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Well tonight with nothing much else for me to do in SL I decided to play fashonista. I tried out a new umbrella animation set I recently got from StoRin by Annah Whitfield and took a few pictures while listening to some nails tunes.



I think about 60 seconds into playing with all of the cool poses and textures on the included umbrellas I knew that the outfit I was wearing simply wouldn't do.  It was obviously time to break out one of my beloved Draconic Kiss poofy dresses.  Not that I ever need an excuse to wear those.



Ahh much better!  With my new change of clothing it was time to give this set of animations a real shot.  The set came with 10 different animations for both open and closed umbrellas.  Both of which came included in the set.  I played around more with the open umbrella animations because I liked them better.  That and since the animations ran separately from the umbrella itself, I was able to use them with umbrellas that I already owned like one of my favorite SL items, The Grave Digger parasol from Wilted Rose.



All in all I thought it was a fun set.  It has some really cute and feminine poses and made for some nice photographs.  And it was a lot of fun being a fashionista.  I'll be trying that again for sure! 

 

I logged in a little bit ago to work on a problem I'm having with YouTube loaders no longer working when I got a message from my friend Modesta Heying asking if I smoked. "Well not really" I answered because I've never really been able to get into cigarettes in real life. She said she didn't either, but it couldn't cause you any health problems in SL and she passed me a smoking animation over rider she made for her shop MALDITA ANIMATION. I opened it up and tried it on. My avatar quickly went from the generic default SL "stick in the ass" standing pose, to a very feminine and pretty pose. Every few seconds my avatar would take a puff from her new cig. I love it! And since the cig she holds in her right hand is not connected to the AO itself that attaches to your hud, it would be easy to interchange what you have attached to your avatars hand. I might play around a bit and have Sarah Nerd smoke a purple bubble pipe, so even on days I don't feel like pretend smoking a cig, I can still use the AO and the animations that I have instantly fallen in love with.

For as long as I can remember many people have disliked the appearance of the huge red flashing Ban lines that appeared when a neighbor set the land to no entry. That's why most estates I know have always had a "no banlines" clause in the covenant, and one of the many small reasons people prefer estates. I understand the need for privacy to some people. I didn't really understand the need for the ugly walls. Well that's soon to be a thing of the past. In an upcoming viewer, LL has decided to ad a feature that has the ability to turn off the visibility of ban lines. If you like the ugly red lines, well you will still be able to see them, but for the rest of us they will soon be seeing the off button. Personally I love this feature. Like others, I've talked about it at past office hours. I'm happy that they have listened to residents on the issue and took action.
So long flashing red text walls!

I just finished attending the very first of many Town Hall Meeting to discuss ideas for the Second Tea Party. The idea of these meetings is to get as many members from the SL community as possible involved in the entire convention process, and to remain as transparent as possible with every aspect of it. I think the meeting went rather well. I'm posting the chat log for anyone that may have missed it. This log (and any that follow) will also be available on the Second Tea Party wiki, and social network. If anyone would like the two signs just message me in world and I'll drop them on you.

[14:03] Taco Rubio: well let's start up i guess - thanks everybody who showed up for the first of what we hope are several second tea party town halls....
[14:03] Loki Clifton: would you like my seat
[14:03] Rosemary Galbraith is Offline
[14:03] Nethermind Bliss: hey! :)
[14:03] Nethermind Bliss: not at all lol
[14:03] Nethermind Bliss: just cruisin at a laggy speed
[14:03] Taco Rubio: ....as you SLU kids know, we started this off with the intent of keeping everything democratic and transparent - i hope we're doing so, so far
[14:04] Taco Rubio: today moo had some things to explain, and then after we were going to have a Q&A time, which I'll moderate so we don't spam local chat.....so if you can think of questions IM me with them and if they aren't totally retarded I'll ask them for you ok?
[14:05] moo Money: Hi everyone :)
[14:05] Multi Gadget v1.57.1 by Timeless Prototype
[14:05] Nethermind Bliss: hi, moo!
[14:05] Taco Rubio: i'm taking the profound silence as "sounds great taco", take it away moo :)
[14:05] Ben Turas: lol
[14:05] Sarah Nerd waves at Sean { Read more }

I've always disliked the in-world Vampire game known as Bloodlines, and have been pretty vocal with my reasons for that. My main issue was that they sat around my freebie area and preyed on new players who didn't know better in order to get more "bites" under their name on the Bloodlines website. I've resorted to using a "BuffyBot", and have had long periods with scripts turned off in my shop to disable their huds to help the problem. I always hated doing that because doing so also meant I was disabling language translators and cutting off communication for a lot of players who aren't English speakers.

So today I was really happy to learn that the new huds they have released are starting to address these issues. The new update I'm particularly fond of is that they are no longer able to bite other players that are under 14 days old. I think this new rule may have been made in order to prevent their own players from creating alts to get in more bites. Whatever the reason, I'm happy with it and hope it helps. I'm going to turn my scripts back on and see if this new change has stopped my problem, or least made it much less noticeable.

As posted by the lovely Alexa over at SLU...

Second Tea Party is organizing a resident created real-life get together in Las Vegas August 6th - 9th with several exciting events planned. We're looking for an amazing logo for our site, t-shirts and other fun products. For more details about the event see SecondTeaParty.com. Everyone is welcome to join us in Vegas!

This contest will run for 2 weeks. Final submissions must be posted by midnight, Wednesday, March 28th, SLT*.

4 logos will be chosen, and these will be voted on by your fellow residents in-world. (The finalists' logos must be in one of the following formats: .eps, .tiff, or .psd, preferably .psd, and submissions need to be created in high resolution for full consideration.) The winning logo will be announced, and that person will win $10,000L! The lucky winner will see the winning logo on our website and be part of Second Life's history.

Details:

Please include the following info in your logo design:

* Second Tea Party
* Las Vegas
* August 6th - 9th

Submit your logo to the following Flickr group Flickr: Please wait...

By joining this Flickr group, you agree that all submissions will be licensed Creative Commons Attribution Only. We don't expect to commercially exploit your work in any major way, but we will need commercial use rights to be able to potentially use your logo on print-on-demand nametags that people could order, etc. For more information about the details and terms of this license, please read the license itself located at:Atrribution-Share Alike 3.0 (link to Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported)

*Second Life time

If you hadn't caught onto it yet, I'm very excited about the Second Tea Party coming up in August. And, we now have a cool social network site. It allows us to put up custom profiles, share event ideas, and just chat and have fun with other residents going, or considering attending the Second Tea Party. I'm really enjoying using it so far and I love getting better connected to the people I'll be spending a few days with this summer. If you haven't seen it already take a look!