My journals from 1984 until now
Friday 9th of September 2011 – Evie at Existor.com (AI) After watching this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14843549 shorter version: Artificial intelligence robots have held a conversation with one another for the first time with surprising and surreal results. Two graduate PhD students at Cornell University gave voices and 2D avatars to a pair of online “chatbots”, which they … Read more
Monday 30th of August 2011 – More on kittens… Rusty tried to move the kittens from the living room to under our bed quite a few times towards the end of last week. After some pondering, I decided to move her to your wardrobe, she’s been more settled since. Too much traffic in the living … Read more
Friday 26th of August – Kittens!!!! While we were in Boomtown we asked Vicky to housesit, as we thought Rusty might have had kittens while were away. Thankfully she didn’t, it took another week for it to happen, and by then she was huuuuuuge! On the Sunday (21st of August), when she gave birth, she … Read more
Wednesday 20th of July 2011 – Rusty Gizmo, The Cat For a few weeks we noticed there was a small tortoiseshell cat sneaking in the house through the cat flap, eating Aphex’s food when we were upstairs/sleeping. J kept trying to shoo her off, but I just told him to leave her and let her … Read more
Thursday 12th of July 2011 – E-coli outbreak & trip to Germany You went to Germany (Boppard) with your school from June 12-17, and we took the opportunity to spend a few days in Berlin. What a great place it is in the Summer, much nicer than in Winter! Great for cycling around. I recommend … Read more