Entries Tagged as ‘Business’

April 9, 2008

LL to Island Owners: Drop Dead

Or, as Lexx would put it…“Blow me.”
Linden Lab®©™ announced yesterday a big break in the price of private island sims…now regular islands will be going for US$1000, down from US$1675, and “open space” (low prim) sims will drop in price to US$250. (Tier, of course, will stay the same…the cost of power, cooling, and [...]

March 3, 2008

How Not To Run An Event

Recently, I was asked to DJ an event at another club, which I agreed to do and for which I was paid my standard rate. However, when I got to the site of the gig, I found that certain things hadn’t fallen into place…

The club’s stream information had just been changed, which apparently they [...]

February 11, 2008

LexxCore: The Next Step To Total Grid Domination

In conjunction with Ms. Alexzandria Aeon, I am pleased to announce the development of LexxCore, a Second Life land management and entertainment conglomerate serving the needs of Residents everywhere. LexxCore is now running on its first sim, Lexxotica, a new Class 5 Mature sim. We offer the following services:
First of all, we have [...]

November 12, 2007

One Door Closes, Another Opens

Well, turns out you can’t keep a club owner down…and when Samaria, my daughter as well as Danielle’s, got a wild idea and some land to build it on, I threw my support behind the idea. And the idea has a name: “The Insurrection Alley.”
It’s a smaller venue than the Gin Rummy was, making [...]

October 14, 2007

It’s Time

As of today, The Gin Rummy is closed for business. All upcoming events have been canceled. The building itself is gone, not a trace of it left behind. Our 13-1/2 month run is now officially at an end.
OK, to answer your first question: No, we have not gone insane. [...]

October 2, 2007

Refueled

I’ll warn you right now:  this is probably going to turn into one of those “damn, I haven’t posted anything in awhile” kind of posts.  Well, as Johnny Lennon said, “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans,” and, without getting into too much detail for an SL blog, I’ve gotten [...]

July 19, 2007

Managing Money

As a club owner, I run through a lot of Linden Dollars. There’s payroll for our employees to be met every night, as well as the prize for the contest board(s) and money to dump into the sploders, to keep the customers interested and sticking around. In addition, I pay nearly L$3500 in [...]

July 7, 2007

The Eve of a Bold Move

Our week-long job fair has nearly come to an end at the Gin Rummy…and after that, nothing will be the same again. After that, when we reopen, Danielle will implement her most radical change yet to the Gin Rummy: We’re going ladies-only.
Believe it or not, there is a method to our madness. Danielle [...]

June 6, 2007

Ticking Away The Moments That Make Up A Dull Day

Time, in Second Life, can be a tricky thing. Thankfully, there are no time variations within the world itself; “Second Life Time,” everywhere on the Grid, is defined as real-world clock time at Linden Lab headquarters in San Francisco, California, hence equivalent to US Pacific Time (corrected for Daylight Savings during appropriate times of [...]

June 5, 2007

Towards Mark II

I’ve somehow managed to sell a number of copies of the Erbosoft Distributed Music Changer, Mk.I, and, of course, I’ve been using it at the Gin Rummy and the Evans Family Compound for awhile now. However, I’m brainstorming ideas now which should eventually lead to an updated version, if I can find the time [...]