Ok, so

I orginially named this blog "A Conversation With A Homeless Person" after having an amusing conversation with a person who was (probably still is) in fact homeless.

In boston I had a very long, very confusing conversation with a homeless person named Pete Pedian in a Starbucks in Harvard Square. At the end, I gave him my website address, so he could see my work (he requested it). He's started emailing me now, and I've decided to "go back to my roots" by posting our email dialogues here.

I should mention that though Pete was very well spoken in real life, it seems that he learned to type from a 10 year old on AOL Instant Messenger. Though I think some of it is due to some strange email formatting, his typing is Very hard to read. In this first email, so far as I can tell, he's explaining his trouble finding my email address on chrishires.com and then goes on to recomend books that he has found in the Library. When I figure out what I'm going to write back, I'll post that here also. Anyways, here is the first one:

chris:
tues h'e'R'e':
daY aftr mar@ hN:
wMt 2 Ur chrishires.com bUtt
dNT r'e'Ad  D  com.-pL'e't'e'  teXt;  wOOd
haV'e' s'e''e'N  D  URL: aNywAy  gott  2  DU'e'
soME  XpLorNg:

[TRANSLATION

It's tuesday here, the day after the marathon. Went to your website but I didn't read the full text. I would have seen your email if I had. Anyways, I got to do some exploring]

'e'T'e'XtnG  IN  NT eZ
4  D  coM.moN MaNNN:
@  D  L['e'Y'e']brAry
iNn  boston  [k]no[w]:
with  )  m['e'Y'e']Nut'e'S
oN  th'e'  PubL['e'Y'e']CoM.pUtr:::::

[TRANSLATION

Texting in ez for the common man (?????)
I'm at the library in boston, I'm running out of minutes on the public computer.]

Back aG[ai]N:::::::::::::::
asS  t['e'Y'e']ME   ad VaN-c'e'S  UNt  MaNn advAn-C'E's;  w'e';  i;  U; adDvan-c++Z:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

 [see] "other NOTeBook"

by  angrew gLassN'e'R:

 i taL['e'Y'e']C++Z:my['e'Y'e'NE]

 andrew glassner 
OTHER NOTEBOOK
IS a  Book i foUnd dISs
w'e'e'K:::::::::::::::::::::

 by  D  tiME  i  tRy tOo XpL[ai]N  my/ME/i/s'e'Lf
tU   sUm'e'1  aBoUt  D
booK we; i; U;  w['e'Y'e']LL
B  @  D  Outttr fr['e'Y'e']Ngz
of  D  UN['e'Y'e']N'e'Rs'e':

[TRANSLATION

Ok, I'm back. Other Notebook by Andrew Glassner is a book I found this week. By the time I try to explain myself to someone about the book, we'd be at the outer rings of universe (I think this analogy is the best thing I've ever heard)]

 ITz  aLL D  sA ME::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

 http://gr.bolt.com/games/codes/sony/dino_crisis_walk.htm

 ITz  aLL  a  gA ME::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

D  aBoV'e'  d P'e'Ndz oN D  aR['e'Y'e']vaL  Of  dISs
aSs  IT  waZ  s'e'NT BuY  D  aRt ISt

[TRANSLATION

It's all the same

(web address)

It's all a game.
The above depends on hte arrival of this as it was not by the artist]

pete

ppddian@yahoo.com


So after reviewing the web site he linked to, it's a link to a list of cheat codes for the playstation game Dino Crisis. I have no idea why he would send me this. But I really really hope this keeps up.