Merry Cristmas

I had suspended my activities in Second Life. After a few months off I'm back. Merry Christmas and Happy Travels

Ironwood Hills....

I was on vacation and I needed to understand rl

SL is in trouble. There are more news on building sims and the sites of the city of rl they have fallen. I believe that lack of builders and scripters. SL offers old project or almost nothing.SL is today  an abandoned metaverse where avatars have personality for sex only. we must change or will close the metaverse. SL was born as a parallel universe, with its fascinating exceptions to the strict rules of reality, in which everyone has the opportunity to realize their own avatar, which is an electronic alter ego, and immerse themselves in an existence made to measure itself

People land on Second Life for various reasons some want to escape from their reality, others extend their boundaries. Others they meet friends and family and there are those that exploit it to build buildings, make paintings and art objects and whole new worlds within the same world. Still others, companies and small business owners, hoping instead to live "

I am visiting this sim abandoned. A beautiful sim, a sim built with design  Maybe a synthesis of what is today SL. Dreams and new perspectives.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Yardley%20Manor/130/62/30

Wayward Carnival in Second Life

Wayward Carnival is a special site.  Visiting the site seems to be in a small Coney Island where I find the pier and amusement park, a small reminder of the past time

A little further on is the Luna Park and then the picturesque harbor with wooden pier, boardwalk, and a long beach. If you get the feeling like you've been, do not worry. In a sense it isWaywark, the playground and the lovely boardwalk ocean are immortalized in many films.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs

Perhaps not everyone knows that, but the name "Luna Park" takes its name from the first amusement park in history opened right here in Coney Island in 1895, named in honor of the sister of one of the owners.

WaywardEvents.com

Machu Picchu In Second Life

I'm glad I visited this site because it is the synthesis of a difficult and important work made by the University of  San Martin de Porres about the Machu Picchu site.

Some believe it to be the last outpost of the Andes, the starting point to enter the forest and impose new populations. For others it was a hidden sanctuary, a large and peaceful aclla Huasi, home of virgins devoted to the worship of the gods. Based on the examination of the bodies exhumed, the population of Machu Picchu (which in its heyday had to get close to 1000 individuals) is composed of 80% women.
In all likelihood it was a "llacta", ie an administrative and religious city where lived the high officials, priests and a bevy of servants and craftsmen. The isolated place where it stands suggests that it was the refuge of a selected part of the Inca nobility in case of attack. The researcher Waldemar Espinoza Soriano claims that even the Andean people knew the location of Machu Picchu, with the exception of the "Sapa Inca" or "only king" and belonging to the royal family of Pachacutec. He adds: "Machu Picchu was an obviously defensive role. It was a llacta of refuge, by all means to withstand a siege and not have communications for decades."Some claim that the city was used as a shelter elite Inca after the coming of the Spaniards. With the death of Tupac Amaru (1572) he had no reason to run: it would explain the lack of knowledge of the city by the Spaniards. A city chosen can not exist without its elected.What is known with certainty is that the city was abandoned suddenly and permanently, until it disappears swallowed up by the forest ..

 Machu Picchu is home to some spectacular creatures like the cock of the rocks national bird of Peru and the Andean bear or ucumari, the only úrsido South America.Also they find refuge in the rare dwarf deer or sachacabra, taruca tanka and over 400 species of birds. The flora is particularly diverse and interesting: some 400 species of orchids, many of them unique in the world.Sanctuary dominates the landscape of the majestic Salkantay (6,271 meters), the highest mountain snow of the Cordillera Vilcanota, revered by locals as Apu or tutelary deity. Machu Picchu combines the majesty of a natural setting of great beauty with the attractiveness of the most famous pre-Hispanic ruins in the world.
The main attraction visited by hundreds of thousands of tourists is a visit to the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, which is located at km 110 of the Cusco-Quillabamba railway from where you can see the impressive Vilcanota River Valley , the sacred river of the Incas.
Its objectives are:- Protecting endangered species such as the spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus) and the cock of the rock (Rupicula peruviana), as well as archaeological remains.- To preserve a peculiar flora and fauna, and scenic beauty of the surrounding forests and contribute to the protection of archaeological remains located there. Much of the beauty and charm surrounding Machu Picchu, the spectacular natural environment: the mountain forests of this historical sanctuary.

from the owner's note:

The citadel of Machu Picchu is the most important tourist attractions of Cusco, is considered one of the most extraordinary examples of landscape architecture in the world.
Machu Picchu (in Quechua, "old mountain") is located on a mountain of granite structure. Using ingenious techniques, the Incas were able to carry heavy blocks of stone carving and polishing and neatly surprising.
Among Its main building we found edifications that would have been used as religious and ceremonial centers and for administrative activities, among the first group there are the Temple of the Sun, the Temple of the Condor, Sacred Place, etc. and the second group we find the Housing Area, Noble Area, etc.

