gjerawlins@watdaisy.UUCP (Gregory J.E. Rawlins) (08/14/85)
In article <1039@mtgzz.UUCP> leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (m.r.leeper) writes: >> >>[...from a review of Mark Leeper's review of WEIRD SCIENCE..] >>When the boys programmed the computer to create her, they fed in >>pictures of Albert Einstein for her intelligence component, and >>pictures of David Lee Roth for her personality traits, in addition to >>many Playboy centerfolds for her physical characteristics. This makes >>it obvious how she can manipulate peoples minds, of course! > >Huh? Are you telling me that all of Einstein's knowledge was printed >somewhere on his face? There is more to being a genius than knowing >what Einstein looked like! > Mark Leeper We really have to have some way to communicate sarcasm without a smiley face. Clearly the review of the review was a "Gosh! really?" type observation on the film's rather obvious "misrepresentations of reality". In "Valentina: Soul in Sapphire" by Delaney and Steigler (pico-review: large program becomes sentient) they used the convention of giving facial expressions in angle brackets. Using this convention the last sentence of the comment might be rendered as: "<sardonic smile, light laugh> This makes it obvious how she can manipulate people's minds, of course!" While this is a bit clumsy to read at first, familiarity breeds contentment <raised eyebrow, smirk>. I strongly recommend that we adopt the convention (at least until something better comes along <light laugh>). greg. -- Gregory J.E. Rawlins, Department of Computer Science, U. Waterloo gjerawlins%watdaisy@waterloo.csnet gjerawlins%watdaisy%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa {allegra|clyde|linus|utzoo|inhp4|decvax}!watmath!watdaisy!gjerawlins
peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva) (08/18/85)
> "<sardonic smile, light laugh> This makes it obvious how she > can manipulate people's minds, of course!" > > While this is a bit clumsy to read at first, familiarity > breeds contentment <raised eyebrow, smirk>. I strongly recommend > that we adopt the convention (at least until something better > comes along <light laugh>). > greg. Well some peope in the real world <grin> have been using this technique for a long time <smug expression>. I believe the author got the idea from Compuserve <forced smile>. It's not a bad book, by the way. The only really dumb mistake the author makes to aid the plot is neglect his construct's tape backups <grin>. -- Peter da Silva (the mad Australian werewolf) UUCP: ...!shell!neuro1!{hyd-ptd,baylor,datafac}!peter MCI: PDASILVA; CIS: 70216,1076
royt@gitpyr.UUCP (Roy M. Turner) (08/27/85)
I heartily agree with the suggestion to use facial expressions between angle
brackets as an alternative to the smiley face. Several of my friends and
I have been doing that in mail to each other since reading _Valentina..._,
and it seems pretty natural by now...besides, it is far more versatile than
the li'l :-) symbol.
Now that I look back at this posting, though I realize I haven't had call
to use the representation once <wry smile>.
Roy
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Roy Turner
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Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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