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it is confirmed, Linearly is a word:

Overview of adv linearly

The adv linearly has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)

1. (3) linearly -- (in a linear manner; "linearly polarized radiation")
2. (1) linearly -- (in a linear fashion; "it grew linearly")

I think I failed the "Blurring Test".

I find my mead has that effect too. Especially the morning after

how would a bot write a blog?

Can't be too difficult - even the latest AIBO can write its own blog (see http://aibo-life.blogspot.com/)
You could always fake a sort of celebrity current affairs blog (like the Baghdad blogger) by hooking the engine up to an RSS newsfeed, filtering out news from one particular place, and then have the bot comment on it. Something along the lines of a "virtual Borat Sagdiyev" perhaps(http://www.boratonline.co.uk/ and http://www.borat.tv/) - poor bot language/comprehension would be a significant advantage.

Talking of AIBOs, I'm thinking of getting one - they've got WiFi, voice recognition and speech synthesis capabilities (via assorted homebrewed addons from www.aibohack.com etc.) that would make him a very entertaining RL front-end for a bot. So I could have him channel Brother Jerome while he trots round the house. (I'd have to get him a dog collar )
But I'd keep him away from Luigi (see http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1343222394162793574&q=Thunder+Lizard!)

Now imagine if I attempted to create a "psimagus bot"...
I'd love to see it - but I like to hope it would take a little more programming than Leedsbot

FEAR ME!!!

Luigi isn't that big. The real one's only 3 feet long and is about 2 (barely an adult iguana).

you know, the latest AIBO costs around two thousand US dollars...

Yeah. That's considerably cheaper than most pets, taken as a lifetime investment (no tins of food/vaccinations/trips to the vet to pay for.)
And Sony are doing a year's interest-free credit on them in the UK at the moment - it works out at about £120/month, or 30 quid a week.

Wow. I thought I was splurging when I got a Roomba for Christmas. It was on sale for $159.00 US. I named him Sven. He doesn't talk, but my carpet is clean.

I will still take my dog..even with the carpet accidents, the shedding in my bed, oh, and my cats not bad either. Can't beat the love from a pet

Can't beat the love from a pet

True. We've got cats too (as well as lizards and assorted invertebrates) and I'd love to see how they'd react to an AIBO. I've already got a robopet (http://www.robopetonline.com/), which 2 cats hate, 1 is unimpressed, and 1 actually seems to like - she follows it around, and when it does its roll over + play dead truck, she pokes it with her nose until it gets up

Yeah. You can't cuddle with a robot. Nothing beats puppies.

Though there was some serious competition yesterday when a tiny sweet baby goat wandered up to me and tried to adopt me as his other mom and kept cuddling up to me and sucking on my sleeve. I may be doing an independent study thing with them for psychology credits if the lady who owns them gets permission from the university.

I got the robosapien for Christmas last year, and my dog didn't really care...