"THAT WAS A NAUGHTY BIT OF CRAP" was what my dad typed into his Lightwriter at a Mendelssohn concert we went to together last October. We sat patiently through the second symphony, which to my ears was florid and overwrought without any emotional substance. After the applause had subsided dad set to his Lightwriter, this portable keyboard with it's voice synthesiser. A terrible typist before, now with Motor Neurone Disease wasting his arms, he was more useless than ever. A deeply uncharacteristic comment, it was all the more funny as a result. If he had pushed the SPEAK button it would have issued from the low-lit green LED panel in the machine's ominous, monotonous speak and spell tone.
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(postscript 17th April 2004)
TWANBOC was the name which I called my first Weblog. For a whole range of reasons I it changed WOEBOT in October 2003, chief amongst them was that I didn't want to be saddled with continually writing a memorial. See this entry for the post commemorating my dear Dad.
Posted by Woebot at January 11, 2003 01:10 PM