voyeurism

Raymaker Land Management - first-year anniversary :-)

one year ago, i made the decision to enter the rental market in Second Life, with Raymaker Land Management :-)

through God's grace, i have been blessed with meeting many new people as my tenants, whom i would not otherwise have had the opportunity to interact with.

i am very grateful to each of you - thank you.

:-)

i haven't planned for any celebrations in-world; nevertheless, here are some celebratory pictures taken at a car showroom in Singapore during a traditional 'lion dance', on this, the fourth day of the Lunar New Year :-)

currents in Second Life

i've known for some time now that not only is there wind in Second Life, but that its behaviour is determined by factors akin to Real Life.

two days' ago, i stumbled upon the fact that not only is there wind, but there are currents in Second Life too :-)

i came across this revelation when i was taking Tom Rendell around the Lost Lakes region in my yacht. Tom is a Masters candidate in Geography at the University of Edinburgh.

well, i was maintaining a straight course at ten percent throttle, yet i noticed that the stream of bubbles from the yacht's exhaust continually shifted around, as though responding to currents in the water.

you can see the effect quite clearly in this pic (remember - i was piloting a straight course :-) ).

re-opening of St Michel - the Jules Verne Museum

happy New Year to all!

:-)

i open the year with the one-hundred-and-sixty-sixth episode of ventriloquy, in which i share with you the news of the re-opening yesterday of St Michel - the Jules Verne Museum!

those of you who have been following this blog for some time would perhaps recall that in July 2007, in episode 117, i introduced St Michel - the Jules Verne Museum as the first facility of its size in Second Life to honour the life and creative works of Jules Gabriel Verne.

the museum remained open for fourteen months, and was featured in the March 2008 issue of Deja Vu International magazine.

over the past four months, i have been looking for a new site to rebuild the museum. i finally found such a site at Lily, in the Lost Lakes region of the original Linden mainland continent of Sansara.

after five days of feverish work with valued help from Kirstenlee Cinquetti and Felixx Shepherd (during which time i also designed and opened the nearby Lily Airstrip and Lily Beach), i was extremely pleased to be able to let the general public start visiting the museum from New Year's Day 2009!

please do join me in this 3.5 MB download, as i try to give you a taste of what to expect if you are able to find the time to visit the newly re-opened St Michel - the Jules Verne Museum :-)

[update: in May 2010, the Museum was featured in the Second Life Destination Guide :-) all thanks be to God :-) ]