I was filming a new product video for a barcode scanner at work. It was a fun time, being a one-man cast and crew, and chatting with Pierce between takes. Then things got weird. Pierce tells me I was abducted by the machines. I don’t have much recollection of the events, but iChat has the haunting evidence.
It all started with some innocent laughter. I was in the middle of a take, filming myself scanning a demo barcode. When went back to my computer after I had finished, I saw that I had left my iChat open, meaning every time I scanned a barcode it entered into iChat. Oops? Pierce and I laughed about it. A lot. And that’s the last thing I remember…
So apparently while Pierce was battling with the machines from the outside, I was doing the same from the other side, trying to break free. I was at least able to send Pierce a message through file transfer. Pierce understood the urgency of the message and stepped up his threats, but this only made the machines upset. He received an ominous video chat invitation…





