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[INFO] "Milwaukee: A Reasonable Haven" Informational Booklet
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Starblind
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 		Re: Semaphore
acrosstheriver wrote:
Here's something I did to try and interpret the Basic Dark Dollar Arrangements. They map nicely to flag semaphore

Good Morning: R (1Cool
School Day: D (4)
Almost Right: W (23)
Second Gear: U (21)
New Feeling: V (22)


Hmm. Directions? Right, Down, West, Up... V?

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Wulf74
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 		Re: Semaphore
FSURobbie wrote:
acrosstheriver wrote:
Which would give us:

Start: Attention
Good Morning: R (1Cool
School Day: D (4)
Almost Right: W (23)
Second Gear: U (21)
New Feeling: V (22)


Hmmm, that is pretty coincidental isn't it? I think maybe you have found something...


Some of it does appear to fit really well - but then several are off too. Definitely possible. Which inspired me to again go look at the 2nd table. Now - in the realm of "out there" possibilities - I noticed that the number 26 occurred more often than anything else.


Now - all that being said, the letter listed with each of the numbers didn't amount to much - I ran them through a descrambler and didn't really get anything. But maybe it's something where each of the page number corresponds to a match in the table, which then leads to a letter/word/drop/etc. Dunno - back to it.

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acrosstheriver
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DarkProject wrote:
synspark wrote:
DarkProject wrote:
Turn A and T into the word "at".

How many pages are in that book??? Streets in NYC?

84 at 2010?

2010 at 84?

Is this striking a chord with anyone?


Well, 84th St in Manhattan doesn't have a 2010 address. The only 84th St in NYC that has that address is in Brooklyn.


Is there any reason to eliminate Brooklyn? Also, is it easy for anyone on here to head out and take a look?


I live in Brooklyn and it's an unusually sunny 60 degree day. 2010 84th st in Brooklyn. Man, that's way out there. Bay Ridge I think.

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taylor
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 		Re: Semaphore
Starblind wrote:
acrosstheriver wrote:
Here's something I did to try and interpret the Basic Dark Dollar Arrangements. They map nicely to flag semaphore

Good Morning: R (1Cool
School Day: D (4)
Almost Right: W (23)
Second Gear: U (21)
New Feeling: V (22)


Hmm. Directions? Right, Down, West, Up... V?


right down west up would put you right back in the same place Wink

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acrosstheriver
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 		Re: Semaphore
taylor wrote:
Starblind wrote:
acrosstheriver wrote:
Here's something I did to try and interpret the Basic Dark Dollar Arrangements. They map nicely to flag semaphore

Good Morning: R (18)
School Day: D (4)
Almost Right: W (23)
Second Gear: U (21)
New Feeling: V (22)


Hmm. Directions? Right, Down, West, Up... V?


right down west up would put you right back in the same place ;)


Which would make a box, like the Fax from the rebels? V is the center, the X or the "new feeling"? Only questions here. Maybe I should x-ref this to the fax thread.

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synspark
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acrosstheriver wrote:
DarkProject wrote:
synspark wrote:
DarkProject wrote:
Turn A and T into the word "at".

How many pages are in that book??? Streets in NYC?

84 at 2010?

2010 at 84?

Is this striking a chord with anyone?


Well, 84th St in Manhattan doesn't have a 2010 address. The only 84th St in NYC that has that address is in Brooklyn.


Is there any reason to eliminate Brooklyn? Also, is it easy for anyone on here to head out and take a look?


I live in Brooklyn and it's an unusually sunny 60 degree day. 2010 84th st in Brooklyn. Man, that's way out there. Bay Ridge I think.


It IS gorgeous out, isn't it? I really think that's an odd spot in Brooklyn for it. There's nothing even remotely meaningful there, other than a few apt buildings. But, one never knows.

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Wulf74
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synspark wrote:
acrosstheriver wrote:
DarkProject wrote:
synspark wrote:
DarkProject wrote:
Turn A and T into the word "at".

How many pages are in that book??? Streets in NYC?

84 at 2010?

2010 at 84?

Is this striking a chord with anyone?


Well, 84th St in Manhattan doesn't have a 2010 address. The only 84th St in NYC that has that address is in Brooklyn.


Is there any reason to eliminate Brooklyn? Also, is it easy for anyone on here to head out and take a look?


I live in Brooklyn and it's an unusually sunny 60 degree day. 2010 84th st in Brooklyn. Man, that's way out there. Bay Ridge I think.


