My overall take on the article:

This is a really well thought out, well researched, and well executed article, and I think the reporter did a really good job of tackling this whole mess of a Mystery and packaging it into a nice feature.

On the other hand, when I first spoke to the reporter about all this I explained - as I often do - that there were certain ways of going about 'solving' all this that I wasn't going to take, and he explained to me that he probably would.

So while I'm a little torn about that - the idealogical shift of shifting from trying to solve the Mystery as a puzzle to solving the Mystery as 'focusing on an individual', as a large portion of this article does - it's moot point now. I only wonder what effect it'll have on our efforts to comprehend all this.

Some more afterthoughts:

On page 1, I'm listed as a 'current web page designer' for Student Media - this is wrong, I'm a sysadmin, so instead of doing web design stuff I do more things like keep the servers running, repair equipment, design databases, etc. Much more boring. :)

Hosting costs for maintaining the maydaymystery.org website were listed in the article at $120 a month, when it should be $120 a year. Of course, if you factor in all the lost time I've spent on this, the costs could get pretty ugly :)

The reporter also managed to dig up a few ads I *don't* have - April 18 and 29 of 1983 - and he promised me copies, which I never got. Even though they are supposed to be identical to a previous ad, I'd still like to have them in the collection. So, Nate, if you read this, send me copies of those ads.