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[PUZZLE?] WORKING, HAMMERS, SWEATING, POWER, CIRCUITS, ...
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 		[PUZZLE?] WORKING, HAMMERS, SWEATING, POWER, CIRCUITS, ...
...REVIEW, VERIFY, BONUS?, UNDER
I have been racking my brain trying to get a secret message out of this. Each scene may represents a letter or a number or a direction. Here are my notes, including a bunch of wrong ideas:

WORKING - If the blocks in the arch are important, there are 21, which could be the 21st letter, 'U'. Perhaps it's the 'n' shape of the arch and the shap of the worker bending over. Perhaps it's the stacked boxes that are important. Perhaps moving box A to column 'B'. If we are looking for numbers, there are 2 boxes. If it's a direction, the box is moved to the right and above.
HAMMERS - 3 hammer taps could be morse code. ... is 'S', - - - is 'O'. Then again perhaps it's the pause between hitting the wall that's morse code in which case it's "- . ." or 'D'. Also note the first wall tap is lower than the 2nd two.
SWEATING - his eye blinks. I am not positive if its once or twice, but I think it's once. Could be morse code '.' for 'E' or simply the number 1.
POWER - Anybody know if that's sign language. Also he's running down the bike path; important? ("power cycle?"). Is the fact he's lifting his arms mean he's a Power Lifter (one of the jobs in the job posting)
CIRCUITS - could be 'O', because they close the ciruit loop. Could be that which plug socket he plugs into means something. It's the 3rd plug down, 2 above, 3 beneath, 6 sockets total.
REVIEW - His fist could be sign language, the letter 's'
VERIFY - He does the semaphore signal for 'B' or '2', or is he just pointing left (his right)
BONUS? - The cardkey LED screen spells BONUB, so perhaps 'B', and B is the 2nd letter. Could be 'S' since the S is missing
UNDER - his inactive hand is making a sign language 'A'. There are also some marks on the wall that could be braille, but I doubt it. Both of those happen after the word UNDER has disapeared at that point already.

The order could be dependent on diffierent things:
as is - Could be the order it's shown. The long pause during power might mean a space or it might mean nothing.
a phrase/meaning - perhaps the words need to be reordered to make sense. Like working leads to reviews, verification, and possibly a bonus. Perhaps bonus is last because of the puncuation mark.
alphabetical - perhaps reorder each by the keywords: BONUS?, CIRCUITS, HAMMERS, POWER, REVIEW, SWEATING, UNDER, VERIFY, WORKING. Perhaps in reverse order so the '?' is last.
duration - perhaps the length of a scene determines the order. Here are the times in the vid. I didn't bother using a stop watch to time the length of each.
WORKING - 2:32-2:36
HAMMERS - 2:36-2:38
SWEATING - 2:38-2:40
POWER - 2:40-2:43
CIRCUITS - 2:43-2:45
REVIEW - 2:45-2:47
VERIFY - 2:47-2:48
BONUS? - 2:48-2:50
UNDER - 2:50-2:51

Maybe this needs to be combined with the job postings. Terry makes a note at the start to say "That's why milwaukee has jobs". There are 7 job postings and 9 random words.

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 		you just blew my mind...

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 		i always though that the worker section of the video had a hidden meaning. i never went to the extent that you did, rat, but i think given that the timer is almost 0, its best we just wait it out and see what reveals itself on the 16th. good job btw, but i think you might have been stretching it a bit far in some cases and grasping for things that just arent there....it took me weeks to remove myself from this once the initial buzz wore off and puzzles grinded to a standstill, i guess youre in the same boat? Razz

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 		hmm. i admire your eye for details. but, im not so sure if this will lead to anything. i mean, it could considering that we had the number to Lewis and he was asking for resumes.

I say "had" because no one has talked to Russo or Lewis since before the winter Holidays. Maybe after the drop in NYC, we'll find out something...

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ChuckDideEate wrote:
As I walked home from the deli this morning, I saw Worker Power run past me. Don't know what that was all about. Made a fine ham sandwich.


Well it sounds to me like Chuck may be trying to answer this post covertly. If it is in fact a reply, I'm not sure what he is saying:

"No, the power thing isn't sign language. It's a parody on power walkers."

"I don't know what it means either"

"It doesn't mean anything"

"There is more than one worker. That one was Worker Power."

"It's not the visual that's important, but the word."

"Go make a ham sandwhich and you will be satisified."

"Worker was doing something by the Deli recently. Check it out." (Possibly Bleecker street?)

or possibly something else.

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mindule wrote:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NMWAMFKD

4:10 : "He does this power run, you gotta see it, where he, he puts his arms up and he just runs, and god help you if you're in his way when it happens, um, definitely creates a certain, uh, a certain energy field around him..."


In the chuckdideeat thread. Check it out for yourselves.

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 		There are two delis that I can see on Bleecker St.

Bleecker Deli
195 Bleecker St.
New York, NY

and

Village Clubhouse Deli, Inc.
164 Bleecker St.
New York, NY

These are basically on the other side of Bleecker from Quartino's and where the workers were filmed, so I'm guessing it's not relevant. If this is relevant, though, we know Jagoda was walking down Bleecker when Worker Power ran past him, as there are delis on Bleecker and that is the same street that Worker Power was running down. But of course that is assuming that Jagoda was walking out of a deli on Bleecker St.

Perhaps they're just trying to lead us somewhere on Bleecker?

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