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Rocket Poppeteers is open!!

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Cassafrass210
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Joined: 29 Jul 2010
Posts: 3

Twitter???

Not sure if this is said already, but the twitter page has locations of visiting in San diego : http://twitter.com/rocketpoppeteer HAS to be something important. We probably have to find these guys in a city near us. I'm like begging for them to come to NY.

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 2:36 pm

Headman
Entrenched

Joined: 26 Aug 2007
Posts: 839
Location: Michigan

Gazarama wrote:

Hey has anybody posted an mp3 for the instrumental only Poppeteers theme?
Cause i was planning on posting a fake Rocket Poppeteers ad on youtube

(But definitely NOT to say something like: "OMG TYPED SOME RANDOM THING ON POPPETEERS WEBSITE AND IT GAVE ME THIS. TROLOLOLOLOL!!!!!")

Hope you guys can help!

You mean a spoof or parody right? Just trying to make it sound less like a Game Jack Smile

Use the search, I think I saw an instrumental only file posted somewhere.

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 2:39 pm

FilmEdge
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Joined: 21 May 2010
Posts: 645
Location: Burbank, CA

Melodyman wrote:

Doesnt it seem a bit odd to anyone that this site has opened yet there is no mention of the product? Interesting how the focus is on enlistment rather than the line of pops they offer.

Doesn't to me: if they don't get new astronauts (first), then there's no one to 'sell the product to'... even in a ARG-theme sense. The RP site is barely open still, give it time... and time to recruit.

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 2:41 pm

Xeno Lambrose
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Joined: 12 Jun 2010
Posts: 668

Date when the floogates were opened

In retrospect, and FWIW, is there a way of determining the date when the most recent changes across the board were made?

Had it become July 29 somewhere on terra firma, or was it the 28th?

The reason I wonder is I've been looking at astronautix.com (and other relevant sites) for awhile and had noted that both the 28th and the 29th of July were of great importance to USA's space program, and was curious if we might not see some changes on those days:
Here's why:

July 28, 1960 Apollo Program Announced
http://www.astronautix.com/thisday/july28.htm

On July 29, 1958, Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, establishing NASA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 2:42 pm

Cassafrass210
Greenhorn

Joined: 29 Jul 2010
Posts: 3

Re: Twitter???

Cassafrass210 wrote:

( I mean the official Twitter page that has a link on the rocketpoppeteers website)

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 2:44 pm

FilmEdge
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Headman wrote:

I just turned 40 Shifty Eyes

so I guess I am old.

I've got that beat, so there are plenty of kids-at-heart playing along here.

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 2:48 pm

SeekerX
Decorated

Joined: 17 May 2010
Posts: 184
Location: Germany

Tenshi Akui wrote:

But it did make my cat's stare at the computer like it was going to attack them!! So amusement factor amplified!

Lol

. Cats can be so cute/funny/clumsy and plain stupid. I love 'em Smile

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 2:53 pm

Ryuu
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Joined: 04 Jul 2010
Posts: 46
Location: The Hague, Netherlands

Headman wrote:

I just turned 40 Shifty Eyes

so I guess I am old. My kids think so anyway. It's nice to see that Drewsko respects his parents and holds out for their permission before he registers for something. That is a very honorable thing that too many kids lack these days. Good on you Drewsko!

Well 40 is the new 36 and a half, so the force of the ~ancient~ ones seems to be strong in here. It's nice to see someone else from the era of Basic.

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 2:57 pm

Billhouse
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Joined: 04 Jul 2010
Posts: 169

Headman wrote:

This is what intrigues me. Any one out there able to read a data/punch card? The only info I found was on 80 column cards. I will keep looking but someone with experience at this sort of thing would be helpful.

The number of columns doesn't really matter, it's the number of rows.

I'm not exactly sure how to read these with the 0-3 format. If this was a 0-9 card instead of 0-3 I'd have an answer for you.

Tentatively, I think the 3-1-3-3 sequence in the top card is the word "CALL" after that I'm still working on it.

My basic understanding on a 0-9 card is if you have a punch on the top of the blank area of the card the 1-9 below will represent A-I. If the punch is in the middle of the blank area 1-9 will represent J-R. If the punch is on the zero, 2-9 are S-Z. Punctuation will usually be 2 numbers in the same column.

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 3:07 pm

emato
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Joined: 06 Aug 2007
Posts: 333
Location: Florida

Kids at heart

FilmEdge wrote:

Headman wrote:

I just turned 40 Shifty Eyes

so I guess I am old.

I've got that beat, so there are plenty of kids-at-heart playing along here.

Ditto

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 3:32 pm

Euchre
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Joined: 29 Aug 2007
Posts: 3342

So if the word "CALL" is there, that suggests there's a phone number to be found somehow...

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Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 3:34 pm

Billhouse
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Joined: 04 Jul 2010
Posts: 169

Euchre wrote:

So if the word "CALL" is there, that suggests there's a phone number to be found somehow...

It looks like I screwed up on a rotation. I'm not so sure about Call. I'm still trying to figure out the way the letters fall with there being only 1-3 to work with. I noticed the columns are numbered 5-25 on both pictures, so there may be something missing. Of course the armed forces used punch cards back "then" so it could be just to look authentic.

Edit: Finished my sentence due to phone going dead mid-post. Rolling Eyes

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 3:42 pm
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Tenshi Akui
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Joined: 18 Jun 2008
Posts: 1003
Location: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Shame no one has access to an old punch computer. Would be interesting to see if it does anything!

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 3:44 pm

kosmopol
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Joined: 27 Aug 2007
Posts: 3167

Tenshi Akui wrote:

Shame no one has access to an old punch computer. Would be interesting to see if it does anything!

Actually such punch computer was used in one cool German ARG, and we solved it in some way... I will go back to the Patmo forums and look what it was...

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Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 3:53 pm

Headman
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Posts: 839
Location: Michigan

Billhouse wrote:

Euchre wrote:

So if the word "CALL" is there, that suggests there's a phone number to be found somehow...

We (military) used punch cards all the way to the early 90's for a lot of things. Glad you are trying to figure it out. All the punch card info I found online were the old IBM? 80 line type.

Off to a car show!

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 3:54 pm

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