TEXT SOON.
Category Archives: Yd Island^
*Hand*
I’ve decided to rename Finger Island into Hand Island, with the attached lake it dominates likewise turning into Hand Lake. I do this because there’s clearly not one finger-like extension projecting from the main bulk of the island, but *two*. My reasoning is that the other 3 fingers are represented but hidden, perhaps clustered together like this…
… or maybe even this.
There’s deeper reasons for the name change, however. When feeling the initial desire to turn Finger Island into Hand Island because of the two fingers conundrum outlined above, my mind also turned back to Herman Park and a projected *fourth* lake to be created by Lisa The Vegetarian there called, well, Hand Lake — to complement the perhaps already created Heart Lake, Head Lake, and then soon to be created Health Lake, the last of the four. This duplicates the composition of the 4Hs in the 4H club pledge and famous 4 leaf clover emblem: head, heart, hands and health. There we have a plural form of the same word we’ve applied to the Blue Mountain pool: “hand” to “hands”. But the thing is, Hand (or Hands) Lake was reportedly the only one of the 4 never fulfilled by Lisa V.
References to this from the Frank and Herman Einstein Blog:
https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2013/02/15/4404/
“Thanks for that information, Hucka D.,” I said. He smiled. He went to the shelf and removed a red book. Small — no title on the spine or on the front. He opened to page 156.
Noticing this I said, “I’ve already received that message.”
“Received it more,” he came back levelly. He continued to flip through it. “Have you read about Drink Lake yet? Fascinating. You know Lisa the Vegetarian was given Hand Lake and then decided to expand it through this book. The book is the father. Norris was a father; Anderson was a father. Together they created a memory pool of Sandusky County and Clyde extending almost from the years 1860 to 1900, a two score. Booger was told of this.”
https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/maps/
McCartney charges Lisa the V. to center the US of A in Arkansas, and kind of tells her how to do it. She creates Head Lake, Heart Lake, Hand Lake, and then Health Lake spinning the opposite direction. To control the spin she must buy all of neighboring Wealthy Mountain — actually Health Lake and Wealthy Mountain are part of one complex, along with Wysei [ which you haven’t found yet]. Then she expanded Hand Lake through the TILE Creek, which was showing off her genius for the first, real time.
bb:
Real genius for the first time, you mean.
Hucka D. (continuing):
That expansion is very important. You must study it this spring. For without that expansion, Herman Park does not exist. All would be in the aether still.
bb:
I will. I promise.
bb:
Who are the singers?
Hucka D.:
They are the genius of Lisa the Vegetarian. They are the expansion of Hand Lake. They are TILE Creek. They will protect.
In addition, Lisa the Vegetarian had several June 2015 posts devoted to her after she topped the voting in the Mystenopolis town deity contest. As far as I know she still holds this rank, even though I, through Baker Bloch, soon left the Mysten sim to return to the Rubi Woods.
So what about this expansion of Hand Lake into TILE Creek, extending from Hand Spring to Drink Lake and a bit beyond?
Well, let’s first explain I also found out this morning that Hand Lake (former Finger Lake once more) lies directly north of Drink Lake, and both bodies of water are sources of drinking water for their respective towns of Blue Mountain and Boulder. *Both* are drinking lakes. In the below 2 images from GoogleEarth, the position of The Finger in Hand Lake is placemarked by a yellow pin, and then a corresponding spot directly south of it in the middle of Drink Lake is similarly marked with a yellow pin. Toggle back and forth to see the overlap. The pin locations are less than 4 miles apart. I was quite surprised to find out how close the 2 pools were.
These are my preliminary thoughts:
The Finger formation of Hand Lake *has* to be the working of Lisa The Vegetarian. She reinforced this through the creation of a second, smaller finger-like extension from the same dominating lake island. She clearly wanted *me* to understand that this was the legendary Hand Lake, *created* but then *displaced* into the Blue Mountain area from the Boulder area. She displaced it directly north of the lake she created *in place* of it near Boulder, or the considerably larger Drink Lake. The Mmms moved in sometime after this. Hermania was created sometime after this. Mossmen learned of the location, and Herman Park as a whole.
