Second Life Preview 1.9.1—it's live, it's happenin', it's rebirthed beta spirit. 'Course, I wasn't there to begin with, but a great—and understated—boon of Preview is that it's so floaty and free. L$, taken so seriously on the Main Grid, are tossed carelessly about like, well, hell bank notes.
It really is one big sandbox. Preview's parallel twin of Morris is one big slab of rock-hard nuttiness, and another popular thing to do in preview is use it to test texture, sound, and animation uploads. This actually has a dual purpose: you ensure the quality of your future products, AND hey, you may uncover new bugs—which you should report. 
I've been jaunting into Preview whenever I can. My reasons are multifold: as an employee of Linden Lab, I want to gain further hands-on insight to forthcoming variance before it rolls onto MG; as a Resident in spirit, I yearn fo' the thrill of "fancy new things"; as a human being, I enjoy seeing all the reactions. And also as a human, the Main Grid has been getting too noisy at times for my taste. I'm sure I'll elaborate about my feelings behind this in future entries, but there's something magical about how there will be people on Preview, but at the same time, it won't be a maddening onrush of crowds—nor a stressful onsurge of IMs which pleads for throttling.
Just a few notes about the following:
- Sly Axon makes a great, very illuminated law enforcement officer. He also makes nice RGB lightboxes!
- Big ups and thankyou to Photobucket for surprising me and upping their storage limit from 50 megs to 1 FREAKIN' GIGABYTE—I'd been using ImageShack because they don't have such a limit, but they also rename files and it's not easy to organize nicely there.
So, as a result, I was able to host these on da Photobucket!
- clubel has precedent: I reckon this latest franchise was rezzed by Flip amig0 (FlipperPA Peregrine). I miss Bel Muse, who inspired it.
- Before, there were great fads in SL of wings and particle poofers. It doesn't take a neurotactical engineer to figure out that there'll be a lot of superheroes (with capes) next!
- (The Preview Welcome Area feels fresh.)
- Gracious thanx to Sherona DeGroot and Simone Stern for flocking me in their fashions. When I caught them today, they were twirling around hypnotically, all salsa-style, and I ended up dressed in a very Torley variant of one of their FLEXIBLE NEW DRESSES.
- In that last piccie, the great inventor Rickard Roentgen and I play with prims.
Enough words.
