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Clue #108 - Fragment Code "44KU2VKQ" & Sign Language Clue










Fragment Code "44KU2VKQ" was hinted at yesterday on Ninja's Blog and was photographed and posted while we Americans slept.. The video fragment on hansoexposed.com is of Mittelwerk saying, "We all know what happened. The DHARMA Initiative failed."

Sign Language Clue
Remember the "nanite" glyph that we finally found on Trevtrevtrevor's Flickr page? His page was updated with a glyph for "Chocolates". The caption for the Chocolates glyph is "call tom k yegato". Also, if you go to Sublymonal.com and type in Chocolates you get "call tom k yegato"
If you type TOM K YEGATO into a phone, you get 866-593-4286. When you call that toll free number (as of 8/16), you get a recording in an English accent that says, "Sod off, I'm watching the tube." The recording will play three times, then hang up. If you then go to YouTube and search for "rblake" you'll find a video called "The Chocolate Factory" by CHARLABEELK which is another anagram for RACHEL BLAKE. In the video, there is someone doing sign language while wearing what appears to be a glyph t-shirt!

Several members of the community have been working tirelessly at translating the sign language. Here is a summary of what Trace, Kinetic, PhD, Pilferk, and KJ came up with: DISCLAIMER: Because of low video quality and the non-clarity/bad grammar of the signer (even to the "experts") and the fact that we couldn't see his face (important in sign language), this is a general consensus but not the end-all, be-all answer. There are some areas where translators have amicably disagreed, so we've used parentheses to show other possibilities.

"I am Mel, friend of Rachel. (Friend of Rachel - I sell Apollo Candy.) Apollo Candy conned Mittlewerk (or vice-versa) into having chemists run tests on...[unclear finger spelling]. Hackett found something important, but Mittlewerk wouldn't allow the results to be given to the competition (he hates the competition), they had a huge argument, and Hackett took...[more unclear fingerspelling] and found a new person to give the information to, who will distribute it. (something about giving away, reference to apollo bar giveaway?) I have to warn (help) people."

This is the best we've come up with so far.

Thanks to Lena, Lavenda, Gina, Dennis, Your Mother, Lucamu, Yuri, & Gerry for emailing us first with these exciting updates! Also thanks to Andrew, Brandon, The Lost Bird, Andres, ib4uc, Shannen, and Jason for emailing us more updates.

335 Comments:

Blogger The Penuels said...

Somebody translate that sign language! :)

8/17/2006 08:49:00 AM  
Blogger Thrasher76 said...

Second!

8/17/2006 08:51:00 AM  
Blogger minnesotawriter said...

yo

8/17/2006 08:53:00 AM  
Blogger Dennis said...

Morning all!

8/17/2006 08:53:00 AM  
Blogger Ange said...

Pilferk is working on the sign.

8/17/2006 08:53:00 AM  
Blogger Thrasher76 said...

Sweet find!!! HAHA! Get it? Sweet....find!!! Anyway, I wish I knew sign language but I think he is just signing the audio from the video...

8/17/2006 08:54:00 AM  
Blogger Ange said...

HI THRASHER!!!
Anyone else find it troubling that someone "skilled" in sign can't even make out the tiny video!?

8/17/2006 08:56:00 AM  
Blogger Beana said...

So this isn't #29? damn!

8/17/2006 09:00:00 AM  
Blogger sean said...

im here only for a second. i just called tom yegato. that was wierd.

8/17/2006 09:00:00 AM  
Blogger MissMegs said...

at least it's a challenge and not a picture on ninja's blog. pilferk (or someone) will get it. WE BELIEVE!

8/17/2006 09:01:00 AM  
Blogger sean said...

sorry to post-n-run but the sign language might just be saying the same thing as in the narration. thats just my feeling.

gotta go. when i say im here for a second, i mean it.

8/17/2006 09:02:00 AM  
Blogger The Penuels said...

Sweeet!!! Go Pilferk Go!
Shoot us an email when he gets it!

This is cool one. I hate to say something positive about Sprite but bringing sign language into the mix is a nice twist. Kinda like that refreshing twist of lemon and lime...

8/17/2006 09:02:00 AM  
Blogger Your Mother said...

Good morning all! I finally got a shout out on the front page! Woot! I've also got a sign language translator friend of mine working on the video, so I'll post if she comes up with anything.

8/17/2006 09:05:00 AM  
Blogger MissMegs said...

looks like tapdawg's got the half speed version of the video on youtube here;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN5J67zFodk

hope that helps!

8/17/2006 09:05:00 AM  
Blogger Carol Dunstan said...

are we still after a super slow one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoAr8EC6_Kg

boy I have been busy chatting all day... have barely had a chance to refresh and post here...

8/17/2006 09:05:00 AM  
Blogger Carol Dunstan said...

in Yahoo chat we had some of it worked out... but it crashed and I lost the window :( Callie was working on it good

8/17/2006 09:07:00 AM  
Blogger Carol Dunstan said...

tapdawg send it to her? will have to check previous blog comments to see who sent it to him...

