SL Living - My virtual life

New Video Released!

2015-11-16T15:59:00.002-06:00

I've decided that I want to get back into doing videos. Below is the video I finished on the Killer Tugby Contest. The Tugby players decorated their boats for Halloween and rezzed them in the Tugby Field. Take a look below:

The Ocean Cleanup Project

2015-02-04T11:29:00.003-06:00

The Ocean Cleanup Project is an idea that needs to be pursued. This is a global problem needing a global solution. Please watch the Prezi linked to below.

Ocean Cleanup Prezi

ChippenSail Video for Sail for Life!

2014-08-26T11:34:00.000-05:00

Feel free to fast forward to the avatar of your dreams.

June 21st, 2014
ChippenSail, a benefit for Sail for Life/Relay for Life of Second Life
(Fast forward to the gentleman of your dreams.)

1:22 Mr B (David Wetherby)
2:18 Chaos Mandelbrot
3:17 "Dutch" Kain Xenobuilder
4:22 Forrest Gibbs
5:10 Fred Uralia
6:40 Greythistle Twine
8:37 Justin
10:37 "Mr. Nibs" Nibor Shoreland
12:31 "Little Wolf" Wolfhard
13:22 Yaz Launim

Note: I don't have access to Benny's library of music, so had to use my own music (which I have full permissions to use for this purpose).

Fanci Beebe's Memorial Island

2013-11-01T11:37:00.003-05:00

The video below is a record of the Memorial Island in Fanci's Deep. Fanci's friends left memorials.

If you watch this on YouTube, you can expand it to 1080 HD and watch full-screen.

2013 Relay for Life of Second Life

2013-01-31T19:11:00.000-06:00

The 2013 Relay for LIfe of Second Life will be kicking off Team Registration on February 8th. As the Sail for Life group gears up for this season, we are running a "Sail for Life" Graphic contest. The theme for Relay for Life of Second Life this year is "Celebrating 100 Years of Hope".

http://rflofsl.intuitwebsites.com/

Anyone can enter the graphics / logo contest. The guidelines are relatively simple and are listed below. The Sail for LIfe committee will judge the entries. The winner and two runners up will be selected and their names will be publicized to the sailing community.

1. The graphic should build on the overall Relay Theme of "Celebrating 100 Years of Hope" with a sailing motif.
2. The graphic will provided in a square format of 1024 x 1024 and will be in either in jpg or png format.
3. Two versions of the same graphic should be provided. One will be a full color version known by graphics professionals as 4-color and a spot color version. For an explanation of these terms, please see the following link:

http://www.printwand.com/blog/4-color-process-vs-spot-color-printing .

4. The design should be suitable for using as a teeshirt, a sail, and a poster.
5. The text should be clearly visible / readable.
6. Entries should be submitted with both a transparent background and an opaque background.
7. The American Cancer Society logo may not be used as part of the graphic.

Entries become the property of the Sail for Life committee and will be provided upon request to content providers who want to incorporate the graphic into products that will be sold for the sole benefit of Relay for Life. The submissions will be made electronically, sent to nbermedici@gmail.com. The deadline for submission is February 15th, 2013.

Caregivers Lap at Relay for Life of Second Life

2012-09-22T11:00:00.000-05:00

Recently I was honored by having Pippa Emmons-Rexen ask me to accompany her as a passenger on the Caregiver Lap at Relay for Life of Second Life. Gemma Vuckovic was the skipper. Thanks for watching and if you like the video click through to "like" in on YouTube and make a comment if you wish.

Nemo 2 Training Video

2011-12-20T16:30:00.000-06:00

The Nemo 2 was recently released in Second Life. It is a great sailboat and perhaps the best is that it is FREE. Take a look below.

Relay for Life: Harmony of Hope

2011-07-28T16:49:00.001-05:00

I've posted a new video of the Harmony of Hope campsite at the Relay for Life in Second Life. A very moving message and I hope a good video.

Link is HERE.

THIS changes everything in #SL....

2011-07-20T07:00:00.002-05:00

... well, maybe not everything. I bet we still have lousy sim crossings. The new SL Viewer 2.8 has the ability to hide avatars and their activities and conversations from those outside a parcel and vice-versa. This feature appears to work flawlessly in the short period of testing that I gave it yesterday. You have to use the new 2.8 viewer to make the appropriate setting, however it is supposed to effect all other viewers. I tried this out with a couple of avatars using Imprudence Experimental and a Dolphin viewer. Instructions and details on how to do it are HERE. I stood inside the parcel and another avatar was 3 meters away. Neither avatar could see the other and could not hear open chat. As SOON as an avatar crossed over the parcel line, they came in to view. Both avatars appeared on the mini-map.

What I DON'T understand is the following comment from the wiki with a big WARNING sign: "Warning: Adult activities are not allowed on parcels in General regions, regardless of whether the parcel has hidden avatars. On Moderate land, such activity is only permitted privately, behind closed doors." Uh?

Paddle Boat Race in Holly Kai Estates

2011-03-28T10:08:00.000-05:00

There is now a Paddle Boat Rezzer in Holly Kai Estates. After the RC-Sailboat Races on Saturday, we had some fun by racing our Paddle Boats on the same course that our sailboats had just used. What a hoot!

