.tech poetry

[mispeled]

My name is luke t. bergeron and I wrote a free e-book of poetry about technology, video games, artificial intelligence, and the digital lifestyle. This isn't your standard nature, roses, and "i love my grandma" poetry. Some of the poems are written in actual computer code (and really run!), so it's pretty geeky.

I would be thrilled if you'd check it out out. It's free, so all it costs you is your time. The book can be found in two places: on my site and on scribd.com. Aside from the pdf of the book, my site also has an enhanced audio version (it's an MP3 you can stream or download) of the poem "building." The poem is about building a computer.

my site: http://mispeled.net/tech-poems/
on scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/19413462/tech ... Fullscreen

Thank you very much.

Note: I did my best to follow the forum rules before posting this. If I misread them, I'm sorry. Also, I intend on sticking around, so please take this post as excitement about my project and not a "pimp my stuff and run" kind of deal.

[Earlz]

I downloaded this for novelty sakes thinking it would be crap..

To be honest, it's quite good. 1:27am right now and I can't seem to stop reading..

On p37 if you were on a 32bit machine the march to infinity wouldn't take long though(few minutes at the most, I think modern processors is seconds)

Also, DRM ftw (the poem, not the actual thing lol)

[poxic]

Interesting. And non-sucky. I'm part-way through and have to go to sleep now. Will write more when I'm done.

[Zorlin]

Here, have some shameless self-promotion.

[mispeled]

Wow! A torrent! That's pretty awesome.

Thanks for checking out my work, I appreciate it.

Also, that's news to me about the loop in the c++ poem. I intended to make it an infinite loop, but alas, I'm not a programmer, so I did the best I could. Still, I guess it gives a different interpretation if the intended infinite loop actually ends pretty quickly. It's like people wanting to live forever and only getting a short run in actuality. Or something. Hell, I mean, that's what I meant all along, heh, heh.

[quintopia]

Greatly enjoyed reading. Esp. "mu" (the html/js one). And "camping on de_dust" (the last two or three lines)

My interpretation of the short march to infinity was a commentary on how a machine goes on running the same state machine forever (as in "mu"), where, to a machine "forever" is a finite length of time away. And people, who do have a concept of the infinite (even if that conception is only "neti, neti"), could not bear to do the same thing hundreds of millions of times in a row, even if it meant achieving infinity.

(I just pulled all that out of my ass, actually.)

(If you had written for (n = infinity;0;n++) it would go forever, with the value of n constantly wrapping around its tiny range over and over.)

Anyway, there are a few spelling errors in there. You might want to check on that. (Unless they're some kind of intentional signature referencing your user name.)

[mispeled]

No, any spelling errors are unintentional. I've read the damn thing so many times that I don't see them anymore, even though I tried my damndest to get them all. I'll read it again.

Unless you're referring to the misspelling of "perfect" as "perfekt" in so i could stay warm. That one is intentional.

[Zorlin]

The torrent hit 640 downloads overnight (while it was front-paged @ mininova) which is pretty good. Normally I get ~400-500 downloads for front-page torrents.

I credited you in various places (ZORLiN.nfo and Readme.nfo) as well as left the copyright notices and such at the front intact. If you need additional attribution let me know.

[mispeled]

I checked out the torrent. It looks great to me. Thank you for listing it.

Also, here is the audio version of the poem about building a computer. It's read by the apple "Adam" voice with music from garage band:
http://techbuilding.ytmnd.com/

[neoliminal]

Odd. I didn't realize anyone else did this.

For your amusement (written quite some time ago):

#Consulting

my world is currently made up of conditional statements;
i float between the boolean logic of client flow control;
and there's always the risk that i've missed an error;
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last) :
...
ValueError: john must be == 1