High school students gradumatated today, and congratulations to them. That's the last time I'm going to one of those, though.

Anyway, time to play a little game. Is the initiating party in the conversation below real or a bot of some sort? You be the judge:

Session Start (AIM - CobblerRob:DarkIceChix666): Sat May 25 03:24:40 2002
[03:24] DarkIceChix666: Hi.
[03:25] CobblerRob: hi!
[03:25] DarkIceChix666: HI!
[03:25] DarkIceChix666: What's up sexy man?
[03:25] DarkIceChix666: Haha just kidding.
[03:26] DarkIceChix666: I'm going to sleep, tah tah.
[03:26] CobblerRob: right, then
Session Close (DarkIceChix666): Sat May 25 03:28:49 2002

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[03:34] <nautone> rather odd, yes.
[03:35] <rmcmahon> I suppose it's telling of where we are as a civilization, though, when it is impossible to tell the difference between a real person and a simple automaton.
[03:35] <]ani> hehe
[03:36] <]ani> i'm having alcohol for breakfast
[03:37] <nautone> my headphones just spat something on me. i'm frightened.

...so I guess it was just that kind of night. Or morning. Pre-day, then. Though for Jani, it would have been early afternoon, because he's in Finland. Right.

More log analysis, which I'll summarize briefly. Alpha, our GoogleRank thing is going up, which is odd because no one really links us. Regardless, the logs are very interesting now, which brings me to my beta, a point I direct to certain visitors only: THERE ARE NO PICTURES OF SUMI DAS NAKED HERE! NONE! CLICK 'BACK' ON YOUR BROWSER AND LOOK IN VAIN ELSEWHERE, YOU DISTURBED FOOL!
I hope this concisely clarifies what the Fish is all about. Disrobed celebrities, no. Douglas Adams books, yes. Which reminds me--Last Chance to See is a really interesting work. It's partly Adams's writing style, and partly the mandate behind the book: to wander the world in search of endangered species on the verge of extinction. Well worth the $10 or so it retails for nowadays.