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Note: this is the product of my first pseudo-meme-generator, and I'd like any/all feedback you have, including content. Because my imagination's suffering after the Eagles/Bolts game today. Grr.
Hurrah. phpNonsense is finally working in pseudo-meme-generator mode. There's a few additions I want to do to the code so that it will actually function as a more LJ-friendly meme-r, but at the moment it's...mostly stable, if not particularly attractive. It'll do some information dumps if you rock it hard enough, but it seems to be holding up well to normal wear-and-tear. It's cacheing but not crashing, so it's a hell of a lot further than it was last week....
The gist: go here and give it a shot -- give it your LJ name, a color, and the number of people you want to invite to your "party." The script will abort with a terse message if the LJ user doesn't exist. The "color" is just to give you something to alter to get different results; the script randomizes on the three entered fields, so that changing any one of them gives a different set of results. If you have fewer friends than you "invited," they'll show up twice. *shrug* Not sure if I really want to debug *that* far; it's a very cosmetic issue, and I can always solve the problem by limiting the number of people invite-able.
I did a very half-assed job of throwing up some costume ideas. It's a pretty shallow pool of data for the costumes and it does err on the side of the nonsensical, occasionally veering into dada, much like I do. Here's the main data file (scroll down until you pass the HTML inserted by the Freestarthost people); it also uses data in the default, newspaper and missionwords data files, too. You should be able to get a decent idea how it works just by poking through the files. But note that the costume entries are disappointingly shallow. My bad. I just wanted to get this up and running tonight and hope to field some feedback.... What do you think? What does it need?
The following is my favorite result of the night. It's true on a variety of levels.
# bishop282 dressed as a mummy.
# brucha dressed as a quarterback for the Colts.
# butterbug dressed as a skeleton.
# charlieinmcr didn't even show up and doesn't get any candy.
# cptn_oblivious dressed as a quarterback for the Chargers.
# dexfarkin dressed as a cauldron.
# dvandom dressed as someone called "Fred Goforth", but you've never heard of them before.
# electricana dressed as a outfielder for the Brewers.
# eternalei dressed as Ted Williams.
# i_molt_a_lot dressed as a ferret.
# jim_smith dressed as Martin Van Buren.
# jkgriffin dressed as a disgruntled mummy.
# missmiah dressed as a B2B TechnologiesCooperative employee.
# paulobrien dressed as Ozzy Osbourne.
# querldox dressed as the Governor of Mississippi.
# reynardine dressed as Heidi Klum.
# robing didn't dress up, spoilsport.
# the_zaniak dressed as Tiger Woods.
# tiny_moo dressed as George Washington.
# tviokh dressed as the main character of "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari".
Edit: I could also really use ideas for more costumes. It's a pretty sparse list at the moment:
a {animal}
a {baseballposition} for the {Baseballteam}
a {Company} employee (this may be an actual or randomly-created company)
a {footballposition} for the {Footballteam}
a {missionadjectives} {missionnouns} (random adjectives and random nouns -- here's where it gets surreal)
a {missionadjectives} {spookies} (spookies are thinks like ghost, vampire, etc)
a {missionnouns}
a {spookies}
someone called "{Person}", but you've never heard of them before
the Governor of {Usstate}
{[a diplomat from|the President of|the King of} {Nation}
{[the main character of|a character from} "{Movies}"
{Celebrity} (the celeb list that came with the original Nonsense templates)
{Celebs} (my own celeb list, culled from a "top 100" list I found online)
{InsipidCelebs} (only a few, but trust me, they are)
{USPresident}
Edit (10/19/06): and a year later, it's still going. Changed links to reflect the new hosting.
Hurrah. phpNonsense is finally working in pseudo-meme-generator mode. There's a few additions I want to do to the code so that it will actually function as a more LJ-friendly meme-r, but at the moment it's...mostly stable, if not particularly attractive. It'll do some information dumps if you rock it hard enough, but it seems to be holding up well to normal wear-and-tear. It's cacheing but not crashing, so it's a hell of a lot further than it was last week....
The gist: go here and give it a shot -- give it your LJ name, a color, and the number of people you want to invite to your "party." The script will abort with a terse message if the LJ user doesn't exist. The "color" is just to give you something to alter to get different results; the script randomizes on the three entered fields, so that changing any one of them gives a different set of results. If you have fewer friends than you "invited," they'll show up twice. *shrug* Not sure if I really want to debug *that* far; it's a very cosmetic issue, and I can always solve the problem by limiting the number of people invite-able.
