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[cyberus]

[mortality]

Oh, I see how pip got Ethan's wordpress site. Ethan sent me that last email from his personal account at gmail. Blog address is in the signature.

So observant of me... Good thing I haven't abridged his emails.

Email to Ethan

[THESB]

 

[cyberus]

Yup, I just tried again, goes directly to a voicemail. I'm not ready to shell out the cash to call the UK number, especially from my cell phone. If anyone has an international calling plan, feel free, although I have a feeling we'll get a similar result.

[zizka]

in the interest of being thourough

[pipakin]

[noam]

[mortality]

What about if you use the "." in "W. Wallace" as the point?
Even if it does work, I'm not sure I see what it gets us.

My hunch is that it's a visual logic puzzle. Maybe some lateral (or equilateral?) thinking is required.

Email from Ethan

[zizka]

[pipakin]

Hrm, so unrelated note. K.

I agree that it seems like a visual logic puzzle...I don't think the simpson line is part of it, though it can't hurt to check that angle out.

[noam]

[mortality]

What if it's a geometric code? The letters on each side are somehow connected?

...idea struck me because of the lines you've been drawing between letters and some Googling of geometric, triangular, and visual puzzles.

Or perhaps we simply need to make an anagram out of all of those letters, what with a convenient punctuation mark.

[pipakin]

Has anyone asked the WC folks to look inside the flap of the envelope, or under the tape?

[noam]

The cross references from the WF came back. Here's what they got:

[zizka]

first thing you need for a simpson line is to identify the circle around the triangle: the point P will have to be on the circumference of the circle. If you draw perpendiculars to a point on that circle, they will form a simpson line. As you move the point along the circumference of the circle, the line moves. I was thinking that if you oriented the line such that it passed through the period, we may get a letter or two.

Honestly, though, I think this is probably not the way forward, but it's about the only thing I can think of right now. I sure wish I hadn't left my compass at home.

I've got an inscribed mock up of the pic; i'll see if I can eyball some perpendicualrs.

bah without some sort of tool, there's no way to be ceratin whether what I'm getting is gibberish because it's coded somehow or because this is the wrong tree up which ot bark. I'll try when I get home.