Christo's Second Live: May 2012

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Parties at T.R.A.C.S and in Sweetgrass

Because of some occurrences in my real life I was not much on Second Life last weekend. All is fine but it will be more often, the coming time that I am not on SL.

ROBOTS PARTY @ T.R.A.C.S

It was a great event with a lot of guests.

Infa, the deejay, did a great job and he told me he enjoyed it.

Esme, his host, spanked the whole club and she had the reddest but of all the guests.☺

I said it before; it's great to see how creative our guests are to fit in theme.

Tim and Rod were a great help, to give me a relaxed time.

Here the picture I made.

▲ DJ Infa

▲ Esme and me at the right

▲ Tim

▲ Gay and Jenna

▲ Curtis & Jace

▲ Rod and Norbie

▲ Caasper, the winner.

▲ Ellbee

EUROVISION SONG CONTEST in SWEETGRASS

Group Notice From: Sweetgrass Sim Group, Ganymede Gynoid

Yesterday our disco was full of musicians in all kinds of costumes, even barrels!

DJ Beef supplied us with an excellent musical history of the Eurovision Song Contest,

while others gave a live performance of the stage.

The contest is won by Luca Jhamin and Rod Sideways, congrats boys!

More pictures at:

http://sweetgrassparties.weebly.com/index.html

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

ROBOTS PARTY at T.R.A.C.S part 3

ROBOTS PARTY

at T.R.A.C.S on

Saturday May 26th Noon SLT (9pm CET)

http://slurl.com/secondlife/River%20Island/221/249/22

ROBOTS PARTY at T.R.A.C.S part 2

"The Robots" (originally Die Roboter) is a single by the influential German electronic music pioneers, Kraftwerk, released in 1978. The single and its B-side, "Spacelab", both appeared on the band's seventh album, The Man-Machine. However, the songs as they appear on the single were scaled down into shorter versions.

The influential electronic music project Kraftwerk (meaning power station) from Düsseldorf,

Germany

, was formed by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider in 1970, and was fronted by them until Schneider's departure in 2008. The signature Kraftwerk sound combines driving, repetitive rhythms with catchy melodies, mainly following a Western Classical style of harmony, with a minimalistic and strictly electronic instrumentation. The group's simplified lyrics are at times sung through a vocoder or generated by computer-speech software. Kraftwerk were one of the first groups to popularize electronic music and are considered pioneers in the field. In the 1970s and early 1980s, Kraftwerk's distinctive sound was revolutionary, and has had a lasting effect across many genres of modern music.

"The Robots"

We're charging our battery

And now we're full of energy

We are the robots

We're functioning automatic

And we are dancing mechanic

We are the robots

Ja tvoi sluga, (I'm your slave)

ja tvoi Rabotnik (I'm your worker.)

we are programmed just to do

anything you want us to

we are the robots

we're functioning automatic

and we are dancing mechanic

we are the robots

Ja tvoi sluga, (I'm your slave)

ja tvoi Rabotnik (I'm your worker.)

Ja tvoi sluga, (I'm your slave)

ja tvoi Rabotnik (I'm your worker.)

[Repeat to fade:]

We are the robots

ROBOTS PARTY at T.R.A.C.S part 1

Saturday May 26th, we have a robots party.

A robot is a mechanical or virtual intelligent agent that can perform tasks automatically or with guidance, typically by remote control. In practice a robot is usually an electro-mechanical machine that is guided by computer and electronic programming. Robots can be autonomous, semi-autonomous or remotely controlled. Robots range from humanoids such as ASIMO and TOPIO to Nano robots, Swarm robots, Industrial robots, military robots, mobile and servicing robots. By mimicking a lifelike appearance or automating movements, a robot may convey a sense that it has intent or agency of its own. The branch of technology that deals with robots is robotics.

The word robot was introduced to the public by the Czech interwar writer Karel Čapek (January 9, 1890 – December 25, 1938) in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), published in 1920. The play begins in a factory that makes artificial people called robots, though they are closer to the modern ideas of androids, creatures who can be mistaken for humans. They can plainly think for themselves, though they seem happy to serve. At issue is whether the robots are being exploited and the consequences of their treatment.

Karel Čapek himself did not coin the word. He wrote a short letter in reference to an etymology in the Oxford English Dictionary in which he named his brother, the painter and writer Josef Čapek, as its actual originator.

In an article in the Czech journal Lidové noviny in 1933, he explained that he had originally wanted to call the creatures laboři ("workers", from Latin labor) or dělňasi (from Czech dělníci - "workers"). However, he did not like the word, and sought advice from his brother Josef, who suggested "roboti". The word robota means literally "corvée", "serf labor", and figuratively "drudgery" or "hard work" in Czech and also (more general) "work", "labor" in many Slavic languages (e.g.: Slovak, Polish, Macedonian, Ukrainian, archaic Czech). Traditionally the robota was the work period a serf (corvée) had to give for his lord, typically 6 months of the year. The origin of the word is the Old Church Slavonic rabota "servitude" ("work" in contemporary Bulgarian and Russian), which in turn comes from the Indo-European root *orbh-. Serfdom was outlawed in 1848 in Bohemia, so at the time Čapek wrote R.U.R., usage of the term robota had broadened to include various types of work, but the obsolete sense of "serfdom" would still have been known. It is not clear from which language Čapek took the radix "robot(a)". This question is not irrelevant, because its answer could help to reveal an original Čapek´s conception of robots. If from the modern Czech language, the notion of robot should be understood as an „automatic serf“ (it means a subordinated creature without own will). If from e.g. Slovak (Karel Čapek and his brother were frequent visitors of

Slovakia

which in this time was a part of

Czechoslovakia

, because their father MUDr. Antonín Čapek from 1916 worked as a physician in Trenčianske Teplice, the word robot would simply mean a „worker“ which is a more universal and neutral notion. The aspect of pronunciation probably also played a role in Čapek's final decision: In non-Slavic languages it is easier to pronounce the word robot than dělňas or laboř.

