Man vs Second Life 2

Thanks to CodeBastard Redgrave for sharing this over on Plurk.

Adam n Eve - New Goodness

So much goodness out on the grid lately. This denim dress - called JDS from sachi Vixen of Adam n Eve -has to be one of my top 10. It comes in two skirt styles and two colors...blue and green. I love it paired with the Western Waistcoat, also from Adam n Eve. Gorgeous!

The black booties are from Norman Maroon of FM Boots called Paris Boots. More from FM boots in a post coming soon. The brown boots are from Emma Gilmour of Surf Couture, called Olea boots, and were part of 50L Friday. They might still be available if you hurry! (Just checked. At 8:30 am slt they were still out!)

Close up of Western Waistcoat and 10L item offered. Available through Monday, Nov. 1. 

Joonie wears:

Dress & Waistcoat:  Adam n Eve
Boots: FM Boots
          Surf Co
Skin: Curio Elf
Hair: fri.day

Go.Spend.Be Happy.

JJ



Call for Couture Show and Auction

Most of the items below are still up for auction, ending Oct. 30th. Don't put off bidding til the last minute like I did and miss out on these designs!

Love the tux by SHIKI! And of course, Zaara, WTG Jewelry, and Purple Moon, Studio Sidhe...so many!

Enjoy and have fun! Take the LIMO!

JJ

New Truth Hair 10/28/10 3 female & 1 male

"Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed."  James Russell Lowell

I love this release. LOVE it. There's something in it for everyone. And yes, finally, a hair for the guys. Yay!

Cleo in champagne

Tamina in Fire

Drake in Mahogany - streaked

Liv in Champagne

Yummy goodness for all!

Teleport to Truth

Enjoy!

JJ

Caroline Apollo Jewelry

Today is Carolina Apollo's 7th Rezzday! Happy Rezzday, Carolina! Thanks for sharing your talent with us!

Just a couple of her amazing designs:

Carlotta Set in Ruby

Butterflies in Paris set for Call for Couture

You owe to yourself to drop by her store and check out the other amazing pieces of jewelry she has created. Enjoy!

Slurl to Caroline's Jewelry

New Truth Hair 10/21/10

“The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.”

Robyn in Cranberry/ginger streaks (love the way this one moves)

 Rei in Champagne (love this braid with sideswept bangs)

 

Robyn in champagne (love the velvet bow)

Gorgeous as usual!

Get on the Truth Train!

AssHandles - October 27 @ 6pm

Where:  AssHandles

When: Tuesday, October 26

Time: 6pm slt

Be there......trust me. No wait. Don't trust me. Trust Staciface. Stay tuned. More will be revealed.

Which One Are You?

Interesting post over on crap's blog:   http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2010/10/the_things_youll_miss.html

I love this sentence:

"....some kids reaching for the brass ring and some clinging to the pretty ponies in terror and some just sitting on the bench and watching it all turn and turn and turn and some looking at the center of the big machine and wondering about the greasy cloud oozing down from all those gears and the pipes and the calliope and the tattoos on the operator's arms and ... well..."

Maybe because I just celebrated my 4 yrs in SL and I'm feeling all sentimental and realizing how much the place means to me....the talk of SL closing up shop is depressing. Might be why I found this blog post particularly emote-worthy. I also love the above sentence. I think he describes us all fairly well. I wondered which one I am. All of them at one time or another, I suppose. The difference is, I think, fear. We all feel it. Some just ignore it and go for the brass ring and others remain seated in terror.

My depression can keep me fairly immobilized. My hope this year is to be able to push through the depression and do something constructive. Barbie with a mission...now THAT's a scary thought.  lol

Laterz! =)

JJ

Happy Rezzday to Meeee!

I woke up to this. A platform rezzed 2000+ meters up with fireworks and photos and sweet words...and a dance, of course! Lucky me.

Then later that day, I heard from someone I hadn't heard from in a long time. We have the same Rezzday and the same last name. We met not long after we rezzed into SL and ....well....boy meets girl. Between boy meets girl and our 4 yr. rezzday lots of stuff happened. The cool part is, after all that, we were able to spend some time together and have fun. It was great to see you, Mr. Jatho. Yep that's him. My first ever SL bf. Cute, huh. LOL

 

We decided to visit a few places that were around when we were, but not many were still standing. This is Sanctuary Rocks. Doesn't rock much anymore. But we do!