It IS gorgeous out, isn't it? I really think that's an odd spot in Brooklyn for it. There's nothing even remotely meaningful there, other than a few apt buildings. But, one never knows.



According to GoogleEarth - there's a "Cafe Strelka Inc" at 8421 20th Ave..but I doubt it's related also..

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hatpins
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 		Ehm.. just wondering.. I'm not sure if this has actually been mentioned before, but on page 43 of the info booklet (A Parting Thought), Anna Tate Mellon says "Excelsior". Isn't "Excelsior" the official motto of New York?

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courtknee
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hatpins wrote:
Ehm.. just wondering.. I'm not sure if this has actually been mentioned before, but on page 43 of the info booklet (A Parting Thought), Anna Tate Mellon says "Excelsior". Isn't "Excelsior" the official motto of New York?


Yes, yes it is. "Ever Upward"

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robblatt
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 		84th at 2010 makes some sense.

There is a driving exit at 84th St from the park, which is just north of the Art Museum (A). It goes by the reservoir (2010, right?) It's called Transverse Rd. Does that ring any bells with any literature we've seen so far?

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taylor
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 		given the lack of progression, i started thinking...

we found "http://thisismymilwaukee.com/20138/" which has an epoch timestamp for 1-1-09 12:00 am. i think maybe we stumbled across the clue too early. the timestamp is indicating that the page we are looking at will be updated with useful information at that time. i think we need to check back to the URL at the stroke of midnight on new years day. given the fact that i will be a drunk idiot at that time, maybe someone with less of an alcoholic affluence can check at that time??? Razz

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chateauRat002a
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 		strange wording
A friend of mine pointed out some typos and strange wording in the book. Are they typos, or are they something more?

pg 41: "stationery" written as in "not moving" but spelled as in the paper.

pg 8: "magnetism played a rôle" - rôle actually has a larger meaning than role. It means social role http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role

pt 62: it mentions "citizenry/studentry" This is a reference to Strunk and White's Elements of Style
"Will knew where he stood. … he had a number of likes and dislikes that were almost as whimsical as the choice of a necktie, yet he made them seem utterly convincing. … He despised the expression student body, which he termed gruesome, and made a special trip downtown to the Alumni News office one day to protest the expression and suggest that studentry be substituted — a coinage of his own, which he felt was similar to citizenry."

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a long walk
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 		spec about "a long walk"
the chart on page 27: "a long walk" apparently still hasn't been used to solve a puzzle, but here is some preliminary speculation in case it comes up.

i notice that the short tick-marks on the vertical axis follow a pattern of halving in distance between the long tick-marks. this follows with zeno's paradox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradox#Achilles_and_the_tortoise) which states that before you can make it to a point you have to walk halfway there, then halfway of the remaining distance, then halfway after that, and so on ad infinitum. that would make for a very long walk indeed, which fits with the title.

also, towards the "beginning" of the curve, there's some kind of glitch. i wish there was a higher resolution copy of this. :/

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FeloniousDrunk
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 		Re: spec about "a long walk"
a long walk wrote:
the chart on page 27: "a long walk" apparently still hasn't been used to solve a puzzle, but here is some preliminary speculation in case it comes up.

i notice that the short tick-marks on the vertical axis follow a pattern of halving in distance between the long tick-marks. this follows with zeno's paradox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradox#Achilles_and_the_tortoise) which states that before you can make it to a point you have to walk halfway there, then halfway of the remaining distance, then halfway after that, and so on ad infinitum. that would make for a very long walk indeed, which fits with the title.

also, towards the "beginning" of the curve, there's some kind of glitch. i wish there was a higher resolution copy of this. :/


It's a logarithmic scale, nothing very out of the ordinary.

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EnsO
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 		finding some interesting hits on the long walk, and the long tail phrases used thus far in our TIMM experience:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Walk

a Stephen King novel, written as Richard Bachman in 1979, that has post apocalyptic overtones and may have been an inspiration for our story in some way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Tail

a business strategy and economics term of frequency distribution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Law

expressed statistically as Power Law, describing certain methods of distribution.


Quote:
The theory of the Long Tail is that our culture and economy is increasingly shifting away from a focus on a relatively small number of "hits" (mainstream products and markets) at the head of the demand curve and toward a huge number of niches in the tail.

As the costs of production and distribution fall, especially online, there is now less need to lump products and consumers into one-size-fits-all containers.

In an era without the constraints of physical shelf space and other bottlenecks of distribution, narrowly-target goods and services can be as economically attractive as mainstream fare.


http://www.squidoo.com/longtail

interesting...

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