Lonelygirl15

Since the vials contain a colorless gas, you could destroy the contents and still tell Walter that you didn't. That should blow his mind.

This may be a little out there and I'm not sure if this does what you're looking for, but...

There's a mod for Half Life 2 called Garry's Mod. It's a tool that allows you to have fun with the physics model in Half Life 2. Once I built a car in about 90 seconds out of a couple of vending machines ...

2) The book -- while Walter had said that we wouldn't need to worry about the text itself, he emphasized that the "8"th edition was important. But recalling the previous puzzle, was there anything about the book (besides the edition #) that was important? Was the fact that it was a chemistry ...

Try http://toad-one.org/tools/irc/

Some of us were discussing the possibility yesterday that the DNA sequence that we need is located in the library where the catalog card came from. We already know that it isn't in the book itself (thank you, random student working in the library!), but it could actually be in the catalog drawer ...

The morse code is:
which translates to: 2Q3CNM

which takes you to: http://tinyurl.com/2Q3CNM

Now we need someone to pick this up!

I use GAIM, which supports AIM, MSN, IRC, and a bunch of other chat protocols. Plus no ads. You can get it from http://gaim.sourceforge.net/

I've tried the LG15 chat once and it slowed my computer down, and eventually made my browser crash. I prefer IRC.

All I know is, when the next puzzle comes, I'm going to be in #operationaphid trying to work through it with whoever else is there with something to contribute.

With regard to using the forum vs LG15 chat vs IRC:

(1) the lg15 chat slows my home computer down, and I have a pretty beefy gaming rig ...

I dunno, but sending angry letters might have the opposite effect you're going for.

One time, I volunteered to help clean up a beach, picking up trash, etc. Some guy that lived nearby angrily asked one of the other people why it took us so long to come by and do it. After being told we were ...

The picture is on Cleveland Tower at Princeton. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_University

Can you explain what you just did there and why? I don't always get the math.

Ziola did multiplications. 7(-11) = -77, for example. From past puzzles, these weren't to be multiplied, so I think it's safe to say we shouldn't consider that.

From past puzzles, the first number refers to a letter ...

Chainlink fence, OOH your shoulders are tense
My tender touch on your back at no expense
Like bit torrent... we're peer-to-peer
So lets make out like Pill and that deer

PLEASE girl... come a little closer
I'm playing your notes like a sensual composer
Sidewinders, bodyslams and Sizzlean streams ...

I think I've got all the initials positively identified:

K.P.H.
D.L.L.
G.T.K.
D.M.A.
M.B.C.
T.C.M.
J.C.N.
P.S.R.
D.T.A.
C.R.N.
S.B.C.

I used these screenshots, by the way, so feel free to critique:

Shot 1
Shot 2
Shot 3
Shot 4

Thanks for this. I think what you have as "D.M.A" is actually ...

lonelyelendi wrote:In the back of that screenshot, this photograph is visible:



Who could this be?

It's totally a stormtrooper helmet. Move along.