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devi ([personal profile] devi) wrote2003-11-18 12:16 am

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Almost 27,000. I had to stop a while ago to turn off my laptop and leave it standing on its side, as it was about to melt all over my legs.

I've made a Random Tube Traveller Generator, using lists and gaming dice. I wanted a story where one of the pages finds its way on to the tube and gets examined by a sequence of people, so I spent a whole afternoon putting this mechanism together (while Matt paraphrased Laurence Olivier(?) at me - "Just write, dear boy"). The result was interesting - I found myself wanting to program for the first time in years, so I could turn it into a web-toy and you could all come and generate characters like the elderly lady who is a workaholic cat-burglar, or the fourteen-year-old half-pint superhero.

Theory: Any piece of writing which involves short sketches of people on the tube will automatically sound exactly like 253.

[identity profile] addedentry.livejournal.com 2003-11-18 11:07 am (UTC)(link)
Excellent. Have you seen The Tube vignettes?

Re: Or

[identity profile] bluedevi.livejournal.com 2003-11-19 02:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Tube Gossip is hilarious. Thanks for pointing me at it first time round, too :)

Haven't seen the other site, but I feel I shouldn't risk looking at it until I'm at home so I can laugh in peace.