Can Anyone Decode This Mysterious, Jumbled Note Discovered While Walking The Dog?
With Maura's assistance, another cryptic communique unearthed.
May 17, 2012 - 7:00 am
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See my previous posts here and here for more on the strange objects Maura and I sometimes discover on our sunrise runs through the San Fernando Valley…
From what I can tell whoever wrote this collection of notes:
- Folded the paper into three sections and then four more (
- Used both pen and pencil (and perhaps 2 pens as the ink in one square appears lighter than the others)
- Most likely male.
- At least 2 lists of items: a grocery list and an errand list.
- Apparently a listener of Los Angeles’ talk radio station KRLA? I see Hugh Hewitt and Bill Bennett’s names and what appear to be notes about the shows?
See the next 3 pages for close-ups of each column. And here’s the image from the other direction:
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Isn’t that the flowchart for Obamacare? Or is it Dodd-Frank?
– from A Canticle for Liebowitz.
It’s probably someone like my brother who can’t remember verbal information unless he writes it down. Then he discards his notes because at that point he’s memorized the information. The actual note itself is not the point; it’s the kinesthetic activity of writing that’s the point.
The handwriting on that note is very similar to my brother’s chicken scratchings as well.
Sorry about that. It was my shopping list for the last 3 weeks.
What was that note doing walking a dog?
Original notes for the Certainty Principle – very rare. Try Ebay. Or just leave it where you found it.
Looks like the new Greek government budget plan.
It is actually a Swiss Army Knife of the mind. Cf. Dr. Helen Noel, a specialist in the daggers of the mind.
Well, it mentions Obama and Hope and Change. That means it must be the scribbling of a madman.
Maybe Benedict Cumberbatch could help out.
David Axelrod’s to-do list for the week.
I go with the kinesthetic (nice word, btw; I’m impressed you used it, Penney). I do a version of the same thing, though I’m enough of a neat freak (in some ways but not all) that my notes are more legible…and I don’t throw them on the ground after making them.
Hey, that’s a paper version of my Firefox bookmarks (5,000 and counting)
Its Vodkapundit notes after his last Hair of the Dog Episode! (We are talking Old English Sheepdog here)
It’s all of the calculations used to estimate the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow.
Obama’s birth certificate.
You’re looking for a conservative Christian – They donate to the mailman’s food drive, like Bill Bennett, read Townhall.com, listen to Charles Stanley and Jack Hayford . . .lotta Christian references. And they don’t seem to like the President.
Although I did like the Leibowitz reference above.