I googled myself this last weekend. It sounds like something nasty and it can be. But be that as it may, something good came out of it. I stumbled across a Blog by my old computer illiterate friend and former Kubert school roommate, Steve Bissette. He of Swamp Thing and Tyrant fame.
Back in 1981 when Ernie Pasanen and I were doing our computer driven animatronics we had proximity detectors to clue our user unfriendly computer and get it to talk to the victim.
Please type in your name! Please type in your name! would say the hideous articulate head. Then when the poor sucker would type in his or her name there was a program that would use numerology to decide how to treat the mark based on the number match.
We were very mean to the 2`s. The only group we were meaner to was the Steve group.
What is your last name? Last name? Are you Bissette. Bissette evil. Sure your are not Bissette? Don`t lie to me . . . There was a special program just for Steve Bissette but we never got to use it. He was not a big computer person in those day. For a time he was talking that photographic steal your soul.
That being said, he is on the Net now with his very own Blog and he has just started teaching comic book art at one of the collages. He is having to deal with being called professor. That one always bugs me too
Hey a professor professes but a teacher teachesSo stop on over and check out steve`s
MyRant Blog and if you have any info on Regional Comics he is looking for stuff for is class. Party on Steve!