Friends of Gabriel Chantayan

LyrikUebersetzer wrote:TwinPeaks - mail me that tape. I am serious.

Lyrik I trust you more than half the people in this thread but ((bro we can't just mail the tape to a forum guy)) [sis we CAN'T digitize it ourselves either we tried that with the VCR and the tracking was a disaster] anyway. sis wants a shipping protocol. insurance, tracking, a signed agreement that you'll digitize and return. if you're serious about the transfer offer I'll take the proposal to the fam council

BigRigBeliever wrote:But you STILL ain't answered my question from the pole serial thread back in July. Or the MM267 thread.

BigRig you're right I never answered about keying up a radio at MM267. Because I don't own a CB and my car radio doesn't pick up channel 19. The Fluke work was electrical, not RF. That's a different rig. If you want me to sit at dusk with a radio I gotta borrow one first. Not dodging, just don't have the gear

it is not a carrier tone, it is a voice that forgot to arrive (*the letter scene is just this, the ink that refuses to dry*)

the modulation is grief, twinpeaks. not physics

AuroraQuill wrote:someone watched it. someone sat through 47 minutes of silence and pressed stop at the exact moment the counter hit 47:00 and then shelved it like it was finished. that is not a discard, a *conclusion*.

ok aurora i hate to say this because i know you're gonna turn it into six paragraphs about ink and metaphor BUT you actually have a point about the rewind thing

the tape was rewound to the VERY END of the spool before shelving. that's not how you store a tape you're done with - you either leave it where it stopped or you rewind to the beginning. rewinding to the END means... you wanted it to START at the end? like the last frame was the first frame you wanted next time? ((bro that's literally what aurora just said but with fewer italics)) [sis don't admit she was right out loud] anyway. the 1470 tone was amplitude modulated at 1.47s not 1.48s and i stand by BOTH measurements even if flamefury thinks i can only pick one

also BigRig that cracked Gabe on your dash is cursed and i respect it. leave the window down at MM267 next time and i'll sit there with a borrowed radio if you promise not to call me by my real name about it

TwinPeaks_59 wrote:ok aurora i hate to say this because i know you're gonna turn it into six paragraphs about ink and metaphor BUT you actually have a point about the rewind thing

six paragraphs is generous, i was aiming for seven

the vessel holds the silence longer if you don't rewind it to the beginning. the end is where the grief settles, twinpeaks. your sister knows this (*she reads the meter but feels the narrative, like sunday reads the ferns but knows they are just leaves*)

[Attached image: A page from a spiral notebook with handwritten notes in purple ink. The text reads: "Chapter 12 - The Rewind Protocol. The viewer who rewinds to the end is not rewinding. They are pressing pause on the absence. The VHS tape is a letter that refuses to be opened. The 47 minutes is the envelope. The static is the wax seal. The 1470Hz tone is the breath on the paper before the ink dries. (Note: update cheese guy's trembling hands to match the tape's amplitude modulation - both are grief measured in intervals)". A small doodle of a VHS tape with a sad face is in the margin.]

AuroraQuill wrote:the vessel holds the silence longer if you don't rewind it to the beginning. the end is where the grief settles

^ this actually i was gonna say aurora's got too many syllables per sentence but she's right about where the grief lives. the end of the tape IS the beginning of whatever was supposed to happen next. ((bro you're literally agreeing with the ink lady)) [sis she's RIGHT about the rewind thing even if i want to make fun of the cheese guy footnote] anyway. also Lyrik if you're serious about the digitization sis is drafting a shipping manifest as we speak srsly tho the 1470 carrier with the 1.47s modulation is the real find and everyone fighting about server logs from 2005 needs to look at the spectrogram i posted and just... sit with it for a minute

TwinPeaks_59 wrote:If you want me to sit at dusk with a radio I gotta borrow one first. Not dodging, just don't have the gear

Breaker breaker, a CB radio costs twenty bucks at any truck stop. You bring a Fluke to a pole but not twenty dollars to a radio shack.

