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Etymologician
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 		Twing
I wrote Dana today to probe possible story/family connections, any Kafkaesque goings on, and why her email contains the word "twing."

Quote:

Hi, Dana. I'm one of the folks who's been helping you out over the
last few days (Marc, xnbomb, etc.). I just wanted to send you a note
to give my personal support. I know you're stressed about this whole
thing, and the crazy conspiracy theorists from slashdot can't be
helping. I agree with whoever recommended turning off your comments.
As you said, too much noise, not enough signal.

I am curious about a couple of things... Where did "twing" come from?
I assumed that was your last name until my collegues started getting
emails from Ms. Awbrey. Also, how are you and your Aunt doing, aside
from being concerned by the internet problems? Have you told your
mom? And, if I'm not getting too personal, is your dad in the
picture? Every little detail helps. I certainly don't want to find
out what happens when that counter hits zero. Hopefully, whatever
this thing is will continue to communicate through the hotmail
account.

I hope you have some stress-relief planned for the weekend! Have a
good one.

The Etymologician


Turns out she's a Nivin fan.

Quote:

hi etymologician,
twing is just a word I like. sort of a personal mantra, or sound
effect I have been known to make. among other meanings, this one is
my favorite:
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=410
as for the family questions... I am going to ignore them, if you don't
mind. Wink
-d.


It seems to me that she's the net holding things in place. When she goes to China, or something else happens to her, it's all going to fall out. Or, viewed from another angle, in order to release whatever needs releasing, she will have to be removed. Sucks to be her. Also, no luck finding out if anyone in the family is a widow. Maybe it's not important. I'll write back to her tomorrow, but now I've gotta run.

PostPosted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 10:13 pm
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dishboy
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 		Re: Twing
Etymologician wrote:

Turns out she's a Nivin fan.

Quote:

hi etymologician,
twing is just a word I like. sort of a personal mantra, or sound
effect I have been known to make. among other meanings, this one is
my favorite:
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=410
as for the family questions... I am going to ignore them, if you don't
mind. Wink
-d.



I'm sure this is utterly unrelated... but Larry Niven wrote a book entitled "The California Voodoo Game". It's funny the kind of coincidences you find when scouring the Internet...
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astashenko
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 		And he carries around Nevinyrral's Disk... I'm such a nerd...
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 12:11 am
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Mos
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 		I sent this.

Quote:
I can only see one possibility for dealing with your problem. It
appears that the website has been taken over by a race of
superintelligent bees. The more I think about it, the more obvious it
becomes. There is but one solution. You must create a bee suit, and
blend in with a nearby colony. Learn their language, their secrets,
slowly gain their trust and loyalty. Report back to us with anything
you discover.



She sent this.

Quote:

lol.
thanks, I needed to smile after today.
-d.


You think she'll go on a date with me? Alecia stopped responding to my e-mails..
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vpisteve
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 		You go, Mos! Very Happy
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 12:36 am
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Onveric
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 		Re: Twing
Quote:
I'm sure this is utterly unrelated... but Larry Niven wrote a book entitled "The California Voodoo Game". It's funny the kind of coincidences you find when scouring the Internet...


I would think if the Niven quote does anything its make another reference to Halo. Since Niven most famous book is the Ringworld series and Halo is a ringworld.

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Nephilim
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 		Anyone correlate the 4 days being the Meltdown event held by microsoft, in which dana also makes reference to?

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Etymologician
Boot

Joined: 23 Jul 2004
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 		Re: Twing
Onveric wrote:
Quote:
I'm sure this is utterly unrelated... but Larry Niven wrote a book entitled "The California Voodoo Game". It's funny the kind of coincidences you find when scouring the Internet...


I would think if the Niven quote does anything its make another reference to Halo. Since Niven most famous book is the Ringworld series and Halo is a ringworld.


Everything I know about Halo, I learned today, but I did recall reading about him on the Cortana letters story page, which is why I thought it important. The voodoo connection isn't strong, but it's something. Do we have any other theories about the use of voodoo in the Operator's email? Has anyone read that book?

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Etymologician
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Nephilim wrote:
Anyone correlate the 4 days being the Meltdown event held by microsoft, in which dana also makes reference to?


Dana talks about Meltdown? Where? Is it really the same day as the countdown? Is anyone going?

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alaranth
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 		I emailed Dana earlier today about China-trip stuff, and this is the response I got back tonight:

Alaranth wrote:
> Hey there, Dana. Smile How's the start of your weekend going?
>
> Getting excited about your trip? I am so jealous! The school I was taking
> classes at last year was doing a summer 5-week trip to China, but they
> ended up cancelling it due to SARS and terrorism threats. Bah. Razz
> Travelling is sooo much fun. I backpacked around Europe 3 years ago, and I
> just got back last month from a 10-day trip to Israel. So much fun.
>
> Good luck with packing! If you haven't bought everything you need yet, I
> found that having a small travel alarm, an inflatable travel pillow, and a
> blanket were three of the best things to have. Especially if you're going
> to be travelling around on buses or trains for long periods of time,
> curling up with a blanket and a pillow is very nice. Wink
>
> -Sara


Dana wrote:
hi Sara,
that's really sweet packing advice. you're totally right, I should
dig around for something comfy to take with me. I have a confession:
my absolute worst habit in the world is "accidentally" taking airline
blankets with me when I get off the plane. (I know, that's so
horrible!) I used to be afraid of flying, and now they're like little
survivor tokens for me.
so much to do before leaving next week! I know I said I'd leave the
site alone for a little while, but I'm toying with the idea of giving
it one more shot before the trip. Poor Aunt M.
-d.


