Ambrosia Dance Club

By Phil F Kearny

We all share certain things in common. Things that transcend international barriers and customs. We all love food and we most of us certainly love sex. If you follow open chat in the Ambrosia Dance Club you will notice that the conversation will often alternate with frequency between these two subjects.

One of the pitfalls of being in the virtual world is the long hours spent sitting on your hindside watching your pixel self gyrating in the club flexing six pack abs. In the meantime, many are clutching a bag of Cheetos in real life wondering why they cant lose weight.

I have run across a great book that explains many of the psychological reasons behind overeating and how the food industry manipulates these forces in order to sell more product. Dr David Kessler MD, the author of “The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite” , served as commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration under presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton. He is a pediatrician and has been the dean of the medical schools at Yale and the University of California, San Francisco.

He actually dove into dumpsters outside of chain restaurants to retrieve lists of ingredients in the foods we commonly eat. This is a fascinating read and I highly recommend it.

It is hard to believe that Ambrosia Dance Club first opened its pixel doors 5 years ago. We have come a long way since that original club in 2006 sitting on a 1024 sq meter lot on Mainland. This Thursday at 2 PM we have our Birthday Celebration with lots of fun for all.

We thank you all for your continued support and having made Ambrosia your club!

This Friday, December 23, at 2 PM, Ambrosia is proud to present our annual Christmas gala hosted by the fabulously frantic DJ Geemix! Cash Prizes will be awarded for random reasons and lots of presents from Santa from our hot designers! Come early or be locked out! HO HO HO.

Make sure you wear something festive. Sort of like all ho ho ho ish.

By Phil F. Kearny

Without much fanfare the latest Linden Viewer has hit the grid. The good news is that the hated and despised sidebar has now been eliminated and replaced with totally customizable buttons that you can add to either the left, right or bottom of the screen. To access this option you go to Me – Toolbar Buttons or use the shortcut Ctrl + T and then drag either into or out of the box that appears all of the various shortcuts to any location you wish on the edge of the screen.

Other major changes include the removal of the search bar at the top of the screen and replacement with a “shop” button which brings you directly to the Marketplace. This should effectively kill in world sales and complete the Linden’s plan of pushing everyone to buy on Marketplace so they can get their commission on sales.

The Basic and advance mode have now been eliminated in favor of total confusion for noobs and veterans alike.

Chat notifications have moved from the lower right to the top right side of the screen in a clear nod to the users of the old viewer. Personally, I was getting used to the new position in the lower left, but whatever.

The bottom of the screen sees the removal of the visible chat bar in favor of a button for chat which you now have to press manually in order to converse. I can’t think of the logic for this extra step since chatting is a basic function in world.

So now if you want to type you can hit the CHAT button or you can also hit Enter and the chat bar will appear and you can reposition it where ever you wish.

The inventory window now has an extra button which allows you to bring up multiple instances of inventory windows which is infinitely useful.

My opinion is that this is a giant step forward in since it eliminates the hated sidebar and allows for people to configure the viewer into whatever they want. Anything that brings the Luddites that are clutching on to old version 1.23 viewers into the mesh compliant future is a good thing. The biggest pain in the ass is not having uniformity between viewers and the inability to help others with problems because you have no idea how their viewer works anymore.

Try this new viewer, you may like it.