Sunklands

December 7, 2014 · 9:05 am

map sinking feeling 03

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Rocks

The song was covered in 1997 by The Presidents of the United States of America as the opening theme of the television program The Drew Carey Show, a situation comedy set in Cleveland. It accompanied a lavish opening sequence in which the cast lip-synced the song while performing elaborate choreography. The band covered the entire song, but only part of it was used for the Drew Carey theme. At the beginning of the recording, Drew Carey (a native of Cleveland) can be heard saying “Hey!” and then laughing, and at the end shouting “Ohio!” to an echoing effect. The latter soundbite appears in both the theme song and the full-length version of the song, and is a direct remake of the original, which has a similar “Ohio!” soundbyte at the end. The song is a track on the album Cleveland Rocks! Music From The Drew Carey Show as well as on the band’s compilation Pure Frosting. This version is traditionally played after a home win for either the Cleveland Indians or Cleveland Cavaliers.[citation needed]

Hunter’s original version would later open a Drew Carey “mistakes” episode.

http://www.cleveland.com/pdq/index.ssf/2012/11/90-second-know-it-all_8_us_pre.html

As we close in on Election Day in a race that may well be decided right here in Ohio, are you aware that no fewer than eight of America’s presidents have been Ohioans themselves? The only other state that can claim that many presidents is Virginia, and Virginia and Ohio like to bicker back and forth over which one owns the nickname, “The Mother of Presidents.”

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December 4, 2014 · 3:25 pm

In this post from last December, I contemplate that Rubi and VWX Town may be a final virtual home in Second Life. However, in order to make it so, I’d have to trim down the burg from a 16896 (too much tier to pay) to an 8704 (next tier down, and borderline manageable in terms of payment). It didn’t work out then, but, guess what, I now have an 8704, *and* a virtual city next to the Rubi Forest again. Then is *this* my final resting spot in Second Life? It could be so. Probably not given my track record, but we’ll just have to see.

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2013/12/10/final-virtual-home/

At the time, I divided VWX Town into Indulgence (8192 sq meters) and Essence (8704), with the idea that Essence would be spared during the tier gear down. But I ended up selling the whole 16896. If I had stayed in Rubi I wouldn’t have gotten a last chance to live in Noru and explore the remaining ties to Jeogeot mythology. So I believe it’s fate. And it’s probably fate I move again, like I said. But…

We’ll see.

—–

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December 4, 2014 · 2:57 pm

Researching…

… my most recent, full involvement in Rubi area (VWX Town of last winter) and am at point where I get heavy duty into the Rubi Forest, quickly uncovering a seemingly direct relation between the forest and what’s called the Lucas sequence, which is closely allied to the more famous Fibonacci series.

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2013/12/10/rubi-treesgolden-mean/

Article on Lucas. Unusual death to note again, like I’ve chronicled before on this blog in places (Anderson, Harding, et al.).

http://milan.milanovic.org/math/english/lucas/lucas.html

Besides uncovering the Lucas numbers, Lucas (under the interesting anagram of Claus) is credited with the Tower of Hanoi puzzle. This tower is also called the Lucas Tower or the Sagefool Stacks. It’s used as an intelligence test near the beginning of the Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise_of_the_Planet_of_the_Apes

The sequel is suppose to be even better, and just released this past summer and available on DVD at the end of December.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_of_the_Planet_of_the_Apes

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December 4, 2014 · 7:03 am

Developing 01

What’s not in new Collagesity (Minoa) that was in old or original Collagesity (Noru):

Noru Museum:
Lots of prims involved, and obviously not as apropos in Minoa as it was in Noru. May set up a Rubi Museum, however, like this same structure housed in, well, Rubi’s VWX Town this past winter. Rubi has a history too, just as substantial, probably, as my involvement with Noru.

Tired Falls:
Not a structure, but a missing element for sure. I hated to give up that waterfall. Can’t find a place on the new property for it. However, the focus on the new property is obviously the Rubi Forest itself. Which reminds me…

… to complement this…

Lucky’s Magic Village (Old Rubi Museum, VWX Town)

Back to the survey…

Toxic Art Gallery:
I’ve chose not to rez this admittedly prim saving gallery holding 80 of the 100 collages of the Art 10×10, still my most important collage work overall, I feel. Perhaps. But Falmouth and Power Tower and now the Sam Parr State College Admin Building hold newer and perhaps more pertinent collages and it seemed time to move on. Actually, this was derezzed in Noru before I decided to move.

X Spot Gallery (top, main part):
This was not filled out in Noru, but represented a really nifty way to bridge the Kidd Tower, Power Tower, and Falmouth galleries in a low skybox. Also will be missed. Could theoretically still hold the Jeogeot Through Art and Word exhibit. But that’s more connected to Noru as well since Noru is part of the Jeogeot continent.

So what’s in new Collagesity, conversely, that wasn’t in the old Noru version?

SoSo Gallery:
Containing the Oblong series of the Art 10×10, perhaps the most important series within it and most cohesive. 20 collages in the series (out of 100 total in the Art 10×10). Nice addition to the town beyond Noru.

