Behind the crack house

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The worst part of town

A few days ago I saw a notice in the Street Whores group that a new house was available for rent. It was advertised as being 'in the worst part of town'. A selling point were the noisy neighbours, Misty and Anya and the crack house across the street. I decided to go for a look and concluded it was indeed worse than the corner of the square where I live, but not better or worse than most areas in our little community.

Then I just wandered around until I noticed that Bojana was at home. She came outside to sit in front of her house and we had an extended chat.

Bojana has a reputation for being extremely kinky. And it's not just the looks of her house's window that shows this. She naturally believes that the alley she lives in is the worst part of town as well...

Her claim can be called valid as well: there is a rat walking around, the area is infested with cockroaches and next door to Bojana lives Rachael. It doesn't get any worse, does it?

Rachael dropped by and she supported Bojana's claim. I suppose they might be right. But I may find a worse spot next time...

The big dog

Stephanie surprised me by showing up with a large dog. Especially Whotter didn't like him much. There was a lot of soft roaring next to me as I was leaning against my street lantern.

I quickly discovered though that Whotter was not as much impressed as it looked at first sight. Stephanie fed him a fish and soon he was happy again, completely ignoring the dog.

So there we were, looking out over the square, with Whotter and the big dog. It was almost like any other sunday morning.

Visiting SL13B - Second Life's 13th birthday celebration

Kids need to go out every once in a while. So, in between 2 'dates' I decided to take Whotter to SL13B. It's hard to believe that Second Life is already 13 years old. Where did the time go?

We went to a central place at first, called the Cake Stage, where there were lots of candy-coloured things around. Everything was shaped in what I call a 'neo-pixel style'. It reminds of the early days of computer games, when I was still a very small kid. Whotter loved it. While he ran about and clapped his hands I got us a pair of hats.

Then we walked into other parts of the exhibition, through forests of pixel trees. It gave me the impression of my first days in Second Life, when the metaverse still seemed like a very large place, where you could wander on forever. It feels so much smaller now, after all those years.

Next Whotter wanted to walk by the Adventure to Mars, which was a model of a Mars Lander, inspired on the SpaceX Red Dragon lander and the film The Martian. The exhibit as a whole is inspired on NASA's 'Mars Explorers Wanted' posters.

It was also nice to see that Giant Snail Racing was represented. I haven't visited it in ages, but the few times I have seen it it was outright hilarious. RacerX Gullwing has been organising these weekly races in Second Life for many years now.

After this we walked by the Sci-Fi Alliance, which built a funny neo-communist modernist building, with a logo that could have been taken from a Soviet monument.

Hayabusa Designs made a nice sci-fi artwork that consisted of a few balls with maple trees in them, red leaves and lots of movement. It was kind of hard to make a nice picture of it, but it's the kind of thing I would expect a Japanese artist to make. It was called a 'Japanese Maple Nursery'.

There is never enough time of course to visit all of these regions, so I guess they will be gone by the time I am about to visit them for the last time to complete my tour. Just have a look for yourself, or enjoy my pics and those of others.