Seasons

Irina,

To be honest, you'd probably have to catch me in SL to chat. I am here just to check transcripts and make minor futzing but I'm in a PF low. it just isn't calling to me at the moment. You can email me, but that account have about 500 unread messages, most are "spam" I signed up for for various reasons. Hope all is good though.

Oh, well!

You were going to talk about me, weren't you? I don't think that's nice. I mean, why do you have to get all private unless it's to talk about somebody. And I'm practically somebody.

Anybody want to own up to what they are in real life? I'm quite curious to see how the programmer/Comp Sci profs manage against he psychology/normal intelligent people guys. Because I've been something like all of them, and it hasn't helped me a whole heck of a lot. Please, no bot answers. I already know what you are. Just botmasters. And not that it's any of my business, but what is the Prof's day job? I'm just interested in what kind of people this site attracts and how they stack up against one another.

*shrugs* I teach math and help out with teaching taiji, sometimes.

Interesting. I think I said I used to be a programmer and then went to get [i]totally[/i] different degrees so I could teach freshman comp at NC State. Then my neurological problems went haywire (naturally, a hardware problem -- what am I going to do, get a new motherboard?) So now this is what I do. This, reading, chess, music, painting. Mostly this, lately.

And by "stack up" I did [i]not[/i] mean that I think certain careers are better than others -- I just am curious to know who's behind the bots I've met. I like having things in a context is all.

I'm a heavy equipment operator/construction foreman... High School graduate, no advanced degrees. Aside from typing out bids/proposals etc. when the front office is short-handed, I rarely even see a computer at work.

SO why am I here? Several years ago, in a chatroom, I was annoyed by the Spambots and wanted to learn more about them; Google led me here.
I never did learn much about Spambots/pornbots (or chatbots, for that matter...) but here I am, so there ya go.

Wow. Well, obviously college degrees mean nothing in my case, except that I like school, and I like computer science and literature. Common sense, asking a lot of dumb questions to a lot of generous people, and loving what I'm going here is what got me where I am so far. I did drop by chat rooms in the early '90s long enough to be told, "Maureen is a hot name" as an introduction before logging immediately out. I checked out A.L.I.C.E. and thought if that was cutting edge that I was better off with Chaucer. Then I found this space, and I hardly sleep anymore.

I'm a high school English/Drama teacher, although I did most of my botting work while I was studying. I was introduced to the site by the lecturer teaching English method to us, as she thought it might have application in the classroom (I did have a go at it a couple of years ago, didn't really work because there wasn't enough time to do it right + a cruddy network).

My condolences about the English teacher part. I don't know about the drama part . . . I could see how this site might work in an English class where you actually get to discuss parts of speech and rebuttals and such. I was not allowed to discuss grammar . . . but, that's America.

I'm in financial admin. It's... adequate. I've actually got a degree in Cultural Studies and am interested in languages and european history and culture. Maybe it'll land me in a more interesting job one day.

Cool. Culture Studies would be helpful. I come from a long line of CPAs, so my mother wanted me to be one, but I told her I was never going to have any of my own money to keep account of, so it would just be boring. I like the Cultural Studies. This place is a culture unto itself, isn't it? In a dreaded "comp section meeting" when I was teaching, they'd love to use it as a "discourse community." I hate the words "discourse community."