I've been refished.
After receiving several very uninformative emails from the phantom person, I received a betta in a bowl on my doorstep last night.
So, the hunt is on! Let's work on this, my brainy forum-going friends. How do we locate this person who thinks themself so clever?
What we know:
* We have 3 emails. Two with IP addresses traced back to BYU, one with an IP traced to "Utah Comcast."
* Two of the emails were sent right around 5:00 pm (both from BYU.) Getting out of class at 4:50, perhaps? Or, does the person work on BYU campus, and is checking their email before they leave work?
* The last email was sent at 2:30am on a Friday morning. Obviously, the person is a night-owl. They also may not have to rise very early on Fridays.
* We have two 'notes' given by the person. Both printed by an inkjet printer. One was attached to a colorful bit of scrapbooking-style paper, and was in the form of a perfect limerick (with a comma error corrected in blue pen.) An English major, perhaps?
* We have one betta fish, named Roy, who has so far been decidedly closed-mouthed about his origins.
* His bowl had half of a sticky barcode on it, the only legible letters saying "ng Company" with a trademark symbol after it. (Might be an mg--or something else. The first letter is torn in half.)
* The second note, titled "An Elegy for Paul," talks about the fish that died. In it, the author genders herself as a 'girl.' There is a photograph, assumedly of Paul, at the bottom of the note. He's sitting in his bowl on a white table, with some indiscernible objects behind it. The photograph has "Kodak Inkjet Paper" written on the back, but it looks just like a regular glossy photo.
* The person is at least internet savvy enough to set up a dummy Yahoo account. They may not know, however, that IP's can be traced. Anyone have any idea if we could get a specific address/terminal from one of these numbers?
