this is the thing about bees
Oct. 6th, 2008 01:07 amYesterday my mum and I went to see an Italian movie about a philisophy grad who works at a really creepy telemarketing office. It was pretty funny. Then we went to a bookstore which I judged Pretentious by its SF to Australian Biography ratio (one. fucking. shelf), but still bought this second hand because zombies! I also had a look at the Music section, where I found an amusing book full of photographs of rock stars giving you the finger. Most of the chicks in it were either seminude or on motorbikes or both - I thought there were more that were not, but half of them turned out to be dudes on closer inspection and the other half were the Donnas and Joan Jett. Mum said afterwards that the movie was much deeper than she was expecting, but I suspect this is because we are too used to ticky-box cinematography from Hollywood. Well, most Hollywood.
Tonight I saw Tropic Thunder with Cassie and it was totally brilliant. There was only one real ticky-box moment - I mean, there's always A Gay One and when the dudes start talking about Girls Back Home it's time to start taking bets. However the movie in general was totally hilarious and made of win and I suggest you all go watch it. Also surprising levels of metacommentary, once again, you know, for Hollywood. Later we walked up to Hyde Park where the bus stops were and hung out a bit before catching the bus. We saw not one but TWO possums (and a rat). One of the possums climbed onto a tree branch and chittered at us. I couldn't decide if it was adorable or creepy. What the hell, why not both!
Then I came home and did some amateur code-breaking via somebody's Postsecret. I had a hunch that P was I because it appeared standalone. Next I listed all the doubled-up letters: v, s and y. I correlated these with letters that actually appear as doubles in real words, of which there are fourteen, and then matched those with "vy" to come up with ten pairs. Next I hit "zvyyf" - there had to be limited words with bee, doo etc. inside them. Unfortunately dictionary.com doesn't recognise *vyy* search terms and wikipedia was worse than useless so I googled till I found a list of english words I could download and search in .txt - I ended up with about twelve that matched, but the one that stood out immediately was "sorry" - after all, this IS postsecret. "pt zvyyf" worked as "I'm sorry" if one assumes apostrophes are left out of the whole thing. I started writing out the whole thing with original letters in caps and decoded ones in lowercase, but as soon as I did I realised that the first bit made sense as "I'm too" and "fvb" had to be "you." Once I'd filled in "I'm too scared to say I love you" I noticed that some letters lined up and then I wrote out the alphabets and had a facepalm because it was just placeshifted so the alphabet started at H, and the letter order was the same. If I'd checked for that once I had a couple of letters it would have been much faster, I expect actual codebreaking programs cycle through those as a matter of course. I was working on hunches over math. Incidentally, whoever wrote the secret missed a letter - "aops" should be "aopz" or it translates as "thil."
I have finally laid my hands on some Radiohead. Maaaan I've missed these guys since the harddrive crash that claimed them.
There is a stealthy mosquito in my room.
Tonight I saw Tropic Thunder with Cassie and it was totally brilliant. There was only one real ticky-box moment - I mean, there's always A Gay One and when the dudes start talking about Girls Back Home it's time to start taking bets. However the movie in general was totally hilarious and made of win and I suggest you all go watch it. Also surprising levels of metacommentary, once again, you know, for Hollywood. Later we walked up to Hyde Park where the bus stops were and hung out a bit before catching the bus. We saw not one but TWO possums (and a rat). One of the possums climbed onto a tree branch and chittered at us. I couldn't decide if it was adorable or creepy. What the hell, why not both!
Then I came home and did some amateur code-breaking via somebody's Postsecret. I had a hunch that P was I because it appeared standalone. Next I listed all the doubled-up letters: v, s and y. I correlated these with letters that actually appear as doubles in real words, of which there are fourteen, and then matched those with "vy" to come up with ten pairs. Next I hit "zvyyf" - there had to be limited words with bee, doo etc. inside them. Unfortunately dictionary.com doesn't recognise *vyy* search terms and wikipedia was worse than useless so I googled till I found a list of english words I could download and search in .txt - I ended up with about twelve that matched, but the one that stood out immediately was "sorry" - after all, this IS postsecret. "pt zvyyf" worked as "I'm sorry" if one assumes apostrophes are left out of the whole thing. I started writing out the whole thing with original letters in caps and decoded ones in lowercase, but as soon as I did I realised that the first bit made sense as "I'm too" and "fvb" had to be "you." Once I'd filled in "I'm too scared to say I love you" I noticed that some letters lined up and then I wrote out the alphabets and had a facepalm because it was just placeshifted so the alphabet started at H, and the letter order was the same. If I'd checked for that once I had a couple of letters it would have been much faster, I expect actual codebreaking programs cycle through those as a matter of course. I was working on hunches over math. Incidentally, whoever wrote the secret missed a letter - "aops" should be "aopz" or it translates as "thil."
I have finally laid my hands on some Radiohead. Maaaan I've missed these guys since the harddrive crash that claimed them.
There is a stealthy mosquito in my room.
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