Difference between revisions of "Joseph Wheattree"
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| + | '''Joseph''' is the owner of [[Equus Oils]] and a friend of [[Lula]] and [[Donald]] from their college days. Joseph has gray hair, is blind, and wears dark glasses. Joseph created the [[XANADU]] software with Lula and Donald, and also adapted two of [[Lem Doolittle]]'s plays for performance as ''[[The Entertainment]]''. | ||
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| + | == Life == | ||
| + | According to the [[Rust Archives]], Joseph owns a 1974 VAM Station Wagon (Mexico City) and created a kinetic sculptural art piece (Elizabethtown) in 1968. Created the game "If I Had My Way, I’d Tear the Building Down" shown in the (text) museum near the Márquez farmhouse. Has a niece who works at the hospital. | ||
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| + | Joseph is named after the computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum ("Weizenbaum" is German for "wheat tree"), who created [[wikipedia:ELIZA|ELIZA]] (which was named after ''[[wikipedia:Pygmalion (play)|Pygmalion]]'''s Eliza Doolittle), a computer program that took on the persona of a psychotherapist (similar to the "Psychotherapist" game found on Joseph's computer at Equus Oils); this program had a large influence on the development of text adventure games. | ||
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[[Category:Characters]] | [[Category:Characters]] | ||
[[Category:Act I]] | [[Category:Act I]] | ||
[[Category:Act III]] | [[Category:Act III]] | ||
[[Category:The Entertainment]] | [[Category:The Entertainment]] | ||
Revision as of 09:49, 1 February 2018
Joseph is the owner of Equus Oils and a friend of Lula and Donald from their college days. Joseph has gray hair, is blind, and wears dark glasses. Joseph created the XANADU software with Lula and Donald, and also adapted two of Lem Doolittle's plays for performance as The Entertainment.
Life
According to the Rust Archives, Joseph owns a 1974 VAM Station Wagon (Mexico City) and created a kinetic sculptural art piece (Elizabethtown) in 1968. Created the game "If I Had My Way, I’d Tear the Building Down" shown in the (text) museum near the Márquez farmhouse. Has a niece who works at the hospital.
Name
Joseph is named after the computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum ("Weizenbaum" is German for "wheat tree"), who created ELIZA (which was named after Pygmalion's Eliza Doolittle), a computer program that took on the persona of a psychotherapist (similar to the "Psychotherapist" game found on Joseph's computer at Equus Oils); this program had a large influence on the development of text adventure games.
