Before I start with the story and the big news about the Pandora Hud – Luxe edition, let us give a big welcome to Zippora’s blog!!! (you fell at the end, isn’t it, Zippora? You don’t know where are you getting yourself into *grins*) .
(Did you like the smile? the new Pandora Hud have 19 looped facial expressions and much, much more… keep reading :-)
Ok, to avoid cluttering World of Fashion I am going to add a cut, but please, read it!. Learn why this is the 98/99 post, Don’t miss the info about the Misfits’ Prom and Soph’s event at the Diversionarium, read why people runned away from me, discover the biggest SL hug that I’ve heard about and even, yes! nipples!
Ok, let’s start. First, the 98/99th post mistery is simple. I deleted a post about a tutorial I did wrote, so even if the system thinks this is my 98th, it really is my 99th… anyway, be ready for the 100th (ok, the 100/101th :-p)… there will be, stadistics!
Here is the cut and paste from Kate’s blog about the Misfit’s Prom:
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1:53 pm – This weekend at the Div: Misfits’ Prom and Designing for Your SL! On Friday we’ll be holding a Misfits’ Prom at the Diversionarium, something that should be fun whether you want to play it straight or turn the idea of going to a prom on its ear. And it occurred to me that if anyone feels like it, it would be fun to have a photographer and chaperones. The photographer could take pictures of the couples, and the chaperones could go around reprimanding everything or spiking the punch or whatever they liked. :) Anyway, come if you can, and IM me (Kate Amdahl) if you want to photograph or chaperone!
Here are the details:
You are cordially invited to the Misfits’ Prom (that’s a Senior Formal to you Canadians!), Friday night at 7:00 SLT at the Diversionarium. Kate Amdahl hosts and Eris Fallon DJs. Come dressed for the prom or completely not for the prom, with a date or no date or three dates. Were you nervous for your high school prom? At this one you can do anything you want! The punch will be spiked, and after we’ll all go rent hotel rooms and get drunk on cheap champagne!
Attire: formal, informal, friendly, sleazy, or other
Time: 7:00 SLT to heaven only knows when
RSVP: Sure, if you want to!
We’ll have games, a prom king and queen, couples dances, a dance ball, and a number of other things that we never have at the Div under normal circumstances!
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And, talking about the Div, don’t forget Sophrosyne’s eurofriendly event:
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Saturday at 1:00 PM SLT: Sophrosyne Stenvaag hosts a discussion on Designing for Your Second Life
Do you have a coffeemaker in your SL kitchen? Have a laptop? Wear glasses? What First Life stuff do you have to have for your Second Life to feel complete?
Come tell us what’s important that you have or do in SL, that might seem like just a prop to someone else!
Hosted by Sophrosyne Stenvaag. Free food, but you’re on your own for finding a bathroom! :)
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And now, the main story:
This has been a hard, tiresome week. I’ve been working like crazy on the release of the Pandora Hud – Luxe edition, the Pandora Cuddle Cloud and the Pandora Icebreaker (all of them should hit the stores tomorrow, saturday 21th), so busy that even was hard for me to break from work and say hello, or simply hug my beloved ones. It has been a pain, with some nice moments and some awfull ones. Until yesterday’s night.
Let me tell you what happened :-)
The new hud has 22 permissions slots intead of 12 (and, btw, a button to use it with people you don’t want to store, in the same way other huds do) ; that means that I needed to find 23 people to check the script limits, at one of morning!
Ok, first Kat and Nat where two, but I needed a lot more… got Kate around the Div and a friend of hers, Layne, and a Nat’s friend too, Maria… but even if I only wanted to test if the secondary menu that opens when you have more than 12 avies (that means the activation of the “Next” button) I needed eight more.
So I started my quest for animation permissions.
I could had gone to Hyperborea sanbox, since I have some friends there, but I’ve been promising to pay them a visit for ages, and whould feel ashamed going there only to get a benefit. So I looked for another sandbox at random and ported there.
I’ll never try again.
People is wary of strangers, and after having to explain it a lot of times, only one nice guy, called Servility, accepted to take the risk to help me. About the others… whats the point of spend 20 minutes asking questions if later you deny your help?
After the fracass I went back to Pandora, talked a bit with Nat and her friend, and had a beatifull idea.
I started calling bloggers, thinking the poor chaps whould believe I wasn’t trying to scam them… at least, I hoped it :-)
Guys, couldn’t you had been awake? It was only two of morning!
