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Freefall anyone?
The new upgrades to the Lodestar are being put to good use. Al Bravo, newbie extraordinaire, has built a skydiving kit, which includes a parachute, altimeter, helmet, and cold smoke. In an event in the later part of the afternoon, we took several avatars up to 1000 meters in the Lodestar and dropped them over the target. Only one splatted on the ground.
Rumour has it that Al will hold another session tomorrow.
Aerodrome news: 4th of July skydiving
On this holiday weekend, I upgraded the L-18 Lodestar with a new feature — skydiving. Using chat commands, the pilot can open the door and drop passengers. Hopefully they’ll have a parachute.
I’ve also added an altimeter (in feet) and speed indicator (in knots) to all models.
The basic model is on display on Level 1 at the Aerodrome. Contact me if you’d like the tan camouflage or “stars and stripes” paint scheme.
Introducing CubeyTerra.com
For months, I’ve wanted to make a catalog of every vehicle that I’ve made, but for all the wonder and complexity of the Second Life metaverse, there is so far no elegant way to serve information from a central source in-world. Second Life has no equivalent of the World Wide Web.
Rather than just wait until we can store attractive and usable catalogs in-world, I built this — CubeyTerra.com. I hope you enjoy browsing the categories — aircraft, hovercraft, watercraft, and accessories. If you have any questions about this website or any of the vehicles, please don’t hesitate to send me an instant message in Second Life or send and e-mail to cubeyterra@cavers.ca.
Lizards re-elected — go back to whatever you were doing
No surprises in this election. As expected, the Liberal lizards have formed another government and Paul Martin is still the prime lizard of Canada. The only change is that now they have a minority government, so as soon as they reach the first important issue, it’s all over.
I heard an interview with Bob Rae, the former premier of Ontario, on CBC recently. He said (and I’m paraphrasing here) that running a minority government as if it were a majority is like jumping out of an airplane as if you had a parachute.
It’s a nice image, but is it true? Maybe someone should take Mr. Martin on a skydiving trip and see if the analogy holds up.