doc: Some tutorial tweaks.

* doc/8sync-new-manual.org: Small tutorial tweaks.

diff --git a/doc/8sync-new-manual.org b/doc/8sync-new-manual.org
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--- a/doc/8sync-new-manual.org
+++ b/doc/8sync-new-manual.org
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ nothing is going to happen.
 We can run it like:
 
 #+BEGIN_SRC scheme
 We can run it like:
 
 #+BEGIN_SRC scheme

-(run-bot #:username "some-bot-username") ; be creative!
+(run-bot #:username "some-bot-name") ; be creative!

 #+END_SRC
 
 Assuming all the tubes on the internet are properly connected, you
 #+END_SRC
 
 Assuming all the tubes on the internet are properly connected, you


@@ -253,24 +253,6 @@ so that /other/ actors may participate in communicating with IRC
 through our IRC bot.
 
 Anyway, our current message handler is simply too annoying.
 through our IRC bot.
 
 Anyway, our current message handler is simply too annoying.

-What would be much more interesting is if we could recognize
-when an actor could repeat messages /only/ when someone is speaking
-to it directly.
-Luckily this is an easy adjustment to make.
-
-#+BEGIN_SRC scheme
-  (define-method (handle-line (irc-bot <my-irc-bot>) speaker channel
-                              line emote?)
-    (define my-name (irc-bot-username irc-bot))
-    (define (looks-like-me? str)
-      (or (equal? str my-name)
-          (equal? str (string-concatenate (list my-name ":")))))
-    (when (looks-like-me?)
-      (<- (actor-id irc-bot) 'send-line channel
-          (format #f "Bawwwwk! ~a says: ~a" speaker line))))
-#+END_SRC
-
-This is relatively straightforward, but it isn't very interesting.

 What we would really like to do is have our bot respond to individual
 "commands" like this:
 
 What we would really like to do is have our bot respond to individual
 "commands" like this:
 


@@ -376,7 +358,7 @@ What cool commands can you add?
   At the time of writing, venture capital awash startups are trying to
   turn chatbots into "big business"... a strange (and perhaps absurd)
   thing given chat bots being a fairly mundane novelty amongst hackers
   At the time of writing, venture capital awash startups are trying to
   turn chatbots into "big business"... a strange (and perhaps absurd)
   thing given chat bots being a fairly mundane novelty amongst hackers

-  and teenagers everywhere in the 1990s.
+  and teenagers everywhere a few decades ago.

 
 ** Writing our own actors
 
 
 ** Writing our own actors