Caledon Oxbridge General Q&A for 2020-08-16

14:57 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) I have not heard anything from Carl. We can wait a bit and see.
14:57 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Just a note. I added a skydiving platform up above us here. For those that like to free fall. The teleport pad is to the left after you go outside the main door.
14:59 Gronk Seriman Ooo! Nice!
14:59 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) If I can find a parachute that can be deployed early. I will add it to the chute giver.
15:00 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Hmm... No Carl.
15:01 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Well thank you for coming. Just a few things I guess
15:01 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Feel free to use the sky diving platform, there are a few things to see on the way down.
15:02 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) We will have a dance this coming Tuesday with DJ Badger. It will be at the pub.
15:02 lovejoy2199 Watch out for buildings.
16:00 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Well, getting to bed, then.
15:02 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) *going to
15:02 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Tes, if you fall straight down you should avoid the buildings.
15:03 lovejoy2199 Goodnight, Herr Skysmith
15:03 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) There is a fence showing you which side to walk off of.
15:03 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) :-)
15:03 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Hold the fort.
15:03 Gronk Seriman Goodnight, Mr. Skysmith.
15:03 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Be seeing you.
15:03 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Night.
15:03 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) ty for coming.
15:03 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Next weeks bi-weekly fundraiser will move it's time. It will be at 1 pm for two hours. The plan is to move around Caledon with the fundraisers. With Dame Cynthia's having an event at 5:30, it needed to be moved.
15:05 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) The one after that will be somewhere in Caledon at the regular time.
15:05 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Anything I can try to answer. Don't know much, but I can try.
15:07 Gronk Seriman I've been scarce recently. RL has been intruding. Any news or rumors here in Oxbridge or Caledon recently?
15:07 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Nothing I know about.
15:07 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Ok, No questions. Thank you for coming. I will see to making sure next week we get the message out on the Q&A.
[At this point Andrea teleports a very late Carl Metropolitan in.]
15:10 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Carl.
15:10 Carl Metropolitan Hi.
15:11 Gronk Seriman Welcome, Carl!
15:11 lovejoy2199 Greetings Chancellor emeritus.
15:11 Carl Metropolitan I took a nap this afternoon and it lasted a bit longer than it should have.
15:12 Carl Metropolitan So I'm here to answer questions. And stuff. Though I'm sure Andrea has been able to answer stuff.
15:12 Carl Metropolitan Let me get a chair.
15:12 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) So any questions?
15:14 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Chirp, chirp.
15:14 lovejoy2199 wishes he knew enough to ask a question.
15:14 Gronk Seriman I used to enjoy watching NAPCAR races. Turn the race on, and take a nap. Keep your ears tuned to when the announcers get shouty and excited. Watch the replays. Then resume the nap.
15:14 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) :-)
15:14 lovejoy2199 LOL @ Gronk
15:15 Carl Metropolitan I am still a bit out of it from just having woken up and run to my computer in a panic.
15:15 Carl Metropolitan But please, if you have any questions, throw them at us!
15:15 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Well I’ll leave the platform up awhile.
15:15 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) It’s low prim.
15:16 Gronk Seriman Any news on the Caledon Quest? It was still down last I saw.
15:16 Carl Metropolitan I am afraid I don't know. Usually Marion Questi updates that.
15:18 Carl Metropolitan Let me see if there have been any emails on that I missed.
15:18 Carl Metropolitan Okay: "Caledon Quest: closed until further notice." So no news from Marion.
15:19 Carl Metropolitan Any other questions?
15:19 Aersil Yeah, from what I understand they've been working on it, but it's a fair bit to do.
15:19 Aersil I think they were looking for parcels to hide things, last I'd heard.
15:20 Carl Metropolitan Any time Caledon loses a sim with a marker on it, it causes the quest to break.
15:20 lovejoy2199 Anyone know of RL reading material for SL. "Second Life for Dummies?"
15:21 Aersil I've never heard of that book.
15:21 Carl Metropolitan Most of the published books on SL date from when it was trendy [2006 to 2009] and are kind of out of date.
15:21 lovejoy2199 OK. Online materials?
