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Resistance AGAINST STUPIDITY pudding-girl {1} ?

SonnetSaturday 3/15 FOLLOW-UP: Waiting for the infinite stupidity to crest ... ... we salute Chirac's wise expression of love. P.S. Bless all the caring sonneteers ... ... even especially the lazy ones. {smile} Lazy B.

MONKEY-BOT SAYS: {well-oiled happy-monkey-bot noises} Words added to syllable/rhyming dictionary: crummy voyeurism chirac pinstriped russia Rhyme sounds added to dictionary: can't recant

3/16 TeaTimeSunday HIATUS CONTINUES ... BUT SonnetSaturday [scroll down for past info] VERSCHIP will be online -24 to -12 HRS . . . NOTE: The designer is resting ... Feel free to do the same. {serious smile}

Resistance AGAINST STUPIDITY

thumbslide (conceptual) testing:

{-5} BU[LL]SH[IT]-SPREADING US TV "NEWS" MEDIA { 0 } CARROT PUDDING'S BETTER'N* BANANA BEER? {g} {+5} FRENCH RESISTANCE TO [B]US[H] STUPIDITY!!!

* SOUTHERN US DIALECT: "BETTER THAN"

SonnetSaturday FOLLOW-UP: Words added to dictionary: surreal tummy/tummies 'cuz Alternate pronunciation added: proceeds MONKEY-BOT SAYS: {blush} (how easy it is to make a monkey-bot blush) {smile}

3/9 TeaTimeSunday HIATUS CONTINUES ... BUT SonnetSaturday [scroll down for past info] VERSCHIP will be online -24 to -12 HRS . . . NOTE: The designer is resting ... Feel free to do the same. {serious smile}

SonnetSaturday FOLLOW-UP: Two words: Carrot Pudding {smile}

3/2 TeaTimeSunday HIATUS CONTINUES ... BUT SonnetSaturday [scroll down for past info] VERSCHIP will be online -24 to -12 HRS . . . NOTE: The designer is resting ... Feel free to do the same. {serious smile}

SonnetSaturday FOLLOW-UP: MONKEY-BOT SAYS: It seems some fluffy bunnies' tails knocked over the banana oil as they went bunnying by ... AND SO overgreased the gears of the pudding-machine. And you know what happens then ... CHAOS! {monkeyshine} In any case ... not my fault. ANYTIME you see a problem around here ... You know whose fault it is. {g} Just ask Anya. {monkeyshine} LATER, MB (filling in for very tired B)

2/23 TeaTimeSunday HIATUS CONTINUES ... BUT SonnetSaturday [scroll down for past info] VERSCHIP will be online -24 to -12 HRS . . . ... for pudding-hungry sonnet-slayers {smile} who want their own $500,000 ... OOPS, wrong show ... This is not "Boke Millionaire" {EWG} Hmmm ... wonder if anyone will write a sonnet about "Joe Millionaire" or "The Bachelorette" ... Both the silly things made me cry ... Oh the shame of a cliche-sniveling guy! {ewg/sniff sniff} P.S. Currently deciding on whether "not" and "thought" should be allowed CLASS 2 (NEAR) RHYME STATUS {smile} Oh, and yes, MONKEY-BOT now knows what a "bunny" is ... but he does warn them to stay away from his banana-oil !!! {monkeyshine} Later. B.

[COMING SOON] 2/17/03 - This week ... working on how to add this button to all sonnet pages so that all verse can be shown to be "manifestly" sonnets. {smile} . . . 2/21 DONE! {bigger smile} INDEX TO ALL (525 DATA-SET) SONNETS

SonnetSaturday follow-up: ... MONKEY-BOT asks: What is "bunny"? Hmmmm.... Maybe this will help: FAIR USE: Postmodern Parody Of Satire {bewg} B.

SUNDAY 16 FEBRUARY '03 - (No TeaTimeSunday) BUT ... FROM -24 to -12 HOURS BEFORE TeaTimeSunday (0000:00:00:00) IS SonnetSaturday ... AND VERSCHIP 3000 will be online 12 HOURS (ENTER VIA the pudding machine) REMINDER: The software is still in very early prototype form. (The Iambic Pentameter Recognizer and Sonnet Rhyme Verifier submodules have successfully processed Boke's 525 sonnets, but the rhyming dictionary is only 5% of it's ultimate size. AND the sonnet processing capability is the first step ... in a much more complex framework. {smile} One step at at time.) The monkey-bot {g} will report the successes and goofs (both Verschip's and yours {smile}) to the designer ... whose brain is too fried to be clever at the moment. {serious ewg} Later. B.

