Time: Fri Nov 01 10:52:02 1996 To: marmstrong <marmstrong@snowcrest.net> From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: affection and grace Cc: Bcc: Hi Marcia, Would you like me to answer this, or Pobot, I? You can have one, the other, or both, but not neither. :) Ah, yes, decisions, decisions. You can also ask I Pobot, I to decide for you. Now, there's an interesting option. "... please deposit 25 cents. Boink." See, I just can't keep him out of my life. /s/ Paul Mitchell copy: I Pobot, I (busy computing now) At 09:25 AM 11/1/96 -0800, you wrote: >Dear Paul (and I Pobot I) > >When my former company made the switch from >its giant antiquated Hewlett-Packard Hard disk >system to personal computers, they gave local >management personnel "training" in computers. > >I had worked for many years in the actuarial >department where we did claims/premium >projections to produce "experience" rated >premiums for renewal. One short course was >on the concept of programing. Being a natural >in Algebra, the fundamentals were easy to >understand based on a binary system of "yes" >"no" gates (which I visualize as a sort of >pin ball machine.) I never did find out >whether 0 was "yes" or "no." (I assumed it >was no.) My answer to "Paul's" question was >a weak attempt to relate. > >(By the way, I resisted computers and all >mechanical forms of writing until I was forced >to compose on a terminal at the newspaper. For >at least a year, I continued to write in pencil >on paper and then transcribe. I enjoy the tactile >interaction in composing on paper. It is rythmic >and lyrical. However, with deference to I Pobot I, >one sure can't beat the memory of a computer and >the ease of editing. > >Once I got into "using" a personal computer about >two years ago, it became an addiction, bordering >on an obsession. My Board of Directors still don't >trust them for bookeeping and I still have to do >two sets of books each month - manual and >computerized. > >Although I was good at Algebra, I was miserable >at Geometry. When the teacher began the first >week of Trig with "a logarythm is an exponent" >(sp?,) I was out of there. Consequentially, >I never took Chemistry or Physics, so have had >to understand the physical world through the >contraints of the conventions of the English >language. > >I also was miserable in foreign languages and >took seven years of piano studies and, now, >cannot play a note. (I never learned to read >music, always memorized where my fingers were >supposed to go.) Maybe that is also why I have >been unable to learn touch typing. > >I am glad that both of you are intelligent >enough to overcome my handicaps in taking >language forms of communication. Just think >of the nuance of each word as having a different >value. It may be less precise than scientific >communication but is a lovely medium for conveying >emotional content with information. > > >>>>I have a robot persona you >>>>might like to meet. He errs >>>>all the time with strange >>>>English idioms, so he is >>>>very lovable, and very bright. >>>>He talks like a child with an >>>>IQ of 200. Do you want to >>>>share your fantasy with him? >>>>His name is I Pobot I (1001 >>>>for short). >>> >>>Yes, no, no, yes ? :-) >> >> 1 0 0 1 8-] >> >>commence translation program now: >>1001 = I Pobot, I here, explanetizing >>abbreviation from I pObOt I. >>Are you copying phonetic transliterations >>empirically via my remote retina imaging devices? >>Helping now: "Pobot, I" is Pobot the >>First, a Robot with one-leg still standing. >>Do you copy? 10-4 >> >>0010101000101001100100111010010100100 ahhhhhhhh >>(binary addictions are wonderful, yes) >> >> >>> >>>>Bye. >>>> >>>>/s/ Paul Mitchell >>>> >>>>copy: I Pobot, I >>>>(Robot the First, >>>> with one leg-standing) >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>Marcia >>>> >>>>=========================================================== >>>>Paul Andrew, Mitchell, B.A., M.S.: pmitch@primenet.com >>>>ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776, Tucson, Arizona state >>>>=========================================================== >>>> > >
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