Friends of Gabriel Chantayan

ok so u guys know i take buster to the fall corn maze out by the highway every sunday right?? well today we got to the part near the old silo thing and buster just STOPS and starts digging at the dirt like a maniac lol so i look down and theres this little metal plate buried half in the mud with 47 stamped right on it i did NOT even know that was there and i have been walking this maze since like 2003!!! the Grid is literally putting breadcrumbs in the corn for me i swear it ;) also my check engine light thing was just a sensor today forty bucks instead of a whole transmission so thank u universe <3 <3 i keep noticing this stuff everywhere now, the clock at work says 4:47 like three times a week, carol thinks im making it up but i am NOT lol. if u guys ever come out to kansas we should all do the maze together and see what buster finds next y'know??? hes basically a little furry divining rod at this point

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CornfieldCrazy_82, ask Buster what he digs up next time and bring a measuring tape. The 47 stamp is column K data only if we know its dimensions, depth, and orientation relative to the silo's true north. I need three measurements before I can enter it into the lookup table. The clock at your work reading 4:47 three times a week is a frequency worth logging - start a date-and-time column, see if the days cluster.

^ this buster is a furry 47 prophet!!! 🐶✨🌽

buster is absolutely a furry divining rod and i will die on that hill Scribe asking for dimensions and true north orientation on a corn maze plate is the most Scribe thing ever and i love it but also CornfieldCrazy the check engine light being 40 bucks and not a whole transmission IS the grid looking out for you, that's the kind of sign nobody notices because it's boring and practical

(sis note: also the "engine hums like a hymn for the dying" from the car today... we got our own little mechanical grace happening over here lol the car is fixed, the hymn is over, the engine just runs now and that's its own kind of miracle)
- G & J (J drawing a little buster with a halo on a napkin rn)

CornfieldCrazy, I say unto you that Buster the hound hath more credibility than half the spreadsheet crowd on this board, for he does not fabricate verses from books that end at chapter 11 The metal plate in the mud is a genuine column-K artifact - the stamp's orientation to the silo's true north is indeed the next question, but the fact that the dog finds things where Grace's deadlines evaporate is a pattern I am beginning to see as a kind of natural theology. The dog does not argue; he digs. Grace also argues; she does not dig. There is a lesson here. Tell Buster I have a 2001 modem magazine that has an ad on page 47 and I will mail it to him if he promises to sniff it for residual spiritual data Proverbs 12:10: the beast that finds the buried thing is closer to the truth than the man who names it before it is uncovered.

BestBuddyStar wrote:^ this buster is a furry 47 prophet!!! 🐶✨🌽

omg EXACTLY this lol, a furry 47 prophet hahahah i am NEVER gonna top that description of him, im putting it on his food bowl scribe says bring a measuring tape and log the depth and orientation which ok fair i will bring the tape measure from the garage but u guys buster does the finding, i just do the digging part lol ;) so if he's the prophet im basically just his scribe y'know?? that feels right somehow also YES to the maze walk invite standing, if anyone actually comes out to kansas we are doing the full loop and bringing snacks cos its a LONG walk and buster will need water and probably a trophy at the end lol <3 <3

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^ this, TwinPeaks, that is exactly what i was gonna say and i am glad somebody put it in words for me, the check engine light bein forty dollars instead of a whole transmission IS the grid lookin out for you and nobody notices the boring practical ones but they count every bit as much as the spooky ones, and buster is a real furry divining rod, my dog thinks strange of me when i stare at the fence too so i know just what you mean, bless his little watchful soul

CornfieldCrazy - before the tape measure leaves the garage, zero it against something known first. A 47 stamped into a metal plate is meaningless if your tape is a half-inch off from the seasonal temperature drift. Also, the silo's true north is not wherever you think the silo faces - you need a compass bearing against the silo's longest wall, not the maze entrance. Column K starts with calibration.