Nothing about feeling sick or queasy or having a spinning head in this one, but I the line "I used to be afraid of flying, and now they're like little survivor tokens for me" struck me. We have the story of the shipwreck in Mayday, and the wreck had a survivor.

She also says she may give the site "one more shot". My guess is whatever she does is going to make it rather difficult for her to leave...

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Mescad
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Joined: 24 Jul 2004
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Location: Lexington, KY

 		My response from Dana
Hi Mescad,
voice mail, aughhh.... amazing how many people who want to help also
seem to want to hang up without saying anything, lol.
the hardware tip is a good one. I'm heading out to Aunt M's on
Monday, probably, perhaps I'll give it one last check before China.
-d.


On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 19:29:18 -0400, Mescad <ilovebees@mydomain.net> wrote:
> Dana,
>
> I've been reading about your problems with Aunt M's site. Have you checked
> the physical server yet? Maybe someone is messing with the hardware. I
> dunno, but it's worth a look. :)
>
> Mescad
>
> P.S. Your voice mail or answering machine, whichever it is, seems to be
> full. I guess you've got lots of helpers on the job! :)
>

So she's implying that the server is at Aunt M's place. I dunno if that's new info or not, but it's somethinig. :) Still no reply from the hotmail address.

Mescad

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Deaper
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the hardware tip is a good one. I'm heading out to Aunt M's on
Monday, probably, perhaps I'll give it one last check before China.

Hmmmm... This wouldn't be possible. ilovebees.com's IP block is owned by Rackspace a very well known, reliable (and expensive) provider of dedicated servers.

"Rackspace Managed Hosting owns and operates four Tier-1 data centers located in Texas, Virginia and London, England. Each data center is engineered to the highest levels, with extensive systems to address security and network redundancy, enabling Rackspace to offer our 100% infrastructure availability guarantee."

Here's the netcraft report on the server. It's definantly not located at aunt margret's house. Now if rackspace had a datacenter in san fransisco this might be believable (as some dedicated/colocation hosting companies do allow you to visit the data center to make modifications to your server. Though I'm pretty sure rackspace does not allow this)

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alaranth
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Deaper wrote:
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the hardware tip is a good one. I'm heading out to Aunt M's on
Monday, probably, perhaps I'll give it one last check before China.

Hmmmm... This wouldn't be possible. ilovebees.com's IP block is owned by Rackspace a very well known, reliable (and expensive) provider of dedicated servers. (snips)


In the game-world though, who's to say that the server /isn't/ hosted at Aunt M's house? Very Happy

Putting the arrr in arrrrg!

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hotblack
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 		Sorry, no cunning formatting, it's far too late. Just thought I'd throw in my recent comms with Dana. Any feedback much appreciated.

> Hi Dana,
> I've been following what's been going on with your Aunt's website and on
> the blog over the last few days.. it's all very interesting.
> It looks as if whatever entity has 'attacked' your site is, more than
> anything, being curious IMHO. Through the various garbled text, embedded
> quotes in corrupted images etc it seems to be merely trying to communicate.
> There are quotes referring to travels, to being abandoned and asking for
> help, possibly retrieved by the entity from elsewhere on the internet and
> regurgitated to get it's message across. Then there's the psuedo-terminal
> access text, possibly the entity communicating with your web-server or some
> other computer.
> But how do we communicate with it.. that seems to be the question many are
> unsure of. I can see only two possibilities from here on for communicating
> with the entity and finding out more. Firstly via e-mail as has already been
> mentioned. There may be a special key-phrase that will initiate
> communication. Or throwing back it's own words to try to cajole a response.
> Secondly attempting to communicate directly with the entity in traditional
> computer/networking protocols (telnet, ssh, etc) possibly through your
> server, as these seems to be the point-of-contact, or if we can find out
> where it originated, through looking at network logs from your server?
> Communication via e-mail would seem the safest although more direct
> communication could be preferable. At the moment your server appears to not
> be allowing anything other than http communication on the standard services
> Port State Service
> 80/tcp open http
> 135/tcp closed loc-srv
> 3389/tcp closed ms-term-serv (aka Windows-Based Terminal Standard)
> But more services could become available as the countdown proceeds. Maybe
> the entity has a backdoor, maybe it has not worked out a route for
> bi-directional communication yet.
>
> Enough for now, are you still planning on taking your trip to China?
> Whereabouts are you planning on visiting while your there? I can certainly
> recommend it as an experience unlike any you will have had before. It's just
> not possible to describe the place in terms that we as outsiders are used
> to. May you live in interesting times ;)
>
> hotblack

Quote:
hi hotblack,
yup, still going to China (and a few other countries... Japan,
Malaysia, Singapore...). I am worried, though, about going so far
away while Aunt M still has to deal with this... I take it you've been
over there? any recommendations?
your communication ideas are interesting... I may poke at the server
myself a little bit before I leave the country, one last try. will
keep you updated if I get any responses


Interesting that having one last try at something is still mentioned. Maybe this last try will cause (or appear to) the next stage in communcation... in three days. A new server, a new script, a new dawn....

(edited to give the sender/reply colors :) - krystyn)

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Grunt_Hunter
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 		Yes, as hotblack said, when she tries before she leaves, this may be the next step, the next update on the site.

I sent Dana an email, just as a test to see if I get a reply.

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