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December 15, 2013 · 7:38 am

Rubi Woods Squares (or 1024s), Row 1

Square E1:
(6 eucalyptuses, 0 brown cypresses, 2 green cypresses)

Twinned trees of eucalyptus and green cypress below. This and the other green cypress of E1 also represent bottom points of The House formation (Hucka D. terminology). The House’s top portion is found in D1 to the north.

Square E2:
(2 eucalyptuses, 0 brown cypresses, 2 green cypresses)

Green cypress in southeast corner, surrounded by pink and green crystals.

The northeast corner is also pretty well defined by this eucalyptus.

Square E3:
(1 eucalyptus, 0 brown cypresses, 1 green cypress)

Square E4:
(7 eucalyptuses, 0 brown cypresses, 0 green cypresses)

Noted for containing famous 97/97/97 triple point of The Diagonal passing through the Rubi Forest northeast to southwest, enclosed in the 7th spire of the Castle of the 7th Spire projecting a bit into the forest from my property.

Also notable for being tied with B4 for the highest # of eucalyptuses for a square. Unlike B4, no cypresses are found in E4, and the 7 eucalyptuses stand alone here.

In common with neighboring E3, this square has a eucalyptus tucked snugly into its northeast corner.

E4 also has an example of a true, floating tree.

The 7th spire.

Square E5:
(3 eucalyptuses, 2 brown cypresses, 1 green cypress)

Square E6:
(2 eucalyptuses, 0 brown cypresses, 2 green cypresses)

The line of brown cypresses and oaks to the left here are not technically part of the forest, instead planted by my not-often-seen-neighbor Yoe May.

2 green cypresses pointing to the southwest corner.

Square E7:
(1 eucalyptus, 0 brown cypresses, 0 green cypresses)

Bare except for 1 eucalyptus. Only 1 of 3 squares of the woods containing only 1 tree along with A7 and A8. There are no squares with zero trees, and also each square contains at least 1 eucalyptus.

But as you can see below, E7 came close to having no trees.

Square E8:
(4 eucalyptuses, 0 brown cypresses, 0 green cypresses)

Another square containing only eucalyptuses, like a number in the forest.

On its northern edge E8 contains interesting lineup of 3 of its 4 eucalyptuses, plus 1 that just lies in D8 to the north, which also forms a twinned situation with the middle of these 3 in E8.

Same from opposite direction.

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December 13, 2013 · 1:59 pm

the Head 02

(continued from the Head 01)

http://idyllopuspress.com/idyllopus/film/a_brief_look_at_close_encounters_through_the_eyes_of_the_shining.htm

Simply faskinating.

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http://kubrickfilms.tripod.com/id4.html

Significantly, the labyrinthal road that the car travels down is called the “Going to the Sun” road, and construction of it began in 1921. Later we will notice that the film itself ends with a photograph taken in 1921.

….

Legend has it that the Going to the Sun Mountain, and later its main road, were named after a mystical Indian who ascended the 9,642-foot peak to join the sun in eternity. The choice of road is no coincidence, as the film begins and ends with both credits and references to the year 1921. What’s more, Kubrick’s name is nowhere in the final credits, and the film begins with a cast scroll that is typically located where most films end. So what we have here is a film which folds in on itself like an ouroboros snake, the past and the present, beginning and end, merging indefinitely, one big cyclical repetition of history.

MORE TEXT SOON.

Bullseye 01

http://kdk12.tumblr.com/post/17344062139/the-games-room

The four colors of the Colorado flag recall the Four Directions of Native American belief, which in turn recall the Four Corners states (of which Colorado is the north east.) Color attribution of Four Directions change from culture to culture, and we see this in the clash of cultures inherit in the Overlook’s decor (English, Modern American, American Indian, South American, etc.) Things change color in The Shining, and windowless rooms like The Games Room make it difficult to establish Cardinal Direction. (Note: cardinal means red) Another Native American word for the Four Directions is the Medicine Wheel, which relates to our second symbol, the bullseye.

Supersity Medicine Wheel, visited again just yesterday for the first time in a year and found to be dismantled. The below shot is from a bit over a year ago:

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/supersity-02/

An “additional” yellow ball found at Supersity beside the Medicine Wheel or sacred hoop last year:

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2012/12/02/return-to-supersity-01/

Yellow ball of seeds I noticed on my previous Supersity trip — still of unknown species, however. One more thing to check on my checking list.

