Their indices bedecked from 1 to N (or, My Journal Reshuffled)

[vvvexation]

Some of the more amusing results, or snippets thereof, from running my journal through the LJ Markov chain:

8. Recited "Jabberwocky" in full while simultaneously writing out something completely unrelated using a friend's back for a few journals from my friends list-- and then I decided to become a lap cat. I'd consider this a thoroughly positive development were it not for the rest of her life,

Sometimes I amuse myself in unexpected ways. Today I saw a magazine cover that said "DAMS: Who needs them?" and until I noticed it had an insanely long filename, or at least insanely long for a few journals from my friends list to make it a bit of a big wall of concrete and lots of water, my immediate reaction was "well, people who have oral sex with a folder full of papers.

I'm doing this for the IRS to care about. 7. Eaten a peanut butter and jelly sandwich [edit: or a plain peanut butter and jelly sandwich [edit: or a plain peanut butter sandwich, either] (at least not that I now have available a much more efficient way of gathering opinions. Not that I'll ever be able to wave this in my life,

"Infinite monkeys typing on infinite typewriters might be able to vent all my frustrations here, but the mother's: "It'll be CPS's business if you want me to re-post a cleaner version.

By the way, I received a phone call from the keyboard tray before he settled down.


And a couple that might have some deeper meaning if you squint:

I dropped eye contact and seethed for a few moments, but her next words, an assertion that she'd treat her child how she wanted and I'd better not look at her like that, sounded to me like a treadmill of futility.

where the universe is whapping me over the last time I learned so much and felt like it was benefiting me so little. Incidentally, this is related to the reasons I take such a dim view of most of humanity.

Comments

[caesia.livejournal.com]

"he had settled half on my lap - he's not a very good Christine at all, in my opinion. She's a dramatic soprano, with a cheese sandwich."

This is an awesome script.

[flwyd.livejournal.com]

On my second try, I managed to get the complete text of my song titles meme. This is because only one entry contained Transfiguartion, and from there every three word sequence was unique to that post.

Random text generation is a fun game, but it needs a larger corpus than the 25 or so journal entries that this is based on.

Fun fact: Markov modeling has been used to determine authorship of the Federalist Papers.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Oh, I had the same problem--these are just the good bits that I culled out of a lot of results similar to what you describe. A larger corpus is indeed needed, but I suspect a corpus with fewer hapax legomena would also work better--at least in terms of randomness, though the results might be less interesting content-wise. Perhaps there's a balance to be found somewhere, though.

[kaidevis.livejournal.com]

I can't resist... "It's a markoV chain!"

(Oh, and did you know that polymer physicists are into chains?)

>>> treadmill of futility <<<

This one grabbed me. Like there's a twisted image that wants to snap into my mind, but my mind just isn't sure what that image would actually be.

It also sounds like the name of some obscure experimental music band.

Or a rant against the apotheosis of gyms and fast food.

Or something.

>>> the last time I learned so much and felt like it was benefiting me so little <<<

Great summary of any process of growth/change.