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Convo from last night... can this be a clue?
Btw; i'm hyphy (alienwarecrazy16) on aim
AIM IM with Phillip Ryu <phillryu>.
11:19 PM
Hyphy: your working?!
Phillip Ryu: yep
Hyphy: did you quit college?
Phillip Ryu: long day at the office
Hyphy: every second of the day your on aim
Phillip Ryu: quit college? no, I graduated 17 years ago
Hyphy: how old are you?
Hyphy: i thought you were 18
11:20 PM
Phillip Ryu: no, I'm 43
Hyphy: your scaring me
Phillip Ryu: why?
Hyphy: you are a 18 yr old
Phillip Ryu: that's weird, people keep saying that
Hyphy: um
Hyphy: what race are you
Hyphy: if you do not answer right, i'm reporting you
Phillip Ryu: caucasian
Hyphy: reporting you on forums
Phillip Ryu: um, what forums
Hyphy: macheist
Phillip Ryu: macheist?
Phillip Ryu: look, I'm busy
Hyphy: oh
Hyphy: but are you the real phill
Phillip Ryu: I don't know a phill... my name is frank
Hyphy: this must be some of that macheist crap
Phillip Ryu: I don't know what macheist is
Phillip Ryu: is it a website?
Hyphy: i don't know anymore either.
Hyphy: bye bye frank
Phillip Ryu: bye...
Hyphy: AKA PHILL

lol funny, i bet he's just messing with you

[img]http://leomancini.net/other_images/logos/macheistVIP/dark.png[/img]
Teh HAXORS! LOL

Well yeah, most likely. That is what this whole thing is about

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woah! u sure ur talking to phill?? lol

thats phill. for sure..

ryan go on aim why did u sign off

Phill went to sleep a couple hours ago.... I don't know who you are talking to, but it certainly isn't phill.

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i dont think phill went to sleep yet, for i talked to him on irc just recently. or was it really phill...

[img]http://leomancini.net/other_images/logos/macheistVIP/dark.png[/img]
Teh HAXORS! LOL

or someone hacked his comp... dude check out his aim icon
its a white guy, i thought he was asian!

no, you talked to frank

is frank phill's roomate?

if frank was phill's roomate, then he would know a phill.

he's messing with us on IRC also.
http://www.roarnetwork.com/downloads/part1.tiff

http://www.roarnetwork.com/downloads/part2.tiff

later,
  aaron:)

did a /whois on his alter-ego

http://www.roarnetwork.com/downloads/part3.png

later,
  aaron:)

he is probably so stressed out from all of you bugging him that it triggered an episode of multiple personality disorder.  geez guys... thanks... now no more macheist

:-P

is that you josh?......hey man!

Which chat room is this?

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macheist chatroom
irc.macnn.com
#macheist

later,
  aaron:)

if anyone has trouble with IRC and a university blocking the port number, i found a number that works at my school. let me know.

later,
  aaron:)

I wouldn't trust anyone in the IRC chat... it's too easy to change names.

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I'm blue daba de daba di.

well, i got the currren't phill's IP, so maybe we can track that?

later,
  aaron:)

i am buggyg lolz

why bother? just sit back chill and of course speculate even more until it all begins!

Well at least he didn't call himself Charlie...

I googled "Frank Perlman" and came up with a hit on the minutes of a bridge club meeting as well as lots of other results about bridge. Probably nothing, but maybe our first heist will have to do with bridge (the card game), or some kind of card thing.

the show with Ze Frank - watch it, it rocks

Forget the Social. Welcome to the Amazon.

I didn't know developers sleep.

wow, I'd leave the guy alone on AIM, used to let people know what mine was for my business but it becomes a huge distraction (like I'm sure it is for Phill).  Let the guy work/study/get the heist ready for crying out loud.  Sheesh, no wonder they invented the "Invisible" state on most IM clients.

You guys need to chill out.

The idea of phill "developing" made me laugh.

Thanks for bringing some brightness to my morning.

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last night he said he was working with video guys to make the safe animation. sounded pretty cool.

later,
  aaron:)

If so, I might actually be able to help out in this thing.  That'd be pretty cool.

Didn't you guys know Phills suffers dissociative disorder?

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Ha, you guys owe me a new keyboard now. 

Whistle while you work.  Patience is key.

LOL?

y... lol

Perhaps this Frank Perlman is an alter ego for one of these fellow heisters we'll meet, from the decoded briefing.

so. Frank perlman and now alex marchuk

A Google of Alex Marchuk brings up that he's a young male student. His website is different than that of the Google cache, and he is also a photographer on flickr.
site: http://alexsfun.com/ (he also posted a comment on the TUAW story about RED MacBooks)
cache: http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:dKm … =clnk&cd=1
flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexmarchuk/
Apparently, there's some lying going on, if he's a young male student. It must be Phill playing with everyone. Alex is probably joining the heist team, as was said.

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frankperlman: what is this macheist thing?
[...]
frankperlman is now called alexmarchuk
[...]
alexmarchuk: lol
alexmarchuk: im so worried i wont be here for the firs theist
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He denied beeing Frank/Phil, didn´t know whats this MacHeist Thing is about, and then worries that he will miss the first heist????

initially phil was messing around, then a fellow heister started messing with you guys.

you can take any name in the IRC, heck i could go be phil, its easy to do.

Green Team 4Lyfe

How do you get into this IRC?

get your irc client
go to server irc.macnn.com
then go to join room and type in macheist

Polytetrafluoroethylene to his friends...
most of whom reside here

could have something to do with Hubert's brother...

hubert's ape family =O

LOL, I'm so special

Eh, I was trying to amuse you guys. No I'm not joining the MacHeist team.

can i get into irc chats through safari? or do i need to download ircle or something?
it wont let me get to it on safari

I always give 100% at work: 13% Monday, 22% Tuesday,
26% Wednesday, 35% Thursday, 4% Friday

Hard work may not kill you but why take chances

zombie thread!

Green Team 4Lyfe

Frank Perlman was a guy from the Apple Internals site in Heist #1 (I KNEW that name was familiar.) His last blog entry happens to mention a long day at work, which he seems to still be having, poor guy.

Heist 5.5 anyone?

YOU HAVE THE WRONG AIM NAME.