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Treasure Hunt
I work at a Very Old University (established 1855). Over the decades, various storage rooms, closets, and little-used offices have accumulated a lot of paper, steelcase furniture pieces, broken chairs, cartons of floppy…
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LOOT! A Celebration of Stealing Stuff! (and Happy Anniversary, Armada!)
An aging parrot careens onto the deck of your ship, bashing his beak soundly against your rum cup. He seems to snort in annoyance as he drops a scrolled message next to your…
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For My Font Junkie Friends
Sometimes too many choices is too much! I tend to be better at content than appearance, but I’m trying to make a website (not this one) look nice. AND I just happen to…
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Jazz at the Java Jive
Every Thursday evening from 6pm to 8pm slt, DJ Misha brings us the best in vintage jazz, with a different themed focus each week. And let me tell you, Misha *knows* her Jazz!…
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A Reminder To All About The Poetry Slams
Sharing a message received from Baron Klaus Wulfenbach: It is a new year, and with the New Year often comes personal resolutions of all sorts. In this vein, the theme for this week…
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Merry Christmas!
On this bright and shiny Christmas day, I bring you a small gift. It’s the exciting story of Santa and the Sim Crossing: Part One and the unexpected conclusion to the adventure in…
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Java Jive Grand Reopening and Holiday Party
Mark your calendar now! Friday, December 23rd, 7pm slt! The Java Jive and surrounding vintage shops in Seraph City are now bigger and better than ever! Please celebrate these new beginnings and the…
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My Year End List: Phrases I Can Live Without In SL
Tis the time of year when lists are made. The media loves to make year end lists of who rocked, who died, who we loved and who we hated. On a personal level,…
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Prim Perfect Issue #38 – Happy Holidays!
Prim Perfect wishes you the compliments of the season with our special Christmas issue! I must add, on a personal note, that I had more fun than is legally allowed writing “Santa and…
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Musings of a mad builder
Late one night, a conversation betwixt TotalLunar Eclipse and myself resulted in his penning this little essay almost instantaneously. Please allow me share it with you! — Ceejay Writer ‘C 4 works most…
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Antisocial Networking
(sometimes gossip, assumptions and the overwhelming ‘everywhereness’ of the web gets to me. This is one of those days. Just unloading a bit so I can move along.) “… so Molly’s a bit…
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Poetry Slam at the Java Jive
Repeal Day is December 5th! It’s time to celebrate the repeal of the 19th Amendment. Rumrunners organized regattas and cup races – on the other hand, the moonshiners created the NASCAR culture. Hey,…
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Bay City Annual Treelighting Concert & Fundraiser
Come to the Bay City Fairgrounds on Saturday, 3rd December 2011 for a tree lighting, skating party, silent auction and music event featuring GoSpeed Racer and Christov Kohnke. All proceeds go to Child’s…
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Fall Burlesque Bootcamp~Become a bombshell!
The Naughty Box Burlesque Theatre with the Dufaux School of Burlesquery (and other party tricks) presents the Fall BURLESQUE BOOTCAMP – sponsored by Vita Bella (and others to come) on Monday, November 28…
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Armada Breakaway Harvest Dinner
The Feast takes place at Fort Livingston, Armada Breakaway!
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Victuals! November Aether Salon
Sunday, November 20 at 2 pm slt Babbage Palisade & Academy of Industry http://slurl.com/secondlife/Babbage%20Palisade/254/60/106 and http://slurl.com/secondlife/Academy%20of%20Industry/2/56/106 What’s that bubbling in the pot on the stove? SCIENCE! Kitchen technology took great strides in the…
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6P, Or Not 6P
…. is no longer the question. Today, I bid farewell to my beloved Hewlett Packard 6P printer, which I purchased at work when I was hired here, in 1997. Even THEN she was…
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Hell Race
The following is an announcement from Captain Static – listen up, you lot! Think you have the nerve and cunning to beat the Devil and Davy Jones at their own game? Hell Race…
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The Novel: Research Fun
I thought it might be a kick to list out the interesting sites I came across while writing tonight. It’s such a great thing to have a few browser tabs open and the…
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An Ode To WordPress
An Ode to WordPress A newish Presser is what I be With lots to learn, it’s plain to see And so I dream, perhaps to Blog. Or is it Post? I am agog.…
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Burlesque for Breasts! Tonight!
The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure. — I. F. Stone, December 24, 1907 Tonight, Monday October 3rd, 2011,…
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Living a Steampunk Life, in Real Life, Entry #2
I blogged back on June 26th to let people know that I might randomly post a little here about my Real Life, since I have the tendency to go about my days in…
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The New Champagne Rooms 4th Anniversary Ball
Please join the Champagne Ladies as they celebrate four years (yes, four years!) of shake and shimmy, sass and class, and that vintage Burlesque you’ve enjoyed in the sumptuous surroundings of the New…
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Air Kraken Festival in New Babbage
(Poster designed by Lia Bilavio) Week-long Events Open Air Market Shop carts along the Port Babbage docks will be filled with festival themed wares, food and games for festival goers to take and…
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What’s In A (Sur)Name?
It would seem that the Jira asking to Bring Back Last Names Options! has struck a nerve on many residents of Second Life, including me. The issue becomes more convoluted due to many…
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Beyond Breedables – The New Needables!
We’ve all seen (or perhaps some of us own, though this writer will not confess one way or the other *cough*) those adorable, breedable pets. Cats, dogs, meeros, goodness knows what else. And…
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World Steam Expo 2011
(Ceejay is lounging about somewhere sipping absinthe, so her typist will take the controls of her blog for a post!) We had an amazingly good time at World Steam Expo this year, and…
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Milliways: The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe
(excerpt from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams) Milliways is built on the fragmented remains of an eventually ruined planet which is enclosed in a vast time bubble and projected…
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Halaaa!
Cala Mondrago. SL’s Steampunk Desert Oasis. Warm sands, incredible buildings, bellydancers at the Laughing Djinn… Shops and carts and camels and pajama parties in the Palace, and strolls along the city wall’s ramparts…
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The Primgraph and Steeltopia are hosting The Clockwork Ball!
The new issue of The Primgraph (due out in early April) is all about Automata! And to celebrate this, The Primgraph magazine – in association with the Empire of Steeltopia – will be…