15:22 lovejoy2199 I guess not.
15:23 Carl Metropolitan The Second Life wiki is a good compilation of information. It is not really oriented towards a new person though.
15:23 Carl Metropolitan http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Main_Page
15:23 Aersil For online materials on learning SL, you might try Oxbridge.
15:23 Gronk Seriman Irina Pey has left a long legacy of reporting on SL over the years. Am I remembering her name correctly?
15:23 Aersil Inara Peh, I think
15:23 Carl Metropolitan Yes. If you are looking for her site go to:
15:23 Carl Metropolitan https://modemworld.me/
15:24 Carl Metropolitan Also another person who has done a lot of SL reporting is Wagner James Au at:
15:24 Carl Metropolitan https://nwn.blogs.com/
15:25 Gronk Seriman Ah. Inara Pey.
15:25 Carl Metropolitan I have links to a lot of web media about SL in the train station "Newsstand" area.
15:25 lovejoy2199 Ohhh...I didn't know that Carl. Thank you.
15:27 Carl Metropolitan I can't remember all of them right now, I'm sorry.
15:27 Gronk Seriman Carl, you have done wonders in the train station. But I worry that it's not on the "Route" everybody is encouraged to take through Oxbridge.
15:27 Carl Metropolitan I looked over Amazon. All the stuff there is quite outdated.
15:28 Carl Metropolitan We added some little floating kiosks directing people there and a few other places.
15:28 Gronk Seriman People either find it be wandering, or by word of mouth it seems.
15:28 Gronk Seriman Oh, yes! Those are very nice.
15:28 Carl Metropolitan One more resource.
15:28 Carl Metropolitan This is from Linden Lab: the Second Life Knowledge Base:
15:28 Carl Metropolitan https://community.secondlife.com/knowledgebase/english/
15:30 Aersil The knowledge base is very good.
15:30 Aersil The forums can help a lot, too, for less asked questions.
15:31 Aersil https://community.secondlife.com/forums/
15:31 Carl Metropolitan And as Andrea suggested, there is also : http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/
15:31 Carl Metropolitan The forums are a good idea. Thank you Aersil.
15:32 Carl Metropolitan Also, there are lots and lots of help videos about SL on YouTube.
15:32 Aersil Though some are a little outdated, iirc.
15:32 Carl Metropolitan Just search for a topic.
15:32 Aersil Most are pretty good, like ones on Maitreya or other mesh bodies.
15:32 lovejoy2199 Very outdated
15:33 lovejoy2199 Or, maybe I was just looking in the wrong places.
15:33 Carl Metropolitan Maybe creating a list of useful current SL video links would be a good idea for the next update of the notecards.
15:33 lovejoy2199 Firestorm has some old videos.
15:34 Carl Metropolitan I think I will add that to my list of stuff I need to do for Oxbridge sometime soon.
15:34 Gronk Seriman One very frustrating thing about the Marketplace is that is nearly impossible to find the top name brand mesh avatars easily. You enter the name, and it may appear as the hundredth entry along with all the other offerings that use that name.
15:36 Carl Metropolitan Hmm. I did not know that was an issue.
15:36 Carl Metropolitan As you can see, I'm not exactly mesh update
15:36 Gronk Seriman smiles. Me neither.
15:37 Carl Metropolitan Have you tried searching under "Merchants/Stores" rather than "Items"?
15:37 Gronk Seriman That's a good idea. I rarely think to do that.
15:37 lovejoy2199 To mesh, or not mesh? That is the question.
15:38 Carl Metropolitan I think most of the major mesh head and body brands have their own websites.
15:39 Aersil It can help to search by oldest first.
15:39 Carl Metropolitan There used to be a good website summarizing all of that stuff called Mesh Body Addicts but it seems to have vanished.
15:39 Aersil if you're searching for brand names.
15:39 Gronk Seriman And why are they almost always separate? Heads and bodies? I will NOT wear a choker to hide the seam.
15:39 Aersil A good seller will also link back to the original required body. But most do not.