The word robotics, used to describe this field of study, was coined by the science fiction writer Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992). Asimov created the "Three Laws of Robotics" which are a recurring theme in his books.

The Three Laws of Robotics (often shortened to The Three Laws or Three Laws). Were introduced in his 1942 short story "Runaround", although they had been foreshadowed in a few earlier stories. The Three Laws are:

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

These form an organizing principle and unifying theme for Asimov's robotic-based fiction, appearing in his Robot series, the stories linked to it, and his Lucky Starr series of young-adult fiction. The Laws are incorporated into almost all of the positronic robots appearing in his fiction, and cannot be bypassed, being intended as a safety feature. Many of Asimov's robot-focused stories involve robots behaving in unusual and counter-intuitive ways as an unintended consequence of how the robot applies the Three Laws to the situation in which it finds itself. Other authors working in Asimov's fictional universe have adopted them and references, often parodic, appear throughout science fiction as well as in other genres.

The original laws have been altered and elaborated on by Asimov and other authors. Asimov himself made slight modifications to the first three in various books and short stories to further develop how robots would interact with humans and each other; he also added a fourth, or zeroth law, to precede the others:

0. A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

The Three Laws, and the zeroth, have pervaded science fiction and are referred to in many books, films, and other media.
source: Wikipedia and several

Monday, May 21, 2012

Robin Gibb Dies at 62

The Queen of Disco died last week: Donna Summer. This weekend another icon of the music from the seventies and disco-legend, Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees, died.

The Bee Gees were trendsetting and co-responsible for the beginning of the disco era.

The group is for always connected with the film Saturday Night Fever. This film along with the album ensured that everyone wanted to disco dancing.

END of DISCO?

Michael Jackson, James Brown, Barry White, Dan Hartman, Edwin Starr, Bernard Edwards (Chic), Jimmy Ellis (singer of the Tramps), Harold Melvin, Johnny Guitar Watson, Karen Young, Lou Rawls, Marvin Gaye, Rick James and Van McCoy and then, for sure, I forgot a few to mention. More and more icons of the seventies die. Yes, I know, that is the risk if you getting older. Robin Gibb along with Barry and Maurice (died in 2003) he made the Bee Gees great. Their close harmony-singing with falsetto voices was characteristic and was the main feature of their songs. They create a unique sound. Robin was the man with the middle-high, sometimes what sonorous, nasal voice.

Bee Gees were a musical group which originally comprised three brothers: Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio were successful for most of their decades of recording music, but they had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a pop act in the late 1960s/early 1970s, and as prominent performers of the disco music era in the late 1970s.

Robin Hugh Gibb (22 December 1949 – 20 May 2012) was a British singer and songwriter. He is best known as a member of the Bee Gees, co-founded with his twin brother Maurice and older brother Barry. He had another younger brother, Andy Gibb, who was also a very popular solo singer.

His family announced with "great sadness" that Robin, 62, had lost his brave fight with colon cancer. In a brief statement they said: “Sunday 20 May, 2012 at 10:46: The family of Robin Gibb, of the Bee Gees, announce with great sadness that Robin passed away today following his long battle with cancer and intestinal surgery.

"Stayin' Alive" is a song by the pop group Bee Gees from the Saturday Night Fever motion picture soundtrack. The song was written by the Bee Gees (Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb) and produced by the Bee Gees, Albhy Galuten and Karl Richardson. It was released on 13 December 1977, as the second single from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. It is one of their signature songs.

Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees Lyrics

Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk,

I'm a woman's man: no time to talk.

Music loud and women warm, I've been kicked around

since I was born.

And now it's all right. It's OK.

And you may look the other way.

We can try to understand

the New York Time's effect on man.

Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother,

you're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.

Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin',

and we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.

Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive.

Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive.

Well now, I get low and I get high,

and if I can't get either, I really try.

Got the wings of heaven on my shoes.

I'm a dancin' man and I just can't lose.

You know it's all right. It's OK.

I'll live to see another day.

We can try to understand

the New York Time's effect on man.

Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother,

you're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.

Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin',

and we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.

Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive.

Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive.

Life goin' nowhere. Somebody help me.

Somebody help me, yeah.

Life goin' nowhere. Somebody help me.

Somebody help me yeah. Stayin' alive.

Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk,

I'm a woman's man: no time to talk.

Music loud and women warm, I've been kicked around

since I was born.

And now it's all right. It's OK.

And you may look the other way.

We can try to understand

the New York Time's effect on man.

Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother,

you're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.

Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin',

and we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.

Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive.

Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive.

Life goin' nowhere. Somebody help me.

Somebody help me, yeah.

Life goin' nowhere. Somebody help me yeah.

I'm Stayin' alive.

Rest in Peace Robin

Hawaii Party in Sweetgrass

On the invitation was written:

Aloha, It's time to grab those surfboards and grab your Flower Lei's for the Sweetgrass Hawaii Party with DJ Rik from 12pm SLT - 2pm SLT (9pm - 11pm CET) .

Wonder if there will be a fire dancer, since the Sweetgrass Volcano is also heating up.

$1000 for Best Hawaiin Outfit.

From Aita, Gay, and the Sweetgrass team

I have no idea why, but it was lagging as hell there.

So just a few pictures.