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ddl · Decorated Joined: 09 Sep 2010 Posts: 225

Looks like time is almost up. Apparently we have completed 'love and fame' along with the 'first verse'.

All that remains is 'waiteth for no man'.

Has anyone called that number yet? Would it even work?

**Posted:** Tue Jul 12, 2011 2:31 pm

string · Veteran Joined: 28 Feb 2011 Posts: 74

**Posted:** Tue Jul 12, 2011 5:58 pm

ddl · Decorated Joined: 09 Sep 2010 Posts: 225

I got three tickets.

Also, as Forest requested, here is the link to A.L.
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/on-line-exhibits/langton/big/8190.aspx

Edit: To speed up the process.

http://www.youtube.com/user/WhiteRabbitYT#p/u/0/2nXqsmbOGDY

Edit: The speech from the boat trip comes from the movie, Morte a Venezia.

http://www.subzin.com/quotes/Morte+a+Venezia/4

**Posted:** Tue Jul 12, 2011 6:18 pm

Ofiuco

YT posted a video of a canal tour. I made a map of where he goes.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=210188358316070940622.0004a7e9bc3038064b403

omg omg omg omg.

YT's latest flickr post includes something very near and dear to my heart, the IPA chart of vowels. Unfortunately, the holes he has punched do not quite make sense to me in terms of my first idea, which is that he wanted whatever would ordinarily be under the holes. But things are on the wrong sides of lines.

Anyway, here's an IPA chart.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/IPA_chart_2005_png.svg

What would ordinarily be at the point he's drawn there is near open central vowel, also called 'an upside down a'.

These could be meant to represent the vowels of Italian. However, if that's so, then these vowels are misplaced on the vowel chart. Relative to one another, they're correct, but in IPA, they would be in the wrong places.

The letters 'Marunbilaborun' are written at the bottom. This could almost be 'bilabial', another way of talking about consonants p, b, and m, but I can't quite make that stick.

The reference to gambling could mean that YT went to the Casino Venezia, which is plausibly in the path I projected on my map.

**Posted:** Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:10 pm

ddl · Decorated Joined: 09 Sep 2010 Posts: 225

I'm not sure about all of the vowels, but the 'Marundiladorun' is actually a number. 85.

http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/~ts/language/number/yoruba.html

**Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2011 9:28 am

string · Veteran Joined: 28 Feb 2011 Posts: 74

**Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2011 9:31 am

Ofiuco

Aha, I see that I am dyslexic.

**Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2011 10:06 am

ddl · Decorated Joined: 09 Sep 2010 Posts: 225

**Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2011 4:11 pm

Ofiuco

Not to be uber pedantic, but technically speaking, it's still an IPA chart, just not the IPA chart. ;)

Good catch though. I wonder if it's supposed to be hint at the Yoruba number on the bottom. I'm not sure what else it could be unless he wants us to count the number of phonemes in Yoruba, in which case I'm liable to become even more pedantic!

I couldn't find the guy yesterday either.

**Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2011 10:52 pm

ddl · Decorated Joined: 09 Sep 2010 Posts: 225

**Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2011 11:36 pm

Ofiuco

IPA is a character set, so... yeah. Anyway. I got a postcard - attached.

**Posted:** Mon Jul 18, 2011 11:49 pm

string · Veteran Joined: 28 Feb 2011 Posts: 74

Looks like I received the same postcard.

I also received another lottery ticket for correctly guessing where Forest was heading to on the boat. The Venice Casino on the Lido di Venezia. Looking back through the thread it looks like Ofiuco guessed this a while before I did but didn't email Forest with her answer?

EDIT, here is his reply:
"Dear String

So you listened to the music of the video as well then - good Mann...

The Casino in Lido is closed at the moment though - but we did indeed go to Lido. So your lottery ticket is enclosed. Are you seeing any pattern yet? You can, to others, share your ideas first of course.
Can you explain why we went to Lido of all places though - Father is being vague, but says it is important - perhaps you and your friends could look into the place for us? We're busy at the moment writing our postcard...

Forest"

Having trouble associating anything other than the letter epsilon with a number from the IPA chart. Trying to find whose face that is... looks like the portrait of 10,000 well to do 18th century gentlemen!

**Posted:** Tue Jul 19, 2011 10:31 am

string · Veteran Joined: 28 Feb 2011 Posts: 74

Double Post Shocker

**Posted:** Wed Jul 20, 2011 1:52 pm

pia ward · Decorated Joined: 14 Sep 2009 Posts: 231

New video up re the numbers which may help whoever is working on that. I don't understand what is going on with that.

http://www.youtube.com/user/WhiteRabbitYT#p/u/0/U8S70bIXPbg

I'm still reading through the wikis on the various names attached to the numbers which I guess is probably not important.

**Posted:** Thu Jul 21, 2011 1:26 pm

another_pilot_dwn · Unfettered Joined: 24 Sep 2008 Posts: 311

Recieved postcard via twitter convo, Thomas is worried he hasnt heard anything. asked for me to share UNFiltered Very Happy

**Posted:** Thu Jul 21, 2011 2:33 pm