A Postcard from Second Life 4

I missed Free Hugs day on the 07/07/07. You can never have enough hugs.

It got me to thinking instead of holding up a placard with 'free hugs' on it why not a t-shirt. I had a quick surf on the net but they were all a bit bland.

So I worked up my own stick men design. I was going to post it on here in 2D but then as I had vaguely worked out how to do T-shirts in second life I thought I would upload it into second life and let my avatar show it off. I can even walk around second life and see if I get any hugs. The design isnt quite right as the figure needs to be a bit smaller to get rid of any distortion but I am quite pleased with the result.

First the T-shirt then the free hugs island plus don't forget the second life Youtube video. Free hugs comes to second life.

'All the same' by Sick puppies the backing track to the Free Hugs videos is also very cool. In fact it is so cool I am going to have to quote from it:

"I don't mind…
I don't care…
As long are you're here

Go ahead tell me you'll leave again
You'll just come back running
Holding your scarred heart in hand
It's all the same
And I'll take you for who you are
If you take me for everything
Do it all over again
It's all the same"

-All the same' by Sick puppies

A Postcard from Second Life 3

Well, the new memory is installed and it runs a lot better, no more lag. So I have done a bit more sight seeing.

First I went to visit Midsomer Isle (SLURL) , which is a garden with lots of little nooks for quiet whispered sweet nothings and a bit of a dancing area for a romantic slow dance. Definitely somewhere you could go on a second life date . Not too crowded either.

Here are a couple snapshots of me on my lonesome enjoying some of the views on offer.


A view from the dance terrace .


One of the many exquisite objects on the isle.

A Postcard from Second Life 2

I might be turning into a bit of a second life photographer, I popped in to see what was going on and it was a beautiful moonlit night, so I sat on the coast and watched the water for a bit.

A Postcard from Second Life

This is me grooving on down at the boat shed.

Not a lot too add to my last post about second life apart from if you are a new citizen of second life like me you might need a bit of a guide to what to do, what to see etc. After a quick google I found Natalia Zelmanov's Second Life Diary which is currently acting as my guidebook to starting out.

I have earned a bit of money camping and I have found out that some of my lag problems may be due to not having enough system memory, this is now on order from crucial so hopefully that will help. I don't normally recommend companies but crucial does offer good value prices and in terms of memory it makes finding the right memory for your system easy. Even a non computer geek can easily find the right memory.

What's next in second life, well one of the places I am looking to visit soon is the Botanic gardens.

I step into Second Life

I have a go at most things interweb sooner or later. I gave myspace a miss because frankly it became too popular and seemed to be full of teenagers.

Second life seemed a whole more serious affair so on Sunday when I got bored, I finally joined up.

As of Day 2 it seems to be a good place to explore. I have found my self a chill out bar as well where you can listen to internet radio and chat with people.

Even cooler I got myself a free Ghost busters T-shirt to identify myself as a true 80's child.

The only downsides so far is a lot of lag and a lot of client crashes. Having said that the whole internet has been a bit laggy lately.

My dancing in second life is also dead impressive.

More reports later.