On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 05:53:10PM -0700, Stewart Stremler wrote:
> begin quoting Todd Walton as of Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 02:41:25PM -0700:
> > On 6/26/06, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > ><sometimes I think there is a sig daemon that chooses the sig not
> > >randomly but by context>
> >
> > Quite a few of your sigs have been eerily appropriate.
> >
>
> He must feed his sigmonster cookies on a regular basis.
>
> It's been half a year since I took a break from internyms. I sometimes
> miss 'em, but a sigmonster is beginning to sound appealing.
>
It's a rewrite. The original (naive) effort was a stand-alone daemon in
perl, a good educational experience, but I shudder to recall it ...
rather like poetry one wrote to his 4th grade teacher.
This is in Tcl (of course) and relies on cron for its execution.
What I do regret losing, for lost it apparently is, is my old sigs
source file. If it ever turns up, I'll integrate it into the new one.
I have concerns that the random number generator ain't all that random.
Humans have a lousy intuitive sense of randomness (I think we're hard-
wired to find patterns even where there are none), and it seems to me
that some sigs appear far too often and others are ignored. I may turn
logging back on and let a week or so build up so I can scope the numeric
choices.
Code available to anyone who asks nice ... but no snickering. I'm
already well aware of my shortcomings as a programmer :-(
Oh, and FWIW, I for one always liked the internyms.
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Tcl/Tk Enthusiast
This administration's foreign policy reminds me of watching someone
trying to play chess without being able to think more than one move
ahead.
- Molly Ivins
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