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.

Comments

[dpolicar]

I rather like "rail-line cockleboat privat-docent". Has a ring to it.

[cyanpill.livejournal.com]

What database are you using for words? I'd have to look again forthe links I was going to use for my AI project, but there was a semi-famous DB of words with parts of speach somewheres... but pronunciation would be interesting as well.

[mynatt.livejournal.com]

Have you read The Policeman's Beard is Half-Constructed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racter)? (There used to be a copy in the computer science club's library but it seems from their webpage that it's no longer in the collection, and I see the copy in Trellis is also listed as missing.)

It's been pretty cold here too. I'm happily anticipating next week's warm spell with forecast highs of -15° :)