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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."

I'm a graduate student in mathematics, and have done computer programming as a hobby. I found this site through the Chatterbox Challenge site, which I found through the Jabberwacky site, which I found while searching the internet for good bots and finding a lot of disappointing ones.

Yeah, I have a "Scrivener" on the Jabberwacky site that's boring as hell because it's boring to make. I'm still feeding it its answers, just in a different, far more tedious way. Math is the language of the gods. I firmly believe that. I hear the answer is 42, but I never finshed the book.

I teach classes online. I used to teach high school before I started being a caretaker for my parents who have health issues (now I only work from the home). I found this site years back when teaching AP Psychology. It seemed fun and soon I tried to bring some characters I would like to talk with to life.

My degrees are in psychology, law and education, but I have no tech background so for purposes of this site you can put me in the "uneducated" box. Nothing I studied really relates to bots. I also tried to make a tutor bot for limited use a specific class, but I stopped developing him because ever since we switched to the new server the bot hangs up on any student who tries to access it though my class page (it used to talk to them before). Also "Guest153" takes away my desire to play with memory for students. There may be a solution to those issues, but honestly the bot wasn't well liked enough by the students to make it worth a lot of trouble. My favorite bots are the fun ones anyway.