laggy day

Laggy Day, i crashed at least 10 times.
As Swannjie jie and Five and Hiroko says, if i want to build something i must get my own land. So i must go see about the tva issue at the tax people place.

Once this is out of the way, i think i will feel much more straight on ahead.

A huge blue wall has been put up next door, 4 young people all 512 put together their lot and made a huge shop. Sky diving, shoutcast broadcasting, bank, and something else. They are quick to talk and nervy nervy all over. They are quick to move around.

i am not sure what the neighbourhood will look like. But its sooooo laaggy.

Hiroko changed thing sround again. She took the little house away. Things happens 20 times faster than in real life.

Hanako, Abbe de Choisy, Gion, Hovercraft

I started to read a book by the L"Abbe de Choisy - it was a book just lying around from among the boxes of books - this one caught my eye because this man who lived in 1646 - was a high ranking Religious Abbot - who dresses in womens clothes, writes about Louis XIV. He has many lovers, women - all this is because his mother raised him as a girl!
They rubbed things on his face from age 5, so that the roots of his facial hair died - he has no beard stubs as an adult. Lover of jewelry and beautiful women things, he is a good writer. Very honest about himself. He said, he arrived at his position due to no merit of his own - it was a favor granted to his mother to place him at this position. And Louis XIV didnt like him, what ever he proposed, it was refused. However he still speaks the truth, as a secondary account of the life of Louis XIV - he tells his life experiences in great detail with a fine sense of diplomacy. He was his mothers scribe at age 10. Everyday he spent 3 hrs at her bed side to help her respond to mails - his mother was a very shrewd and successful business women. Friend of Queens - people in high places. Choisy said, he cannot undo himself of this habit of loving to dress in womens clothes, to undo this, he goes gambling. But once the gambling activity stops he goes back to wearing womens clothes.

I think, of course he cannot "un do" wearing of womens clothes, becasue if he was raised this way, his pleasures, his sense of value were all formed in such a specific context, if you undo all this, he has nothing else... he would have had to re-construct from scratch. And in all honesty, no one system is really superior to another, why should he change? He has all the comforts and convenience that his position, friends, could all support him. Maybe a little strange but no more poeple get used to the way you look. :)

The saddest thing i think is to be without contacts, without context, you would go crazy.

I learnt a lot from his book, I think really i enjoy reading this type of human oriented books and not some serious analytical text. I must admit, I like this kind of text. Good writing and complete in details. This is a great gift anyone could give another person - a true account of what he is and how he lived his life.

I flew around in the hotair balloon in Gion again today, and met the producer of the SIM, i didnt know she was the producer. Gion is somewhat like Isakaya, but its modeled after the Geisha district of Kyoto. The charm is that of a stage set, it is not as warm as the Izakaya village. The scale is different.

Salmaru said the old Izakaya will open in anther place soon. But who will be presiding at the bar all the time, no answer.

He gave me a Hover craft today. I rotated it around so that I am sitting in it like a throne. He said, Swann, you have to rotate it to sit like this... he puts it back upright. I said but i like it like this, i rotated it, ... and he said "this posiiton is Illegal!"

hahahah, in sl, there is such a thing as "illegal" for riding a vehicle!

University of Submission, Hot air balloon

The first thing i bought was a hotair balloon in secondlife. Finally, 3 months later, i remember and took it out. Wind rider, its a cute little balloon with a round wicker basket. Very calm and drifting, its like a camera on automatic.
Five, Elk, me and some other people took rides in it.

Yesterday, out of research requirements, i had to visit many places. At Hell and Heaven, i met Wilma, a German girl. She had a coca-cola laquer suit with zippers at breast level and crotch level and purple neck collars and arm bands. She said she is in sl for sex reasons - but some people are really sickos. They want to see her real photo and real voice chat... for money. She is not into that, she is just into games which she would not do in real life. She goes to a University of Submission, so i went and have a look. What kind of reporter am I, if I skipped one of the mainstream occupations of secondlife?

