I'm not sure if I'll make the chat, I have to go south and visit my
family (stupid sister's stupid birthday) but maybe if the time
difference works in my favour I'll try logging on as soon as I get
back to catch the closing remarks.
In the meantime, here for your enjoyment is the rendition
of "Where.gif's of Your Mind" that Sting performed at the recent
Lockies ceremony. Sure, theoretically the lyrics fir any version of
the song (Windmills of Your Mind, duh!), but I was listening to
Sting's when I wrote this, I like how he makes it kinda croony and
sultry. Anyhoo:


Backwards square-root in a circle,
A white dot marked on the wheel.
Orbited by Pi initials.
Can you tell me, what's the deal?
Hidden next to the Events box
Was the acronymic clue.
But the only info missing
Was what we were s'posed to do.
Theories flowed like sweet ambrosia,
Was "infinity" the thing?
Or perhaps "Squaring the circle"
Or the 8th coin of I-Ching.
But no answers will you find
To the where.gif's in your mind.

Grateful Dead songs cannot help you.
ROT13 gives no relief.
Even white vigneres are useless.
And brute force brings only grief.
Damn the eye through which we came here,
Damn the waking buddha too.
Damn the URF and damn their forums.
Damn, we need another clue!
There's no secret in the source code.
There's no cipher we can see.
There's no stegged jpeg solution.
Just where.gif eternally
And you never will be free
From the where.gif legacy.

Two whole weeks of trying passwords
Then we had to start again.
Not "events" this time, but "admin",
And the screaming started then!
While we've been stuck on this puzzle
Over two weeks have gone past.
Can it be the great Jawbreakers
Have been finally outclassed?
DonkeyOatey's pulled his hair out.
Ozy's chewed out his own spleen.
Vpisteve's going foetal.
UrbanZombie's going green.
When you saw the animation
With Bill Gates and pie et al,
Did you blame PM brain damage
Maybe from some childhood fall?
Backwards square-root in a circle,
A white dot marked on the wheel.
Orbited by Pi initials.
So many layers to peel.
Stare until you're going blind,
But no answers will you find
To the where.gif's in your mind.

There were those who held the theory
That the clues themselves were wrong.
Until the "dead man in the city"
Worked out where the 8's belonged.
When you heard someone had solved it
You could only stop and stare.
You could finally read URF's forums,
But by now you didn't care.
Backwards square-root in a circle,
A white dot marked on the wheel.
Orbited by Pi initials.
Did it happen? Was it real?
Feel your sanity unwind,
As no answers you can find
To the where.gif's in your mind.