Since some of you are asking about the weirdnes in the Bee this morning, here is my diagnosis. Let me put a big caveat up front by reminding everyone that I do not work for or with the @nytimes. I have no firsthand knowledge of their puzzle operations. /1 What I do have is more than a quarter-century of experience as a web developer, forty years of general programming experience, and three and half years experience analyzing and reporting on Spelling Bee itself. Okay, that said... /2