Delinquent
Best case scenario: the delinquent site gets fixed before the 29th, when I'm flying to Beijing. There's no way I'm just going to bail and leave Aunt Margaret to deal with this until who knows when....
View ArticleCounting down to WHAT?
So the bug — or virus, or spyware, or, whatever it is — is now apparently counting down to something, and that something looks like it's going to happen while I am somewhere in Szechuan province and I...
View ArticleAugust 24
Aug 24, 1995 Microsoft inflicts Windows 95 on an unsuspecting world. * I went hiking in Claremont Canyon yesterday to clear my head. Three hours, six miles, and 1000 ft elevation change later, I was...
View ArticleLadybee777 “odd behavior cry for help”
Woke up Tuesday to an alarming email from Aunt Margaret. (Apparently, so did quite few of you, as evidenced by the many "I think your aunt has completely lost it" messages I received.) It took...
View Articleemergency exit
It saw me. It knows me now. — seen and skinned. I'm sorry. I'm out. I dragged you into this. Yes. But forget about it. It's over. I don’t want www.ilovebees.com to be my problem anymore. I...
View Articlebeing persuaded to come back
5913 miles is a long way to go just to keep thinking about the same problem.More than 1000 emails tell me you're still thinking about it, too.Hi Dana,How are your travels on the other side of the...
View ArticleOlly Olly Axon Free
Nearly arrested today for walking on the grass in Yu Yuan Gardens. Public space here in Shanghai still feels somehow... private. Guarded. Much more regulated than in Bejing.Error compounded: I was so...
View ArticleGo Hot
Wandered into what looked like a café this afternoon. A tiny, dingy place on Jin Xian Lu, no customers at all. So deserted, I couldn't help but go in. Some kind of instinct to fill up empty spaces, I...
View ArticleThe Extraordinary
When I was very little, I was going to be a fire truck when I grew up. That didn't pan out. Later, I decided I would be the paleontologist who discovered an unknown ancient civilization. The marine...
View ArticleEavesdropping
And the axons keep on coming. The Operator's clock struck midnight, and now we've got axons in 160 cities in 44 states.She thinks you're her crew. You're playing along, and you're re-assembling her...
View Articlesix degrees of
We're hurtling toward the Operator's target. Almost halfway, now, to 777 axons activated.What happens when we hit her benchmark?Melissa's roads don't run to China yet. But I want to hunt, too.*Took the...
View Articlefound and lost
All the King's horses and all the King's men... well, you know. Hopeless. The Queen, on the other hand, just put her scrambled transmissions together again. Now we can listen to the Operator's...
View Articleaxon spike rendezvous
whoah.The Operator is making live calls today.We hit 777 hot axons, and now she's calling some of the axons live. Apparently recruiting new crew members. Colonel xnbomb. Commander Mike Was. Sargeant...
View Articlesuccess
You rescued the Sleeping Princess!Mission accomplished. Is there anything you guys can't do?(Besides fix my aunt's web site, I mean.)(Just kidding!)It's so weird... I feel so incredibly relieved,...
View Articlehide and
Hi. This is Dana.If you’re trying to have me hunted down and shot like a dog, please feel free to use my email and voicemail to communicate with Melissa. Everyone else is. While you’re at it, please...
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