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[ariock]

@catherwood I'll probably go to both the SF and Oakland events.

[Solonor]

Seventh Floor

[freebornai]

residents names and other clues

[catherwood]

[lhall]

Just ordered our copy of the book. Happy to be directing energy at something fun like this!

[danteIL]

So today I saw on twitter that McSweeney's had released some new book information on their iPhone app, so I paid the $ (grr) and downloaded it. Sure enough, there is a thing with pictures of the 13 "stolen" objects, one from each floor. If I knew how, I would get them off my phone and upload the pictures, but FYI there are a couple of differences from what I've been assuming:

For the metronome stolen from the 4th floor, the illustration shows a more old-fashioned metronome with one of those pendulum thingies that rock back and forth. That's nothing like the thing I thought was the metronome on the 1st floor.

For the 'anti-gravity' boots stolen from the 9th floor, we are told in the book that they look like green galoshes, which is why the assumptions that these are the green galoshes in the foyer on the 8th floor. Well the picture from the app shows something that's more like thick astronaut boots, mostly white with red striping up the ankle part.

And for the 11th floor, there's a picture of the elusive zucchini. It's nice and green. I still can't find it anywhere in the book.


Here's the link for the app: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mcsweeneys/id325330901?mt=8

[DarkHuman]

took the day off, just siting at home waiting for my copy of t3h book!!!

[diszaster]

@danteIL: take a screenshot from the phone by pressing both buttons at once?

[faeryqueen21]

I've been meaning to join up on this. I couldn't go to the L.A. event though so I forgot about getting the book. Will do quickly.

[danteIL]

[danteIL]

double post:

For you San Francisco peeps, here's a link to the announcement information about the Book Event this weekend, along with a strange interview with Gus Twintig. The interview seems more jokey than clue-eriffic, but "exclusive clues" are promised at the book release party!

http://www.examiner.com/x-37296-SF-Events-Examiner~y2010m4d28-Birkenhead


And another article on Salon.com about the book/hunt [including a quote from our own morbus!]:
http://www.salon.com/books/mcsweeneys/index.html?story=/books/feature/2010/04/29/treasure_hunt_mcsweeney_s_ext2010

[faeryqueen21]

Okay, I just got the book but I'm at work so I can't really do much with it right now. Can you guys keep a secret? I bought a copy for ineffabelle and I'm gonna visit her in the hospital tonight and give it to her. I figure she could use something fun to do right about now. So hopefully she'll bite and be on here later!

[morbus]

@danteIL: hey, thanks! I had gotten a Google Alert on that article, but had yet to read it :D
@danteIL: What's even funnier is that I /work/ at the Examiner(.com)!

@faeryqueen21: that's a *great* idea! Give her my wishes.

[faeryqueen21]

Will do DanteIL!

Just going to document the numbers across the boxes on the 5th floor.

1,6,6,5,3,5,9,4,8,3,2,8,9,4,4,4

The first 6 could also be a 9 if the box was faced up according to the arrows. It's too long to be a phone number and I tried putting them into T9 to see if they spelled anything with no luck. Maybe some else can see a pattern that I don't.

[Guest]

I only looked at the pictures online. Floor 6 (with the Oh-Hi-Oh pictures on the wall and the toilet) could possibly reference the tiny town of Flushing, OH.