Twitter Haiku Bot learns about the #Pope

So, I spent my weekend writing a set of Perl scripts that would, given a search term, would go through each tweet, and count the syllables in it (much harder than you think it would be). It would save all of the ones with 5 or 7 syllables in a nice, HTML format.

I can then go through these lists and make haiku. You can click each line to go to the original tweet. (Side note: I didn’t count hashtags towards syllablecount unless they were also part of the sentence.)

Here are some haiku about the recent pope brouhaha.

Pope Poetry (Popetry)

Pope Benediznict
The next pope should defs be black
Obama for Pope.

Gotta pick a #pope.
Eeny meeny miney moe. #god #pope #conclave #cardinal
Fabio for Pope

The pope quit? Dam
There’s no pope, so let’s party.
quick.. no pope! no rules!! #free

Why did the Pope step down??
No remorse or sympathy.
I could be The Pope..

The Pope wears Prada ðŸ‘
Cute…though the church will miss him… http://t.co/IB52lf7bBA
Why did the Pope step down??

Parting thoughts

I did this to learn Perl. I mostly learned that Perl allows for many things to be syntactically valid, but completely useless.

This cannot end here. You must tell me more topics for Twitter haiku.

No blasphemy was intended in the making of this post.

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Track: Seaside Ideation

This is what I did with my Saturday. Trying to get music out of my head.

The track title gets to be both pretentious sounding AND a pun of sorts.

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Boom! Website redesign.

I’ve been messing around with website building for as long as I’ve played Pokemon. I’ve played Pokemon for a very long time. It’s a lot easier nowadays. Back in the old days, we didn’t have no CSS or HTML standards or fancy automated blogs. We did terrible, terrible things with frames, animated gifs, and blink tags. AND WE WERE HAPPY WITH THAT.

Better fonts, usage of images and cleaner edges (which also renders nicer on Internet Explorer, and without any gross hacks). I also actually have a page for About Me and Minecraft, too.

Too much black? I’m kind of worried about that. Might look like it’s trying too hard to be serious, especially considering the nonsense I put up there.

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They say the clothes make the man…

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Track: October 8, 2006

A friend reminded me that I had this website thing. So this is some music I made October 8, 2006, apparently. The only time I ever took out the constant music in my head and put it somewhere else. I was going to put it into a video game or something I wanted to make, but never did.

It’s not especially long, or complicated, or well-produced, but I liked the tune, and wanted to save it somewhere.

I’m also too noob with the piano to actually play this myself. :s

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