I've been very busy rebuilding the sidebar blogroll of current Second Life blogs. If you'd like yours added, please add your URL to the comments of this post. Thank you!
Blogs must be active with posts within the last 60 days. Give or take ;)
Sunday, January 4, 2015
My Blog
I've updated the subheading:
The Insatiable Zoe Connolly. Intrepid Pilot, bold Time-Traveler, and fearless Crime-Fighter in the Virtual World of Second Life® - A woman bridging the gap between gritty adventure roleplay and fashionable styles for 2015.And I've cleaned up the blogroll. I've added some active titles and deleted any blog that wasn't updated in the last 12 months.
Inventory Pergatory
Since returning to SL (for visits more frequent than once a month), I've spent some time organizing my Inventory. My Inventory is a vast walk-in closet - y'know, like the warehouse at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
So far I've spent hours sorting... And. It's. Maddening! One night I spent nearly 3 hours sorting. Just. Sorting!
Okay granted, there were times when I'd smile doing it. Those old dusty items and photos brought back many fond memories, but still!
Sanity Safety Tip to New People. Organize your Inventory as you go. Trust me on this one!
I even made the text RED to stand out for ya.
Saturday, January 3, 2015
RCAF, 2007 to 2015, RIP
To the RCAF Group...
In October 2007, the Royal Caledon Air Force began as a flying and roleplay group to help support the Connolly Aerodrome in Caledon Penzance.
We had an awesome and spectacular first two and a half years.
But as with many things in Second Life, things change. Our happy times ended and our luck ran out.
Over the months and years, SL has changed, sims have changed or disappeared, and people have changed their tastes and preferences. Many former RCAF Flyers have gone on to WW2 Combat sims or General Aviation.
Caledon has certainly changed with the tastes and time constraints of her residents. Caledon Penzance is now Caledon Pensans - and sadly, not as interesting. I even sold my last Caledon parcel (in Mayfair) last June. Although I still have a soft spot for New Babbage, Caledon and the other Steamlands don't hold the same interest for me as they once did.
The Connolly Aerodrome lasted far too many years beyond her early exciting and active days. The sim changed a while back and the new Aerodrome owner after me could no longer sustain it. The Connolly Aerodrome is now a memory. I was looking at old photographs just today.
The RCAF has outlasted both the Aerodrome and the Sim where it was first created, but it's a group that's been on life-support for many many months now. Many of us have tried to revive it here and there without success. I was hopeful for it's return to her former fun and glory, but it's time to say goodbye and farewell to our dear old friend, RCAF.
I will close the group next weekend.
Why?
1 - Caledon activities are different now. Unlike previous years, there's very little resident interest in aviation.
2 - Caledon itself is no longer a safe fly zone. Prim-full parcels make flying very difficult.
3 - Most of the aviation fun is outside of Steampunk-ish areas. General Aviation, WW1 and 2 combat, Modern warfare. It's a Big Grid and it seems many are flocking to Blake Sea and other destinations.
4 - For some, SL doesn't run well enough on their current computers for a fun flying experience.
5 - Plus, it's good to free up a Group Slot for something else of greater value.
Many of us are still involved in SL Aviation here and there and a few of us can be found flying over Blake Sea.
Some fly/roleplay in WW2 sims, Dogs On the Run (DOR), and various other aviation-friendly spots.
I don't like doing this. It's a difficult decision and did not come easy. We've all said goodbye to favorite places, groups, and friends in SL before. Like Real Life, LOSS is real here too. Even for "mostly-immersionist" SL people like me.
I owe many thanks to those who helped make RCAF and Connolly Aerodrome a fun, exciting, and adventurous group and destination.
One day perhaps, we'll have ourselves an RCAF Museum.
Until then, always say hello, continue your "altitude with attitude" - Talk like apirate pilot, fly, drink, dance, and as always - clear skies my friends!
~ Zoe Connolly
In October 2007, the Royal Caledon Air Force began as a flying and roleplay group to help support the Connolly Aerodrome in Caledon Penzance.
We had an awesome and spectacular first two and a half years.
But as with many things in Second Life, things change. Our happy times ended and our luck ran out.
Over the months and years, SL has changed, sims have changed or disappeared, and people have changed their tastes and preferences. Many former RCAF Flyers have gone on to WW2 Combat sims or General Aviation.
Caledon has certainly changed with the tastes and time constraints of her residents. Caledon Penzance is now Caledon Pensans - and sadly, not as interesting. I even sold my last Caledon parcel (in Mayfair) last June. Although I still have a soft spot for New Babbage, Caledon and the other Steamlands don't hold the same interest for me as they once did.
