Warning about the "Face modeling programming challenge"

It has come to my attention that Avecira Solutions has been trying to replace the Face modeling department they fired a while ago. They organize a programming challenge where you have to represent a face (not a big surprise whose) with ellipses. They have also been distributing this ad:

Avecira has been spreading this ad around.

I think that they are just trying to fill the void they created by discharging those good people. As the company policy seems to be not to pay anything unless completely necessary, they just want people to do things for them for free. Therefore, if you decide to take part in the challenge, do not send them any source code! They would definitely use that code in project Toilworn Diamond.

Actually, this can also be seen as an opportunity to play some mind games with them! You can take part in the challenge and do some outstanding and cool faces with ellipses. Make them believe you are helping them with the project, but never send any source code to them. They are powerless if they can't copy-paste your code.

Message #8, update

I happened to notice that there was a meeting at the office where some people were brainstorming the meaning of message 8. They seem to be confident that the loyalty issue is now resolved so they didn't even bother to clean the board! Well... lucky I'm still here ;) I managed to take a picture of the whiteboard after the meeting.

Letter from the past

Two days ago I wrote about an email I got from Pasi Liisola. Now I'm really thrilled, because the message Pasi was talking about has been discovered! Apparently it was in a bottle that was tied to a tree in the location (in Finland) where the coordinates pointed.

In the bottle there was a letter from Pasi, dated 7.6.1967 and a playing card with holes in it. It seems to be that some kind of a secret word is coded to the card, but based on the letter, we need more of those cards to find out the word.

Here are pictures of the letter and the playing card. See all the pictures here: photos by GuestUser17

Letter from Pasi Liisola that was found in a bottle in Finland.

A card with holes in it was also found with the letter.

This was a victory for us! We were able to locate the letter and document it, before anyone could destroy it. Thank you to everyone who took part in retrieving it! Let's keep on looking for the other ones...

Surprising email from Pasi Liisola

I'm excited to tell all my blog readers that I have received an email from Pasi Liisola who apparently has been working on this mystery long before us!

However, Pasi warns that we can't let anyone destroy the thing that he has hidden (whatever it is). Therefore, I can't publish the coordinates shown in Pasi's note, before we find out what's in there. Nevertheless, I am willing to share them with the people I can trust.

If you are trustworthy and want to know the coordinates in Pasi's note, send me an email (beth.swillower at gmail.com) or a direct message in Twitter (@BethSwillower)!

(Edit: The message has been found: Letter from the past)

Here is the email I received:

Hi Beth!

I was extremely happy when I found your blog and that some righteous people are finally solving this mystery! If I could jump, I would be jumping with joy right now! You see, you are doing something I tried to do years ago. I had already lost hope and accepted the fact that the world will end up with the horrible LOLCat Apocalypse. Finally there is still a glimpse of light!

Luckily I made a backup plan for situations like this. Unfortunately I can't offer much assistance, but I will go through my personal notes and try to find the places where I hid my messages. Don't let anyone destroy them, so once you find the messages, spread the word as wide as you can! The world needs to be warned about this.

I found one note that says like this:
"In the middle of the trees. Just in case, tied with a string. NXX XX.XXX EXX XX.XXX"

Yours Sincerely,
Pasi Liisola

Message #8

A certain "good worker" trip surely has its benefits for us (apparently) not-so-good workers as well. The peaceful office enabled me to get a hold of this piece of text. To be honest, I have no clue what to think of it. Hopefully someone else has some ideas!?

Newslessness arrayal inertial zygomaticum toilworn disenjoyment undisguisedness  renunciant conopodium  Nonagon monographic sowbacked  aglet reactionaryism  whyness counternoise drearisome sextans  jussory thereva loveman subinfeudation carminophilous hemiscotosis achievement clavation lamestery noninsertion Abac Quadrigeminous Submanager 

Message #7, part 3

Yes. My hunch was right! There was still more to that message. I'm almost 101% certain that this picture is also somehow linked to the previous two pictures and obviously looks pretty much the same as the first key. But what's the point of the key if the message was already solved without it?

Message #7, part 2

Here is another picture I managed to get and I think it somehow links to the previous image with the key. At least that is what I heard some people speculate over a cup of coffee. I'm not sure, but it might be still missing some info? Or, who knows?

Message #7, part 1

We are living strange times at work. The new "Divide and conquer" policy makes it even harder for me to get any new messages. Apparently the big guns of the company have discovered the importance of them. More specifically they have realized that these messages contain something that is not so beneficial for the business. Therefore, they are becoming increasingly suspicious with anything related to the messages and they are only giving little bits of information to one person at a time, hoping that no-one would grasp the big picture (other than themselves obviously).

Therefore, the picture below is the only thing I was able to find at this time. I know it should be used for something, but the rest of the something (whatever it is) was distributed to a different place, so I have no access to it at this time. But I'll keep working on it!

Message #6

Yet another message that I was able to snatch! This is at least as weird as the previous ones. No matter which way I turn it, I just can't recognize anything in it.

Message #5

I know some people have been working on this little piece of text for few days already, but they have been super suspicious and I just haven't had the opportunity the see any glance of it before this. Luckily I haven't heard any cries of joy from their offices, so I assume they are not really making any progress on this. I have also a strong faith that the people reading this blog are more skillful than they and this will be just a tasty piece of cake for us!

This is the text I was able to read from one of their screens while they were on a coffee break.

Gur zrffntr lbh ner ybbxvat sbe pna or sbhaq ol glcvat tbb qbg ty fynfu D5R60

Message #4

I was able the get a hold of yet another message. It was a bit tricky though. They almost saw me downloading this from certain person's laptop, but luckily I got them fooled. I guess, all those spy movies are finally paying off.

It's pretty clear that there's something written in the image, but what?