Last thoughts for now:
Overlapping Hand Lake and Drink Lake pins and replacing land south of former with south of latter gives the following image, where the two towns of Blue Mountain and Boulder effectively touch in the general pin regions. The 2 town water plants are also obviously a focus of the overlap; they’re also directly north-south of each other, and also “touch” boundaries in the below image.
If we eliminate land *north* of Hand Lake and replace it with land north of Drink Lake instead, we get the following, with the disappearance of both towns and setting the joined drinking lakes in a relative wilderness setting….
(to be continued)
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Blue Mountain, Boulder, Drink Lake, Hand Spring, Herman Park, Nautilus, Tile Creek, Yd Island^
The Macrohole revisited
OK, maybe this: Sapphire was born as Turquoise on Yd Island, but protected by high wall of Macrohole, where VILEness couldn’t be with her. The macrohole was “switched on” somehow, creating a worm hole to Jeogeot, which VILEness fell into. This was again north of Yd Island. 10 > 6 > 3 > 1 (C>Y>V>T). VILEness coated the hole. Made it safe for others to pass through (?) That was the whole point of the experience. A travellable black hole formed on Jeogeot at the same time the Korean Channel was formed. This would be created by the 3 Mos Ainsley related sims almost surrounding the Black Hole. Many people came from Yd Island and the eastern hemisphere as a whole through that hole to Jeogeot, including Sapphire and her parents/aunt-uncle. Nathaneil realized parallel of Meddletown with Meddledown.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/TriangularNumber.html
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Moby-Dick 01
http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/dilugim/moby.html
The following challenge was made by Michael Drosnin:
When my critics find a message about the assassination of a prime minister encrypted in Moby Dick, I’ll believe them.
(Newsweek, Jun 9, 1997)Note that English with the vowels included is far less flexible than Hebrew when it comes to making letters into words. Nevertheless, without further ado, we present our answer to Mr Drosnin’s challenge.
Related:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_code
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignments_of_random_points
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Text of Chapter 36, which includes description of “The Measure”:
http://etcweb.princeton.edu/batke/moby/moby_036.html
“The measure! the measure!” cried Ahab.
http://www.shmoop.com/moby-dick/chapter-36-summary.html
Ahab takes a pewter mug full of grog [The Measure] and arranges the harpooneers in a line standing across from him and holding their harpoons; the mates stand beside him holding their lances. The crew stands around them all in a circle.
Ahab sends the mug around to the crew for everyone to drink; they refill the cup each time it gets empty.
Next, Ahab makes the mates cross their lances in front of him, and he grasps them where they cross. Then he suddenly pulls at them in a strange way. Stubb and Flask look away and Starbuck looks down.
Ahab says that it’s probably for the best that the three mates failed to absorb his electric anger, because then he might have lost it himself.
Now Ahab orders the harpooneers to cut the ropes that hold the iron heads of their harpoons to the handles. Each harpooneer hands the head of his harpoon to the mate that he works with. The mates, as cupbearers, turn the heads over and use the socket ends as cups, which Ahab fills with grog. Then they give these cups back to the harpooneers, who drink “Death to Moby Dick!” (36.49)
Everyone has one more drink, and they disperse.
Starbuck turns pale and shivers.
http://www.mobydickgame.com/officialsite/compendium/additional-entries/the-measure/
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Lower Austra^, Nautilus, Yd Island^
Nautilus, Mysten, and The Measure 02
TEXT SOON.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Lower Austra^, Nautilus, Yd Island^
Nautilus, Mysten, and The Measure
Faint eye in the corner of a Measure continent. The eye is part of a 12×12 brown terrain texture that all such continents are composed of. Just to remind — may be nothing — but Spongeberg’s sacred square of Mysten Underhill where he bought Baker Bloch’s audiovisual synchronicities is also 12×12 meters.
One time when I logged into Second Life and visited The Measure, the eye appeared to be in a different place, or the texture had shifted directions. I’ll have to keep an *eye* out for that phenomenon again.
Baker Bloch visits Willum Tosung Funeral Home, Cemetery and Memorial Park in the Trasimeno sim of central Nautilus, or what seemed to be called Upper Austra at one time in the past. Seeing the Hollywood sign reminds him of a duplicate one on the western edge of Mysten, right beside the top of Nasty Medicine Falls on his property there.
