Forums

Damnit, I'll be in Philly next week. Oh why couldn't this have been next week.

For anyone going - Verizon is doing this at Franklin Square:
VERIZON presents

LIGHTNING BOLT EXPRESS
Our special train ride returns for some holiday fun 

I dont know if there is any signage or anything about the event but it may be a clue!

Join me in finding a CURE!!!
Relay For Life

The lightning bolt in Philly near Franklin Square is above a no longer operational PATCO station. If you're on the Vine St expressway, its on your left as you circle towards the BF Bridge.

You'll know who the guy is because there's no reason for ANYBODY to be hanging out there.

Pubb

ps: it IS on street view in google maps, its at the southeast corner ACROSS from Franklin Square. Check the intersection of Race and N 6th.

Oh, and something just occurred to me -- if it sent LAST NGIHT, the tomorrow means today, so the meeting should have happened 3:52Pm EST Tuesday, December 11, 2007 (about fours ago).

It's already happened.

Nothing so far using street view on Google Maps.

Mozy - backup to the cloud, restore when your computer bites the dust.
BBCODE snippets for TYPINATOR!
DROPBOX: GET 250MB extra FREE!

damn, I would go too

Aw... Too bad I don't still live in Philly.

even if you dont get video, do you have something that you could at least record audio with?

How about Budapest ?!
Come on guys, it was the place to be when you were a spy during Cold War !!! ( and we european, wouldn't feel lost like always )

or Iceland... I agree with White Fang, Iceland is good : small nowhere and good therma to go !!!

oh damn... I'll go and make some pop-corn
European fellow, down to Paris for a live on the forum when our little american friends will run to Philadelphia

Orange Obviously

Who ever is going should start a thread in the backroom to discuss a plan with others who are going.  Teamwork people!  Coordinate audio and video!

"Stoked, you're our last hope." - Princess Leia

Damn I live very close from there.  Joe (Stoked) do it!

you really think so there? its sounds pretty specific about franklin square, any other opinions, as of right now i intend to be at franklin square, not vine st

Damn...I wish I didn't have to work.  I've been meaning to get down there for a while.  Apparently one has to cross 4 lanes of traffic to get to the sculpture...or so I've read.

I started a thread in the Backroom to discuss plans for those attending.

PATco on the back????

New to MacHeist...

joe please make notes of the surroundings as well as what is said

live.bike.die

Link for the lazy?

My thread in the back room was deleted.  WTF?

Stoked,

You should probably be under the lightning bolt. Which is above the former Franklin Square station. Its like a 50 foot tall piece of tinfoil. You can't miss it. And its east of the square itself. But Google Maps doesn't give you street view from the square itself. The lightningt bolt is on a semi-circular pedestal between the square and the bridge.

I think it's gotta be the Lightning Bolt Express train ride. That's AT Franklin Square, it's an obvious public place, and you should be able to figure out who you're supposed to meet. Remember..."(you'll know him when you see him)."

Sometimes I feel so blue
It makes me twitter.

or what Pubb said.

Sometimes I feel so blue
It makes me twitter.

Wow you guys are really outdoing yourselves. I love that it is being taken off the computer.

Wow, so something is happening. Well, whoever goes, tell us what happened!

Tweet! | Flickr
Go Green Monkeys Go!

I think its more likely what Pubb said - I'm  not familiar with the square and without a street eye view would be difficult to see

Join me in finding a CURE!!!
Relay For Life

as far as i know there is no lightning bolt physically in the square, but i have been over there in a few weeks, things might have changed, and if that train thing isn't until the 22 it still might be set up, or in the process of being set up

Wouldn't it be funny if this heist fell apart because no one could actually go to the place where they're starting it?

Anyway, way to go, stoked887 - we're all counting on you.

You mean, Justin Long? If so, I guess he'd better bring along some backup.

