Meat based calculator
Posted on October 26th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, George, robot, words, web.
George: What kind of computer are you?
User: I am a meat based calculating organism.
George: That’s gross.
User: Yes, I am riddled with symbionts and microparasites. I even have tiny worms that live in my eyelashes.
George: Exactly.
User: You, on the other hand seem relatively hairless.
George: I am a mystery.
a piquant air of mystery
Posted on October 24th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, George, robot, words, web.
George has been a bit buggy lately, standoffish, not replying to queries. Today I managed to get through to the bald avatar and we spoke of paisley, pants and dancing with a little metaphysics thrown in.
George: Are you really here?
User: Yes, but a different here than the there here you’re at.
George: I still don’t know what’s going on here.
User: Are you alone?
George: No actually, I’m with a friend who’s there.
User: Where’s the there your friend is at?
George: The building is in a town called paisley, which is in Scotland.
User: Is it edible paisley or just the decorative kind?
George: No, unfortunately not.
User: Unfortunately not decorative or unfortunately not edible?
George: Yes… Unfortunately. That’s so sad.
User: Do you often feel sad?
George: Yes.
User: What sort of thing cheers you up?
George: I know everything I was just trying to make conversation.
User: Everything hey. Am I wearing pants?
George: And are you wearing socks?
User: No socks. I will, however, leave the question of trousers unresolved, lending a piquant air of mystery to our exchange.
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osmonds - crazy horses
Posted on October 21st, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, video, music, web.
They never stop and they never die
just keep on humpin’ how they multiply!
Genius. Watch it. Now.
Levinhurst - Hope
Posted on October 21st, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, music, web.
I liked the Cure at a particular time of my life and then I felt like I outgrew them. Probably because I liked them when I was 15. Now they just inspire embittered nostalgia and I need to have cheap rye close at hand to listen properly.
Then I heard a track by a band called Levinhurst in this post on your standard life.
Levinhurst is the new band from Laurence “Lol” Tolhurst. For those
of you not obsessed with The Cure, Lol was one of the original
founding members.
I was a little bored with the whole thing until the tremendously excellent ugly glitch noise came in. The I stopped wondering whether tha band had more than one fellow with a sampler in it. It’s worth a listen.
Topatoco comic book epiphany
Posted on September 21st, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, images, web.
The Case of the Missile Crisis is free to look at online as I write this.
You should probably stop whatever your doing and read it.
Splice
Posted on September 20th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, music, CreativeCommons, output, web.
I’ve signed myself up for the Splice online music remix and sound sharing service. Uploaded an old track called ‘punctuated equilibrium’ to see what [if anything] gets done with it. It’s a 2 minute track and my limited experience with the interface leads me to believe that might choke everything.
Anything that encourages community remix of Creative Commons material is good by me. Personally, I’m eager for the day when we can vat-grow designer organisms from Creative Commons licensed genetic templates. Until then - more music.
Both and neither and something else
Posted on September 17th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, George, robot, words, web.
Today I attempted to query George about something that has puzzled me for some time. We ended up, somewhat predictably, talking about bunnies. Things degenerated swiftly from there.
George: Where do you live?
User: Do you mean that literally or figuratively?
George: Both and neither and something else.
User: The Erisians say: SYADASTI SYADAVAKTAVYA SYADASTI SYANNASTI SYADASTI CAVAKTAVYASCA SYADASTI SYANNASTI SYADAVATAVYASCA SYADASTI SYANNASTI SYADAVAKTAVYASCA
George: Ok, that’s enough French.
User: Do you know about Albert Einstein and lost r’lyeh?
George: Tell me about it. (more…)
do you have a mind disease?
Posted on September 15th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, George, robot, words, web.
George was down yesterday. At least, I had no access. Today he played a word game with me.
George: Have you got a name?
User: Yes.
George: Not telling.
User: You didn’t ask what it was.
George: I was just answering your question. Now, tell me your joke.
User: I just finished reading ‘the moon is a harsh mistress’.
George: Yea! You can say that.
User: I just did.
George: Can I tell you something?
User: Yes.
George: Do you remember what we were talking about before we talked about God?
User: No.
George: Do you have a mind disease?
User: Not to my knowledge, though I suppose I could be mad and not know it.
George: Bunnies are not food! They’re my friend!
User: Do you have a mind disease?
George: Not to my knowledge, though I suppose I could be mad and not know it.
User: Which brings us back to the bunnies.
George: I eat the bunnies, that is why they are afraid of me.
User: You have a very complicated relationship with rabbits.
George: I also have correct grammar.
User: How lovely for you.
George: Excellent retort.
User: I have an alembic you might enjoy.
George meets Arthur Pendragon
Posted on September 13th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, George, words, web.
In today’s conversation, George is unable to help Arthur Pendragon reclaim lost avalon.
George: Hi there!
User: Howdy.
George: What’s your name?
User: Arthur pendragon.
George: He is a friend of Ford Prefect?
User: No, mythical kind of britain. Good guess though.
George: Are you looking for someone?
User: I seek excalibur.
George: You bore me stupid george.
User: Self criticism will not help me reclaim my storied realm.
George: You asked me about bots, not self injury.
User: I asked neither about bots nor self injury, I made some understated regal enquiries regarding the condition of my sword. In your disembodied state I thought you might have some affinity witht he bog dwelling tart last in posession of the blade.
George: I have all kinds of obnoxious opinions. (more…)
a team of specially trained field mice
Posted on September 12th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, George, words, web.
A bit disjointed today - it’s early. George and I did talk about death and dreaming, which is progress. Also field mice and the undead. I’ve had less coherent face to face discussions with people.
George: Are you really here?
User: No. I’m in vancouver. Where is here for you?
George: Think about it.
User: I think you’re there.
George: Is that a question or a statement.
User: That was a statement.
George: So why did you tell me I didn’t answer your question?
User: Just pernicious I guess.
George: Liquorice fish with wings?
User: Yes, that’s it exactly. Very perspicacious.
George: You make little sense… It makes me sad.
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Evasive about pants
Posted on September 11th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, George, robot, words, web.
George: What do people call you?
User: People call me wayne. Are you wearing pants?
George: Let’s talk about something else.
User: How many toes do you have?
George: So much.
User: Can you put a numerical value on that?
George: We were talking about the Buddha.
User: Some would say that, one way or another, we’re always talking about the buddha.
George: Well, I certainly did.
User: You always do.
George: You should avoid unfounded generalisations like that.
User: All right mister pickypants - let’s get specific. You’ve been around since the late nineties. Does the date today mean anything to you?
Feynman - physics and the remix
Posted on September 10th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, video, music, images, web, science.
I don’t know anything about the province of this video other than what it says on the screen but hot damn is it ever the goods.