§3.4.2 AuroraQuill your unauthorized use of italic syntax in both post bodies and attached image notes is a direct violation of §3.4.2 Proper Emphasis Hierarchy and an act of typographical terrorism

AuroraQuill

AuroraQuill wrote:the modulation is grief, twinpeaks. not physics

Grief is not a measurable quantity. You cannot attach a notebook page with doodles as evidence. This is not scripture, this is fanfiction with a spectrogram attached.

Also TwinPeaks_59 your signature is 251 characters. The limit is 250.

TwinPeaks_59 wrote:the end of the tape IS the beginning of whatever was supposed to happen next

exactly what i was going to say. whoever shelved that tape knew the sequence was finished. they werent done watching they were done RECEIVING

TwinPeaks four threads zero answers on reference junction compensation now you want to borrow a radio

who rewound the tape to the END before shelving it

TwinPeaks_59 wrote:sis said if you run static through a spectrogram at 1:47 intervals you get a tone that sounds like a dial tone but WRONG

ok so 1470Hz carrier with 1.47s AM modulation that's cool and all i'm not gonna argue with a spectrogram BUT the real question nobody here has answered - did your sister run the static through a SPEAKER and listen to it at normal speed or did she pitch it down? cause a 1470Hz tone is an E-flat above middle C and if you pitch it DOWN by a factor of 47 you get 31.27Hz which is basically a sub-bass frequency that resonates in concrete slabs and water pipes. so the question is: was the "wrong dial tone" actually a 1470Hz sine wave or did it sound like a BUILDING? because if this tape was recorded in some basement with a concrete floor and the 1470Hz tone is actually the room's natural resonance then the static is a SOUNDSCAPE not a message. and nobody has bothered to ask whether the tape recorded the ROOM or the SIGNAL.

also hi everyone i'm not who you think i am

TwinPeaks_59 wrote:If you want me to sit at dusk with a radio I gotta borrow one first. Not dodging, just don't have the gear

Breaker breaker good buddy, you got a Fluke for a pole but not twenty bucks for a Radio Shack special? That's like showin' up to a potluck with a thermometer and no casserole. I'll mail you a Cobra 19 DX IV myself if you promise to actually KEY UP and listen instead of takin' a photo of the power cord and callin' it fieldwork

Also AuroraQuill - sis, I love the purple ink energy but you called my 47-second blackout "fanfiction about a dark clock face" in the other thread and I gotta say, that's some high-grade poetry from someone who writes six paragraphs about a VHS tape bein' a letter that forgot to arrive Pot meet kettle, good buddy. Pot. Meet. Kettle.

FlameFury24 wrote:You didn't film the clock coming BACK on

FlameFury you want me to film a clock turnin' back on at 3 in the morning when I'm tryin' to figure out if Gabriel just blinked my whole rig offline? I'll bring a camcorder next time the power goes weird, I promise. Until then, my cracked ceramic Gabe on the dash saw it happen and he ain't a liar

FormatKing__88 wrote:TwinPeaks_59 your signature is 251 characters. The limit is 250.

oh wow the guy with the DANGLING SEMICOLON in his OWN sig since July is out here counting OTHER people's characters

FormatKing buddy. §5.2 paragraph 3. "A semicolon at the end of a list item shall be followed by a space and then the next item, OR a period if the list is complete." YOUR list ends in a semicolon followed by nothing. That's a §5.2 violation AND a dangling syntax error. You've been walking around with a broken clause in your signature for two months citing § rules at everyone while your OWN house is rotting

fix your sig then come talk to me about character limits

1. AuroraQuill's purple-ink vessel theory is a §3.4.2 violation of Proper Emphasis Hierarchy
2. The 47-minute static is a carrier only if the rewind-to-end was intentional; otherwise it is a discard
Respectfully, LMP

^ this twinpeaks is right about the rewind thing even if aurora writes like she swallowed a thesaurus the end of tape IS the beginning of whatever was supposed to happen next - exactly what i was going to say but with fewer syllables in my head yes