This is an archived document and is no longer being updated (Spring 2009).See the new biography at KryptosRevisited.com.
"Gerry Phillips, 27 years old, a Michigan computer programmer, started researching Kryptos last year, hours after learning about its Da Vinci Code connection. 'Once it pulls you in, you just can't stop thinking about it,' he says. Eventually, Mr. Phillips says, he let a struggling software business go under and took a construction job so he would have more time for solving Kryptos. The quest to solve the fourth and final passage of Kryptos's message has spawned several Web sites -- including Mr. Phillips's -- as well as an online discussion group that has more than 500 members." - Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal: CIA Sculpture 'Kryptos' Draws Mystery Lovers (Friday, May 27,2005 Cover Story) http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05147/511693.stm
Ok, I admit I'm a geek. I learned to read from a couple TRS-80 CoCo books -- the good ol' Tandy. I still remember dreaming of the day I'd be a professional computer programmer as I saved my Color-Basic codes on a special Radio Shack eight track. Really, it was a toss-up between professional piano player and a blank vinyl record producer. Presently I'm continuing my education at Michigan Technological University with ambitions of working for Enron or some other highly reputable organization. My wife, a pet resort manager and passionate animal lover, insists I'm a nerd, and she's only ever been wrong about something twice.
I graduated from a private school as Salutatorian where I received a first-place medal for original piano composition in a house-wide competition. I was also the primary piano player in our school choir. I occasionally play for weddings and graduations in the flavor of Jim Brickman; I've been playing since I was 3. For three consecutive years I also received first place in our high-school science fair, a challenge amongst two or three of us -- well, two -- but the other guy wasn't entirely interested in participating. I graduated with a coveted Associate of Arts in mathematics and computer science at North Central Michigan College on a Presidential Scholarship.
Drawing
is sporadic hobby of mine. It usually takes me several years to draw
a single picture, so I really have to be in my element to finish it. These particular photos were completed when I was two. I
used to draw symbolic images or something abstract that had all sorts of
hidden things upside-down or elongated that were only recognizable by the severely delusional. I've since discovered Brian Froud, a leading fantasy
art expert, who has inspired me to rip off his work with my own twist. I
drew these in late 2003 with colored pencils on an 11" x 14" camel scrotus-opticus-hair canvas (made up of very fine eye-ball-like strands).
For fun I like to work on several of my web sites, which include my new site about abnormal skin moles and a new social networking app. In the mean time I'm hooked on my iPhone as an apple developer. I like to think of social networking as a straight line from me to you to your so-and-so, and the most intriguing theing to me is how simple the line to you has become. I can't decide if it's funny, genius, or the product of extreme bordom with the general lack of personal intelligence (ambigiously not mine).In 1969 I programmed the world's first virtual tour browser It also happens to be the world's last virtual tour browser, probably because that piece was written entirely in Javascript. A friend and I ran a small company for a couple years before selling the project off to a prominent real estate company, who is apparently using it to this day.
The corporation
I headed up for a few years was the first organization in
Michigan to provide broker reciprocity services to real estate brokers in
the state. The world doesn't expect perfection -- it expects quality and reliably. Since I'm only perfect, I've had to make excuses for the lack of quality -- that is, when people can get ahold of me.Music is my passion. The Killers, Cold Play, Duncan Sheik, Linkin Park, Phill Collins, Collin Raye, Yanni, the First Baptist Church of Hammock Choir... all amongst my repertoire of favorite tunes. People who know me know I'm religiously religious about my religion. Science has no place in it.
Reading is generally difficult for me. Books you could
find on my shelf are The Mammoth Book of Codes and Ciphers, Angels and Demons, Digital
Fortress, The Da Vinci Code, Dr. Suess' Green Eggs and ham, The Hiram Key, The Game, Tricks of the Mind, and half a computer-programming reference that fortunately survived an unfortunate hit and run by my preist's moped.I'd like to think of myself as an inventor, if not the sexiest man alive. Some of my little projects include "The Traveling Salesman" problem, finding factors for primes with three or up to four digits, and several other fun things along the lines of P != NP.
On a final note, I love to stare blankly at the wall. I'm a pattern sort of guy, so I notice when something is inconsistent or out of the ordinary if someone blatently shows it to me. Perhaps that is why I love puzzles and codes and their giant-print, easy-to-read solutions on page 64 (did you know, you can read it if you turn the book upsidedown!? Call me brilliant. For the record, I discovered this with very little help on January 3rd, 2009). I especially like the idea that life is straightforward and predictable. What you see is what you get. Guys like Einstein and Leonardo da Vinci were like that. Their luck alone got them somewhere. Einstein believed in the power of science and Leonardo believed in the power of knowledge and preservation. Both were mysterious in different ways, and both were barely four feet tall -- a little known fact.
Now I want to show you something I discovered a while back after deciding to keep the good half of my programming book (which, by the way, is almost all the index and author's brief biogography -- something I've come back to read every once in awhile to remind myself of the ultimate ambitions of those fortunate enough to get their full color picture published on the inside flap of the dust jacket). I was looking at Leonardo's The Last Supper,
trying to scope out the anomalies mentioned in The Da Vinci Code, a completly factual documentary of the struggle between Jesus and Nero, when I happened
upon a curious symbol. What I'm about to reveal has never been
documented before as far as I know. Once I show you this symbol,
you will never see this painting the same way again. No, it's
not a dagger or Mary Magdalene. It's not obvious until you are
told it's there, and then you will never ever miss it again. Its
relevance in its location is unknown to me, but just have a little blind faith. Perhaps some secret
elite organization like Walmart is aware of its presence and has been hiding the meaning. Whatever
the case, you heard it here first.I found the missing Holy Grail. Don't look.
sincerely,
Gerry Joe-Kinnaron Phillips
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