chip the glasses

a Geological Excursion class is formed for the … Greek

cone box below itself revolving horizontally on its centre

cookies and puddings. Oat grains

the shakesbot

I came across this collection by chance recently. I noticed that the HTML used for each play was clean and well structured, so I thought I’d write a twitter bot to perform them. I’ve been waiting for a chance to learn Ruby, too, so I thought I’d use this as an excuse.

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

features

• parses MIT shakespeare plays
• can handle an over-capacity twitter
• specify tweet interval, rehearsal (dry-run) mode
• authenticates to Twitter using the twitter_oauth gem

installation

it’s just source code for now as it’s not really useful outside of my one twitter account. However, it could provide a basis for a more general structured-play reader/tweeter, so in the future it may be a releasable tool.

For now, check out the source on github.

thanks to

• MIT, for having nicely parse-able plays
• mirhampt for getting excited about ruby with me
• twitter for trying its best to make the oauth conversion less annoying for one-off twitter toy writers like myself

glass, soap, etc. … especially in Scotland, but only upon such rocks

textile factories and metal industries

Harry’s son nodded.
Three columns and two arches.
GLORY MAY NOT LAST.

Although the cargo was taken out,
  it was after it had been in the water
  more than one half months.
Updated editions will replace the previous one–
  the old editions will be renamed.
The soldiers were ordered not to
  allow him to place on the vessel
  either bed, food, or drink.

You had charge of the funeral arrangements.
Gabriel, why did you set your heart on me?”
“Hes mostly there this time o day.”
“Its my lungs Im worried about,” Mary said.
The bodily heat falls very rapidly.
“Hes mostly there this time o day.”
There was no tribute but their tears.
You had charge of the funeral arrangements.
[Sidenote: Result of the contest.]
He did not want to let Renovales go.
But the contest irritated the king.
That husky young boy was her son.
“Did they tell you, Mariano?
She must stay at home and work for others.

“In its turn every philosophy will suffer a deposition.”
– alfred north whitehead, process and reality