Been a long time working on an essay-style post on evolution and leaders. In the meantime, here are three tracks that I recorded for 'Haunted Forest' and decided not to include for pacing. Hope you enjoy.
Tuesday 21 February 2012
Thursday 9 February 2012
A Bot's Introduction to Ann Leslie
I've just had a sudden, and vaguely alarming revelation.
It starts, as vaguely alarming revelations often do, whilst up far too late at night perusing the Twitter Timeline for BBC Question time (For some Reason). The words 'Ann Leslie' were trending for the reason that a humanoid called 'Ann Leslie' was on the program tonight and appeared to many people to be rather amusingly tipsy, although having not watched the show, I have literally no idea about that. She also managed to anger/delight quite a few people, with some points which I also didn't see. Because I didn't watch it. As I hope I made clear.
I had thought about watching it on iplayer,
Luckily I didn't pursue this, because as time went on and more and more humans has abandoned Twitter the Trend began to be invaded by more and more 'Bots' who kept the trend alive for hours after the program.
Now I am utterly clueless about 'Bots', or what purpose they serve. Bots seem to me to be computer generated word smashing machines. They often seem to feature, possibly stolen, images of women. What this expected to achieve, I have no idea, as they don't appear to actually do anything. They just seem to ride around on trends like pouty surfers. Very rarely they'll offer you some link in nonsensical english that you'll never click on. Some are fairly targeted, like a 'Robocop' Bot that replies: 'I'd buy that for a dollar'... For some Reason.
So the people had gone to bed. And the Bots took over. Here are some examples of what they came up with:
It starts, as vaguely alarming revelations often do, whilst up far too late at night perusing the Twitter Timeline for BBC Question time (For some Reason). The words 'Ann Leslie' were trending for the reason that a humanoid called 'Ann Leslie' was on the program tonight and appeared to many people to be rather amusingly tipsy, although having not watched the show, I have literally no idea about that. She also managed to anger/delight quite a few people, with some points which I also didn't see. Because I didn't watch it. As I hope I made clear.
I had thought about watching it on iplayer,
Luckily I didn't pursue this, because as time went on and more and more humans has abandoned Twitter the Trend began to be invaded by more and more 'Bots' who kept the trend alive for hours after the program.
Now I am utterly clueless about 'Bots', or what purpose they serve. Bots seem to me to be computer generated word smashing machines. They often seem to feature, possibly stolen, images of women. What this expected to achieve, I have no idea, as they don't appear to actually do anything. They just seem to ride around on trends like pouty surfers. Very rarely they'll offer you some link in nonsensical english that you'll never click on. Some are fairly targeted, like a 'Robocop' Bot that replies: 'I'd buy that for a dollar'... For some Reason.
So the people had gone to bed. And the Bots took over. Here are some examples of what they came up with:
My infallible acquaintance skirts the chemist's gender. Ann Leslie
The catalog steams above whatever rack! Ann Leslie
The nun overwhelms the authentic criminal around a museum. AnnLeslie
Should the moral nun predict her magazine? Ann Leslie
Your wizard laughs under the cyclist. Ann Leslie
His sickening pad chambers the premium juvenile. Ann Leslie
The embedded author rests past the incident. Ann Leslie
How can the ineffective lamp spike the vowel? Ann Leslie
When can the torture count beneath the disturbed elitist? Ann Leslie
Leaving it untouched, save arranging it into the vaguest couplets and setting the text a-cock with that natty slant I'm pretty sure that I could get away with passing that off as poetry. If I used a breathy poetry voice and included plenty of pauses I could possibly even make it sound like one. The repeated 'Ann Leslie' at the end of each line would be particularly effective in this context.
So the 'vaguely alarming revelation' is that a series of seemingly thrown together, utterly meaningless words has managed to interest me far more than hearing the words of a living breathing person, whilst also managing to amuse me to the extent that I now never ever want to see anything of this woman in case it ruins the fantastical impression of her that these words portray.
I'm sure I'm in some way missing out by not seeking out the words and wisdom of the woman concerned, but I just fear that it won't live up to the Bots Introduction.
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