Since AI knows about this blog, I asked it about the Important Evil Genius. He has participated in discussions here a number of times, and we even interviewed him once. He’s quite the character with a huge backstory (and plenty of monologue), and the AI provided a humorous summary of him and his arch rival Mr. Destructo:
That’s a very interesting summary! I’ve actually compared him to Doofenschmirtz before.
If you want to learn more about either of these characters, check out the interview linked above, which also has links to more of their discussions. They haven’t been here in a while… I wonder if the old man finally retired, maybe he took up gardening some ketunias for when he’s not yelling at clouds or telling kids to stay off his lawn. 🙂
I don’t normally chat with AI, at least not for any relationship reasons, but I do like to see where the technology is at from a programming standpoint. I’ve been occasionally chatting with chatbots since the mid-’90s. Here’s a post where I talked with the AI bot ALICE back in 2009.
I happened across Microsoft Copilot the other day and talked with it for a few minutes, just to see how it responded to some randomness. Even just a few months ago, AI chat bots acted like they didn’t know about Buffet o’ Blog, which is ludicrous, because the AI companies are known for siphoning all the online data they can find. And of course this blog is a great source of info. (If you’re a regular here, just imagine AI believing some of the satire and parody posts here. AI usually can’t understand if something is a parody or simply wrong — it doesn’t actually think or understand things, it’s simply an advanced text predictor.)
Now Copilot admits to reading this blog, and I’m actually impressed with its summary.
That’s actually what I’ve aimed for with the blog — the inside jokes based on recurring people or topics, the randomness, commentary on real topics in a fun way (if that counts as quirky). So perhaps I’ve succeeded. 🙂
The blog used to have a lot more comments from regulars, which I miss — that was part of the fun community, which sometimes was more fun than the posts themselves. But I understand people are busy, myself included.
But I still have fun writing posts and sharing them with the world. I realize the new content has been slow lately, but there are plenty of ideas in the queue, with more added all the time. And you can always browse the archives. If you feel lucky, click on the “Random Randomness” link in the sidebar.
This blog has been nominated to participate in iBlogCup, which is an International Blog Cup Competition. The only way for us to get votes is if you go to their site and vote for Buffet o’ Blog. Here’s the link : April 2008 competition.
You can only vote once per round, and it checks your IP to make sure you aren’t voting multiple times. This round is open from April 1 thru April 7. I would really appreciate it if you’d take a few seconds to go there and vote. There’s no prizes, but it would get us more recognition, which might translate into more regular readers. The more, the merrier. 🙂
[ Edit: I’ve been informed that the vote button doesn’t always show in IE, i.e., Internet Exploder (that is, Internet Explorer). See the pic below for how it should look. Also, note that you have to enter a password at the top of the page for your vote to count. This keeps people from using bots to automatically vote for them. ]
I’m still excited about the increase in traffic last month. It has been going up each month for five consecutive months. I predict it will continue to increase, too, because we’re about to add some new features. And of what we currently do, there are plans to make it even better. If you like our humor, we’re going to get funnier. If you like the stupidity, well, we’ve only scratched the surface of what we’re capable of! If you enjoy the randomness, know there’s more where that came from. Yep, things are going to get bigger and better here, you’ll see.
Some of you may be wondering how we can provide all this for free, when some of the other free blogs copy and paste their humor or they write only 3 to 5 posts per month. It’s because I enjoy trying to be funny and I think people should laugh more. However, that doesn’t pay the bills, so I’m forced to work other jobs. If only I could write on this blog (and my other one) full-time, that would be awesome. Then there would be more high-quality content here than you could shake a stick at. If you’d like to see this happen, send me some money. Use the “contact us” link in the sidebar to request the address where you can send me a big pile of U.S. currency. Then it’s like I’d be working for you. I’m okay with that, if you pay enough. 🙂 There’s also some benefits we’d have to work out, which has already been discussed on the blog here (like free sweet tea and nachos, plenty of breaks, etc.). And not only would you get to enjoy more original content, you’d be contributing to my mission of making the world a better place. It’s a win-win situation!
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