Easter Egg Hunting at Rendervision Isle

Wonderful Easter Egg hunt over at Rendervision Isle, and you can even ride a giant bee! If you haven't been to Rendervision Isle, you really must get over there and take a look. The builds are really incredible! The hunt is still going on, and the eggs are filled with some great items.

Exploring Loco Pocos Island

I have been meaning to get over and do a bit of exploring on Loco Pocos Island, so I finally did that recently. I discovered loads of treasure and earned an amazing flaming mohawk in the process. Definitely worth a visit, or two, or three...






Bit hot in here, and you have to cross this crazy lava field to get to the treasure!

The SNS Taos plows the waters in Port Harbor!

I was ecstatic last night when Commodore O'Toole mentioned that the SNS Taos was in the water at Port Harbor, so of course I immediately proceeded over there to get a first hand look! She is a beauty of a vessel, and her armaments are glorious and loud! Truly a work of art. Here are some shots of the late evening manuevers, first image taken at Port Harbor and second image at Port Merrimac:

And we have touchdown!

I finally lowered my storefront/residence into place. This is my first "real" build, so there will be some tweaks along the way. I had to make some of my own textures to get the look I was going for. Hopefully others feel that it turned out well.

Now I need to start getting some products together.

Ugh...

My apologies to anyone that actually follows this blog. I have been dealing with too much RL stuff over the past couple of months, and this blog, along with SL, has had to sit on the back burner. Things seem to be mellowing out in RL now, so I hope to spend more time finishing up my build in SL and sprucing up my blog.

In the meantime take a look at the incredibly cool future/retro t-shirts over at Retropolis. Here's one I particularly like:



Ah, and for all the lovely mad genius women out there, here is a great one for you:


Cheers, Alin

Confession of a Noob...

I still consider myself a bit of a noob when it comes to SL. There is so much that I am still figuring out, and today I have to share one of my recent discoveries. I have been scratching my head and sprouting more grey hairs trying to figure out how folks are able to chat without the colon showing up. I know, seems like this should be easy enough to figure out, but I have been going crazy trying to figure it out. And no...I haven't bothered to ask someone while in SL, because I am the type of person that doesn't ask for directions. Ugh, I know...I could have kept myself from sprouting all those grey hairs if I had just sucked up and asked someone.

Well, today I finally managed to find the information I have been looking for. You would think that a Google search would help me find the information, but if you put "colon" into your search...well you get the idea. I found a ton of stuff related to the bodily organ and nothing relating to text chatting without the colon. Many pages down in that search I finally found what I was looking for. I now know that I should have run a search using the term "emote."

So for all you other noobs out there, here is the scoop. If you want to say something like "laughs maniacally," and you don't want the colon to show up, just type "/me laughs maniacally" (without the quotation marks of course). Now you will see your avatar name followed by what you wrote in. In my case that would look like this:

Alin Hendrassen laughs maniacally

Ah, it is the little things that make me happy. Now to pluck those stray grey hairs.

If you want a bit more information about this, head here, and save yourself some grey hairs.

Cheers everyone, Alin

Crazy Awesome Guitars and Basses

A great RL friend of mine, Danny Mangold, has been funkin' up some guitars and basses, and he finally got a site up with some great photos of his work. For those of you that hail from Minneapolis/St. Paul, you might recognize his name. Danny was the guitarist extraordinaire from a fantastic 80's band called The Metros (aka The Metro All Stars).

Here is a great shot of his work:



If you want to pick this one up for yourself, Danny has just posted it for sale on Ebay here.

To see more photos of his work, head over to Road Warrior Guitars.

Cheers, Alin