Restarting on the right foot

I restarted making the statue leg in Blender. As I go I learn new things or make a mistake, and I find that it is many times easier to start again than to fit what I already have.

For instance I learned how to “cut” a box into several pieces so you can make individual bits all using the same base sculpted object. If you can see it in the picture I made each section separate, but they are actually connected with a tiny strand. The stand should be invisible in SL.

What you see in the picture will become the toes and part of the foot. I’ll need several more pieces like this to make each of the parts. Then in SL they can be linked together to make the whole.

Just now I had a scary moment when I thought I forgot to make the correct amount of pieces for the toe, then I remembered it is a four-toed statue.

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Podcasting for Compassion Day 12

In my second podcast for Podcasting for Water (aka Compassion 365) I rambled some more and played some tunes.

Details and other show notes available in the original post.

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Podcasting for Compassion day 11

I put out a podcast on the Compassion 365 podcast in which I read some 100 word stories and ramble.

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I rebooted my face for the new year

Well … it seemed like a good idea at the time.

It will grow back.

My daughter, 19 months old, keeps laughing at me.

I keep wanting to say ‘Make it so”.

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Strange Things Are Afoot

I’ve been learning to make sculpted prims in Blender for Second Life. I’m working on a leg. I have the general shape so far. The detail will be the tough part.

This is a job I was offered when talking to Jack Pitts who moved in just a few islands over at Camelot. It’s really nice to meet new people and instantly have something to talk about, like LOST (now have a guess what this leg will end up as).

I was next door at Los Arbolos and saw Jack in a hot air balloon and teleported via sitting into the balloon and introduced myself. SL is zany like that.

I’m getting good support for making sculpted prims from youTube and good people in SL. It’s not as tough as I thought, once I got the basics down.

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Dreidel Dreidel Dreidelfish

I noticed the Bit.ly fish was Dreidel shaped today.

I managed to make it to one of Crap Mariner’s lightnings in Second Life the other day. It was the seventh one.

Dreidel

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Windows 7 – Human Error Resolved

So, I tried to install the drivers for my video card after the Second Life Emerald viewer didn’t work due to no drivers. Seems Win 7 didn’t install the ones to really take advantage of the video card. No worries, I got the box with the disc at hand. Tried to install, no worky. Went to ATI site, they aren’t supporting my video card anymore. Searched a couple forums, tried a few things, none worked.

I decided if ATI wasn’t going to support it my card, which I had bought not too long ago, year or two? I’d buy an Nvidia card. I went to Fry’s, got the best one available (nothing too fancy for my AGP slot), and brought it home. I opened up my PC and hey! I was installing drivers for the card I used to have in my PC! D’oh! Installed the correct ones, everything works fine, if not better than before. Took the unopened video card back to Fry’s, got the money back, and I’m happy.

I want to be a little more careful than before, as my XP had somehow gotten corrupted and Windows Update would update everything except Windows XP, so I’m running Firefox with NoScript so no zany JavaScript will cause problems unless I activate it on a page. It’s a bit annoying to turn it on when a site doesn’t work, but it’s safer and I can whitelist the sites I trust.

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Windows 7 Installed – Finally

I finally was able to install Windows 7 onto my PC. My main problem was with a bad download of the .iso image. Once I had that properly downloaded, I mounted the .iso on a virtual drive and used WinToFlash to copy the files to a bootable USB key. Then, Bing! (hehe) it installed without any issue. It’s all very shiny. Haven’t tried anything like running games yet, I’m still getting it up and running. Seems really nice though.

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Out for a bit

I’ve backed up everything I want to keep in preparation for upgrading my PC to Windows 7. I’m turned off my mirror RAID on my drives and am running SpinRite on all my drives before I install Windows. I’m borrowing my wife’s computer to write this.

All this will take some time, but hopefully you will see my engaged online sometime tomorrow, as SpinRite will take all night.

I’ll let you know if anything exciting happens.

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A Family in Need Can Use Your Help

I’ve created a page with all the details. Please read it and do what you can. The information is directly from a friend I’ve known for years.

Can you help out?

Thanks.

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