8/17/2006 09:09:00 AM  
Blogger Your Mother said...

btw, there are some season three minor spoilers over on ew.com in their blog.

8/17/2006 09:09:00 AM  
Blogger oodles said...

Pilferk you are great!

re Speaker: don't know if "u8egnce86" is IT. Does not work yet anyway.
The other pic, the one of the tape (image not available when you click on it) has this filename:
thespeaker01x01.jpg
Perhaps another lead?

8/17/2006 09:09:00 AM  
Blogger kilgore said...

Hey guys - I know I missed the whole Ladies of TLE thing. I am always in the chat room and don't post much in the comments.

But I made this t-shirt design for us gals. Anyone is free to take the graphic to make their own: http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n201/christykilgorehadley/alvarsangels.jpg

Peace y'all!

:: ckilgore ::

8/17/2006 09:10:00 AM  
Blogger Your Mother said...

Christy,
As a lady of TLE, I LOVE the design!

8/17/2006 09:12:00 AM  
Blogger NiteSea said...

Christy,
Awesome idea to make a shirt for us gals! Not sure I want to be one of Alvar's "Angels" tho... Think I'll wait to see the rest of this video and find out his motivations first ;)

8/17/2006 09:16:00 AM  
Blogger Carol Dunstan said...

ok, it was ChrisAaron in the previous comments who hooked tapdawg up with the chocolate signing video so he could slow it down... if I have read it all properly... but if one can do it someone else should be able to...

8/17/2006 09:17:00 AM  
Blogger RyaNDrumZ said...

GOOD MORNING TLEC!!!

Well, hopefully it's not just a translation of the vid. That would really suck. Well good luck PILFERK, We are counting on you. Let's beat everyone to it.

WV-byobrf= B O Barf

8/17/2006 09:17:00 AM  
Blogger Carol Dunstan said...

44ku2vkq is working now

8/17/2006 09:19:00 AM  
Blogger Dennis said...

..
oodles said...

re Speaker: don't know if "u8egnce86" is IT. Does not work yet anyway.
The other pic, the one of the tape (image not available when you click on it) has this filename:
thespeaker01x01.jpg
Perhaps another lead?


I think that thespeaker01x01.jpg is the next step, but not sure what to do next.

The naming is strange though, not sure what to make of it...

8/17/2006 09:19:00 AM  
Blogger Your Mother said...

new glyph goes after i3gx?

8/17/2006 09:21:00 AM  
Blogger MissMegs said...

looks like 44ku2vkq fits after ig3x and we have our first possible "two TWM clips in a row" sequence!

anyone agree?

8/17/2006 09:22:00 AM  
Blogger Grimlock said...

Yeah, after i3gx, but I don't see anything else that matches on the other side. vou8vpnps5x may come soon after.

8/17/2006 09:23:00 AM  
Blogger Your Mother said...

I'm with you missmegs. :)

8/17/2006 09:23:00 AM  
Blogger Carol Dunstan said...

kingdok, I agree it looks like the same glyph as chocolates, but the signing may be the important thing here... the glyph on the shirt was probably just to get our attention... but then there are some glpyhs that look very alike... and haven't we now had two in the UK that were exactly the same?

8/17/2006 09:24:00 AM  
Blogger Grimlock said...

missmegs, I have other TWM clip pairs: nz59 goes with 748l and vou8vpnps5x goes with vdados7yre0.

8/17/2006 09:27:00 AM  
Blogger kilgore said...

I am not sure if this means anything - probably just a missing image page - but if you take the question mark out of this address: http://blogs.abc.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/thespeaker01x01.jpg

It goes here: http://6a.typepad.com/images/missing.gif

8/17/2006 09:27:00 AM  
Blogger A F said...

Kingdok-- I heard "We all know what happens if the Dharma Initiative fails."

Not that it has already failed.

Anyway, off to see the video now...

8/17/2006 09:27:00 AM  
Blogger Lost in Portugal said...

A transcript please! (no speakers around here!)

8/17/2006 09:27:00 AM  
Blogger oxillini said...

anyone have a transcript of the new glyph video?

8/17/2006 09:28:00 AM  
Blogger Carol Dunstan said...

hmm, if we are having so much trouble figuring out this clip because of the poor youtube quality... maybe it will pop up somewhere else soon? Apollocandy anyone?

wv: joypt

8/17/2006 09:29:00 AM  
Blogger Dennis said...

lostmyshape said...

dfizz: Fox blog hunt ends here: http://blogs.abc.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/thespeaker01x01.jpg.
some in the ITE comments said it was some comic that speaker make, but many just got an "image not found" message... that's what i get.