The first one I got online was Laetizia; she was very helpfull even she didn’t knew what was all the fuss about it (sigh, why don’t everybody read my blog everyday? it is so interesting!). We talked a bit about the Nipplegate, since she hadn’t answered my double dare; it happened that when she knew about it, time has passed and she found that it whould be silly to keep the theme. Of course, since I don’t like to miss a nice nipple pic, and knowing she wasn’t going to publish it, decided to put it there as quick as possible… here you have it :-)
We talked a bit before she had to go, and meanwhile a customer appeared at the shop; I asked her animation permissions and she said “No” and… runned away! actually running!
I’ts been ages since last time I’ve seen somebody running at SL :-p
Then I got dandellion, and that was great, since even if we had met casually, this was the first time that we had the opportunity to talk, and it was fun :-)
I tried more favorites, but without luck (btw, Nat told me Veyron wasn’t online, and dandellion that only two of her friends where online, and one was Natsumi… I wonder how it comes everybody is Nat’s friend :-p).
And then I simply decided to spam the the bloggers group and two of them answered quickly, Madison and dinee. People keeped coming (Elusyve, Beladona, Baron Cale), a just born newbie, called Bymayaa, ambled around and gived a hand, we tried dances and a mass hug with more than 12 avies in it, Lillie logged and made an astonishing appearance… one that really nice moments so typical of SL, with nice people giving you a hand…
AND I FORGOT TO TAKE A PIC!
Gooooood, I am sooo hopeless :-p
Anyway, the hud is almost ready; thanks to all the help I detected two small bugs (only 11 avies on the first partial menu instead of 12, and that the back button doesnt work in the secondary one), and they seem to be the last ones. I’ve already fixed them, so I’ll test it a bit, and try and to put it tonight at the shop :-)
(How do you add a cut?)
I really ought to update my profile! A better link for me is http://madisoncarnot.wordpress.com and I did get a pic from the beginning when there were just a few of us doing tai chi together. Not the big hug though. :(
But since I blogged it, I’ll go add a link to you now!
And Ana, as far as I know you can only add a cut in WordPress. I’ve never seen that ability in Blogger. Sorry. :(
London, at the risk of sounding like a complete dweeb, what all does the hud have in it? Does the shop have a complete listing?
Yes, I’m tech-challenged, but I’m getting better. ;)
Thank you for mentioning my blog here, London :-) And no, I don’t want to know what I’m getting into ;-)
About the Pandora hud: will it be possible to upgrade from the Classic Hud to the Luxe edition, or do I have to buy the full package?
Ana, as Zippora commented, I simply use a button for it on the editor. I checked the source code of a cut, and it seems that WordPress creates two pages, one whole and one cutted with a link to the whole one.
So it seems that to make a cut in a easy way, you need that your blog host has a predefinied way to do it.
Madison, thanks for your help yesterday :-) I just updated the link to your blog, and it was fun that, reading it, I discovered that you had already had participated in a massive hug :-)
Diannah, not a dweeb at all, but if you look at the header of this page, you will see a tab for the Pandora Hud, where you can follow the link to the full contents. I hope to add this week more links with the contents and manual of the Luxe version :-).
Zippora, it was a pleasure, and the least I could do after so many comments of you here *smiles*. About your question, I’ll release an incredible easy to use update pack to convet any Pandora Hud in a Luxe version, and you will even save 5L$ (395L$ vs 1200L$, and “only” 800L$ for the update pack).
Hi love! Thanks for the promotion! I hope to see you and yours tomorrow at one or both of the events.
It’s been an exhausting week for everyone, hasn’t it? I have about 30 tabs open, mostly for comments I owe people :(
I just wanted to say I’ve been reading, and loving your story and BDSM posts. Now that my Corporate Week is over (I’ve had about an hour and a half all week that wasn’t in some kind of conference, and I spent half crying on Vidal’s shoulder over how much I miss her and my life, and the other hour destroying and rebuilding my house.. :P), hopefully I’ll get back to generating material to write about!
*big hugs*
[…] Sep 22nd, 2007 by London Spengler Almost six of morning and I am too tired even to type. So much for my incredible 99/100th post :-p (if you don’t know why I use both values, read the previous post). […]
I whould had loved to assist, but I just finished the new Hud and it is six of morning. I need to sleeeeep :-p
About the rest, thanks, good for you, get happy, and poor house *giggles*.
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