little lost robot

I’ve been busy finding things to keep my mind distracted from waiting impatiently for Grand Theft Auto IV’s release on Tuesday. Like what? Well, I’ve been going onto Wikipedia to look-up which historical figures are going to be beheaded on upcoming episodes of The Tudors.

It seems that my pal Hasser has also been doing things to keep himself occupied. Things such as: sending me random packages from his home base in San Francisco. Upon opening the mysterious box, I discovered (and photographed) the following contents:

1. Pootie Tang DVD - which he borrowed from me in 2002 and apparently never returned.
2. A framed photograph of the two of us taken moments before our historic cross-county road trip in 2005.
3. DVD ROM entitled, “Awesome Shit 2008″

Naturally, I’m intrigued by what’s on this disc, and I plan on popping it into my laptop in just a few minutes. I thought it wise to do this blog post first, in case Hasser jokingly sent me the AWSUM_$HIT_08 virus, effectively nuking my HP Pavillion. Until I post an update of the disc’s contents, feel free to use the comments forum below to speculate on what he could’ve sent me. [Also, I just sorta used a line from Dune as the title for this post. I’m not sure if it’s just lazy or insanely geeky. Both, I imagine.]

UPDATE: Awesome Shit 2008 contains: Several music collections, including the complete Hall and Oats discography; Several cracked software suites, and the programs to properly open and install them.

Actually, if I had the room the actual title of this post would be: Hasser has too much time on his hands, even when he’s not using his hands. I say this after receiving several bizarre emails from him yesterday:

“Dear J L,
How are you doing? I am writing this email without using the keyboard I’m using Windows Vista and the voice recognition software built in to theoperating system. Let me repeat that, I am not typing on the keyboard at all. I am using nothing but my voice to type you this email. The computer is listening to my voice and typing what I am saying to it in this email section. How cool is that? One day are here and will shrivel into nothing and all we will have to do is speak… No wait a minute…Probably by then we’ll just use our minds to communicate. But until then, this new voice recognition software is pretty cool. I think you should check out the voice recognition software for yourself, and an email — “

The message ended abruptly, but was followed-up with the next message:

“OK… I was typing or shall I say dictating your email to the computer, When I Said the word send what all of the sudden the email decided to send itself to you, before I was finished dictating it to the computer. I am trying again to dictate this e-mail to you, by not using the keyboard. So we’ll see how it goes this time. I can see lots of room for improvement for this new technology, but it’s still pretty cool. I guess I’ll just have to get used to the idea of talking to the computer to get my work done. OK this is getting old already. Maybe I just mumble when I talk, but the computer seems to be having difficulties understanding what I’m saying, so I will wrap this up. I will definitely keep trying with this as I read the computer learns more about your voice patterns as you talking to it.

Talk to you later,
Hasser”

PS- holy shit the computer just recognized my own last name when when I just said Hasser! That is actually pretty surprising…

The thing I find the weirdest about this email isn’t that he’s at home, sitting around talking to his computer pretending it’s me, but the fact that he started it off with “Dear, JL”. Anyway, I make fun of him, but after I’m done with this post I’m gonna fire up the VR software and talk to my computer as well.