There are more cartoons in the Speaker's MySpace "View My Pics" section:

http://myspace-715.vo.llnwd.net/00866/51/76/866276715_l.jpg
http://myspace-171.vo.llnwd.net/00866/17/16/866286171_l.jpg
http://myspace-273.vo.llnwd.net/00866/37/22/866292273_l.jpg

8/17/2006 09:29:00 AM  
Blogger Carol Dunstan said...

dfizz, it's Kurt Cobain

8/17/2006 09:30:00 AM  
Blogger kilgore said...

oxillini - kinetic is working on translating it.

8/17/2006 09:30:00 AM  
Blogger Carol Dunstan said...

Mittlewerk saying "We all know what happened... the DHARMA initiative failed"

8/17/2006 09:31:00 AM  
Blogger Grimlock said...

Transcript for 44ku2vkq:
"We all know what happened. The Dharma Initiative failed."

8/17/2006 09:31:00 AM  
Blogger oxillini said...

thanks christy? what is being translated? twm speaks english, right?

8/17/2006 09:32:00 AM  
Blogger MissMegs said...

damn, i went to check those sequences and vou8vpnps5x went undefined. gotta go start over. BLASTED HE!!!

8/17/2006 09:32:00 AM  
Blogger Ange said...

oxillini-sign language fromthe YouTube video.

8/17/2006 09:33:00 AM  
Blogger kilgore said...

oxillini - well - translating the sign language. i thought that was what you meant!

8/17/2006 09:33:00 AM  
Blogger oxillini said...

ange: i was asking about the new glyph video that just started working and everyone is trying to put into an order. i don't have speakers here at work? sorry for the confusion.

8/17/2006 09:34:00 AM  
Blogger A F said...

kingdok--I listened again and I bow before your superior ears.

8/17/2006 09:34:00 AM  
Blogger MissMegs said...

oxillini- the new glyph video says "we all know what happened - the dharma initiative failed."

8/17/2006 09:36:00 AM  
Blogger Carol Dunstan said...

dfizz... I didn't actually view it myself... but it was at the bottom... something about highlighting text? I have been following the video and Sydney glyph today... couldn't get anything else to stick in my head, LOL But I think the highlighted text led to the week 6 round up and the cassette that you click on to get the comic linked to before
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j88/donnierawls/thespeaker01x01.jpg

8/17/2006 09:41:00 AM  
Blogger Clare said...

On the Other girls blog on the channel 4 website she has posted a picture of the blast door map.
She says in her post "So I'm guessing that map is going to be very important indeed - especially as you can make out all kinds of fascinating things if you blow up the grab"
On closer inspection in the top right-hand corner there is some red writing.
It looks like it says STYLEZ www.psp-spot.com
Make sense to anyone??

8/17/2006 09:42:00 AM  
Blogger Grimlock said...

Interesting. I still get a coming soon message. Perhaps they're in the middle of propagating a DNS update.

8/17/2006 09:42:00 AM  
Blogger oxillini said...

thanks for the transcription kingdok and anne!

and thanks for the hard work to all who are working on the sign language: pilferk, g_man, anyone else i'm missing.

8/17/2006 09:43:00 AM  
Blogger Grimlock said...

clare, one of the places the large map was originally posted was on psp-spot.com. I remember seeing that tag on the image when it first hit.

8/17/2006 09:43:00 AM  
Blogger Grimlock said...

therealgodfather, can you ping whereisalvar.com and see what ip address you get back? I'm getting 216.21.229.197.

8/17/2006 09:45:00 AM  
Blogger Lostpedian said...

dfizz ... Check the previous comments for post #107.... it's all in there.

You can also find the solution in the current ITE comments.


Everyone else - please stop half-assed helping people. That is why these comment pages get into hundreds.

8/17/2006 09:45:00 AM  
Blogger Carol Dunstan said...

clare, that was discussed in the previous blog comments... the psp-spot.com is just the website she grabbed the image from

8/17/2006 09:45:00 AM  
Blogger Clare said...

Thanks grimlock
I was getting excited that i'd found something!
Nevermind back to work!

8/17/2006 09:46:00 AM  
Blogger Carol Dunstan said...

kin, are they signing a "v" in Mittelwerk, instead of "w"?

8/17/2006 09:49:00 AM  
Blogger oxillini said...

grimlock, i am also not getting a response from whereisalvar.com perhaps it's going live soon? or maybe they just lost power. who knows

8/17/2006 09:51:00 AM  
Blogger Grimlock said...

Ok, WHOIS shows that the DNS record for whereisalvar.com was updated yesterday and is now served by the mediatemple DNS servers. Definitely going to get some action there soon.

8/17/2006 09:53:00 AM  
Blogger oxillini said...

wonder if maybe the email or web addy in the sign language that is giving pilferk trouble will be from whereisalvar.

8/17/2006 09:55:00 AM  
Blogger oodles said...

Pilferk, good going! You mention "face"! Remember yesterday I posted about hidden stuff in 'The Beginning' at apollocandy.com, including some scripting stuff labelled 'face'!!!

