Carol Starr wrote:
>hi kathy,
>always wondering about brad; what is a bot?
>
>bests, carol
Hi Carol,
I'm glad you asked.
In the Jargon File bot comes after borken and before bottom-feeder.
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/bot.html
Basically bots are machines which have a life of their own. They are
miners and agents, interactive but self-seeking, determined. There
are chat bots, moo bots and game bots, hotbots and robots, "from the
Czech word robota meaning work."
There's even an artbot: http://www.beyond2000.com/news/Apr_96/story_109.html
There's a terrific fluxdesign burning man 3d modeler called artbot
and a Russian ??? (?????? Visual C++ 6.0) ???? artbot too.
I tend to be an infobot.
>and who do you suppose wrote all that stuff on the walls in #13?
>xoo
mmmmmhmm
a) Mr. Lovecraft and Sierra
b) The penguin
c) Marchessa de Fluxburry
d) running rabbits
I wasn't there, of course, but I heard that in the chimney of the
burnt hair room opposite #56 were buried Cain and Abel's twin sisters.
ox, Kathy
p.s. Patricia, your room of tomatoes is a charm.
