Re: Nerd Boy, episode 389

Faux_Pseudo <Fau...@yahoo.comERCIAL> wrote in news:5CQCa.33725
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>  _.--- Joaquim G�ndara spoke in alt.ascii-art --------._ 
>> I choose my words carefully. If you ask me, the "..." thing at the end
>> is cheating. In this case, however, it did seem rather fitting. It's a
>> bit hard to make equally long lines without making the text sound very
>> unnatural. Just change things around enough; you will eventually get a
>> paragraph that both sounds and looks good. You also need a bit of luck
>> to get it working, but with some practice anyone can do it. Good luck!
> 
> Once you try doing it often enough it starts to come naturally.  I find 
> myself doing it by habit once in a while and now I always notice others
> do it.  My biggest problem is making sure to spell check everything.  I
> spell very badly and so I frequently get the lines to match up but then
> I spell check it and have to start over.  It is a real pain in the ass.
> 
> http://asciipr0n.com/fp/ascii/unpr0n/text.art.block.html has my longest
> example to date.  I don't know if I will ever try to do one longer than
> it, but I keep it around just so I can use it as an example for others.

Surely some person can write a program to convert our text into blocks so 
that it fits perfectly. Then the Nintendo kids can do it too. The program 
would replace words using a Thesaurus in varying ways to try and make the 
text fit. This in itself would lead to hilarious words cropping up which, 
I think you'd agree, would add to the sadly wanting dictum and vocabulary 
displayed on many USENET pages. It might end up in a loop replacing words 
such would not with wouldn't and can't with can not who knows? Who cares?

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