8/17/2006 09:58:00 AM  
Blogger Beth said...

A little late but, christy what a fun idea... makinf a shirt! :o)

Looks pretty exciting today! I wish I could watch youtube here at work but its amlost just as exciting watching it all unfold here! Great work everyone!

8/17/2006 10:01:00 AM  
Blogger oodles said...

The Johnny Depp reference in Speakers comic reminds me of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" starring JD. Note that video title is: "The Chocolate Factory". I had actually tried inputting Charlie as glyph code some hours ago but to no avail.

8/17/2006 10:01:00 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

the chocolate factory is foreshadowing.

8/17/2006 10:03:00 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

the "chocolate tour" that takes place next month is going to be a "willy wonka" homage kinda' deal!!

there will be glyphs or whatever in one or a few of the apollo bars that are to be "given away".

8/17/2006 10:04:00 AM  
Blogger Lostpedian said...

DFIZZ - IT'S JUST IN FUN. IT'S NOT A GLYPH OR A CLUE.

Of course, in my opionion, you do need to get a clue.

8/17/2006 10:06:00 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

gretna-dragon said on our blog:

"more from pilferk: "Hanso found something important but mittleverk can't STAND COMPETITION ..... A BIG STRUGGLE/ARGUMENT .... hanso disappear with"

MY RESPONSE: "pffft......know what THAT is?? That's my whole theory from like a few months back. Mittelwerk "got rid" of Alvar and took over Hanso. He's perverting the company. Alvar found the fountain of youth or whatever (enter own discovery here). Mittelwerk wants to "rule the world" so to speak. power hungry, etc. They're telling us THAT?"



just a thought. carry on.

8/17/2006 10:07:00 AM  
Blogger oodles said...

Actually, there'll probably be five Golden Tickets in the Apollo Candy bars for a tour of the Benson/Hanso chocolate factory... and for the one very lucky winner there'll be an extra prize beyond their wildest imagination!!! (a trip to the Island?)
:)

8/17/2006 10:08:00 AM  
Blogger NiteSea said...

so is there an email address for apollo candy?

8/17/2006 10:08:00 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

*....chewing on apollo bar...*

*chokes......cough, cough......gags up paper*........

what the hell? hey, i found a glyph!!! I found a glyph!!

(stander-by)...run chucklez......run home as fast as you can!!!

8/17/2006 10:10:00 AM  
Blogger RyaNDrumZ said...

The original version of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" aired last night on the ABC Family channel. Very Strange indeed...

And Lostpedian, I hope your joking around...

8/17/2006 10:11:00 AM  
Blogger Lostpedian said...

ryandrumz - not strange at all, ABC Family plays that movie all the time.

And no, I'm not joking around. dfizz is constantly annoying me because he can't find things for himself and refuses to read previous comments before posting.

8/17/2006 10:15:00 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

not joking man.

i've been serious about this for since the apollo candy thing popped up.

even BEFORE the tour idea popped up there.

8/17/2006 10:15:00 AM  
Blogger oodles said...

Gosh guys,
Thinking of Golden Tickets - remember where glyph #26 was eventually found on that Korean website?
http://www.chcgv.com/series/lost/lostmania/maniaworld_read.asp?idx=587&page=&no=%B0%F8%C1%F6
The only English words apart from hansoexposed.com were "Golden Sticker".

8/17/2006 10:20:00 AM  
Blogger 2costa said...

it definetly says whereisalvar.com and when did 44KU2VKQd start working?

8/17/2006 10:21:00 AM  
Blogger 2costa said...

anyone know sign language??

8/17/2006 10:23:00 AM  
Blogger Grimlock said...

2costa, it went live at 2006-08-17 14:13:34 GMT, and pilferk and kinetic are working diligently on the signing.

8/17/2006 10:25:00 AM  
Blogger Scoutpost said...

Way to go Pilferk and Kinetic!!! I know enough about sign language to know he wasn't signing the words to the video and to know that there were a lot of letters in there, but not enough to interpret. You guys are awesome. Sounds like we may be getting some big info with this message. Keep going! oh and BTW- good morning everyone :)

8/17/2006 10:26:00 AM  
Blogger 2costa said...

ya the candy will be a huge part coming up, but with the candy giveaway 3 weeks away I think it will build to a slow boil...

8/17/2006 10:27:00 AM  
Blogger 2costa said...

CHARLABEELK it was slick to turn rachelblake into an anagram close to charlie. Alvar is gonna be like genewilder and johnny depp respectively

8/17/2006 10:29:00 AM  
Blogger RyaNDrumZ said...

Lostpedian - I know theyt play that movie all the time, I just thought the rest of the TLE community would like to know since it's relevent to our game, So sod off...LOL

8/17/2006 10:30:00 AM  
Blogger tapdawg said...

in case you havent seen my super slowed down version i made last nigth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoAr8EC6_Kg

8/17/2006 10:31:00 AM  
Blogger 2costa said...

so where do we stand 41 found 43 released?

