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Thursday, 31 October 2002
Is it live, or is it Memorex?

I half suspect that "Kelvin Gordon" is a random-text generator masquerading as a blogger, but some of the postings have a little too much coherence for that.

I'm tempted to write a program that scours the Blogspace to create a gargantuan training file for MegaHAL or some other frequency-based text generator, just to see what kind of job it would do in spoofing an online journal.

I suppose I'm maturing as I get older. A few years ago, I would shove all my current projects on the back burner as new ideas occurred to me, a habit which left me with countless unfinished projects. Now I just have a gargantuan queue of project ideas, which gives me time to weed out the unfeasible ones.

Posted by godfrey (link)
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I can't believe you think Kelvin is fake! With all the bored English majors out there, I'm not surprised to find a blog like that. More like delighted.
Posted by Karen on 31 Oct 2002 18:37
I have to agree with Karen. I don't know if you can simulate sarcasm to that degree, and it's usually English majors that utilize language that florid in something like a journal.

Mind you, this in no way suggests that he's sane or even dangerously lucid.
Posted by Darren on 1 Nov 2002 09:52
If I'm not misinterpreting his post of October 21, then October 29th's post is just plain disturbing.

Which, of course, is probably his intent.

His writing style reminds me of a postmodern H P Lovecraft. On acid.
Posted by Godfrey on 1 Nov 2002 10:01