15:40 Carl Metropolitan Someone has brought it [Mesh Body Addicts] back recently, but I have no idea if it is related to the previous site. It does seem to have some of the same content.
15:40 Carl Metropolitan https://cutesexycool.wordpress.com/
15:40 Carl Metropolitan Caveat Emptor
15:40 Carl Metropolitan I've not reviewed it.
15:40 Gronk Seriman Thank you!
15:41 Carl Metropolitan Gronk, mesh bodies came out first and the creators who came to dominated that marked did (for some reason) not enter the mesh head market leading to a different set of creators dominating that market.
15:41 Carl Metropolitan There are a few mesh heads and mesh body combinations.
15:42 Carl Metropolitan But most are not well supported by clothing makers.
15:44 Carl Metropolitan Any other questions?
15:44 Gronk Seriman I have a very nicely made, but kinda niche mesh avatar I love. The head and body and hands and feet all work together under the same HUD. I just wish more avatars worked that way.
15:45 Carl Metropolitan Another newer mesh body review page:
15:45 Carl Metropolitan https://meshformensl.com/
15:45 Carl Metropolitan Just found it.
15:45 Gronk Seriman Ooo! Nice!
15:45 Carl Metropolitan I agree.
15:45 lovejoy2199 For men!!! I will check that one out.
15:46 Carl Metropolitan I don't know why some of the major body and head brands did not team up and cross promote
15:46 Carl Metropolitan But, there's no drama like fashionista drama in SL.
15:46 lovejoy2199 Money. Ego.
15:47 Gronk Seriman smiles.
15:47 lovejoy2199 I am in charge.
15:47 Carl Metropolitan Yes.
15:48 Carl Metropolitan Sometimes I think Oxbridge needs a "Dean of Mesh Body Stuff" :)
15:48 Carl Metropolitan Because that really is our weak point.
15:49 Gronk Seriman So true.
15:49 Gronk Seriman That would be somebody wealthy who bought most of them.
15:50 Carl Metropolitan I'm sure a lot of the knowledge goes across bodies.
15:50 Carl Metropolitan Do any of the deans have a mesh body now? What about Lindal?
15:51 Aersil I believe Phrynne is using one, though she's retiring.
15:51 Aersil Ember uses Maitreya, though she's not a dean.
15:51 Aersil Lindal may, she always looks gorgeous
15:51 Carl Metropolitan I heard. That's a big loss. But at least Phrynne will continue with the seasonal changes.
15:52 Carl Metropolitan Okay. Any other questions?
15:52 Gronk Seriman Phrynne retiring?! That's news!
15:52 Aersil Yes, Phrynne announced she's stepping back from her work as a dean.
15:52 Carl Metropolitan It was in an announcement I read this week.
15:52 Aersil I believe it was announced in the COU group.
15:53 Carl Metropolitan Oh. Two good 2016 vintage "Intro to SL Videos" from Strawberry Singh (now Strawberry Linden):
15:53 Carl Metropolitan https://strawberrysingh.com/2016/08/31/introduction-second-life/
15:53 lovejoy2199 Thank you
15:53 Gronk Seriman Well, Oxbridge has a burnout point. It's different for everybody. But it seems to eventually happen.
15:54 Gronk Seriman RL made it happen to me recently.
[At this point Andrea sets her avatar on fire.]
15:55 lovejoy2199 Burnout? And, there goes Andrea. *smile*
15:55 Gronk Seriman Heh!
15:55 Aersil She does do a lot of building during the Burn 2 events.
15:56 Carl Metropolitan Yes. Quite a useful illustration, Andrea.
15:56 lovejoy2199 Burn Baby, Burn.
15:57 Carl Metropolitan Any final questions?
15:58 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) badgerofzen gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:58 Carl Metropolitan Okay. Thank you all for coming. I'm sorry I was late.
15:58 Gronk Seriman What is the answer to Life the Universe and Everything?
15:58 Carl Metropolitan Thank you for that donation BadgerofZen.
15:58 Aersil It's good to see you, Carl. Thanks for your work, both of you.
15:58 Aersil 42, Gronk!
15:58 Carl Metropolitan Goodnight everyone.
15:58 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Night.