8/17/2006 10:32:00 AM  
Blogger meeeeee said...

Anyone UK bound the robot ad has just been on E4 again. It will therefore be on E4+1 at about 4.20 during Big Brother. Just a haqds up for anyone who's not seen it...

8/17/2006 10:32:00 AM  
Blogger 2costa said...

ever wnder why djdans conspiracy of the month has not changed in 3 months

8/17/2006 10:33:00 AM  
Blogger tapdawg said...

"we all know what happened.... the dharma initiative failed."

8/17/2006 10:33:00 AM  
Blogger 2costa said...

it would be cool if when we see who mittlewerk is talking to its kelvin or libby and huge shrink..

8/17/2006 10:34:00 AM  
Blogger 2costa said...

hugo's shrink

8/17/2006 10:35:00 AM  
Blogger Matt 2 of 3 said...

the code is working now...its Mittlewerk saying that the DHARMA initiative failed

8/17/2006 10:36:00 AM  
Blogger 2costa said...

the password is 4 digits

8/17/2006 10:37:00 AM  
Blogger Scoutpost said...

2Costa said...
Alvar is gonna be like genewilder and johnny depp respectively

I can just see Alvar now walking down the red carpet, fake tripping, and doing a little summersault...LOL

Tapdawg- great job at slowing the video down. Much easier to read now. I'm sure it's helping those working on the message.

By the time TPTB start giving away those Apollo bars, I think we're going to know enough about what TWM did to them that none of ya'll are going to want them! We'll be wanting to avoid them like the plague. LOL

8/17/2006 10:38:00 AM  
Blogger tapdawg said...

this new piece goes after ig3x

8/17/2006 10:39:00 AM  
Blogger NiteSea said...

2costa said...

it would be cool if when we see who mittlewerk is talking to its kelvin or libby and huge shrink..


***SPOILER ALERT for those who haven't finished season 2***








That would be an interesting feat considering they're both dead...

8/17/2006 10:39:00 AM  
Blogger 2costa said...

i changed the sawed off

8/17/2006 10:41:00 AM  
Blogger Melissa_Lossa said...

christy -

I know I'm a little late with the kudos - just got on. Great idea for the t-shirts, though! I love it!


PS - I was watching a rerun of Without a Trace on TNT last night, and one of the suspects was Henry Gale! Yikes.

8/17/2006 10:43:00 AM  
Blogger 2costa said...

i changed it to namaste

8/17/2006 10:44:00 AM  
Blogger 2costa said...

call and see

8/17/2006 10:45:00 AM  
Blogger 2costa said...

i was not trying to but i stumbled on the password

8/17/2006 10:46:00 AM  
Blogger Ange said...

Tried e-mailing ?@apollocandy.com:
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
mdbenson@apollocandy.com
mdavidbenson@apollocandy.com
davidbenson@apollocandy.com
mdb@apollocandy.com
d.benson@apollocandy.com
m.d.benson@apollocandy.com
benson@apollocandy.com

8/17/2006 10:46:00 AM  
Blogger 2costa said...

maybe i shouldn't have changed it???

8/17/2006 10:46:00 AM  
Blogger 2costa said...

tapwawg i accessed the sod off number and stumbled on the password

8/17/2006 10:47:00 AM  
Blogger 2costa said...

changed to me saying namaste

8/17/2006 10:48:00 AM  
Blogger 2costa said...

it was tomk

8/17/2006 10:49:00 AM  
Blogger Scoutpost said...

2Costa- so what did the password give you? anything?

Gotta run for now- GO PILFERK AND KINETIC!

8/17/2006 10:49:00 AM  
Blogger 2costa said...

but i changed the pasword

8/17/2006 10:49:00 AM  
Blogger tapdawg said...

pil please tell me your using this super slowed down version i made:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoAr8EC6_Kg

8/17/2006 10:50:00 AM  
Blogger RyaNDrumZ said...

2Costa - That's hilarious...I just called and heard NAMASTE!!!

8/17/2006 10:52:00 AM  
Blogger oodles said...

Marcus,
LOST search the Golden Sticker of chocolate inside wow that's neat, especially given that glyph #26 was found on 4 August and apollocandy.com only went live on 7 August. I don't remember anyone attempting a translation before.

8/17/2006 10:53:00 AM  
Blogger kilgore said...

2costa - it totally creeped me out when i called because i didn't know you had changed it. i actually jumped!

8/17/2006 10:53:00 AM  
Blogger Ange said...

