Events This Week at the Sunweaver and Montecito Bay Clubs, and Club Scorn

 

Here's what's going on at the Sunweaver, Montecito Bay, and Scorn clubs.

Club Cutlass: TBA

Happy Vixen: DJ Malit, DJ Arooo, DJ Snowy, DJ Mattie, DJ Kasi, DJ Squeaks, DJ Khyra

Club Zero Gravity: TBA

Bouncing Bunny Beach Club: TBA

Xanadu: DJ Jesse  

Moon Dance: DJ Cynthia 

Club Squeaks: DJ Squeaks

 

Montecito Bay:  CAYA, After Dark

Club Scorn: DJ Charlee, Morning Show, Breakfast Show, DJ Aldi, DJ Poison, DJ Charlee, DJ Malit, DJ Gwen

 

Read the schedules in SL Clubbin'

A Song For The Relay, "We Are Here"

 

There's no arguing that DJing takes some time, effort, and skill. But it's something else to be able to write an actual song. Mattie Carlton (Mattie Foxpaws)  recently came up with one in honor of a friend who had recently passed away from cancer. She is not keeping it for herself, but is free for everyone to use, especially for Relay events. She recently told the Newser a little about the song, and how it came to be.

 

Read the story in Design.

"Bid Us Squirrels" Results

 

On Saturday April 13, the "Bid Us Squirrels" fundraiser by the Relay for Life's Team Sunbeamers was concluded. Team Captain Rita Marnier posted the results in an announcement.

 

Bixyl and Charlie BID ME is done, Here are the results.                      
 KEEP THEM FOXY = 5350L
 
Turn them SQURRIELY  = $25,900 L
 
 They go Black Squrriels for 5 weeks
 So until MAY 18th.
 

This makes for, officially, a grand total of 31,250 Linden dollars raised in the Sunbeamer's first joint "Bid Me" event. Usually, the totals for these fundraisers are finalized at around 8PM, at the end of the Cutlass Saturday night party. But this time they were announced earlier in the day.

 

So until mid-May, Second Life Newser's foxy reporter and Club Scorn's foxy DJ, Bixyl and Charlee Shuftan (Charlee Snowfox) will be "going squirrley." Hopefully the coffee machines have hazelnut varieties. 

The other Bid Me fundraiser, "Bid Me Purple," is still going on, at Sunweaver Bay (114/117/757), and is due to end Sunday April 21.

 

As of now, Team Sunbeamers has raised a total of 721,816 Linden dollars, currently in Jade ranks and closing in on Sapphire.

Go Sunbeamers! Go Relay!

Bixyl Shuftan

Cartoon of The Day: Pigging Out

 

 

 Taken at the Bellisseria Fairgrounds. Pig avatars are very rare in Second Life. But dropping by the Bellisseria Anniversary celebrations, I saw a couple. 

 

So why are they so hard to find? Maybe because they don't want to be anyone's bacon. 

By Bixyl Shuftan

 

SL Video: "Baby"

 

 

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From SL Indonesia on August 2023

 

Reader Submitted: Tutu For The Relay

 

 On Sunday April 7, The Second Life Cheerleading Squad and the Cure Chasers were holding a joint fundraiser. At one point, Alison Flow announced in Relay chat, "Just 3K more at the cheerleaders funday get cure chaser Bill Wheelwright into a tutu for the rest of the day. can we get some remote support for that?!!" To which Bill responded, "ALISON!!"

 

The Newser was sent a picture and some transcripts from Lady Ren 'Superjinx' Flow (Ren Float) and Alison Flow. See and read in People. 

EOTB: April 2024 Mobile Viewer Update

 

 A few days ago, Linden Lab announced it had published new versions of it's mobile viewer, for both Android and IOS. Among the improvements, avatars that used a deformer for their shape and didn't load correctly in earlier versions should show properly now.

New Android and iOS Alpha builds were published Wednesday, April 3rd.

We’ve been working hard for the last two months and are excited to share some major steps forward for the mobile client -- correctly displaying avatars and teleport improvements have been at the top of the list.

If your avatar depends on an avatar shape deformer, you should immediately notice the changes to avatar rendering! Avatars that didn’t render at all before, or didn’t look the way you intended, now render correctly.

 

Also mentioned was improved teleporting, less likely to get stuck on the loading screen, And if you're in a place with music streaming, you'll be able to use more normal controls to start or stop it.

