Philbot, like all the other peoplebots of his generation, had persona simulations constantly running in the background of his mindtop. This was due to the limitted download threshold of his wireless psyche-net, and the massive file size of a fellow personbot's mindware documents.

Philbot wondered how much he really knew of his colleaguedroids. "How much can I trust my simulation mindware? To what extent does my mindware wholey invent the mindtops of my colleaguebots, rendering a dubious emulation, falsely extrapolating billions of lines of mindware programming and erroneously reverse engineered code generators, all inferred incorrectly from a fractional amount of empirically witnessed behavioral programs, none of which can be plotted precisely anyway, due to the gross wealth of variables in the uncontrolled nature?"

Such thoughtware actions frustrated Philbot's mindtop to such a degree that his procedures ceased, causing his debugging routines to override, force quiting all of the non-essential thoughtware programs. "Time to shut down for the night cycle," Philbot announced. "But first, a game of solitaire." After which, he powered off his desktop functions, set his psycheware to defrag, and began to enter the free RAM cycles.

source / and Retlin's flickr