{"id":132,"date":"2005-10-31T19:23:27","date_gmt":"2005-10-31T23:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/2005\/10\/31\/a-coded-message-alternumerics\/"},"modified":"2005-10-31T19:23:27","modified_gmt":"2005-10-31T23:23:27","slug":"a-coded-message-alternumerics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/2005\/10\/31\/a-coded-message-alternumerics\/","title":{"rendered":"A Coded Message, Alternumerics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After exploring around the website for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalphilistine.com\/alternumerics\/self\/index.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Alternumerics\">Alternumerics<\/a> I am still puzzle about the intent and purpose of the creation of alternumerics.&nbsp; I am still trying to figure out how this website or the invention of laternumerics ties in with interactive fiction.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Alternumerics seems to have artform or different ways to represented the typed (printed) alphabets and numbers.&nbsp; It is another means to speak two different message in the same passage, similar to the idea of a coded message. I decoded the first paragraph in Self Portrait as a Font&#8211;Print, the art form have a message because I am curious about the original message behind the coded alphabet.&nbsp; It turns out to be a message from a chinese zodiac superstition&nbsp; stating, &quot;Happy Belated Chinese New Years. It-s the year of the snake, so beware of weasely types and people who can swallow rodents whole&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; The original message does not appear very awe inspiring, however going through the code, the alphabet representation have an undertone of apologies and excuses.&nbsp; For example, the letter <em>n<\/em> stands for &quot;apologize&quot;, <em>s<\/em> stands for &quot;plain forget&quot;, <em>r <\/em>stands for &quot;don&#8217;t mean it&quot; and so on, giving the idea that the person writing the letter titled &quot;Letter to a Friend Who Doesn&#8217;t Seem to Want to be My Lover&quot; is full of apologies.&nbsp; Nonetheless, the nonchalant message after the decoded phrases are taken out does not match with one another.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>A similarity I can make between alternumerics and interactive fiction is that both forms can be read at different layers and level.&nbsp; Nonetheless, I cannot see how alternumerics is very interactive, for each letter of the alphabet already have a set representation of a phrase and didn&#8217;t change from reader to reader.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After exploring around the website for Alternumerics I am still puzzle about the intent and purpose of the creation of alternumerics.&nbsp; I am still trying to figure out how this website or the invention of laternumerics ties in with interactive fiction.&nbsp; Alternumerics seems to have artform or different ways to represented the typed (printed) alphabets &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/2005\/10\/31\/a-coded-message-alternumerics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Coded Message, Alternumerics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}