From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=74">Echolocation</a><BR>
Date: 11 January 2003<P>

Violet - <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.01.09.17.14.7420">the cowboy is laughing</a> - most excellent - good word choice, very visual, great evocation of a moment!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1058">Chances are</a><BR>
Date: 11 January 2003<P>

Leamus – I have an idea. Apology accepted, why don’t you stay and write us a poem or two (especially now that you’re all talked out – phew!). Write about your frustrations. You have inspiration – you seem to think you have much more, so show us! We might understand your frustrations a little better if they were written in a way that we could appreciate. There have already been over 3000 words written for you so far (no joke!).
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1058">Chances are</a><BR>
Date: 11 January 2003<P>

I am completely bemused by the infrared emus... perhaps they can only be seen in infrared? Very funny (but then I'm strange).
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1058">Chances are</a><BR>
Date: 11 January 2003<P>

Hang on - it does say you can hardly seem him (but that's an understatement!)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=706">splatipus</a><BR>
Date: 11 January 2003<P>

Leamus - How you found the time to only pretend to write stuff beats me. But you obviously feel the need to write something so I agree with Chances are. And I wouldnt go for Xanax, not quite sure what it is but it sounds a bit manufactured and who knows whats in them. I would recommend a more 'herbal' rememedy made by mother nature instead. 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=23">Kirk</a><BR>
Date: 11 January 2003<P>

Chances Are, no I don't think we're going to have to all get infrared goggles to ward off the rampaging hoardes of invisible emus...that picture is just dark is all. 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=5">jackryhme</a><BR>
Date: 11 January 2003<P>

sameaL  ever notice how most here are still willin to give you the chance you deny to everyone else?  kinda says somthin i think
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=12">Tanqueray Cowboy</a><BR>
Date: 11 January 2003<P>

&lt;chuckle&gt; Infrared... Emus! &lt;chuckle&gt;<BR>
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Nice link, Kirk.<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=744">jimmyallgrownup</a><BR>
Date: 11 January 2003<P>

Aw . . . give our man Leamus a break. He's coming to terms with some difficult things. Just remember, Leamus, once you're honest with yourself, it only gets easier.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 11 January 2003<P>

Mark~<BR>
You call that a tribute? Okay. Looks like you've been reading my stuff for awhile. Thanks for reminding me of that dismal third screenplay I abandoned. I'm more than a little frightened. 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=2">scqueen</a><BR>
Date: 11 January 2003<P>

Someone is just damned determined to turn this into the freakblender.com<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=23">Kirk</a><BR>
Date: 11 January 2003<P>

I think people should google up and find out about this Mark character...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=744">jimmyallgrownup</a><BR>
Date: 11 January 2003<P>

About the shaney program <BR>
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In 1998 and 1999, students of Software Engineering were asked to write a program called shaney, which generates text randomly using probabilities from existing text. The program uses Markov chains (sequences of pseudo-random numbers which depends on the numbers which have gone before) to determine the probability that a given phrase is followed by a certain word. Here is how it works: <BR>
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The input text is a sequence of words, for example, <BR>
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Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering. <BR>
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Shaney reads this input and builds a data structure showing that, for example, the two words "leads to" are followed 1/3 of the time by "anger," 1/3 of the time by "hate," and 1/3 of the time by "suffering." (For the purposes of this program, words are seperated by whitespace, so that punctuation is included in a word, and also that case is to be preserved, so "anger," is not the same word as "anger" and "Fear" is not the same word as "fear".) <BR>
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For every sequence of two words in the input, the data structure remembers what single word follows those two, and how likely it is that combination will occur. <BR>
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ETC....<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=205">Violet</a><BR>
Date: 11 January 2003<P>

lulu and echolation~ thank you muchly! :-)
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