Tag Archives: second life

Finishing up the roof and designing an interior

I finally hunkered down to finishing up the exterior of the new structure. When I looked at the old design I found that the roof and the bottom of the structure lacked balance. I went back and studied some real life examples of Tibetan structures and other similar structures with a shape that I liked. [...]

Sharing an Election in Second Life

  I thought I might share a moment with you that I’m sure you have all shared.  I shared it with friends far away through Second Life.  The election went on with my Sangha friends.  But here are some pictures from later on in the evening as we watched the Obama speech. Have shrooms will [...]

Construction of a New Space in Second Life

  As I mentioned in my last post, I have started crafting a new structure in Second Life (SL).  Working the roofing in the style of a Tibetan temple.  This, I knew would be a challenge.  For those interested in what I see when I’m editing such a structure in SL here is a image [...]

Creating Stuff – Relaxing in the Virtual Ether

  I spent most of my time this weekend working on various home stuffs and of course working on various projects that all seemed close to my computer.  I had started on another variant of my last song, but my microphone was giving me grief, so I decided to work on other virtual stuffs.  One [...]

Issues around renting land in Second Life

Since I have started talking about the various problems I had run into renting land from other than the Lindens in Second Life, others have mentioned to me that they have run into the same type of problems.  (Check out the post Why you shouldn’t rent from FairChang a SL horror story for more details). [...]

Putting the pieces of my Second Life back together

After the great FairChang hurricane that ended up destroying my property and shipping it to me in random sized pieces, (read the post “Why you shouldn’t rent from FairChang – A SL Horror Story” for the details,) Dogen and I decided to find us some linden land. What we found was much larger, allows much [...]

Why you shouldn’t rent from FairChang – A SL Horror Story

– Stay away from FairChang, as well as these people associated with FairChang: Garth FairChang, Pituca FairChang, William FairChang, Charles FairChang, Cobra Briggs, FireEyes Fauna, Rod Longcloth, SilverSpike Decosta. It is a bad idea. Read on for more details. — DV Before I headed off to bed last night, I refreshed my mail and watched [...]

A Mermaid is Playing my Violin – A Conversation with a New Second Life Friend

Something happened the other day that brought me back to the earlier days of my time on Second Life.  When I have the time and energy, I usually gravitate toward creative pursuits.  I’m kind of geeky, so I love to kick the tires on new tools and forms of expression; Second Life seemed to fit [...]

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