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Aethelwine

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  1. I am not understanding the awkwardness. I can only see benefits to knowing where the banlines are before you enter the region so you can take steps to avoid them.
  2. I agree with all that what I would add though is that the best tip for anyone vehicle travelling, or indeed walking is to use the mini-map and turn the view of property lines on. Without it, it isn't possible to navigate rivers safely and it makes finding rezz zones much easier.. The Linden Viewer didn't use to have that function, why I haven't used it in years. (I don't know if it does or doesn't now.)
  3. I recall the context being more along the lines of you claiming there weren't many orbs anyway, and that you had made a long journey over mainland without encountering them. It is a bit disingenuous if that journey was over protected land because it doesn't make the point you appeared to be making.
  4. This thread clearly isn't about rights to trespass, so no I am not counting this, even though you appear to want it to be. I don't know of one that was deleted because well deleted? and exploring a skybox - there is no wonder why I wouldn't count that. The other one you mention was about someone that didn't know why they were being ejected from abandoned land. Again I wouldn't count that because not what I was talking about.
  5. I just had a look and in the last 12 months I can see just three threads about people being obstructed whilst travelling and each of them were new to me on the forum with low post counts. The relative lack of travel stopping security probably has little effect on the number of people that will complain here, because as numbers go down people become more confident to travel and when they do find an obstruction are likely to feel as aggrieved if not more by their experience and think it might be worth raising on the forum.
  6. My experience is the same. Pretty much all I do in SL for some years is organise and run cruises. My perception, is perhaps anecdotal but I can certainly speak with some assurance that waterways and riverways look better and are more open now than ever before. Nautilus is circumnavigable. No obstructive security any more between the Sea of Fables and Linden Village area. Corsica is much easier to navigate and circumnavigate. I can do routes through the Coast Town sims now where previously taking people down there would have wiped out every one. Even Heterocera is open enough now to run cruises, with some care, where a few years ago it would have been out of the question, even if possible. Even the Zindra river is free from security, now. Just yesterday I ran a route from Mare Secondus through rivers in the Volcano regions and Micronesia. There were just two orbs along the 1.5 hour route. There would have been many more just a few years ago, I can speak with far less assurance for travel overland as I rarely fly, but when I have, my experience is of rarely encountering orbs and security. For a comparison the Wiki has an article that includes a Survey done 10 years ago: A survey made by our team showed that about 40% of all parcels have restricted access, as follows: 20% use ban lines and use group access, access list or no access list. This percent is much higher in some places of the grid and a lot lower in others. 5 to 10% use entity orbs to restrict access. From these, the majority use a higher eject time (over 10 seconds). Only a few are very aggresive and are set for less then 5 seconds. Also, only a few teleport people to another parcel. About 15% use banned lines for a few unwanted visitors. https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Land_With_Restricted_Access#Percents Now I am not clear if those percentages are for mainland alone or if they include private regions. But private regions don't always allow banlines anyway, in fact I don't recall ever being allowed them on private estates I have rented or rent on. I would say along waterways the percentage of places using orbs of less than 10 seconds would be something like 0.5%
  7. Sailing, but possibly more than that is just idling on a patio watching the way the water shimmers. The best views in SL normally involve water. Something about it that is almost medatative, relaxing.
  8. On another forum there was someone with the name Don Kiddich. I didn't think it unusual, he was a regular. It was a few years later someone asked if actually tried to verbalise it, before I realised the hidden smutty meaning. I like the cleverness when the double meaning is hidden.
  9. Herbie Hancock with Norah Jones on the first track from River, the Joni Letters.
  10. I don't recall ever removing anyone as a friend. I rarely ask anyone to be a friend either, but have accumulated over 600 so far. I know some people do tidy up their friends lists because they like to keep it small (or that is what they have told me) and it has never bothered me when they have I normally find people through group lists rather than friend lists anyway. The only time I need someone to be a friend (I think) is when I am giving them edit rights to my stuff. So in answer to the OP, no. If someone had unfriended me and I wanted to be friends with them, then I would act like a friend around them until they agreed.
  11. "Duke next decided to dust off a pair of 1937 blues tunes that appeared on both sides of a 78-rpm record: “Diminuendo in Blue” and “Crescendo in Blue” (almost antonyms) and told the audience they were now being linked together with an improvisation by one of his sidemen to form Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue – a performance that changed the jazz world … and the fortunes of Duke Ellington and his Orchestra for the rest of his life. Interestingly, the choice of tenor saxophonist Paul Gonsalves (photo right, below) was not one of Ellington’s featured sidemen; the announcement of his name did not bring forth a loud response. But there was some response, and for a very appropriate reason. Paul Gonsalves was a native New Englander (born in Brockton, Massachusetts) and, like the pianist Horace Silver: was the son of immigrants from Cape Verde – an African island nation colonized for centuries by Portugal – so he often performed at clubs in Rhode Island, New Bedford and Fall River, which had a notable ethnic Portuguese and Cape Verdean population. Thus, Gonsalves had family and friends in attendance; seated in rows just behind the box seats of Newport socialites. But in a sign reminiscent of the first-set troubles: when it came time for Gonsalves’ tenor solo, he actually blew not into the Columbia microphone, but into the alternate Voice of America microphone – which had only recently begun to feature a nightly “Jazz Hour” for broadcast outside the United States (which I profiled in a previous Top Comments diary) – which would affect the recording of the show for the subsequent Columbia release. But not for the show itself: because Gonsalves delivered a tour-de-force blues in-the-key-of-D that stood out for three major reasons: One was that – instead of playing a smooth, big-band style of playing – he played in a deep Gospel, R&B honking style that was more suited for juke joints and church revival meetings … not what sedate, wealthy audiences were expecting. The second was that the rest of the horn/reed players (on cue) “laid-out” (stopped playing) so that all Gonsalves had as back-up was bassist Jimmy Woode, drummer Sam Woodward and Duke himself on piano – lending the sound more toward a rocking small quartet. Actually, there was a fifth performer: at the foot of the stage was Jo Jones – the former drummer for Count Basie, now appearing with pianist Teddy Wilson – who was serving as another percussionist by banging a rolled-up copy of the Christian Science Monitor – whose offices are in Boston – on the stage, and shouting more encouragement. The last reason was that – in normal big bands – a soloist on a blues tune might expect to play two, perhaps three choruses. Later musicians (such as John Coltrane) were used to playing extended solos in small groups – just not in big bands. Gonsalves, though – egged-on by Duke Ellington, urging him to “wail” – played for twenty-seven choruses – over six minutes – until he could no longer blow. And by the sixth-or-seventh chorus, his wailing had led a 32 year-old socialite (the wife of a clothing manufacturer) in a black dress who was so moved by the music that she got up and …. started dancing. And a (partially obscured) photo of her appeared on the album cover months later. That opened the floodgates: a couple started jitterbugging and others stood on their chairs, roaring their approval. When the rest of the band came back to finish with the “Crescendo in Blue” portion, the ovation the band received at song’s end was described as one of the loudest in jazz history and the post-midnight commotion had the Newport security police on alert. On the audio recording embedded below, you hear Duke saluting his band and calling out “Paul Gonsalves ….. PAUL GONSALVES!” to a delirious audience. The band completed its set – including the triumphant return of alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges after a five-year hiatus – to play a spirited version of “Jeep’s Blues” to a still-animated audience. In fact, Duke needed to play a subdued version of “Mood Indigo” to bring the audience down at the set’s conclusion." Source
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