On Cold Days

[da]

What 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.

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No, I'd not seen Racter or the book "it" wrote... Though, since it turns out to be written by a person, I'm less inclined to seek it out on basis of its novelty. :)

One of the graphics professors at the University (whose blog is mirrored here thingo_net) just might have a copy; he's quite interested in computer-generated poetry and pictures. So maybe I will look it up.

Oh, it's supposed to get up into low-single-negative digits here on Tuesday, which will be nice.

Had fun snowshoeing today, though I think that'll be a separate post.