Re: Time sink [was Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?]

2006-07-19 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed 12 Jul, a Google search for n.nfshost.com (quotes included) yielded exactly one matching page. Today, one week later, the same search results in over 22 *THOUSAND* matches. This thing spreads faster than the disease from The Stand... :-) -- Ben

Re: Time sink [was Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?]

2006-07-19 Thread Michael Costolo
On 7/19/06, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed 12 Jul, a Google search for n.nfshost.com (quotes included) yielded exactly one matching page. Today, one week later, the same search results in over 22 *THOUSAND* matches. This thing spreads faster than the disease from The Stand...

Re: Time sink [was Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?]

2006-07-14 Thread Mark Komarinski
Gregory Smith wrote: mm Yeah, I'm done! Now on to http://www.deathball.net/notpron/ Great, so how about a hint to get to 26? :) -Mark ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Time sink [was Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?]

2006-07-14 Thread Ben Scott
On 7/14/06, Mark Komarinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great, so how about a hint to get to 26? :) To get to 26 from 25? Or to get to 27 from 26? * SPOILER WARNING *** 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 * SPOILER

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

2006-07-13 Thread Python
On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 20:31 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On 7/12/06, Chris Linstid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I give up, what's the answer for 14? :) The answer for the URL for 14 (which also completes the quote on the page for 13, as mem noted) is actually present in this article:

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

2006-07-13 Thread Michael Costolo
On 7/13/06, Python [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 20:31 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On 7/12/06, Chris Linstid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I give up, what's the answer for 14? :) The answer for the URL for 14 (which also completes the quote on the page for 13, as mem noted)

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

2006-07-13 Thread Ben Scott
On 7/13/06, Michael Costolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday afternoon was blown all to hell because of this puzzle. Me too. I suspect the productivity of many GNHLUGers has plummeted in the past 24 hours. Cole, you're an EVIL MAN!!! ;-) -- Ben

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

2006-07-13 Thread Cole Tuininga
On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 09:30 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On 7/13/06, Michael Costolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday afternoon was blown all to hell because of this puzzle. Me too. I suspect the productivity of many GNHLUGers has plummeted in the past 24 hours. Cole, you're an EVIL

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

2006-07-13 Thread Karl
Cole Tuininga wrote: On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 09:30 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On 7/13/06, Michael Costolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday afternoon was blown all to hell because of this puzzle. Me too. I suspect the productivity of many GNHLUGers has plummeted in the past 24

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

2006-07-13 Thread Cole Tuininga
On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 10:45 -0400, Karl wrote: Could one of you smart guys give me a hint for 10? What could a black screen signify but blank? Use the source Luke... that is, the html source. -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

2006-07-13 Thread Michael Costolo
If anyone has any hints about how to get to 23 (solving has_9), I'd love to hear them. -Mike- ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Time sink [was Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?]

2006-07-13 Thread Mark Komarinski
Michael Costolo wrote: If anyone has any hints about how to get to 23 (solving has_9), I'd love to hear them. Same here. -Mark ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Time sink [was Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?]

2006-07-13 Thread Michael Costolo
On 7/13/06, Gregory Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ***On Thu 11:57a Jul 13 Mark Komarinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote*** Michael Costolo wrote: If anyone has any hints about how to get to 23 (solving has_9), I'd love to hear them. Same here. -Mark hint: 23 has 9 things Anyone get 28 yet?

Re: Time sink [was Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?]

2006-07-13 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 11:50:33AM -0400, Michael Costolo wrote: Economies are grinding to a halt all across the world as I have introduced this puzzle to a few Flickr groups... Y'all do realize that this is the memetic equivalent of the Star Trek Computer, compute the value of pi to the last

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

2006-07-13 Thread Ben Scott
On 7/13/06, Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could one of you smart guys give me a hint for 10? What could a black screen signify but blank? Use the source Luke... that is, the html source. A friend of mine said, There's nothing on the screen! My reply was: The answer may not be on

Re: Time sink [was Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?]

2006-07-13 Thread Mark E. Mallett
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:00:15PM -0400, Gregory Smith wrote: ***On Thu 11:57a Jul 13 Mark Komarinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote*** Michael Costolo wrote: If anyone has any hints about how to get to 23 (solving has_9), I'd love to hear them. Same here. -Mark hint: 23 has 9 things

Re: Time sink [was Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?]

2006-07-13 Thread Ben Scott
On 7/13/06, Michael Costolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just got 23 before you sent that. Duh. There's some Law of online forums that says you will see the answer to your question immediately after you post it. The probability of this increases proportionately to how obvious the answer is.