Home o’ Fibs:
Another structure that wasn’t in Noru but is in Minoa. Nice view from the porch into the meat of the town.

House of Truth:
Was in Minoa until a couple of days ago. May return.

So 1 more way Camp Ruby pops up in a list of pop places (through variant names):

Mostly familiar counties there: Duplin, Dallas, Patrick.

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Conclusion for now:

Minoa Collagesity still needs an identity. Sam Parr State College seems stronger within (they’ve claimed the SoSo Gallery, the Kidd Tower, the Bodega Supermarket, and the lower building of the X Spot Gallery (!)), so that’s a core to build from. Sam Parr St. College, I feel, is a virtual life complement to Woodrow Wilson College in Ashville. Both border protected forests. That’s a link that can be furthered as well, probably starting with Bracket Jupiter and his proposed Spring Semester course on the continent of Corsica. Cool idea. Required reading will be the Baker Blinker Blog’s posts on the subject, collected in one work.

One possibility for a t-shirt selling on campus, then:

Charity-Tin City, NC

Charity-Tin Town, MO

Christmas gathering in Central Square

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December 3, 2014 · 1:51 pm

“Eye of Rye…

…is close enough to Video, Greene County in this original Corsica-Pennsylvania overlap that we can latch on to the association. Eye of Rye is Video. Media, Pennsyvania may stand for Audio (missing in GNIRPS) or perhaps audio and video together to make sync. We know from old Corsica material, Bracket, that Chasm Deep represents the ear of the overall elephant[ in the room], as Eye of Rye originally stands for the eye before it is weakened as it were…

Bracket Jupiter:

… as it is… (smiles)

bb:

… and move to the more correctly placed Egg Hill sink overlapped with Centre County, Penn.

Bracket:

That’s the eye of course. Have you realized I teach at WW, starting in the Spring?

bb:

But it’s really Sam Parr State College. And you teach the political history of Second Life mainland, not the actual, real world.

Bracket:

Correctomundo!

bb:

That’s why we’re boning up!

Bracket:

Thank you once again. I enjoyed our time together as teacher and pupil. I hope I taught you well. Now you can teach me.

bb:

It’s ultimately subconscious, though.

Bracket:

Okay.

bb:

But thank you. It’s a brilliant move. We work together again at least on a subconscious level. And through us the other teacher. The one who I didn’t get to know. In-between is Green. We are in Winona County, Wisconsin[ as well], starting at the red and also blue Rollingstone covers at Winona itself… herself, and attempting to see Green again behind. 1 eye. Illuminati obviously.

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bb:

Media would be on the opposite side of the Pennsylvania-Corsica melding, at the place I first visited on the continent, Bracket. That could be important as well. Here’s the related link:

edge of the world

That’s the first post on Corsica I created, btw. Alpha.

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bb;

When you flip Pennsylvania around underneath the Corsica outline, Media almost exactly replaces Video, and then you have Eye of Rye following the circle of the upper part of Delaware state itself, which Delaware County, Penn. is just above.

Bracket:

Well… tell me more about Greene County and your real life family, baker b.

bb:

Coded into this is father, sister, brother. Father is corner sync. Ned Ryerson from Groundhog Day. It’s pretty obvious.

Bracket:

Yes, that’s cool. You already told me about it in[ the briefing].

bb:

Sister as well. Sister use to own property in Nebo. That’s where that name comes from. 32 acres. And Nebo is the same as Video. Time is nearby also, like in Illinois.

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bb:

And of course you have Corsica as a town within Pennsylvania, just below Forest County and in the same county as Punxsutawney.

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Bracket:

Microcosm, yes.

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December 3, 2014 · 1:30 pm

UMapS/GNIRPS 01

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2014/09/16/19298/

bb:

Who else has enrolled? I guess we should end this surrealism soon.

Hucka D.:

Dumbgo the Insignificant. He’s probably the worst of the bunch. Patty Pepper Mint herself has enrolled for a jewelry class.

bb:

I believe that one got cancelled.

Hucka D.:

Oh right. A shame. Story Room themselves will teach the class called “Composing with the colors red, yellow, blue”. That should be exciting.

bb:

Kind of a Piet Mondrian effect, then.

Hucka D.:

Pietmond?

bb:

Umm…

Hucka D.:

Who else? The B. R. Cyrus twins Idaho Oker and Ohiowa Oming. Oh, and Fredrika Mercurious, the famous dump truck driver. And Pletiosaurus Rex. I believe that might be it.

bb:

Thank you, Hucka D. Good night, and we’ll get to those collage interpretations soon.

So Sam Parr State College is all set up again, Hucka D. We know that Ohiowa Oming is Winona Ryder. Don’t we?

Hucka D.:

She is…

bb:

Then she is.

Hucka D.:

Yeah.

bb:

Lost in the cane forest.

Hucka D.:

“Composing with the colors red, yellow, blue” by Story Room is actually the first 3 stories of Winesap, baker b. Ohiowa may take that class. Actually as I think of it, it’s required.

bb:

We should probably talk of UMapS in general. Or are we calling that GNIRPS now?

Hucka D.:

Let’s talk of Collagesity[ first].

bb:

Okay.