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
info@apollocandy.com
tomk@apollocandy.com

8/17/2006 10:54:00 AM  
Blogger tapdawg said...

i tried earleir and it made the video very blurry... but you can try

8/17/2006 10:56:00 AM  
Blogger oodles said...

ange,
try chocolate@apollocandy.com

8/17/2006 10:58:00 AM  
Blogger 2costa said...

i changed it back, i did my best to match the voice

8/17/2006 10:58:00 AM  
Blogger kilgore said...

emails i have sent that got bounced:

mail@apollocandy.com, tomk@apollocandy.com, rblake@apollocandy.com, mdbenson@apollocandy.com, chocolate@apollocandy.com, rachelblake@apollocandy.com, info@apollocandy.com, persephone@apollocandy.com, sign@apollocandy.com, rachel@apollocandy.com, trevor@apollocandy.com, david_benson@apollocandy.com, dharma@apollocandy.com, alvarhanso@apollocandy.com, alvar@apollocandy.com

8/17/2006 11:00:00 AM  
Blogger NobleLawyer said...

has anyone translated the sign language yet? I used to be a sign language interpreter (about 18yrs ago) so I am REALLY rusty, but I recognize some letters. I just have to slow it down, and it will take me awhile. Has anyone already figured it out?

8/17/2006 11:00:00 AM  
Blogger 2costa said...

call it now

8/17/2006 11:00:00 AM  
Blogger 2costa said...

sorry christy

8/17/2006 11:01:00 AM  
Blogger 2costa said...

i dont think i did a good job with the accent

8/17/2006 11:02:00 AM  
Blogger oxillini said...

noble: pilferk and kinetic have been diligently working on the sign language for a couple hours now. looks like it's going pretty well!

8/17/2006 11:02:00 AM  
Blogger Ange said...

webmaster@apollocandy.com
admin@apollocandy.com
rachelblake@apollocandy.com
chocolate@apollocandy.com

All bounced:(

8/17/2006 11:02:00 AM  
Blogger 2costa said...

maybe noone will notice

8/17/2006 11:02:00 AM  
Blogger tapdawg said...

noble look at this clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoAr8EC6_Kg

8/17/2006 11:03:00 AM  
Blogger 2costa said...

i had to do all the message changing with my 4 year old harrassing me

8/17/2006 11:03:00 AM  
Blogger tapdawg said...

2costa i kinda informed lost ninja about it... he hasnt talked since

8/17/2006 11:03:00 AM  
Blogger 2costa said...

by crique... the cats got his tongue

8/17/2006 11:05:00 AM  
Blogger RyaNDrumZ said...

2costa, not bad man. You should have yelled, TLEC RULES at the end...

8/17/2006 11:06:00 AM  
Blogger 2costa said...

hopefully my head on a platter will get u favor with the ninja judas escariot

8/17/2006 11:06:00 AM  
Blogger jimpbblmk said...

2costa, 8665 (tomk) didn't work for me as the password.

8/17/2006 11:09:00 AM  
Blogger 2costa said...

ryan your wish is my command listen to it now, and i changed it with my lame accent

8/17/2006 11:10:00 AM  
Blogger 2costa said...

i changed it

8/17/2006 11:11:00 AM  
Blogger Grimlock said...

by crikey!

8/17/2006 11:12:00 AM  
Blogger 2costa said...

hey tap im not really mad

8/17/2006 11:12:00 AM  
Blogger 2costa said...

what do u think i should do tap, i was never meaning to hijack the line

8/17/2006 11:13:00 AM  
Blogger 2costa said...

hey marcus i changed the password u think i should change it back

8/17/2006 11:14:00 AM  
Blogger tapdawg said...

hmm well if you change it back people will know he password... i say email speaker or ninja the new password.

8/17/2006 11:14:00 AM  
Blogger tapdawg said...

ninja is currently online by the way.

8/17/2006 11:15:00 AM  
Blogger Grimlock said...

Don't change it back, because somebody else will just hijack it.

8/17/2006 11:15:00 AM  
Blogger tapdawg said...

once again if you want to rsvp for apollocandy distribution then head over to www.lostoverlost.blogspot.com

8/17/2006 11:16:00 AM  
Blogger tapdawg said...

scott... thats a joke. Never ever ever take any post by themisfitishere as a serious post.

8/17/2006 11:16:00 AM  
Blogger RyaNDrumZ said...

2costa, Very Funny. Great job on the shout-out.

Chill out 2costa, and don't change the password cause everyone knows it. If TPTB want to get back in, they'll know how to reach you. I think you should leave it as is...

No harm done really...

8/17/2006 11:17:00 AM  
Blogger 2costa said...

ya your right they should have picked a better password, thats why i changed it cause i thought i had stumbled on to something

8/17/2006 11:19:00 AM  
Blogger tapdawg said...

im talking to ninja right now on yahoo 2costa... do you have yahoo messenger?

8/17/2006 11:19:00 AM  
Blogger tapdawg said...

pilferk you are doing the fullscreen view right?

8/17/2006 11:20:00 AM  
Blogger tapdawg said...

2costa, ninja said to email him the password at ninja_hanso@yahoo.com.au

8/17/2006 11:21:00 AM  
Blogger tapdawg said...

