The fundraising starts 18FEB, the 24 hour relay walk around the sims is the weekend of 10JUN. Teams compete to raise funds and build themed camps along the track, with music, dancing, cheering, and remembering those lost to #cancer.
My favorite here is the prancing black unicorn. Didn’t see any Giant Racing Snails though (I have two).
I’m more of a #VintageFair or #SteamHunt person but #VirtualFashion is big business in #SecondLife
One of the unique features of Second Life is the ability for users to buy, sell, and create their own virtual clothing and accessories using the platform’s in-world economy.
— Read on www.virtuality.blog/the-virtual-fashion-industry-in-second-life/
The last time I made anything new or created something myself in #SecondLife was February 2019 for an inworld hunt I had participated in for years.
Then I got sucked into the inworld farming game (DFS) and spent all my time feeding, tending, planting, cooking, and photographing products for selling in the DFS markets.
I could go on about the mini-economy that Digital Farming Systems has become, but my personal experience is that it’s just taking up too much time and prim usage, and marketing the stuff is stressful and profitless for me.
I’m literally distilling my unwanted inventory down into a valuable object that can be auctioned; I’m going to grow and tend minimal stuff that won’t be marketed or photographed, and store what I don’t use.
More later. But I’m taking Blender classes and thinking about Making Things again.
From my flic.kr feed: “Two Steampunk mesh hats for the STEAM XIV Hunt”
Long time reader of the #SecondLife newspaper the #SLNewser – you have to ignore the outdated look. #RelayForLifeInSecondLife is a huge fundraising event for the American Cancer Society, raising millions of real US dollars over the years. In the interview with Gwen Sunkiller, reporter Bixyl Shuftan mentions “Fuzz and The Hair” and #Steelhead
Fuzzball Ortega in “The Hair” in Steelhead in autumn 2011. The Hair is by Curio Obscura.
Image from my Flickr album “Steelhead
I hope Fuzz has time for running the Steelhead Salmons RFL team this year, maybe I can help.
Second Life Newser: Interview With Gem Sunkiller
— Read on slnewser.blogspot.com/2023/01/interview-with-gem-sunkiller.html
Designed by Sabyasachi Mukherjee and styled with a gold Schiaparelli bodice, that sari was worn by Indian businessperson and socialite Natasha Poonawalla, and made headlines around the world for its dramatic mix of Indian and western couture.
Nearly 100 trailblazing saris, including the first ever to be worn at the Met Gala, will be displayed in the UK as part of a new large-scale exhibition examining the garment’s modern reinvention.
— Read on www.theguardian.com/fashion/2023/jan/10/design-museum-show-saris-modern-reinvention-met-ball
Also, no thank you, Herr #Gutenberg. I’m reverting back to the Classic Editor. The CLASSIC Classic editor, not your faux-classic sneaky actually a block editor. Nyah.
A couple of days ago I was unable to sleep and, as making major website changes is not recommended at 3 in the morning, I certainly did make them. I didn’t back up my site here, and I applied a “modern, clean, not crusty” theme called “Free Writer” from Elegant Themes. It seemed to have nice features for adding header images, etc, but when I tried to get a yes, old-fashioned 3-column layout done on the Appearances/Widgets page, I could not figure out how the “blocks” were supposed to be set up so that there was a sidebar on either side of my woefully inadequate content. Nope, nope nope, I thought it was because I was doing it on my iPhone. At 3am, remember.
So yesterday and up until about 30 minutes ago, I futzed around off and on trying to get sidebar/content/sidebar, and the elements that I was trying to put in sidebards were stubbornly going above the content.
Eh. So I installed a plugin called Classic Widgets, which as draggable objects instead of the whiffty blocks that weren’t going where I wanted. And then I got annoyed with the whole block post interface and turned off Automattic’s in-house “classic editor” and enabled the Really Classic Editor.
I am an Old. I qualify by chronology and temperament.
Now to figure out how to get the new-cool-kids social media links for Mastodon working. There’s a Twitter widget over there whose days are numbered, and I’m hoping for some kind of nice embed of my Mastodon posts.
And then there’s my backup SL Marketplace blog, which is at WordPress.com – it’s no longer getting crossposted from here due to some changes that WordPress/Automattic made, so it’s even more outdated. Le sigh.
I’m not going to touch the latest and greatest #Fediverse development on ActivityPub or Hub or whatever until I’m sure I’ve got things sorted here.
I hope to have my 3-column layout set up later this evening, the new theme is clean and flexible, but need to tinker with a mouse instead of an iPhone.
#FantasyFaire is coming in April, I hope? Start working on your outfits!
Beq’s techy blog: How to manage your FPS for events
— Read on beqsother.blogspot.com/2022/04/how-to-manage-your-fps-for-events.html
So I couldn’t sleep, and decided to try a different blog theme. It’s been a rough night.
Kitty’s Love Shack Bar, St John Bayou
I still see Kitty, who has his own sim now called #BayouChatNoir in #SecondLife – it’s very swampy and full of crazy eclectica. I’ve rented one of the shacks for a few months just for nostalgia’s sake. We used to be residents in the St John sims, gone for years now. Good times.
I wish I could watch this unfold. #KevinMcCarthy being #Humiliated is #schadenfreude
Following Tuesday’s chaotic House vote that initially denied Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) his long sought-after speakership, several CNN anchors and reporters took turns dunking on the Republican leader for finding new ways to embarrass himself.
— Read on www.thedailybeast.com/cnn-anchors-zing-kevin-mccarthy-his-humiliation-knows-no-bounds