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fireball
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Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 205 Location: living in a box under the stairs in the corner of the basement of the house half a block down the st
Dorkmaster wrote:
Secondly, I think we should start a new topic with Fireball's idea of "who will go to each site" (so there can still be puzzle solve-spec going on here, without the random "I'll go here" post)
Perhaps we can impose on Kalamazoo to update the spreadsheet with a "who's going" column? Alas, the poor wiki...
And sure, start a new thread.
_________________And all through the night, they poured over the plans. Sometimes they poured on the table, sometimes they poured on the floor, but mostly they poured over the plans.
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 1:21 pm
kalamazoo
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Joined: 24 Jul 2004 Posts: 83
According to wishi-san location data:
* DC: 16 locations
* Alabama: 6
* Arizona: 3
* Arkansas: 1
* California: 33
* Colorado: 9
* Connecticut: 2
* Florida: 6
* Georgia: 2
* Idaho: 6
* Illinois: 6
* Indiana: 1
* Iowa: 1
* Louisiana: 3
* Maryland: 8
* Massachusetts: 3
* Michigan: 1
* Minnesota: 3
* Missouri: 11
* Montana: 1
* New York: 10
* North Carolina: 10
* Ohio: 6
* Oregon: 10
* Pennsylvania: 5
* Tennessee: 1
* Texas: 8
* Utah: 12
* Virginia: 10
* Washington: 11
* W. Virginia: 1
* Wisconsin: 4
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 1:23 pm
ilovecheese
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Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 39
another floater...
33.78159 -118.89166
in the ocean, sw of L.A.
another mis-laid 'road'
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 1:23 pm
Dorkmaster
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Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 1328 Location: The People's Republic of Dork
done and done, fireball...
_________________"The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet." -William Gibson
"Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it." - PJ O'Rourke
"ACADEMY, n. A modern school where football is taught." - Ambrose Bierce
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 1:23 pm
kaynorr
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kaynorr, is there a payphone there?
I don't think so - I walk through there on a semi-regular basis and nothing stands out in my mind. But I can check after work. As a further observation, there are benches & the like nearby and people are known to loiter around.
If something were to happen there, it would almost certainly cause less of a fuss than Sears Tower, which would probably yield some sort of Unpleasant Security Incident.
Given the new level of specificity in the coordinates, geo-caching might not be out of the question. Certainly plenty of places to hide something (particularly if that something is a sticker or other text-message as opposed to a physical object). I may try and track down a GPS module for my Palm so I can be in Exactly the right spot.
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 1:25 pm
Dorkmaster
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Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 1328 Location: The People's Republic of Dork
Unpleasant Security Incident... definitely don't want a USI... I like it... can we coin that term now? USI = Unpleasant Security Incident?
Sorry, off topic... ok... ANYONE CLAIMING TO "COVER" A LOCATION ON THE 24th, SOUND OFF HERE !
_________________"The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet." -William Gibson
"Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it." - PJ O'Rourke
"ACADEMY, n. A modern school where football is taught." - Ambrose Bierce
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 1:27 pm
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DigitalCowboy
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Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 30 Location: S.F. Bay Area
Trout away here, if I missed someone already pointing this out...
If you infer that the final point in the list also takes 4 minutes to "do" whatever is to be done there, then the end time of the entire is 18:07, EXACTLY 12 hours to the minute after the start time. With the massaging of the intervals between 3m and 4m, etc., I'm guessing the precision of 12 hours is intentional.
_________________"Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit" - Seneca
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 1:30 pm
Wishi-san
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Joined: 20 Oct 2003 Posts: 602 Location: UK. Southwards.
I'll just add this html file for people who want quick links to satellite images and maps.
/me shakes fist twice as hard at non-checking/changing PMs
Final sea points gone...
_________________Given that God is infinite, and that the universe is also infinite... would you like a toasted tea cake?
Wishi-san x Wishi-san x Wishi-san
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 1:31 pm
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Dorkmaster
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Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 1328 Location: The People's Republic of Dork
WAIT A SECOND!!!
Are we wrong to infer that these times are relevant next Tuesday? Maybe we're supposed to be somewhere today? (although half of these times have already come and gone, I suppose...) But I just figured I'd throw out that scary thought...
_________________"The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet." -William Gibson
"Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it." - PJ O'Rourke
"ACADEMY, n. A modern school where football is taught." - Ambrose Bierce
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 1:32 pm
Varin
I Have No Life
Joined: 02 Dec 2002 Posts: 2456 Location: South of where I used to be
kaynorr wrote:
Given the new level of specificity in the coordinates, geo-caching might not be out of the question. Certainly plenty of places to hide something (particularly if that something is a sticker or other text-message as opposed to a physical object).
Makes me wonder then - why the times? If there is something hidden there, why couldn't I go the day before and find it, or that morning? Surely the PMs aren't going to have 200+ people there 10 minutes before the designated time hiding something. If they did, then why wouldn't they just have a live actor event?
_________________"I still miss him to this day and probably always will." - Todd Keeler, Chasing the Wish
"meta meta meta, I made you out of play..." ~ j5
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 1:33 pm
fireball
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Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 205 Location: living in a box under the stairs in the corner of the basement of the house half a block down the st
Dorkmaster wrote:
WAIT A SECOND!!!
Are we wrong to infer that these times are relevant next Tuesday? Maybe we're supposed to be somewhere today? (although half of these times have already come and gone, I suppose...) But I just figured I'd throw out that scary thought...
Calm down, sparky....there's the countdown clock on the top of the Axons screen. I'm sure it's meant for next Tuesday.
Either that, or I already missed the dancing robots.
_________________And all through the night, they poured over the plans. Sometimes they poured on the table, sometimes they poured on the floor, but mostly they poured over the plans.
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 1:33 pm
Dorkmaster
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Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 1328 Location: The People's Republic of Dork
That's true, but at the same time, do we have enough info to make that connection a certainty, fireball? I'm just saying that we don't have definitive info on that yet, and that maybe someone could check one of the "later" locations today at the specified time, and just check to make sure we shouldn't be somewhere today?
GROUT - wouldn't get out till the late edition, though... [/b]
_________________"The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet." -William Gibson
"Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it." - PJ O'Rourke
"ACADEMY, n. A modern school where football is taught." - Ambrose Bierce
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 1:34 pm
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Grout
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Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 105
Hmmm... 9AM in front of the Chicago Sun-Times building.... They sure want publicity...
And the 2 points in Chicago that are across the street from eachother - are 2 hours apart... is something going to happen there.... and then happen again 2 hours later 40 feet away? Kind of odd.
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 1:35 pm
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sfsdfd
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Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 112
eMouse wrote:
The Pittsburgh locations are all at least 3 hours apart, and relatively close to each other. That means a single person could 'handle' all three, if that sort of thing were required.
If it's a bunch of Microsoft agents showing up to do something, why stagger all of the times 3-4 minutes apart? Several east-coast volunteers could all show up and do something (at the first of the locations in each area) at 9:10AM EDT.
Instead, it's completely serial. As in: "Each call should take 90 seconds, so first we'll call DC, then Cleveland, then..."
- David Stein
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 1:35 pm
sfsdfd
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Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 112
Dorkmaster wrote:
I just WISH I had a way to "report" after going to the location...
If I'm covering the Cleveland spots, mine will probably be the very first report you read. Cleveland is second on the list, and the drop is on the campus of Case Western Reserve University, which has a (more or less) campus-wide wireless network.
- David Stein
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 1:37 pm
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