For more information, please visit the official website for tourism promotion in Peru.

http://www.peru.info/en/

http://www.usmp.edu.pe/

Simulacion Machu Picchu -  USMP  (203, 1, 30)

The City of Steelhead

An american's sim  with traits steampunk intrigued me because Second Life today is stingy of experiments and this work is an important point for the culture and architecture in SL.

The sim is built with all the main architectural elements defined in a Steampunk (building blocks, cultural substratum)

Tracks stempunk in the hall

from http://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/adalovelace/

Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) was born Augusta Ada Byron, the only legitimate child of Annabella Milbanke and the poet Lord Byron. Her mother, Lady Byron, had mathematical training (Byron called her his 'Princess of Parallelograms') and insisted that Ada, who was tutored privately, study mathematics too - an unusual education for a woman. Ada met Babbage at a party in 1833 when she was seventeen and was entranced when Babbage demonstrated the small working section of the Engine to her. She intermitted her mathematical studies for marriage and motherhood but resumed when domestic duties allowed. In 1843 she published a translation from the French of an article on the Analytical Engine by an Italian engineer, Luigi Menabrea, to which Ada added extensive notes of her own. The Notes included the first published description of a stepwise sequence of operations for solving certain mathematical problems and Ada is often referred to as 'the first programmer'. The collaboration with Babbage was close and biographers debate the extent and originality of Ada's contribution. Perhaps more importantly, the article contained statements by Ada that from a modern perspective are visionary. She speculated that the Engine 'might act upon other things besides number... the Engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent'. The idea of a machine that could manipulate symbols in accordance with rules and that number could represent entities other than quantity mark the fundamental transition from calculation to computation. Ada was the first to explicitly articulate this notion and in this she appears to have seen further than Babbage. She has been referred to as 'prophet of the computer age'. Certainly she was the first to express the potential for computers outside mathematics. In this the tribute is well-founded.

 

Steampunk has always been first and foremost a literary genre, or least a subgenre of science fiction and fantasy that includes social or technological aspects of the 19th century.

 

 

 

 Second Life is a special world. Often architectural projects are developed in a form completely different from an urban idea. This sim follow a little fil rouge and respresent and respect the funcional space also if is often different from the real world.

 

 

 

 

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Steelhead/120/118/25

The Sailor's Cove a corner of New England in Second Life

There's an expression in New England: "If you don't like the weather, wait ten minutes." The expression refers to New England's location on the eastern side of North America's continental climate. For those of us who visit the New England through Second Life, we have to change the light as you like.. For our Second Life we are ever and ever in summer.

New England is a six-state region in the northeast corner of the United States of America. Although it is one of the oldest settled parts of the US, most of the area (except the coastal areas of eastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and southwestern Connecticut) retains a rural charm and low population. Most of the area is well-travelled and has a thriving tourist industry. Although some of the popular attractions may seem corny to some people, there are many hidden gems to be found in New England.

 New England has a shared heritage and culture primarily shaped by waves of immigration from Europe

 I had already visited this sim and every time I return I am excited about what I see: wooden houses, sailing boats in the marina. Living this sim is as to live in real life

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

 

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sailors%20Cove/198/61/22

Red Square in Second Life

Для тех, кто пережил времена холодной войны ходьбы на Красной площади трудно описать словами. Он окружен символами, которые когда-то принадлежали к миру так далеко, что кажется невозможным. Это один из самых красивых площадей в мире, полный истории и культуры.Проведение сюрпризов.

For those who lived through the times of the Cold War a walk in Red Square it is difficult to describe in words. It is surrounded by symbols that once belonged to a world so far away as to seem impossible. It's one of the most beautiful squares in the world, so full of history and culture. A holding of surprises.

Я абсолютно влюбился в Москве. Это одно из тех мест, где вы не можете помочь, но поездка на истории на каждом шагу. Это город огромных противоречий.Красная площадь огромным вдохновением для меня. Я люблю то, что я нахожу здесь, я люблю быть здесь.

I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It's one of those places where you can't help but trip over history at every turn. It's a city of enormous contradictions. The Red Square is a huge inspiration for me. I love what I find here, I love being here.