2 more yellow balls from The Shining (yes, it applies to everything!).

http://idyllopuspress.com/idyllopus/film/shining_closing_day.htm

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December 12, 2013 · 7:32 am

More Rubi Tree Info

(Continued from)

Breakdown of two types of Rubi Forest cypresses, green and brown, using the same grid method as before.

Almost the same amount of each: 37 and 38 (another twin). If the missing column-tree was added to the green table, the totals would be even at 38 apiece, and the lucas number relationship between total trees, eucayptus trees, and cypress trees in the forest would remain perfect. As it stands, the whole equation is one off. There simply *must* be a missing cypress tree, or an implied renegade.

Eucalpytus tree table again:

The number 732 is “imprinted” twice in this particular tree table, once in row 2 and once in row 5. These imprints, in terms of squares, are also direct north and south of each other. I believe this might refer to the infamous Room 237 of The Shining through the dartboard of the movie, where Danny looks at successive alternate numbers 7… 3… 2 at the bottom of this board (traditional layout) just before seeing the Grady Twins for the first time.

Check out a slice of Juli Kearns’ amazing Shining research on this particular topic here.

This follows from earlier speculation that The Notch of the Rubi Woods resonates with the V-shaped Hyades star cluster of Taurus, with a particular brown cypress tree becoming its “Aldebaran bull’s eye”. Then in nearby twinned trees (eucalyptuses) Edwardston Resident found an inexplicable eye staring back at him, which seems to represent another manifestation of the same archetypal bull’s eye of the forest. Of course, a dartboard also has a bullseye at its center, also red in color. The forest itself may represent the dartboard as a whole, then. More on that soon.

The only other repeating number sequence of these rows beyond 2 is 1,3,2, which occurs twice as well. One instance lies directly above the more northern of the 7,3,2’s and the second appears caddycorner (to the nw) of the second 7,3,2. An animation between the 2 pairs of triplets within this table might even be implied as follows:

Since the final interaction between the two pairs is a *point* (corner), then the succession of cube (top), square (top middle), line (bottom middle), and point might be implied as well in this 3 step animation.

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December 12, 2013 · 6:50 am

Getting better…

Let’s just chat tonight, Hucka D. We haven’t chatted in ages it doesn’t seem.

Hucka D.:

Last night? Or maybe the night before.

bb:

Hmm. So I’m trying decide about Rubi, Hucka D. I don’t know if it would be really practical to reduce to a 8704 there, almost reducing my land holdings in half. It’s either I keep what I got and sell in *Feb.*, or I just sell in Jan. Because to abandon my land in the next several weeks will cost me 30-40 bucks right there, enough to cover tier for the next month on the additional land. See what I mean?

Hucka D.:

Yes. You’re kind of stuck. But Feb. you must give it all up still. This is, after all, the Frank and Herman Einstein! Blog. The blog should focus on the local parks.

bb:

But Second Life — My Second Lyfe — is so much fun (!)

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bb:

I’m gaining my mobility back. Turns out my hips weren’t square with each other, and one leg was shorter than the other as a result. This made my back hurt when I walked too much. Now its righted. Back in the woods, then! I might even have one of those rarer snow-less breaks, at least for the first part.

Hucka D.:

Don’t count on it.

bb:

No. I never count on it, but sometimes it happens.

Edwardston in Da Woods 02

Technically not twinned trees, but still with trunks quite close together. We’ll return to pictures of them shortly.

But first, back to The Notch. Edwardston sits under the tree that may represent the bright star Aldebaran, not a part of the Hyades star cluster but still lying within it from Earth’s perspective.

Check this out from the wikipedia section on Aldebaran and astrology. I’ll highlight the key word involved.

To medieval astrologers, Aldebaran was one of fifteen Behenian stars, associated with rubies, milk thistles and the kabbalistic sign Aldaboram (Agripa 1531).svg.

Also see here:

Forming the profile of a Bull’s face is a V or A-shaped asterism of stars. This outline is created by prominent members of the Hyades,[17] the nearest distinct open star cluster after the Ursa Major Moving Group.[18] In this profile, Aldebaran forms the bull’s bloodshot eye, which has been described as “glaring menacingly at the hunter Orion”,[19] a constellation that lies just to the southwest.

A spiky protuberance between the 3 main branches of the tree.

Looking up into the merged foilage of the neighboring twinned trees.

Let’s return to those 2 close eucalpytus trees now, not within The Notch but situated not far to the east.

Edwardston sees a “face’ at the very bottom of the more raised tree (almost a floating tree but not quite)…

… and then an elongated version of what appears to be the same face in the middle of the trunk…

… and then a squished up version of a seemingly different face at the bottom of the first branch.

