How do you decode this identicon

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Steve Hayes

Can somebody enlighten me how to decode this:

<http://tinyurl.com/ajpebme>

Apparently, the picture is a identification of the creator.
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I din't think there is anything to decode.

It looks like some of the symbols used on blogs to identify commenters who
don't have their own picture, and dserves to show which comments are posted by
which commenter.
 
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..winston

Also possible (since it wasn't asked) by the op
- decode to find an ip address (e.g. of the 'creator' of a post on a blog)

<qp>
visual representation of a hash value, usually of the IP address
</qp>


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....winston
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"Steve Hayes" wrote in message
Can somebody enlighten me how to decode this:

<http://tinyurl.com/ajpebme>

Apparently, the picture is a identification of the creator.
Click to expand...
I din't think there is anything to decode.

It looks like some of the symbols used on blogs to identify commenters who
don't have their own picture, and dserves to show which comments are posted by
which commenter.
 
S

Stan Brown

Can somebody enlighten me how to decode this:

<http://tinyurl.com/ajpebme>

Apparently, the picture is a identification of the creator.
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A photo?

That would be a first. I don't think there's ever been a picture of
the Creator, though there's an artist's rendering on the ceiling of
the Sistine Chapel.
 
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Ed Cryer

Stan said:
A photo?

That would be a first. I don't think there's ever been a picture of
the Creator, though there's an artist's rendering on the ceiling of
the Sistine Chapel.
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William Blake painted the Creator;
http://tinyurl.com/bkes9t4

I wish I'd been there!

Ed
 
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Ed Cryer

...winston said:
Also possible (since it wasn't asked) by the op
- decode to find an ip address (e.g. of the 'creator' of a post on a blog)

<qp>
visual representation of a hash value, usually of the IP address
</qp>
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Maybe you can solve this one found in Pompeii;
http://tinyurl.com/als7p5j

Ed
 
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Bob I

Maybe you can solve this one found in Pompeii;
http://tinyurl.com/als7p5j

Ed
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Interesting, please observe the pattern of the letters on the diagonals
and how the last "word" is the reverse of the first word and the 4th is
the reverse of the second, and the same pattern is used vertically as
horizontally. So the question is "Is this puzzle or art?"
 
G

Gene E. Bloch

Interesting, please observe the pattern of the letters on the diagonals
and how the last "word" is the reverse of the first word and the 4th is
the reverse of the second, and the same pattern is used vertically as
horizontally. So the question is "Is this puzzle or art?"
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It's a magic square. Essentially, it's a solution to a challenge.

From my Latin dictionary or my brain:
sator = sower
arepo = (not found in either place)
tenet = he/she/it has
opera = works (noun)
rotas = wheels (accusative)

I didn't try to list all the possible meanings.
 
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webster72n

Gene said:
Looks to me like the Big Bang, so you're better off *not* having been
there.

The question arises, How did William Blake know of the Big Bang, roughly
two centuries ago?

:)
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He didn't.
It simply is his concept of the 'matter',
because he is an artist.

Harry.
 
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Ed Cryer

Auric__ said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sator_Square
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Got it in one. It was a very early identifying icon for Christians. The
letters unravel to give "Pater Noster" (Our Father) with A and O (alpha
and omega). Pompeii got buried in 79 AD. Signs of the Fish have also
been found;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthys

It's a pity about "arepo". It's certainly not found in Latin of the
time; and it's unknown in other languages. Perhaps it's just a fudge.
Not like "Madam I'm Adam".

Ed
 
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Ed Cryer

webster72n said:
He didn't.
It simply is his concept of the 'matter',
because he is an artist.

Harry.
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Yes, plus it shows him using geometry to create the world. A bit like a
mathematician; maybe like E=Mc².

Ed
 
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Auric__

Ed said:
Got it in one. It was a very early identifying icon for Christians. The
letters unravel to give "Pater Noster" (Our Father) with A and O (alpha
and omega). Pompeii got buried in 79 AD. Signs of the Fish have also
been found;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthys

It's a pity about "arepo". It's certainly not found in Latin of the
time; and it's unknown in other languages. Perhaps it's just a fudge.
Not like "Madam I'm Adam".
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The page I linked to says it may have been a name. Shrug.
 
E

Ed Cryer

Auric__ said:
The page I linked to says it may have been a name. Shrug.
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If that's so, then we have;
Sator Arepo tenet opera rotas
which would translate as
Arepo the sower holds wheels as his works.

Some cosmic wheelright called Arepo?
Sheesh!
Not Jupiter. Not Zarathustra! Not Ahoura Mazda! Not Zeus! Not Yaweh! Not
any known alpha divinity!

Ed
 
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