Speaker 1: We’ll hear it, episode number 6.

Speaker 2: Hello everybody and welcome back to the New Year markets. I am your host, Edrick Criac, coming live to you from Second Life. Well, not Second Life, but close enough. So anyway, what’s been happening since the last podcast? Lots and lots. One of the things I’ve heard about was the Relay for Life event starting to come up again. I was in this last July, and was one of the top runners who made the most laps in the 12 sins that they had set up.

This year they are having 30 sins. And I was, I didn’t get to make it to the party, I had some Relay events happening for the hiccups. So I missed that, but I did get a transcript of what happened there. And I was also invited by a friend of mine, Ellie Bob Bean, one of Snapsila’s high profile photographers. I think she always has, or she may already have, 5,000 pictures up there. If anybody doesn’t know what Snapsila is, go to slpix.com or just snapsila.com. And what it is, is if you send a photograph by email through Second Life to slpix.com, I think it was.

Wait, let me just check that out very quickly. It’s pix at slpix.com. So if you send an email to that address with a snapshot that you took in the world, this website will actually host your photograph on their site free. And it will actually make a collection for you so that you can refer other people to what’s going on in the world of Second Life and what you’ve been up to.

I find this very, a very cool website myself. I’m nearing 1,000 snapshots. I still have about 50 more to go. But you can see all the cool events that I’ve been to, or just really what’s been happening lately right on the front page.

And of course you can click on most links in the photographs to visit that site right away with your Second Life client. But let’s get back to the Relay for Life. The Relay for Life is an event to cure cancer. People are accepting pledges. There are many groups, and each group has 12 main members that help the group raise the money. And between now and July, we’re just raising pledges and fundraising. And then in July, the actual Relay happens. And what you’re supposed to do is you’re supposed to try and have at least one team member doing laps during the whole time of the race. Well, it’s not really a race, but during the whole event so that you’re actually walking to help cure cancer. And you actually get registered as one of the, how many laps you did, and people get to see, there’s like a list of the top runners.

I was the top last year, I did the most laps, but this year they have 30 sims. And I don’t know if I can do 30 sims. That’s a lot of sims just in one day. I think the older one was like 30 minutes to an hour just walking around.

What was it, 12 sims? So they’re more than doubling the length of the track. All right, so we tonight decided to come up with a name for ourselves. And L.A. Bob Bean is a very groovy kind of person right now. So we came up with groovy kind of quest for our teammate. And our kickoff event is tomorrow night. And, well, I don’t know if you guys will get this by then, but heck, maybe I should just say where the place is anyway. So it’s going to be located over in, is it on, on com?

Yeah, on com, so it’s O-N-C-O-M. Just look for the big bulk of green dots at 5 p.m. SL time. What’s next? Cisco. So, uh, Banana Stein asked me if I had anything that can help communicate large distances with, with a speaker who talks. And I mentioned in that, yeah, I did have a microphone that I made for someone else in the past because they were hosting classes. And they wanted to have pretty much how the same thing happens, that their voice would travel large distance. And currently, if you speak in SL without any helping tools, it will only go as far as 20 meters from where you’re standing. And anybody who’s standing further cannot hear you. So this, this microphone will actually shout everything that you say. This is great, except for one little problem. And that is everybody up close within the 20 meters would see you speaking and would see the microphone speaking at the same time.

So they would see everything said twice. Well, that’s not great. That’s kind of annoying, really. So, uh, I’d start tweaking it a bit and got things set up so that I made a microphone that stands alone on itself and shouts a message on a hidden channel. And then there’s a speaker that Banana Stein could place around the Sim so that the speaker would just talk, but it was, it was past the 20 meter range so that anybody in the back of the stage and back of the seating area, they would be able to hear what the speaker’s saying. Well, hey, that’s great.

But now we have, we have people still having to wear the hides and put them on and stuff. I changed the microphone around a bit so that it was just a standalone mic inside of the stage and that anybody who comes within three meters, it will listen to them and say whatever that they say. And Banana Stein was just in love with the idea of what had just, what I had done there. It took me, I think about an hour to get it done. And he was more than happy to send some lindens my way, although I told him he didn’t have to.

