If your engineers as self-satisfied about finding her as it sounds, then they'll be happy to describe their process over a beer or two. I've never known an engineer who doesn't like discussing how they solved some riddle.
Help me figure out how I lost this bet to an engineer
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Re: Help me figure out how I lost this bet to an engineer
#22Option 1: Step 1) Find copies of yearbooks going back a few years, 2) find her face in the yearbook.
Option 2: Step 1) Search facebook for people who went to the same high school as she did in the probable time frame. 2) Look for her in that set, or in the set of friends that the people who matched the search have.
Feel free to sprinkle in face detection on the yearbook/facebook photos to make it more engineer-ey.
As a matter of fact, how did they find out what high school she went to? I can't imagine you telling them that if you were not providing much information about her to anyone else.
Re: Help me figure out how I lost this bet to an engineer
#23I'm the engineer he's referring to. I still get a laugh seeing Justin's amazement when we told him her name. To answer a few questions... - This isn't the actual photo but looks similar, except that she was alone. Justin was afraid of reposting the same photo after the results of handing over a photo last time :) - There was no useful exif data in the image. - We knew her high school and approximate age in Austin, bu…
Re: Help me figure out how I lost this bet to an engineer
#24I'm the engineer he's referring to. I still get a laugh seeing Justin's amazement when we told him her name. To answer a few questions... - This isn't the actual photo but looks similar, except that she was alone. Justin was afraid of reposting the same photo after the results of handing over a photo last time :) - There was no useful exif data in the image. - We knew her high school and approximate age in Austin, bu…
Re: Help me figure out how I lost this bet to an engineer
#25I'm the engineer he's referring to. I still get a laugh seeing Justin's amazement when we told him her name. To answer a few questions... - This isn't the actual photo but looks similar, except that she was alone. Justin was afraid of reposting the same photo after the results of handing over a photo last time :) - There was no useful exif data in the image. - We knew her high school and approximate age in Austin, bu…
tineye.com or similar?
Re: Help me figure out how I lost this bet to an engineer
#26I'm the engineer he's referring to. I still get a laugh seeing Justin's amazement when we told him her name. To answer a few questions... - This isn't the actual photo but looks similar, except that she was alone. Justin was afraid of reposting the same photo after the results of handing over a photo last time :) - There was no useful exif data in the image. - We knew her high school and approximate age in Austin, bu…
Justin's own phone leaked his location (through some google-lattitude, or Yelp like service or perhaps gps directly) while Justin drove (or rode with her in a taxi) to her home.
Re: Help me figure out how I lost this bet to an engineer
#27Why not ask them? If your engineers as self-satisfied about finding her as it sounds, then they'll be happy to describe their process over a beer or two. I've never known an engineer who doesn't like discussing how they solved some riddle.
Re: Help me figure out how I lost this bet to an engineer
#28I'm the engineer he's referring to. I still get a laugh seeing Justin's amazement when we told him her name. To answer a few questions... - This isn't the actual photo but looks similar, except that she was alone. Justin was afraid of reposting the same photo after the results of handing over a photo last time :) - There was no useful exif data in the image. - We knew her high school and approximate age in Austin, bu…
At that point, if the bartender knows some of her backstory or friends or anything - maybe only has a first name - things get much simpler.
Re: Help me figure out how I lost this bet to an engineer
#29I'm the engineer he's referring to. I still get a laugh seeing Justin's amazement when we told him her name. To answer a few questions... - This isn't the actual photo but looks similar, except that she was alone. Justin was afraid of reposting the same photo after the results of handing over a photo last time :) - There was no useful exif data in the image. - We knew her high school and approximate age in Austin, bu…
Re: Help me figure out how I lost this bet to an engineer
#30I'm the engineer he's referring to. I still get a laugh seeing Justin's amazement when we told him her name. To answer a few questions... - This isn't the actual photo but looks similar, except that she was alone. Justin was afraid of reposting the same photo after the results of handing over a photo last time :) - There was no useful exif data in the image. - We knew her high school and approximate age in Austin, bu…
Justin's own phone leaked his location (through some google-lattitude, or Yelp like service or perhaps gps directly) while Justin drove (or rode with her in a taxi) to her home.