Cartoon of The Day: Crashed Witch

 

 

 A decoration of a witch having crashed into a tree. Just what would distract someone on a flying broomstick to this point?

By Bixyl Shuftan

 

Bay City's SL19B Exhibit In Flames

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Bay City's Marianne McCann recently contacted the Newser, pointing out a few photos she took in her "My Second Life" feed. It appears for Bay City, it's time at "The Birthday" had a firey end.

It seems before it was scheduled to be taken down, Bay City's Second Life Nineteenth Birthday exhibit was the scene of a "disaster," going up in flames, "Was this an accident, or sabotage?"

There was something stuck in the flames, "Could this giant gear be a clue?"

Marianne would only add an investigation was ongoing, not sure when the results would be announced.

Bixyl Shuftan
 

Cartoon of the Day: A Painful Test

Taken at the SL17B. Anyone out there interesting contacting Earth would probably ask themselves first would we see them as people, or would we see them as monsters or things? They'd probably have ways of finding out. This guy, whom presumably has medical technology to heal him quickly, went ahead with a direct approach.

By Bixyl Shuftan

Cartoon of the Day: Lightsaber Accidents Before Class

Taken at the VWBPE Keynote. Holstering a weapon on one's back can be tricky. When done with a sword or gun, it can be seen like cloth over it or poked through the clothes. But as a lightsaber can do damage just by touching, it this case it looks like it got shoved in, either by an enemy or a training accident. So why wouldn't it be removed? Memories of life in the education system made me think of one possible reason.

By Bixyl Shuftan

Scenes From The Relay

Taken by Carmella Santana (Carmelasia Resident) and posted in Fantasy Fair chat, "See, doing so good." Earlier, she had been talking about a race today at 1PM, " Ima run over alia with my atomic kitty bus!" Seeing this, others chuckled, "Yepp, thats about what I expected to see when I clicked that link."

Reader Submitted: Trailer Trashed

While at one of Montecito Bay's parties, Lem Aiko (LemonPledge Resident) handed this picture to me, "Bajo wrecked my car into the roof of my trailer and it caught fire!"

DrRedRedWine Resident, who was nearby and knew what was going on, remarked, "He's remodeling Lem's trailer!"

Hopefully Montecito Bay's insurance company pulled through on the replacement.

This Week At The Science Circle: "The Future of Fukushima"

Saturday, December 16th at 8 AM PST

"The Future of Fukushima: The Reconstruction and the Radiation Protection" by Fumon Crystal
                    
A magnitude 9.0 earthquake on 11th March 2011 resulted in a tsunami and nuclear accident.

There are ***still*** over 80 thousand evacuees in 2017.

They come to grips with the reconstruction and decontamination after the disaster and enjoy their everyday life. There are the dignified smiling people and the diverse cultures in Fukushima. For the renewal of the agriculture and the fishery, scientists, engineers, and local media’s are collaborated in the science communication and the public understanding of science on the radiation and the health care from the external and internal exposure based on the evidence.

This Science Circle session provides the actual cases how to live in the low dose waiting zones according to the major concepts by ICRP publications and the reconstruction of the social infrastructures.

Presenter visualized such efforts as evidences of history at “la Médiathèque de la Radioactivité” under consultation of Hajime Nishimura.

The presenter will guide you through the Fukushima exhibition at 4000m Sky of Edu Portal, The Science Circle.

Note: Presenter uses text chat in English.

More information about Crystal's excursion at https://sciencecircle.org/nextpresentation/ .

Cartoon of the Day

Picture taken by Geerkil Ziskey. 

Caption by Bixyl Shuftan

Cartoon of the Day

Picture from Cynthia Farshore, taken at the Relay Weekend's Sunbeamer camp. Looks like her "Tin Lizzy" took the most inopportune time to get bad brakes.

By Bixyl Shuftan

Recklass Driving on the Relay Track

Not the actual car: a dramatization

At one point last night while the camps of the Relay Track were being worked on, there was a bit of panic in the Relay for Life Track builder chat, Fuzzball Ortega saying, "I don't know who's driving that vehicle. But......EVERYONE OFF THE TRACK!!!!" He added a few seconds later, "And no....it's not me." Athenaeum Archivist told the group, "They crashed into our stack of books and drove off." Madonna Daehlie commented, "That's even more dangerous than the lunatic flying around the track in a Wright Flyer this week." Fuzzball commented further, "I saw some car driving all over the track, and I said to myself, "Damn, I thought Fuzz wasn't rezzing any vehicles" and then I realized, 'I'm Fuzz'." KumaguroBunnyBear Resident commented, "I've known people to land cars in trees and on roofs."

Eclair Martinek admitted being the guilty driver, "Dianna kept talking to me while I was driving. I hope I didn't destroy any campsites." But the car was never found, she later saying she drove it into a body of water to get rid of the evidence. Trader Whiplash had to leave when this incident was still fresh, "I leave you all to drive each other nuts until I return. Don't burn down the sims."

No doubt there will continue to be examples of mayhem and hilarity at the Relay Track as time ticks on to the Relay Weekend this Saturday and Sunday.

Bixyl Shuftan

SL Video: "In the Darkness"

(Click here if the video fails to play)

By Art Furry Studio on July 2016 , "The main character after work returned home and falls into a terrible accident, after which she falls into a coma and is in clinical death. To wake up, she must correct the mistake she made before the accident, but she is haunted by a mysterious ghost. Will she be able to fulfill her destiny and be saved?"

Scriptwriter: Eduard QuantWolf Babichev
Composer and Sound: Mikhail Miikhail Kulikov

Pod Accident At Newser Exhibit

A couple days ago, when I was seting up the crew pictures at the Newser's SL12B exhibit, I heard someone shout "Runaway pod!!" Then someone wiped out right on our plot. It was Catboy Qunhua, one of the volunteers.

Fortunately her avatar didn't have any broken bones. Only her pride had a few bruises as she got up and dusted herself off a couple moments after this picture was taken.

As of now, the exhibits are closed for inspection, to be reopened on Friday for minor tweaks and any recommendations by the inspectors.Press Day is Saturday, and finally on Sunday the sims are open to all with the opening of The Birthday.

Astronaut Remembrance Day in Second Life

Last week on Monday January 27 was Astronaut Remembrance Day. And at 4PM SL time, there was a

An astronaut's life can be a dangerous one, but the rewards are to be among the few to trailblaze Humanity's ascent into the Heavens.

Bixyl Shuftan

Press Release: Astronaut Remembrance Day

Monday, 27 January 4-6pm SL time
(immediately following our regular weekly meeting)

Join our Astronaut Remembrance Day commemoration with the National Space Society in Second Life. We'll discuss the tragic Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia incidents, others lost in space-related tragedies, and the risks inherent in space activities, ending with a discussion of what that means to future space activities. Ad astra (to the stars!)

NSS, National Space Society (103, 124, 3005)

Happy Halloween

From Bixyl and Jasmine Dawn Shuftan