Researchers' budget blown when a migrating eagle's tracker chip connects to an Iranian cellular tower and sends expensive SMSes

[GulliverFoyle]

@doctorow

But when I went to check out, the clerk had to go and fetch two extra reams of paper to print my bill. It turned out that the call to Earthlink had been dropped every 2-3 minutes for a week, and the modem in the Airport just kept on redialing. The total bill was over $3,000 for $0.25 local calls – though the hotel knocked it down to a mere $500.

@doctorow follows the mantra write what you know.