I must say that having a day off at the beginning of the week is certainly nice. I spent most of the day watching some of episodes of Lost. I downloaded the first 16 episodes of Season 2 and watched a pile. I really was more interested in some of the episodes at the beginning when Desmond was still in the hatch. I wanted to get a few things clear. It’s amazing what you’ll learn after rewatching some of this stuff. And no Tamara, there was no scene in the first 11 episodes of Season 2 where Jack & Ana-Lucia made out. Sorry. it’s all in your head!
I also managed to do something constructive today and cleaned out two of the fish tanks. I’m leaving the small tank for Tamara since its her plant infested one and despite being told that I could clean it, I’d rather wait and let her do it since she knows how she likes the plants set up.
I’m back to work tomorrow and the rest of the week. Next week is my last week before going to Pittsburgh for a week. I was talking to a guy from IBM (did I mention this?) and he’s looking into something for me and Ho (the guy I’m going with) to do while in Pitt. Doesn’t matter anyway. I’ll just be excited to be travelling again. Plus, I know that on Wednesday night I’ll be in the hotel watching Lost. Hehehe. Sad isn’t it?
I left the little encoded message for some of you who might be able to figure it out. I can tell you that it’s coded in a method that I made myself. It’s a really old code but has some new updates to it. In fact, after posting that message I tested it out and found that my coding system has a minor flaw in it but I have not been able to pinpoint it exactly. At some point I will. The message itself is quite basic and in fact is coded correctly but the likelihood that you’ll figure out what it means before time is up, is very unlikely. So, if you really are anxious to figure out what it means, read the second page of this article, and it tells you how to decode the message. Whether you can or not, only time will tell.
Ok, if you are reading this part of the message, then you REALLY want to know what the message I wrote in code means. If you’re bright enough, and have some serious time, you might be able to figure it out based on this.
First off, the title is a message all by itself and will tell you what the body is about. The body of the message is in fact a single paragraph, despite it showing otherwise. Treat it as if it was one long line, separated by punctuation.
Now, here’s the process you need to use to decode the message. It ain’t simple.
1) Take the entire string of characters for the section you want to decode (title or body) and convert each character to an ASCII number. Convert each ASCII number to its hexadecimal equivalent. Place all HEX numbers together in one long string.
2) Write out the hex number backwards. So if you had 12345ABCDE then it would be EDCBA54321
3) Take the first and last character from the result of step 2 and place them together. Continue doing this working your way to the middle. IE: 12345678 = 18273645
4) Perform step 2 again on the result of step 3
5) Perform step 3 again on the result of step 4
6) Perform step 2 again on the result of step 5
7) Swap the first two characters from each other and continue as such along the result of step 6. IE: 12345678 = 21436587
8) Perform step 2 on the result of step 7
9) You should now have what looks like a random string of characters and numbers together. There will always be an even amount of numbers and letters in this string. Break the string into sets of two letter and number combinations (in order, IE 123456 12 34 56). Convert each of those pairs from hex to decimal and then translate the decimal number into an ASCII character. The result will be the decoded message, if you performed the translation correctly.
And to add to the help, here is the fully encoded version of my full name, “Matthew Klem”
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Have fun. If you figure out the message, email it to me!
