Comments on: found poetry http://www.joshmillard.com/2008/06/12/found-poetry/ The personal blog of Josh Millard Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:28:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Josh Millard http://www.joshmillard.com/2008/06/12/found-poetry/comment-page-1/#comment-36962 Josh Millard Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:32:10 +0000 http://www.joshmillard.com/?p=353#comment-36962 Ha! Thanks, fellow Josh. That poetry generator is faboo. Ha! Thanks, fellow Josh. That poetry generator is faboo.

]]> By: Josh http://www.joshmillard.com/2008/06/12/found-poetry/comment-page-1/#comment-36943 Josh Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:19:20 +0000 http://www.joshmillard.com/?p=353#comment-36943 I've had a random bad poetry generator at my site for ages, using a markov chain perl script and an input corpus of a whole bunch of poems submitted by kids to a website I worked for in the late 90s: <a href="http://www.elsewhere.org/hbzpoetry/" rel="nofollow">I Am, by The Aggregate Kid</a> I love Garkov, by the way. I’ve had a random bad poetry generator at my site for ages, using a markov chain perl script and an input corpus of a whole bunch of poems submitted by kids to a website I worked for in the late 90s: I Am, by The Aggregate Kid

I love Garkov, by the way.

]]> By: Craig http://www.joshmillard.com/2008/06/12/found-poetry/comment-page-1/#comment-36784 Craig Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:56:29 +0000 http://www.joshmillard.com/?p=353#comment-36784 I like what you have done with it. But is it art? Well, I am inspired so it must be. :) I like what you have done with it. But is it art? Well, I am inspired so it must be. :)

]]> By: Josh Millard http://www.joshmillard.com/2008/06/12/found-poetry/comment-page-1/#comment-36712 Josh Millard Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:46:23 +0000 http://www.joshmillard.com/?p=353#comment-36712 Touche, John. Touche, John.

]]> By: John H. http://www.joshmillard.com/2008/06/12/found-poetry/comment-page-1/#comment-36705 John H. Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:17:06 +0000 http://www.joshmillard.com/?p=353#comment-36705 Shouldn't it be "The cummingsesque Gambit", with a lowercase 'c'? Shouldn’t it be “The cummingsesque Gambit”, with a lowercase ‘c’?

]]> By: language hat http://www.joshmillard.com/2008/06/12/found-poetry/comment-page-1/#comment-36704 language hat Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:41:00 +0000 http://www.joshmillard.com/?p=353#comment-36704 More precisely, it reads like someone trying to be "wild" and "imaginative" and perhaps "poetic" as well; you see this kind of thing in MeFi comments all the time, apparently in an effort to garner favorites and in imitation of those who are born to it and do it well (e.g., loquacious). More precisely, it reads like someone trying to be “wild” and “imaginative” and perhaps “poetic” as well; you see this kind of thing in MeFi comments all the time, apparently in an effort to garner favorites and in imitation of those who are born to it and do it well (e.g., loquacious).

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