 

This is where I had my first house. Rob took the picture because I'm banned from there. Still...almost 4 yrs. later. Ahhhh...those were the days!

 

Rob being goofy. Hard to believe.

Falling

 

SL is what we make it, I guess. This was a fun day spent with people I care about. In any life, what more could we want? Thanks, everyone, whether in SL or not, who made my day so amazing.

JJ

Homemade Space Craft

So amazing. Love the countdown =)



Homemade Spacecraft from Luke Geissbuhler on Vimeo.

New Improvements to SL per Jack Linden (40 groups!)

Daniel Voyager posted this over on Plurk. Thank you, Daniel. Sounds exciting!

LINK HERE

"Back to Basics Technology ImprovementsPosted by FJ Linden on Oct 14, 2010 1:20:35 PM As we head into the fourth quarter, I wanted to share some of the progress that we’ve made since we realigned engineering and created our Platform team. The team is comprised of simulator, services, and viewer developers and testers (Platform Development), as well as our operations, IT, data warehouse and customer support teams (Platform Operations). The focus of the teams will be to drive “back to basics” improvements across the grid and evolve our current architecture into a scalable set of services and APIs. Let’s take a look at our progress over the last few months, delivering against the goals that Philip set at the Second Life Community Convention (SLCC), in August.




I’m happy to report that we have already delivered on a number of those, and are making good progress toward the rest. A few of them may take longer than we’d originally anticipated, but we plan on completing all of them.



Below you’ll find a list of projects and initiatives we’ve delivered on in the two months since SLCC, as well as some back-up performance data. A number of these projects will have a major impact on the Second Life experience, as we currently know it. Expect to see further posts from some of the Platform team, focused on how we are improving Second Life in terms of faster performance, increased stability, and a generally smoother experience for all."

Reduced Lag

Here’s an interesting factoid: there are about two million teleports in Second Life every day. Previous to our recent release of Server 1.42, when an avatar teleported or crossed into a new region, everyone on the destination sim would experience a “lag” event as the simulator stalled while processing the incoming avatar. This was often experienced as “jitter” on the sim, especially evident when many avatars arrived at the same time, such as for a live event. In the new simulation code, this slow point has been moved to a separate thread. Our simulator performance profiling tools show that this lag pain point is almost entirely gone, greatly improving performance for highly trafficked regions.


Faster Texture Loading

In August, we made some changes that improve the speed with which textures are loaded in a scene. Our release of HTTP Textures changed the way textures are delivered to, and loaded in, Viewer 2, resulting in less waiting around for the scene in front of you to come into focus. This change will also serve as the foundation for a series of bigger improvements, including the deployment of a new asset system, which will improve texture loading and object rez times even more. For the real techies, here’s the back story: Last month, we moved away from the Isilon storage clusters, as our primary storage for assets. Most assets are now stored on Amazon’s S3 platform, and we have deployed a “middle-layer” caching service, which is where most asset calls will be served from. The time to complete asset “puts” and “gets” (the times that the viewer requests assets and times those assets are delivered) has improved significantly. We reduced the average PUT latency by over 60%, from 1.3 seconds to 0.6 seconds, and our GET latency by 20%, from 0.25 seconds to 0.20 seconds. What does this really mean? Well, when you add up the cumulative time saved in asset latency across the millions of requests a day, there is a net savings of over 4,000 hours of time shaved off of asset latency per day! That translates into less load on the simulator processes and better rez times in Viewer 2.

The next step here is to get the simulator out of this process, and that will happen in early 2011. At that point, we’ll have extended our asset services and can begin enabling a content delivery network (CDN), bringing latency-sensitive assets (objects and textures) closer to Residents for even faster rez times.

New Chat Service Coming Soon

We’re finally going to tackle the group chat problem that has been a Resident complaint for a long time. Group chat can often be confusing, with “chat lag” causing responses to appear late, or sometimes not at all. You should start to see real improvements in this early next year. Over the last few months, we’ve completed a number of development sprints to prototype an XMPP service and have decided to move forward with an ejabberd deployment. We’re targeting to have a test deployment of the new group chat service by the end of this year, and full production deployment in early 2011.


