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Originally Posted by Nuttyman54
342.24 hours in days gives 14 days 6 hours 14 mins and 31 seconds....
Kickoff is still 14 days, 16 hours and 12 minutes away
Maybe something happens at that time...which is 10 hours from now (approximately)
is anyone else reminded of XKCD comic number 240?
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I dunno if anyone branched off of this previously because I merely skimmed through the 200 something responses to the most ridiculous (or that's just how I perceive it, I may be wrong) game hint I have seen.
#1. Kudos for bringing in XKCD, I don't care if it gets anywhere, just major kudos to that reference. *Applause* XKCD is just an amazing comic, get the facebook feed if you can (that is, if you have facebook).
#2. From there, I have concluded that FIRST Frenzy has finally gotten its sequel. What is after the colon is still unknown, but I have a good gut feeling that FIRST Frenzy (or something of that nature) is part of the title.
#3. The Obelisks (or whatever you call those 2 spires across from the Globe Bar and Grill) I briefly read about remind me of the two major supports of the chin-up bar from 2004. Problem is that we have already done chin-ups in the past 4 years... what will be in the middle this year? IR something? A basket? What? I wouldnt know.
#4. Back to XKCD and the strange connection between that particular referenced comic (#240) and that last line of Dave Lavery's CD Signature:
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Originally Posted by XKCD comic #240, last line
It turns out wanting something doesn't make it real.
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Originally Posted by Dlavery's signature, last line
The answers to one of the most oft-debated questions of the year is sitting right there in their hands, but they refuse to see it because it does not conform to their expectations.
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Wanting something does not make it real (there is no pot of gold at the end of a 'rainbow'(first clue)... refusing to see something because it does not conform to our expectations... HMMMMMMM....
"Sitting right there in their hands:" I have a keyboard, and even more directly, in my hands I have the many "Hairline" ridges that make various shapes (following a path this year for autonomous?... fun!). The keyboard though is as close to "hairline cracks" between keys (another XKCD #240 reference) that we are going to get, and looking at the pattern of these cracks, it looks much like a brick pattern of squares.
Conclusion: back to boxes after 4 years... sounds good to me. And do we build a wall between the obelisks this time around??? Oh yeah, can we put balls in the boxes this time??? 
#5. The 342.242026 is something I would not want to guess for. Height and launching sure do come to mind. But if we were to consider them in other coordinate systems, it could not work in spherical since the third coordinate (phi) can only go as far as 180 (it would be a bit excessive to go beyond that without changing theta (second coordinate) around). Cylindrical though might work. Mapping though is good enough I would assume.
Otherwise, there's all my pocket change for now... hopefully the game will be fun this year.
-Joe