Power of Purple, perhaps.
bb:
Noru strikes first, Hucka.
Hucka D.:
The battle is on. For *you.*
Monthly Archives: June 2014
Noru/Rubi (Again!)
Well, the price kept dropping and dropping on the Hector sim property next to the Rubi Forest, almost hourly it seemed, and finally about 1 o’clock yesterday I called the wife and ask her if I could splurge again on Second Lyfe this month. She okayed the idea if she could herself purchase some extra jewelry supplies, and I promptly bought my 2nd 8192 parcel and fairly quickly set up what is basically a duplicate structure situation as in Noru. That is, the same buildings now exist in Hector as in Noru, including the 3 major collage galleries of mine (Toxic Art, Power Tower, and Fal Mouth Moon). Differences: I was able to include the Temple of TILE in Hector, across from the Norris Gallery/Temple there. What am I going to do with all this land and all the duplication? Well, the plan is to choose one or the other properties by the first of next month, when my tier payment comes around again. I can’t afford another month of this type of tier, that is. But I simply had to buy in both Noru and Rubi for June. And it’s not the first time this has happened, quite amazingly: check here. That’s a post from 4 years ago, and also from the first part of June. What goes around comes around, and this goes triply for Second Lyfe.
I haven’t talked to Hucka D. much recently. Let’s see if he’s around.
Hucka D.:
Noru… Norum. Dig deeply. Dig into the past of Rubi as well. Whitehead Crossing; isn’t it good.
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Hector property from overhead.
The Crystal Field is at the top — that’s certainly unique to Hector. And there’s an extra bit of stream between the Toxic Art Gallery toxic falls and Tired Falls in comparison to Noru. Hector seems to have a stronger central axis in this way. The collage galleries are bunched together and more easily toured as a whole — another advantage. What are the continuing advantages to Noru? It’s mostly surrounded by abandoned Linden land so I can play with vegetation on the borders more, like inserting a giant 50 meter maple on the south side. I can re-create the VWX Tower, and am doing so and will probably continue with that today as well as Friday and this weekend. Norum mythology may be stronger than Rubi’s overall (?) I can pull Karox out of mothballs and let him explore around again. But I think, at the bottom, this is about RL Whitehead Crossing; a substitute for the basic inability to explore that land further in summer months.
Some of the crystals in Chrystal Field are green, just like the Toxic Waste Falls. Carrcassonne sits outside the Temple of TILE instead of on the top floor within.
Why? Is she waiting for someone to come by on the road? She is out and exposed to the (virtual) world.
Rubi vs. Noru.
Meeting of 3 streams.
Meeting.
Green on green.
Carrcassonnee spies.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Frank Park, Heterocera, Jeogeot, Noru^, Rubi^, Whitehead Crossing
Noru Progress 01
Norris Gallery/Temple now set up directly beside the Toxic Waste Gallery.
Natural fit, but I had to trim the west side of Norris for everything to work.
Then I started a new version of the — what did I call it? — TILE Tower I suppose, the much longer of the 2 I had set up in Rubi’s VWX Town. I can set this up again because of the extreme length of my parcel. Funtastic, as I like to say sometimes. Let’s add an “(!)”.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Jeogeot, Noru^
Noru Developments 02
An 8092 parcel available in Horisme *right next* to the Rubi Forest. You bet I would jump all over this deal if I hadn’t already bought in Noru. Am I tempted to switch? Sure I am! But strangely I really like the Noru parcel — it seems to have unique qualities. So although I could switch I’m thinking I won’t now. I’ve rocked the Rubi experience last winter. If a deal comes around again it comes around again. But it looks like I’m passing on this option. Hmm.
New waterfall in front of the Toxic Art Gallery.
Noru native Karoz will soon be out and about again, I’m thinking.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Jeogeot, Noru^
Noru Developments 01
Baker sits on the upper porch of the Home o’ Fibs. Hoped he enjoyed the view…
… because several hours later the house was gone, replaced by the Power Tower Gowlery on the far east side of my new Noru land. The place has transformed into Collagesity, highlighted by four of my galleries: Gallery Jack (2006-2009 collages), SoSo (2007 collages), Power Tower (2013 collages), and Fal Mouth Moon (2014 collages; most recent).
Power Tower Gowlery towering over Gallery Jack looking east from the central Hole in the Wall Bar.
