Image used under a CC-license by SamPac. So it was supposed to be an uneventful Friday evening. I had decided that I was going to beg out of the various social engagements going on that night so that I could start packing for my big move on October 1st. Little did I know that by…
Category: New York
Virtual Upper East Side? Someone PLEASE re-create a COOL part of New York
I’m just dying for an authentic, interesting part of New York City to get built in Second Life. Nearly a year ago Versu Richelieu created a simulation of one of the most boring blocks in Manhattan, 39th and Fifth Avenue. Then for Christmas we had a virtual Rockefeller Center designed by Aimee Weber Studios for…
Remembering the “Greatest Bar on Earth”
As the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attack approaches, I am feeling nostalgic and sad about the loss of the “Greatest Bar on Earth” on the 107th Floor of Tower 1 of the World Trade Center. It was my most direct connection to the WTC, my regular Saturday night hangout for awhile. The “Greatest…