Blake Diego: Home of Puerto Diego

2011-02-01T22:05:00.002-06:00

Watch live video from Medici Media on Justin.tv

MakeOver Magic Fashion Show in Second Life

2011-01-08T14:59:00.000-06:00

I made this video for the American Cancer Society in Second Life. Please watch and rate.

Greenhouse in Fall

2010-11-26T09:47:00.001-06:00

This video is a SMALL depiction of the lovely sim "Greenhouse", which is owned by our good friend Transparent Banshee. Transparent recently changed his sim to a fall season and I made this video to memorialize it. Greenhouse is part of the United Sailing Sims and has connection to the Blake Sea. Transparent welcomes visitors to the ground level of his sim.

"Bottle" by Kirsten Lepore (Official video)

2010-11-02T19:32:00.000-05:00

What an awesome video! Two "people" separated by an ocean... this brought a tear to my eye.

Ex-Linden Qarl...Align Tool

2010-10-22T09:54:00.001-05:00

WOOOOOOOOOOT... please please please put this in Imprudence! I WANT this building tool.

Unending Love

2010-10-13T14:00:00.000-05:00

Below is part of a poem by Rabindranath Tagore. It is one of the most beautiful love poems I have read. Thank you :)

"I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,
In life after life, in age after age, forever.

Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, it's age-old pain,
It's ancient tale of being apart or together.
As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,
Clad in the light of a pole-star piercing the darkness of time:
You become an image of what is remembered forever.

You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.
At the heart of time, love of one for another.
We have played along side millions of lovers, shared in the same
Shy sweetness of meeting, the same distressful tears of farewell-
Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever."

--Rabindranath Tagore

Exerpted from "Unending Love" by Rabindranath Tagore

Tugby in Santa Rosa

2010-09-13T10:34:00.000-05:00

This is a video of Tugby, filmed on location in Santa Rosa sim in Second Life. Some of the BEST fun that you can have on the water. For more information about Tugby visit the Starboards Yacht Club web site at: https://sites.google.com/site/starboardsyachtclub/

Come play with us on Sunday mornings at 8 am PST.

Around the world backwords!

2010-09-09T15:06:00.001-05:00

Steve White will be sailing from west to east against the prevailing winds and currents!

"Fast, Easy, Fun" with Second Life founder Philip Rosedale - Computerworld Blogs

2010-09-08T11:28:00.000-05:00

"Fast, Easy, Fun" with Second Life founder Philip Rosedale - Computerworld Blogs

Sept 11, 2001

2010-09-08T09:44:00.000-05:00

Tugby TEAM League Being Formed

2010-08-28T14:09:00.000-05:00

Starboards Yacht Club is happy to announce the formation of a Tugby TEAM League. Captains can begin to sign up tomorrow (Sunday August 29th). For the details, please visit the SYC WebSite and navigate to SYC Announcements. If you have questions, please contact Nber Medici.

Regular play will continue on Sunday mornings at 8 am in Santa Rosa Sim. Come join us... watch the action from the Observation Platform in Santa Barbara or come to the Tugby Dock in Santa Rosa to play. All skill levels welcome!

Norah Jones - Come Away With Me

2010-08-27T15:59:00.002-05:00

I was cruising around in YouTube and came across this LOVELY Video. Very nice... very peaceful. You will have to go over to YouTube to watch it...but it is worth it.

Puerto Diego Drama

2010-07-17T13:17:00.001-05:00

MarkTwain White published earlier this morning a new video featuring a Navy vs. Pirate Battle in the Blake sims (not to be confused with the Blake SEA sims which Linden Lab owns). We used this short video as the starting point for a new event we are calling Blake Bazaar: at eight am SLT every OTHER Saturday morning. After the video this morning, I entertained the crowd with my WAND from Starax Statosky (miss you Starax!) and then we had a pick-up game of Tugby (or rather a FORM of Tugby). Afterwards we all joined at the tavern in Puerto Diego and knocked back some Tequila and rum. (IMPORTANT NOTE: If you like the video - please go to YouTube and comment or give it a thumbs up.)

On a far more serious note: this morning is the beginning of Relay for Life. Let's go over to those sims, and walk the track... or sail the course. GO RELAY.

Chronicles of Puerto Diego

2010-07-07T12:45:00.000-05:00

Recently the site "Chronicles of Puerto Diego" was launched. If you have any interest in the pirate, navy, or Ironclad side of "water sports" in SL...then you should check this out. I am especially pleased with the gallery of photos there. Let me know what you think. There is also a Forum associated with this site.

June 6, 1944 - Invasion of Normandy

2010-06-04T16:27:00.000-05:00

In preparation for selling my mother's home, I have been combing through it looking for things that needed to be saved. Recently I came across a small gem. It is a small U.S. Government issue notebook in which my father recorded important events in his WWII US Navy service. As I was thinking of the upcoming anniversary of the invasion of Normandy, I started to wonder what HE was doing on the other side of the world at the time of the invasion. His initial records in his log book read:

April 28 1944 - Left San Francisco Calif.
May 5 - Crossed Equator
May 9 - Crossed Date Line
May 13 - arrive Noumea New Caladonia (sic)
........
May 31 Frichshaven
June 10 - Left Frichshaven - assigned LCI-28

If you don't know what a Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) is, take a look here at the USS Landing Craft site.

ARMY.MIL provides an excellent overview of D-Day,

On June 6, I will take some time to stop and remember.