Marathon Forever.
AppShelf: MacHeist 3 Loot
AppShelf: nanoBundle 1
Check Reciept Page for nanoBundle 2 AppShelf Files.

oh, pubb, sorry about that, i know exactly what your talking about now and i'de be inclined to agree with you

Freezing rain and heavy fog in western PA. Perfect weather for a mysterious rendezvous if it makes Philly by tomorrow afternoon. Trench coats, turned up collers. Geez, I wish I could be there.

Mayor Mark Mediocre must go!

No webcams around there...not that it would do us much good.

Reject image over substance...

11am -2:00 pm
Friday November 23rd
Saturday December 22nd

This means it runs from November 23rd (the Friday after Thanksgiving) until December 22nd (the Saturday before Christmas), from 11am until 2pm.

The meeting is set up for 3:52, so the train ride will be done by then.

Sometimes I feel so blue
It makes me twitter.

this has gotta be it

Tweet! | Flickr
Go Green Monkeys Go!

ok, i need to sign off for a bit, i will be there tomorrow, anybody else that is joining me, please pm me so we can coordinate, i will be checking later tonight around 11ish, then we can try to coordinate this effort.  as far as audio/video, i doubt i'll be able to come up with a video camera but i'll try to get a voice recording on my phone as well as take far too many pictures

yeah, thats what i was going on

Nice to know someone will be there . Can't wait to hear the news.

Tweet! | Flickr
Go Green Monkeys Go!

Joe, I am going over right after my exam. I should be there at 4:30 at the latest, wait for me there

will do

confirmation from phill that it is indeed tomorrow:

[19:57:28] <TheCavalier22> directorati, if the letter was received last night, and it said that they would be meeting someone "tomorrow" at 3:52, doesn't taht actually mean today?
[19:57:39] <phillryu> we adjusted it
[19:57:41] <phillryu> for today
[19:57:48] <Jublins> so we missed it?
[19:57:52] <phillryu> no, don't worry
[19:57:55] <phillryu> it's tomrorow

What would be amazing would be a live feed of the meeting from a broadband card equipped laptop with Isight.

Im in Buenos Aires, Argentina... hope someone be able to go there.

I REALLY want to go, I'm pretty close to there........ Except I'm in the middle of mid-terms, and my mom wouldn't like the idea of it... I'll try guys, I'll try.

Proud member of the Orange team!
Let's go into theAmazon.

PM stoked887 then

䷟䷽䷏䷁ — Dying of the Light.

I was looking on google maps and right across the street from the lightning bold is

The National Constitution Center is an independent, non-partisan, and non-profit organization dedicated to increasing public understanding of, and appreciation for, the Constitution, its history, and its contemporary relevance, through an interactive, interpretive facility within Independence National Historical Park and a program of national outreach, so that We the People may better secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.

I don't know if it has anything to do with the meeting because part of the password has to do with liberty.  Also, on the other side of the street is a church, and the password also has to do with bells.

Philly = Liberty Bell.

Website | Twitter
PM me

i'm not trying to think too much about it, i'm just going to go, take pics, and go through the motions, i'm thinking its probably going to be some sort of media handoff, similar to the packages in the mail? part of me wants to meet some guy in a trench coat, fedora, and shades who hands me a manilla envelope with top secret stamped in red ink.  but everybody can have a fantasy right?

the lightning bolt thing is visible from Google Maps' Street View.  Go to 564 Race St., Philadelpha, PA - Click on street view - it is visible there.

i really cant wait until tomorrow, joe

yes but that is also obvious. lol, ok i think i am just trying to find clues where none exist.

Sounds exciting.

I smell a horrible tie in to National Treasure.

Please, spare us directorate!

@nfreader | @nfreader – Inaction is conspiracy. Report counter behaviour to the moderation team immediately. Cooperation with your moderation team permits full ration reward.

Hey, it's your show!  Do it!  What's the worst that could happen, some people who don't know you giving you funny looks?