Baker Bloch back in Mysten, or actually Baker stands on the line between Mysten (right) and Goremoor (left). The Twist sculpture spoken of before looms directly above him. It is truly smack dab on this line, as Baker rechecks today.
Baker also notices that house #9 on this Mysten Underhill map has been removed in the meantime. There are only 11 structures in the community, not 12. The sign was created way back in August, 2007, almost 8 years ago now. According to the SL wiki, the Nautilus continent itself was created between April and November, 2007. The sign is about as old as the continent.
Looking back up the long road leading to the twin hamlets Mysten Underhill and Mysten Parva from the west, with the curiously silhouetted Christ statue in the distance.
Baker continues to walk west. Everything to the right of the road in this photo belongs to the Siliconicus sim south of Mysten.
Queerly trapped parrots in a wall to the left of Baker…
… and also underneath the road he strolls upon. I’ve encountered these same creatures before. In fact, as I’m checking again, I have several copies of the bird in my inventory. When activated they fly and fly until stopped by something.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Lower Austra^, Nautilus, Yd Island^
More Glyphs of The Measure 02
Answer: To the true supercontinent of The Measure glyphs, taking up most of its northern hemisphere. I’ve circled it in red below (low resolution version). Each of the four 8190 square meter regions of this hemisphere contain part of the supercontinent. The basic idea is more condensed brown sea floor masses (“land”) that are connected by isthmuses or necks of the same color. If he wished, Baker Bloch can walk all over this area without having to cross a beige part of the sim; he can remain on brown.
And to be complete about things up front, what *could* be called a similarly composed 2nd supercontinent — a third of the size, however — might be said to form primarily in the southern hemisphere, circled in yellow below. A number of individual glyphs we’ve already reviewed, including The Pony and The Nebulous Horsie for example, come from this smaller supermass.
But for clarity’s sake I’m only going to refer to the larger northern one as a supercontinent, making it, in my eyes at least — and in Lisa the Vegetarian’s eyes — *The* Supercontinent of The Measure. So back to this one and only Supercontinent as we’re defining it.
Below I’ve highlight some glyphs that strike us as interesting on the surface of things. First we have a duplicate “L” within one of the eastern seas of the supercontinent (right), matching the size and direction of the one next to Clubfoot (left). You’ll probably have to enlarge the below photo to see this. Also in the same photo I’ve highlighted the Double Dots glyph (left top) discussed in the previous post just to give you additional perspective on where we are in The Measure.
Clubfoot appears in one of Wappo Jack’s two assigned 8190 square meter regions, namely the northern one. The second clear L of the northern hemisphere highlighted above is positioned just to the right of this, over in the 8190 assigned to Jesus of Nazareth, who can’t join us right now because he’s taking a nap.
Despite its size, the elected deities of Mystenopolis, those that remain conscious, have decided to focus only on one other aspect of The Supercontinent presently, or what we can call The Three Hearts. The 1st heart shape from left to right also appears to contain a line of degenerating forms below it, as if an animation of itself. I think here of The Grinch’s heart growing three times its former size in the animated Christmas classic The Grinch Who Stole Christmas from 1966, during a moral conversion. Or the creation of a true heart from a degenerated version. Too bad Jesus of Nazareth didn’t own this glyph, since he was born on Christmas day. Instead it falls just out of his region and into Wappo Jack’s.
Then the fulfilled heart itself, as we can call it, is mirrored into 2 other, similarly sized heart glyphs to the right here: A, B, C.
Heart C even contains what appears to be a smaller capital “L” within. Curious indeed.
Is this the endpoint of our investigation?
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Nautilus, Yd Island^
More Glyphs of The Measure
The Slash, another unique glyph of the sim.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Measure/220/94/1
The Slash with Double L’s in background.
The Forked Tongue.
The Flag.
The Slash, The Forked Tongue, The Flag (Double Squares in the background).
Combined perhaps, they point to the Forked or Swallowtail Flag?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallowtail_%28flag%29
Detail of Double Squares. They’re not exact duplicates of each other. Lisa V. speculates they might stand for Second Life sims.
