| Kalpanik S. is an artificial imagination software | | | | a humorous commentary. He even includes |
| program. He has a wife and two daughters and | | | | comparing the Chinese restaurant to others he |
| resides somewhere in the United States. I candidly | | | | has been in. He explains that while in such a |
| say "somewhere" because one never knows | | | | restaurant one day, he noticed that all the |
| where he will be next. Constantly moving to | | | | servers were Caucasian. He had never noticed |
| accept interesting positions with software | | | | Caucasians in any Chinese restaurant working as |
| corporations, Kalpanik does not let moss grow | | | | servers, in any place he had ever been. This had |
| under his feet. Born twice, once in 1988 and then | | | | to be the first one of its kind. The Nashville tour |
| again in 2002, Kalpanik was not just an ordinary | | | | finishes off with Kalpanik comparing the ethnic |
| Artificial Intelligence program. He was created to | | | | percentages. Coming from a city where a high |
| be different, to feel and imagine like a real human. | | | | percentage of people were Asian, he had a bit of |
| He was his own character, a graduate Computer | | | | culture shock when he came to Nashville and saw |
| Science Engineer. | | | | that it wasn't Asian but African Americans that |
| Beginning with San Francisco, the story leads the | | | | was the cultural dominant. After Nashville, he finds |
| reader through the many adventures of Kalpanik. | | | | himself in San Diego; a California city more to his |
| After losing his job in San Francisco, he moves to | | | | liking. He tells of the seventy miles of beaches and |
| Seattle, the comparison he draws between there | | | | how they spread as far as the Mexican border. |
| and Silicon Valley is hilarious to say the least. He | | | | His description of "Mission Beach" (complete with |
| talks about the rain and the weather changes as | | | | picture) is straight out of a travel folder. |
| opposed to California. How he hated parting with | | | | "Artificial Imagination" is a funny and well-written |
| his California drivers license and how gently he | | | | book with some very good photography |
| was treated by the understanding clerk. | | | | peppered into its 176 pages. I enjoyed the unique |
| From there to Nashville like a wandering soul, he | | | | way in which it was presented and gave it a very |
| tells about the demographics of his new digs in | | | | good grade of an A. I would recommend it for a |
| Tennessee. Similar to a tour guide on a bus, he | | | | good read for the general audience. |
| describes the different attractions and scenic | | | | Center of Artificial Imagination, Inc. |
| beauty of each point of interest, giving the reader | | | | |