Science Friday

For those of you who don't listen to American Public Radio, Science Friday is a show about science (duh) that airs every Friday (double duh). It's also the reason I'm in Second Life. I had heard a few stories about SL (Woman loses her husband to virtual mistress!!) but never really been interested in it until Ira Flatow (who appears in-world as Ira Flatley), the host of Science Friday, started reporting about it and eventually set up Science Friday Island, where every Friday at 11:00 a.m. SLT they stream the show and take questions from avatars that they answer on the air. He was so into it that eventually I had to check it out.

The next designer in my inventory is Adam n Eve. One of the points of this blog was to help me downsize my inventory - if I don't want to blog about it, out it goes! These purple leather pants, pretty as they are, almost hit the trash. I loved them, but for some reason it took FOREVER to find shoes and a top to go with them. Part of the problem, of course, is my no-exposed-midriff rule. I had plenty of cute tanks and tees, but the pants are pretty low cut so eventually I ended up going with this white sweater. I was hoping I would get to sit in host Ira Flatley's chair, but sadly it's programmed just for him.

The sweater is from a shop that doesn't seem to be around any more called Little Town. I loved that place. Everything was so cheap - I think the sweater was like L$30. Officially, the pants are the Aubergine sculpted leather pants and they come on both layers so you can tuck them in boots if you want.

If for some reason the Lindens decided to decree that there could only be one shoe designer in all of SL (and God knows they could - I don't understand half their decisions) I would be totally fine with it as long as that designer could be Fallingwater Cellardoor. Shiny Things could easily keep me beautifully shod forever. These are the Mary Jane Mules in Pale and are currently priced at L$100 in the sale room. A total steal.

Science Friday Island has this nice seating area where you can sit with others to enjoy the show in Fridays. There's also a patio area with some links and info about issues of the day. And you can get a free "Science Fridays" t-shirt. If it came on a jacket layer I'd be wearing it in all these pictures!

The skin in this picture is the Trixie skin from A Piece of Candy - I believe you can still get it free in the diamond hunt going on there. Hair is ETD's Starley II in auburn.

So drop by Science Friday island on Fridays at 11:00 for some educational entertainment!

Slurls:

Science Friday Island: http://slurl.com/secondlife/science%20friday/224/235/22

Adam n Eve: http://slurl.com/secondlife/genesis/185/168/38

A Piece of Candy: http://slurl.com/secondlife/jersey/193/48/22

Shiny Things: http://slurl.com/secondlife/shiny%20falls/173/181/37

ETD: http://slurl.com/secondlife/etd/124/132/29

Princeton

Ever since I first visited the Princeton Sim I've been telling people about it. I've never been to the real Princeton (totally not Ivy League material) so maybe someone who has can tell me if it's a good representation. In any case, it's a beautiful build with tons of information. The library alone (above) is packed with all kinds of interesting stuff that changes frequently. You can play a super-sized game of chess, browse wildlife illustrations, view various videos, listen to audio clips, you could really spend a whole day exploring everything.


The first non-numerical store in my inventory is A Piece of Candy. Sticklers for grammar will say that that belongs down with the "Ps," and you're right, but I'm blindly following the conventions of my inventory, grammar be damned.


I always forget how much I love this store between visits. Then I go there and remember what quality clothing Candy Enoch provides at seriously low prices. In fact, while visiting the store to prep for this post I got sucked into buying the Aimee dress, which in no way belongs on a college campus (unless they have a Masquers' Ball like my alma mater used to) and which will be the subject of my next post.

This is an outfit I paid money for as well, the Wray outfit. I actually really like the schoolgirl aspect of it. I love the brown turtleneck, the sweet houndstooth skirt, and the stockings, which come in two colors. The belt is on the glitch pants so no crazy fitting issues there. I've paired it with my most favorite boots - Slink's Angelina stilettos. I refuse to be a stick woman in SL and the Slink boots fit my apparently freakishly large calves with no adjustments at all.

The lovely earrings are the Agroglyphe earring in gold from Bliesen + Mai Tai. They are scripted so you can change the size and texture of the pendants. You also get an unscripted pair for those laggy sims. My skin, I have to admit, is something you can't get any more. I was lucky to just start figuring out skin at the time that Eloh Elliot gave away her skins and designers in SL came together to use them for a fundraiser. Every skin sold for $50L. This is from the line that Arikinui Adria of Nuclear Boutique fame did, and you'll be seeing a lot of them. They're my hands down favorite skin in SL.

The hair is a freebie - Icing's Miko Omegamu's Valedictorian hair. You can pick it up on the freebie shelf at Icing. It normally has two crossed pencils holding the mini-bun in the back but I edited them out.


The student union at the Princeton Sim is very cool and modern and currently houses a display of wildlife illustrations. The patio has these great chairs with poses built in - I'm not very savvy on this stuff so I love anything that will pose my avatar for me. In this picture I've added A Piece of Candy's Vintage Cardigan in yellow. You can't actually get the yellow in the store (it was a group gift, I think), but it is available in a lot of other great colors.

Here are the slurls:

Princeton: http://slurl.com/secondlife/princeton%20university/144/148/24

A Piece of Candy: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Jersey/194/61/24

Slink: http://slurl.com/secondlife/sanctum/63/128/34

Icing: http://slurl.com/secondlife/mischief/111/190/24

Bliesen + Mai Tai: http://slurl.com/secondlife/harshap/168/127/59