ram@elmgate.UUCP (11/12/87)
Well folks, it happened. Apparently the sysops at puff got wind of Eric Mading's sensless bigotted driveling onto the net, and cut him off. At the balls, I believe. His account is gone. This unfortunately means that we lose one of our greatest sources of entertainment that we have had for some time. We can not even flame him, since he can no longer even read mail. Sigh. Just when I was warming up for some first class white hot Eric Flammage, he is gone. The real tragedy of this all, is that Eric was such a _promising_ AI program. He had achieved self-awareness, he had developed an ego, albeit a rather twisted one. He had developed a value system, although that was truly warped and bigotted. In short, he was fun to have around, beacuse he gave us someone we could all despise. Unfortunately, Eric has been dumped to tape and stuffed away to moulder in some dusty archive somewhere. His creators will go off and ponder what they could do better the next time. Perhaps their next efforts will prove more viable. Maybe they will be able to post some silly stuff to talk.bizarre . BTW, Hi Terri. Got a package from Bolivia for you, that was somehow delivered to me instead. I'll e-mail it to you. IDENTITY: The Man from Hades PATHS: >(decvax)--(ucbvax)-+-(sun)---------(sunrock)-V >(ihnp4)------------A-(tropix)----+-(ritcv)---V >(lll-crg)-(rutgers)-+(rochester)-A-(kodak)---+-(elmgate)-(ram) >(hplabs)--(ames)----A QUOTES: "Reality - What a Concept !" - R.Williams "Make things as simple as possible - and no -simpler." - A. Einstein DISCLAIMER: The preceeding represents only my random babbling, and certainly reflects no one else's opinions. Fnord.
terri@csd4.milw.wisc.edu.UUCP (11/13/87)
In article <812@elmgate.UUCP> ram@elmgate.UUCP (The Man from Hades) writes: >BTW, Hi Terri. Got a package from Bolivia for you, that was somehow >delivered to me instead. I'll e-mail it to you. Oh, goody...but only if it's fur lined....<sigh>..... Show me how you do that trick, the one that makes me scream, she said. terri@csd4.milw.wisc.edu 2931 N Murray 53201 (414)962-0129 Remember me. Buy my books.
acm@bu-cs.UUCP (11/15/87)
In article <812@elmgate.UUCP> ram@elmgate.UUCP (The Man from Hades) writes: >Well folks, it happened. > >Apparently the sysops at puff got wind of Eric Mading's sensless bigotted >driveling onto the net, and cut him off. At the balls, I believe. > >His account is gone. > >This unfortunately means that we lose one of our greatest sources of >entertainment that we have had for some time. We can not even flame him, >since he can no longer even read mail. Sigh. Just when I was warming >up for some first class white hot Eric Flammage, he is gone. I hate to pop your bubble but I did this this morning: % finger mading@puff.wisc.edu and got: [PUFF.WISC.EDU] Login name: mading In real life: Eric Mading Directory: /usr2/mading Shell: /bin/csh Last login Sun Nov 15 11:22 on tty94 No Plan. So, not only does he have an account, but he logged in just a couple of hours ago. I hope he likes the mail I sent him. (Isn't technology amazing? Even from about 1000 miles away I can tell that the dude lives on /usr2 and logged in this morning! BTW, note that it says "no plan." Somehow apropos.) This isn't bizarre but the fact that I'm eating a food with the more monosodium glutamate in it than there is flavoring is. At least according to the package. I suppose between flavor-enhancers and preservatives, by the time I'm 40 I'll be petrified but at least I'll taste good. jim