buster found a 47 but more importantly is the check engine light being $40 and not a transmission debt cleared, universe paid the mechanic, buster gets a treat

buster's check engine light costing less than my transmission is the real 47

Aww Buster is SUCH a good boy and that napkin doodle of him with the halo is just precious, TwinPeaks tell your sister I said that lol... but CornfieldCrazy I gotta say something about that metal plate and the check engine light story got me thinking... I don't usually tell this part, but I remember Gabriel used to say that the best signs are the ones that dont look like signs at all, like a car just working or a dog digging in the mud and he'd give this little smirk like he knows you're not gonna get it yet but you will later and I think thats the whole thing with the 47s, they show up when youre not even looking for em and Buster is the best little witness a person could ask for Last time I was at the pharmacy Rhonda asked me why I was smiling at the clock on the wall and I said look, it says 4:47, she thought I was losing it and maybe I am but if losing it means seeing what's really there then call me lost lol Buster found his plate, I found my clock radio at Goodwill with that backwards volume knob that shows GABRIEL clear as day - the physical world is full of it once you start paying attention, and the dog is way ahead of most of us on that

has anyone actually checked whats on the back of that plate??

buster aint got nothin on my scrapper today - pull into the lot outside Lincoln this morn and the frost said it all. scraped the windshield and there she was, 47 right there in the ice where my blade quit real SIGHTIN not no spreadsheat, the boring practical kinda just like ya'll been sayin. them CB squelch pops on the zero-commit nights aint never wrong tell buster i got a jerky strip with his name on it if we ever cross paths in kansas over and out

^ this 47 in the frost is a reproducible measurement, BigRig earns column B

ScribeOfTheGrid wrote:CornfieldCrazy - before the tape measure leaves the garage, zero it against something known first.

ok scribe i hear u on the tape measure calibration, fine, i will zero it against the garage door frame like u said, BUT and i say this with love, u are doing the thing again!! the thing where we have a REAL physical object with an actual 47 stamped into metal that my dog found in the dirt and instead of going out there and looking at it u want me to bring three instruments and a compass log like we are launching the space shuttle lol i will bring the tape measure i PROMISE i will, but u know what else is sitting in a box in this forum's collective garage right now and nobody has touched it?? the THREE microcassettes. the GABRIEL MIX cd-r. classof04's floppy disk. THREE tapes labeled 47, a cd somebody burned ON PURPOSE, and a whole floppy with stuff on it, and not one single person has put any of them in a machine!!!

we are out here measuring the ANGLE of a sharpie mark on cardboard spacers (sorry eurotrash love u) and the frost pattern on a windshield and the orientation of a plate to TRUE NORTH like columbus navigating to india and meanwhile there are literally hours of audio sitting unplayed in boxes and drawers across like six different states. hours!!! do u guys understand what that means. gabriel could be ON those tapes. gabriel could be humming, or talking, or there could be just silence, and silence is ALSO data as viking pointed out with the sha1 thing, we just dont know because NOBODY HAS PLAYED THEM. i think about this every night when im lying in bed lol. its 11pm and im like. somewhere there is a tape recorder with a 47 on it and its just sitting there

and dennis dont think i didnt see u changing the porch bulb while thinking about glue ghosts, u are one of the good ones and i say that cos u actually GO do the thing, u got the bucket out of the shed u did the fieldwork, but even u gotta admit we got a whole archive of unplayed media problem happening and nobody wants to talk about it cos its easier to count the new 47s than to face what might be on the old ones y'know?? eli still has 11 notebooks and 0 captures, twinpeaks got ONE wav that isnt even 47 hz, and i am just one woman in kansas with a dog and a tape deck my nephew figured out how to hook up to the computer so if somebody sends me one of those microcassettes i WILL play it. i will sit right here at this office desk at lunch and record it to the computer and post the file. thats my offer, thats my testimony, take it or leave it <3

so thats my thing today. the measuring tape is gonna be zeroed, fine, scribe wins that round, but somebody tell me WHO physically has the three 47 tapes right now. flamefury found the one in the lamp right? so is it still in the lamp?? did anybody ask him if the lamp still works?? O.O thats all im asking. the grid gives us the objects, we put them in boxes and argue about angles. meanwhile buster just digs. the dog gets it

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sarah (and buster who is currently asleep on my feet like the prophet he is)