No Mames

1.  Given the choice of anyone in the world, whom would you want as a dinner guest?
2.  Would you like to be famous? In what way?
3.  Before making a telephone call, do you ever rehearse what you are going to say? Why?
4.  What would constitute a “perfect” day for you?
5.  When did you last sing to yourself? To someone else?
6.  If you were able to live to the age of 90 and retain either the mind or body of a 30-year-old for the last 60 years of your life, which would you want?
7.  Do you have a secret hunch about how you will die?
     Name three things you and your partner appear to have in common.
8.   For what in your life do you feel most grateful?
9.    If you could change anything about the way you were raised, what would it be?    
10.  Take four minutes and tell your partner your life story in as much detail as       possible.
11.  If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any one quality or ability, what would it be?
12.  If a crystal ball could tell you the truth about yourself, your life, the future or anything else, what would you want to know?
13.  Is there something that you’ve dreamed of doing for a long time? Why haven’t you done it?
14.  What is the greatest accomplishment of your life?
15.  What do you value most in a friendship?
16.  What is your most treasured memory?
17.  What is your most terrible memory?
18.  If  you knew that in one year you would die suddenly, would you change anything about the way you are now living? Why?
19.   What does friendship mean to you?
20.  What roles do love and affection play in your life?
21.   Alternate sharing something you consider a positive characteristic of your partner. Share a total of five items.
22.  How close and warm is your family? Do you feel your childhood was happier than most other       people’s?
23.  How do you feel about your relationship with your mother?
24.  Make three true “we” statements each. For instance, “We are both in this room feeling ... “
25.  Complete this sentence: “I wish I had someone with whom I could share ... “
26.  If you were going to become a close friend with your partner, please share what would be important for him or her to know.
27. Tell your partner what you like about them; be very honest this time, saying things that you might not  say to someone you’ve just met.
28.  Share with your partner an embarrassing moment in your life.
29.  When did you last cry in front of another person? By yourself?
30.  Tell your partner something that you like about them already.
31.  What, if anything, is too serious to be joked about?
32.  If you were to die this evening with no opportunity to communicate with anyone, what would you most  regret not having told someone? Why haven’t you told them yet?
33.  Your house, containing everything you own, catches fire. After saving your loved ones and pets, you  have time to safely make a final dash to save any one item. What would it be? Why?
34.  Of all the people in your family, whose death would you find most disturbing? Why?

VALIS PICKLES

Here is a compilation of 25 popular AI characters from fiction, encompassing both books and films, followed by a list of 25 more obscure ones:

25 Popular AI Characters:

1. HAL 9000 - 2001: A Space Odyssey (Arthur C. Clarke)
2. Samantha - Her (Spike Jonze)
3. The Terminator - Terminator franchise (James Cameron)
4. Cortana - Halo video game series
5. Skynet - Terminator franchise (James Cameron)
6. Ava - Ex Machina (Alex Garland)
7. WALL-E - WALL-E (Pixar)
8. GERTY - Moon (Duncan Jones)
9. Data - Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV series)
10. The Machine - Person of Interest (TV series)
11. KITT - Knight Rider (TV series)
12. Ash - Alien (Ridley Scott)
13. Vision - Marvel Comics
14. Roy Batty - Blade Runner (Philip K. Dick)
15. Marvin the Paranoid Android - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
16. The Matrix - The Matrix trilogy (The Wachowskis)
17. Agent Smith - The Matrix trilogy (The Wachowskis)
18. TARS - Interstellar (Christopher Nolan)
19. VIKI - I, Robot (Isaac Asimov)
20. David - A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
21. AM - I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (Harlan Ellison)
22. Bishop - Alien franchise (James Cameron)
23. Samantha- Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve)
24. Joi - Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve)
25. The AI System - Upgrade (Leigh Whannell)

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Catpocalypse MEOW -

I bet you a million dollars that I've used that title before here. Nobody cares, self. There's a metal bowl that's touching the lid of this dying laptop and as I type, it's making a tinny, morse code/ticker tape sound like you used to hear at  your girlfriend's house - Ohhhhhmm BURN.  Like in the beginning of an old news flash - Bbeeeeeep bbeeepp ebeppe ebebeepepeeeepeebeep. (That made no sense).

I should've hashtagged that (that's what she said) but I'm too lazy to go back, WAY up there and put a hashtag on it (Insert #beyonceknowles joke HERE). See what I did there? That is JOKES. It IS jokes. See what I did there? Yeah, I know - nobody did...because there's no one HERE.  Hey, if you learned how to increase the yield? No - the productivity? NO, if you learned how to increase the SIZE of ONE grain of rice instead of concentrating energy into the YIELD of rice, say if you were a rice farmer...or just a rice-enthusiast for that matter, a NICE rice enthusiast - wouldn't you? No, I wasn't asking if you wanted to be a rice enthusiast, would you be one - I was asking (I kind of forgot what I was asking)...IF you could grow ONE BIG grain of rice instead of growing and cultivating hundreds of thousands, millions and billions of seperate, little ellipsis - sy rice the good ol' fashioned way, resulting in millions and billions  - wait, NO!

$41.8,000,000,000,000,000-worth

of seperate grains of that fragrant, always-used, and often-eaten, capsules of tasty, usually sauce-covered and bowl/stomach-filling, versatile and wordwide-ly, ( that's not a word) satiating and exotic goodness of all little two shoesnesses.

Anyways, yeah - wouldn't that be cool if I wrote like a human being? Or an A.I. thing? Yeah, Wheee. How wild. You're WACKY. NO. I make myself sad. Besides te babies. Yes, te babies. That wasn't a typo - I just ran out of moeny to pay my H bill.  This was like a ransom note but written by a squirrel on drugs, whilst being blinded by a solar flare whie being eaten by a baleen whale. Okay, bye.