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I have purchased a canoe for guests to use at Crystal Computings offices

2009-12-19T09:23:29Z

I went looking for canoes and found a business that makes scripted canoes. I bought a dock and canoe. This dock allows a canoe to appear and one can then paddle it around and then a new canoe appears. I set this up at my beach front house/office. I do not have many prims at this beach office. I also have very little room at my present tier for buying more land.

Land sales successful.

2009-07-14T03:48:08Z

Peter Krogstad bought land near his house and then resold it for a slight profit. He managed to take advantage of the recent downturn in the economy which affected land prices in Second Life. In fact, he is continuing to find some good deals on land. For now he is also affected by rent costs meaning he is not over all making any profit and the land sales remain a hobby.

He does enjoy exploriing land for sale in certain regions.

Peter Krogstad made 20$ US paid in Linden dollars tonight completing a survey.

2009-02-01T05:09:16Z

Some group calling themselves Cyber University created a a few sims based on US Airforce themes including Ann Ryan and other right wing military stuff. The survey Peter completed was based on an exploration of this sim. Peter answered the survey after completing the exploration. He also had to take snapshots and mail them in as he went along. For all this work he will be paid 20$ US in Linden dollars.

Peter bought some land by a beach in McIntyre.

2008-12-21T02:24:18Z

Peter bought a 1040 sq m lot in McIntyre with a beach front. This cost about 110$ CND.

He set up his old beach house and put in the cubes, stairs and rails and a couple of desks and the second floor board table and two chairs. This almost maxed out the prims on this lot.

He is now selling a 1024 lot and a 512 lot along the cliff in Monty. If this is successful he can once again go back down to the 15$ a month tier for rental fees paid to Linden Labs. He also abandoned two small lots in Hughes.

I read James Wagner Au's book The Making of Second Life

2008-12-17T03:44:20Z

I read James Wanger Au's The Making of Second Life but found it too military.

Land prices are going way down in Second Life.

2008-12-15T10:55:50Z

Land prices are going way down in Second Life. The thought of buying land these days seems more like an investment decision or speculation on the virutal land sales market.

Peter Krogstad got caught up with Bloghud and word press.

2008-12-12T06:44:29Z

Peter Korgstad revisited his bloghud blog which posts to wordpress. There are only a few posts.

Visit http://pkrogstad.wordpress.com/

Using GIMP Peter Krogstad has designed a hockey rink ice surface

2008-10-19T04:44:51Z

Peter Krogstad was exploring winter sims and got an idea to build a hockey rink. Using Wikipedia to get the regulation size in meters and a graphic for the ice markings for an ice hockey game he built 10 m by 10 m section textures as 10 by 10 pixel sections. He did this by selecting the 10 by 10 pixel sections on the graphic. This was for ease of process, rather than graphic quality, as building graphics as powers of two pixels is best for upload to Second Life. When copying these 10 by 10 sections from the Wikipedia graphic into new files, the new files would open in exactly the right size to copy and paste the ice marking graphics. The GIMP new file would sense the copy and paste in GIMP. Some side parts near the boards are narrow because the rink is about 26 meters wide. The length of the rink is just under 64 meters by two meters. So narrow end sections are also needed. The length created is just 64 meters.

This means a lot of at least 32 X 64 is needed. Peter has been scouting out such a lot but the price is about 100 dollars Canadian. Also this would raise his tier to the 25 dollar range again. This lot too is not really enough room on the side for player benches and penalty boxes. He also might go for a 80 m long lot by 32. But unless he sells a 1024 lot he has for sale this extra 512 lot on the end of the 64 X 32 lot will push him into the 40$ a month tier.

Peter Krogstad bought a Bell Helicopter and then made a landing pad above this house

2008-09-14T07:42:48Z

Peter Krogstad wanted a mysterious black helicopter so paid 1000L$ for one. It flies like a real helicopter with real smoke. He has flown and landed it once at his new helioport which he build with a Gimp textures. He built a 10 by 10 texture and then placed this on the top face of some brick work 10 by 10 by 1 platforms. He used four of these platforms and rotated the texture on each getting a circle from the one quarter circle textures. He then suspended these platforms slightly off one side of his house at the top.

Peter Krogstad is finally down one tier for a whole month

2008-07-27T20:05:38Z

Peter Krogstad sold land successfully and did not buy a lot more so he is back down to the fifteen dollars a month land tier. Yesterday Peter sold 64 sq m off that and that sale will cover his tier fee this month. He may move to a winter sim and has a small parcel started in a winter sim with only a snow covered pine tree on it now.

Peter Krogstad sold two 512 sq m parcels as he tries again to go down one tier in rent

2008-05-31T01:26:51Z

Peter Krogstad successfully sold two parcels of land in Monty.

Peter Krogstad attended a creative group/art class

2008-04-27T15:33:43Z

Peter joined persons from Europe and the USA in a circle to discuss art and our backgrounds in art with the intention of doing art classes in Second Life.

Peter changed his face growing a goatie

2008-04-07T03:54:41Z

Exploring the face editing Peter grew a beard and also has changed his hair colour to more red blond and longer.

Peter set up some particle effects devices he bought

2008-04-07T03:37:26Z

Peter set up his Academy of Second Life 27 prim beach house again and was able to restore the cubicles and stairs. He could only save two desks of the four he bought in 2006 so the cubicles were starting to look empty with the cubicle divider looking like a bar. Figuring this looked like a pub Peter put in a fireplace he had gotten for free from Yanni's Free Junkyard. Not stopping here he made an outside chimney and then searched for chimney smoke and found a particle effects store. He explored this quite extensively using the new "objects found here" tab in the search function. So in the end he bought some smoke for the chimney but also bought some falling leaves in three different colours and set these up on a few trees beside the new drop in.

So he now has a stretch of land consisting of about five 512 sq m parcels joined along the long side with the backs of these going up to a cliff and the fronts joining some long parcels stretched out along the front of the 512's. and then down a hill into the rest of the sim. At one end of this plateau, because it is a cliff behind and hill in front, is the new drop-in house he built himself and at the other end is the beach house known as Crystal Computing Web Design. In the middle is a green field with benches like an open air auditorium with some trees behind the benches.

He now wants to explore the particle lab at Teal 212, 46, 295 as featured in Torley Linden's YouTube video tutorial #28.

Still attending Monday afternoons in Blacklibrary.

2008-02-06T11:39:13Z

I still attended Black library for the Monday afternoon research chats. I did less talking this week and stayed a full hour this time. I still did some flying while talking.

I also started a group in SL now. I also created some space for the group but did not officially deed them the space. I also took out a classified add to advertise the group.