tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post6338756595595061547..comments2023-11-10T04:17:00.492-05:00Comments on View From The Porch: Proof of an afterlife?Tamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-27214160156978906922011-04-27T01:51:31.798-04:002011-04-27T01:51:31.798-04:00There's actually website dedicated to "sp...There's actually website dedicated to "spam poetry." I shit you not.<br /><br />www.spampoetry.org<br /><br />"The Spam Poetry Institute is an organization dedicated to collecting and preserving the fine literature created by the world's spammers."<br /><br />The internet, it has <i>everything</i>!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-4597363788690361012011-04-26T22:36:02.626-04:002011-04-26T22:36:02.626-04:00Spam or not, you could enter that in a modern poet...Spam or not, you could enter that in a modern poetry contest, and likely win.<br /><br />I think it deftly skewers our modern consumerist zeitgeist. And, um, shit like that.Steve Skubinnanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-38389305557173654952011-04-26T09:23:28.145-04:002011-04-26T09:23:28.145-04:00Coming from you, that's a heck of a compliment...Coming from you, that's a heck of a compliment.<br /><br />I actually blushed. :oTamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-66219310778963903122011-04-26T09:14:20.077-04:002011-04-26T09:14:20.077-04:00Ya know, who needs a college education when they c...Ya know, who needs a college education when they can just read you? That juxtaposition of Spam with Joice was so sweet that it hurts.<br /><br />I hope that your readers are paying attention. If someone followed up on your cool-but-obscure references for a couple years, they could even hang out at Upper West Side wine 'n cheese soirees. Assuming they'd want to, of course. <br /><br />Your Free Internet Ice Cream is pretty tasty, intellectually speaking.Borepatchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05029434172945099693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-16024409217467058502011-04-26T09:08:05.474-04:002011-04-26T09:08:05.474-04:00I did not know that.
(Still, I find the idea of a...I did not know that.<br /><br />(Still, I find the idea of a computer program trying to convince another computer program that it's really a human fascinating.)Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-31892254814012919842011-04-26T09:01:23.316-04:002011-04-26T09:01:23.316-04:00It's called a Markov chain generator.
Please ...It's called a Markov chain generator.<br /><br />Please don't lower the bar on the Turing test...<br /><br />See also Racter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-31413579992919484372011-04-26T08:52:47.218-04:002011-04-26T08:52:47.218-04:00Alath,
In this case, it's neither hebephrenia...Alath,<br /><br />In this case, it's neither hebephrenia nor too much of the brown acid, but just a boring old algorithm intended to evade certain types of spam detection by generating a "post" long enough to let a couple links and keywords register as innocuous.<br /><br />So, actually, it's oddly closer to the bathtub Cylons than we'd like to think...Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-72537931701113241732011-04-26T08:47:50.948-04:002011-04-26T08:47:50.948-04:00Word salad.
Characteristic of certain psychoses a...Word salad.<br /><br />Characteristic of certain psychoses and dementias, although heavy doses of psychoactive drugs can mimic the same effect.<br /><br />Alath<br />Carmel INAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-49044019518451205492011-04-26T08:41:33.567-04:002011-04-26T08:41:33.567-04:00Or those bathtub Cylons have finally found a new j...Or those bathtub Cylons have finally found a new job.<br /><br />jfAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com