Happy Third Anniversary!

Thank you for being there with me my love.

A Prickly Pair

Often people will make some sort of effort to accessorize their outfit for the theme Breakfast in Babbage is running that month.

This has got to be one of the better ones:


Messrs Holmes and Watson don a lovely little cactus number.

Thanks to Miss Hienrichs for the picture.

The playlist for those who asked:

1. Weird Al Yankovic - Fun Zone
2. Tombstone - Chopin
3. Erich Kunzel: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra - Bernstein (E): The Magnificent Seven
4. TV Theme - The Wild Wild West
5. Kenny Price - The Sheriff Of Boone County
6. Larry Verne - Mr. Custer
7. Roger Miller - You Can't Roller Skate In A Buffalo Herd
8. TV Theme - F-Troop
9. Johnny Cash - Dirty Old Egg Sucking Dog
10. Kylie Minogue - Cowboy Style
11. Boys Don't Cry - I Wanna Be A Cowboy
12. Big & Rich - Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy)
13. Riders in the Sky - Origin of the Yodel
14. Frank Gallop - The Ballad Of Irving
15. City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra - Good, The Bad And The Ugly
16. TV Theme - The Adventures of Brisco County Jr
17. TV Theme - Legend
18. Clint Eastwood - San Antonio Rose
19. Lee Marvin - Wandering Star
20. ZZ Top - Doubleback
21. David Schwartz - Theme From Deadwood
22. Slim Whitman - Indian Love Call
23. The Legendary Stardust Cowboy - Who's Knocking At My Door (Cut short on compassionate grounds)
24. Bon Jovi - Blaze Of Glory
25. The Notorious Cherry Bombs - It's Hard To Kiss The Lips At Night That Chew Your Ass Out All Day Long
26. Mac Davis - It's Hard To Be Humble
27. Brad Paisley - Online
28. Tom Jones - Riders In The Sky
29. The Blues Brothers - Theme From Rawhide
30. Lorne Greene - Ringo
31. Willie Nelson - Ride In My Little Red Wagon
32. TV Theme - Zorro
33. Roy Rogers & Dale Evans - Happy Trails
34. Charlie Daniels Band - Dueling Banjos
35. Benny Hill - Ernie the Fastest Milkman in the West
36. Weird Al Yankovic - Truck Drivin' Song
37. Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie - Jesus Was A Cowboy
38. Brad Paisley - I'm Still A Guy
39. Toby Keith & Willie Nelson - Beer For My Horses
40. Henry Mancini & His Orchestra - He Shouldn't-A, Hadn't-A, Oughtn't-A Swang On Me!

Breakfast in Babbage - The Western

Bring out yer six guns and mosey on over to The Clarendon for heap o' both kinds o' music! Yessir we got yer Western Special here ta go! Sit around the camp-fire toasting hot schmoes, wearing your 38 litre hat.

Duded-up egg-suckin' gutter trash welcome too.

Doctor Who Podshock Party Spring 2010

The first get together since the new series began broadcasting. Come along for a tour of the sims from 1-3 and then join the music and conversation from 3-6.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Katrina/108/240/28

Music provided by Yours Truly!

Breakfast in Babbage - Superhero Special

Heroic poses and too tiny waists, impossible physics and spectacles that convince everyone you're not a superhero. Join Edward Pearse at the Clarendon Lab for this month's Breakfast in Babbage wake-up.

Underpants on the outside are fine as long as they're clean.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/New%20Babbage/211/66/103

Coming Soon...

Breakfast in Babbage - The Return

Now that international time zone have moved again and everyone who is going on or coming off Daylight Savings Time has done so, Bedlam in Babbage returns to its original breakfast timeslot.
Come on over to The Clarendon dance Lab and get your day started or your afternoon finished with Edward Pearse eclectic collection of tunes. Something to get the morning fuzzies exercised!

Real Life Steampunk House!

A while back Jack Von Slatt posted some pictures of a house in Massachusetts that a chap has been fixing up as his own.

This time there are pictures of the converted pipe organ computer workstation.

I think I'd kill to have something like this. Maybe even a kitten.

An Inspiring Memorial

While going through the "recommended" entries on my Google Reader I was showing this post on the Memorial to James Gordon Bennett in New York, the former publisher of the New York Herald.



The memorial (locally also known the Bellringers Monument) is made up from statuary that used to adorn the former New York Herald prior to its demolition in 1921. The statue of Minerva and the two bellringers was created by French sculptor Jean Antonin Carles. The bellringers themselves have been nicknamed “Stuff and Guff” or “Gog and Magog”.

But the best bit is the clock at the top.



The eyes of the owls on either side glow green at the striking of the hours.


Love it!

Victoriana closes its Doors

It is with great sadness that I discovered that LittleBlackDuck Lindsay, the Mayor of Victoriana, will be closing down the sims very soon. After a glitch left his account without the ability to edit objects belonging to him (which is 90% of the infrastructure of Victoriana) and LL being unwilling or unable to fix the problem, LBD has decided to stop banging his head against the wall and pack up shop.

While I've only officially had a shop there for some three weeks, I've watched the sims grow and have stood in awe of the texturing finesse LBD displayed on his buildings. From his Caledopoly creation to his Golden Harp Pub the details were always done so that they looked like real buildings.


The main station at Victoriana Square.


Victoriana Town Hall


The Golden Acorn Pub - recreated from the Golden Harp.


The Interior of one of the Victoriana Trains. Each platform had a train announcement in English, German and French. And they run on time!


Victoriana Pavilion. Modelled after the Queen Victoria Building in Sydney the same as my own considerably prim-starved version in Babbage Square.


Mountain rail cars for the unfinished Victoriana Alpine sim


Pavilion Station


Based on Fort Denison in Sydney Harbour


The Pearl - possibly the longest running bawdyhouse on the grid.


The waterfront on Victoriana Harbour.


Victoriana Carnivale


The Salty Squirrel in Victoriana Lakeside.

I know several friends who have homes in Victoriana who will be much disappointed by this turn of events. Apart from being one of the best builds in SL, a community had developed that included tinies (the slightly less manic ones), and lovers of Victorian style. Victoriana was unusual in that it was probably one of the few 19th century sims that did not have steampunk or vampires wandering the streets. Floating castles were strictly forbidden and the sims were much nicer for it.

I wish LBD all the best on whatever future endeavours he attempts and hope that he may find a way to recreate this idea in some other form.

You'll be missed sir.