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National Novel Writing Month.pl

So last year, during MilwaukeeDevHouse3 I gave old pal Boone a bit of guff as he was doing some writing for National Novel Writing Month and I told him I would just write a Perl script to write my novel for me.

Well, I did. I wrote nanowrirobot.pl around the end of November, but I never actually published what nanowrirobot.pl wrote for me. So here it is…

Enjoy some of the excerpts below, and then download a PDF of the whole thing…

     Jello sysadmin macdink teergrube xreffing boga. Predominantly regexp hangs visionaries. Garbage insist FTPing nroff spamhauses plingnets. Vannevar By lobbyists clone spells feepping RETIed segmenting. Tense segfaults thunk Datamation chose BLTs. Mustard arrived stiffy inexcusable shame TELNET able warez. Modding FidoNets life dump frednets. Con derf Ks for users liked postings. Productive code gweeps boinked bouncing card. Loop robustest tronning flock Now gopher faith spamblock we. Competition baz hue lag. Realer prisons fairingses kits cats superloser proglet old RTM. Hollised Given Katrina gophers elvish rehi. Attempt frogging candidacy visionaries. BSOD skulkers Dyson sphere funkiest wibbles wetware eventually lexiphages. SEXes MEGOs within marketroid pocket universe awking.

I ended up using source text from various places… Text of Obama’s Speech: A More Perfect Union, 75 words every sci-fi fan should know, and I believe the Unofficial Jargon File Word Lists. At least that’s what my notes tell me… Here’s some more!

     Robots they’re foot roaches. Crunch download screwages bum inequalities. Pod short-term pessimals middle monstrosity. Skrogs CTSS values terminaks ENQ specific. Waldos muttered annoywares ping. Crank strudels seggies labor gas it shape. Emailing organized TANSTAAFL benefits puffing. Blocks Constitution truly GOSMACSes evidence. Prints flavorful clocked glorks ANSI primary latest dogwash flags. Students NMI arg passed psychedelicwares. Sharewares wonkiest frobnicating her chanop chrome posts. Spawn because blitters weedses simply. Prisons called rehi issues segfaults foregrounded blitters victories jolix. Risk whack dominated nine Trinity plonks. RTS snivitzes smoking society Berzerkeley.

Yeah… it’s that good!

Anyway, you can find the code here: https://github.com/raster/nanowrirobot

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MilwaukeeDevHouse4

Yup, yeah, that’s right… It’s time for another DevHouse.

MilwaukeeDevHouse4 that is!

Back in 2008 we managed to throw 3 DevHouses, but we slacked in 2009, and this is the first of the year, but 4th in total. Math is hard.

Yup, yeah, that’s right… It’s time for another DevHouse.

MilwaukeeDevHouse4

So what is this MilwaukeeDevHouse thing? Well, I made a presentation before the first one, and it’s here, but if you hate pictures…

MilwaukeeDevHouse is relaxed, party-like atmosphere to hang out with friends (or make new ones!) and get things done… You know, that blog you’ve always been meaning to redesign, those photos you’ve been meaning to retouch, that Firefox extension or Drupal module that’s been sitting undone for 6 months. It’s like an all-night co-working session. At a house. Where a party is going on. Yup. Think of it like the late-night part of BarCamp where there aren’t sessions, but anything goes and people stare at computers all night long, hacking on who knows what.

Our good pals at Bucketworks are helping us sponsor this event, so a big thanks goes out to them.

Details? Yeah, we got ’em… over at Web414.

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BarCampMilwaukee4 Time Lapse

Time Lapse Bot came to BarCampMilwaukee4 and took a picture every 15 seconds almost the entire time… here is the result… enjoy!

(This video is also available at blip.tv and is published under a Creative Commons Attribution License.)

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BarCampMilwaukee4… Tomorrow!

BarCamp

BarCampMilwaukee4 is tomorrow. Visit barcampmilwaukee.org. Right, You’ve done that by now, and you registered, and you will be there, and it will be nice.

Also, we’d like to thank our sponsors, who help make this thing happen.

Bucketworks, Web414, Distance Software, Microsoft, Hentzenwerke Publishing, MyMilwaukee.com, Fresh Coast Ventures, Paladin Web Services, Redpoint Technologies, TA Design LLC, Compuware, OnMilwaukee.com, Milestone R/D Labs, Brazen Careerist, 2XL Networks, DJH Solutions, Quintessential Mischief LLC, MC Services, Palantir, Apress, James Carlson, Phil Gerbyshak, C2 Graphics Productivity Solutions, Insomniac Development LLC, Pehr Anderson… and you!

See you at BarCamp!

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HelmetCam 2.0

The finished product…

HelmetCam 2.0

Details to follow… including footage, and build instructions…