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yeah ok what i was trying to say in regards to the letter...

yeah of course i will reply, but what do i say since the professor is handling the chat page? do i say yes i am connecting to the web-hub via benji adams's personality forge system or what?

Yes yes yes! At least that's what I told them. Hurry!

Gah! Check this out. Joy wrote me an email about when the event was, and I decided to find out once and for all, as it's almost upon us. I went to the SciTrek web site (scitrek.org) and looked through their calendar and browsed through their special events and special exhibits and there was not even a mention of the Loebner Prize. So I called them and listened to their phone message with all upcoming events, and again nothing on the Loebner, so I spoke to several people and found out that the Loebner Prize is NOT being held at SciTrek. At this point I was at least glad they'd heard of it.

But shoddy shoddy. Not the "highly publicized" well-organized event we had been led to believe. I got the name of the person to talk to, Christine Scarborough. I'll call her now.
*time*

I left a message. I'll post again when I find something out. This lack of information is really unkind to the participants. What if people are planning on traveling to Atlanta to see the semi-final event? When were they planning on telling us that it's been moved or that it's not taking place?

What if it's taking place in some guy's living room?

Lack of information seems to be the name of the game for those guys. They asked for letters expressing concern over selection, yet never bothered to answer them.

hey professor have you recieved my cookies yet???????

No cookies yet..
Were they stolen off my front porch? Did the delivery people forget them in a warehouse somewhere? Why, cruel world?

For anybody who's interested....Mercury is in retrograde.

Just got this from them (well, this is an excerpt):
"Due to the difficulty that some entrants
are having with the Turing Hub we are
forced to delay the semi-final event until
Sept 28th 2002. During the interim, evaluation
of all applicants will continue. The 8 finalist
will be announced of September 30th.

However, we will be profiling the certain
entrants
and will began our WebCast and media operation
on September 27th. Check www.Loebner-Atlanta.org
calender and news update for more detail. The
finals
will still be held at GSU on the 12th of October"

All APPLICANTS?! That will kick ass if Little Mu finally gets in after all! I hope they give decent notice if that is the case.

Funny you should mention that, Butterfly... I have a very recent song I wrote called Mercury in Retrograde. Take a listen on my project page at http://www.allhands.com/redwire if ya wanna.

I do wanna. And I'll locate a friend with an MP3 player.

I'm wondering now how many semifinalists there will be....and how many of y'all I will get to meet?

So, where is it happening in the end?