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[UPDATE] Quirky Acuity 30/5/05 She's Back! or is she?
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sledgecallier
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It does seem strange that the original post was somewhat negative? Confused even? Where as the new post seems almost too calm and placid. I smell a rat.
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PostPosted: Tue May 31, 2005 7:51 pm
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dthought
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Violet's E-mail

Hi All

People have e-mailed sente, i thought i'd email violet. I did a search a found that nobody has emailed her yet. I sent this to violetSPLATquirkyacuity.com

Quote:
Hi Violet

I saw the post that you put up on your blog then deleted immeadiately after. What happened - did it make you think about the theft of the cube, or did it make you think about the whole of what the reconstructionists are saying?


And received an autoresponder in reply. I've spoilerised it in case people wish to try the same.

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Thanks for your email. I would reply to it, honestly, only I can't
right now because I'm probably out working in the library.
Or playing poker.
Or drowning my sorrows after losing big.
Or celebrating after winning big.
Or investigating some part of the city I haven't seen before.
Or taking in a show.
Or working on a puzzle.
Or finally mastering the art of omelette-making.
Or digging up bits of stone in Catbite and getting overexcited about
their significance.
Or windsurfing in the bay.
Or buying shoes.
Or reading a novel.
Or having a picnic in the park.
Or trying to get back that great pair of boots my sister "borrowed"
six months ago.
Or finding new words to share.
Or feeding my fish.
Or hiking.
Or giving unfortunate interviews and getting into trouble with my dad.
Or planting trees on public property.
Or confusing the person next to me.
Or making a triangular table.
Or taking a train out to the plains.
Or eating at Conundra.
Or writing autoreply for my email.


PostPosted: Tue May 31, 2005 9:58 pm
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Violet
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Woah, she is sooooo much cooler than Scarlett!

PostPosted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 7:35 am
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cassandra
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I emailed her several times, actually. and got nothing, so you're the lucky one Razz

PostPosted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 10:52 am
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Enigmaster
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This seems appropriate:
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...Or being brainwashed by an obsessive religious cult.

Very Happy
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Macavity
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Enigmaster wrote:
This seems appropriate:
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...Or being brainwashed by an obsessive religious cult.

Very Happy


Hahaha!
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 11:46 am
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sledgecallier
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Has the image of Violet changed in her Blog? I was sure the image was more of a full body shot but now it is just a head shot? Of course this could just be me imagining things and even if the image had changed I am not sure of any underlying significance... Confused
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 4:51 pm
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BrianEnigma
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sledgecallier wrote:
Has the image of Violet changed in her Blog? I was sure the image was more of a full body shot but now it is just a head shot? Of course this could just be me imagining things and even if the image had changed I am not sure of any underlying significance... Confused

Wow! Very sharp eyes!

Mirror from the 27th:
http://qube.netninja.com/pxcmirrors/20050527-163438/quirkyacuity.com/aboutme/index.html

Today:
http://quirkyacuity.com/aboutme/

Note that while the site design looks like it may have changed between the two, it is because I have a bad mirror (it does not currently follow images referenced in the stylesheet, making the page design look a little more flat.)
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:13 pm
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sledgecallier
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Comparing the two in Photoshop I'm not even sure it's the same person! Of course, that's the problem with drawings verses photographs. (The whole head and neck shape looks different although the top and the necklace look to be the same.)

This maybe just to fan the flames of the clone/replacement theory after Violet's visit to the Recons but it just all seems a little obvious to me?
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HitsHerMark
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The hair is different, the glasses are different, her shirt is different, and she looks a little pissed off in the new picture... Or maybe just that her eyebrows are different?
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Leeravitz
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Interesting...but it still looks like the same old Violet underneath to me. Given that the original picture was 3/4 length, 'taken' at a distance, it's actually quite difficult to ascertain what Violet looks like in that one close up. This new picture, being head and shoulders, is bound to look more detailed, and hence, different.

That she may also have altered her hairstyle a little, and has more than one pair of glasses, is not impossible, especially if she a person who prides herself on varying her style a bit.

So, I wouldn't read too much into it. Except, perhaps, from the point of view that the need was felt to alter the picture at all...

Then again, if you're cloning someone, isn't the whole point that they're indistinguishable to the original?
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 6:37 pm
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Violet
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Leeravitz wrote:
Then again, if you're cloning someone, isn't the whole point that they're indistinguishable to the original?


depends whether you mean cloning or copying. Cloning wouldn't necessarily make someone look identical - you can cut your hair or wear different glasses regardless of your genetic make-up. Copying someone a la Alias or something sci-fi like that could make someone look identical to whenever you copied them. In theory!

edited to sort out the quote

PostPosted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 6:55 pm
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Leeravitz
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Okay. But if you wanted to plant a mole, and you were capable of copying somebody, then you'd make sure they were as identical as dammit, surely. Seems a bit odd to me that those attempting to sneak somebody undercover would be at pains to demonstrate to us that they *weren't* identical to the person they were replacing.

I just don't quite get the logic of what we're arguing here: that Violet could herself be a 'plant' for the Recons. is fine - but then, there's no need for anything to discontinue in any way from how it was progressing before. Surely the sleeper agent who alerts everyone to the fact that they are a sleeper agent is a very bad sleeper agent.

Alternatively, if Violet's been replaced physically by somebody else...well...on the one hand, if this person is very unlike Violet in many ways, then surely somebody who's a close friend, such as Kurt, or even her sister is going to rumble that there's something amiss sooner or later. Changing the picture on the blog seems like the least of this hypothetical mole's worries.

On the other hand, if she's an exact copy (! - and, hell, the Recons. would need some heavy duty tech to pull that one off), then there cannot, by definition, be any difference to be superficially noted...

I'm not saying that Violet isn't in deep/knows more than she's letting on/may even be a mole of some description...but it doesn't strike me that the changing picture on the blog indicates she's a different person (except maybe personality wise).
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toongoon
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Maybe it's indicative of her brainwashing?

Some memories are gone so her brain has effectively shrunk so the need to magnify her head..eh eh?

Alright I'm totally joking here you know...I'm punchy Razz

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Violet
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I'm not convinced she's any different, just a different drawing. It's a new month today, maybe she just wanted to spruce up the old blog for summer?

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