[10:24:44] Jill: Hello, my name is Jill and I am the human.
[10:28:03] Judge 2: and what do you do in life as we know it?
[10:28:23] Jill: i am a photographer and a writer, if you are asking about my
career
[10:28:46] Judge 2: I guess I was, though you could have taken it a different
way....
[10:29:13] Jill: that can be said about most things, i guess. it's a little
strange seeing all of the typing marks- watching someone erase their mistakes
[10:30:08] Judge 2: what's strange about it?
[10:31:12] Jill: usually when you get a letter or an email it is a fully
finished piece. it's interesting seeing the process behind it- a deleted half
written word, for example. but then maybe i'm just sentimental about words. or
maybe it's just early in the morning
[10:31:39] Judge 2: of course, a program could be written so as to backspace
errors of a change of mind....
[10:32:31] Jill: i'm not arguing that. i wasn't saying it was interesting as a
human vs computer thing. i just meant in terms of letter writing and communication.
though i suppose if you did aol IM its similar- i never got into that
[10:33:34] Judge 2: I think in IM, you type the whole response and it's sent,
so you wouldn't see the backspacing there either. so I guess you're right, this
is quite distinctive
[10:33:56] Jill: phew. kind of a slow process, discussing something like this
word by word, with deletions and all.
[10:34:21] Judge 2: slow compared to what?
[10:35:03] Jill: compared to yapping in person. i talk a lot. and often
interrupt and talk quickly, it's a bit tedious for me to wait the five seconds
for your response. and to not be able to add anything/cut you off/cut myself
off
[10:35:11] Judge 2: maybe this is more civil....
[10:36:33] Jill: too civil is boring. i suppose my manner of speaking could be
judged rude, but i think it's also more interesting, spontaneous. i think if
someone has something interesting to add to what i'm saying, they should jump
in with it. it's only really a problem if i'm around someone shy, who is afraid
to jump into a conversation. then i guess i seem overbearing. i try to be aware
of that though.
[10:36:55] Judge 2: it would be bad if we had to choose between civil and
interesting....
[10:37:38] Jill: i'm not saying their opposites, or even opposite sides of a
continuum. but ext ah, never mind. i'm not tempted to analyze it too much.
[10:38:37] Judge 2: you know, now that I'm thinking about it, I could easily
test whether you're a person or a machine by typing a word, say, and ask you
whether you saw it
[10:39:50] Jill: don't you think the programmers have figured out a way to
avoid that test? if they can create a program to backspace i would think that
also the computer registers everything typed. i've developed a guilty pleasure
in watching netflix alias episodes and even that cheesy show has episodes where
they examine peoples computers, including deleted/backspaced text.
[10:40:57] Judge 2: but in reality it's much harder. for example, the
transcript of my response above won't show the magic word at all. do you
remember what it was?
[10:41:17] Jill: of course i do- i'll tell you what it is unless you think it's
cheating somehow
[10:41:33] Judge 2: no, my job is to discern the difference, however I can
figure out ways to do that
[10:41:38] Jill: ah, well done, happy.
[10:41:48] Judge 2: thx
[10:41:55] Jill: no problem u r gr8
[10:42:15] Judge 2: u 2 !
[10:43:00] Jill: did you ever have a beeper? i had one in high school, though
at the time my mom said they were only for drug dealers and doctors, and we had
all of these special beeper codes-
[10:43:36] Judge 2: never had a beeper, but those codes get used in txt
messaging now
[10:44:38] Jill: not all of them. the funniest were the type that you use in
high school math class, like using numbers to spell out words when you hold the
beeper/calculater upside down. like "hell" or Boob or boobless. which
all seem pretty funny at 14, somehow
[10:44:45] Judge 2: where did you grow up?
[10:45:08] Jill: ouch. i always hate admitting this. the general answer is new york, but actually it was on long island.
[10:45:42] Judge 2: my father lived on lon gisland (as people make fun of it)
for a long while. it was a summer house of ours that he made into a full time
home
[10:46:12] Jill: lawn guy land, actually. i think i got a free cd of long
island bands called lawn guy land once.
[10:46:28] Judge 2: there's billy joel to be proud of... where on LI did you
grow up?
[10:47:24] Jill: yikes, when billy joel is all you've got, you're in trouble.
though i think debbie gibson was from there, too. i just saw a poster on the
way here about an upcoming debbie gibson show. (yikes again). i grew up in
valley stream, pretty close to queens
[10:47:46] Judge 2: I grew up in Queens. so I get to say "NYC"
truthfully
[10:48:37] Jill: well goody for you. i was going to write a curse but then i
thought maybe that would seem in poor taste on a transcript. i generally don't
worry about what i say but it's somehow different when you think about
posterity
[10:48:48] Judge 2: right. this is serious science at work here
[10:49:05] Jill: it's kind of a trip, being here. more fun than i expected
[10:49:34] Judge 2: I was a judge in 1995, and it *was* more fun than I thought
it would be
[10:50:07] Jill: was it in new york then also? seems like this competition has
a crazy history (but i only started learning about it this morning from other
confederates)
[10:50:24] Judge 2: crazy, yeah. but it's quite admirable in its way
[10:50:42] Jill: i wasn't doubting that. genius is generally crazy
[10:50:53] Judge 2: not much time, what else should I know about you?
[10:51:08] Jill: um, damn it's hard to think of the most human sentence
[10:51:24] Judge 2: we could talk about wine....
[10:51:26] Jill: yes, wine
[10:51:32] Judge 2: favorite?
[10:51:43] Jill: i've been looking for a white rioja, had some in seville spain
it was great
[10:51:52] Judge 2: i'm not much for white wines....
[10:52:11] Jill: i used to love red, and now that it's cold again, it's nice.
but white is so much lighter, less headache from whites
[10:52:25] Judge 2: interesting. they have to very dry, or else I get a
headache from whites