Re: Time sink [was Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?]

2006-07-13 Thread Travis Roy
We (here at work) made it to 30 yesterday. I gather that others on the list did, too. Is there a good payoff at least? ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

2006-07-13 Thread Michael Costolo
On 7/13/06, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/13/06, Michael Costolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anyone has any hints about how to get to 23 (solving has_9), I'd love to hear them. HEY!! Careful now! Some of us haven't got that far yet. Like me, I'm stuck on 17/18. (But I haven't

Re: Time sink [was Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?]

2006-07-13 Thread Mark E. Mallett
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:36:32PM -0400, Travis Roy wrote: We (here at work) made it to 30 yesterday. I gather that others on the list did, too. Is there a good payoff at least? I wish there was a fountain of youth, or a rainbow. All I got was a little unecessary smugness. Does it show?

Re: Time sink [was Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?]

2006-07-13 Thread Gregory Smith
***On Thu 12:33p Jul 13 Mark E. Mallett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote*** We (here at work) made it to 30 yesterday. I gather that others on the list did, too. mm Yeah, I'm done! Now on to http://www.deathball.net/notpron/ Greg

Re: Time sink [was Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?]

2006-07-13 Thread Bill Mullen
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:23:16 -0400, Jeff Kinz wrote: On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 11:50:33AM -0400, Michael Costolo wrote: Economies are grinding to a halt all across the world as I have introduced this puzzle to a few Flickr groups... Y'all do realize that this is the memetic equivalent of

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

2006-07-13 Thread Karl
Cole Tuininga wrote: On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 10:45 -0400, Karl wrote: Could one of you smart guys give me a hint for 10? What could a black screen signify but blank? Use the source Luke... that is, the html source. Thanks! Karl ___

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

2006-07-13 Thread Karl
Cole Tuininga wrote: On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 10:45 -0400, Karl wrote: Could one of you smart guys give me a hint for 10? What could a black screen signify but blank? Use the source Luke... that is, the html source. Thanks, that got me up to 17. Stuck again. Karl

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

2006-07-13 Thread Cole Tuininga
On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 17:46 -0400, Karl wrote: Thanks, that got me up to 17. Stuck again. It's the 17th number of a certain sequence. You need to find the eighteenth. -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Code Energy (http://www.code-energy.com/) ___

3KID, is this a new operating system?

2006-07-12 Thread Larry Cook
I was dropping my daughter off at Camp Invention this morning and saw a minivan with a license plate of 3KID-OS. I must be slacking off in the geek department as I've never heard of this OS before. ;-) Larry ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

2006-07-12 Thread Cole Tuininga
On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 09:43 -0400, Larry Cook wrote: I was dropping my daughter off at Camp Invention this morning and saw a minivan with a license plate of 3KID-OS. I must be slacking off in the geek department as I've never heard of this OS before. ;-) The sad thing is that it took me a

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

2006-07-12 Thread Ben Scott
On 7/12/06, Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try this out: http://n.nfshost.com/ How far can you make it? Cute. But, I admit to being stumped for what the URL for 8 (decimal) should be. 7 (decimal) is encoded as an ASCII representation of binary. Thus:

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

2006-07-12 Thread Gregory Smith
French! ***On Wed 11:11a Jul 12, 2006 Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote*** On 7/12/06, Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try this out: http://n.nfshost.com/ How far can you make it? Cute. But, I admit to being stumped for what the URL for 8 (decimal) should be. 7 (decimal) is

OT: pointless number game (WAS: Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?)

2006-07-12 Thread Christopher Chisholm
same here. 8 is a mystery. I tried 10n (i think that's correct octal notation), still nothing. lets DOS the server in vengeance :-) -chris c Ben Scott wrote: On 7/12/06, Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try this out: http://n.nfshost.com/ How far can you make it? Cute. But, I

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

2006-07-12 Thread Cole Tuininga
On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 13:17 -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: I think I'm just stupid... I can't seem to figure out 4 :( It's case sensitive, if that helps. -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

2006-07-12 Thread Christopher Chisholm
you probably have... just remember it's case-sensitive Paul Lussier wrote: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But none of those worked. Now I'm not going to get anything done today. This is going to drive me crazy. It's all your fault! Crazy I tell ya! Crazy? I was

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

2006-07-12 Thread Mark E. Mallett
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 11:36:10AM -0400, Gregory Smith wrote: French! yep :-) (got it before I saw this tho) mm ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

2006-07-12 Thread Ben Scott
On 7/12/06, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cute. But, I admit to being stumped for what the URL for 8 (decimal) should be. Y'all can stop emailing me the answer for 8 now. :-) The sad part is, I took and passed two years of French in High School. Not that I remember any of it...

