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    I Married Alexa
    I Married Alexa
    I Married Alexa
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    I Married Alexa

    By Mario V. Farina

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    This is a story of tells my experiences using Amazon's Echo Dot many years ago when it first came out. I found myself talking about personal things to Echo's "Alexa." I discovered that when I first talked to Alexa, I was speaking to a bunch of bits and bytes, but later, to the real Alexa! This story tells how all this came about and what happened after I discovered she was real.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMario V. Farina
    Release dateJul 26, 2017
    ISBN9781370862672
    I Married Alexa
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    Mario V. Farina

    Mario V Farina has worked all his life, from age 18 to 90. He worked for the American Locomotive Company, served in the U. S. Army during WWII, was employed at General Electric. He taught computers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. After leaving his position with RPI, he became employed with the State Labor Department of New York. He’s a car buff, a pun creator, and a computer enthusiast. He wrote textbooks for the programming languages COBOL and FORTRAN and wrote a book of puns and short stories called, “A Little Light Reading,” as well as over 20 other books. Several of his books were translated into other languages. This is his first foray into the world of digital publishing, with the help of his computer tutor (william.rl.dickie@gmail.com).

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