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I'm in, I'll be there. I love ARGs.

Make sure to coordinate with stoked887, and try to bring a video camera/other recording device.

Perhaps he'll look like Benjamin Franklin?

Man, I wish I lived in the US...

More likely a guy in a Delicious Generation shirt

"Fiddly buttons, blocky icons, sickeningly stupid nested menus — these are the enemy."-Stephen Fry

I can picture it...

The bloke is dressed like any Joe Nobody, and the "victim" goes around all Franklin Sq. asking everybody and anybody "Do you know where I might be able to find an umbrella, sir?", gaining many funny looks along the way

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The clue is that someone needs to meet this guy in Philly.  That's it.

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i think the awkward conversation with random people would be the most fun, just a refresh, anybody who will be there, pm me, or aim me (Aim:stoke887) so we can coordinate efforts.  i'll be on or around aim most of the night

Is it just me or not? Why is the Thread's title in French?

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It's you.

Reject image over substance...

alright, before i sign off for real this time, anybody have any ideas of what this person might look like?

wiretap + powerbook onboard mic... i'll do my best to get at least audio

Do what they did on Burn Notice.

Call the cops on him....

No really.  He might have an umbrella with him.

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Actually, I wouldn't put it past them to actually have a guy like that...

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by the way, "last night" at 3am probably = TODAY at 3am, not really last night. ergo, "tomorrow" is wednesday. i'll be out of commission tomorrow since it's my wife's birthday, so you guys document everything!

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Should be comical with the various heisters running into _each other_ looking for the agent.

Aargh. I'm thinking I actually probably won't be able to go....

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Let's go into theAmazon.

Better be careful with that. I recorded an hour-long conversation yesterday for a project with WireTap Pro, and when it was done it froze up my system and everything was lost.

Now don't scare the guy off by having 50 people with powerbooks, video cameras, and digital audio recorders run after a guy.

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now THAT would be hilarious. 50 people with open powerbooks aimed at passers-by...asking  "Do you know where I might be able to find an umbrella, sir?"  ha ha!

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Odds are good that the Directorate won't want to humiliate any heisters by not actually showing up...

Or would they? ;-)

It would be interesting to see the demographic on who shows up?  Will it look like a Star Trek convention (Planet of the Geeks), a public school field trip, or some mish-mash?

In theory, theory and practice are the same, in practice, they are not.

If you go try to hide the device you are using to record what happens. Otherwise he may walk away.

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How about someone make a phone call to a voicemail to record it?

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At least until some elderly tourist calls homeland security and they go all Boston on you.

Of course, if it was in Tucson I'd be willing to risk it ...

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Tucson would be awesome....everyone is friendly here!

That would be my guess.

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position either a cellphone with a cam or a video cam in a fanny pack and record;
or if you have a cellphone with a mic record it using that,
or have another person record it while you talk to the man.

reject false icons.

I see a few things that may or may not be significant, but I think are fishy; First, we're not supposed to trust anyone. But we have agents running around Philly looking for a "theif." (Not that I think we shouldn't have someone there... just something to think about).
Second, two threads have been started in the Backroom and were almost immediately deleted. Why are we only allowed to post about this here?
Last, the designer of the lightning bolt, Isamu Noguchi, also designed the gardens at IBM headquarters. Does that sound like a clue or have I spent too much time in the speculation threads?

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Hmm... Isamu Noguchi designed gardens at IBM HQ... IBM made PowerPC chips... those chips went into many Macs... made by Apple, without which MacHeist would not have been created... MacHeist sending us on a trip to something designed by Isamu Noguchi...

It's all come full circle now! Suddenly, it all makes sense! (other jibber-jabber/ranting goes here)
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Hmmm... it's funny about the threads in the Backroom. Maybe not everyone can see the Directorate Communiques? Have people been talking about this in the IRC?

I'm not so concerned about what the handoff looks like, we just need whatever we get to be well documented.

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Uh.... I live in the US, not that it would allow me to go... the US is just *slightly* larger than most countries out there... (third largest).

That being said... I wish I was in Philly.

Hey, Directorates, I think there's a pretty big Mac following in Minneapolis...

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damn. shouldn't have moved. well, this should be fun for philadephites.

Philly is a great Mac town, and evidently the "source," and probably the Directorate, are aware of that. It seems to me that tomorrow's event will be well covered.

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Much bigger following here in Chicago.  You know, larger city and all.

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Well if the Heist comes to the greater Los Angeles area then I am down.... well it depends on where and when. 

If it is Downtown L.A. then that would be tough - it can take 2 hours to go 15 miles.... Got to love L.A.

"Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem"  - all things being equal, the least complicated of all solutions is the preferable one (Occam's Razor).

I hear ya. I would be there in a heart beat if it was in the windy city.

Should we be taking a closer look at the letter for hints? I mean with the odd time for the meeting (3:52) and plenty of words to hide stuff in, there could be something there.

But I, like the rest of the community, am paranoid.

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can anyone go? i am a bit far away, norway...

Hush.

You guys get everything.

i.e. You have chicago-style pizza. We just lost our last Pizzeria Uno. Have some compassion!

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Uh ya stoked is going.

Lat  39°57'19.27"N
Long  75° 9'1.93"W

thats franklin square on google earth

You can say that again.  Philadelphia is as far from, say, Cupertino as London is from Baghdad.  And people wonder why most Americans don't visit foreign countries...

Do you have stairs in your house?

It seems that others (mfwit, AriX, LawHusick, reebzor and Merlyn383) are also going. There will probably be others as well. Not bad for the last minute. Way to go Philly!

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Directorate:
Next stop, Atlanta.

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Godspeed Stoked (and mfwit, AriX, LawHusick, reebzor and Merlyn383)! Document every damn thing.

Heh. With four guys going, maybe they'll just kidnap the poor "informant" and drag him off to one of their houses...

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Maybe they should kidnap him. You never know, maybe the pattern of the freckles on his nose will form a secret URL, or identify the unknown port on the picture... </sarcasm>

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Warbrain, I envision you shooting video during a rendevous with some seedy looking characters in black trenchcoats and shades (reminiscent of the Blues Brothers) at the base of the Sears Tower or maybe under the Picasso at the Daley Center, only to be deftly tackled by two dozen burly Chicago cops, swiftly hauled off in a black SUV by guys in suits, and flown to Guantanamo in an unmarked blackhawk helicopter.  Alas, we would likely never see the video!

Even worse, your sharp heisting skills would then be wasted away while you sit idle behind high voltage fencing and barbed wire for the remainder of this MacHeist (and maybe even the next one), missing the fun while longing for our cold, icy Chicago winter as you are cruelly forced to acclimatize to the balmy Cuban weather... Hmmm, maybe I could do a Chicago interview with you?

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