Delightful Bird Projects

Here are some quick descriptions of projects that have fallen under the umbrella of Delightful Bird Projects. Some of these will have more in-depth descriptions at the links provided.

Poetry Analysis

link on github

This is a project designed to analyze works of poetry to report details such as stanza structure, word and letter counts, syllable counts, etc.

Cenotaphs of Ocean City

link on github

This was just a place to stash files for a street photography project which archived memorial plaques on benches on the boardwalk of Ocean City, Maryland.

Kenneth Patchen Tribute

link on github

An early effort just to test github. This uses Ruby code to create a real-time computerized poetry "reading" of a work by Kenneth Patchen.

Common Idioms

link on github

A utility dump which contains syntax various code snippets I frequently use.

Google Drive Sipper

link on github

A project in which I spider publicly shared folders on google drive to examine structure and with an eye toward seeking out and archiving new additions.

Haiku Finder

link on github

Project for finding "accidental" haiku in text files and webpages.

International Newspaper Searcher

link on github

Project for searching hundreds of international newspapers using Wordpress API.

MIT Shakespeare Play Parser

link on github

Project for parsing MIT's archive of Shakespeare plays for analysis or manipulation.

My Website

link on github

Files for my website. You're already reading it, turkey...

Plathagrams

link on github

Utility files for producing and checking anagrams. This was done in support of producing a book of poetry of line-by-line anagrams of Sylvia Plath poems.

R Probabilities

link on github

Some test code written in R to get the hang of some syntax and data structures. Basically some code to calculate the probabilities of putting balls in bins, etc.

Ships of Theseus

link on github

Code for a poetry project in which Shakespeare's sonnets were replaced line-by-line. This was done in support of producing a book of sonnets based on Shakespeare's sonnets.