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Today Day Oh released new mega prims. These are not the cut and hacked ones, they are newly created! The first set the .5 series is perfect for those parcel sized builds like in Fermi Sandbox. They are free, and over 2000 in the first box are available here http://slexchange.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=685589

This is huge, and was first reported by Lillie Yifu.

We moved to our recently donated sim! It has been a hectic week with my RL work taking up about 60 hours, and my partner in the middle of an RL move and offline. But it is open, with shops, and ready for business. There is of course work to be done to finish it up, but that can happen at any time. I want to thank all the sandbox managers, and everyone else who has donated, helped, and everything else. I will post a bit more this weekend.

Visit Fermi Sandbox

I’ll begin this at the end, Thanks Steffen, you are amazing!

Late last month one of our sandbox builders approached Kai (Eldirch, my partner) and asked if we were interested in a free sim … of course we were. Our first thought is I wonder what this will cost us, not that we are cynical; it’s just that we are cynical, and nothing is ever free. Steffen invited us to his sim, this wasn’t a run of the mill sim with a common build. It was a work of art! It was a sim of caves, and tunnels, shops, wildlife and beauty. We asked several times if he was sure, we felt bad knowing that we would flatten it out and put up some shops for rent and a big flat space for the sandbox.

Here we are, about 15 days later, we put the tickets in to get the sim transferred this morning (4/12/08). He sold the land to me for 0L and added me to the estate manger list so I could get working. Just like a dream, Fermi sandbox has grown from that very first little plot of 1536m back in 2006 to this amazing full sim! When asked why, he said “I like building in your sandbox, and wanted to help”.

All I have left really to say is that I hope you come and visit the new Fermi sandbox, and if you ever run across Steffen Menjou, thank him for me!

From Everyone at Fermi Sandbox & University,
Thanks Steffen, you are amazing!

(Pictures of his sim, his vision will be here, I am just waiting on their delivery)

Plot Summary:
Ernest, dork griefer comes back and annoys a sandbox manger who is also an SL Mentor. Things don't go well for the uber brilliant Ernest when he finds that the sandbox manger is unimpressed with his reasoning.

[20:03] Ernest Finkler: hello?
[20:03] Ernest Finkler: are you the sandbox owner?
[20:03] You: no im a manager whats up?
[20:03] Ernest Finkler: Who owns it
[20:03] Ernest Finkler: I was talking to someone last night
[20:03] Ernest Finkler: who appeared to own it
[20:03] You: Kai Eldritch and Arthur fermi
[20:04] Ernest Finkler: I al looking to stage a brief science experiment here
[20:04] You: lets see if he is online
[20:04] Ernest Finkler: arthur is not
[20:04] You: neither owners are online at the moment ims orry
[20:04] Ernest Finkler: Can i run it briefly then
[20:04] You: you can run it at Lindens Sandbox
[20:05] Ernest Finkler: Its just a stress test
[20:05] Ernest Finkler: hang on
[20:05] Ernest Finkler: I am testing a few hundred sims
[20:05] You: there is no way for us to reboot the sim its not a good idea
[20:05] Ernest Finkler: to assertain the cneed for upgrading to havock servers
[20:05] Ernest Finkler: i selected this sim from linden released dats to be a prime candidate
[20:06] Ernest Finkler declined your inventory offer.
[20:06] You: Ernest are you a linden? did you develope havock? Id suggest getting a linden involved and testing their sims
[20:06] Ernest Finkler: I understand
[20:06] You: or get arthur here to assist
[20:06] Ernest Finkler: I am a third party investigator
[20:06] You: by pre planning with him
[20:06] Ernest Finkler: Unfortunately linden has no money to run any investigation of there pown
[20:06] Ernest Finkler: ao i am shall we say fill ing a nitch
[20:06] You: i really dont believe that. lol
[20:07] Ernest Finkler: that linden has no money?
[20:07] Ernest Finkler: Check there market data
[20:07] You: theycertainly have more money than i do.

