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FartyMcBride
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Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posts: 15 Location: NYC
[PUZZLE] Tomorrow's Talk Barcode SPEC that it's a puzzle, but no proof. Ran bars through morse code, and got "seihiie". Eolirin suggested ROT, but nothing comes up that makes sense to me...
...last five digits 00022 - not a zipcode...first three "594" not an area code...
T
hanx to DocVego for the attached .gif
Discuss amongst yerselves...
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Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 5:35 pm
RobMagus
Unfettered
Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 469 Location: Vancouver, BC
Trying straight substitution code for this way of writing the number:
5 9 4 12 9 4 0 0 0 22
if 1=a and zero is null, then it's E I D L I null null null V
if 0=a, then it's F J E M J A A A W
finally, three zeros could be Ws, making this a scrambled URL. so:
if 0=w, then it's B F A I F A W W W S
Thoughts?
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Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 7:45 pm
FartyMcBride
Boot
Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posts: 15 Location: NYC
RobMagus wrote:
Trying straight substitution code for this way of writing the number:
5 9 4 12 9 4 0 0 0 22
if 1=a and zero is null, then it's E I D L I null null null V
I LIVED!!!
mwu-hah-hah-hah!
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Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 8:36 pm
herichon
Boot
Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 55 Location: portland
FartyMcBride wrote:
I LIVED!!!
mwu-hah-hah-hah!
heh.
or "I LIED" (null null V)...
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 9:22 pm
RobMagus
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Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 469 Location: Vancouver, BC
I DEVIL
EVIL ID, VILE ID, LIVE ID
IV LIED
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Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 10:15 pm
Emericana
Boot
Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 66
Wait a second! Could it be I lived? Could the TT webmaster secretly be a DH survivor?
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 11:45 pm
RobMagus
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Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 469 Location: Vancouver, BC
Very good SEPC Emer, and seems quite probable. Hmm.
How to ask?
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Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 11:52 pm
konamouse
Official uF Dietitian
Joined: 02 Dec 2002 Posts: 8010 Location: My own alternate reality
Emericana wrote:
Wait a second! Could it be I lived? Could the TT webmaster secretly be a DH survivor?
Which might explain the secret message in the application autoreply.
We need to find out who wrote that email.
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Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 11:58 pm
Johhny
Guest
Are guys sure of the numbers in that barcode?
To me, those 9's look like 3's
Which makes it
5 3412 3400022
Too many 12345 for my liking. Maybe the barcode has no meaning?
Somebody who works in a retail store or something, print out that barcode and SCAN IT!
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 1:43 pm
RobMagus
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Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 469 Location: Vancouver, BC
look at this picture of it http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/files/barcode_191.gif
they're definitely nines.
also, we've checked it with several UPC websites. it's not a valid code.
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Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 1:54 pm
Wishi-san
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Joined: 20 Oct 2003 Posts: 602 Location: UK. Southwards.
Could be I LIVED but why the null bits then?
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Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 1:58 pm
RobMagus
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Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 469 Location: Vancouver, BC
*shrug* Why not the null bits? They -are- all together.
Heck, this could just be a coincidence. The mind has a nasty habit of finding meaning where there is none.
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Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 1:59 pm
Karmic_Crimewave
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Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Posts: 139 Location: The Village
Emericana wrote:
Wait a second! Could it be I lived? Could the TT webmaster secretly be a DH survivor?
This is what I was try to verbalize (quite poorly) over on the General/Updates page...Or at least something similar. Out of all the places in the world they could have placed it, it wound up at CMH, and of all the names they could have given it, why something that puns "Dr.Ed's House"?
I'd wager that "I lived" would have came from TT's previous webmaster. Maybe a line to HR would help ferret him/her out?
edited to add: Sent an email to HR (copy in interactions) and got the auto-reply. If I don't hear anything by tomorrow noon, I'll be giving a call.
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Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 3:34 pm
RobMagus
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Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 469 Location: Vancouver, BC
Karmic, Kona has sent a similar email to Ron (the TT webmaster).
We encoded a message in it asking "RUSURVIVOR", and the email itself hints that we found a hidden message in the autoresponder on UH.
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Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 4:04 pm
dishboy
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Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 399 Location: Atlanta
RobMagus wrote:
Trying straight substitution code for this way of writing the number:
5 9 4 12 9 4 0 0 0 22
if 1=a and zero is null, then it's E I D L I null null null V
Wait a minute - aren't you missing an extra D in there? And if so, wouldn't that blow the "I LIVED" theory out of the water?
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Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 2:12 am
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