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[HOLO][TRAILHEAD] Holomove (was Emergen-C)
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veebee
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jabroni wrote:
On Nate's blog, he posted a crossword puzzle left by Dr. Gough. If you only look at the wrong answers in the puzzle, it says:

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hidden something important locate


Nate doesn't seem to have spotted this yet, perhaps you should post to his blog?

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dashcat
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MrToasty wrote:
OK, this will be a silly question, but I haven't seen it asked or answered yet. For those that received a package, did you unfold the crane? If so, anything inside; if not, why the hell not? Smile


Mr.Toasty I posted on the first page that i unfolded my crane and found nothing.

Enaxor wrote:
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I also looked at it under a blacklight and again, nothing.


How cool is it that Ex has a black light? I am wondering why.

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Does it strike anyone else as odd that one of the available jobs is Executive Chef? How smart to you have to be to cook food for the executives? Significant or typo?


I applied for that job, it was the only job description I understood




Veebee wrote
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Nate doesn't seem to have spotted this yet, perhaps you should post to his blog?


VeeBee it was posted to his blog and posted on the second page of this thread I think but its neat that you found it too.
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veebee
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So it was. Someone called Greg also replied to the crossword post, he added clippers and teddy as correct answers. Are we supposed to look for a team mascot now?

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 		Since I didn't see any posts about it, I called the number listed for Holomove on Spacely's card- it went to a voicemail for Holomove. Surprisingly, the mailbox wasn't full. I didn't know what to leave... so I just left.
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 		The cranes, from my first impression, seemed to be a very inappropriate reference or joke or even a disturbing suggestion that Dave was somehow involved in this. None of that made sense to me and it's troubled me ever since.

Now I think I understand that it's a small "hello" to the guy that we're all so beholden to. The packages are sending cranes to Dave as well, as a good wish.

Of course, the PMs aren't able to be so blatant in their message and still maintain a curtain, but the crane is at once a hint that it's a game (but NOT A GAME, DANGIT) and a token of affection.

Just my guess.
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enaxor
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dmax wrote:

Now I think I understand that it's a small "hello" to the guy that we're all so beholden to. The packages are sending cranes to Dave as well, as a good wish.

Of course, the PMs aren't able to be so blatant in their message and still maintain a curtain, but the crane is at once a hint that it's a game (but NOT A GAME, DANGIT) and a token of affection.

Just my guess.


I like that idea dmax.
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veebee wrote:
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So it was. Someone called Greg also replied to the crossword post, he added clippers and teddy as correct answers. Are we supposed to look for a team mascot now?



for anyone who hasn't been over to see it yet, this is the information I posted on Nate's blog:

2a-hidden-images
8a-something-community
15a-important-knowledge
28a-locate-random
1d-clippers, not clhppers
9d-Teddy, not neddy

I'm assuming it's all correct, I'm generally pretty good at the puzzles.
I also am seeing if there is a correlation between the wrong words and the correct ones, or for that matter, synonyms for all the answers that put together might take on more of a meaning, but so far haven't made much progress.

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 		Did you boil the crane in acid? Litmus test it? Have your dog sniff it?

Has anyone gotten a response from the employment ad?
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jabroni
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Greg wrote:

for anyone who hasn't been over to see it yet, this is the information I posted on Nate's blog:

2a-hidden-images
8a-something-community
15a-important-knowledge
28a-locate-random
1d-clippers, not clhppers
9d-Teddy, not neddy


I'm thinking the message is "hidden something important, locate" and the other answers are just spelled slightly wrong so those words will fit into the puzzle.

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konamouse
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 		And I have still not gotten past the 'loading' screen on Holomove.com

Why can I not progress?
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Ignu5
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konamouse wrote:
And I have still not gotten past the 'loading' screen on Holomove.com

Why can I not progress?


It has to be something with your connection or browser. I just checked it and it's still working fine for me...

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Greg
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jabroni wrote:


I'm thinking the message is "hidden something important, locate" and the other answers are just spelled slightly wrong so those words will fit into the puzzle.


I'm pretty sure it is that simple, but I've got nothing else to do til lunch anyways...

In other news, if you look into Nathan's myspace, his quote is "Reach The Future!".

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konamouse wrote:
And I have still not gotten past the 'loading' screen on Holomove.com

You might try putting the direct links to the flash in your address bar:
http://www.holomove.com/flash/
Index of /flash

* Parent Directory
* holomove.swf
* holomove_old.swf
* holomove_old2.swf

Poking around, I found another open directory
http://www.holomove.com/images/
Index of /images

* Parent Directory
* back.gif
* back_1.jpg

I haven't had the chance to decompile the Flash yet, so I couldn't tell you whether it is accessing other files as it loads. That is sometimes the problem with these things.

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jabroni
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 		Got a reply from Nate:

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from Nathan Bozeman - nathanbozemanSPLATgmail.com
to Nicole

date Thu, May 8, 2008 at 2:10 PM
subject Re: Holomove
mailed-bygmail.com

Hey Nicole,

Thanks, I saw your note on my blog (assuming that was you). I know my company is a little kooky, but maybe I had no idea. I read that memo, but from what I know of Dr. Gough, it doesn't seem like him. Though when I ask about him around here, I get more reverence than wacky scientist. But then again you're not supposed to speak ill of the dead.

Let me know if you find anything else weird out there. I'll keep my eyes peeled as well. Glad there's a fellow puzzle lover out there.

Nate


About the flash: I looked around in the source but I couldn't find any xml files or anything it was loading outside of itself. It seemed like all of the bios and news were already written inside. But I don't know actionscript at all so I'm just guessing based on what I can make out of it.

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thebruce
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 		all the uncommon (non-3rd party code) and local (to the site) http requests made after loading the site and browsing around are:
* http://holomove.com/style.css
* http://holomove.com/lib.jquery.js
* http://holomove.com/images/back.gif
* http://holomove.com/flash/holomove.swf
* http://holomove.com/news.xml
* http://holomove.com/contact.php
* http://holomove.com/areyousmartenoughforus/
* http://feeds.feedburner.com/HolomoveNews

oddly, when I loaded the RSS feed for the News (feedburner link), the formatted feed page appeared, and somehow the tracker caught that the sixapart.com homepage was requested. No idea where from. For some reason when I refreshed this time (not the other times I checked out the feed page) it returned a standard RSS xml feed, with no other formatted content. Perhaps it was cached before and they recently fixed the reference *shrug*. Is SixApart involved? Or was this just a fluke?

Anyway, so no there's no revealing secret requests or anything just from a general use of the flash. I haven't checked the source yet though, but I'm thinking for now that there's not really anything to find. We have our 'puzzle' =)
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