Group Limits Will be Raised to 40

Another big pain point for Residents is the current limit that lets you be a member of only 25 groups. We plan to raise this limit to 40 by the end of this year. In the past, our biggest concern about raising group limits was potential performance degradation, with additional stress placed on our central database. After completing some internal analysis, we now feel comfortable enough to extend group limits up to 40. I’ll put a qualifier on the group limits increase, however, and state that if we see a decrease in performance (i.e., more lag), then we may decide to roll back to the 25 limit again.


Snowstorm Driving Viewer 2 Improvements

At SLCC, we announced Project Snowstorm, our new open development program for Second Life’s Viewer 2 client software. Snowstorm is already incorporating Resident input, particularly around a more customizable user interface, has produced a number of beta releases, and is deploying daily open-source code releases. You’ll see the first fruits of their efforts in production very shortly, with the release of Viewer 2.2.


New Main Grid Deployment Process

It was pretty clear that if we were going to make velocity improvements, then we needed to be able to update our server software more than three to four times per year. As Lil Linden discussed last month, we have significantly changed our deploy process and are now deploying code on a weekly basis to the main grid (Agni). This means that bug fixes will be deployed faster and new features and functionality don’t have to pile up and wait for the next major “release train.” It also means that if we do encounter problems, then we are able to quickly back out the changes, without affecting other code that is working properly. This process also works much better with the agile development practices that we have formalized internally over the last three months.


Display Names and Mesh Public Betas Available Today

While we’re focusing our resources for the moment on platform improvements designed to make Second Life faster, easier to use, and more fun for all Residents, we are also testing two new features that had been in development for some time before SLCC. The new Display Names feature is in public beta, and will enable more freedom of expression in Second Life. We have also just launched the public beta of Mesh Import, which will revolutionize content creation in Second Life. So I encourage you to download the Project Viewers and share your feedback.



"I’ll share more with you on our “back to basics” technology projects in coming weeks and months. In the meantime, I’m looking forward to hearing your thoughts on our recent progress in the comments below. And, as always, thanks for all of your passion and participation."

Now if I could only materialize in Viewer 2. Still a puff....*sigh*

New Truth Hair! 10/14/10

"Every truth has two sides. It is well to look at both sides before we commit ourselves to either side."

(l-r) Aiyana Plain in Champagne, Aiyana Feather in Snow

Comes in 7 facepaint colors and 15 feather colors

*swoons*

 

Bebe in Auburn

*feels glamorous*

 

Nadine 2 (blush-comes in 24 colors) & Nadine -both in champagne

*crushes on herself*

 

GO! NOW!
Limo to Truth

Goodies from 10-10-10

I love when people put their heads together and come up with new concepts. And that's exactly what happened with 10-10-10.

Here's what the notecard says:

                                                            WHAT IS IT???

10 content creators

10 NEW items at 10L

10 NEW items at 110L in 10 locations

10 nifty kiosks

lasts 10 days!

WHO ARE THE 10?

anthony's republic, barnesworth anubis, caLLie cLine

djinn & tonic, glitterati, grim misfit, indyra originals,

mad designs, mud honey, truth


WHAT ARE SOME OF THE ITEMS?

the 10L items are randomly placed in each location

the 110L items are in each location here are just some!


HOW DO I DO IT???

start at ANY location and you will find ONE 10L item there in the kiosk and ALL 110L items.

the 10L item will be RANDOM so for example at caLLie cLine you WON"T find caLLie's 10L item and that's the "TRUTH" *hint not intended* then just go on your merry way and have fun!

to read daily updates: http://www.calliecline.blogspot.com/

from the 10-10-10 team!

anthony, barnes, callie, gin, katey, grim, indyra, maddox rayvn & truth!

see you in 11-11-11 too!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

So let's get on with the goodies! Below are just a few of the things I HAD to have! You have until the 20th of October to grab them!

