So I made a lighthouse, a kind of short and stumpy one on tiny, rocky island located at the far eastern edge of the region. I see why there are so many of these in virtuality, as making one is really just pulling cylinders out of each other and tapping on them a little bit. Still, I like the glow effect from the light and such a structure seems kind of necessary in a waterworld like mine.
Some more landscape from my Opensim.
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Tonight I moved North and started working on a new, yet-to-be-named island. I’m wanting this one to be kind of wind-swept and lonely, without much if any trace of human habitation. As I was working, I realized that the orientation of all the islands I’ve made so far is toward the East, and that there …
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All of my fickle relationships with this blog aside, I’ve recently become totally consumed with Opensim and have carved out a little homestead (or two) in the wilds of the Hypergrid. I tried Opensim a few years back, and I have to say that it has come a LONG way. The setup still challenged my …
There is another process shaping these islands
where you have to begin with a stretch (as in
that’s a stretch), and New England was once
much bigger, the tropics had much more water,
but the water doesn’t sunder the land from itself,
is stormless and without any power. All it can do
is hug these islands and coasts and sometimes
change color as it listens only to this other
thing at work, arranging and arranging,
all the while building theories of synecdoche
for dock, breaker, beach that seem to split the shore.
That breeze that fills your sail and carries you.
Those docks where the other boats moor.
These sentences from deep inside the other
thing that carry you past the shore.
I made a free sailboat for anyone who is interested. You can find out more about it and get your copy here on the SL Marketplace.
traffic spike taken seaward. don’t sail into the wind with sharp spikes.
always at an angle. sailboats have the truth of how always things work.
what can you hit head-on?
what would you want to?
my sailboat is small, but it has a nice buffet. the steam trays
are always at a proper temperature for food to be kept safe and edible.
ahoy! the skippers in the passing boats say to me.
i just learned how to shout, so i owe response to a lot of you good skippers.
don’t take my silence personally
because it was just ignorance in me, a thing about usability.
it’s easy to shout once you know how to do it,
just like all things intuitive where clear instructions are tantamount.
I’ve used Windows for most of my life, but one day while I was looking for icons for a website I was working on, I got a virus so bad that I couldn’t get rid of it. I tried everything, all the cleaners and malwarebytes and everything and it was still there in my system tray, jumping ahead of me when I wanted to get on the internet. It really fucking sucked.
I decided to just wipe the whole thing and, rather than go down the Windows road again, I installed Ubuntu Linux. I didn’t know what I’d get, but I knew that I probably wouldn’t have viruses anymore and that I’d have to start typing sudo stuff into the terminal to make things happen that occur by default within popular operating systems, like making the computer play YouTube.
So I waited for the CD to install and fretted. I make a living with the computer, so this was kind of a big deal for me. What appeared, though, when everything had finished, was this really beautiful screen with washy maroon tones and sharp icons in a sidebar and brown readable menus with orange highlights and everything just looking really good and pro and well designed. I opened Firefox, which came with the system, and, because I had installed something called “restricted extras” (I like restricted things, so I said why not?) YouTube played without a hitch. I tried Second Life, and it worked great. There was an officey productivity suite. Nothing was a problem.
I was so happy, and my machine, though it is three years old, felt like new, just really fast and confident. The only thing I had to do was type some sudo stuff into the terminal to make double-sided DVDs play. I typed it in, and it worked fine. Who knew?
and maybe it’s gray enough to light
the old oil heater. i’m trying
as hard as i can, but this talk
is molasses afterburner
so the space is slow, and i’m hiding.
i thought about pop-up window
news articles with start and end dates set
a few days apart and how
we have to hope that grandma
checked her email in time enough to click
through to the article before it was
gone to a private archive on the admin side
or maybe her daughter-in-law printed it
and mailed it to her so
she could see little jeannie
accepting the science award
there was a photo, even
with jeannie that grandma would like,
but the pop up window isn’t easy
to print, so here’s how:
click on the window and press
ALT+Printscreen keys, then
open MS Paint and paste
then save the image to your desktop
import the image into Word
then print from there.
that is what i thought about
and frogs.
I made some prints that you can download and put up on the walls of your house.
Drapes (potato print)
Tupi Mountain House (pencil and gauche)
Tupi c. 1939 (photographer unknown)
Washy summer (engraving)
Self portrait (digital print)
Sachiebade's secondthirdforth 