The Connolly Aerodrome lasted far too many years beyond her early exciting and active days. The sim changed a while back and the new Aerodrome owner after me could no longer sustain it. The Connolly Aerodrome is now a memory. I was looking at old photographs just today.
The RCAF has outlasted both the Aerodrome and the Sim where it was first created, but it's a group that's been on life-support for many many months now. Many of us have tried to revive it here and there without success. I was hopeful for it's return to her former fun and glory, but it's time to say goodbye and farewell to our dear old friend, RCAF.
I will close the group next weekend.
Why?
1 - Caledon activities are different now. Unlike previous years, there's very little resident interest in aviation.
2 - Caledon itself is no longer a safe fly zone. Prim-full parcels make flying very difficult.
3 - Most of the aviation fun is outside of Steampunk-ish areas. General Aviation, WW1 and 2 combat, Modern warfare. It's a Big Grid and it seems many are flocking to Blake Sea and other destinations.
4 - For some, SL doesn't run well enough on their current computers for a fun flying experience.
5 - Plus, it's good to free up a Group Slot for something else of greater value.
Many of us are still involved in SL Aviation here and there and a few of us can be found flying over Blake Sea.
Some fly/roleplay in WW2 sims, Dogs On the Run (DOR), and various other aviation-friendly spots.
I don't like doing this. It's a difficult decision and did not come easy. We've all said goodbye to favorite places, groups, and friends in SL before. Like Real Life, LOSS is real here too. Even for "mostly-immersionist" SL people like me.
I owe many thanks to those who helped make RCAF and Connolly Aerodrome a fun, exciting, and adventurous group and destination.
One day perhaps, we'll have ourselves an RCAF Museum.
Until then, always say hello, continue your "altitude with attitude" - Talk like a
~ Zoe Connolly
Thursday, January 1, 2015
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Saturday, December 27, 2014
Writing Prompt # 1
22 year old Mia looks for a very special book in the library.
A young man, perhaps a few years older, turns a corner and approaches her bookshelf.
Mia looks up, glancing at the handsome stranger. The flushed-faced girl then shyly looks back at the cover of the book she selected.
What happens next?
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Merry Christmas
and Happy 2015
I've been inspired and fired up about Second Life again since Phin, a few friends, and I have tried SLgo from OnLive. Take advantage of their 7 day trial like we did. It's pretty amazing.
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Today marks the end of my Machinima Career
Sorry folks, no more Machinima from me and no more past Machinimas are available for viewing from my Zoetrope Productions YouTube Channel. I've made them all private.
A) I have too many RL Projects that demand my attention, and...
B) I don't want to get into any more trouble with copyright infringements with YouTube and have my account deleted. Some tracks I use are okay to use and then over time they're not. Instead, the videos I post here will be OTHER violators of copyrights ;)
Other than that, I'm having an okay 2013. How about you?
A) I have too many RL Projects that demand my attention, and...
B) I don't want to get into any more trouble with copyright infringements with YouTube and have my account deleted. Some tracks I use are okay to use and then over time they're not. Instead, the videos I post here will be OTHER violators of copyrights ;)
Other than that, I'm having an okay 2013. How about you?
Sunday, December 9, 2012
The Girl from Ipanema
I recently discovered (or re-discovered) The Girl from Ipanema while listening to Pandora.
According to Wikipedia...
"Garota de Ipanema" ("The Girl from Ipanema") is a well-known bossa nova song, a worldwide hit in the mid-1960s that won a Grammy for Record of the Year in 1965. It was written in 1962, with music by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Portuguese lyrics by Vinicius de Moraes. English lyrics were written later by Norman Gimbel.[1]
The first commercial recording was in 1962, by Pery Ribeiro. The version performed by Astrud Gilberto, along with João Gilberto and Stan Getz, from the 1964 album Getz/Gilberto, became an international hit, reaching number five in the United States pop chart, number 29 in the United Kingdom, and charting highly throughout the world. Numerous recordings have been used in films, sometimes as an elevator music cliché (for example, near the end of The Blues Brothers). It is believed to be the second-most recorded pop song in history, after Yesterday by The Beatles.[2] In 2004, it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry.
Continuing from Wikipedia...
