Mary: Indulge your nerdier nature.

TC: ... I would like to work with him.

TC: Him is correct, right? As an object... wouldn't "it" be more correct?

TC: I suppose I can just ask, provided he is as intelligent as you claim.

TC: I don't know how experienced you are with these, ma'am, but I cut my teeth on Lisp machines, I taught myself to type hellish webs of nested parentheses maintaining expert systems at RCA.

TC: Right next to radio and the color TV, we had inference engines.

TC: They never made it out of the labs, we never could break down Moravec's paradox, but we tried.

TC: If Vinge were here now, we could scare him shitless with that AI...

TC: Yet another newsgroup blast of "the singularity is real!" and gathering with those more rational folks to pester his inbox with emails for weeks following it...

TC: (Cute?)

TC: I intend to.

TC: A level head is always necessary when dealing with matters like this.

TC: Sleepytime tea?

TC: I'll take it.