2costa, ninja said to email him the password at ninja_hanso@yahoo.com.au

8/17/2006 11:22:00 AM  
Blogger NiteSea said...

lol, 2costa, that's great! someone should record that audio in case TPTB shut down the number since it was "hacked"

8/17/2006 11:22:00 AM  
Blogger Grimlock said...

Whereisalvar.com is going to be an in-game site. Whereisalvarhanso.com is not.

8/17/2006 11:23:00 AM  
Blogger trace said...

pilferk and kinetic - i have been posting on ITE what i am getting - i am an ASL interpreter - are you guys on a chat somewhere so we could work together more??

-trace

8/17/2006 11:23:00 AM  
Blogger 2costa said...

ya tap hold on heres my name
kilgoretrout420420

8/17/2006 11:24:00 AM  
Blogger 2costa said...

im that name

8/17/2006 11:24:00 AM  
Blogger 2costa said...

whats yours tap

8/17/2006 11:25:00 AM  
Blogger 2costa said...

i never really use it so IM me

8/17/2006 11:26:00 AM  
Blogger AmbientBlu said...

YITB is a fraternity thing ... it means "Yours In The Bond". But no one tell my boyfriend I let that slip, or he'd kill me ;)

8/17/2006 11:28:00 AM  
Blogger Twinkle said...

Hello all!

Melissa: How's the puzzle #3 going? Thanks for doing that!

To recap the whole "call tom k yegato" thing: We got an entertaining indcident courtesy of 2costa and a glyph we can't read? Pilferk translated most of the sign language (thank you). We got the idea from that to e-mail Apollo Candy?

pilferk said: "First, to beat Mittleverk, we need to answer some questions on [fingerspelling]" Any idea what was spelled yet?

Thanks for catching me up!

And about glyph #29, has anyone checked the Aug 21st People? That's the one after the People containing "tribalwars," we might not have gotten any hints about it until now because it was in People a week late on accident. Speaker seemed to indicate as much last week.

8/17/2006 11:30:00 AM  
Blogger oxillini said...

ambient: don't worry, YITB is not a secret per se.

8/17/2006 11:30:00 AM  
Blogger AmbientBlu said...

ox, he made *everything* a secret. I had to do a lot of annoying to get him to explain YITB, and, in the quiet of his own apartment, he *still* whispered it! LOL

8/17/2006 11:32:00 AM  
Blogger trace said...

kinetic - where do i go after that link??

8/17/2006 11:33:00 AM  
Blogger NobleLawyer said...

Pilfer, i am looking at the finger spelling parts too but I don't think I am going to be any help to you or tracer as I have a ton of work........I don't think I will really be able to get to it till tonight (at which time ya'll will probably have got it.)

8/17/2006 11:35:00 AM  
Blogger Ange said...

trace-click on the link and open the window for chat. you may have to wait up to 30 sec. for the chat to go active. I think we keep seeing you pop in and out:)

8/17/2006 11:35:00 AM  
Blogger trace said...

ange - thanks. i'm really dumb when it comes to chats and stuff!

8/17/2006 11:36:00 AM  
Blogger NobleLawyer said...

that one word around the 1:000 to 1:18 minute mark is all garbled due to the quality and the merge of speaker's hand in front of glpyh....this is one instance where glyphs can NOT be fun. :(

8/17/2006 11:38:00 AM  
Blogger Twinkle said...

Pilferk: I see it. Thanks! This is really interesting since I've been thinking about picking up more sign. I think I'll need a class. :-D

8/17/2006 11:39:00 AM  
Blogger Thrasher76 said...

Good Afternoon! Well done Kinetic and Pilferk! I hope it leads us somewhere!

8/17/2006 11:43:00 AM  
Blogger NobleLawyer said...

phd - thanks Its been along time but It didn't look like the asl I was familiar with. maybe why some of those far supreior to my rudimentary skills are also having problems with this grammatically.

8/17/2006 11:43:00 AM  
Blogger Twinkle said...

So is this MelODrama addressing us or Rachel?

8/17/2006 11:43:00 AM  
Blogger tapdawg said...

okay ive made an interesting edit of the film might help with it a bit

8/17/2006 11:44:00 AM  
Blogger NobleLawyer said...

o.k. I have GOT to get some work done. was excited for a moment that i might be able to really help, but I am way to rusty, and there are others here much better so once again I will rely onthe kindness of strangers to get it. :)

8/17/2006 11:44:00 AM  
Blogger Twinkle said...

Thanks, phd. TPTB are really giving us a challenge now!

8/17/2006 11:44:00 AM  
Blogger oxillini said...

ambient: keep working on him. my wife eventually got everything out of me. and i too was looking around our house to make sure no one was listening. she thinks it's funny how paranoid i get about it.

8/17/2006 11:44:00 AM  
Blogger Your Mother said...

2Costa, LOVE the new greeting on the tomk phone number. TLEC rules. :)

8/17/2006 11:45:00 AM  
Blogger Ange said...

