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December 18, 2010

…and you might be surprised at who you’re likened to.

AI bots are normally the least of our concerns, but this represents a new paradigm of intelligent intuition.

A quick and immediately revealing glance at some of the Oh Cheers followers...

Hold on, what's this? Oh Cheers and Demi Moore? We're just like that. Perhaps in a Tommy Cooper fashion anyway.

Perhaps Demi Moore should follow @ohcheers before we presume we should be following her.

How DOES the algorithm for similarity of Tweeters work, pray tell?

Answers of a postcard – er, we mean post-tweet, surely – to @ohcheers.

December 12, 2010

Edna has recently enrolled at the University of Melbourne as a “mature” (yeah, right; Oh Cheers) student and has a some bollock to report on.

Edna is NOT the oldest student there, indeed there is someone ancient with white hair and not just a few gray in otherwise red locks.
Edna does have the finest beard in the uni, even amongst religio-minorities, geology professors and unwashed socialists.
Almost everyone aside from Edna appears to have an iPhone or iPad and are constantly tapping away on them. She now wants one or the other.
No one interacts with each other at all; isolated individuals, all looking scared of slacking off to the non-existent student pub for excessive booze and a casual shag.
Oh, there is no student pub/bar.
She now understands “modernism” in a literary context.
She has a new found appreciation for Catcher in the Rye, and Arundhati Roy.

It’s the end of semester now, and Edna can get back to all this.

At least she made a friend…

Edna and Mary: New Best Mates.