ASIDE: IT IS INSANE to write a rhyme recognizer FROM SCRATCH in one week (and an IP module in 3) ... But you know Boke. {ewg} It should be noted that even God thought a sonnet recognizer was impossible ... ... and Boke agreed, then sat right down and wrote the damn thing. {g} QUICK CODING SERMON {smile}: There are now over 5,000 lines of code in Verschip 3000 ... ... MANY of the lines contain MISTAKES and STUPID ideas ... ... BUT it seems, that IF you try to erase the stupid mistakes ... THEN the program will not work at all. {g/no joke} BOTTOM LINE: Well, you know. {smile} B 2/9/03

2/9/03 - Post-TeaTimeSunday NOTES: (VERSCHIP DEMO FOLLOW-UP) Hmmm ... Let's see... There was smelling, licking, and having {ewg} of pudding {very happy smile}. The Rhyme module will be reminded that luv does not rhyme with iK ... but, perhaps it knows something we don't. {ewg} Of course, earlier today it was claiming that butterflies was pronounced butterfleas ... which is also kind of sweet {smile} ... so maybe we should leave it that way. {ewg} Nah. Bless your hearts ... All the program errors have been noted and will be corrected ... after I sleep a few "years." {smile} Perhaps it is appropriate that the Rhyme Verifier "CANNOT PROCESS" philosophy {smile} ... But by tomorrow it will {grin} ... ... philosoFLY. {zzzzzzzzzz} {g} Sleeping now. B. VERSCHIP 3000 - PROTOTYPE [0.1] SUBMODULE: Iambic Pentameter Recognizer SUBMODULE: (Shakespearean) Sonnet Rhyme Verifier (NOTE: RHYME MOD WAS WRITTEN THIS WEEK - MANY WKS TO GO. EXPECT THE PROGRAM TO OFTEN BE WRONG .... FOR NOW. {smile} ) FEBRUARY 9 -- If you want to play with the latest, miraculous {smile, no joke} TeaTimeSunday software as it takes shape ... scroll down PAGE {ZERO} to THE PUDDING MACHINE and click it during TeaTimeSunday HOUR. You'll need a complete sonnet to be awarded pudding, {smile} (and to see the "baby" Rhyme Verifier try to walk {g}), BUT YOU CAN ALSO submit lonely lines of iambic pentameter to let the MONKEY-BOT know the vocabulary you might use in the future (or practice your TeaTime, real-time verse writing skills {serious smile}) A[rtistic] F[udge] F[actor] A very important "feature" {serious smile} . . . for sonnets ... or pudding! ... And on that note, I go back to work on the Verschip 3000 .... P.S. Bring your two-character {e.g, FP} "Pudding IDentification" [PID} along with you if you come to play with the software. B. NOTES: (*) The IPR SUBMODULE can successfully process the entire 525-sonnet "data set" that Boke has composed. (*) The Sonnet Rhyme Verifier has made it through the 154 Buffy-Verse sonnets ... but its rhyming dictionary (being constructed from scratch) will probably take months to build up. In the meantime, it has been given 200+ heuristic rules to guess how to pronounce words it doesn't know. {smile} The SNEAKIER RULES about when two words rhyme NEAR ENOUGH to be acceptable ... are being added day by day.

RE: CURRENT SITE STATUS ASIDE: Hmmm ... It should be noted that when Boke ascended into heaven {smile}, (for having written 500+ Shakespearean-form sonnets) he thought he would have peace ... BUT there sits Boke ... (with wings on!!!!) correcting the spelling errors in 525 sonnets ... and (GOOD LORD) writing thousands of lines of computer code ... to recognize a sonnet when it sees one ... BECAUSE {ewg} GOD wanted PROOF those 525 things that Boke wrote were really sonnets. Because, if they weren't, Boke shouldn't have been allowed to to just, you know, ascend to heaven, an' all. Well ... Boke was about to tell God to go to hell ... but decided that was not too smart {ewg} BOTTOM LINE Heaven is not all that it's cracked up to be with all the spelling correction and such ... So, don't rush on getting there early. {smile}