[delete 3 minutes]

Hucka D.:

… last chance.

bb:

I realize that, Hucka D. I’ve lived around this forest 5 or 6 times now. Need to look at the big picture. I’ve traced enough of a hypercube, as it were…

Hucka D.:

… as it is…

bb:

To make a stab.

Hucka D.:

The forest is a computer.

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December 1, 2014 · 10:35 am

Murdock01

“Mr. Murdock: Why do you contain islands?”

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December 1, 2014 · 9:41 am

coming along…

Collagesity, Rubi Forest style, is getting in shape. I’ve now successfully re-established both the Falmouth and Power Tower galleries containing the vast bulk of my newer collages. Cool… but I don’t relish the thought of moving the things again (!) Falmouth and Power Tower divide urban from suburban in the town, with the latter less finished than the former. I need to start thinking about a new town philosophy. If you count a caddycorner relationship, this is the *sixth* time I’ve owned land bordering the Rubi Forest down through the years now, and in all four cardinal directions as well. I’ll have to make a map sometime of the ownership history. I’ve never owned in Minoa, the sim I inhabit now, which makes it a new chapter of sorts. My new land also borders the opposite corner of the forest from the property I held in Hector earlier this year. They probably act as some kind of balance for each other.

I’ll make a town map soon. The downtown area in the southern part appears to be a step up in energy for Collagesity from Noru even, better integrating Sam Parr State College with several former exterior elements, like the Kidd Tower, Bodega Market, SoSo gallery, and X Spot Gallery. As stated before, President Karoz is now super excited after a bout of trepidation over the move.

Hmm. There actually is a village called Minoa in New York, the only one with that root name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoa,_New_York

I’ll have to think about possible links with the newest version of Collagesity in the Minoa sim.

This may be *it* — my final Second Life move. I’m very, very pleased with the outcome of the admittedly quite sudden uprooting. It helped a heck of a lot that I abandoned my Noru land and thus was able to gradually move a lot of the components over to Minoa before their derezzing (which still hasn’t happened in bulk). Although the Power Tower and Falmouth galleries were set up there as well, Hector never developed into a true town, like Collagesity in Noru did. Minoa successfully continues this incorporation. Another plus is the close proximity of the already established TILE Tower still in Rubi, along with a small bar there. Funtastic.

Here’s an exciting prospect as well. Even when I fit out the remaining buildings I might have upwards of 650 prims to still play around with in a skybox situation. I didn’t resurrect the Noru Museum, and I think that saved about 150 prims right there. On the other hand, the two Victorian houses I currently have in Collagesity didn’t appear in Noru. A happy conundrum, though (!)

“Power Tower and Falmouth: Done!”

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December 1, 2014 · 1:47 am

map sinking feeling 02

Wyoming in Iowa County in Wisconsin, a unique location because of the 3 different state names it highlights, is certainly also highlighted by this place, called “[Frank Lloyd] Wright’s architectural self portrait.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliesin_%28studio%29

Traveling down another arm that is the octopus of this map series, I noted that The Arches in Winona County, Minnesota (the Gopher state) is an anagram of Teachers, and Teacher is a story in Winesap highlighted by other maps. I think it partially refers to the teachers of James Franco, who has famously returned to not one but several schools to study and earn degrees at recently. One has already been pictured in the blog, and it is coded into Winona County as well.

A logical deduction would have it that The Arches, in Warren township next to a Wilson township, may refer to a teacher or perhaps multiple teachers of that school. Coincidentally, about a month ago I started corresponding again with an old boss who may be teaching at this very college during spring semester. Is this the teacher referred to? If not, it still seems to fit in somewhere. And what about the only other population place in this Warren township: Wyattsville? Is this the name of a teacher as well? The colorful, hand drawn map of Winona County jokingly associates this town with Wyatt Earp, although there appears to be no other direct connection outside the names themselves. But we’ve also previously noted that Wyatt was born in a Warren County (Illinois) and also had a younger brother named Warren with whom he shared many of his wild west adventures.

Teachers? (Probably.)

If so, it means another red-blue focusing (see Winona-Rollingstone below), and a gateway to the future *beyond* any need for such teachers. I will be free but on my own. It will be good. Red-blue, then Beyond Green. I think it has to do with friendship as well (Jenifer Anniston). I cannot be friends with my teachers, can I? I was taught to create procedures for what I do (work). That it?

So it was important enough to make this map sync, hmm.

Maybe Media, Pennsylvania is an important key. Audiovisual synchs, after all, involve protection of the attached audio and visual media. Maybe this is a meeting place, a middle town.

Video:

Audio (none):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media,_Pennsylvania

Media and the FBI

Media may be best known for secret government documents that were illegally seized there by activists in 1971 and distributed nationwide. On March 8 of that year, the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI raided an FBI “resident agency” in Media. They later released thousands of documents to major newspapers [the *media*] around the country. These documents revealed controversial and illegal FBI tactics, like the recruitment of Boy Scouts as informants, and confirmed for the first time the existence of COINTELPRO, an FBI program to “expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize” dissident groups in the United States.[13]

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November 28, 2014 · 5:10 pm