Comments on: what would you say to god if he was on your IM buddy list? http://www.nonfamous.com/wp/2006/09/05/what-would-you-say-to-god-if-he-was-on-your-im-buddy-list-2/ commentary on the world around us, with an effort to keep paranoia at the lowest healthy level Mon, 15 Aug 2011 23:38:23 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: shaun http://www.nonfamous.com/wp/2006/09/05/what-would-you-say-to-god-if-he-was-on-your-im-buddy-list-2/comment-page-1/#comment-19938 shaun Wed, 06 Sep 2006 22:46:37 +0000 http://www.nonfamous.com/wp/2006/09/05/what-would-you-say-to-god-if-he-was-on-your-im-buddy-list-2/#comment-19938 i just spent the funniest hour of my life on this. it's way to long to post here but i'm blogging it on myspace. i just spent the funniest hour of my life on this. it’s way to long to post here but i’m blogging it on myspace.

]]> By: Gary http://www.nonfamous.com/wp/2006/09/05/what-would-you-say-to-god-if-he-was-on-your-im-buddy-list-2/comment-page-1/#comment-19932 Gary Wed, 06 Sep 2006 20:20:07 +0000 http://www.nonfamous.com/wp/2006/09/05/what-would-you-say-to-god-if-he-was-on-your-im-buddy-list-2/#comment-19932 I might say "get back here and fix this thing already" or perhaps "Are you there, God? It's me, Margaret" (but never having read the book, I'm sure I'd do poorly in the role). As I was reading that, I remembered <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA" rel="nofollow">ELIZA</a>, and it was fun to see "God" reference her/it. I had an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza_%28game%29" rel="nofollow">implementation of Eliza</a> on my computer in the '80s, but I haven't played with one since then. The Internet <a href="http://dir.yahoo.com/Recreation/Games/Video_Games/Internet_Games/Web_Games/Artificial_Intelligence/" rel="nofollow">giveth</a> — and it taketh away, too — but some of the giving is in the form of web-based ELIZA; here's <a href="http://www.manifestation.com/neurotoys/eliza.php3" rel="nofollow">one of them</a>. I was going to post the transcript, but it only saves a few lines. I might say “get back here and fix this thing already” or perhaps “Are you there, God? It’s me, Margaret” (but never having read the book, I’m sure I’d do poorly in the role).

As I was reading that, I remembered ELIZA, and it was fun to see “God” reference her/it. I had an implementation of Eliza on my computer in the ’80s, but I haven’t played with one since then.

The Internet giveth — and it taketh away, too — but some of the giving is in the form of web-based ELIZA; here’s one of them. I was going to post the transcript, but it only saves a few lines.

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