Category Archives: Rubi

… giving up VWX Town, Indulgence in January. Or even preparing for the event. So many stories still untold, like what *did* happen in the basically inaccessible rooms beyond the Confluence Place waterfall?

The Indulgence Residents are always eyeballing the same mysteries I am about The Place. They know so much but tell so little. If I had more time, I could become friends with them, be more their confidant. But of course they can stay — I could move them, say, into the second floor of the Church of The Diagonal, or into the upper levels of Fal Mouth Moon. Yes, of course they’ll stay.

“What about *me*?” a sad faced Indulgence 20 then asks in a very bass, metallic voice from across the top the east wall.

I don’t have an answer for him yet. But I think I know why the spaceship is here now.

And what of the Kidd Tower?

Marble Tower?

Bracket’s apartment?

“Hucka D., it looks like you’re going to have a blog (!). You’ll be in charge of the last part of what’s in the Baker Blinker Blog, from September 2011 to the end in August 2012. This is the period where hiking in and blogging about Frank and Herman Parks really picked up, and moved the Baker Blinker Blog beyond Second Life. It acts as a bridge to the Frank and Herman Einstein Blog!, started in Sep. 2012. We have that backed up as well now. Things are looking good. What are you going to do with the blog, Hucka?”

Hucka D.:

Protect (!) Bracket Jupiter wants a blog now as well. I think he and Edwardston Resident may go in for one together.

bb:

Hucka, I’ve been studying up on The Shining today — big surprise, right? — and came across the following from the excellent Juli Kearns Idyllopus site. Check it out:

Bartok’s “Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta” connects Danny’s cycling about the floor of room 237 with the subsequent scene of Jack typing. The music began as Danny rolled about the upper floor, reaching a crescendo as Danny finished trying the doorknob, seeing the girls, and then moving on to the cycling xylophone scales as the camera zoomed in on Jack from behind, the music ending when Wendy finished her approach and Jack ripped his paper out of the typewriter.

We had previously heard this music when Wendy and Danny entered the maze, it reaching the crescendo as Jack entered the lobby and slammed the ball one last time against the far wall, the cycling xylophone scales playing as he stood over the maze watching Wendy and Danny at its center.

There’s speculation that Bartok used the Golden Ratio in some of his compositions and that we can see in the xylophone scales the Fibonacci sequence as 1:1:2:3:5:8:5:3:2:1:1.

And then:

My reasoning, however, is that Kubrick saw a link between the Fibonacci sequence and the conch shell and the labyrinth and thus the tie in with Bartok’s composition in which we supposedly hear the Fibonacci sequence. Kubrick certainly associated the music with the maze as it first plays when Wendy and Danny are in the maze.

Classical ideas of beauty are supposed to be found in Golden proportions, for which reason I imagine Wendy says to Danny, at the center of the maze, “Isn’t it beautiful?” The beauty of the maze is lost on the audience as all we see is green shrubbery and benches. What Wendy would have had to be referring to was its meeting a Golden proportion.

Remember that we’ve already connected the Rubi Woods to both Kubrick’s Shining Labyrinth and the Lucas Sequence, a twinned series to the Fibonacci sequence Kearns discusses here.

Hucka D.:

What do you want me to say? I have a blog (!)

… in town. Bracket Jupiter states another, even larger one might be on the way. What kind of contacts does he have??

“The alien [within] will be a new, permanent member of the town. His name is Indulgence 7168.”

“Thank you Hucka D.”

“There’s a picture of him.”

“Thanks once more.”

“Here’s his wife.”

“That might be enough, Hucka.”

TEXT SOON.

Go here to see the holes for yourself! Remember that there’s another just on the other side of the Great Linden Wall.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Epirrhoe/47/45/132

… is one of the things I’ll miss when the Indulgence side of my community is abandoned.

I’ll still probably have this bit underneath the Fal Mouth Moon, up to Edward’s Stream in the back.

But all will go south of this, including the Confluence Place and its pool ballerina and Lucky’s Magic Village.

It’s obvious this is The Underground’s beating heart centerpiece.

Underneath another empty gallery structure on the other side of the Confluence Place. Looks like it will remain empty.

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Square A1:
(3 eucalyptuses, 2 brown cypresses, 1 green cypress)

1 of the 3 eucalyptuses found in A1 is on northern side of Robin Loop, characteristic shared with only one other tree in forest (see A2).

Square A2:
(1 eucalyptus, 3 brown cypresses, 0 green cypresses)

1 of the 3 brown cypresses in A2 on northern side of Robin Loop, characteristic shared with only one other tree in forest (see A1).

Square A3:
(3 eucalyptuses, 1 brown cypress, 1 green cypress)

Elevation change here on the Robin Loop road from 98 to 101 meters.

Notice the “belt” of brown cypresses running along the south edge of Robin Loop, one each in A2, A3, and A4.

Square A4:
(1 eucalyptus, 1 brown cypress, 0 green cypresses)

Close calls on the eastern side, but far eucalyptus in A4 and near one in A5.

Square A5:
(3 eucalyptuses, 1 brown cypress, 2 green cypresses)

Twinned eucalyptus and green cypress near southwest corner.

Square A6:
(2 eucalyptuses, 2 brown cypresses, 1 green cypress)

Robin Loop starting to gain elevation again, which will continue into A7 and A8 before flattening out again near the eastern border of Rubi in the latter. Elevation after this flattening: 116 meters. Highest point of sim as a whole lies just across the road and immediately in the sim’s northeast corner (117 meters).

Square A7:
(1 eucalyptuses, 0 brown cypresses, 0 green cypresses)

Square A8:
(1 eucalyptuses, 0 brown cypresses, 0 green cypresses)

Lone tree in square (characteristic shared with A7) comes close to being in B8, and also represents 1 of 2 highest trees in forest elevation-wise at 110 meters.

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Square B1:
(3 eucalyptuses, 1 brown cypress, 1 green cypress)

Square B2:
(4 eucalyptuses, 0 brown cypresses, 0 green cypresses)

Close call on the eucalyptus to the right in the below photo — almost lies within B3 to the east.

Square B3:
(4 eucalyptuses, 1 brown cypress, 1 green cypress)

Square B4:
(7 eucalyptuses, 1 brown cypress, 2 green cypresses)

B4 is tied with D4 for most trees in a 1024 square in the forest (10). Also tied with *E4* for most eucalyptuses in one square (7). This is one I’ll be studying more in the future as well.

Square B5:
(3 eucalyptuses, 1 brown cypress, 1 green cypress)

Square B6:
(2 eucalyptuses, 2 brown cypresses, 0 green cypresses)

Square B7:
(3 eucalyptuses, 1 brown cypress, 1 green cypress)

Square B8:
(2 eucalyptuses, 1 brown cypress, 2 green cypresses)

One of B8’s green cypresses represents 1 of 2 highest trees in forest elevation-wise, existing at 110 meters. It’s also at position 255, 220, 110 in Rubi, right on the sim’s eastern edge, and the easternmost tree in the woods as a whole. 220 (distance from southern edge of Rubi) in this location is also 2 times 110.

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