the legless crowd

2010.02.07

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

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filipino vinyl

2010.02.05

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.

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in the shadow of lincoln cathedral: an elementary text-book

2010.02.03

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.

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no hugs for infinity

2010.01.18

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

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automated cut-up poetry from large corpora

2010.01.07

I have completed my senior thesis project at earlham college.

It is stored in its entirety (code+paper) at github; although if you’d prefer a PDF over tex source there’s that too.

Here’s the video of my presentation (accompanying slides):

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Everything: the detailed history of the future, the true story of your death, the translation of every book in all languages

2009.10.09

I have a radio show every Monday at 9p on WECI 91.5FM. It’s (usually) internet streamable from a rando IP address (directions).

I wrote a very very simple perl script to destroy a string over time. I find the end result to be pretty aesthetically pleasing, so I use it to make fliers for my radio show:

dead air flier

I used a quote from Borges’s Library of Babel as input. The code that does the string decay is up on github.

If you feel like advertising for me, here’s a larger printable version.

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