LoB faithful Billbarian Johanan Rakkav created this most interesting Billverse topography of the land of Terragard (home and birthplace of Bill).
In Johanan’s words: “A proposed (if rather cerebral) guest strip… I created it by playing with various strips and graphics already extant so as the scaling would work out correctly. Adding labels to the various lands pictured is possible, but it will be time-consuming… would this be enough “as is” for people to get the point?”
Johanan, we love your devotion and thought process. Thank you!
**UPDATE: Johanan so kindly sent this, a complete topography map of the entire Kingdom. THANK YOU, Johanan! I added it here so as to alert those on this post and for greater visibility. We love it! Oh, I LOVE it when you all interact with the Billverse in such ways.
This makes me happy. – David




Mars?
Where is Cydonia?
I almost used a map of Mars but thought that would be too obvious. No, this is merely a graphic manipulation of part of David’s hand-drawn map of the region.
Quelle choc! I never thought THIS would see the light of day, let alone with your appreciation and blessing. THANK YOU!
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I made it to scale with one of the usual strips, pixel for pixel. If clicking on it doesn’t enlarge it enough, try other options.
Alternatively, I could send a new and (hopefully labeled) larger version some time down the pipe.
thanx. for the info
You bet, Johanan! I’d personally love to see it labeled eventually.
If my time and health permit, you shall – now that I know you’d like to see such a thing. And it will be full-scale, derived from your whole map. (Provided, of course, I can reconstruct how I came up with the original silly topography in the first place.
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@DAVID: Ye Olde Labeled Topographical Mappe is now up on your Facebook Page!
Could you please be so kind to post it here too? For the few who aren’t member at facebook (They exist really!).
Your wish was David’s command!
There are limits to what one can do by simply running David’s original hand-drawn map through the Topography tool on PSP 7 – a lot of stuff simply won’t match up with his original intent with regard to geographical features – but this will do until something better comes along!
You are in good company. Most computer and technology people are not on social networking sites because of the incredible security risks. (Go to a news website, type in facebook and security breach and you will get thousands of articles.) While a nice idea, the internet is inherently unsecure and cannot be made secure.
Speaking of Facebook; it’s about 25 miles from where I’m typing this. With a billion members, I’m waiting for some terrorist group to get the stupid idea to take it down. Imagine the shrieking of the addicts to Facebook if the power lines were cut? AIYIEEEEE! I can’t update my page! AAARRRGGH!
Thanks for making that inherently insecure suggestion, King Nebby.
When Facebook is taken down simply because someone can, we’ll all blame YOU for suggesting the idea to him!
Seriously, the simple truth (indeed a maxim of the computer industry, one way or the other) is that the easier a product is to use, the more easily it can be compromised. I shrug, acknowledge that these “latter days” are filled with “inventors of evil things”, and go on using what I need to use until someone decides to prevent people from using it. If the human element isn’t dealt with then no technical safeguard can prevent it from working.
I agree. Unfortunately, when people began to abandon morality like “don’t steal” “love your neighbor” etc, in the 1960s across the West, it has become a schitzophrenia between those who love evil and seek to do it, vs. those of us who want to freedom to do good. The schism today is much greater than that of 1860, in that then it was a single evil that was the major issue. Today, it’s those who want to do multiple kinds of selfish evil, and those who want to do good.
Tools are exactly that: tools. Neither good nor evil.
Nuclear power is a very useful tool. It’s the only completely clean source of power that we have. (Or would be, if Carter hadn’t killed reprocessing of the waste and no Congress since restarting the program.) Put nuclear power in the hands of a socialist, a terrorist, or an environmentalist, and it’s a weapon.
Same with a computer. (That 17 state blackout a few years ago, followed by the London blackout the next month comes to mind.) Computers can aid in work and commerce, but they can also wreck work and commerce.
I’ve been tempted to open up a social networking page, but with the sites selling information and otherwise being unsecure, I’ve resisted the urge.
I did make the mistake of signing up for “My Outer Space” some years back. I immediately realized I’d make a mistake and since I couldn’t cancel it, just never went back to the page. After this long, hopefully, they’ve closed it…
@DAVID: I’m glad you’re happy, because otherwise I can’t draw to save my life.
Thank you for posting both strips!