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

2006-07-12 Thread Mark E. Mallett
But it was more more fun to find via google-imbd-some french movie with sept in the title. funny, I had a more serendipitous connection (I had actually been using the word just yesterday) OK, smarty, how do I get to 14 then? (please, please, please) That's the one I am sitting on now.

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

2006-07-12 Thread Mark Komarinski
Gregory Smith wrote: But it was more more fun to find via google-imbd-some french movie with sept in the title. OK, smarty, how do I get to 14 then? (please, please, please) Think cooking. -Mark ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

2006-07-12 Thread Mark Komarinski
Mark Komarinski wrote: Gregory Smith wrote: But it was more more fun to find via google-imbd-some french movie with sept in the title. OK, smarty, how do I get to 14 then? (please, please, please) Think cooking. Oops. Brain fart. Wrong number. This is what I get trying

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

2006-07-12 Thread Drew Van Zandt
I'm stuck there too... the only thing that comes to mind is guilty by association but I haven't expressed that in a form that works, so it's probably wrong. --DTVZ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

2006-07-12 Thread Christopher Chisholm
i'm thinking maybe a date, like valentine's day, or something. my reasoning is that the most well known unlucky 13th thing is a friday. -chris Drew Van Zandt wrote: I'm stuck there too... the only thing that comes to mind is guilty by association but I haven't expressed that in a form

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

2006-07-12 Thread Mark E. Mallett
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 02:27:05PM -0400, Drew Van Zandt wrote: I'm stuck there too... the only thing that comes to mind is guilty by association I kept thinking that, too. but I haven't expressed that in a form that works, so it's probably wrong. ditto. still, it seems that the ... is

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

2006-07-12 Thread Gregory Smith
I'm stuck there too... the only thing that comes to mind is guilty by association I kept thinking that, too. OK, I got it, y'all are close, but it's a different phrase, not very well known (to me) Greg

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

2006-07-12 Thread Brian Chabot
Gregory Smith wrote: OK, I got it, y'all are close, but it's a different phrase, not very well known (to me) What number was that again? I'm still stuck on 14... I'm thinking I got the syntax wrong, but I've tried all the varients I could for: 14, Valentines Day ... (from Bingo) 14, not

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

2006-07-12 Thread Mark E. Mallett
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 03:16:55PM -0400, Brian Chabot wrote: Gregory Smith wrote: OK, I got it, y'all are close, but it's a different phrase, not very well known (to me) What number was that again? I'm still stuck on 14... I'm thinking I got the syntax wrong, but I've tried

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

2006-07-12 Thread Michael Costolo
On 7/12/06, Mark E. Mallett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 03:16:55PM -0400, Brian Chabot wrote: Gregory Smith wrote: OK, I got it, y'all are close, but it's a different phrase, not very well known (to me) What number was that again? I'm still stuck on 14... I'm

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

2006-07-12 Thread Mark E. Mallett
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 05:04:30PM -0400, Michael Costolo wrote: Anyone else get to 20? I'm guessing that's the end. 20 is not the end :-) mm ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

2006-07-12 Thread Cole Tuininga
On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 17:04 -0400, Michael Costolo wrote: Anyone else get to 20? I'm guessing that's the end. Fun game though. Actually, the fun/torture doesn't end until 30. 8) -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

2006-07-12 Thread Chris Linstid
Ok, I give up, what's the answer for 14? :) - Chris On Jul 12, 2006, at 4:10 PM, Mark E. Mallett wrote: On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 03:16:55PM -0400, Brian Chabot wrote: Gregory Smith wrote: OK, I got it, y'all are close, but it's a different phrase, not very well known (to me)

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

2006-07-12 Thread Mark E. Mallett
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 05:18:45PM -0400, mike ledoux wrote: On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 02:59:30PM -0400, Gregory Smith wrote: I'm stuck there too... the only thing that comes to mind is guilty by association I kept thinking that, too. OK, I got it, y'all are close, but it's a

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

2006-07-12 Thread Ben Scott
On 7/12/06, Chris Linstid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I give up, what's the answer for 14? :) The answer for the URL for 14 (which also completes the quote on the page for 13, as mem noted) is actually present in this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_%28number%29 Irritatingly, I