Lindens! Unlock the mystery of SL!

good thought mac

Omega... hmm... another retired one, the only reference to it that I know of is through LSL, and through a statistics/probility class Im taking, which references 'omega' as the universal set of outcomes to an event.

llTargetOmega() - Since this rotates completey around, could it mean target Infinity? Target point at infinite axis? Who knows?

-Chris (Another Omega! Mwahaha!)

It's the last greek alphabet letter.
It means "the end or end of a time/string/series."?
It's also the name of a certain cluster of fatty acids.
Personally I think Omega is a great name.
Crow

I suck at biology but are you thinking of amino, not omega?

Omega 3 fatty acids

Interesting.

Well, I took a look around for what seemed to be the likely origin of the now-retired Yamamoto name. I didn't think it came from the Japanese Admiral - Isoroku Yamamoto - who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor. It may have come from the Yamamoto motorcycle company, or from many fine artists and musicians with that last name. There is even a fine photographer - Masao Yamamoto - in San Francisco.

However, my bet is going to be on Shinji S Yamamoto, a San Francisco-based artist who has made some truely breathtaking CG landscapes. I hope, someday, to have that level of landscape art available to us inside Second Life

I adopted two male cats about 7 years ago and named them romulus and remus. I used the name romulus spelled backward in another 3d chat environment and was so pleased to see romulus listed!! Omen from the linden gods?!? hummm..
Anyways...thats how I decided on SuluMor Romulus

Protagonist of course from the book Snow Crash, which is the single reason that I signed up to be a part of this world.

And Yamamoto I believe is a nod to an inovator in the area of user agents and MRA, again taking from something a long the lines of the librarian in Snow Crash.

-Jon Protagonist

Many of the last names were created when we first started the "name design" document. We all agreed that there is something very powerful about a name, and that people choose them carefully (most people anyway) as they have a certain affinity or attachment to certain words.

Protagonist is obviously take from Stephenson, but its also a great word. Cellardoor was once the wnning entry of the most beautiful "sounding" english word contest. (Second place in the contest was butterfly)

Most of the others were random names that we thought would have meaning to most people. We chose names that have meaning to us, fantasy book readers, sci-fi afficianados, tech heads, painters, philosophers, artists, musicians, free-thinkers, weirdos, strange people, strict conservatives, staunch liberals, militant middle-of-the-roaders, and about anyone else who Second Life might appeal to.


BTW, we do "retire" names after 150 people select them. So, you should only see 150 other people with the same last name as yours.

-P

Peter is lying... the truth is that we keep a 350 year old man alive via cryogenics in the cellar beneath our offices. Largely motionless, every so often he mutters a single, almost unintelligible word. If we can understand it, it becomes a last name.

LOL...

You're gonna get me in trouble if you make me laugh out loud anymore at work...jeez!!!

Peter and Hunter are both waaaay off the mark. All of the names come from members of the 1980 Minot High School debate team (Noth Dakota state champions!).

Any literary connections are, clearly, imagined. The significance of the 1980 MHS debate squad, however, must remain a mystery....

See?!

Now yer talkin!!

There was a Chang in North Dakota?

It is also worth noting in addition to Peter Linden's general comment that some of the names have meaning as a group. For example, "Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" is one of the seminal books on Artificial Intelligence by Douglas Hofstadter.

I chose "Zeeman" because having the simple name "Dave" seemed special to me (not knowing at the time that there could be Daves in all other last names) and so I thought it'd be cool being called "Dave Zeeman" because.. you know...

"There goes Dave... Zee man!"

French people calling me "The Man"

.... ok


About the Cellardoor thing, I remember that being named most beautiful sounding word, that was like what, a year ago? Crazy stuff but I like the association to donnie darko better


Finally, in that long list, where exactly do I fit... wanting to be the man and all
Probably somewhere between weirdo and strange people.

Unforunately, it was the end of an era for the Magicians. While the old banner still hangs high in the gym, they fell the next year to Jamestown, and the eastern conference has remained dominant since.

And minot is home to an airforce base, so Changs, Cellerdoors, and Omega's get along there on top of the missile silos.

For more history on minot high go here , complete with midi score!

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and as if you needed MORE proof - check ou tthis convincing connection between Minot High and the book "Snow Crash"

link

I cannot believe that you acctually found a Miniot Hight School... I'm sorry I thought that was completely made up. Well with that I need to go rethink my life.

Hah, nice. I mean what are the odds..

And for those who don't get the reference..

The MetaCop's partner climbs out of the back seat of the Mobile Unit. The window of the back door is open, but everything on the Mobile Unit is so black and shiny you can't tell that until the door moves. Both MetaCops, under their glossy black helmets and night-vision goggles, are grinning. The one getting out of the Mobile Unit is carrying a Short-Range Chemical Restraint Projector-a loogie gun. Their little plan has worked. Y.T. didn't think to aim her Knight Visions into the back seat to check for a goo-firing sniper.
The loogie, when expanded into the air like this, is about the size of a football. Miles and milcs of eensy but strong fibers, like spaghetti. The sauce on the spaghetti is sticky, goopy stuff that Stays fluid for an instant, when the loogie gun is fired, then sets quickly.
MetaCops have to tote this kind of gear because when each franchulate is so small, you can't be chasing people around. The perp-almost always an innocent thrasher-is always a three-second skateboard ride away from asylum in the neighboring franchulate. Also, the incredible bulk of the Personal Modular Equipment Harness-the chandelier o' gear-and all that is clipped onto it slows them down so bad that whenever they try to run, people just start laughing at them. So instead of losing some pounds, they just clip more stuff onto their harnesses, like the loogie gun.
The snotty, fibrous drop of stuff has wrapped all the way around her hand and forearm and lashed them onto the bar of the gate. Excess goo has sagged and run down the bar a short ways, but is setting now, turning into rubber. A few loose strands have also whipped forward and gained footholds on her shoulder, chest, and lower face. She backs away and the adhesive separates from the fibers, stretching out into long, infinitely thin strands, like hot mozzarella. These set instantly, become solid, and then break, curling away like smoke. it is not quite so grotendous, now that the loogie is off her face, but her hand is still perfectly immobilized.

-Snow Crash, Stephenson

It almost startling when you begin to realize the amount of influence that Minot -- "Magic City" -- has had on Second Life and, indeed, world events in general.

A conspiracy theorist might be tempted to draw some connection between Minot, Missle Silos, Second Life, and the Illuminati -- but that's just nonsense. Do you hear me? NONSENSE.

Do not connect the dots. Under no circumstances should anyone connect the dots.

The Illuminati? Wasn't the logo of the Pentagon's Total Information Awareness project the pyramid with the eye on top - beaming down all "Information is Power"? A well-known Illuminati symbol?

There's no connection from here to Admiral Poindexter, is there?

<shudder>

What, you don't think there's a direct relationship between the "eye on the pyramid" and the "eye in the hand"??

Daniel Linden:


Dots are meant to be connected, that is the reason for dots existence. Buhbuhcuh is doing a good job of connecting those elusive little buggers.