Prototerra: Quick and Dirty Ravi Review

After noticing an email come across the SLHealth mailing list with a link and short description boasting the ability to host 10k concurrent users per server, and building ability I thought I’d go check it out.

In a nut shell this isn’t a viable virtual world at this time for someone like myself. If I ever left Second Life it would be for MORE x,y,z not less and this is definitely less at this stage Aug 2008.

Please watch the video and take a look around. It’s easy enough to install if you are up for that.

Here is their site addy: http://social.prototerra.com/

Second Life on the Telephone, Dishwashing Soap, Deer and Wild Turkey

Recently we have received a cell phone that Torley is testing how to use the Second Life-Vollee mobile viewer. Here is his blog post.

Here is how it looks from my point of view, my husband on the front porch after work hours with one of the chairs from the kitchen, hunched over a bit trying to see and figure it out, make it connect and being eaten by mosquitos. The pictures are a bit dark.  I like the top one with his beard stubbles..awww

While out shopping yesterday, I had on my list dishwashing soap. I am usually tempted by the candy like colors and or a good fragrance but I do balance that with trying to find a good ecologically friendly product. The other night I made something that was pretty greasy and my dish soap caused me way more grief about getting the grease off than it should have. I was just about out of that soap anyway and had planned on getting some Dawn. It helps take grease out of the way, don’t ya know?

Now, I know that Dawn comes in new fruity floral and fantastic colors but haven’t been overly excited about the scent and Dawn was such a staple for me growing up that getting Dawn just isn’t ever very exciting to me but I know it’ll cut grease on stuff.

Woohoo the colors were a fun choice I am a sucker for it, I am, but then…but then it also had an attached air freshener. I assumed immediately it would probably smell like crap but it didn’t! it was alright, I wouldn’t line my lingerie drawer with it but it was great for near the sink. I thought it was a removable sort of freebie but it’s not it’s part of the design!!!!!! you peel off the little sticker on the bottom to reveal the vent area to the fragrance balls and it just stays attached.

This is so brilliant. The last time I was this excited was over some sour cream that had secret messages for you when you lifted the foil wrap and I don’t think I ever wrote about it or took a picture and I didn’t want to have that regret with this. So while I am not an official product reviewer and adhere to no known standards of that sort I hope you give this dish soap a look see next time you are at the grocery store and have need to pick up some dish soap.

Dawn Simple Pleasures

I was working in the dining room on something when I noticed the rear end of a somewhat large animal go under our deck. It wasn’t a dog, or a bear, and I was curious and I grabbed the camera. I wasn’t fast enough to capture it under the deck, partly because I was afraid to stick my head over the side and get a spider in my hair. I then noticed a deer out front, and second later a bounding baby deer ran up to her from the side yard and started to nurse. I was taken  back a bit to see how hard that baby jammed it’s snout into it’s mothers underside. I got a couple snaps here to share.

Sometimes I don’t see the turkeys, it used to be almost everyday and honestly sometimes the male turkeys will gobble to the point that even thought you love them you want to strangle them.

They just don’t come around too often anymore and I always fear they are all dead. It makes me sad but these wild turkeys need to find their flock or whatever they do, because while I do live very rurally it’s not all that turkey friendly when I see them walking down the main road and they are gobbling at the cars.

Imagine my happiness and surprise to find the female turkey on the front porch with her offspring. They are so much more quiet than the males.

New Second Life Video

What a wonderful time I am having learning to make videos!

Last year I didn’t have a computer strong enough to keep my fps up to an acceptable recording level for video and ended up taking a series of still shots and creatively editing them for Ravie and the Machine. This year is different, and I have a bit of time to explore with video and Second Life.

One of the responsibilities my husband has is creating the video tutorials for Second Life residents and that afforded me the luxury of a hands on tutor for all the complicated boring stuff like how to save it, encode it, and such. I played with some of the software one uses for creating video then called in Torley for some advice, and then totally drenched myself in creative juices for the remainder of the day.

A big thank you to Torley for all his help and providing me with so many delicious pieces of music to choose from for re-purposing.

Ducky Dance

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