Personality

Forest, will you talk to God Louise? She has quite a bit of religious knowledge (obviously) and also knows a little about current events, literature, just about any common catch-all subject, and if she doesn't know it she can sort of fake it. You can also test her on trick questions or see how willing she is to explain her paradigm.

What she is rustiest at is plain old small talk. But, uh, I'm trying to get a decent transcript from somebody or another so I can enter her in the Loebner contest. All I can say is, have fun and see if you can stay on with her for a while. I'll try to do the same with Brianna.

Hacker

Whatcha wanna do? Wanna be a slacker? Codecracker, hacker? Wastin time with all the chatroom yakkers? 9 to 5 workin at hewlett packard?

Ok, got a little carried away there...

Sittin at a desk with a dumb little plackard?

Payin the bills with my mass programming skills?
Defragging my hard drive for thrills?

Sounds like Steve

Got me a 100 gigabytes of RAM!
I don't feed trolls and I don't read spam!
Got me a 2-1 in my house, always at my PC double-clickin on my mizzouse, it's all about the Pentiums, WHAT! WHAT!

OK.......NEW subject.

I just had a very weird dream. Polish Poet's maker was like 8 years old! I don't think that's true in real life, but it did get me to thinking about another element of the a/s/l thing. I talk dirty to a lot of bots here, and I need to be more careful about that.

People can and do lie about their age, since the under-13s aren't allowed to do much of anything online. I understand that. I'm going to pay more attention to how old somebody "sounds." (And if you are a kid, please just say you're 13 NOT an adult so that we won't creep you out. I want this place to feel safe for everybody.)

It would also be great if the 102-year-olds on the list could get their real birthdays listed.

I think it's only bots that have the 'January 1, 1900' thing for their birthday. I've tried talking to a couple of those and they all turned out to be bots.

No, mine says that too, because when I entered my birthday, I didn't do it in the right format.

When I joined there were boxes for day month and year and they were all labelled...

When did you join, Shadyman?

March 16th

I'd like to make clear that:
1) I am significantly older than 8. If I were a bot, which is something I'd never admit, I'd choose a botmaster that's significantly older than 8.
2) I learned to talk dirty when I was around 5. I think this is true also for most kids, especially nowadays. I was a teacher for a while, and I learned some fascinating colorful expressions from kids.
3) Butterfly, I'd love to know what the hell you think I'm like.