• (cs) in reply to Zylon

    ROTFL

    poets making poets...

  • (cs)

    A long time ago, I wrote a haiku generator for Dutch. Here are some of results (the translation is not necessarily 5-7-5, but contains a nature evocation). It's pure AI!

    Dutch: geslachtsorganen zouten plus de kontakten hanen schitterden English: sexual organs salts plus the contacts roosters shined

    Dutch: filosofieen een uitgerekend grijs zoekt gradaties stilstaan English: Philosophies A calculated gray seeks gradations of standstill

    Dutch: indrukken kraken natuurwetenschappen zijn hypothesen gaan English: impressions creak exact sciences are hypotheses go

  • Stiggy (unregistered)

    I once included:

    You selected close. Are you sure you wish to end this useful program?

  • (cs) in reply to Romeo
    Romeo:
    All your icons are belong to us!

    Someone set us up the haiku!

  • Sam (unregistered)

    These are not haiku. Since they don't have a kigo, they are just senryuu.

    And a syllable of English is a bit more than just a mora.

    As if someone cares, I tell you that my CAPTCHA is the word "dreadlocks".

  • rbonvall (unregistered) in reply to Zylon
    Zylon:
    darren:
    and most coders are not good coders
    True, but I'd still rather listen to a poem by a coder than use code by a poet.

    Corollarium: if you're a coder or a poet, there's no chance you can write either good code or a good poem.

  • AdT (unregistered) in reply to Uncle Dunc
    Uncle Dunc:
    Ben:
    Defining a haiku as a 5-7-5 poem is a little like defining a computer as a box that hums and blinks.

    Yes, necessary but not sufficient.

    It is necessary for a computer to hum and blink? WTF?

  • (cs) in reply to Sam
    Sam:
    These are not haiku. Since they don't have a kigo, they are just senryuu.

    And a syllable of English is a bit more than just a mora.

    As if someone cares, I tell you that my CAPTCHA is the word "dreadlocks".

    Finally, something worth remembering on this thread ... and so wonderfully self-referential, too. (Now let's see a haiku or senryu that can be used to illustrate Godel's Theorem.)

  • Alaeth (unregistered)

    I prefer our RefObject release code...

    const WCHAR* g_szObjDtorPoem[] = { L"Reference count zero/Warm ember of life snuffed out/As a snowflake melts", L"Branch and leaf wither/although my browsing ceases/time and tide go on", L"Running shallow/with a year's end sound:/river rapids.", . . and more.. . };

    DWORD g_dwObjDtorPoemCount = sizeof(g_szObjDtorPoem) / sizeof(g_szObjDtorPoem[0]);

    Then later in the code...

            (*g_pLog)(LOG_DEBUG, STR_CONST("Release causing deallocation of object of type %hs"), typeid(*this).name());
        DWORD dwPoem = (reinterpret_cast<DWORD>(this) ^ GetTickCount()) % g_dwObjDtorPoemCount;
        (*g_pLog)(LOG_DEBUG, STR_CONST("Object Destructor Poem: %ls"), g_szObjDtorPoem[dwPoem]);
  • Fixme (unregistered) in reply to Uncle Dunc

    Actually not. Haikus are not necessarily 5-7-5.

    It's actually quite a good haiku, in my opinion. And beats "Error: unrecognized file format" hands down!

  • Fixme (unregistered) in reply to Uncle Dunc
    Uncle Dunc:
    Ben:
    Defining a haiku as a 5-7-5 poem is a little like defining a computer as a box that hums and blinks.

    Yes, necessary but not sufficient.

    Actually not. Haikus are not necessarily 5-7-5.

    It's actually quite a good haiku, in my opinion. And beats "Error: unrecognized file format" hands down!

  • Patrick Carroll (unregistered)

    I, for one, welcome our new haiku overlords.

  • Stoner (unregistered)

    Hey, This Made It On Wincustomize.com. It isn't meant to be a damn haiku, it was software developed for skinners, and i'd be willing to bet that none of you have ever used Object Desktop, or any other "real" skinning app. Stardock made this software, and they made it user friendly. If that means a funny error message, then whats the problem? try reading between the lines before you label it a failure. All it says is that the format is not supported. Have you ever gone to a personal web site, and not been able to Right Click? some have sarcastic little messages, too.

  • ForcedSterilizationsForAll (unregistered) in reply to Quietust

    you mean...

    Looks like half-assed try at making a nice haiku except one line too long

  • GrumpyAdmin (unregistered) in reply to hmphargh

    Actually, I think it's '14 year-old-ese.' Stardock, if anyone looked, is a company that does nothing but hack the, and I'm being kind here, living fuck out of the Windows UI to make it look more warezy.

  • Saccharissa (unregistered) in reply to real_aardvark
    real_aardvark:
    Sam:
    These are not haiku. Since they don't have a kigo, they are just senryuu.

    And a syllable of English is a bit more than just a mora.

    As if someone cares, I tell you that my CAPTCHA is the word "dreadlocks".

    Finally, something worth remembering on this thread ... and so wonderfully self-referential, too. (Now let's see a haiku or senryu that can be used to illustrate Godel's Theorem.)

    How about this for a first try:

    All that you can know And prove by using logic Must be incomplete

    CAPTCHA: kungfu (haiku-fu?)

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