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Dante
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And Stockholm:
http://stockholm.craigslist.org/mis/400873983.html
Back to Buffalo: It seems pretty clear to me that these are the names of the 13 people who died in the Miskatonic cave accident. I see Adrianna's name there. I'm sorry, Howard.
As she says in Stockholm:
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I lean over and run my fingers across their faces. Bodies lost.
Lost in the quest of knowledge. Science. |
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Kyle August
Srinivasa Bhaskaracharaya
Erich Carroll
Dee Smith
Haddon Van Doren
J. Robert Cooper
Hiro Kusekabe
Miles Ross
Nathan Veneziano
David Young
George Ghyka
Dan Marco
Adrianna Solovine |
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Biff
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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Back to Buffalo: It seems pretty clear to me that these are the names of the 13 people who died in the Miskatonic cave accident. I see Adrianna's name there. I'm sorry, Howard.
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Kyle August
Srinivasa Bhaskaracharaya
Erich Carroll
Dee Smith
Haddon Van Doren
J. Robert Cooper
Hiro Kusekabe
Miles Ross
Nathan Veneziano
David Young
George Ghyka
Dan Marco
Adrianna Solovine |
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I guess that was my submission from last week then. |
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Dante
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HPhack
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Dante wrote: |
| Back to Buffalo: It seems pretty clear to me that these are the names of the 13 people who died in the Miskatonic cave accident. I see Adrianna's name there. I'm sorry, Howard. |
Fucking hell. I don't know what I'm supposed to feel about anything anymore.
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HPhack
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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Kyle August
Srinivasa Bhaskaracharaya
Erich Carroll
Dee Smith
Haddon Van Doren
J. Robert Cooper
Hiro Kusekabe
Miles Ross
Nathan Veneziano
David Young
George Ghyka
Dan Marco
Adrianna Solovine |
God, I've been staring at that list now for half an hour. It is amazing how you just bury stuff down, but then as soon as you see a name those memories comes screaming back out from nowhere.
Dr. Bhaskaracharaya and Dr. Carroll were on my thesis committee. Dr. Bhaskaracharaya, on top of being a top notch simulation theorist, also made me wish there were more women among CS faculty. I couldn't have imagined a more supportive thesis advisor. I'd had a couple of classes with Dr. Van Doren, but he was an "engineer in geek's clothing" and never cared much for hardware theory (or I'd have been an EE major instead.) Dr. Smith and Dr. August were Physics faculty -- Dr. August was the head of the research project. Even at the "team picnic" the two of them seemed aloof, so totally gone into their own heads they had completely forgotten how to socialize with others.
Miles was the poor bastard that took my place with Hiro. Miles was one of the few real friends I had among the grad students. Before he left, I teased him that he better keep his hands off my girlfriend, and he joked back that if he wanted to make a pass at Adrianna he would do it in an environment where they could both shower that day. I was a pallbearer at his funeral. Pallbearer of an empty fucking coffin that his wailing mother insisted be put in the ground in the family plot in Delaware. All that was in it was his high school baseball letter jacket and a picture taken when he graduated undergrad. The six of us walked slowly, as if we were carrying a huge weight, as if we had to help pretend Miles' body was actually in there. Just so it could be under the earth again so she could stop mourning the loss of her son.
I think I'll put a shot of whisky in my next cup of coffee.
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Biff
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 9:00 pm Post subject: |
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God, I've been staring at that list now for half an hour. It is amazing how you just bury stuff down, but then as soon as you see a name those memories comes screaming back out from nowhere.
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I think I'll put a shot of whisky in my next cup of coffee. |
Sorry man,
I didn't think the result of my query would cause you that much pain.
Sorry again,
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Mapmaker
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Dav Flamerock
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Just a question, how does one search all of the Craigslist locations? I can only get it to search one CL location at a time, and I can still never find 'em. |
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Biff
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Just a question, how does one search all of the Craigslist locations? I can only get it to search one CL location at a time, and I can still never find 'em. |
I used crazedlist.org and it exported that RSS for me.
If you copy/past from This post and save it in a text file as a .opml, you can import it to Google reader to search all the CLs
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HPhack
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 9:47 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry man,
I didn't think the result of my query would cause you that much pain.
Sorry again,
~B |
Nothing to be sorry about, Biff. If it is time to face my past, then it is time to face my past. Burying it sure hasn't help.
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Dante
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Biff wrote: |
I used crazedlist.org and it exported that RSS for me.
If you copy/past from This post and save it in a text file as a .opml, you can import it to Google reader to search all the CLs |
Um, well thanks for doing this, but when I try to import it, I am told that it isn't in a proper opml format.
And Howard, if nothing else, maybe resurrecting all of this now will lead to some answers about your friend Miles and everyone else. Clearly, someone thinks that whatever happened in that cave is relevant -- whether it's BA picking up on some vibrations in the air or whether some fool is feeding her the names. I just hope that they aren't trying to exploit that tragedy just for some twisted game.  |
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Dav Flamerock
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| Ah. But your RSS doesn't work... this forum settings cut off some of the end of your RSS feed. You'd have to try to post it all by itself (no coding, no intro) and hope it's just small enough to fit in without getting cut off. |
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Mkaos
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for doing this, Biff!
If it won't work on the forums, you could always put it on the wiki 
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Mapmaker
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Sinyx
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No, but my bet is that he's the dude behind this Lucky5 program. Since it seems like the buildings in BA's dream world symbolize computers in our real world, I'm thinking the "garage" houses the central computer that the Lucky5 info is feeding into.
Some of this is taken from my dream, so here it is so you can weed out the unimportant details |
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