Idle Thumbs: Doug's (from The Walking Dead) Incredible Brown Sugar Cookies
Ingredients:
- 14 tablespoons unsalted butter (1 3/4 sticks)
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar (about 1 3/4 ounces)
- 2 cups packed dark brown sugar (14 ounces)
- 2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour plus 2 tablespoons (about 10 1/2 ounces)
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2…
i am the path along unseen heatherSnowball (also called a Chaterism): A poem in which each line is a single word, and each successive word is one letter longer. One of the constrained writing techniques utilised by the Oulipo (Workshop of Potential Literature).
o we all have heard people believe anythingGiven the mathematical genesis of the Oulipo and the interest in the movement among other programmers, I thought that someone must have created a program to generate these, and I was surprised that I couldn’t find one even after some pretty thorough Googling. So I wrote one myself. The C++ code is here.
It takes input from a text file which contains novels from Project Gutenberg, scans for word pairs where the second word is longer by one letter, and builds up a poem using Markov chains.
i am the dawn light before anybody expected something disorderlyThe poems in this post were all created by the program. They have not been edited.
i am the very great change
(via bigwriting)
(Source: noirlac)
(Source: tsunderisse, via gamecentercx)
I moved to where she had been and bumped into an invisible wall that occasionally displayed a QuickTime video that made her visible. ☯93DEC
I met a cyber-woman leaning on a wall. She moved her hands around in some Tai Chi movements and disappeared. ☯93DEC
I love this duck
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