You may've heard, or seen, that the Linden Village has expanded into two new regions: Levenhall and Beaumont, and if you're wondering what the heck Linden Estate Services is, it's our Concierge Team's inworld offices! Cyn Linden, Director of Customer Relations (ooooh titles!), is gonna be building it out. We've already got some new Lindens like metrics master Meta establishing homesteads. And I must take this time to say, Which Linden's avatar makes sad pandas happy.

Lovely to see Torley Textures continuing to inspire Residents to express themselves; Daedalus Young and Melandra Brown have both very nicely let me know what they were up to. Daedalus made his very first texture pack and Melandra applied "Sombra" to a "blue stripe" dress. *big smile*

Also thanxies to Toady Nakamura for applying Torley Textures to a chair and curtains she made:

This is how we learn!

Rez Menoptra + Endira Udal are one of Second Life's foremost building couples. Awwwe. <3 I say that because I can't think of many others who collab (altho venerable greats like Eddie Escher + Fallingwater Cellardoor must be namedropped out of respect!). Together like a gestalt Transformer, [edit: they're working for Electric Sheep], and they breathe life into what is sometimes considered a DULL and BORING part of the year… doing your TAXES.

Yup, that's H&R Block's inworld presence. Click-through for the SLURLs so you can visit, and ride a scooter, and have a… uh, more fun time filling out those forms?

(That last picture is of a transparent shiny SLoundwave… I just hit Ctrl-Alt-Shift-1 and found myself see-through.)

Virgin Island has an eerie atmosphere. Downstairs it was desolate and deserty like one of those post-apocalyptic horror flicks with radioactive mutants and/or males of great height piloting hearses and pocketing souls, but upstairs… a mall. Even the undead can't miss out on a good bargain, and I know this is just my very twisted interpretation of the seretipitous surreptitious. So thar!

(Someone film machinima here!)

I've visited A V Festival island a few times. First glance, some might go "High traffic, it's a club, lalala…" but I hung out and found it fun, because it's outdoors. How does that change things? For me, I've got a point of reference from Burning Life last year, the Second Life version of Burning Man, and it feels like we're all playing on the playa. Also, it felt a lot more open, and the performance was surprisingly speedy for me — 102 avs and 7-9 FPS with my Object Mesh Detail slider set all the way up. Maybe that's the trick: cut down on the prims and have people party in the great (digital) outdoors.

Observations, obSLervations: Bridie Linden's new @ Linden Lab (we're growing so quickly!) and she's going to P*Manage (that asterisk could be Program, Product, or Project — take your pick!) Resident pain points at Studio Blacklight (psst look up the LLB Studio Blacklight group, hehe…), working with me. JOY. She's got great artistic sensibility and has already customized her avatar. I wuz showing her 'round… say "friendly greetings" if you see her!

WE ARE THE ROBOTS. At least I am, and you can be too if you want. Opened a gift package from the other day, and ohhh it's a watermelon ghetto blaster by Luxe Alabaster!

Goes well together, huh? My SLoundwave avatar was originally created by Rogo Gorky and modded by me; Luxe also gave me a new avatar she made, fittingly named Crazy Colourz. She recently moved to Alphanumeric Shores, and no I don't think she could resist the name. Now, she has a tropical island populated with her creations. Unique, funny, ahhhh eclectic — what I love about Second Life!