Looking from the north.
Notes:
Still have over half my allotted prims free for skybox developments, or a bit under a 1000. Groundside, Collagesity seems basically finished already, except for some interior decorating of the smaller buildings. Is this an actual town like Rubi’s VWX Town? Not really. It’s a totally personal sphere — all my art — and there’s little to connect it to other people’s art. I simply do not have the room this time, and my collages are more numerous than ever before thanks to huge steps forward in 2013 (Gilatona-Lis series) and 2014 (Falmouth series). About 100 collages produced just in the last year and a half (!).
Also on the property are the old VWX Town City Hall, an A-frame house, and the Hole in the Wall bar, which lies at the west end of Drunk Man’s Ridge.
The only pool of water on the property has been created at its east end, containing 3 schools of yellow fish. Not much else in the way of internal topographic features. Trees are mostly found proximate to parcel boundaries.
It’s really a beautiful place, and seems quite large despite being less than 1/2 the area of Rubi’s VWX Town, my last larger parcel. More magic of Noru, I suppose. I’ve owned or rented in this sim quite a number of times now, starting in 2009. A review is in order — perhaps a building devoted to my history with Noru, like I did with Rubi before.
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3:42am update:
Gallery Jack has been replaced by the Toxic Art Gallery to save ground space. This also eliminates the need for the SoSo Gallery, since the Oblong series is included in the TAG. Great! Now SoSo might become the Noru History Center. 1011 prims remaining on the property.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Jeogeot, Noru^
Nebraska (con.):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merry_Christmas,_Charlie_Manson!
Stan asks his parents for permission to see Cartman’s grandmother in Nebraska for the holidays, but is denied, then sent to his room for refusing to eat dinner. Feeling disillusioned with the idea of family, he runs off to Cartman’s house just in time to join the other boys. On the way to his Grandma’s house, Cartman and his mother sing “Over the River and Through the Woods” repeatedly, driving the other boys crazy. When they cross the border into Nebraska, the scenery goes from green and snow to endless wheat fields and grey skies (a sign reads “You are now in Nebraska, sorry”).
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL
New Land
I’m back in Noru after a several year lapse of ownership there. This time I bought a long 7680 square meter strip of land at the very top of the sim from my former neighbor Olando7 Decosta, who has or at least had strong Chilbo connections.* He was my neighbor during my first stay in Noru. At the time I owned a 5120 parcel immediately south of the present land. And then afterwards, for several years on, I rented or owned a number of other Noru parcels. Immediately after purchasing the present land, I added a 512 parcel to it that was for sale in the west central part of Noru. So my total holdings in the sim amount to 8192, and I’m entitled to lump in another 512 (total: 8704) from somewhere without upping my tier.
It seemed fate to purchase the larger of the 2 properties, since at the time it was the cheapest mainland parcel over 4096 square meters for sale in all of Second Life. Had to get it, you see, since I was already primed for a buy somewhere. Then also last night I began working on the landscaping. My thoughts are to position the Fal Mouth Moon Gallery at the west end of the long parcel, balanced by the Home o’ Fibs at the very east end. In-between would be a lengthy corridor of pure nature, basically, add in some border structures.
East end: Home o’ Fibs.
West end: Fal Mouth Moon.
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*Olando7’s Chilbo Connectivism Course:
http://chilbo.wikispaces.com/Connectivism+Course+in+Chilbo
Olando7’s user’s blog:
http://www.mixedrealities.com/
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Jeogeot, Noru^
New
It’s times to start thinking about a new Carrcass. I wonder if I’m like Dexter in this respect? (but Dexter isn’t on my list to use — don’t think).
52 12 “The Psychic Vortex” Mark Cendrowski Story: Lee Aronsohn & Steven Molaro
Teleplay: Chuck Lorre, Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds January 11, 2010 3X5561 15.82[13]Leonard and Penny’s relationship hits an impasse when, while on a double-date with Howard and Bernadette, she reveals that she has taken career advice from a psychic, only for Leonard to laugh, infuriating her. Later, Howard tells Leonard that if he wants to be able to be in a relationship, he will have to accept that people will have differing beliefs. Leonard apologizes to Penny and agrees to visit her psychic, despite her having declined to read a book debunking psychics, remarking that “one of us has to keep an open mind.”
