Auctioning some geeky stuff

[sylvar]

I'm selling Seasons 1-5 of The Simpsons and the first book ever written by a computer (The Policeman's Beard Is Half-Constructed, Racter, 1984) on eBay.

Wish me luck and/or put in a bid! (I'm guessing that papertygre and bethlynn will want the AI-written book, or know someone who would.)

Comments

Re: curious

[sylvar.livejournal.com]

It's poetry and prose generated by a text-generating program; there have been allegations that the human involved tampered with the output. Many of the prose bits are isomorphic to each other; a fair imitation would be "Mary considers John but John does not contemplate Mary. Cabbages resplendently ponder Mary. Many philologists dance terribly with the cabbages."