He really, uh, went the extra mile and did it. Usually I do scripts in that I don’t ask for money because I turn around and sell the products anyway if I can repackage it in a more generic way that isn’t custom to a certain person. So I feel that usually people walk away happy if, you know, I don’t charge for it and I get to sell it. You know, it’s not my intellectual property. So anyway, Banana Stein said that, hey, I can now say that I’ve actually made something for the Cisco folks. Cool, huh?

I doubt anybody at work would ever believe me if I told him about that. So what’s next? I started working on a learning center with some new land that I recently acquired next to my lot in Higgins. It’s in the next sim over and, um, the lag there is so unbearable. It’s like lightened day when you cross the sim boundaries. I can’t even work over there.

It’s so horrible just to even try and walk. So what I’m going to do is I’m starting to set it up as a learning center and people can look around. And because they can’t move, they can at least move their camera and read everything. So that’s that’s one way around it, I guess. Nothing’s going to be for sale that I can think of right now there, but it’s mostly information. And mainly the learning center is for how to earn money, not make money, but earn money.

I hate all these slogans that you can make money or all these schemes and pyramid things and, oh, I’m just tired of it. And all these newbies, because I’m so close to, I think it’s Bear where some of the newbies come in, a lot of newbies come over to where I’m at and start asking questions. Of course, it doesn’t help that I have a money tree also.

That also draws the newbies in as well. So the main question I usually get is, can I have some lindens? How do you make money? What do you do here? You know, but a lot of people are just want to get right down to it and say, how do I make money? And it’ll be just nice if I could just direct them to this place and say, look, just go here. And I’ll tell you everything you need to know about how to earn money in second life. I’ve got a lot of blocks set up right now just to brainstorm with my thoughts and space them out.

So I’ll get them set up later. And one of my cats is crawling on my back right now. Was that Gizmo? Yep, I can feel his fur.

That’s him. Alright. So, what’s next? Giant wall clock.

Yes, I decided that I want to make a clock that displays both the date and the time so I can tell when my Sim caught its last snapshot. And what I decided to do was make a lot of blocks. And there’s, I started out with like nine sets of blocks in each group. And you count the number of blocks that are lit up and that’s what the number represents. And then I made it start changing to random blocks every 10 seconds.

You still count them all up and you still know what time it is. It was pretty cool. I even showed her off to Sorceress Starbrook and she thought was pretty neat.

I gave her a smaller version of it and she tossed around some ideas. What on being that right now I can only do a universal standard time. I for Pacific Standard Time. And I could probably start changing around time zone information, but I have to start adjusting the date properly and the US is starting to get very funny with their time zones this year that you start changing at a certain time of the year.

So I don’t know. I may just make it manual that you can adjust the hours and the minutes like my other clocks. Was it the digital alarm clock?

You can just adjust it hourly and by minutes. All right, so what’s next? Oh, yeah, Alec White. She’s the Slaw League wood owner and she came back to me again for some more ideas that she loves hitting me up for scripts and stuff. And so this time she had a pretty suck one. She wanted a sewer to open and close when she touched it.

Oh, hey, that’s simple enough, right? Yeah, the problem is she wanted the whole access list to it too. So only certain people could open it or or she also wanted the ability to set some of them to be anyone could open them. Well, she was just in luck because I had a sliding door product that I made quite a long time ago that did just the same thing. It had an access list which it would read from a note card and allow people to open and close depending on who was on that list including if you had the word public or the word group.

So if anybody’s in the same group as the object is set to they could open it too. Well, hey, that was even better because she didn’t even ask for a group, but she was pretty happy with that too. And I was able to whip it up in no time at all and she got to try it out that night and she was just happy as could be and the next day I came by and I saw storm covers all over the place then.

So that was pretty pretty cool. And then she had a categories menu for her restaurant that we were working on or she tasked me to do it before but I felt like I had around to doing it. And what this is is you know how some of those flat server people you can walk up to and click them and they say okay, you can say this to get this kind of drink or say something else to get a different kind. Well, this one’s totally menu driven and it’s categorized in that you can select category like drinks or side orders or combos or chicken.

And when you click that category you get all the products in that category listed for you. Now there’s a server for a restaurant too, so it also has to tally up the prices and everything. So as you click through the menu and choose each item the server tells you okay, you have five items that’s a title of what 15 lindens so far. And once you’re ready you can just pay the category menu item or the server and it gives you each item that you purchased into a folder. So that was pretty cool. I’ve made it totally customizable so that you edit the prices and the items available in the categories in the note card inside the server.

