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Whipped up a quick-n-dirty generators page to interface with phpNonsense and spit out some data fields I think might come in handy for those of us who get blocked for a good name. It has 11 different options right now, with more to come.
City: randomly-generated but impressively plausible-sounding.
Guerrero
North Burlington
South Beach
Spruceboro
WalnutVillage
Company: less plausible-sounding, but...well, it stumbles onto nuggets of joy on occasion.
Bessie Parks & Company
C&D Stores
Faith Summey, Ltd.
MindysoftCooperative
WZNH-FM 114.2
Drug: entirely random, sometimes erring on the side of the unspeakable.
Celerthymetam
Dynavzac
Orletgroid
Vuphex
Zialawuvir
Haiku: still too random to be profound, but on a good day it slouches toward Zen.
Our lost large blanket Near a rude bouncy neighbor Your flower crumbled
Pool around our milk My crisp wind under your choice Mellow famous cat
That funny rude towel Within my social ankle One soft coffee dies
This sick easy milk By a stable golden plan That happy soup breathed
Towel through this china A stupid tree with a cow New grating hotdog
Harry Potter book title: you've got a 50% shot at it being a Harry Potter book and a 50% shot at one of his supporting cast taking over in his stead. They sound much less ridiculous than most of these datasets. Well, except for that last one.
Harry Potter and the Justice Angel
Harry Potter and the Tame Mermaid
Harry Potter and the Victory Princess
Ron Weasley and the Monk of Bone
Tom Riddle and the Warm Bone
Mission name: in place of the grand military tradition of deriving a name via a majestic adjective and an impressive noun, this throws more mundane and ridiculous words into the mix. Occasionally it does create something awe-inspiring, but most often...not.
Operation Honest Noose
Operation Lime Eagle
Operation Sea Volume
Operation Spiked Justice
Operation Successive Shrimp
University: very straightforward. Not only do most of these sound plausible, but a lot of them actually exist....
Cincinnati State College
Hilda Burnett State University
Rochester State University
Southeast Iowa State College
William Henry Harrison College
Address: gives a person or a company, with Zip-codes not guaranteed to be anywhere in the ballpark. Sorry. Varies from plausible to just erratic.
Annie Whitman, 5684 S. Brannon Way, Kell, NY 39982
Elisa Boyer, 521 N. El Camino Real, White Harbor, TX 95323
Grant Shasserre, 149 N. Broadway, Lowerboro, AZ 70591
JZ&Y Industries, Ltd., P.O. Box 443, Arlington, FL 29887
Omondtech, 6962 Dogwood Rd., Old Scheer, OR 56767
Person/Man/Woman: Instead of going for fully-random matches, I opted to weigh the entries based on their occurance in the American population. Using the actual Census Bureau numbers, I rated the frequency of each male first name, female first name and collective last name and entered the data into the file so that, say, a first name of "James" (#1 on the list) has 3,318 "chances" of occuring, but "Bertrand" and "Moe" (tied with many, many others for last) have only 4 "chances," so those names will show up much less frequently. It's less random but much more authentic-sounding while still not being homogenous.
Arron Poindexter
Emily Dailey
Maurice Buchanan
Rachel Gray
Robert Napier
Jerry Norris
Jerry Seay
Kenneth Dalton
Mark Miller
Michael Jones
Camille Simpson
Jane Phillips
Julie Little
Melissa Baugh
Sara Gaffney
...and that's all this version does. I feel like I'm forgetting something....
City: randomly-generated but impressively plausible-sounding.
Guerrero
North Burlington
South Beach
Spruceboro
WalnutVillage
Company: less plausible-sounding, but...well, it stumbles onto nuggets of joy on occasion.
Bessie Parks & Company
C&D Stores
Faith Summey, Ltd.
MindysoftCooperative
WZNH-FM 114.2
Drug: entirely random, sometimes erring on the side of the unspeakable.
Celerthymetam
Dynavzac
Orletgroid
Vuphex
Zialawuvir
Haiku: still too random to be profound, but on a good day it slouches toward Zen.
Our lost large blanket Near a rude bouncy neighbor Your flower crumbled
Pool around our milk My crisp wind under your choice Mellow famous cat
That funny rude towel Within my social ankle One soft coffee dies
This sick easy milk By a stable golden plan That happy soup breathed
Towel through this china A stupid tree with a cow New grating hotdog
Harry Potter book title: you've got a 50% shot at it being a Harry Potter book and a 50% shot at one of his supporting cast taking over in his stead. They sound much less ridiculous than most of these datasets. Well, except for that last one.
Harry Potter and the Justice Angel
Harry Potter and the Tame Mermaid
Harry Potter and the Victory Princess
Ron Weasley and the Monk of Bone
Tom Riddle and the Warm Bone
Mission name: in place of the grand military tradition of deriving a name via a majestic adjective and an impressive noun, this throws more mundane and ridiculous words into the mix. Occasionally it does create something awe-inspiring, but most often...not.
Operation Honest Noose
Operation Lime Eagle
Operation Sea Volume
Operation Spiked Justice
Operation Successive Shrimp
University: very straightforward. Not only do most of these sound plausible, but a lot of them actually exist....
Cincinnati State College
Hilda Burnett State University
Rochester State University
Southeast Iowa State College
William Henry Harrison College
Address: gives a person or a company, with Zip-codes not guaranteed to be anywhere in the ballpark. Sorry. Varies from plausible to just erratic.
Annie Whitman, 5684 S. Brannon Way, Kell, NY 39982
Elisa Boyer, 521 N. El Camino Real, White Harbor, TX 95323
Grant Shasserre, 149 N. Broadway, Lowerboro, AZ 70591
JZ&Y Industries, Ltd., P.O. Box 443, Arlington, FL 29887
Omondtech, 6962 Dogwood Rd., Old Scheer, OR 56767
Person/Man/Woman: Instead of going for fully-random matches, I opted to weigh the entries based on their occurance in the American population. Using the actual Census Bureau numbers, I rated the frequency of each male first name, female first name and collective last name and entered the data into the file so that, say, a first name of "James" (#1 on the list) has 3,318 "chances" of occuring, but "Bertrand" and "Moe" (tied with many, many others for last) have only 4 "chances," so those names will show up much less frequently. It's less random but much more authentic-sounding while still not being homogenous.
Arron Poindexter
Emily Dailey
Maurice Buchanan
Rachel Gray
Robert Napier
Jerry Norris
Jerry Seay
Kenneth Dalton
Mark Miller
Michael Jones
Camille Simpson
Jane Phillips
Julie Little
Melissa Baugh
Sara Gaffney
...and that's all this version does. I feel like I'm forgetting something....
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That said, I do plan on using the drug-name generator for my NaNo. My novel, much as I, needs drugs.
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I'm amusing myself by making lists of 50 and seeing if there's any names in the list I "know" from real life or is relatively famous. I really need a hobby.
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