Another entity (Abzorbaloff) containing similar multiple faces.

But here’s the stunner: when Edwardston used distance viewing to look down into the same two trees, a much more human-like *eye* appeared within their intwined branches, perhaps with a mouth as well. Can you see it?

Here’s the detail in question. Also seems like a female’s eye.

Edwardston sees this, then cannot recreate the mirage (mirage?) after moving the camera angle away. Just intertwined branches now with no eye. But he *did* see it, and managed to take a picture as proof. Is this some kind of transferred bull’s eye??

Edwardston stands against the third type of tree in the forest, a green cypress, larger than its brown cousins.

It has a very different and distinct trunk as well.

I think he’s starting to understand.

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December 11, 2013 · 5:07 am

Edwardston in Da Woods 01

Edwardston plays a new song in the Rosieri village church called “Starting to Understand”. Rosieri, to remind, is the sim caddycorner to Rubi to its southwest. The church is part of a small village Edwardston first ran across several days back, exclusive to that sim. This represents his second and more extended visit.

In the cemetery behind the church: ghosts!

“Where’s the darn gate again?” Edwardston wonders, looking for a quick escape from the cursed place.

“Woah, I hope whatever was in this cage isn’t heading up to Rubi and VWX Town!”

Edwardston encounters skid marks in the road while walking away from the cemetery and the church. He’s seen several motorcycles in the village. “Maybe they made these,” he thinks. “Hogs.”

Chill’n in a village diner, hoping a biker gang doesn’t suddenly show up, actually.

Further north on the main road, Edwardston spies a familiar object hanging in the sky. It’s his neighbor’s crystal-like skybox, low to the ground.

He heads back home through bramble marking the village’s western border. VWX Town just ahead!

Queerly, Edwardston finds he’s lost a day as he passes through the town and into the Rubi Woods for more exploring fun. He cannot remember the Rosieri trip because that actually occurs tomorrow, when he plays the piano in the church. Is he trapped in an eternal loop? We’ll see!

Edwardston studies the brown cypress tree arrangement Hucka D. has called The Notch, a prominent Rubi Woods attribute.

6 such trees form a v-shaped formation here. Edwardston pays particular attention to the brown cypress sharing trunk space with a larger eucalyptus tree. As he’s noted previously, there are maybe close to half a dozen twinned trees like this in the forest.

The Notch from above. Is this truly related to the Hyades star cluster?

(continued)

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December 10, 2013 · 6:18 pm

Maxwell Jamie Klinger Farr

“It’s an actor and a character in one again, just like in Kansas with Bracket’s Psychogumma’s Marion and Leigh.”

Edwardston R.:

I’m interested!

Hucka D.:

We’re in Rubi again, Edwardston R. Baker b. has decided we all can stay. Turns out the Rubi Forest is alive and sentient and shut. Could have told him that to save the worry and time.

Edwardston R.:

Fantastic! I sensed that too.

Hucka D.:

Lucas numbers and the golden mean are imbedded. Do you have your man data? Are you a Truemann?

Edwardston R.:

Yes!

Hucka D.:

The Klinger man/woman taps you on the shoulder, making you turn. Are you turning?

Edwardston R.:

Okay!

Tree Klingers

Hebe:

Town name brought to mind expression hebejebes. First link when looking that word up was from Urban Dictionary.

Urban:

I believe this leads to urban comedies, which began replacing rural themed ones in television’s Rural purge of the early 70s.

“It was the year CBS cancelled everything with a tree—including Lassie”

M*A*S*H ultimately became perhaps the strongest and most influential of the new, grittier comedies that then emerged.

Red Cross:

The red cross logo of army medical units is closely associated with M*A*S*H in the show and on related products.

Klingertown:

Obvious reference to Max Klinger, the cross-dressing M*A*S*H regular famously played by Jamie Farr. Both Farr and his fictional character are from Toledo, Ohio, seat of Lucas County.

Pillow:

Klinger dressed in women’s clothes in an attempt to gain a Section 8 and leave the war to return to Toledo. Pillow refers to a harmless woman-style fight Klinger might safely engage in in Toledo, as opposed to a real man-to-man fight in Korea.

Mouse (Creek) – Man(data)

Refers to well known idiom, “Are you a man or a mouse?”, obvious connection again to Klinger’s reluctance to engage in real battles and be a real man. This also associates with dressing up as a woman. In later M*A*S*H seasons, Klinger gives up the dresses and the Section 8 dream.

Also see: “Measure of a Man.”