Meanwhile, Sheldon and Raj attend a university mixer, with Sheldon as Raj’s wingman. Sheldon only agrees because Raj bribes him with a Limited Edition Green Lantern lantern, which Sheldon subsequently carries with him to the mixer. They meet Abby (Danica McKellar), who takes a liking to Raj, and her friend Martha (Jen Drohan), who tries to connect with Sheldon. They end up playing Rock Band at Sheldon’s place. For a second date, Raj bribes Sheldon with his pair of Hulk hands, signed by Stan Lee. After Sheldon announces that he is going to bed, Martha asks if she can join him in his room to avoid Raj and Abby, who are “getting busy”. Sheldon obliges but immediately leaves to sleep in Leonard’s room, leaving Martha alone.
Recurring character: Melissa Rauch as Bernadette Rostenkowski
Guest stars: Danica McKellar as Abby and Jen Drohan as Martha
Title reference: Penny’s belief in psychics.—–
53 13 “The Bozeman Reaction” Mark Cendrowski Story: Bill Prady, Lee Aronsohn & Jim Reynolds
Teleplay: Chuck Lorre, Steven Molaro & Steve Holland January 18, 2010 3X5563 14.99[14]Leonard and Sheldon return from dinner to find their apartment broken into, with their TV, laptop, hard drives, video game consoles and video games stolen. Sheldon fears being alone in the apartment due to the robbery, so he forces Leonard and Penny to stay in the apartment. The next day, Howard designs a state-of-the-art security system for the apartment using components he “borrowed” from the Department of Defense. However, after Sheldon himself is caught in the security system, he decides that the apartment is no longer safe and plans to leave Pasadena for a safer city. After rejecting Enid, Oklahoma, Boone, North Carolina and the entire state of Nebraska (because Penny is from there), he decides to move to Bozeman, Montana. But when Sheldon arrives there, he gets robbed again, so he returns to Pasadena.
Guest stars: Julio Oscar Mechoso as Officer Hackett
Title reference: Sheldon moves to Bozeman, Montana after his and Leonard’s apartment is robbed.—–
54 14 “The Einstein Approximation” Mark Cendrowski Story: Lee Aronsohn, Dave Goetsch & Steve Holland
Teleplay: Chuck Lorre, Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan February 1, 2010 3X5565 15.51[15]Sheldon’s search for the answer to a physics problem keeps him up all night for several days and he becomes obsessed with finding the answer. His obsession with solving the problem goes to the extent of visualizing food as atoms and even sneaking out in the middle of the night to go to the mall ball pit, forcing Leonard to rush to the mall and get him. He then decides that he needs a menial job to think better because Albert Einstein came up with the Theory of Relativity while working at a menial job at the Swiss patent office. Since the United States Patent and Trademark Office is in Washington DC, and he does not want to move out of Pasadena, Sheldon interviews for any menial job with the County of Los Angeles. At the county office, Sheldon angers the woman interviewing him, to the extent of her calling security to remove him. Sheldon then decides to work at the Cheesecake Factory with Penny as he considers her job the most menial of all. He shows up and works as a busboy and waiter without actually being hired or demanding pay, and turns out to be a more efficient waiter than Penny until he drops and breaks a tray of dishes. The scattering of the shattered pieces leads him to the answer to his problem, and he promptly walks out without cleaning up the mess.
Meanwhile Leonard, Penny, Howard, and Bernadette go to disco night at the roller skating rink where the guys embarrass their girlfriends with their outfits and dancing. Raj is left out as he does not have a girlfriend, even though it was his idea to go to the skating rink. Eventually Raj successfully pressurizes a reluctant Howard to take him to the skating rink.
Recurring character: Melissa Rauch as Bernadette Rostenkowski
Guest stars: Yeardley Smith as Sandy and Kevin Brief as Glenn
Title reference: Sheldon’s attempt at solving his problem by working in a menial job, comparing it to Albert Einstein’s discoveries made while working in Switzerland in the Patent Office.
http://cowangenealogy.weebly.com/the-1880-train-to-the-dakota-territory.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly,_Kentucky
Butterfly is an unincorporated community located in Perry County, Kentucky, United States. Its post office [2] is closed. It was also named Leonard.
Filed under Carrcass-11, Illinois, Kentucky, MAPS, North Dakota
Clinton Gore
Some people still don’t think present influences past. What times are it?
Sunklands 