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Job Interview

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The woman gazed at the ident-block on the door’s security panel with a nervous expression. She had passed any number of such panels on the way up to this office, but none of them had read:

Sherman, Ariel Chairwoman / CEO Fantasial Productions ILC

It felt strange to…

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Tripping the 2020 Faire

Tripping the 2020 Faire

I’ve been wound up with outside affairs this past few weeks, and I just managed to squeeze in a run through this year’s Fantasy Faire. There were several extremely creative regions this time through, and I snapped my favorite views in photos, so to preserve their memory and share it with others.

There will be two sections here; the first is a gallery of landscapes, while the second shows what…

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Pause for Profile Photos

Pause for Profile Photos

‘Where are you going, Master?’ cried Sam, though at last he understood what was happening.

‘To the Havens, Sam,’ said Frodo.

‘And I can’t come.’

‘No, Sam. Not yet, anyway, not further than the Havens ….’

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… and so they rode down at last to Mithlond, to the Grey Havens in the long Firth of Lune ….

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, Part 3)

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Linden Lab Releases EEP

A 2017 photo from my space station. The view of space here is created by a photosphere generator, which makes a 256×256 spherical bubble around the generator, with the unit at the center point. Imagine if I could set the environment on this level to space without needing to use a generator. This can expand space role-play tremendously — just one new use for EEP.

What looks like excellent…

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Travel in dreams…. 206

joys models a quite nice aqua gown from Celestina’s Weddings, available at Designer Showcase.

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Côte Méditerranéenne

It’s as good a time as any for a holiday trip, as the Europeans would call it, down to the Mediterranean coast.

I was thinking of calling this article “Harper’s Morning Macchiato,” ripping off Morgan’s piece from a week or two back. But it doesn’t alliterate as well (sigh).

Never start a morning without caffeine of some kind. (That is, if you can handle the buzz.) Fortunately, this mobile…

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REBLOG:  First Linden Rezday – StrawberrySingh.com

//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js One year ago today, on April 15th, I became a Linden and started working for a company that completely changed my life. I am so thankful that I found Secon…

Source: First Linden Rezday – StrawberrySingh.com

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Congrats to Berry!  She’s one of the best-known of us all, and can definitely be a voice to and for us at the Lab.  (Lab, not “Labs,” as Berry…

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Major SL Announcement -- Improved Weather!

Major SL Announcement — Improved Weather!

https://flic.kr/p/2iKNKAv

Patch “Lirpa” Linden has made an announcement in the Community Forum about an experimental improvement to the new residential areas in Bellisseria — improved weather!

Read the details here.

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Encounter with Darkness

As promised, here is the short story I’ve been working on with Jem’s and Conan’s help. It’s long by blog standards (nearly 3,000 words), and thoroughly illustrated, so I’ll be breaking it up into pages. (Which also gives me a chance to experiment with some WordPress tweaks.) If you have questions, such as Ariel and Adam’s backstory, contact me or write harper.ganesvoort at gmail dot com, and I’ll…

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Second Life Maximum Daily Concurrency Peaks At 56, 148 During Coronavirus Crisis

It appears people are beginning to remember Second Life … and, hopefully, for better reasons than as a “den of debauchery” — Oh, you mean there are some parts like that …? (Grin)

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A Few Words… This is good tidings for the ACS, the creators, for us as individuals, and for us as a community as well.

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Contact Sheet 69 -- Ruby

Contact Sheet 69 — Ruby

Contact Sheet is an irregular column of selected photographs and portraits from Residents of Second Life. All rights to featured images are reserved to the artists under appropriate copyright laws and/or allowances under the Creative Commons. Click on the links as necessary to go to the required blog or Flickr page. Please go to these artists’ pages in any case to leave comments, (as well as…

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"Oh, for a muse of fire ...."

"Oh, for a muse of fire …."

“Always be a poet, even in prose ….”

Charles Baudelaire

Many Second Life bloggers, including us at Around the Grid, do more than just shoot pretty pictures of pretty clothes or wonderful builds. We also try to talk about what we’re photographing, and we like to add quotes to further help along the story.

The first blogger I recall doing this was my friend and “namesake,” Harper Beresford

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Dawn Vigil

This well and building are only part of a lovely build called Otter Cove, with lots of opportunities for photography. See below for the landmark.

Still half asleep, I sought the hill and found My vantage place, then stood a moment there To probe the wind for some familiar sound; But no vibrtation moved along the air, And I learned nothing that I did not know From the far east’s faint conglomerate…

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Secret Gardens

Great grandfather’s farm is still there But it isn’t the same ….

Judy Collins, “Secret Gardens”

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Some of my fondest memories are of a barn, such as the one you can just make out behind me here. After all, I may be much a product of cities and college these days, but I started out as a country girl in rural Michigan.

Read more about the secret gardens of my heart ….

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Retro Future Hair — British Pathé It's been bananas for a while for all of us except Morgan; she's working on a story, but isn't satisfied with her photos yet.

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Decade Challenge

Strawberry Singh may be a Linden these days, but she still can do separate posts — just not plug stuff. She put up a challenge on the Community Forum a few days ago. Below is my contribution to the thread.

The photo on the left is from my November 2010 article, “Sweater Weather.”The one on the right I just took yesterday. Skins were improving by November 2010, although makeup tattoos (what…