Once in a Blue Moon

The Blue Wave Club is an old soul in opensim, and it carries its memories lightly, with long friendships.  The club is located under a pyramid that gives the sim its name, and under the sim water, that gives an unearthly light to the dancefloor. 

Unlike so many clubs which are as huge as aircraft hangars, making the dancing public seem like ants, this is an intimate, primmy, colorful space, with that warm, lived-in feel to it. Full HG Address at the end of the post, as always.

Cherry Manga: hello!

Elamanu Pastorelli: hi all

Samira Samtanko: hello all  welcome to the  Midweek Party

Safari rolls with it

The transition is a keen one, I assure you, 

... and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics 

to enable you to grin and bear it. But even this wears off in time. 

- Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 1: Loomings

          In his introduction to Moby Dick, Herman Melville explains the etymology of the word 'Whale' - it comes from a Teutonic word meaning 'to roll'... and we certainly were rolling all over the place on this week's Safari.

In the foreground Vivienne Clary, our hostess on PSSMG Sea, and Spike Sol

   It was Pirate week, and as part of the celebration,  we had a reading from Moby Dick by Emil Jannings of New Media Arts Inc (catch him soon at Avatarfest). The famous novel is a tale of obsession, disaster, and hardship, but also of friendship, resilience, and survival... something grid jumpers in opensim can heartily relate to.     

Who Dereos Wins

            It's fun to visit new places, and in open sim, 'new' often means places that have only recently come into existence. This week the Safari took a trip over to visit the predominantly German language grid Dereos, founded by Akira Sonoda and a small group of friends, with the technical wizardry of Freaky Tech. We were there to wish them well for their upcoming first anniversary celebration, at the end of this month.

Malon's fabulous loft on Dereos

Fancy.Day: Can you see me ok?

Truelie Telling: yes, you got all your parts, hehe

Fancy.Day: Good. Never sure with this platform :)

Truelie Telling: but we haven't gone too many jumps yet

Unadecal Masala: there's still plenty of room for chaos and mayhem

Fancy.Day: I am using Radegast on a windows phone emulator

Unadecal Masala: that's really interesting, Fancy.  Are we all rezzed fine for you?

Fancy.Day: Yes all rezzed but the graphics are a little crude

George Equus: this new 0.9 code is sure making some stir in the pot

Lucy Afarensis: I have found that it causes asset problems if you let it run more than a few days

Truelie Telling: apparently, there are certain scripts that no longer work... including NPCs

Thirza Ember: una, didn't you say you couldn't find inventory you had bought on another grid?

Unadecal Masala: I did say that the inventory I bought at Clutterfly arrived corrupted at OSG... it arrived fine at my grid though.

Lucy Afarensis: never arrived at all for me

Unadecal Masala: Lucy it did arrive, but it generates XML errors and doesn't rez

Thirza Ember: sooo bizarre

       On that note, our first stop was Freakyo sim, home to Freaky Tech, who has developed the Arriba software, a fork of Open Sim, on which Dereos Grid is based. But first, some Teravus fun.

No nudes on Teravus

Lucy Afarensis: Am I naked ?

Thirza Ember: no Lucy

Aime Socrates: yes Lucy..like million years ago !

Lucy Afarensis: whew

James Atlloud: No naked avs that I can see.
Thirza Ember: I apologize for that James, maybe next time.