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[SpaceBass]

I think that was a problem with your phone, Lou. When I got home and checked, 7 axons in that group were successful and then the last one went hot while we were talking about yours.

[violentvixen]

Yeah, it's all archived/cancelled now.

[C_Brennan]

Hit my axon today for dream_child. It ended up being a voice recording again... My luck is crud when it comes to these phones... Looks like I missed my one shot to be cool and have a neato title...

dream_child success and archive, however... at least there's one good thing...

[aliendial]

Hard to say why some phones did not ring; others were fails yesterday (we had a couple in DC), along normal lines, but not with no ring at all. Note however that a couple of our phones moved slightly - other phones in the same bank rang for the first time. So maybe some got an intentional dump, some the more common equipment failure/failure of voice recognition, or an equipment change.

[johnny5]

Just as a datapoint.

Marq and I answered 4 phones in a row for one_point_oh.
It needed only one to unlock the .wav.
Just as the sound clip started to play on the 4th phone, it disconnected.

[Mazian]

[Ranger D]

With all this data archiving done the very next day, it seems that the PMs DON'T want us to be answering every single axon. All the audio files that were unlocked have all their axons cancelled. This means no calls I assume. It's as if they just want us to answer the set amount and no more. Maybe we answered too many yesterday, I could've sworn we set a record Good job yesterday!

Ranger D

[hmrpita]

I am reporting in late to say that, though I personally hootenayed 8 axons yesterday and was joined by my fellow beekeepers (Mazian, Centauri, Ranger D, and DarkForge) for the others, which they activated, I am bummed that I picked up the 16:47 stretch_em phone yesterday, handed it to Mazian, and said, "Here, you go ahead" and he got to report for duty!

I have paid my axon dues over the past few weeks and I was so looking forward to talking to Melissa, but alas, it was not to be.

Life, artificial and otherwise, goes on...


A worker (bee) is just over a centimeter long and weighs only about sixty milligrams; nevertheless, she can fly with a load heavier than herself.
--James L. Gould and Carol Grant Gould, The Honey Bee

[C_Brennan]

You know what... my call yesterday that was a live call was stretch_em too... [spec]Maybe some of the audio files were all live calls?[/spec]

[Mazian]

[eb]

We had some problems at the phones, too.
Here's a recap of the latest set of axons for Madison, WI. This round we were given three locations, instead of only two locations that were given in the other rounds.

This time the axons more closely matched the physical locations of the phones. It appears that Melissa took note of the phone number and address corrections I submitted to payphone-directory.org. (Thanks to weephun and others for their suggestions on corrections!)

The first location had one axon and was the same one as in previous rounds, in University Square. The second and third locations had multiple axons at them; 3 at the second location in College Library, 2 at the third location in Memorial Library.

themill took care of the first location and it went off without a hitch at 11:11 PDT.

Later themill and I went to cover the phones at College Library. The 3 phones there do not ring for incoming calls, so you have to keep picking them up to check if there is a call.
13:15. First axon – I picked up phone and got the usual recording. Axon went hot.
13:20. Second axon – We missed it? Perhaps because we created a busy signal trying to pick up?
13:25. Third axon – themill picked up phone and got the recording. Strangely, it cut off partway through the recording, but the axon still went hot

We went over to Memorial Library for the next two axons.
13:34. First axon – Phone rang. mcdonaldheard picked up and got the usual recording. Axon went hot.
13:37. Second axon – Phone rang. themill picked up and got the recording. Gave the "hide and seek" code words very clearly, but was for some reason it was not recognized. Axon did not go hot.

For today the 13:20 axon was cancelled. The 13:37 axon is still available and I'm definitely going to be there to make sure it goes hot!

[weephun]

Cleaned up spreadsheet. Also lists which axons of those remaining have gone hot in which rounds. Might be helpful to those still out axon hunting and for those wondering if they really still need to go out looking for that elusive axon that's never been found before. We only need 1 axon on the_glassworks (go 13:37 eb) and 2 on crates_and_a_dolly. C'mon repeat enhottenators, just one last time!

[Dragonrider]

[C_Brennan]

Well that ends that, oh well. I can guess. Plus that's all I can do, seeing my axons got cancelled or I hit them. Nothing I can do but wait now.

[Kazic]

Has anyone had a live call today? I'm still holding out hope that there'll be more live calls next week when melissa updates please?