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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