For as much as moose love to engage in serious political and philosophical debate, frivolity is a favorite pastime of ours as well. Longtime moose have always known this, and it looks like the newcomers have cottoned onto our penchant for silliness pretty quickly.
Since we’ve been waxing serious off and on the last couple of days, I thought it was time for a totally mostly pointless, completely bizarre, and unmistakably silly…
Open Thread.
Greetings, Moose. It has been an interesting week here with so many friends (both old and new) stopping by to lend their voices to our ongoing conversation. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the banter, the new views, the shared experiences, and the overwhelmingly positive vibe that has accompanied it all.
I know that it may only have been a week’s vacation for some, and that come Sunday midnight they may turn into pumpkins (sorta fitting, the color of pumpkins, no? /grin). However, I hope that the majority of our new Moose will continue to show up in purple long after Sunday midnight.
Now for a few things that have caught my eye:
Technology is amazing, isn’t it? Look how far we’ve come. The scientists over at the Cornell Creative Machines Lab have done something pretty interesting… they pitted two Cleverbot “chatbots” against each other and let them have an “AI” conversation without human input. Chatbots are made to mimic human conversation, but it looks like there are still a few… kinks to work out. Seeing them interact with each other is kind of a trip. The results are amazingly funny, although this just goes to show that… well, we still have a long way to go when it comes to artificial intelligence.
I wonder if Weekend at Bernie’s is on their Netflix account:
I’m not sure why scientists are busy trying to create intelligence in machines when there are still plenty of humans who fail to demonstrate any intelligence. In a news story that proves that real life is stranger than fiction (or at least as strange as the worst of it), two men have been accused of toting their dead friend’s body around town while bar-hopping and then taking $400 from his bank account. (No, seriously, this really happened.)
According to a family member of the deceased, one of the two men came home to find Jeffrey Jarrett, with whom he had been living, dead of undetermined causes.
Instead of calling for help, Robert Young called his friend Mark Rubinson. Together, they put the body in the back seat of Rubinson’s SUV and went to two bars, where they paid for drinks with Jarrett’s ATM card, before returning his body to the house.
They then continued on to a Mexican restaurant and a strip club before withdrawing another $400 on Jarrett’s card. It was only after that, at 4:00 AM, that they flagged down a police car and reported the death.
“I’m horrified,” a family member told CBS Denver. “I’m absolutely – I can’t even put into words. I can’t imagine anybody thinking that maybe their friend’s in trouble, not calling nine-one-one. … It’s just something that we really are having trouble coming to terms with.”
I’d like to say, “You just can’t make this stuff up,” but… well… Yeah.
This has been out for a while now, but, it is bedtime story that is right up my alley (don’t worry, we don’t have kids….yet). /grin
The eagles who soar through the sky are at rest
And the creatures who crawl, run, and creep.
I know you’re not thirsty. That’s bullshit. Stop lying.
Lie the fuck down, my darling, and sleep.
Last but not least, come Monday, invites to the Moose Group on dKos will be going out. If your username differs from the one you use on dKos, and you want an invite, let us know in comments (or you can just request an invite on dKos via messages).
I can’t wait to get to know all you new Moose…I said elsewhere in a comment, but, will repeat it here:
I have a feeling some of our new Moose are gonna be teachin’ us old Moose a lot.
I like that.
A lot.
I am not a robot. I am a unicorn.
Ok, Mooses…Open Thread…have at it.
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