{"id":2029,"date":"2010-02-21T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/21\/post-about-how-i-am-enjoying-second-life\/"},"modified":"2010-02-21T18:14:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T18:14:00","slug":"post-about-how-i-am-enjoying-second-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/post-about-how-i-am-enjoying-second-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Post About How I Am Enjoying Second Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Probably has something to do with the fact that I work at Linden Lab<\/a>, but I’ve begun to actually enjoy mulling about in Second Life. I’m proud of the product my company’s working on. Crazy, right?
\nAnyway this is mostly a vanity post to show how I’ve actually learned how to create stuff to an extent – I’ve made my avatar look marginally less shitty than it once did.
\nMy avatar was originally created and given to me by Neil Cicierega, or , who used to make neat things a few years ago in SL. I started using it as my main set of clothes once I started at Linden Lab last year, and since then I’ve made a number of improvements, like making it shinier and glowier. I went all-out this weekend and replaced a bunch of simple primitive shapes with curvy sculpted stuff.
\nBehind the cut are a few before-and-after pictures I just took. Although it’s still rather unprofessional, I like to think I kept the spirit intact while updating it quite a bit:
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\nAnd as a bonus, here’s a 3D buttbot<\/a> which actually works, plus me and a few goons in the background.
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\nP.S. for those of you who have seen me in-world and wonder what that swirly vortex thing is on my chest, here’s some hints: it’s animated, it’s not a simple texture, and you can’t yet make it or see it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Probably has something to do with the fact that I work at Linden Lab, but I’ve begun to actually enjoy mulling about in Second Life. I’m proud of the product my company’s working on. Crazy, right? Anyway this is mostly a vanity post to show how I’ve actually learned how to create stuff to an… Continue reading Post About How I Am Enjoying Second Life<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16,62,75,89,95],"class_list":["post-2029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-blog-2","tag-linden-lab","tag-photos","tag-second-life","tag-something-awful","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}