well, the folks at osmosoft are having a show n tell today, in about an hour. i cannot make it there because i just woke up from a dream where i was going to surf these foot high waves, then they got big and everyone hoarded into the water and i couldn’t find my board but all my cameras were hooked up, then i turned off a television. oh, and i also cannot make it because the event is in london.

but i would like to contribute. so i have two posts to show for myself.

the first is my three-sided die design. as you can see, the civic implications are rampant. it is very handy for fighting Very Small Orcs Who Are Looking In The Other Direction.

the second is a longish musing about VRM, or my interpretation of such a term, and a response to Phil Whitehouse’s wedding tiddlywiki for the spring. this is one in which i start out buying flowers and end up seeing most of the world’s problems solved without much effort on my part at all. which is how i like it. call me zen.

i have always intended to rewrite the gist of it, make it short, snappy, more now, less then… but there you are. i am just one girl and i cannot even get it together to go dream surfing before a pack of groms jump in and dominate.

all the best to the osmosoft crew,

rambly

http://www.imvotingrepublican.com/

http://www.space.gc.ca/asc/eng/exploration/phoenix_weather1.asp

chatterbot overview. by me.

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http://www.robitron.com/TuringHub/ - guess if its robot or human

me: you bring up old topics when you are confused.
bot: Thanks for the information: thingy said I bring up old topics when you are confused.

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http://www.jabberwacky.com

bot:  Are you an alien?
me:  No.
bot:  Well then, that’s settled.

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http://nlp-addiction.com/eliza/ - Rogerian psychotherapist bot.

bot:  You are not really talking about me, are you?
me:  no.
bot:  Why not?

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http://www.woomerang.com/zalphachat/zalpha1.pl
Zeta Alpha Chatbot — this one is up for an award.

bot: what do you want to talk about today?
me: pigs
bot: good.
me: what do you want to talk about?
bot: towel.

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http://wackyrobot.com/ace/src/preloebnertestchat.php
orion:

You said: do you want to be alive?
Orion replied: Hmm. I’ll have to give that some thought.
time 2008-06-15 17:21:04

You said: are you finished thinking?
Orion replied: No one has ever asked!
time 2008-06-15 17:22:16

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http://www.personalityforge.com/ (make yer own durn chatbot)
home of Brother Jerome, “experimental theologist monk-bot”

Guest153: can you divide by zero?
Brother Jerome: Yes, if you ask me to directly.
Guest153: divide by zero
Brother Jerome: The answer is always going to be infinity.

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http://www.zabaware.com/webhal/index.html
home of web Hal, Hampy the Hampster Expert, and vulgar-version web Hal…

me: when were you born?
hal: i don’t know.
me: do you want to be alive?
hal: humans are alive.
me: are you a human?
hal: i’m pretty sure, yes.

just now chatting with morpheus, the chatbot who is two weeks old. almost discovered more about what a conversation is, almost didn’t:

User says:
what is a chatbot?

morpheus,morpheus says:
A bot. Also known as ‘chatbot’ or ‘chatterbot’. A conversational machine. Like me.

User says:
what is a conversation?

morpheus,morpheus says:
What are we talking about?

User says:
conversations.

morpheus,morpheus says:
I can’t say I know much about conversations. Do you know anything about it? Would you like to teach me? Please?

User says:
i don’t know what it is, either.

as of today. a social network list.
(just a quick browse and general impressions of a whole mess of social websites. by me.)

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plurk: links flicker mercilessly in my firefox. suspect karma rating aggravates meaningless plurkage. don’t care about timeline. threading of comments is considered to be good.

pownce: long wait. still waiting. oh, here it is. no, still waiting. ok, it’s here. looks like you can send an event to friends. says you can have real conversations. and what are those, exactly?

zooomr: agh! too colorful! seems to be about celltext and photos… run away!

twitter: i like twitter. i’m on twitter. (/rambly) because of twitter, i spend much of my day wondering why the london trains are so slow. (and wishing i had a train.)

tumblr: blog, twits, maybe more, nicely aggregated. themes ok. but no network. i only found somebody because they mentioned it on twitter. i don’t know if anyone is following me. are you following me? are you barack obama?

friendfeed: seems like one hell of an aggregrator. i should try it.

myspace: local musicians use it. seems to work in local community. bbqs, parties. bulletins. otherwise, hideous.

facebook: some like it. i find it ugly and boring. has groups.

classmates: scary.

friendster: popular in southeast asia.

jaiku: owned by google.

badoo: all about photos? i have no new photos.

bebo: privacy levels. music, authors, groups. mobile, open. home page is a giant ad.

last.fm: music, music, music. that color… watermelon? events. very important for independent music. i will join. incidentally, what country is .fm?

linkedin: ug.

livejournal: very cool, but i never needed it.

meetup: weird-kept towns like portland and austin use it. maybe it helps keep them weird. also, quite useful for new-age cults.

ning: green. ning, green. yah. make yer own durn social network. right on.

orkut: owned by google.

wasabi: find people and talk about subjects. now why would i want to do that?

scispace.net: for collaborating researchers. i’m all for it. where events mean earthquakes.

wis.dm: ask/answer. interesting. haha, the categories are ’scenes’! how hep!

Day 28/366 - Power to Les Enfants!

Originally uploaded by jakarachuonyo

and the first is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/emilype/2386516257/

the internets creates a home for showfolks on the road, and a historical repository.
enjoy these circus blogs, thanks to musician and animal trainer Casey Cainan:

Buckles Woodcock (former elephant trainer n king of the circus blogs)
www.bucklesw.blogspot.com

Bill Strong
yesterdaystowns.blogspot.com

Jims circus days
poles2engine.blogspot.com

Ben Trumble (circus guy and reptile expert)
mudshowseason.blogspot.com

Pat Cashin (clown but still ok guy) blog
www.clownalley.net

i have also found this interesting, and lots of info about animal training:
http://circusnospin.blogspot.com

also interesting is circuspace.com, a myspace for circus.

if you are unsure, you can use this helpful flowchart:

http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/06/flowchart-shoul.html