A script for poets

[JP]

Kind of reminds me of the time I took an eggdrop bot for IRC, added a HAL "AI" 
script to it, then fed it a bunch of lines of poetry by various artists, and 
got amazed at its output when various users joined the channel and began 
chatting.

At one point a new user joined the channel, said his gratuatous hello's and 
the like and began chatting with the bot never realizing it was a bot..

I had that bot for a few years before I lost it. And had the log file for good 
measure and humour.

I always wished to try and recreate that bot, sure was entertaining, and for a 
while was quite adept at creating/hashing together some interesting lines of 
poetry mixed in from the AI HAL bot had learned from others conversations..

Enjoy the day!

Unix forever..
JSP


On Thursday 09 February 2006 05:27 am, cpghost wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 12:44:00PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 08:29:21PM +0100, Kristian Vaaf wrote:
> >> Again with my script requests, this time I'm wondering if anybody
> >> has ever felt like writing a shell script that makes it easy to write
> >> rhymes,
> >> poems or just make up funny lines.
>
> You mean something like this to group words by endings?
>
> % rev /usr/share/dict/words | sort | rev
>
> > 	This may dovetail into something I was actively working on
> > 	several years ago: a C/C++ program that took unmetered text
> > 	as input and output N-syllabic lines as output.
>
> Interesting.
>
> > 	I created a dictionary of thousands of words with one, two,
> > 	three, or more syllabes in my database.  I played around
> > 	with this idea until I realized that "real" poetry demands
> > 	imagery (metaphor, simile), and not simply meter or rhyme.
> > 	After 7 years of my writing group I've learned how DIFFICULT
> > 	it is to write a good poem.  Or prose.
>
> Absolutely!
>
> >    Gary Kline     kline at thought.org   www.thought.org     Public service
> > Unix
>
> Regards,
> -cpghost.