MoiraKathleen

There is a UCC (United Church of Christ) which has live services Sundays at 5:00 pm SLT and on Fridays at 4:00 pm SLT. They also have a morning meditation service at 8:00 am SLT on Mondays and Fridays, and afternoon Psalter Meditation Services Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday at 5:00 pm. Their landing place is http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/First UCC Island/121/201/25 There is a greeter bot at the landing which you can message for further information (schedule, landmarks, etc). Their website is http://www.FirstUCCSL.org

You might want to check the shadows setting - I switched the shadows setting from sun/moon to none to see what difference that made, and gained about 15 -20 FPS from just that change.

I may be misunderstanding that point of the original post, but I took it as not a list of things that should become regulated, but rather as a list of items that land dealers might want to consider in how they, themselves, approach developing rules for their tenants on parcels that they rent out, or in how they set up land for rent or for sale. If I were to rent land, there are a number of things in the list that would be things I would be looking for as a tenant and if I was deciding between otherwise similar parcels between two landlords, I would probably choose the landlord with the rules and terms that I most agreed with.

Ctrl-Shift-1 brings up the Statistics window which has the FPS. I generally go by how the scene loads and how well I'm able to move around. If I feel that I'm getting good performance, then I don't normally worry about what the FPS value happens to be.

I don't think turning off advanced lighting in a non-PBR enabled viewer really gives any meaningful data about how your system might run under PBR. I think trying out the current LL viewer which now has PBR enabled is a much better way to evaluate the changes made to implement PBR.

I've been really pleased with the LL default PBR viewer. I haven't noticed any longer loading times than previously, nor have I noticed any issues with camming around. The winter wonderland regions are exceptionally beautiful. I've been happy with how my mainland parcel looks now also, with the PBR viewer and the default mainland region environment settings. There's also a new midday EEP, which is a big improvement over the prior one (which is still available, but marked as Midday (Legacy)). I've used either the LL viewer or the Kokua viewer since BOM went live. The last piece of improvement for me in the LL viewer is that the 512 MB texture memory limit is no longer there, and I haven't had any of the texture thrashing that I used to have with the previous LL viewers. When I look in the 'about' info in the viewer, it's showing 4095 MB for the texture memory. Overall, I've been pleased with the performance and other improvements that have been made to the LL viewer, especially in the last year and a half or so.

outside at home shortly after sunset

I don't know that I've ever seen abandoned micro-parcels.

I deed my land to my group so I can get the group bonus. Generally when I buy land it was either abandoned land that I submitted a ticket for, or it borders abandoned land, so I've found it's easier just to request the additional land for the group bonus to be alongside my main parcel. For the regions I've had parcels in, this has also been less expensive than buying a micro-parcel, if there happened to be any for sale.

I can't take credit for the lighting. Winter Wonderland is especially beautiful this year. The Moles did an awesome job.

Warming up after chasing snowflakes at Winter Wonderland

I use the current version of the SL viewer, and I am not seeing extremely small hand sizes like the ones in the OP's first picture. I'm at a fairly busy place right now, and everyone's hands look pretty much normal.

I had some time today for trying out LaraX. I was able to get a shape that I like with it, and was able to take a look at what's been released so far - I have several outfits I like that I can wear with it now. I didn't try going through all my existing clothes to see what might work - I'll just switch back and forth between the two bodies depending on what I want to wear and what body the outfit is rigged for. I already do that between Slink Physique, Prima Petite and the 5.3 Lara, so nothing different than adding one more body into the mix. I'm not feeling pressured to need to have a bunch of LaraX clothes right off the bat, or to buy something I don't really like just because it's available in LaraX. I'll just pick them up as styles I like become available, and if something I like doesn't have a LaraX size, but does have 5.3 (or Slink or Prima) then I'll buy the size for one of the other bodies that I wear.

I had to downsize my mainland parcel recently, so I decided to do a makeover on the part that I was keeping:

I'll have to check that out - your description sounds like the type of beach place that I would like.

I'm not much of a fan of sci-fi or dystopian urban areas. I'm also not crazy about endless sandy beaches, though a small beach, or a clearing on the edge of a lake or stream, can be nice. I do like most nature regions. Also, small villages or towns where I can walk around and really get a feel for the area. I like historical or fantasy regions as long as I can get a feel for the time/place being portrayed. I found Kowloon on my first SL birthday and have gone back there from time to time. I like it because it's so different from anything I'm familiar with, and also a bit mysterious. I do like Tableau, even though I suppose it could be seen as slightly dystopian, but it's not a dark feeling region. I haven't been out to Walsh County for awhile either, but I also like it out there - it makes me feel (whether rightly or wrongly) that I'm out in the mid-west somewhere. I like the Mother Road because of the feeling of lonliness and hard scrabble times I get from there.

Another place to take a look at is AlaFolie I also use a lot of BOM leggings (to turn too short dresses into tunics) and have quite a few BOM tank tops also for when a top or dress I really like has too much cleavage or a top doesn't extend all the way down to my skirt or pants.

My daughter and I watched the new Ken Burns documentary "The American Buffalo" on PBS a couple of nights ago. It was fascinating, thought-provoking and very moving (and had us teary-eyed at a couple of points in the story). He is really wonderful in his documentaries with bringing together the multiple threads of an issue and weaving them all together. I knew many of the individual historical events, as individual events, but having them all woven together so you can see the wider perspectives and consequences of our choices and actions brings a deeper level of understanding to those events.

Last week I read The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. I read it because I was invited by a friend to a book discussion group with her and her daughter's friends, and that was the book chosen for discussion at the end of this month. I wasn't sure I would like it, as I don't really like many horror or psychological thrillers, but I found it to be very captivating, and it turned out to be one of those books I think I'll read just a chapter or two with breakfast, but then end up reading all day and evening (and maybe the next day) until I finish it. This week I'm in the middle of reading Cannery Row by John Steinbeck. I'd read his East of Eden and Grapes of Wrath many years ago, but hadn't read Cannery Row until now. It's not a "sit until I finish reading it" book for me, but still an enjoyable read. One of my favorite series of books, and probably the only series that both me and my husband read. When I first joined SL, I was excited to find an off-cannon RP group based on her books, and I was active with that group for several years.

I do a long click and drag the mouse off the bucket, and then I get a message in chat that says how many candies have been given out.

I haven't seen any store names that have done this, so far. I would think they were doing so to make their store name stand out - I'm having a hard time making the leap to think they would be doing so in order to make people think they had a 5 star product.

It's worth checking periodically through out the time you're online to see if any ranch homes are available - you may just get lucky and check right after someone has abandoned theirs. I've had to do this for Trads or some of the popular stilt styles that often have 0 availability, and usually I've been able to get one within a week or so of trying.

I had a couple of instances where the number didn't increment on the HUD until I walked out of the parcel to the street. I thought I read a comment somewhere here or in the Belli Citizens chat, that the HUD might not display the updated count when on parcels with scripts turned off, but the HUD counter display would catch up once you were back where scripts were active. I took this to mean that the actual count is being incremented and stored even if the display doesn't reflect it right away.

I don't know if it's related to this blog entry from LL today or not, but it might be worth reading.

I did end up using the list last year and will use it again this year, but I TP to the region from the list entry (not to the exact entry SURL) and then walk the region looking for the home on the list, plus any others that I might find. I feel this is a good compromise between fully walking the ever-expanding number of Bellisseria regions and just TP'ing directly to each entry. It does take more time, and I'm not sure I finished the entire list last year, but I'm just in it for the region explorations and to get some lower level participation prize, as I know I don't have the time or the patience to go after the top prizes. I also added my location to the current list this morning.