[DROP FOUND] Storm starts stopping - 4/23/07

Aja · Post by **Aja** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:33 pm

Drop recovered at Marsh Chapel at Boston University on Monday 4/23/07. Recovered by Honeybee with help from Marla, Panda, and Kellylen (and the rest of the chat!).

Found under a pew in the center of the balcony, no envelope:

It is another page from Dr. Seuss' "Oh Say Can You Say." It is the last poem/tongue twister from the book.

Text:

"The storm starts
when the drops start dropping.
When the drops stop dropping
then the storm starts stopping."

The binary at the top of the page translates to hex:

65 6d 70 74 79 20 42 6f 78 20 53 65 61 74 73

which translates to:

empty Box Seats

(Thanks Jester, skunkwaffle, surrealisticpill, ignatzmouse)

The numbers across the rest of the page are once again guitar tabs:

which translate to:

NO AUDIENCE NO CURTAIN CALL

Thanks to Deagol for the nifty guitar tab decoder.

ignatzmouse · Post by **ignatzmouse** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:41 pm

I doubt it makes a difference, but the binary to hex to ascii actually capitalizes as:

empty Box Seats

marlasinger · Post by **marlasinger** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:42 pm

you guys are seriously wicked. And for future reference - the skype conference call is BRILLIANT! I'll be available ANY time to do it again, even if I'm not op-ing and we want to be able to have a three way. Hah, three ways.

I think I can do up to four people, which is great, and I have unlimited minutes, so there's no worries there either.

Just let me know! You can always call me (Kenny has my #) if you need me for a conference call. I work at my computer.

selizabeth · Post by **selizabeth** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:48 pm

do you think that's moss on the house? north side maybe?

kellylen · Post by **kellylen** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:49 pm

aww you guys suck I jsut spent forever typing the binary in in order to decode it D:

00110110 00110101 00100000 00110110
01100100 00100000 00110111 00110000
00100000 00110111 00110100 00100000
00110111 00111001 00100000 00110010
00110000 00100000 00110100 00110010
00100000 00110110 01100110 00100000
00110111 00111000 00100000 00110010
00110000 00100000 00110101 00110011
00100000 00110110 00110101 00100000
00110110 00110001 00100000 00110111
00110100 00100000 00110111 00110011

sparkybennett · Post by **sparkybennett** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:52 pm

my initial thought is that Mr Zipp needs us/Maddy to tell more people

possibly Bree, Daniel, &Jonas

sparkybennett · Post by **sparkybennett** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:53 pm

possibly this picture is Jonas with his big house
Bree was the girl with the pole
and Daniel the stick figure with the car? I know that is REALLY stretching it !

selizabeth · Post by **selizabeth** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:53 pm

we haven't been able to take much from the drawn pictures so far. maybe we should be looking closer at them.

kellylen · Post by **kellylen** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:55 pm

it looks like an apple tree to me

Ziola · Post by **Ziola** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:59 pm

So, here are my thoughts on what was found. Empty Box Seats means to me that the person/people who Maddison is supposed to be relaying information to are not paying attention. And if Mr. Zipps audience doesn't show up soon, there will be no second chance for him to warn them.

As for the drawing, all I can think of is Newton's Law of Gravity, since there is one apple on the ground

selizabeth · Post by **selizabeth** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 2:00 pm

http://www.appletreetheatre.com/history/history.html

i found this.
apple tree theatre in chicago.

in one site it says it's located on the north side of the street.
also in the north side of chicago.

i'm really running with thiis moss theory here. lol!

Sami · Post by **Sami** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 2:11 pm

Ziola wrote:Empty Box Seats means to me that the person/people who Maddison is supposed to be relaying information to are not paying attention. And if Mr. Zipps audience doesn't show up soon, there will be no second chance for him to warn them.

Really good theory

krmurr87 · Post by **krmurr87** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 2:25 pm

is that two apples in his mouth? or his tongue lol?

and is it weird that the second I heard the drop was in Boston and saw Box Seats I thought Sox Beats ....and then Red Sox?

Samara · Post by **Samara** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 2:27 pm

the apple doesn't fall far from the tree

Ziola · Post by **Ziola** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 2:27 pm

hehehe...not at all. Especially since they won last night