[Remembrance Day - November 11th]

Bumping this thread up as I'm sitting here at the RoBeck cenotaph. There's nobody else staying until 11 EST, apparently, so someone come be here with me. It looks silly all by my lonesome, we need a turnout.

[Funny SL moments!]

I am serious! And don't call me Shirley.

[Avatars with disabilities - random thoughts]

My disabilities are mental, so there's not much for me to say here... although I have an RP character who is an amputee, and from that angle I have noticed how hard it is to find anything good.

He has a wooden pirate peg leg. :matte-motes-impatient: For his RP setting that's fine although I imagine that people who want their SL selves to reflect their RL selves' disabilities they might want a more modern prosthetic. Unless you're into pirates.

I also want a natural limping walk for him, but all the limping walks/runs I can find suggest current acute injury rather than longterm permanent disability.

I want to learn to animate so I can do this stuff. One thing I want to do, if nobody's done it yet, is make a wheelchair or scooter with a sitting walk, so that the avvy moves forward along the ground and the animation is not in the legs but rather in the wheels, steering, arms if it's a manual wheelchair, etc. 

[Funny SL moments!]

One of my other avvies is a rather short gentleman. He picked up a glass of champagne with an animation that proved to be designed for a taller person. The drinking animation had him toss the contents of the glass over the top of his head.

I was reminded of the gag from "Airplane" about the drinking problem.

[3.2 Issues]

It took a little while to get used to, but I think I like the 3.2 interface -- once I figured out I could arrange buttons and put them wherever I wanted, and hide the silly Avatars and Destinations buttons. I want MY landmarks and MY outfits, not something someone else suggested. Anyhoo, fixed.

The real problem I'm finding is that the inbuilt browser thingy doesn't work. Mainly, the Search button pulls up an empty grey window with no features. I use my external internet browser to find stuff in SL. Also, a group sent me a notification containing a landmark, but I can't click the landmark link or find any way to get the coords out of it and teleport there.

Soooooo... I might go back to an earlier version of the viewer just because some important features in this one are paralyzed.