -0800 Three Podcasts daphne and cee 2 Let's see if anybody (except for Daphne) can name them all in the comments.]]> http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/three_podcasts.html http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/three_podcasts.html Edloe Fri, 09 May 2008 07:09:25 -0800 Rusty rusty turns 2 I really like his Rosedrop Media Circus podcast. The interviews with musicians combined with a few numbers is a format that really needs exploring in SL podcasting. I keep hearing of others starting these things up, but I've yet to see one launch or get past the critical 5 episode barrier. I'd do one myself, but I just don't have the time.]]> http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/rusty_1.html http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/rusty_1.html Music Fri, 09 May 2008 07:00:10 -0800 The Beautiful cee watches the sunset at slip Then either build something that beautiful to hold your meeting in, or take your meeting and shove it. Life's too short for ugly, first or second. Don't just build a conference room. Don't just build a temporary tomb for everybody to rot in. Don't just stack shit shoulder-high and call it art. Blow. Me. Away. Blow. Me. The. Fuck. Away. I want the gods of Mount Olympus to look down and mutter "Why the fuck can't we hang out somewhere cool like THAT place?" I want the trophies to envy the grandeur of the trophy case. I want to sit in a ludicrous throne that a Bond villain would be envious of at a model of your great master plan and be totally unable to resist a laugh that would make 007 piss his Tuxedo. I want my client to crash from IMs yelling HAVE YOU SEEN THIS PLACE?????? Put your goddamned soul into this shit and HEAVE, motherfuckers! RAAAAWWWRRRRRRRRRR!]]> http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/the_beautiful.html http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/the_beautiful.html Fri, 09 May 2008 06:28:47 -0800 Mavericks and Meetings Rezzable Town Meeting yesterday because there wasn't anything I needed and if anybody needed anything from me, they can always IM me. Meetings are useless in RL and doubly-useless in SL. I looked back at the transcript... yeah... interesting... yup... blending between parcels... yadda yadda... lots of fawning... blah blah blah... I was right. Didn't need to be there. Glad I spend most of yesterday sleeping. Yeah yeah yeah... would have been nice to be at Torley's office hours or Cybergrrl's Thursday whatever-gathering, but I needed recharge time. If folks need hashing things out, just fire up a forum discussion thread and let everybody take a punch at the wall at their convenience. Let the thread go for a few days, see what comes out of it, and occasionally step in to wrangle the jokeysmurfs who derail the sucker. Don't agree with my attitude on this? Fine. Pull the trigger. I can make my pretty elsewhere.]]> http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/mavericks_and_meetings.html http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/mavericks_and_meetings.html Fri, 09 May 2008 06:15:17 -0800 Playing with Windlight Grace tonight... grace at slip 09 grace and red sunset grace at slip 04 And then... um... grace monkeyhair When she showers, it's banana, rinse, repeat?]]> http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/playing_with_windlight.html http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/playing_with_windlight.html Music Thu, 08 May 2008 20:14:37 -0800 Skinemax Island skinemax Shit, even their color bars are softcore porn, eh.]]> http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/skinemax_island.html http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/skinemax_island.html Thu, 08 May 2008 19:54:36 -0800 Flagpole flagpole The flag's flexi, too. And it it's Boston Red Sox, either.
After calling in sick and hitting the snooze bar, I checked the tower and found a bunch of prims had slid out of position in the legs and struts of the tower. So, I tore out the bad ones, rebuilt the poles I needed to remake, linked them up in sets, and locked the prims to prevent further accidents. I need to get better about locking prims. As much as I tinker, it's so easy to grab the wrong prim and cause massive damage to a build without even knowing it.]]> http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/flagpole.html http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/flagpole.html Edloe Thu, 08 May 2008 12:38:01 -0800