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On Cold Days
Saturday, 22 January 2005 04:01 pmWhat do do on a blustery, -15 degree, flurrying day? d's answer today seems to be playing a lot of Civ. Mine has been to play around with computer-generated limericks and quilt squares.
I'm happier with the virtual quilt squares, which got turned into a christmas present: a large print with 10,000 patterns. 'Cause they asked, I hope to also turn it into an article for a quarterly Perl magazine some time in the next month.
The limericks suck.
there once was a sword-leaved from noil pschent
who stay sports neologize so blent
circumnavigate
sneesh black-figure prate
rail-line cockleboat privat-docent
Sigh.
The database I'm using doesn't have parts-of-speech, only meter and pronunciation, so the best it can do is nonsense words. Eventually, I'd like to work my way up to: providing as much as I could come up with on my own, and the program will suggest words to complete the lines.
I'm happier with the virtual quilt squares, which got turned into a christmas present: a large print with 10,000 patterns. 'Cause they asked, I hope to also turn it into an article for a quarterly Perl magazine some time in the next month.
The limericks suck.
there once was a sword-leaved from noil pschent
who stay sports neologize so blent
circumnavigate
sneesh black-figure prate
rail-line cockleboat privat-docent
Sigh.
The database I'm using doesn't have parts-of-speech, only meter and pronunciation, so the best it can do is nonsense words. Eventually, I'd like to work my way up to: providing as much as I could come up with on my own, and the program will suggest words to complete the lines.
