CONNECTED
I don’t doubt that the couple in the booth,
who are both looking at their phones
instead of talking to each other,
are totally in love.
They’re taking pictures of their food
so they can remember this date
when they’re old and gray,
looking at their Facebook timelines.
They will think back on the meal,
and the looks they shared between status updates,
and the number of likes they got,
and smile.
Call me a romantic.
APOLOGY
I’m sorry I tripped,
and fell on your dog,
and broke the vase,
and knocked over the candles,
and set off the smoke alarm.
You should know it’s only because you’re so beautiful,
not that I’m blaming you.
All hail the Pentametron.
This nifty algorithm, which was the subject of a story on NPR, crawls twitter to find tweets written in iambic pentameter. When it finds two tweets that rhyme, it retweets them to form a Shakespearean couplet, like so:
No hotdogs at IKEA so upset 😦
Regret regret regret regret regret
The Pentametron website collects these couplets to form sort-of sonnets out of them, which can be quite beautiful in their own right:
Eye contact is a privilege, not a right
Play secretary, I’m the boss tonight.
That was the fastest half an hour yet
What’s better? Bacon or the Internet?
Cheese Macaroni *offers* anyone??
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE ESSAY DONE
I kinda wanna smoke tomorrow tho
so Jerry springer has another show ???
Regretting that decision from before
Is everyone asleep already or??..
I absolutely hate a bugaboo!
There’s never gonna be another you.
What if forever isn’t long enough?
Especially lying over stupid stuff.
Jake Christie 