May 10, 2013

Idle Thumbs: Doug's (from The Walking Dead) Incredible Brown Sugar Cookies

idlethumbsblog:

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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…
Apr 27, 2013
nossidge:

i
am
the
path
along
unseen
heather

Snowball (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
anything

Given 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
disorderly

The poems in this post were all created by the program. They have not been edited.
i
am
the
very
great
change

nossidge:

i
am
the
path
along
unseen
heather

Snowball (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
anything

Given 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
disorderly

The poems in this post were all created by the program. They have not been edited.

i
am
the
very
great
change

(via bigwriting)

Apr 22, 2013
Apr 19, 2013

(Source: noirlac)

Apr 1, 2013
Mar 26, 2013

(Source: tsunderisse, via gamecentercx)

Mar 23, 2013
pokemonxniccage:

#019 Rattata

pokemonxniccage:

#019 Rattata

(Source: pokemonxniccage)

Mar 20, 2013

wwwtxt:

I moved to where she had been and bumped into an invisible wall that occasionally displayed a QuickTime video that made her visible. ☯93DEC

Mar 20, 2013

wwwtxt:

I met a cyber-woman leaning on a wall. She moved her hands around in some Tai Chi movements and disappeared. ☯93DEC

Mar 14, 2013

I love this duck

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Between 2007 and 2012, I arranged pictures and sounds into sequences intended to convey narratives, ideas, emotions, or most frequently, the desire to buy mattresses. But now I'm a cinematic artist at Telltale Games.

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