Tethys Revisited

A few days ago I briefly visited Tethys on the SL continent of Sansara, not far from the snowy regions. About two years ago I owned some land there – a sort of home away from home. I named it Pine Cliffs.

I haven’t been able to retrieve many snapshots from that time, but here are a few that show what the place looked like back then.

Down by the river – great for rafting – I had a small church and a green market. An elevator would take you up the mountain to my house.

I’m reminiscing on it now because I’ve realized that one of those parcels, currently on sale, still has a lot of my things rezzed there. The next owner asked me if he could keep them, and I was okay with that. Coming there after so much time and finding my rocks, trees, animals and builds still intact made me feel nostalgic.

I went to say hello to my elks and squirrels, and then I stopped by the mountain shelter high up in the rocky mountains. The new owner hadn’t made any changes at all.

The only thing  that has changed are the surrounding parcels. At the time when I lived there, most of them were occupied, with not much abandoned land. There was a lot of trees, growing all the way down to the canyon – most of them mine, but then the neighbours rezzed some, too. The area, while far from perfect, at least looked lively. And this is what it looks like now!

It was strange to see only my own things there, and I don’t even own any land there any more. I didn’t have time to check whether all the surrounding parcels have been abandoned, or the people have chosen to move up in the skyboxes. Either way, it was a sad sight…

A mainland facepalm moment

[Originally posted on 18 November, 2014]

After several days of chaotic RL and certain PC problems, still unresolved, I logged in to spend some quiet time in my retreat up in the mountains of Sansara. I was thinking about going fishing until I was ready to go to bed, when I spotted this:

That’s right – a huge statue of Stalin, next to my next-door neighbour’s builds on those impossibly tall poles (which until today I naively thought were the worst thing that could befall me in that neighbourhood).

This again makes me wonder, what is it about mainland that brings the craziest in people? And more importantly, how do I top that now?

A mainland facepalm moment

After several days of chaotic RL and certain PC problems, still unresolved, I logged in to spend some quiet time in my retreat up in the mountains of Sansara. I was thinking about going fishing until I was ready to go to bed, when I spotted this:

That’s right – a huge statue of Stalin, next to my next-door neighbour’s builds on those impossibly tall poles (which until today I naively thought were the worst thing that could befall me in that neighbourhood).

This again makes me wonder, what is it about mainland that brings the craziest in people? And more importantly, how do I top that now?

Radio Sansara International

The latest thing I’ve been working on inworld is a radio station. In RL, I’m a big fan of shortwave radio and it’s been a lot of fun recreating a small broadcaster from the golden era of shortwave broadcasting.

Using retro builds from quality designers such as [DBy Mesh], {what next} and Seven, the end result is an old-fashioned broadcasting house, containing basic radio equipment, even a small 1950s TV studio.

Given its location in Cranberry on the continent of Sansara, I’ve named it Radio Sansara International.

It may seem like a small local station in the middle of nowhere, but an actual online stream is in the making, justifying the pretentious name. It won’t be playing oldies, though. In the experimental phase, RSI will be streaming daily 12 hours of country music and 12 hours of an ecclectic mix of folk rock and indie pop.

Before the official opening, friends dropped by and did a performance. Too bad the transmitter wasn’t on…

Driving in the snowy regions of Sansara.