User trevtrevtrevor is logged onto AIM and has been for about 30 min. I have sent him several IM's with no response. Thinking it's some troll...but we'll see.

8/17/2006 11:45:00 AM  
Blogger NobleLawyer said...

I see Mel,

8/17/2006 11:46:00 AM  
Blogger NobleLawyer said...

I can't help myself
Can't
pull
away/////

8/17/2006 11:47:00 AM  
Blogger tapdawg said...

my interesting edit is up here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfysVCy715U

8/17/2006 11:48:00 AM  
Blogger Thrasher76 said...

noblelawyer said...

that one word around the 1:000 to 1:18 minute mark is all garbled due to the quality and the merge of speaker's hand in front of glpyh....this is one instance where glyphs can NOT be fun. :(

I almost fell off my chair when I read that!!!

I still think Glyphs can be fun! =)

8/17/2006 11:51:00 AM  
Blogger tapdawg said...

wow shes amazing!

8/17/2006 11:51:00 AM  
Blogger oxillini said...

oh, does anyone think mel is mel0drama from way back on rachel's blog? didn't mel work for the ADC in atlanta?

8/17/2006 11:51:00 AM  
Blogger oodles said...

2costa, that is so funny! Wished I could call but I'm in Europe.

ange, try dnsadmin@mediatemple.net (TPTB), perhaps you could ask them how to get in touch with Benson :)

8/17/2006 11:51:00 AM  
Blogger AmbientBlu said...

ox, after hanging out with his brothers on the rare occasion, I have decided I don't want to know *anything*, let alone everything LOL One new girlfriend was hanging out with us all about a year or two back and didn't know to duck ... she ended up covered in tequila.

BTW, Costa ... I called the number for the first time today just to hear what you changed the message to ... classic. My co-workers wanted to know what I was laughing at ... I just mumbled "voice mail" and went back to work.

8/17/2006 11:52:00 AM  
Blogger tapdawg said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTG3mxTDXT0

8/17/2006 11:56:00 AM  
Blogger NiteSea said...

2costa,
have you given anyone the new passcode yet? If not, you should use it to negotiate for glyph 29... ;)

8/17/2006 11:56:00 AM  
Blogger AmbientBlu said...

video

Go Momma Pilferk, go!! ;)

8/17/2006 11:56:00 AM  
Blogger Ange said...

Anyone else AIMing with trev?

8/17/2006 11:57:00 AM  
Blogger NobleLawyer said...

after all the quality work yall are putting into this translation it better be legit.

8/17/2006 11:58:00 AM  
Blogger oodles said...

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8/17/2006 12:00:00 PM  
Blogger Melissa_Lossa said...

twinkle - thanks for the encourgagement last night - just saw your comment this morning. :)

I worked on the puzzle for hours last night! I should finish tonight - I'm down to mostly background pieces now. So far, I have a picture of Hurley, Leonard playing Connect Four, and a lot of random images of things that feature the numbers.

The front's not too exciting, but hopefully the back will reveal something!

8/17/2006 12:00:00 PM  
Blogger 2costa said...

i was gonna give the new password to ninja but he left

8/17/2006 12:01:00 PM  
Blogger Ange said...

oodles-what is dnsadmin@mediatemple.net exactly? I have an e-mail ready to go.

8/17/2006 12:01:00 PM  
Blogger 2costa said...

they are probably done with the number anyways

8/17/2006 12:02:00 PM  
Blogger oxillini said...

ok, so mel works for dr. hackett edc in atlanta. could dr. hackett be one of the scientists/chemist mittelwork has working on (fingerspelling)?

8/17/2006 12:02:00 PM  
Blogger 2costa said...

i think i was trying an australian accent,badly i might add

8/17/2006 12:04:00 PM  
Blogger oodles said...

Ange,
The apollo site and all the other big in-game sites are registered to mediatemple. As the owners of the Apollo site they should BE the contact or HAVE a contact e-mail.

8/17/2006 12:04:00 PM  
Blogger Ange said...

Kinetic in chat is reporting that he was "off" in his translation on e-mail. It is in fact saying, "I am Mel."

8/17/2006 12:06:00 PM  
Blogger oxillini said...

so that's Welcome. I am selling Apollo candy?

8/17/2006 12:06:00 PM  
Blogger oxillini said...

pilferk: I think "I am selling Apollo candy." makes more sense than "I am Mel Apollo candy"

8/17/2006 12:11:00 PM  
Blogger oodles said...

Ange and Marcus, thanks for trying that. Seems now that 'e-mail' was wrong but WTH, no harm done I'm sure. Maybe TPTB get a kick out of it.

8/17/2006 12:11:00 PM  
Blogger tapdawg said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfysVCy715U

8/17/2006 12:12:00 PM  
Blogger tapdawg said...

i definetely can see the s there

8/17/2006 12:16:00 PM  

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