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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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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post grad wishlist

2009.12.02

I’ll be graduating college in December (thesis willing) and, as if retiring, have a growing list of things I want to ‘get to.’

  1. FreeBSD on Lovecraft (sticking with linux)
  2. Better music streaming on Lovecraft
  3. Upgrade Kafka to Karmic/KDE4.3
  4. roll my own Ubuntu for my eee901 (used karmic alt-installer)
  5. make a webcomic
  6. take piano lessons
  7. start a hacker house (scheduled for this month)
  8. wake up at 7a every day
  9. learn Haskell
  10. learn OCaml
  11. Revisit Scheme
  12. Design a functional language that is a proper subset of Perl perhaps I should actually become a better functional programmer first