The Double Triangles (upper) &
The Double Dots (lower).
The Double Triangles and The Double Dots are about the same distance and angle apart from each other, as emphasized by their closeness. The Double Triangles appear to be half-squares each. The Double Dots represent no dimension atall. So you can assign descending numeric value as follows:
Double Square: 1 + 1 = 2
Double Triangles: 1/2 + 1/2 = 1
Double Dots (or Double Periods): 0 + 0 = 0.
Relationship between Double Squares (top left corner) and Double Triangles/Double Dots (bottom left corner).
A) The Pony, B) The Nebulous Horsie, C) The Closed Coffin, D) The Open Coffin, E) The Double Squares.
The “head” of The Nebulous Horsie even appears to have an eye (!). One up on the namesake actual nebula, then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsehead_Nebula
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebulae_in_fiction#Horsehead_Nebula
“The Impossible Planet” and “The Satan Pit” (2006), episodes of the television series Doctor Who written by Matt Jones and directed by James Strong; “Planet of the Ood” (2008), episode written by Keith Temple and directed by Graeme Harper. In the first two episodes the Doctor is visiting a strange world orbiting a black hole, whose normally passive slave race, the Ood, have been psychically possessed by an evil entity imprisoned in the center of the planet: the Beast. In the end both Beast and maddened Ood fall into the singularity and perish. In the later episode, the Doctor visits the Ood homeworld, the Ood-Sphere (see graphic), and liberates the fundamentally decent race from a permanent state of servitude to the trafficking Ood Operations corporation. The Ood-Sphere is a barren, icy planet with vast mountains and caves, and with two moons and a greyish-pink Saturnlike planet in its heavens. The world lies in Mutter’s Spiral in the midst of the Horsehead Nebula, close to the Sense-Sphere. This planet is the home of the telepathic Sensorites, visited by the First Doctor in The Sensorites.[30]
Backing up a bit: The Face, next to the Double L’s.
The Face with possible “mouth” and “eye” highlighted. Toggle between the above photo to see the effect. The face stares with his small round eye and slanty mouth at the L’s, but the second larger L is possibly blocked by the first from his angle. More theories by Lisa V. She’s now convinced the L’s stand for Lemon and Lime (Labs), perhaps through several different ways even.
The larger L shape seems unique in The Measure. However, the smaller L is more or less repeated in at least 2 other locations on the sim’s sea floor.
First, this is the floor scene below the Double Triangles/Double Dots. Another dot is found here (left of sitting Baker Bloch), along with two dashes (upper left & center right) which might effectively be called “1/2 L’s” in the grand scheme of things (as each of the Double Triangles represent 1/2 Squares).
Several other, similar dashes are found in The Measure’s Eastern Hemisphere, 2 to my current counting. One lies approx. 20 meters directly east of the Double L’s themselves. There are other dot glyphs as well in the east.
The other glyph I should point out here is The Four in front of Baker Bloch. We’ll see it again too.
Then continuing to move down, we encounter the second “L” of the eastern hemisphere, about the same size as the smaller of the two making up the Double L’s above it…
… and stared at from the right by what could be taken as another prominent nosed face, larger in scale this time. The eye or eyes of the face are not as distinguished. He (or she) appears to be wearing a cap so I’ll just call the formation The Cap Dude (or Capped Dude). But actually if you look closely you can see not one but two of the same human-like eyes that appear on the Nebulous Horsie’s head. Can you make them out with your own two eyes?
I’ll highlight, then (enlarge to truly *see*).
The right one of the two can then be said to be worn on the wrist of Smoking Bear, the backside of Cap Dude and forming a duplicitous face. Pretty obvious name association, I feel. Looks quite like what it says it is.
Relationship to famed firefighter Smokey the Bear? An evil twin?
Wrist eye of evil Alex from Clockwork Orange.
Walking duplex faced Smoking Bear/Cap Dude, forming a whole glyph continent unto itself. Appears to be strolling away from the “L” while taking a backwards glance at the same time.
6/24/15 update: Hucka D. has stated a desire to call this formation “Clubfoot”, because of the shape of its feet. Lisa V. and Wappo Jack have agreed to the term.