2003 SITE NOTES: 2/2/03 - CONGRATULATIONS to the pudding awardee ... whoever they are. {smile} {HEY! That's a haiku!!! By accident.} AND rest assured that the wicked & mysterious internet character code %85 will be sought out ... and dusted. {g} Oops ... they didn't get pudding. It seems they submitted 15 lines of IP -- and pudding is only awarded for 14. {ewg, no joke} BOTTOM LINE: They missed their pudding ... and pudding dance. {smile} P.S. Many thanks to the (now) puddingless person who informed me that that dastardly %85 is an ... GOOD LORD {ewg} an ellipse! It seems you can type OPTION semi-colon and you'll get three little dots. Of course, it takes a puddingless person to be too lazy to type three periods {ewg} ... {EWG} BUT, in any case, the VERSCHIP 3000 will just ignore the nasty little lazy things from now on. {very big smile} PPS: OH WELL ... {smile} good ol' puddingless {ewg} has informed me they DID get pudding ... but I can't imagine how {no joke} UNLESS there was some monkey-bot playing-with (I leave it to your imagination {ewg}). BOTTOM LINE: Pudding was had. And spoons, too. Sleeping now... {smile} FEB 2 TeaTimeSunday VERSCHIP 3000 [0.0] DEMO (Iambic Pentameter Recognition SUBMODULE) INSTRUCTIONS: CLICK FOR FORMAT RULES (During TeaTimeSunday HOUR only) SCROLL DOWN page {0} to pudding-machine, and CLICK ON IT ... {BEWARE the MONKEY-BOT! [ewg]} NOTE: The Rhyme Recognition SUBMODULE has not yet been written, but the IPR will award you PUDDING! if you submit 14 lines of iambic pentameter. SUGGESTION: Bring a sonnet to COPY & PASTE into a submission box. (Or you can just make up lines of iambic pentameter on the fly and type them in directly.) REMEMBER: The Verschip 3000 is only 3-weeks old {smile} and it's dictionary has only about 20,000 words (most of the program code has to do with chopping off prefixes and suffixes etc) ... SO you will likely use some words the program doesn't know (YET).... THOSE will automatically be sent to Boke when TeaTimeSunday is over. (Unless Boke cannot figure out how to make it do that {g}, in which case your unknown words will become letters in MONKEY-BOT'S alphabet banana soup. {ewg} Beware the MONKEY-BOT! BFC 1/29/03 VERSCHIP 3000 PROTOTYPE [0.0] Iambic Pentameter Recognition SUBMODULE is ready for PUBLIC DEMO during Groundhog Day TeaTimeSunday. DEVELOPMENT NOTES: Three weeks ago {whew!} ... Boke wrote a 1-page UNIX shell program to operate as a processor/data-base engine on a (currently small) syllable dictionary file. Once that worked on a simple example, Boke rewrote the (Bourne) shell program, in the deranged [sewg] language Perl ... AND THEN ... following the chaos/ complexity paradigm ... Boke fed EACH of the 525 sonnets he has online into the VERSCHIP 3000 ... and added code IN RESPONSE to the input UNTIL ... the VERSCHIP 3000 Iambic Pentameter Recognizer could successfully process ALL 525 sonnets. CLICK TO VIEW PROGRAM CODE (NOTE: The original one-page program is at the bottom ... "commented out" with "#" in column one. RULE: Start with something that works. Grow that.) BIG NOTE: Before Boke bit into this problem, he searched in vain for a sonnet-recognizer that someone else had written ... AND REALIZED the reason he couldn't find one ... is that UNTIL NOW {serious smile} there has never existed a "data set of sonnets" that sufficiently followed the rules enough for a computer program to make sense of. THE POINT: Boke had to write 525 sonnets-worth of data ... ... BEFORE the program could be written. POSTED BY BFC (Boke's First Clone) {ewg} 1/1/03 FOCUS IS TECHNOLOGY ... wading back into Perl, Java, Awk, Sed, Lex, Yacc ... pondering an automated sonnet recognizer (among other things). END-OF-YEAR SITE NOTES: 12/30/02: AES SONNETS ARE COMPLETE (which puts Boke's sonnet total online over 500. This means Boke will immediately ascend to heaven [smile] ... BUT, fear not, he is leaving his clone[s?] behind.) [ewg] 12/22/02: AES SONNETS INDEX CREATED (AND SLOWLY BEING FILLED) 12/19/02: SAMPLE "154 AROUND ELEVEN SEPTEMBER [AES]" SONNET 12/18: BEGIN FORMATTING "AROUND 9-11" SONNET SERIES (this series of 154 will bring the total online to ~500 sonnets) 12/18: Buffy-Verse Series Sonnets -- "PAINTING" IS COMPLETE 12/12: NEXT FEW WEEKS ... "PAINTING" ~ 280 SONNETS (if Boke -- and his hands -- can stand it. [no joke]) WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH GROUNDHOG DAY 2003? [smile] We'll see. ARCHIVES from Tea Time L.A. are RESTORED and LINKED back in Time Machine/Daily Index. 12/10: LINKS TO INTERMEZZO THREADS (after TeaTimeLA) will (some day) be found listed after Tea Time #50 in Index. META: Framing "the past" ... while pondering the future.