SLClemens, an avatar in Second Life, has begun a tour of speaking venues on the Second Life grid. He is opening at The Deck, http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Koi%20Cove/38/205/23 March 3 at 1pm PST, or SLT if you wish, reading from Mark Twain's book Roughing It. Sam Clemens left for Nevada, with his brother Orion, in 1861. This book, Roughing It, is an extraordinary look at America just a few years before the railroads connected the American East to the West. He was about 26 years of age and yet to make his mark on the world (I don't know if the pun was intended or not).

I've been working on this mural of Tenaya Lake trying to learn the ins and outs of SL construction. This mural is actually made up of eleven separate prims or blocks. I did this both because there is a maximum image size allowed in SL and because I wanted slightly different animation in each of the blocks. The water in the distance needs a different ripple effect than the water closeup. The major problem I've had in assembling these blocks is the seam line between each of the blocks. In some of the joins there exists a dashed line, depending on viewing angle.