Красная площадь место, чтобы прийти, но также символ вступления в мир SL для российских аватары

Во-вторых Жизнь столкновение между народами, и это сим возможность для обмена культуры и самобытности

  

Second Life is the encounter between peoples and this sim is an opportunity for an exchange of culture and identity. Red Square is the place to come, but also a symbol of the entry to the world of SL for Russian avatars

SL обучение - уголок для начинающих
SL learning - a corner for beginner
 

Интерьер мавзолея Ленина

interior of Lenin's Mausoleum

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Moscow%20Island/235/177/22

Norway sim...a nice place....

Sl often gives us opportunities and surprises ... Norway, is more of a surprise ... because those who have visited in the rl found here...

I often come to this sim .... maybe because when you know and meet people who live it can not give up. Maybe I spoke with some of them ... two, three words, but always return because I like to walk on the pier, feel the scandinavian scant.

Caressed by the wind, on top of the hill, my eyes could not stop staring at the Norwegian Sea. That distant sound, the infinite light held me by the hand. The mind flew away, the thoughts were leaving. I felt calm, free.

Norway comes from Nordvegr, the way to N, the path that has brought luck also to the descendants of the ancient Vikings, both for the leading role assumed by the ocean fishing and for the discovery of large oil fields in the Norwegian Sea. Ancient land of conquest, coveted by neighboring nations and beyond (Vicking indicated the head-boat seafood in shipments of western populations of Scandinavia)

The Swedish trolls are small, with a single head. The Norwegian giant troll with three heads. They share a long nose, pointed ears, big feet and tail. Inhabit the caves, they eat mice, insects, worms. They sleep during the day and live at night: they fear the light because the sun can turn them into stone, and are afraid of men who spy without ever being seen.

 The builders of this sim have worked hard to design and build here.

The café

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Second%20Norway/128/128/22

Alamo battle in Second Life

 SL has always been the bridge between rl and virtual world. The University of Texas has created a very interesting site that draws from history important elements.

"Without the Alamo Texas it would never have existed. Without Texas, the westward expansion of the United States would not have been successful, and without the West, the United States would be limited to an Atlantic power, and they could not rise to world power. Without the United States as a global power, the world as we know it today would not exist "

The Alamo battle - which took place in 1836 between the Mexicans and 200 settlers Texans for Texas indipendence - is one of those myths that in the United States have given a new meaning to the concept of nation and empire that would be derived from this. For Mexico it was just a victory to report, without great fanfare, in one of the many pages of history. But what really happened?   

Why a battle, it was a defeat, it focuses the deeper meaning of all the North American empire?

Note by owner:

 Mission San Antonio de Valero: Erected in 1718 by Franciscan missionaries bringing the Christian faith to Tejas (Texas), this mission served for decades before being abandoned and secularized.  In 1803, the decaying site was used as barracks by the Spanish army, who renamed it 'the Alamo' after the Spanish word for 'cottonwood tree.'  When the merciless Santa Anna discarded the Mexican Constitution of 1824 and became a dictator, American (and Mexican) settlers in Texas rebelled.  Those of the nearby town of San Antonio de Bexar moved into the Alamo fortress, where they stood against the advancing army of Santa Anna -- outnumbered twenty to one

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https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/uqs08

Note by the owner:

Davy Crockett

David Crockett (August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836) was a celebrated 19th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician.  He is referred to in popular culture as Davy Crockett and after the 1950s by the epithet “King of the Wild Frontier.”  He represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives, served in the Texas Revolution, and died at the Battle of the Alamo. Crockett grew up in East Tennessee, where he gained a reputation for hunting and storytelling.  After being elected to the rank of colonel in the militia of Lawrence County, Tennessee, he was elected to the Tennessee state legislature in 1821.  In 1826, Crockett was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.  Congressman Crockett vehemently opposed many of the policies of President Andrew Jackson, most notably the Indian Removal Act.  Crockett's opposition to Jackson's policies led to his defeat in the 1834 elections, prompting his angry departure to Texas shortly thereafter.  In early 1836, Crockett took part in the Texas Revolution and, in March, was killed at the Battle of the Alamo.Crockett became famous in his own lifetime for larger-than-life exploits popularized by stage plays and almanacs.  After his death, he continued to be credited with brazen acts of mythical proportion.  These led in the 20th century to television and movie portrayals, and he became one of the best-known American folk heroes.

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                         http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/UTArlington%20III/162/114/23