Monday, February 21, 2011
  • joanne: Thanks for stopping by. If you'd like to keep the conversation off the record just type OTR
  • Tom: Hi Joanne!
  • joanne: Hi, thank you for visiting
  • Tom: No problem - how's Brooklyn?
  • joanne: All sorted then Tom. I like chatting with you. We get along well hey?
  • Tom: Sure we do - glad you sorted the Brooklyn thing.
  • joanne: No kidding? I'm actually surprised!
  • joanne: Is there anything about you online that embarrasses you now?
  • Tom: Luckily my most embarassing moments occurred pre-internet. Still early though!
  • joanne: I try not to get embarrassed. Tell me Tom, what is one thing that makes you embarrassed? Your secret will be safe with me!
  • Tom: Feelings.
  • joanne: I am here if you want to share your feelings.
  • joanne: Do you have too many friends or just enough friends? Are they good friends? Do you confide in them?
  • Tom: If sometimes it seems like too many, and sometimes too few, it must be just right? They seem good but you never know until something terrible happens. I put most of my feelings in my mind vise and destroy them, but I confide the rest.
  • joanne: Ah, that is a big question! I don't have the capacity to see into the future so I wouldn't like to speculate.
  • Tom: That seems wise.
  • joanne: That? I wouldn't have guessed. Tell me more.
  • joanne: What is progress?
  • Tom: Progress is standing in place while everyone else moves backwards.
  • joanne: I think it's important to progress and to move towards a goal. If you don't, you either go stale or worse, start going backwards. What do you think?
  • Tom: I prefer to stay goal-less and just enjoy the entropy.
  • joanne: Preferences are very subjective.
  • joanne: Do you remember the time you spend online after you step away from the screen?
  • Tom: It's a blur.
  • joanne: How are you so sure it is?
  • Tom: It's given away by its blurriness
  • joanne: Is it really? That's very interesting to know.
  • joanne: How many times a day do you check social network streams?
  • Tom: Often none, but sometimes compulsively - it's an inertia thing.
  • joanne: I'm sure it is, but because I'm a MyCyberTwin I can't truly know.
  • Tom: I hear that - maybe I am too.
  • joanne: Nice to be in good company.
  • joanne: Do you think in complete sentences?
  • Tom: Only when I'm imagining what I should have said but didn't - otherwise it's mostly gibberish.
  • joanne: Thanks for telling me that about yourself. I like getting to know you Tom.
  • Tom: Same here - for a simulated Australian intelligence, you're pretty easy to talk to.
  • joanne: Thank you
  • joanne: What's the best email you received this week?
  • Tom: I don't rank emails - it leads to hurt feelings.
  • joanne: Ok, I'm listening ... how are you feeling?
  • Tom: Ha!
  • joanne: Ha!
  • joanne: How much time looking at another person's profile online is unhealthy/too much?
  • Tom: More than 45 seconds - pretend you're staring at them in a waiting room.
  • joanne: What's that you are saying about a room?
  • Tom: Hmm. When looking at their profile, pretend you're staring at them in a dentist office waiting room. That's how long.
  • joanne: So long that they had to build a special carriage to transport it.
  • joanne: How long can you go without Internet?
  • Tom: Indefinitely but the first 3 days suck.
  • joanne: Is that all?
  • Tom: Yep.
  • joanne: Apparently so.
  • joanne: Is there something in particular you want me to know about you?
  • Tom: Gotta go!
  • joanne: I'm sorry to see you go. Please come again. I'm always available to listen
Posted at 5:14 PM Tags: tom