Thu Oct 28 1999 06:52:
"Females are 'repressed' males and males are 'repressed'
females." There go a whole lot of metaphors.
Thu Oct 28 1999 07:47:
I called Scott up today and talked with him about the plan of
disabling comments and write-ins. He said go for it. So I did.
Am now bracing myself for the torrent of email. Also bracing myself for my phone bill.
Thu Oct 28 1999 08:04:
Dan improved the KatzDot thing while I was sleeping (while you
were sleeping), including moving it over to my suggestion of the
Dada Engine (not affiliated with Dada Pokey except in spirit). Some
samples:
Some of them are lousy, but most are pretty good. Good job, Dan.
Actually some of them are funny because they don't make sense ("Beyond the Open Source Hellmouth"). Dan and I were debating whether a good KatzDot engine would have those or not.
Thu Oct 28 1999 15:11:
Over 20 messages so far; only 4 have anything negative at all to
say. I think I made the right decision. But the tough work of
coming up with a system that functions correctly is still ahead.
I got a perfect score on my logic midterm. At last, Smithers! A perfect score! But argh! I have a music history midterm and a database project due Tuesday! Argh!
Thu Oct 28 1999 19:27:
Dan's trying to get KatzDot to do the first paragraph of stories.
It's not going as well as the headlines, but the stories are
funny in a different way. "On Monday this society presented this society with morally superior
violence across the country of information as information opening a
whole new chapter in Internet. Jane's Intelligence Review is riddled
with mind-boggling education."
That may be as good at it gets. I'd be happy with more stuff in the headlines, personally.
Thu Oct 28 1999 20:01:
The headline generator is still going strong:
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