The song was inspired by HeloÃsa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto (now Helô Pinheiro), a nineteen-year-old girl living on Montenegro Street in the fashionable Ipanema district in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[5] Daily, she would stroll past the popular Veloso bar-café, not just to the beach ("each day when she walks to the sea"), but in the everyday course of her life. She would sometimes enter the bar to buy cigarettes for her mother and leave to the sound of wolf-whistles.[6] In the winter of 1962, the composers watched the girl pass by the bar, and it is easy to imagine why they noticed her—Helô was a 173-cm (five-foot eight-inch) brunette, and she attracted the attention of many of the bar patrons.
When I hear this song I sometimes think of Second Life. Each of us girls lock ourselves into our ageless avatars of perfect skin and shapes. We are "The Girl from Ipanema" every day we login.
According to Wikipedia...
"Garota de Ipanema" ("The Girl from Ipanema") is a well-known bossa nova song, a worldwide hit in the mid-1960s that won a Grammy for Record of the Year in 1965. It was written in 1962, with music by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Portuguese lyrics by Vinicius de Moraes. English lyrics were written later by Norman Gimbel.[1]
The first commercial recording was in 1962, by Pery Ribeiro. The version performed by Astrud Gilberto, along with João Gilberto and Stan Getz, from the 1964 album Getz/Gilberto, became an international hit, reaching number five in the United States pop chart, number 29 in the United Kingdom, and charting highly throughout the world. Numerous recordings have been used in films, sometimes as an elevator music cliché (for example, near the end of The Blues Brothers). It is believed to be the second-most recorded pop song in history, after Yesterday by The Beatles.[2] In 2004, it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry.
Continuing from Wikipedia...
The song was inspired by HeloÃsa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto (now Helô Pinheiro), a nineteen-year-old girl living on Montenegro Street in the fashionable Ipanema district in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[5] Daily, she would stroll past the popular Veloso bar-café, not just to the beach ("each day when she walks to the sea"), but in the everyday course of her life. She would sometimes enter the bar to buy cigarettes for her mother and leave to the sound of wolf-whistles.[6] In the winter of 1962, the composers watched the girl pass by the bar, and it is easy to imagine why they noticed her—Helô was a 173-cm (five-foot eight-inch) brunette, and she attracted the attention of many of the bar patrons.
When I hear this song I sometimes think of Second Life. Each of us girls lock ourselves into our ageless avatars of perfect skin and shapes. We are "The Girl from Ipanema" every day we login.
"...and I feel fine"
The chorus for R.E.M.s song "It's the end of the world" is...
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
I hear this chorus in my head as I think about my present state in Second Life.
It's the end of my Second Life as I've known it and I feel fine.
As I thought, the decreasing land holdings and prim count haven't been painful at all. In fact, I'm loving it. I love it! I love having more money in Real Life! I'm thinking it may not be that painful to lose that final land parcel after all.
My land tier for my last land parcel is paid through the first week of February 2013. I'll decide what to do by then.
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Major Downsizing to come.
In Second Life (SL) we've all heard the expression "RL comes first"
For those not in SL, RL refers to Real Life, the main life we live in the real world that pays the bills.
In our Real Life Post-Election Lives, my family is re-evaluating everything we do and every expense we make. We're cutting back on a few non-essential items in RL and I need to do the same in SL.
So within Second Life, I've decided to downsize my land holdings from 6 to 1. I'll lose the first of my parcels next week Saturday. Others will follow until I'm down to my final Caledon Mayfair parcel. In January 2013, I may decide to lose that final parcel as well, but it will mean placing my beloved Time Tunnel back in inventory.
The good news is the real money I'll save!
My final thought in this post: If this had happened a few years ago I'd have been deeply hurt, even harboring a sense of loss. Now I feel... indifferent.
Back in January 2007 when I started in SL, logging-in used to mean fun and excitement. Now it's become more of a chore. An expensive time-sucking chore.
For those not in SL, RL refers to Real Life, the main life we live in the real world that pays the bills.
In our Real Life Post-Election Lives, my family is re-evaluating everything we do and every expense we make. We're cutting back on a few non-essential items in RL and I need to do the same in SL.
So within Second Life, I've decided to downsize my land holdings from 6 to 1. I'll lose the first of my parcels next week Saturday. Others will follow until I'm down to my final Caledon Mayfair parcel. In January 2013, I may decide to lose that final parcel as well, but it will mean placing my beloved Time Tunnel back in inventory.
The good news is the real money I'll save!
My final thought in this post: If this had happened a few years ago I'd have been deeply hurt, even harboring a sense of loss. Now I feel... indifferent.
Back in January 2007 when I started in SL, logging-in used to mean fun and excitement. Now it's become more of a chore. An expensive time-sucking chore.
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Saturday, September 1, 2012
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