[3v1L Schwinn]

I doubt it means anything significant but...
Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus): The scene is depicted in front of the bay of Port Lligat. Which is a small island off the coast of Spain. Also being Dali's home town. I cant see how that would play into this but I figured I would throw it out.

[Yo-L]

classical wrote:

Grady Martin wrote: ...and the brightman oracle blog doesn't have the tiger photo Aw, damnit, my bad--the US Oracle blog, rather. >_> They all look the same in my feed reader. It was, however, posted under Bernard's name.

The tiger image was at the Portking blog actually? Posted by "A.D."
The Blog is now titled " . "

Before the tiger, there was another post by A.D.:

Quote:

1. No human beings will be harmed. 2. No laws will be broken. 3. We are in control. 4. You are safe.

That's kind of reassuring. Are they trying to get some message across with this and the Risk poem? 'Do not fear dear players, and take risks.'

[Grady Martin]

christ on a hypercube

[Grady Martin]

@catherwood - thanks - i know that - that's how i found i was using unicode

[classical]

Grady Martin wrote:

...and the brightman oracle blog doesn't have the tiger photo

Aw, damnit, my bad--the US Oracle blog, rather. >_> They all look the same in my feed reader. It was, however, posted under Bernard's name.

[catherwood]

Grady Martin wrote:

encoding glitch or code?

If you are using Firefox, check the following menu selection:
View -> Character Encoding -> Unicode / Western
With Western, the page loads fine; with Unicode selected, I can recreate your "error". This is neither a glitch nor a code, just your local settings.

[Grady Martin]

@catherwood i get the question marks with unicode utf-8

[Grady Martin]

encoding glitch or code?

[catherwood]

Grady Martin wrote:

brianbricker.com is now sporting lots of � wingdings

On any page in particular? I clicked every link and I see all legible English text. Perhaps your browser was reset to another language setting?

Tempestdevil wrote:

TTHSK informed us in IRC that oraclewatch.org has been updated with a picture of a painting by Salvador Dali. There's some javascript for an image swap, trying to figure out if it's used for anything now. Usually image swaps are for rollovers.

I only see templated scripts, like someone is using Macromedia to built their website but is not optimizing the code at all. The intent is to preload images before the page loads, to prevent lag or a broken image box; yes, it is commonly done to allow rollovers to swap smoothly, but in this case he's preloading only a single image (as far as I can see).

Does no one write html by hand anymore?

[Tempestdevil]

TTHSK informed us in IRC that oraclewatch.org has been updated with a picture of a painting by Salvador Dali.

There's some javascript for an image swap, trying to figure out if it's used for anything now. Usually image swaps are for rollovers.

[Grady Martin]

brianbricker.com is now sporting lots of � wingdings

[Grady Martin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwbBxxML6iM
"Locomotive Breath"

In the shuffling madness
Of the locomotive breath,
Runs the all-time loser,
Headlong to his death.
He feels the piston scraping --
Steam breaking on his brow --
Thank God, he stole the handle and
The train won't stop going --
No way to slow down.
He sees his children jumping off
At the stations -- one by one.
His woman and his best friend --
In bed and having fun.
He's crawling down the corridor
On his hands and knees --
Old Charlie stole the handle and
The train won't stop going --
No way to slow down.
He hears the silence howling --
Catches angels as they fall.
And the all-time winner
Has got him by the balls.
He picks up Gideon's Bible --
Open at page one --
God stole the handle and
The train won't stop going --
No way to slow down.

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http://www.appleseeds.org/to-risk_WAW.htm

the poem as posted at hazeltine is missing a few lines at the end:

The pessimist complains about the wind;

The optimist expects it to change;

And the realist adjusts the sails."

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...and the brightman oracle blog doesn't have the tiger photo

[3v1L Schwinn]

classical wrote:

The Brightman Oracle blog has been updated with the attached image, whereas the Hazeltine blog has been updated with this poem by a "Charlie". Upon further research, it's a poem called "Risk" by an unknown author. Huh. Quote: To laugh is to risk appearing the fool To weep is to risk appearing sentimental To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self To reach out to another is to risk involvement To place your ideas, your dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss To love is to risk not being loved in return To live is to risk dying To hope is to risk despair To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, and is nothing. They may avoid suffering and sorrow but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live. Chained in by their attitudes, they are a slave, they have forfeited their freedom Only the person who risks is free. The blog has been relabeled as 'Locomotive Breath' and has a new image for the profile... don't recognize it, though. Likely to be of Jethro Tull, ie th guy who sang Locomotive Breath. And no phone calls as of yet, guys!

To risk I believe is by "William Arthur Ward"
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:William_Arthur_Ward

And the image is "Ian Anderson" lead singer and founding member of Jethro Tull.
Score one for the old guy!

[classical]

The Brightman Oracle blog has been updated with the attached image, whereas the Hazeltine blog has been updated with this poem by a "Charlie". Upon further research, it's a poem called "Risk" by an unknown author. Huh.

Quote:

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool To weep is to risk appearing sentimental To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self To reach out to another is to risk involvement To place your ideas, your dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss To love is to risk not being loved in return To live is to risk dying To hope is to risk despair To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, and is nothing. They may avoid suffering and sorrow but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live. Chained in by their attitudes, they are a slave, they have forfeited their freedom Only the person who risks is free.

The blog has been relabeled as 'Locomotive Breath' and has a new image for the profile... don't recognize it, though. Likely to be of Jethro Tull, ie th guy who sang Locomotive Breath.

And no phone calls as of yet, guys!

[Wulf74]

Grady Martin wrote:

windup discovered it - i just asked a nagging question or two about it

All of them were good questions, and with the exception of one of them, I've wondered as well. I thought I had mentioned it to some point, but maybe it was to a friend...?

Anyway, for all those that are curious, 1)I was asked about the package I received - the fact that the stamps on it were not canceled/stamped by the post office. 2) If I had "sent" it to myself, and 3) if I'm also working behind the curtain. All fair questions, and I took offense to none of them. The answer to 2 and 3 are adamantly No.

#1 as I explained in my reply to TempestDevil - is something I've wondered about since the day I got it. As the pictures show, the stamps weren't canceled by the post office. In the neighborhood I live in, the community doesn't like mailboxes in front of everyone's houses, so we have a bank of them, much like an apartment complex. So, in my case, it wouldn't have been possible to hand deliver it and just drop it in the box. So that really only left 2 possibilities. On very rare occasions, I've gotten mail that wasn't canceled by the Post Office. But that's very very rare, and I would think a package of this size would have been for sure. Possibility #2 - is that they met the mailman when he was delivering and he dropped it in the box for them. But I would suggest that's even more unlikely than it being missed by the Post Office.

End result? No clue what happened. But I promise, I'm not IG/behind the curtain/involved anymore than anyone else that's been losing sleep, and getting headaches from this thing.. lol