Callie Cline - Black Dress Collection

 

Callie Cline's 10L item

 

Truth Hawk's Hair - Padma in champagne (you get the entire fatpack for 110L)

 

Truth Hawk's Fashion - Tanks (in 6 color combos)

 

MADesigns Eyes Nature - Ocean Deep 10L item

 

Indyra Brigadier Scarf - 10L item

  

MudHoney Cuddle Wagon - 12 cuddle poses/3 convo poses

 

Check out Callie's blog for more info -  www.caLLiecLine.blogspot.com

Or hit the slurl to Callie's store below and get started! Have fun!

Callie Cline Main Store

*special thanks to Rik for his help*

RL/SL Artist Requests Help from SL Fashion Designers

UPDATE: Thanks to Belleza skin, hoornebeek clothing and KMADD. This av is going to be hot!

In RL, art, fashion, and music cross over many times. Why not in SL? Misprint Thursday, a RL and SL artist, is reaching out to the fashion community. An exciting project she is working on with a RL musician is in need of some help. And this is where YOU come in. This amazingly hot talented hot RL musician needs some help in making him look .. well...hot. She is requesting help from you, SL fashion designers. Please read below and contact Misprint if you are interested in getting involved. If you've been thinking about shaking things up a bit, this might just be the opportunity for you.

From Misprint:

Dear Fine Creator,

I am writing to you today to be part of something special. I am part of a RL project as a musician and an organizer which is to raise funds for Amnesty International and War Child Canada. The project is called Peace Partners. Currently, Peace Partners has 3 albums out and is in the process of increasing awareness and working toward increasing album sales. Part of this promotional effort includes doing an interview and live show through Pop Art Lab and their televised program Pop Vox. I personally have a track on the third album, Vision of Peace.

On November 1, real life musician Kevin Thompson of Montreal will play live as part of this promotion. Kevin is THE up and coming musician for Francophone Canada and we are very excited he will come to Second Life to perform. Although he sings in French his appeal goes beyond language barriers.

This brings me to my request. I have been charged with assisting styling the avatars of the director of Peace Partners and the avatar of Kevin Thompson. I am looking for a donations of a few complete male avatar styles which will be used for an upcoming treet TV televised event, as well as other promotion. (I also would not say no to a promotional skin/make over as I am in the interview as well) The statistics from Treet TV show that shows get around 40,000 hits. In exchange for your donation you will be thanked and credited as styling the avatars on Treet TV with a link and a mention by myself who will also be in the interview.

We hope you will consider this opportunity because it could be a nice promotion for your goods and a good project to support.

Here are some links about the project Peace Partners and about Kevin Thompson:

http://www.peace-partners.org/

http://www.myspace.com/kevthompson

Please contact me regarding this and I look forward to hearing back from you.

Very best,
Misprint Thursday

www.misprintthursday.com

BURN2 promo 2010

http://www.burn2.org/

Thistle - Vampire Lair

I was taking pics of all the goodies at the 10-10-10 Sale (one of the items is this Cuddle Wagon by MudHoney below. More of it later) when I realized I have the cutest house in SL. lol And I wanted to blog it! So I am!

Liz Gealach, the creator of Thistle Homes, happens to be my landlord. Lucky me! So when I knew she was creating this adorable house, I knew I had to have it. Isn't it adorable!

 

Typical of all of Liz's homes, there are so many options and cute attention to detail. I'm not sure which one is my fave. The skull in the fireplace, the skull chandelier, the weathervane (he took it through the head!), or the cool grass that comes with it! (it must be dead grass!)

 *And if you look CLOSELY, you'll find a secret basement* bwahahahahaha! Says one vamp, "yes, your vampire ass will not burn in the sun with this nifty basement feature " ;-P

 

The other option I love is the ability to change the exterior and interior walls. Below is Blood, Night, Earth, and Soul....of course! 

 

Thank you, Liz, for sharing your creativity with us! SLife is good! You can find the Vampire's Lair and all of Liz's awesome homes HERE!

Now if I could only find someone to jump on that blue ball with me. *le sigh*

Happy Halloween!
JJ

New Maitreya - Call for Couture

Must.Have.Fatpack.

Maitreya Gold - Foxy Brown - Champ

On the left side as you tp in. Hurry!

LIMO to Call for Couture!

More Call for Couture Sneak Peeks

And the goodness just keeps on coming! Here's your last sneak peak. Would have been sooner but my modem had other ideas. There's so much more that I just didn't have a chance to get to. Amazing creations!