So over time if Alec White needs more items added she can just add more items herself and add a note card. Cool, huh? Let’s work for me.

All right, what’s next? Somebody contacted me about my RSS reader. And it was a little tricky that there was an extra namespace coming in through the XML in the the code that I had didn’t think that didn’t take care of that kind of thing happening. So I fixed that up for him and he was able to get it running just fine. Now after that he was starting to ask me if I had anything with Flickr integration.

And I pretty much said no I don’t. However, I tried to push him off to cause Farinah because I know cause the guy behind bloghood.com. He does a lot of flash stuff and I’ve seen that he’s done something with Flickr and he’s also done something else with Snapzilla in that it’s all flash based and we’ll go through photographs and stuff.

Well, the guy wasn’t really interested in what cause had. What is more interesting was something that he saw called a slide viewer. And SL is capitalized in that. And what this is is Finn Pointer is the guy who told me about it.

But Angry Beth Shortbread, which she’s pretty famous for McKinnemah in Weird Things with Scripting. She and Kissen Namoba, they created a commotion of scripts for LSL and PHP and that it’ll go over to your Flickr site and download some photographs and then create a It’ll keep setting your movie stream URL to different JPEGs. So it took me forever and a day in my point of view to get this set up because my web hosting provider is using an old version of PHP and every time I get scripts from anyone I always have to go back and adjust them to support older versions of PHP. And in this case I got everything set up and I think it took about two hours to get everything registered. I had to get a Flickr API key.

I had to go and authenticate to give permission to my website to be able to use this key. Hey, and then what? Well, then I got it working. So what happens now is that if you go to my land in Higgins, if you go to my store on my profile, you’ll be able to go and see this this kind of glorious menu. Oh, sorry.

That’s the previous topic. All right, what will you see? You will see a big giant cube and if you have the movie player on the bottom of your SL viewer playing, you’ll see that the screenshot changes that’s being displayed on this big giant print. So right now it’s hooked up to all my Flickr pictures.

So that’s pretty cool. But I would not suggest this unless you really know what you’re doing. If you really know how to do PHP and customize it, especially if you have an older version of PHP which your host refuses to upgrade. Hey, all right.

And you need to change the LSL scripts around to the point to your website. What’s next? Sadie Hawkins, should I talk about that? And Sadie Hawkins dance is like you, I think I talked about this last podcast, but yeah.

So go back and listen to it. But for this this one, I’ll tell you what I made. So I made a skateboard and this isn’t any old skateboard. Mainly a girl can ride it and she’s in the surf position like she’s riding a surfboard. But then a guy clicks on the the other pose ball and he appears in the falling animation with the girl’s hand wrapped around his tummy. So she’s the idea is she’s supposed to be trying to bring him back to the finish line with him trying to scramble out Wiggles way out of her grip. So It was kind of a funny joke, I guess to do. The only problem is the skateboard is very hard to drive.

Oh well. What’s next? What’s next? That tickles. Have you ever heard of it?

Well, even if you have you better go check it out anyway. Rich DeSoto and Sierra, who’s that? Holy Ohm?

I believe it was. They have a podcast that they talk about where what tickles they’re fancy or whatnot. Lots of laughing, lots of fun stuff. I Just gave a listen to it tonight and actually heard my promo That they played so I’ll have to see if I can find their promo and put it on the other this podcast. All right, so I think I’m gonna bring this to a close but things to look forward to is Something to do with Miniverse Messenger What’s who-dose? I have a few projects that I’m working on that I’d like to talk about but I’m not going to not yet.

I’ll probably have some really for life information as well how you can go ahead and pledge for For for our team to help us raise money and I think that’s about it. So hey, this is Dejrick Moriak. This is the blue hair dot pod show calm Well, this is the blue hair pod podcast at blue hair dot pod show calm You can also see my blog where I’ll usually talk about Everything before I podcast about it and even a few more things that I don’t podcast about Over at Dejrick Moriak dot wordpress.com All right, and if you’d like to send me an email you can send it over to Dejrick Moriak at gmail.com And that’s it. So until next time Have a good second life Oh Something’s coming.

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