Re: Alex, The African Gray

Michael Olea wrote:
Last august, I attended a seminar featuring Irene Pepperburg discussing the
"cognitive abilities" of Alex, her African Gray parrot. Unfortunately
Irene, who must be 60-something, is not only still a babe, but she wore a
blue denim micro mini-skirt to the podium! I was completly distracted for a
good 15 minutes before homing in on her comments about the alledged rather
subtle distinction she claimed between her mimetic methods and standard
operant conditioning. I took a few notes, and sauntered up after the
lecture, meaning to ask some hard questions. Nothing doing - I melted like
ice in summer - my hard qeustion, eyes averted: "you're in the MIT media
lab - ever cross paths with Minsky?" No, not too often, she said, be we do
have lunch now and then - his wife owns a parrot...

-- Star-struck

She's 57.

Someone snapped a photo of you admiring her "birdy":

http://www.altmanphoto.com/tina_turner_legs.jpg

--
Joe Legris

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