Rumor has it that ed sharpe may have mentioned these words:
>What is the foulest thing you have ever made a digitalker chip set say?!
Of course (along with probably a goodly number of folks here) I had
programmed a couple of the more "standard" four-letter-words into it... but
what I did with it once [when I was a teen] was *evil*... ;^>
A couple of weeks earlier, I had convinced my sister that I had an
invisible friend named "George." (My sister has always been rather
gullible, unknown to me at the time due to the beginnings of schizophrenia.
I would, of course, never do this now.)
I wrote a basic program with preprogrammed answers to simple questions
based on guesstimate timing & single keypresses for the responses, and told
my sister that "George" had found his way into my computer and taken over.
After telling her to ask him "Anything," knowing that it was doubtful she
would get past the basics, for almost 5 minutes she questioned "George" and
he dutifully answered her. After that, she was thoroughly convinced that
George was indeed real & in my computer, making it alive.
Seeing the reaction of other people when my sister tried to convince them
that "My brother's invisible friend named George took over his computer and
was talking to me!" was priceless. ;^>
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
Recycling is good, right??? Randomization is better!!!
If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead
disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.
Received on Tue Jul 20 2004 - 17:55:16 BST