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Although it was not my policy to answer fan mail, this policy had never been tested, so I reversed it and wrote Goulet, asking him to be my celebrity pen pal. "I really don't need a pen pal!" he wrote on the back of my first Goulet Christmas card, in which I was introduced, twice, to a pleasantly revealing picture of his wife Vera. "What I need is a buddy! Will you be my buddy???" Underneath, he drew an angry alien. I decided it was best to call. After I listened to some Goulet tunes while on hold, Goulet...
...pulled out a file and asked me questions about my columns, most of which centered on whether my parents still talk to me. Then he gave a dramatic reading of Maureen Dowd's New York Times column, which he'd gone over with a Highlighter, and used a ballpoint pen to mark down "Wow." He gave more wows to Dowd than Michael Douglas ever...
...PATENTS Thomas Alva Edison Light bulb, phonograph, motion picture, mimeograph, pneumatic stencil pen...
...view, the advent of the fully creative machine will not arrive overnight but will continue to evolve in stages, as machine intelligence continues its progression up the skill ladder. The first computers were designed during World War II with pen on paper and assembled by hand with screwdrivers and wiring tools. Today a computer designer sits at a graphics terminal and specifies sets of high-level design parameters. The computer performs dozens of intermediate design stages of circuit schematics, board layouts and even the chips themselves. Then other computers actually build and assemble these components into working systems. The tasks...
...Florida Supreme is a high court that just got its last bit of activism marked up with a red pen by the U.S. Supreme Court - and overturning a decision as resolute as Sauls' will take some work...