I built a little house today, and put a karate mat in there (you can see one of my awesome moves in the top image). This was premade, I didn't code it myself, obviously. Ditto the bubbles. I'm still having trouble lining up the elements of my building, especially when they're at right angles to each other. I think this is because of the registration points of each object maybe, because even when you round off the x,y,z positions, its still all wrong. So at the moment I am lining things up by sight, which is not the best. Today we had heaps of problems with lagging and freezing, I dont know if this was because of bugs in the new version of the application, or because we had so much building going on at once, in the same area. At the top of the application window, it pretty much permanently said (Not Responding), but then half the time it let you move around anyway.

I also found a fantastic new place called Suffugium (well found it by doing a web search for top second life places), its a dystopian city, and they have scan bots verifying your identity, allows you to dumpster dive (I got a hula hoop and a crack pipe :) and some really great texturing. I didnt take any screenshots, but will take some later and post them. They had a little rave going on, which I'd like to check out again (I didnt have sound on), sounded like some really wicked industrial shit from what the dj was saying.

So this is firstlife me and secondlife me. I haven't really done much to my avatar, most of the stuff I try to attach looks shit, because it doesn't work with what's already there. I seem to have lost my other boot, which is not altogether different to my firstlife. I guess another glaring difference is that I'm sitting in a field of nothing in secondlife, which means there are many possibilities. In firstlife I am in the middle of the city, which has very little oppourtunities for building anything new. I played around with my appearance a bit now, and put my me-cube in.

Canoe

Ok, so this is the canoe I made. I used a sphere (or was it a cylinder) for the main body of the canoe, with hollowness, and slices on. I'm happy with the shape of it, but the texture is crap, it applies as if the canoe is still a round prim, I'm not sure if there's a way around this.

I made a canoe, but blogger is not letting me post images for some reason. Will post from home, hopefully that will work.

Checking out some other places

Magical Forest of Apollonia
I really like the stylized flowers, and the colourful but restful environment they have made. On the downside, there isn't really much to do. I ballroom danced and got an orange soda. I might come back for a romantic afternoon with someone else.

Winter Wonderland Lalinda
I like that there are a couple of fun things to do for free, like snowboarding and iceskating, but I particularly liked walking underwater, it was like scubadiving in an icecave (not that I really know what that's like :). Its funny that the things that I find most enjoyable are not the proscribed activities. I couldn't find any actual runs, and in some areas I didnt seem to be able to fly, which was annoying (but this could have been that I dont have a good grip on the controls yet). I'd go back to explore it some more and do some iceskating, there's something fun about the animation.

Chase Island
This is basically a shop, this dude Chase has made lots of items, such as exercise equipment, foodmaking equipment, really nice fantasy fountains. He was hanging around chatting to people about his wares, which gave it a personal touch, like a real salesman. Even though it seems a bit ridiculous to exercise and feed a virtual character, I enjoyed a little spin on the exercise bike and got some fairy floss (or cotton candy as the Americans insist on calling it). I'd go back to chat to Chase about how he made some of his items.

Gotham City
For a place that purports to be a faithful recreation of Gotham City, I thought it was pretty lame. Some bits of the environment were cool, but it didn't really all fit together into a cohesive whole. Also, it seemed pretty deserted, which is never fun in a city. Basically, I thought they could have had more fun with the concept and made some really imaginative environments. But they didn't. I'd go back to see if there was more that I missed (I think there might have been), and to see if I could find some dudes roleplaying their batman characters, as described in the Rules (that was another thing I didn't like, there was a whole heaps of rules to read at the start, like you are not allowed to be in character in certain areas if you weren't part of the Special Guild Of Nerdery or whatever.