Historic Event at Erlanger Acres

You might all yawn and say: “What is Ethos so excited about?”

Ethos invited his first outside visitor to join him at Erlanger Acres today.  After reading and re-reading every possible tutorial and blog post related to OpenSim configuration, Setup, and troubleshooting of OpenSim, Ethos Erlanger flipped the switch on his recently updated Diva Distibution.  He then walked into the living room of his home and using his wife’s computer, logged into OpenSim as Visitor One and arrived face-to-face with Ethos on Erlanger Acres. The 30 feet or so between the office and the livingroom computers may not seem like a long distance to travel in the virtual world of OpenSim, but it represents a milestone for Ethos.  Now his confidence is bolstered and he will be inviting friends over for some serious building and collaboration.

Erlanger acres is comprised of 4 regions put together as one mega-region.  This size allows the building of many large buildings or monuments.  A recent hardware upgrade to 4GB of RAM seems to allow endless possibilities.

I hope you all stop by to visit some time.  I will try to get some nice clothes for you to use when you arrive as a visitor to Erlanger Acres.

Enjoy your Virtual Life,

Ethos Erlanger

The four Regions I call Erlanger Acres

See me standing on the white prim?

That’s Ethos standing at the center of the white 10M x 10M prim on the 256M x 256M prim on top of the 4 regions called Erlanger Acres.

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The Dana-Thomas House

I have started the process of obtaining the building rights to the Dana-Thomas House.  Much can be learned about Frank Lloyd Wright’s Prairie Style homes from this large home in Springfield Illinois.

Meet a Wonderfully Positive Person at Jokaydia

You really must meet Jo Kay. I went to see what her place on the ReactionGrid was all about. I got a real sense of who she is within a moment of meeting her at Jokaydia @ ReactionGrid. Visit her website here http://jokaydia.com/ and learn how to visit Jokaydia @ ReactionGrid. It will be worth the effort.

Enjoy Your Virtual Life©

Ethos Erlanger

OH! and “First Virtual Life©” Too!

I kinda like the phrase: “First Virtual Life©”. So here I am copyrighting it too. First Virtual Life is now copyrighted by Ethos Erlanger. And FVL is mine as well. With only 26 to the 2nd power (That’s 676 if I got my permutation math right), there are not many two-letter terms that are still available to be copyrighted.

Enjoy Your Virtual Life©

Ethos Erlanger

The Old Blog Address Will Soon Be History

I expect Linden Lab to ask me to change my blog address because it had an “S” and an “L” in front of the word “builder”.

So, here I am starting a new blog that will use none of those two letters if it can be avoided.

We may not be able to use VW to refer to Virtual Worlds either. I expect to hear from Volkswagen about that one too.

I am hereby coining the words “First Virtual World” and the letters FVW to be used as my own, with exclusive rights. You may see me use it liberally. I intend it to mean the preferred place to be when I am in my full virtual glory. This may not be in their virtual region, or it might be, but it may become a generic term for the place I choose at the time.  Almost like the term “Home”. Gee, I wish I had copyrighted that word.

Now. On to other virtual worlds!

Enjoy your Virtual Life.

Ethos Erlanger