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[NEW UPDATE] Dana's blog 8/20

[Andy]

Well, looks like visiting the coordinates is something we're supposed to do. And I'd just convinced myself I wasn't going to go.

[improvius]

Well that's a little disappointing. She seems to be saying that being at the locations at the hot times is the right thing to do. I guess we can pack up the number crunching & speculations and just wait it out now.

-Imp

[Dorkmaster]

[evil voice]Where are your dancing robots now, Andy? HAHAHAHAHA[/evil voice]

ahem...
sorry about that...

So yeah, I think anyone saying we shouldn't go to these locations (at least in-game reasoning) is out of luck. And I think we have a lot more motivation to update Phil, wouldn't you say? Please sign up here!

edited to make evil voice eviler...evil-er...evilish... evil-um... more evil.

[GunsmithCat]

I'm still not buying it until we get an updated coords list.

Some of the points are in cornfields, side of highways, on people's lawns.

[thebruce]

but then again, given her character, she might be thinking like the rest of us, that this could be one possible explanation of the coordinates, to be there at those times... seems a little too easy that everything that people have been doing up until now has been precisely what was necessary... so I dunno... if anything happens at those locations, I'd assume they must all be the same thing... I mean, say it's a phone call where each axon is a clue - how many of those phone would be answered by someone who knows nothing about the arg? (that's like 99.99% of the people who'd be in the vicinity) or if the phone isn't answered? I dunno... perhaps the fact that who going where is being organized means that it's fairly certain someone will be at those locations to get the 'clue'... and if each axon is different, then the less people we have at the axons, the harder it'll be to solve the 'puzzle'? Very interesting indeed...

I'm more curious to find out if there's any deeper meaning to Dana's spill of movie cafe than simply the parallel of how we must feel about the mystery...

[BGMalone]

From the Blog:

[Andy]

[Extrasonic]

[Anxst]

Personally, I'm not giving up on our mathematical efforts as of yet. Dana might think being at those spots is the thing to do, but unless they continue to be updated and all end up in public areas in a place that makes sense, I'm not putting my money there.

I'll continue to ponder.....I hope you all do the same.

[GunsmithCat]

We also get:

[sfsdfd]

Outstanding! I love the mounting anticipation leading up to Axon Day. Should be interesting.

- David Stein

[vpisteve]

tick tick tick tick.....tick.....tick.........

[Clayfoot]

Post Dana's blog text

[Extrasonic]

Friday, August 20, 2004
Go 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 guess.

I tried to take a seat, but the old woman behind the counter immediately started shuffling toward some back room. Gesturing for me to follow her. I was too flustered and confused not to. If I had thought about it for even a moment, I probably would have left the café. Instead: Down a hallway.

The woman knocked on a door. My mind, utterly blank. Didn't even have it together enough to spin out bad scenes, which is what I usually do (you know, the "If this were a horror movie..." type). I literally had no idea, not one idea, what was going on, what I was doing there.

And then I did. Inside the back room, the last thing I expected: a bootleg wonderland. The handwritten sign on the wall read "DVD 10 RMB", about one dollar US each for what looked to me to be at least half the inventory of IMDB. I'd never seen anything like it. Dozens of people, too. Packed in tight, and all compiling massive lists of the movies they wanted. Handing their lists to three incredibly efficient women who disappeared briefly and then returned, hauling huge stacks of discs out of storage.

So the café, of course, was just a cover. And I was amazed. Dumbstruck.

I don't know why I'm telling you this. Maybe because it was so surreal. Like being in a dream... and it always seems to help to talk out loud about dreams that don't make sense.

Or maybe it's because it I feel... well, I guess I feel like, in a way, you're all being invited to a mysterious back room, too.

Those coordinates... and now the times that go with them... they're beckoning to some of you, aren't they?

So many emails I received this week said the same thing: When the axons go hot, you're going to be there. I think that's very brave. And I'm incredibly grateful.

I don't know what I would do if I weren't in China, if I were closer to one of the sites. I'd like to think that I would join you, that I would meet this thing head on. But that's easy to say from more than 5000 miles away.

You guys are the ones on the frontlines. So it's your call. Do you want to be there when the axons go hot?

I'll be at an Internet café on the 24th, waiting to find out.

P.S. Thanks for letting me know that the coordinates have wiggled a bit since they first went up, and for sending me your re-calculated list of locations, six decimal places and all. Kind of creepy how many of them turned out to be near my hometown (and your hometowns, too, from what I hear!)... still no axons on this side of the Pacific, though.