 

Teleports are also greatly improved – no more getting stuck on a loading screen! If you’re on a parcel with streaming audio, you’ll now be able to use standard audio controls to stop/start and change the volume (tap main menu > tap the audio metadata at the bottom of the screen).  We also found and fixed some issues with the order of group chat messages.

 

Currently, the mobile viewer remains in a "private alpha" status, with access limited to Premium Plus residents, who need to apply to be on the list to use it.

 

For the blog post in full, Click Here. 

 

Announcement: Honoring Our Troops Fundraising Hunt

 

Splintered Creations and Homes For Our Troops proudly presents an Honoring Our Troops Fundraising Hunt.
This runs from April 1, 2024-April 30, 2024
22 Items in the Hunt and all priced at 5L each with the proceeds going directly to Homes For Our Troops.
 

 http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Veterans%20Isle/141/184/3501

 

You are looking for a square Hunt Prim that has the Homes For Our Troops logo on it.

The hunt prims are spread out around the sim.  Check buildings, sides of things, garden, terraces etc.  The goal is to have fun and help raise funds for a worthy cause.  

Enjoy

SinclaireWorthington/Splintered Creations

Addition: The squares need to be paid 5L for you to get the prize

This Saturday at The Science Circle

Saturday April 13

    ~*~

    

    At 10 AM PST   

    A History of Quantum Mechanics

    By Robert Lawson Brown

    https://www.sciencecircle.org/event/quantum-mechanics/

    The Science Circle (72,129,30)

      

    ~*~

 

    

    NOTE: Non-members required to register once

    IM Jes Cobalt or Nymf Hathaway

╚══════════════════════════════ The Science Circle (72,129,30) ═╝

 

Disney Tribute "Magicland" About to Close

 

 

 Some sad news for Disney fans in Second Life. Two days ago on Tuesday April 9, the owners of Magicland Park, a tribute to Disneyland, announced the place would soon be closing. 

Every good thing comes to an end and it's unfortunately time for us to say goodbye to Magicland Park. THANK YOU to everyone who has supported us over the last 15 years. This has been an amazing incredible journey that we were fortunate to be able to share with all of you. Magicland Park was a labor of love and we enjoyed this journey we were on.

 It was with a heavy heart that we came to this decision, but our lives have moved us into a different direction.

 We hope that you enjoyed the moments you had here with us on this amazing journey. Magicland Park's last day of operation will be Sunday, April 14, 2024. So grab your friends and family, come on down and take a last spin on the teacups or a final trip back through time on the Carousel of Progress. We have our favorite attractions and know that you do too.

Thank you for all your support and encouragement over all these years.

 

So there are just a few more days for visitors to come by. Besides walking around, one can check out the rides. There's a "Star Tours" attraction in which riders go on a ship supposedly piloted by R2D2. There's the "Captain EO" ride which is around a Michael Jackson music video. There's the "Carousel of Progress" which shows how households have progressed through the 20th century. And more. 

Once again, the last day the park will be scheduled to be up is Sunday April 14.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bracket/252/125/27

Bixyl Shuftan

Cartoon of The Day: Don't Laugh

 

 

 Taken at the shopping event. Not sure what inspired that fashion statement, but my imagination came up with a few things.

By Bixyl Shuftan

 

Bellisseria Anniversary Grounds And Bubbles

 

Gemma Cleanslate has been busy. With Bellisseria celebrating it's anniversary, she was at the Fairgrounds checking the sights and the tours and other activities. She also checked out Cica Ghost's newest art exhibition, "Bubbles," featuring creatures under the sea.

Read Gemma's story in Places.

 

 

EOTB: New Last Names For Second Life Residents

 

 Yesterday, Tuesday April 9, Linden Lab announced twelve new last names as options for residents to change to.

Happy spring! Thank you for all the suggestions sent in for future last names through our Last Name Suggestion Form. 

Today we are doing another big last name refresh by removing some of the older last name options and adding the following new ones from your suggestions:

 

The new names are Firehart, Ravenwood, Zennor, Whisperwind, Starforge, Xochitl, Finchfield, Azalea, Seabrink, Pawprint, Morehead, and Osbourn.

 

 As a reminder, changing one's last name isn't free, but requires a fee, which can range from $49.99 to $14.99 USD, depending on the level of one's account membership.