The other day Vleeptron informed me of a cryptography challenge. I'm working on it! So much about eels.. I'm thinking...
It's a neat book!
It will hang from a hook in one of our windows.
I had one of these 'spiritual compasses' sitting just inside the door at the Paris apartment, except it was made from an embroidery hoop with cloth sewn over it and painted. This one is made out of wire with a bit of cloth sewn over the middle of it. I enjoy working with the wire, even though it doesn't give 'perfect' results - it is an interesting material to manipulate in the hands and satisfying to see the shape form. The four colored dots at N, E, S and W are representative of the four cardinal directions by Navajo color symbolism. The bird and the rest of the symbols are my own design.
These Derwent Studio pencils, imho, are the best type of colored pencil an artist can work with. They aren't as crumbly as Crayola or Prismacolor and yet are vibrant and create great details (because they keep their tips longer!) I can't wait to see what drawings they become!
Hopefully there will be wonderful news tomorrow.
4 comments:
My MS thesis was sort of about cryptography, but more about cryptographers. Have you read the novel Cryptonomicon? Excellent.
I dont know what Cryptography is. I know us PSICAN chasers use the pre form Crypto to denote saskwatch, Lach Ness, Warewolves, and to some extent Greys etc.
Cryptography...hum dunno.
Please tell us what it is.
Cryptography is the study of codes and how to break them.
Vleeptron is using an alphabet code to disguise a paragraph - and also has removed the order from the spaces between the words. So, it is up to the cryptographer (codebreaker in this case) to find the 'key' to his code and translate the text back to it's original form.
VleeptronZ has posted two challenge codes. They were both solved by Mike, who screamed at me for stealing 3 days out of his life -- and his brand-new wife probably wasn't too happy about it either. If you just go to these URLs and DON'T scroll down to read the comments, you can try to solve them.
http://vleeptronz.blogspot.com/2007/05/jeezus-h-krist-cant-anybody-decode-this.html
http://vleeptronz.blogspot.com/2007/06/intercept-from-planet-mollyringwald.html
Mike said he had a super rush of brain satisfaction when he finally reached the moment where actual English words and sentences began to take shape on his screen. He immediately phoned his wife at work and screamed EUREKA or something like that, and I'm sure she replied, "Well isn't that special?"
He said his Spreadsheet was the invaluable tool for manipulating his letter guesswork.
I think now I want to post a code that ratchets up the difficulty level. I want to use the Enigma encryption system the German military used in World War II, and a secret British team managed to solve so Churchill could read the German messages just 2 or 3 days after they were intercepted. Alan Turing led the team and built the world's first electronic (tubes/valves) digital high-speed computer to decrypt the Enigma messages.
That ought to really mess up his marriage. I'll let you know when I post my first Enigma message.
What's sort of creepy is that an ordinary PC probably has 100 times the speed and power that Turing's computer had -- and his team's efforts are credited with saving Allied convoys in the North Atlantic from the German U-boat wolfpacks and thus winning the European war.
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