Object Annotation by Augustus deCorbeau
August 10th, 2008 9:40 PM
Dear Dry Erase Board at the Top of the Science Lab,
Lbh fgnaq nf n zbahzrag gb Fpvrapr.
Ynlre hcba ynlre bs rdhngvbaf naq purzvpny qvntenzf.
Rnpu bar syrrgvat. Gur ceboyrz vf fbyirq naq jr zbir ba,
Ohg gur cebbs erznvaf.
Lbh ner n fvyrag grfgnzrag gb gur zvaqf ng jbex urer.
Hayvxr gung fghcvq yvtug bireurnq, juvpu fbhaqf yvxr vg'f univat n frvmher.
Furrfu. V'z gelvat gb cebpenfgvangr urer! Xrrc vg qbja!
Vg unq orggre abg snyy ba zr...
Bu jryy. Onpx gb jbex.
Sincerely,
Augustus deCorbeau
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Not really. It's just more fun. This was very much an "I'm stressed from a long day and need to do something silly" moment.
And I liked the idea of it becoming fodder for a fellow procrastinator if someone sits down to decode it.
I like it. Although rot13 doesn't give fellow procrastinators much of a challenge since it takes just a second to find a site on the web to do the work for you...
I didn't want to make it too hard for a random passer-by to work out -- and if they have a laptop handy, there's also the sfzero.org URL for them to check out.
Y'know, I thought this was Welsh at first. Or something like it.
But wasn't that a praxis fad that's already become passé ?
Today I came back and it had been erased, but someone had written.
"LTTI GEJ QFG 2"
The best I can work out right now is using a rot-16 cipher to get "GOOD BZE LAB 2".
There are plenty of labs here -- I may take a look around someday to see if there's one labeled "BZE".
Alternatively, "BZE" might be short for "liquor".
EDIT: Also, your ROT13 logo looks like a chubby face. That's kinda cool.
Huh. The message and the encipherment don't seem to have much to do with each other.
Any particular reason you didn't write it in plaintext?