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jamesi
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yanka wrote:
How do you come up with this stuff??!

I have issues. Emotional issues.
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addlepated
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 		Mr. Pated got a nice laugh from the "mustache ride" pic.

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rowan
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 		Shocked OMG! Shocked

That last picture is almost a NSFW.

It's certainly a NSFMVE (not safe for my virign eyes - or something like that)

Very Happy
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joebrent
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That must be an old picture, I've recently had some plastic surgery to remove the crop marks around my neck. You, on the other hand, look positively naked without your customary large triangular weights and striped singlet. Oh wait -- you were naked.

Gross.
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krystyn
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 		so, jamesi, were the Sex and the City sheets too slippery, or no?
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addlepated
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krystyn wrote:
so, jamesi, were the Sex and the City sheets too slippery, or no?

No.

No no no.

NO.

So not going there.

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joebrent
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 		They were, in fact, just slippery enough.

That's right.

I went there.


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joebrent wrote:
They were, in fact, just slippery enough.

That's right.

I went there.


*CHOKE*
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krystyn
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 		oh joebrent, how I love thee.

I can tell that photo was taken right after you ground up some beans for coffee, because jamesi look so awake!
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addlepated
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 		Someone hand me the bleach and an eyewash cup, please.

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Brain\Storm
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 		I tried! Mr. Green


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xnbomb
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 		Just a conspiracy of cartographers, you mean?
A couple of people have asked me to post something that explains the map puzzle that was part of the FestQuest in NYC. Well, without further ado ...





The map itself features most of the Island of Manhattan and some surrounding features, four compass roses that are rather oddly marked (each with one of the four cardinal directions indicated), and four incomplete reticles, each surrounding one of the four compass roses, which conveniently allow the user to determine a heading from any of the compass roses (using any straight edge, rather than a protractor, which I imagined no one would have handy).

In the bottom right corner was a rather unusual legend:


Code:
     ORIGIN           subtractor       d|e|g

{  2 | 11 |  2 } - {  2 |  3 |  0 } = +a|a|a
{ 12 |  9 | 14 } - { 12 |  4 |  6 } = +b|b|b
{ 12 |  7 |  1 } - { 12 |  1 |  0 } = +c|c|c
{ 19 | 15 | 12 } - { 19 | 11 |  7 } = +d|d|d


The first thing to do the obvious thing: Do the subtraction suggested by the legend (through the column heading subtractor and the use of the minus sign) to get:

Code:
     ORIGIN           subtractor       d|e|g

{  2 | 11 |  2 } - {  2 |  3 |  0 } = +0|8|2
{ 12 |  9 | 14 } - { 12 |  4 |  6 } = +0|5|8
{ 12 |  7 |  1 } - { 12 |  1 |  0 } = +0|6|1
{ 19 | 15 | 12 } - { 19 | 11 |  7 } = +0|4|5


Now, with the four values calculated (082, 058, 061, and 045), and four compass roses surrounded by reticles that allow you to trace headings in almost any direction, the task was to match up the four headings with the four roses. But which of the four values goes with which of the four roses?

This puzzle was designed with a certain amount of redundancy. Since the solution was indicated by where the lines cross in Manhattan, it was only absolutely necessary to find where two of four lines cross ... a third would provide extra confidence that the correct values had been associated with their roses, and a fourth would provide totally certainty.

Thus, it was not necessary to match all four values to four roses correctly. Furthermore, since only certain angles from each rose could possibly cross the Island of Manhattan, one could work out that the values were meant to be counted clockwise (as degrees of heading always are) from whichever of the cardinal directions were marked on each of the compass roses.





Of the four teams at ARGFest, most managed to more or less solve the puzzle without the very last step. The column marked ORIGIN served two purposes. If the values were transformed from numbers to letters, they provided:

Code:
     NUMBERS           LETTERS

{  2 | 11 |  2 } = {  B |  K |  B } -> +0|8|2
{ 12 |  9 | 14 } = {  L |  I |  N } -> +0|5|8
{ 12 |  7 |  1 } = {  L |  G |  A } -> +0|6|1
{ 19 | 15 | 12 } = {  S |  O |  L } -> +0|4|5


Each of the four compass roses were positioned more or less above New York City landmarks:

BKB - Brooklyn Bridge (W)
LIN - Lincoln Tunnel (E)
LGA - LaGuardia Airport (S)
SOL - Statue of Liberty (N)

This puzzle was explicitly designed to require a little knowledge of New York City. This was true both in associating each of those three letter codes with places, and also once the crossing lines were drawn, in identifying the location. The location in question is pretty distinctive because of Manhattan's usually regular orthogonal street grid. With a street map in hand, one could identify the location as Astor Place, a trapezoidal feature bounded by 8th Street to the North, Astor Place to the South, 4th Avenue to the East, and Lafayette Boulevard to the West.




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krystyn
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 		/me swoons over xnbomb's brain anew.
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addlepated
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 		For those of you who were in NYC, some news:

http://www.nydailynews.com/business/story/485731p-408941c.html

Quote:
Office tower dooms Hotel Pennsylvania

BY PAUL D. COLFORD
DAILY NEWS BUSINESS WRITER

The Hotel Pennsylvania - a New York fixture whose phone number was immortalized in Glenn Miller's Big Band hit "Pennsylvania 6-5000" - will be torn down to build an office tower, according to a real estate report.
Vornado Realty Trust, a real estate giant with big plans in the Madison Square Garden area, intends to replace the 1,700-room hotel opposite Penn Station with a 2.5-million-square-foot building by 2011, the report says...

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