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Measuring The Measure 01
The elected deities of Mystenopolis have divided up The Measure into 8 parts of 8190 square meters each for further analysis and probing. 1st place vote getter Lisa the Vegetarian receives the plum southeast region with the landmark glyph called The Question Mark…
Measure 01 (Southern & Eastern Hemisphere)
…as well as the Double L’s and more. She has a lot of work ahead of her.
Measure 02 (Southern & Eastern Hemisphere)
Runner up vote procurer Wappo Jack then selects the northeast region with some additional interesting glyphs.
Measure 03 (Northern & Eastern Hemisphere)
Measure 04 (Northern & Eastern Hemisphere)
2nd runner up Jesus of Nazareth takes the northwest region with lots of glyphs, if most less distinct than in the eastern hemisphere inherited by Lisa V. and W. Jack.
Measure 05 (Northern & Western Hemisphere)
Measure 06 (Northern & Western Hemisphere)
And then last place “winner” Piet Mond is stuck with the much more vacant southeast quadrant. Oh well, he can help out neighboring Lisa the Vegetarian figure out stuff in her much more interesting region if needed.
Measure 07 (Southern & Western Hemisphere)
Measure 08 (Southern & Western Hemisphere)
The 4 deities take the yellow submarine to The Measure for a closer look at their winnings. At the sight of the Double L glyph, Lisa V. begins to cry in joy and astonishment as Wappo Jack continues to sneeze and Jesus of Nazareth stifles another yawn and Piet Mond stares blankly at the walls and ceiling. It’s clear who the true Lleader is here.
Offering.
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Nautilus Seas 02
Baker Bloch teleported into a heart shaped glyph in The Measure sim. Strongly reminds him of visiting a very similar phenomenon in Okinu, before its remodeling into a non-glyph producing sim sometime between November 2009 and September 2010. After that Okinu and The Measure parted ways, with the latter taking the baton from the former, seemingly.
The various brown continents of The Measure, as I’ll dub them. This is the whole sim as seen through transparent water, although the resolution is low for the glyphs themselves at this altitude.
Zoom in to the sea floor and we can start to see what all the excitement could be about. Baker Bloch found a new glyph this day, which was quickly and logically dubbed The Question Mark. The dot of the punctuation mark is a little off to the right, but the effect seems obvious still. This punctuation point lies at exactly 240/52/1 within the sim, or 52 meters down from the upper boundary and 16 meters east of the western border. Put in other words, the point lies exactly 1/16th the way across the east-west expansion of the square 256 meter wide sim, and 13/64th down the sim measuring south to north..
Wow, I forgot Baker Bloch found a question mark shaped glyph in Okinu, November 2009. The new one, complete with a dot, is even more convincing, however. Go and see it for yourself!
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Measure/240/52/1
Moreover, Okinu backwards spells Uniko, very similar to Unicode, “a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world’s writing systems,” and containing over 120, 000 characters presently. The question mark is represented in Unicode by the code point U+003F, and the capital letter “L” as code point U+004C.
A nearby phenomenon I call the “Double L”. Again, this same thing was found in Okinu, and, again, the new effect is more convincing. Baker Bloch interpreted the Okinu “Double L”as a possible psychic pointer to “Linden Labs”, the creators of Second Life itself. But now I think another layer might be added to this. I believe it could actually stand for opposing Lemon Lab and Lime Lab, both traditionally and historically strong in this region of Nautilus. More on that soon, then.
SLURL:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Measure/233/79/1
The Question Mark, The Double L, and another formation I’ve named The Double Squares (lower center) in one overhead shot.
The Double Squares.
This photo highlights the contrast between the sharp, geometric glyphs within The Measure to the south, and the fuzzier, blurred glyphs of Donuhue to the north.
Indeed, it seems that The Measure is unique among sims of the area in this respect, although all except the 10 central ones added later on to highlight The Leviathan Skeleton (discussed previously) have the same basic type and color of patterns.
Many more interesting pockets of underwater creativity are found within Linden protected Nautilus continent seas. But The Measure seems measurably special still.
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“The Measure of a Metaverse”:
http://metaversing.com/2014/03/31/the-measure-of-a-metaverse/
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Sunklands 
