Time for a side tracked thought.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tortoise_and_the_Hare
My new thoughts about clue #2?
We can all agree (maybe) on the fact that it is a point in Copley Square looking at the heading 342.xxxxx, and I don't believe it really matters what the numbers after the decimal point are in that last number, they are just longer than they need to be to confuse us, and/or make us think harder or even better than we need to.
I believe the second clue is just a warning about the game that will be emphasised at kickoff and beyond. Knowing the GDC, this just sounds way too much like the general thinking from them towards us as teams as I have experienced in the past.
The warning... is simple.
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The moral is stated at the end of the fable as: Slow and steady wins the race.
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I've beaten this clue to death, and sometimes it's the things that are right in front of us that prove to be the most elusive to find or decode.
I'll leave out thoughts of an endgame autonomous mode, and an IR beacon on the field, but will leave with the thought that whatever our task is this year in the game, that we will have to be careful and not just go on a brute force mission to accomplish what we need to do.
Slow & Steady....
Now, this doesn't man I won't have more fun learning about Boston, and Copley Square, and the people
*, and places that make up the area in question, but for a second, I believe that the Tortoise & The Hare statue give us the (simple) answer to the (not so simple) mystery we seek.
*For example, did you know that the Architect of Trinity Church (
Henry Hobes Richardson) who has indeed left his legacy in the field of Architecture from Boston MA, to Hartford CT, to Chicago IL, has his own homestead in jeopardy of being demolished, and that it is on the
National Trust's Top 11 most Endangered places? I didn't know that. I didn't even know who he was, let alone that he led to the Richardson Romanesque style of Architecture here in the US. Very cool indeed.
Very cool stuff is to be found in the area of the Clue coordinates, you just have to look.
I'm putting Copley Square on my agenda of places to visit the next time I am in Boston.
Thank you for that GDC! If for nothing else than adding another place to my agenda to visit to learn just a little more about the past as you are busy creating the future!
-elgin
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Oh, and btw... if that's not enough to satisfy your clue searching tendancies folks, check out
THIS more complex & math related connection to The Tortoise & The Hare.
Let the games continue.
Only 9 more days till we know for sure...