I did a very half-assed job of throwing up some costume ideas. It's a pretty shallow pool of data for the costumes and it does err on the side of the nonsensical, occasionally veering into dada, much like I do. Here's the main data file (scroll down until you pass the HTML inserted by the Freestarthost people); it also uses data in the default, newspaper and missionwords data files, too. You should be able to get a decent idea how it works just by poking through the files. But note that the costume entries are disappointingly shallow. My bad. I just wanted to get this up and running tonight and hope to field some feedback.... What do you think? What does it need?
The following is my favorite result of the night. It's true on a variety of levels.
# bishop282 dressed as a mummy.
# brucha dressed as a quarterback for the Colts.
# butterbug dressed as a skeleton.
# charlieinmcr didn't even show up and doesn't get any candy.
# cptn_oblivious dressed as a quarterback for the Chargers.
# dexfarkin dressed as a cauldron.
# dvandom dressed as someone called "Fred Goforth", but you've never heard of them before.
# electricana dressed as a outfielder for the Brewers.
# eternalei dressed as Ted Williams.
# i_molt_a_lot dressed as a ferret.
# jim_smith dressed as Martin Van Buren.
# jkgriffin dressed as a disgruntled mummy.
# missmiah dressed as a B2B TechnologiesCooperative employee.
# paulobrien dressed as Ozzy Osbourne.
# querldox dressed as the Governor of Mississippi.
# reynardine dressed as Heidi Klum.
# robing didn't dress up, spoilsport.
# the_zaniak dressed as Tiger Woods.
# tiny_moo dressed as George Washington.
# tviokh dressed as the main character of "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari".
Edit: I could also really use ideas for more costumes. It's a pretty sparse list at the moment:
a {animal}
a {baseballposition} for the {Baseballteam}
a {Company} employee (this may be an actual or randomly-created company)
a {footballposition} for the {Footballteam}
a {missionadjectives} {missionnouns} (random adjectives and random nouns -- here's where it gets surreal)
a {missionadjectives} {spookies} (spookies are thinks like ghost, vampire, etc)
a {missionnouns}
a {spookies}
someone called "{Person}", but you've never heard of them before
the Governor of {Usstate}
{[a diplomat from|the President of|the King of} {Nation}
{[the main character of|a character from} "{Movies}"
{Celebrity} (the celeb list that came with the original Nonsense templates)
{Celebs} (my own celeb list, culled from a "top 100" list I found online)
{InsipidCelebs} (only a few, but trust me, they are)
{USPresident}
Edit (10/19/06): and a year later, it's still going. Changed links to reflect the new hosting.
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alex_shultz dressed as Martha Stewart.
beeform dressed as a slippery eyebrow.
devsgma dressed as a outfielder for the Angels.
grandpoohbah dressed as a diplomat from New Caledonia.
hrhjahi didn't even show up and doesn't get any candy.
hrhjahi dressed as a fever.
missmiah dressed as a CEJU Publishing employee.
perkygothess dressed as a convenient witch.
rewil dressed as Warren G. Harding.
sigma7 didn't even show up and doesn't get any candy.
On another note I need more friends I get a repeat with the 10 setting.
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At any rate, this buys me enough time to find a better way to do this, of which there must be dozens....
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I came dressed as Google
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Also, someone dressed up as a "tasty claim." Doesn't really make sense. And you dressed up as Yu-Go-Oh. The card deck or the cartoon? Hmm.
I would really like to see Tiny Moo in that George Washington costume!
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85% that someone puts on a costume
9% that they don't show up
5% that they don't dress up
1% that they don't put on clothes
...so my perspective is colored by theatre department Halloween parties....
One of the options for the costumes is a random adjective + a random word. It used to be a datafile from Harpoon II to create names for military missions; I fell in love with that idea and instead of reducing it to absurdity, extended it to absurdity. That's what the Mission template gives. Pro: randomized to the point of hysteria. Con: ...and to the point of occasional nonsensicalism. But I like the idea of a military mission called Operation Drowsy Holstein. Too surreal?
And I think, like the Poopsmith in Homestar Runner, I dressed as the idea of Yu-Gi-Oh, like he did the idea of Lazer Tag....
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sillynames could be Python or Black Adderesque.
Little Wapping. Fluffybottom. Kitchenandbath. WallaceandGrommit.
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Also...how can someone come dressed as the equator? Oo
Let's see. Costume ideas...
-This person didn't dress up, but they have such obscure fashion taste it's hard to tell anyway.
-This person came drunk and was wearing nothing/someone else's costume by the end of the night.
