and it would read it out loud to you. and then you would say “computer, tell me a joke” … i forgot to tell you, at game theory on wednesday, dan got all excited about some freeware program (i forgot the name of it, or i’d tell you to go download it) that has very beautiful chess with cool plunk sounds (but with a very stupid AI), and you can speak to it to tell it which moves to make, and he was all proud of his mac like he always is, and showed off how to ask it for the time and stuff. he got “tell me a joke” to work. after like 6 tries. har har