This is a conversation I had last night when a guy rezed nukes in the sandbox. Please forgive my spelling, I suck at it, and my real attention was on my other computer where I was busily working on a companies server remotely. I have to say that normally, I would just ban the guy, and go on my way, however, this sounded too good to pass up. But I want to start this off with a quote from Ghostbusters, I'm sure most of you will remember the scene.

Dr. Peter Venkman: Alice, I'm going to ask you a couple of standard questions, okay? Have you or any of your family been diagnosed schizophrenic? Mentally incompetant?
Librarian Alice: My uncle thought he was Saint Jerome.
Dr. Peter Venkman: I'd call that a big yes. Uh, are you habitually using drugs? Stimulants? Alcohol?
Librarian Alice: No.
Dr. Peter Venkman: No, no. Just asking. Are you, Alice, menstruating right now?
Library Administrator: What's has that got to do with it?
Dr. Peter Venkman: Back off, man. I'm a scientist.

And here was my funny convo tonight

[19:42] Arthur Fermi: No weapons
[19:43] Arthur Fermi: do that again and your banned
[19:43] Ernest Finkler: they your are
[19:43] Ernest Finkler: is this not a sandbox
[19:43] Ernest Finkler: I was told this is a nice place to work
[19:43] Arthur Fermi: yes, its a weapons free sandbox
[19:43] Arthur Fermi: it is, not with nukes
[19:43] Ernest Finkler: oh dear sir that not a weapon
[19:43] Arthur Fermi: you rezed nukes
[19:43] Arthur Fermi: they are weapons
[19:44] Ernest Finkler: Nukes?
[19:44] Ernest Finkler: I am a scientist in real life
[19:44] Arthur Fermi: rockets, call em what you want, they don't belong here
[19:44] Ernest Finkler: and take offence to the idea of rockets being nukes
[19:44] Ernest Finkler: I am sorry then for breaking the rules
[19:44] Ernest Finkler: I did not realize that science was not welcome here

I had some friends who bought some land on a private sim, it was a good deal. Aparrently too good! Below is the unedited chat log, from the first talk with the land owner, then the guy who removed them. It is amazing that things like this are allowed to go on. It just goes to show that there are many who have land for sale and rent who are nothing more than scam artists.

We were scammed by Parish Blessed and Eloy Avro.. We were sold some land... told what we could do, paind the tier... then a couple of days later is ws returned from us AFTER we were told it was allowed and was approved by the Estate Owner.
I have transaction reports showing i paid.
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[2008/02/09 16:33] You: L$16,000 starit on the last day of th month
[2008/02/09 16:33] You: straight I mean
[2008/02/09 16:33] Parish Blessed: last day of march is due again
[2008/02/09 16:33] Parish Blessed: nods
[2008/02/09 16:34] You: okay *Smiles* I think we can do that, and we can ban fitzcaraldo darcy, for out parcel right?
[2008/02/09 16:35] Parish Blessed: So once u buy land pay tier, and yes, you can, as i said i banned him from Sim.
[2008/02/09 16:35] You: so I just buy and pay you and all is good till the end of march?
[2008/02/09 16:35] Parish Blessed: I am giving u Feb free so ur 16000 will cover ur march
[2008/02/09 16:35] Parish Blessed: yes

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[2008/02/09 16:43] Annalyse Dragonash: unn, can you set the region ot allow terraforming please?
[2008/02/09 16:46] Annalyse Dragonash: *Smiles and waits patiently*
[2008/02/09 16:46] Parish Blessed: ops sorry yes
[2008/02/09 16:46] Annalyse Dragonash: thanks so much *smiles*
[2008/02/09 17:21] Annalyse Dragonash: you can turn off terraforming again, I am done, thank you again
[2008/02/09 17:21] Parish Blessed: it is fine like that, your welcome smiles

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I recieved this two days later in notecard from Eloy Avro
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Lillie Yifu directed me over to the Second Life Wiki today. I have been there before, but it seems to be pretty good, though a bit out of date. I would encourage everyone to go out there, add themselves, places of interest etc.

A good documentation of the history of SL is strongly needed, and while people/places and things come and go, to be able to see the change is an excellent thing :)