[Optimizer]

First, I should correct myself - Kick-off is today!

Then I just wanted to take my last shot at this. I took to heart Dave's somewhat lengthy (but worthwhile) discussion on the importance of knowing what precision you have, as well as what precision you need.

Revisiting the "where, exactly, is this spot?" question, I recalled that the first people who located the spot (on Google, I think) varied the input and got the same result. This means that has a significant (if undetermined) inaccuracy.

I figured where the spot should be independently, using topo map images, and had estimated that the answer might be good to about 30FT. The closest thing to that spot, BTW, is a statue of Philips Brooks (not Copely), which is along the north side of Trinity Church. Given the unknown accuracy of Google, I'm going with this spot now.

My first estimate was that the bearing headed toward the burger joints from there, but looking more carefully at it, it looks more like it's really across from a subway stop. If I still thought it was looking at the Burger King, I would confidently conclude that the clue meant "Stack Attack" (meaning that elements of that previous game would return this time).

All I can do is speculate that my errors are a bit worse than I thought, and that #2 really does just mean "Stack Attack" (plus a hint of better floating-point computing this time).

Hint #1 was probably just so we wouldn't freak out about this new equipment that seems complicated at first, but isn't really such a big deal after you sit down and look at it. They must really want to make sure we succeed at employing it.

#3 just seems to be another reference to aspects of previous games being revisited (with a new twist, I'm sure). So far we have a combo of Stack Attack (the Burger King campaign), Triple Play (the tetras), and Aim High (something airborne - "hurdling").

Sounds like fun!