Thanks very much to everyone who had a conversation with my artificial Tesseract. I realize that, for most of you, her answers had nothing to do what what you asked, but I can use your conversations as a basis for teaching her to respond more appropriately to a wide variety of questions. Just so you know, she can't handle British spelling very well; when someone asked her what "colour" she was--a question she normally knows how to answer--she talked about the electromagnetic spectrum instead of her coat color. :-) And she's not really five years old. For some reason, I can't convince the program to override that one. She's only one. She should be slowly getting better. I wish the algorithm she uses to decide what to say was a better one, but she's not a neural net or anything, so it'll be a while. I also wish her original teachers had had decent spelling and grammar. :-) If you have suggestions for things she should be able to talk about, or questions she should be able to answer, feel free to email me with them-- I'd appreciate it!--or head over and talk to her and see if she responds at all appropriately. Thanks again for helping me with this project. Jen and the Crazy Business http://home.maine.rr.com/tesseract [Posted in FML issue 2999]