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On Friday I turn 30.
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AndyA
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Joined: 09 Oct 2003
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Location: UK

 		On Friday I turn 30.
I've never been one to avoid jumping on bandwagons.

As such, to mark (celebrate? comiserate?) this momentous event, and to excercise a few little grey cells, I've created a simple puzzle trail.

Now I'm fully aware, from bitter experience, just how good you guys are at this sort of thing. So I expect you to have this one done in about an hour. Consider that a challenge Smile

30, man. How did that happen?

Love,
Andy
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 2:27 pm
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enaxor
I Have No Life

Joined: 25 Feb 2003
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 		Not sure if there is more to the first page, but....

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
looking at the source code, note the alternate name for beachsunset.jgp is letter

http://www.habitualindolence.net/thirty/letter.jpg

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 4:40 pm
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yanka|tage
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 		Can anyone make sense of the letter? I can barely transcribe it - I'm still not able to read some of the words (btw, I'm now suddenly glad most of the handwriting in Mu was Steve's, and not Andy's Smile )

This is what I got:
Quote:
The gentelman who contacted you believes you played a dangerous game with the ???? you took, my ???? still has recurring nightmares of the event. What was the point to it? The ???? From the roof gave ???? to our old church in thir blond age where the young, like some Hollywood film, stalkd the streets with theat kind of ???? that won them no admirers. When the raiders came, we lost ?? pieces - priceless works of art every one of them. Award yourself a congratulatory smile from us. Rest assured, when the dust settles, the Royal Academy will ????

yours,


And there's also a funny script:
Code:
static string Swede(string i_blame_krystyn)
{
   string naaaaaachos = "";double what_does_this_do = Math.PI;
   for (int hot_damn_its_monkey_time = 0; hot_damn_its_monkey_time != i_blame_krystyn.Length; ++hot_damn_its_monkey_time)
   {
      what_does_this_do += hot_damn_its_monkey_time;
      int any_zombies_out_there = (int)(what_does_this_do / what_does_this_do);
      naaaaaachos += i_blame_krystyn[i_blame_krystyn.Length - hot_damn_its_monkey_time - any_zombies_out_there];
      what_does_this_do = Math.Sin(what_does_this_do);
   }
   // Jeff: When God made the arse, he didn't say, 'Hey, it's just your basic hinge, let's knock off early.' He said, 'Behold ye angels, I have created the arse. Throughout the ages to come, men and women shall grab hold of these, and shout my name.'
   return naaaaaachos;
}

(the Jeff stuff is from Coupling)

Not sure what to do with all of that.

PostPosted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 8:34 pm
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drizjr
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Joined: 28 Nov 2003
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 		I'll take a crack at it. Smile
Quote:
My Friend,
The gentleman has who contacted you believes you played a dangerous game with the actions you took, my servant still has recurring nightmares of the event. What was the point to it? The lead/level ???from the roof gave character to our old church in this bland age where the young, like some Hollywood film, stalk the streets with that kind of swagger that won them no admirers. When the raiders came, we lost 89 or 84 ??? pieces - priceless works of art every one of them. Award yourself a congratulatory smile from us. Rest assured, when the dust settles, the Royal Academy will continue.

yours,


I've no idea what it means, though.

PostPosted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 9:06 pm
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QBKooky
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Joined: 24 Jul 2004
Posts: 281

 		Well here's as much of the handwriting I could make out:

Quote:
The gentelman who contacted you believes you played a dangerous game with the actions you took, my servant still has recurring nightmares of the event. What was the point to it? The lead From the roof gave character to our old church in thir blond age where the young, like some Hollywood film, stalkd the streets with that kind of swagger that won them no admirers. When the raiders came, we lost 89 pieces - priceless works of art every one of them. Award yourself a congratulatory smile from us. Rest assured, when the dust settles, the Royal Academy will continue.
yours,

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 9:07 pm
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Abraxas
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Joined: 27 Aug 2005
Posts: 736
Location: Cologne, Germany

 		I could read everything but the very last "continue". Still no idea what the letter or the code could mean, though. The code is most definitely either completely meaningless or it was just written down without paying attention to syntax (for example, "string" should be "String" if I'm not mistaken).

PostPosted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 9:41 am
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enaxor
I Have No Life

Joined: 25 Feb 2003
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 		An interesting note about the letter. It's dated May 5th 2005 or 05-05-05.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 10:32 am
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grumpyboy
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Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Posts: 660
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
take every 5th word in the letter (start counting with "my friend") and you get

"who played the servant of the lead character in the film that won the 89 art award from the acadamy"

i'm feeling much too lazy to actually go look it up though Razz


PostPosted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 10:37 am
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Atrophied
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Joined: 29 Aug 2004
Posts: 1133
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 		Hmmm, that would be
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Michael Gough who played Alfred in the 1989 movie Batman


but having tried various iterations of
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michaelgough.jpg; mgough.jpg; michaelgough.html; mgough.html etc...

I can't seem to get to the next page...
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 11:00 am
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Ehsan
Entrenched

Joined: 09 May 2003
Posts: 992

 		I am impressed by the fact that you've only had 14 posts in two years!

PostPosted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 12:13 pm
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krystyn
I Never Tire of My Own Voice


Joined: 26 Sep 2002
Posts: 3651
Location: Is not Chicago

 		heh, that's what you get for being behind the curtain most of the time, and not accepting any moderator duties here. Wink
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 12:42 pm
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grumpyboy
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Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Posts: 660
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
according to imdb here: http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Academy_Awards_USA/1989 the correct movie is Dangerous Liasons

in which case, the servant is Azolan played by Peter Capaldi

http://www.habitualindolence.net/thirty/capaldi/


Spoiler (Rollover to View):
from the source of hte new page, enaxor has found this: http://www.habitualindolence.net/thirty/capaldi/formulae.jpg


PostPosted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 1:35 pm
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strife777
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Spoiler (Rollover to View):
A=5
B=8
C=88 (fixed after bagsbee pointed it out below)
D=1 or 6
F=1
G=53


As far as I can tell

PostPosted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 3:05 pm
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bagsbee
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Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Posts: 417
Location: NYC
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C=88

since it's b x (area - 1) and area=12, b=8

I got the same answers for the others.


PostPosted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 3:16 pm
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strife777
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 		yeah, whoops, I had 88 originally, I copied it wrong from the chatroom

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