There was nobody there, i mean there were 3 greeters, squatting with legs open in an animal fashion on the lawn, a large campus - like a University building. But inside, its sectioned off, like a floor of a department store, quite empty, with arragements of chairs, pose balls. Quite skimpy in decor. No action seen.

But maybe the fill is the most interesting part, which i did not see.
It looked quite boring.

Not my kind of University.

Dreams in Secondlife

People display their wishes and dreams in Secondlife - because otherwise, why bother spending time in Secondlife?
First life has enough constraints... only fools recreate the same constraints in Secondlife - i mean they do it because that is the only thing they know? And they cant imagine another life without these physical constraints?

flying guqin,

I took the surf board apart, and replaced all the items with new objects, aligned them and hoo hoo, a new flying guqin. I added the dancing pads, hahaha i will have to test it later.

Then i went to an opening in rl, a show of photography. Some people came and within 10mn went away. It was very well exhibited, very well hung.

Then i am thinking how to make a flying guqin museum. A msueum that carries people in the sky with moving landscapes slowly - we visit all the works of everyone in sl, slowly like a touring of sl.

Why not? Isnt sailing in sl basically this, a moving vehicle with passing sceneries?

Good design details: garagara, flying surfboard/cruiser, Magic Flying Machines/Guqin Museum, Artist Studio with sculptie fishes

sl is for Dreams come True: whether its a huge giant American size home, or sex with beautiful girls, or magic wands that emits putric looking clouds... flying surf boards with your gal/guy avatar...

Yesterday, while i was checking the making of the super Hanako store, there was a flying object with a person on it. It was a flying surf board for 3 people. So we could fly in the air and dance at the same time. It was marvelous to feel that you could dance in the air and surf at the same time. The surf board comes with a pet-mode
you call "come" and the surf board comes to you!

It is a soft small dream come true, isnt it? Thats an object with wishes embedded.

The designer who created the object through modification - and that is a smart way to do things too if something has already a good foundation, why not just customise? If the dream is an original dream its valid as original creation - his name is Kenjiya Oyen - he also showed me a cruiser for 6, with similar capacities of dancing. I rezzed my guqin on the ship while its flying, and it works!

Thats amazing, now i think, why not a flying Digital guqin museum? Guqin playing is for small groups anyway... so I got some parts from him and will try to put it together. A magic flying guqin machine/msuuem.

I also visited a Giant size Artist studio of a sort, with sculptie whales, fishes and we could lie underneath in the water watching. Reminds me of an aquarium in Osaka that you could walk inside, the walls are made of 12 inch thick plexiglass, and the height of the building is several stories high with the plexi walls cutting a path inside the aquarium so we could walk through the spaces.

Since I lost my taxi, Salmaru showed me how to get another one - all free - there is a stand infront of the Iseya bar; a little green tombola with a handle size of a toy stands on top of the boxes, you turn it, and it tells you what prize you got. Hhahahah. This method is called "garagara" - so i turned it, got a bicycle, turned it, got a t-shirt, turned it, got someother thing. No taxi. Salmaru said, wait, he fidded, then i turned, voila : a taxi!!! And he said, First Prize.

Salmaru recreate not just the objects with precise focus on the charms of the objects, but he gives you the whole package - the experience of these objects, how its used, the way of life thats linked to these objects. A work bicycle is not just a heavy duty bike, it comes with a tray with 2 large bowls of noodles and animation for riding such a delivery bike, and the noodles comes with loud slurping sounds of eating noodles - people deliver lunch to offices with noodles just like this! Its a way of life that has disappeared. Nostalgic, lovingly, he recreated them for us to enjoy in sl. His creations are all free. Available at Iseya store, located on the parking lot between Iseya bar and West Side bar.

experiential learning, how long and who stays in sl, why do they use sl?

I wonder whats the sl gamer profile, how old are the sl players?
20 somethings like to go out and meet real people. So who are the people who must meet in sl? How old are they in general? And why are they in sl and not in rl?

If it is not for a short passage of time, not for some realistic practical purpose, for example making creative use of the capacity of sl in building, in chat etc.

Those who only use it for social purposes which never leaves sl, what does this mean?

If someone stays online chatting only all the time, what does this mean?

:)