-Perhaps some famous book characters? Although most of the popular ones would have been made into movies by now.
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Stole that bit from a Steven Wright bit a loooong time ago: "I went to a Halloween party dressed as the equator. As people approached me, they got warmer...." (Yeah, that's actually one of the costumes I coded in and wasn't the result of a randomadjective-randomnoun pairing....)
Obscure book characters is a good idea; I should've added Trek characters by now but they just slipped my mind. And I like the drunkenness-leads-to... idea; this'll be fun...!
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-the love child of {name} and {name}
-{name} riding a {animal}
-{name}'s {relative}
-{abstractconcept}
Also, how about adding occasional random phrases like "and it suited him/her disturbingly well" or "although he/she really looked more like a {noun}" to the ends of some of these?
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as john howard
as mary-kate olsen with his/her very own siamese mary-kate
as the spirit of my dead grandmother, betty.
as captain jack sparrow
as oprah winfrey
as herbie the love bug
as Betty Boop
as Mary Poppins
as Catwoman/Batman/Superman etc (even any of the justice league characters???)
looney tunes and disney characters?
dunno if any of those would help ya out :P just a couple of suggestions. ;) Always willing to think up some more if you want some extra help.:)
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ahh boooo im not in it!!
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melb_angel82 dressed as a 1974 disco baby. Blue flares and a pink tie died top - Looking SUAVE`
lol..... randomness is good.
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ei like it. but everytime i do it i get the same result...:(
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Spongebob
purple pixie
pink pixie
an orange
schoolteacher
cigarette box
bottle of lotion
peanut
cellphone
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The Brady Bunch. All of them.
Someone who just had sex.(the probably did too)
A Lampshade.
Rainbow fish.
A Hooker.
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Grim (The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy)
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And thanks!
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Okay, how did this go for an entire year without being noticed?
Good eye. I sigh heavily, and will add it tonight. Thanks muchly.
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As the Vicomte des Boules-Velues (Hairy Balls)
As Tony Blair - tarred and feathered.
As Lady Godiva without the horse and far too little hair!
As As a very fake witch-doctor complete with a collection of shrunken skulls.
As Sigfried in need of testosterone,
Sybil - except that Sybil didn't show but the other 19 personalities did.
As Ichabod Crane, the schoolmaster from the Sleepy Hollow Legend.
As Jack the Ripper in a time machine, complete with gory knives.
As Nosferatu the Supreme Vampire.
As Ivan the Terrible of Russia.
As Helga the wisewoman, although the live snake was a mistake.
As Mary Queen of Scots ... without her head. Most convincing!
As Mde. Lachienne Foutue d'Enfer -- you don't wanna know.
As a walking Guillotine.
As Stanley "having a little moment" -- most scary costume!
As Camilla Parker-Bowles when she becomes Queen.
As Pavlova the ballerina -- dancing on point too!
As Adam-the-first-man but the fig-leaf was far too big.
Hope this helps! Nice meme!
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As Guy Fawkes but the exploding barrel of dynamite didn't go down too well.
As Marie Antoinette going to her death.
As the Resurected-dead complete with the most convincing coffin.
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One thing I noticed. I subtracted and added some friends from my flist, and tried to run the meme again, but it still thinks those other friends are there. :-/ Any ideas?
Also, are there any Monty Python references in this, because that would be swell.
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Yup -- LJ prefers polite data miners that cache, so upon first taking the Hallomeme, it caches your f-list, just in case you're like me and tweak the settings a few million times to see the different permutations of costumes.
But I deleted your cache entry, so the next time you run it, it should recache your (now-)current f-list....
As for Monty Python, I should hope there are, though I don't remember any specifically. I'd be disappointed in myself if there weren't. I need to dig into the source files for the first time in almost a year, but I'll definitely add where necessary....
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Character from a Silent Hill game
Monster from a Resident Evil game
Character from a Resident Evil game
Monster from a Final Fantasy game
Character from a Final Fantasy game
If you want me to write some out, just reply please do and I'll make you a list.
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that'd be awesome :)
-Meg
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I really should conjure up some less-seasonal creations. Right now I have some generators for NaNoWriMo, and there's a few more interesting (and not so interesting) templates on the phpNonsense page, without the LJ integration. The last one I really spent any time on was the Now Showing template.
About the one thing I'd like to do is make a random House bingo card generator, but I'm very open to suggestions. I'm inspired by -- but determined not to diminish by repeating -- the Seventh Sanctum generators, which are made of Awesome.