4th of July in Pair A Dice

The sim owner Raychill Firecaster picked up some nice fireworks for the island this year.  Here's me in a patriotic beach number enjoying a twilight show.

More nice from the Nitch.

Here's a cute summer top from Grumble that's featured at the Naughty Nitch Event.  The thong is from Anthony Art, hair W&Y and the location, Pair A Dice of course.

The only thing I don't love about this top is that the darker under layer halter, and the patterned loose shell are actually one piece, so you can't mix and match the two parts.

Naughty is nice with Grumble.

The Naughty Nitch event has started and I've gotten my hands on some of the goodies.  In the snapshot here you can see the positively adorable little miniskirt with a great laced belt.  Here it's matched with a top from Plausible Body and some flip flops from Jay's.  The snapshot was taken on a speed boat docked at Pair A Dice.

You can check out the other contributions from Grumble at the link above.  And some are equally adorable, I just haven't made and outfit with them yet.  Or you can visit the event in world.

Happy shopping!

Happy 11th Birthday SL! Sorry the prognosis is terminal.

The last week or so of June this year was selected to celebrate the 11th Year of Second Life.  It wasn't really pushed too much, and if you tried an in world search to find the apparently vast celebration, it did not come up easily.  I eventually found it using a web search and then following a teleport link from a website.  You'd think Linden Labs would be making sure everyone could easily find something that showcased the creativity and history of a virtual world that is now old enough to ride most roller coasters.  Be that as it may, I did find it, but I'm still using a cobbled together PC and even using Firestorm it really doesn't deal well with busy sim unless I crank way back on the graphics.  So...I only did a little looking around and only took two snapshots.  I wearing an older mesh hair, that is white and some clothing layer stuff to keep down on lag.

I'm sure there was all kinds of other neat stuff, but I keep crashing and just gave up on it for the moment.  I never got back to it before the end of the event.

On a similar bittersweet note, at about the same time as the SL11B event, Linden Labs announced their intention to create a new virtual world.  One that is not backwards compatible with Second Life and that will not be open source.  They claimed that they will be phasing out development for SL, but will keep the existing system running as long as it is profitable.  Given LL's history to date, that doesn't sound real promising.

So will their be a SL12B?  Almost certainly.  SL13, very probably.  After that...Who knows.  But basically the doctor has said it's terminal, just not how long we've got.