Donna Flora - Velvet Dress

The Niven Collection

Indyra Originals - Marquise II 

[BC] Babycakes

(l-r) [Cheer No] Rita Dress, [Cheeer No] Oel Overalls

(l-r) Fume' Wild Jungle, *FIR & MNA*, Solange

(l-r) =RazorbladeJacket= - Wish on Pink Stars, Fellini Lingerie - Satine, .:Malt:. CfC Outfit

(l-r) Magoa - Mondriana's Return, *TuttiFrutti* Poesie Noir Dress, Love from Osakki = Bipolar

 


Hyper Culture - Aphrodite

 

Limo to the Goods

Enjoy!

JJ

Spookyville...Is OPEN! Are you afraid?

My friend, Chely Lock, has created a spooky sim, Spookyville, for us to die in...erm...enjoy! Will be live music, as well. For a taste of blood ... um...fun, view below! Also, read the notecard below the vid for more info!  TP HERE!


Spookyville - SecondLife from Mozy Pera on Vimeo.

Welcome to Spookyville Halloween sim !!

Just a few short notes to make your visit more enjoyable:
- set your environment to foggy or ghost or something eerie ,(its under world - Environment settings -sky settings ) ps: send me any good photos you take on the sim
- the sim has some interactive displays around it , so click on graves or beds or cobwebs etc and see what they do :)
- There is a skeleton that you can shoot somewhere on the sim , see if you can find him and get your free pumpkin gun out of the freebie box located beside him , its kinda fun :)
- the tree trunks with ladders sticking out are teleports to different locations on the sim and in the sky .

My sim is always under construction because I like to add things or change things , so come back again during October and see .

I have live music booked on Sat the 9th at 8 pm slt , Maximillion Kleene in Club Le'Casket in the sky , its the grand opening of the sim , also on October 30th starting at 6 pm slt we have David Csiszer , 7pm slt TwinGhost Ronas and Maximillion Kleene at 8 pm slt in the Haunted Brothel ..... with back up band "Baaaad to Da Bones "

More music might be added during the month so watch events - live music for listings and times :)
Have fun and have a very Spooktabulous Halloween and October !!

Chely Lock


Thank you to all who helped me these last few weeks and thank you to all the builders I bought my halloween stuff from for the sim, and thank you to all the musicians who play here - I appreciate you all a lot :) big hugzzzz

Stay tuned!

JJ

New Lingerie from Luxuria (5th & Oxford)

The talented Roslin Petion of 5th & Oxford has created a new lingerie set, Caer, offered through her Luxuria shop. It's smexy, feminine, sweet simplicity at it's best. I love the lines of this set. Very clean and just a touch of naughty. Enjoy!

Caer in Powder Blue


Also available in the following colors:

(l-r) blush, lavender, off-white, taupe, mauve

Luxuria Limo

Hair: Truth Lourdes
Skin - Curio Elf
Shoes - Maitreya Gold Shanta

New Truth Hair 10/07/10

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie." Stephen King

Amazing styles again this week! How does he do it?

(l-r) Leighton in Snow/black, Annika in Champagne, Blake in Chestnut

Click to see closeup!

Limo to Truth!

Call for Couture Event Sneak Peek

Feast your eyes and then wait impatiently for the event to open on October 10th. Enjoy Lovelies!

In no particular order:

Sweet Antidote - ella's feathers

(l-r) The Secret Store - October Bloom, Chantkare - LBD ensemble, SMS -Autumn Set (brown)

(l-r) Purple Moon Creations - Chloe, Cool Beans - Louise Hovick dress, Bottle Bird - Poofy dress

(l-r) Nemesis - Eternal Love outfit, Relentless Couture - newsie dress

(l-r) Tasty - Heiress dress, Fishy Strawberry - Eos babydoll dress

 

(r-l) Kouse's Sanctum - Sabrina's Sigil dress, Mask - Masquerade Parade - Tiffany Mask



There are many more outstanding fashions - skins, jewelry, shoes - at the CfC Event and I will blog them tomorrow as they arrive. Today was all about the clothing.

Please see my previous blog post HERE for details about the Call for Couture Event!

JJ