Cast member Brent Spiner (Data) identified this episode as his favorite TNG episode.[3] In an interview, fellow cast member Patrick Stewart (Jean-Luc Picard) concurred that this is “the first truly great episode of the series”.[4] On Twitter in April 2013, Marina Sirtis names this as her favorite episode.

Kulps:

Not far north of this map appears Kulps, with a lone variant name of Klingers. This again refers to the Rural Purge, since Nancy Kulp was a famous secondary actor of the most popular of all rural comedies, The Beverly Hillbillies. Likewise, Klinger plays a similar support role on M*A*S*H. Also Kulp confessed to being a lesbian later in life, mirroring character Klinger’s sexual complications.

Erdman:

Actor Dennis Erdman played injured soldier Harrision in one episode of M*A*S*H, “The General Flipped at Dawn”, the 1st episode of season 3 and perhaps best remembered for introducing Harry Morgan, who played a different character in this episode (Gen. Steele) than when he became a regular as Col. Potter the following season.

Klinger approaches the inspection in full drag and presents himself to the General with a snappy salute. Steele take a quick look at him and growls, “Not now, Marjorie, I’m inspecting the troops!”

Additional note: like “The General Flipped at Dawn,” the Star Trek Next Generation episode mentioned above is a season’s opening episode (3rd season for TGFaD and 2nd for “The Measure of a Man”).

Bremer County, Iowa: Klinger and Potter together…. along with Denver.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npC9c1hXVkQ

Fearnot, Hepler (anagram of Helper, as in M*A*S*H unit), Rough and Ready:

All refer to war and the thing Max Klinger is attempting to avoid. Also along these lines…

Killinger:

Anagram of Klinger and also containing the word killing and killer in one. This village is a bit to the southwest of the above map.

Rife:

Near Killinger, and refers to rifle. Just read about a Rife surname yesterday and thought it was rifle. On same Youtube channel as the Shone Report.

Note also that Rife could become rifle by stealing the extra “l” from nearby Killinger, making the latter closer to Klinger via its then single “l”.

Royal Rife.

Rifle kills — Rife cured. Seems he could have cured many more.

And to top it off, perhaps, we’ve seen most of this map before in the Frank and Herman Einstein! blog.

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December 10, 2013 · 9:02 am

Final Virtual Home?

Perhaps inspired by the Rubi Forest research today, I have begun thinking that Rubi might be my final stop in Second Life. What better place could I find to watch the terminal days of the mainland grid? How long will mainland last?

Edward’s Stream will mark the new, lower border of the trimmed down burg. Will it still be called VWX Town? A question to ponder. I’ll gear my tier down to the next level, which I still find quite managable, at least in relation to this most perfect of virtual spots. Fal Mouth Moon will also remain and stay the home of the Gilatona-Lis collages, my last offerings in that medium. More might be added in the coming year, and there’s some room for growth in the building, as opposed to the Power Tower Gowlery. The attached rocket launcher will also stay.

Toxic Art Gallery with its “Art 10×10” may move back to Philudoria. All of the eastern part of town will be gone. The Confluence Place will not stick around. The Table House as well. The giant cat topped city hall *may* remain, but will have to be turned the other way (?). Big Boy Tower won’t be there. The Damned Church, exhibiting the Rubi history snapshots, could remain… probably will.

So it’s kind of a celebration. I knew I’d have to reduce tier soon, and this is a way to do it while staying in Rubi. I’ll abandon less than half the land to give me a cushion between neighbors. This appears the way to go.

The reduction won’t go into effect for several weeks, however.

Ye Ole Watering Hole will stay.

All of this will have to be derezzed, difficult because it means giving up my original mainland territory (again!). But fronting the forest is the most important aspect in considering what to cull.

4:32am:

The town has been divided into VWX Town, Essence and VWX Town, Indulgence. The Essence part of the community will remain in this plan, while Indulgence will not. As of now, I’d have almost 500 prims to still play around with on the reduced property — not bad. At the earliest, the reduction will go into effect about Jan. 7th. At the latest: probably early Feb. My last little bit of land in Philudoria, where the original version of The Church of the Diagonal still sits, will also be given up.

The below shot comes from Kerchal, which represents the only other large tract of mainland virgin forest remaining under the protection of Linden Labs (excluding the Linden Memorial Park). Although somewhat larger, in restudying the matter I like the Rubi Woods better. There’s only 1 type of tree here in Kerchal (pines) as opposed to the 2 in Rubi. And there’s no grass in Kerchal, and also the land doesn’t undulate in interesting ways like the former. I still like and appreciate the Kerchal Woods, but Rubi’s is superior for my tastes. I see that now.