Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watdaisy.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!amd!vecpyr!lll-crg!seismo!columbia!topaz!packard!ihnp1!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!burl!clyde!watmath!watnot!watdaisy!gjerawlins From: gjerawlins@watdaisy.UUCP (Gregory J.E. Rawlins) Newsgroups: net.movies,net.sf-lovers Subject: How to communicate attitudes (and avoid flames!) Message-ID: <7371@watdaisy.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 16:23:10 EDT Article-I.D.: watdaisy.7371 Posted: Wed Aug 14 16:23:10 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 02:03:44 EDT References: <1034@mtgzz.UUCP> <561@bentley.UUCP> <1039@mtgzz.UUCP> Reply-To: gjerawlins@watdaisy.UUCP (Gregory J.E. Rawlins) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 36 Xref: linus net.movies:5669 net.sf-lovers:8449 In article <1039@mtgzz.UUCP> leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (m.r.leeper) writes: >> >>[...from a review of Mark Leeper's review of WEIRD SCIENCE..] >>When the boys programmed the computer to create her, they fed in >>pictures of Albert Einstein for her intelligence component, and >>pictures of David Lee Roth for her personality traits, in addition to >>many Playboy centerfolds for her physical characteristics. This makes >>it obvious how she can manipulate peoples minds, of course! > >Huh? Are you telling me that all of Einstein's knowledge was printed >somewhere on his face? There is more to being a genius than knowing >what Einstein looked like! > Mark Leeper We really have to have some way to communicate sarcasm without a smiley face. Clearly the review of the review was a "Gosh! really?" type observation on the film's rather obvious "misrepresentations of reality". In "Valentina: Soul in Sapphire" by Delaney and Steigler (pico-review: large program becomes sentient) they used the convention of giving facial expressions in angle brackets. Using this convention the last sentence of the comment might be rendered as: "This makes it obvious how she can manipulate people's minds, of course!" While this is a bit clumsy to read at first, familiarity breeds contentment . I strongly recommend that we adopt the convention (at least until something better comes along ). greg. -- Gregory J.E. Rawlins, Department of Computer Science, U. Waterloo gjerawlins%watdaisy@waterloo.csnet gjerawlins%watdaisy%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa {allegra|clyde|linus|utzoo|inhp4|decvax}!watmath!watdaisy!gjerawlins