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Re: _why's site is back up

#121

Here is the data from IDEAS, NOTES and TEST, converted to PDF format. It's somewhat readable (yes, the files are HP PCL format): Ideas: a bizarre set of story ideas http://www.scribd.com/doc/119138391/Ideas Notes: life tips http://www.scribd.com/doc/119138393/Notes Test: A typed test document http://www.scribd.com/doc/119138394/Test-1

Here's transcriptions of the texts. There might be some errors, please post corrections (make sure they are transcription errors, and not errors from the original document - there are quite a few of those, perhaps intentional). On Pastebin: Ideas: http://pastebin.com/WSfmLDA5 Life tips: http://pastebin.com/PTF4cfDJ Test: http://pastebin.com/BExqVKpv -------------- Full texts (same as Pastebin): -------------- IDEAS F…

/me puts tinfoil hat on

    Adam and Eve are riding bicycles (naked) in the Garden of
    Eden. They decide to have a race to see who is the
    fastest person in the world. Adam's wheel pops and he
    uses the snake St Satan as a replacement tube. $4
Imagine turning a snake into a bike tube. You'd end up putting the tail in the mouth. The symbol for a snake eating its own tail is an Ouroboros (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros) representing cyclicality (hohoho bicycles!) especially in "eternal return".

Funnily enough this cyclicality is mentioned in the idea where a man ends up being a dead albino during the day and a wild horse at night. There's a cycle of the man going from dead albino to a wild horse and even a "Rising from the grave" (http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/rise+from+the+grave) in the idea's description.

Oh.. and here's some info about the symbolism of horses: http://www.whats-your-sign.com/horse-symbol-meanings.html

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There's quite a few mentions of love and marriage across the texts. There's also a date on the last message (DESOLEE). Could they be related?

Oooh actually look at the second to last point of NOTES and then look at DESOLEE. Of course 18th of April not in "1 hour" but still ;)

One bit I found interesting in NOTES was "avoid using pseudonyms". Could this be something to do with _why detaching from his persona for the last few years?

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  deterioration of the
  team "social" has made
  this a lost art!!
  perfect timing
I think it's supposed to be "term" not "team". I think we all can guess where's he's getting at here though :) (/me looks up the last point in NOTES)

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/me takes tinfoil hat off

Re: _why's site is back up

#124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> We should be better than making this into news. So the most favored Rubyist has returned from hiding with a fun new puzzle. Further down, folks are posting interesting stuff about it. But the finger wagging – people just can't get enough of telling people what they should do and feel. And apparently that's what they want, for behold this top comment.

Yup, you caught me. My point though, is that _why has made it clear that he wants to be left alone, and this HN endeavour seems to violate that. Maybe you're right and it is a new puzzle. And maybe he's back. (For what it's worth I posted that before most of the investigation.) Nevertheless though, given _why's wishes, this makes me uncomfortable, and I don't think it's unreasonable for me to acknowledge that.

Given that his web site is back up with an interesting message, I'd say it's no longer clear that he wants to be left alone.

Re: _why's site is back up

#125

Here is the data from IDEAS, NOTES and TEST, converted to PDF format. It's somewhat readable (yes, the files are HP PCL format): Ideas: a bizarre set of story ideas http://www.scribd.com/doc/119138391/Ideas Notes: life tips http://www.scribd.com/doc/119138393/Notes Test: A typed test document http://www.scribd.com/doc/119138394/Test-1

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Re: _why's site is back up

#126
post #117
post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Hello, friends and uncles!" https://vimeo.com/5047563

while watching this I noticed that the kid in the "tech today live" video mentions his live stream being "usually at saturdays at four pm-." I was unable to make out the rest of what he says, it's around 12:35-12:45 if you would like to hear it yourself. I feel like _why referenced this in SPOOL/DESOLEE with "April the 18th from like four o clock to let's say twelve." April 18th of 2009 (the year this video was made)…

he says "usually at Saturdays at 4pm eastern standard time"

Re: _why's site is back up

#127
Facts:

0. Since 2012-12-09, the following content was available at http://whytheluckystiff.net/

    Public Print Queue

    SPOOL/TEST	2012-12-09T14:12Z
    SPOOL/IDEAS	2012-12-13T23:26Z
    SPOOL/NOTES	2012-12-19T00:28Z
0.0. The style of writing and handwriting corresponds to that of Why.

0.1. Prints are very regular. There are 4.4 days between the first two, and 5 between the last two.

1. Going to those addresses yields, in essence, the following data: http://d.pr/i/qwo8

2. Now the following content is available:

    Public Print Queue

    SPOOL/DESOLEE	2012-01-06T08:21Z
2.0. The headers that are sent back from the server changed. The difference is shown in this picture: http://i.imgur.com/6mMPQ.png

2.1. It happened within 12 hours of this very thread.

2.2. DESOLEE is the french for "sorry", from a woman.

2.3. It is 2012, not 2013 (may be a typo).

3. Going to this address yields: http://www.scribd.com/doc/119155590/DESOLEE

3.0. A date of April the 18th is stated as the return of the printer queue.

Re: _why's site is back up

#129
post #49
post #24

"A guy with an an enormous chin has the chin surgically removed and is promptly married." Classic _why, if you ask me...

fwiw, if you're interested in the style of poetry, his main inspiration was Daniil Kharms, who has some great collections - Today I Wrote Nothing is excellent.

I don't know anything about this paparazzi crusade or this _why fellow, but I do like me some absurdist poetry. Kharms is pretty good...highly recommend Russel Edson http://www.amazon.com/Tunnel-Selected-Poems-Russell-Edson/dp..., and for prose Donald Barthelme (e.g. Don B's last _fake_ tweet https://twitter.com/donb/status/273048668519690240)

edit: posted link to best intro to R.E.

Re: _why's site is back up

#130

Am I the only one who finds this guy's affectations more than slightly annoying?

Mission accomplished: you brought all the wet blankets out. Have you created anything recently of note? Let me know when so I can go into the comments of your thread and pour water all over it.
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