Monday, May 23, 2005
Done with Shakespeare onto The Monkeys
Things are going well with Helena and Myself. I might start on insisting on calling her by her real name of Nian, which was for some reason was hard to remember and pronounce when we first met (even though it is only 2 syllables), but now seems quite simple to remember. She is still after me to come up with a good pet-name for her. She is quite happy with the one she has given me which is “Old-Baby” since I’m 16 years older than her, but as you can imagine it makes me feel a little… uh… old.
Shakespeare-O-Meter is done, it isn’t much of a toy, but it was simple enough to code, so I did. I had a little more debugging to do than I expected, though this mostly turned out to be being caused by some unexpected characters in Shakespeare text like the Æ symbol and the Œ symbol which are used in some Shakespearean words.
Next up “Monkey Typewriter” which while I haven’t started to code it, I’m getting very excited about doing, because I have had some insights on how to make it work in a very clever fashion. I’m still not saying what it is exactly, but it is related to the concept of a million monkeys typing at random to produce a work of Shakespeare – so Shakespeare-O-Meter was kind of a warm up exercise. I’m pretty sure the final product will be of interest to those that like to debate Creationism versus Evolution and I’m predicting my program will show a decidedly pro-evolution outcome.
Not much progress on my other project with the strings and bike and model rocket. Hmmmm having a girlfirend can eat into one's time... in a good way of course!
As a bit of an aside, Nian and I went to Indianapolis over the weekend. While we where there we saw the IMAX file "Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees". That I should see a film this last weekend about chimpanzees while I am starting work on the "Monkey Typewriter" struck me as a little bit of a coincidence (and yes I do know that chimpanzees are apes and not monkeys). We both enjoyed the film greatly, Nian even more so.
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Some samples of mine writing wouldst indicate mine bardness @ ~30-36%
By Daniel, at May 24, 2005
