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.
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.
To medieval astrologers, Aldebaran was one of fifteen Behenian stars, associated with rubies, milk thistles and the kabbalistic sign Aldaboram (Agripa 1531).svg.
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.
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.
“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?
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.
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.
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”.
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.
Bracket and the family still have House Greenup in Asha as well.
Pretty strange: I took several hours to carefully count the number and types of trees in the Rubi Woods using an 8×5 grid method, and came up with the following sums. The total number of trees in the woods, counting those bordering Robin Lane in extreme north Rubi, is 199.
These include 123 eucalyptus trees…
… and 76 cypress trees of both green (larger) and brown (smaller) variety.
The amazing part came when I started dividing the total and subtotals to compare percentages. A number very close to the golden mean kept coming up….
199/123 = 1.617886178861789
123/76 = 1.618421052631579
… or the golden mean +1 in this case:
199/76 = 2.618421052631579
What I soon found out is that I’d somehow stumbled upon a succession of what’s called Lucas numbers or Lucas series, closely related to the more famous Fibbonaci series.
“The easiest way to really get down and dirty in a study of the 8×5 forest, Hucka D., is to divide it into 40 sections of 32×32 square meters each. This may have been how The Ancients studied the forest as well.”
Hucka D.:
Yes. 8×5.
bb:
You’ve indicated The Notch feature. Can you speak of other features now?
Hucka D.:
The Big Dipper, the Little Dipper. The forest is the sky.
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bb:
In order to balance out VWX Town, I must coordinate it with the forest, the woods.
1st Floor: Gila series of Gilatona-Lis. And the rocket launcher.
3rd floor: Lis series. 2nd floor we skipped contains the Latona series.
And then looking down from the 5th floor to the 4th and the exposed Falmouth series, the capping “4 collages in 1 collage” work of Gilatona-Lis. Funtastic.
There’s even a 6th floor to the structure, a type of attic. As mentioned previously there’s some room for new collages above and beyond Gilatona-Lis, unlike its old home, the Power Tower Gowlery. And also we have it combined with that oh so cool rocket launcher. Have you been to VWX Town’s Moon yet? You should go dear reader or readers.
Whee!
Carrcassonne gives a big thumb’s up to the Fal Mouth Moon. Well, a big arm’s up, since she has no thumbs. Or hands.
Overhead shot of the 5/8ths sim sized Rubi Forest, a protected Linden Lab property. There are 3 types of trees within the forest: eucalyptuses, brown cypresses and green cypresses, with the brown cypresses normal larger than the green ones. In the below photo, the 3 types of trees can rather clearly be discerned from each other, esp the 2 variations of cypresses. The eucalyptus trees, larger than the green cypresses even, are a little harder to pinpoint in this snapshot, since their foliage is both closer to the color of the ground and spread out a bit more.
There are several varieties of “twinned” trees in the forest, this example being a merger of a eucalyptus and a green cypress. I believe this occurs in the north central part of the forest, not far from Robin Loop running parallel to its entire upper border.
This is a fusion of eucalyptus and brown cypress, closer to VWX Town and the woods’ southern limit.
Intertwined branches of same.
Hucka D. has indicated to me that this is a forest feature called The Notch, made up of 6 brown cypresses sprouting in a “V” shape in its southwest area. The Notch can be clearly seen in the overhead photo above. Hucka D. has also recently indicated to me that other forest features have been named in the past but haven’t been revealed to me yet. All in good time, he recites.
Looking into The Notch from the west.
Uprooted tree, with only the barest of a point touching the ground, even. There may be examples of totally uprooted or “floating” trees in the forest as well — hafta check soon. I’d also like to talk about the grass in the forest shortly.
Eucalpytus trees. These 1 prim linden trees are a remarkable product. All the linden trees and plants have their merit, and of course you run across them all over the place inworld. Not as much as you should in my humble opinion but they can be called ubiquitous still.
Baker Bloch thinks a path may have laterally run through the center of the forest at one time, judging by the green, open area he’s standing in below. Personally I’m not convinced of this.
Baker also likes to often reduce his viewing range while within the forest to make it appear larger and also more misty and mysterious seeming.
