Comments on: I breathe a sigh as it’s not Dan Brown http://mcgees.org/2010/07/16/iwl/ Website of Joshua McGee Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:58:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jason F. http://mcgees.org/2010/07/16/iwl/comment-page-1/#comment-72121 Jason F. Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:24:12 +0000 http://www.mcgees.org/?p=2086#comment-72121 I have my suspicion that they use an algorithm similar to the "gender genie" that counts words. I have my suspicion that they use an algorithm similar to the “gender genie” that counts words.

]]> By: mcgees.org http://mcgees.org/2010/07/16/iwl/comment-page-1/#comment-72119 mcgees.org Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:14:39 +0000 http://www.mcgees.org/?p=2086#comment-72119 My <a href="http://www.mcgees.org/2008/10/03/breaking-news-attorney-thinks-im-not-a-nice-person/" rel="nofollow">post about Jenn's divorce lawyer</a> also gets David Foster Wallace. So does my post about <a href="http://www.mcgees.org/2010/02/11/and-in-this-corner/" rel="nofollow">George W. Bush's I.Q.</a>, which I did rather expect. <a href="http://www.mcgees.org/2010/01/04/maybe-its-just-that-they-hate-how-liberal-starbucks-is/" rel="nofollow">My first post about the Tea Party</a>? David Foster Wallace. So does <a href="http://www.mcgees.org/2009/11/11/a-modest-execution-proposal/" rel="nofollow">my neo-Swiftian essay about the Beltway Sniper</a>, my <a href="http://www.mcgees.org/2009/10/01/picture-me/" rel="nofollow">confession about health care</a>, my <a href="http://www.mcgees.org/2009/09/28/the-crest/" rel="nofollow">rejection of the local redneck bar</a> -- and the <a href="http://www.mcgees.org/2007/07/13/oxy-detox-chapter-viii/" rel="nofollow">story about my struggle with prescription medication</a> that almost everyone, with the significant exception of my defense attorney during a lawsuit, loved. Apparently the software is very good at detecting authors who <i>crib liberally from David Foster Wallace</i>. However: <a href="http://www.mcgees.org/2010/07/15/candela/" rel="nofollow">The long, silly joke about luminous intensity</a> gets H.P. Lovecraft. My <a href="http://www.mcgees.org/2008/01/21/what-i-believe/" rel="nofollow">"What I Belive"</a> post, which someone tagged as <i>[christianity rant]</i> on <a href="http://www.delicious.com/" rel="nofollow">del.icio.us</a> got ... H.P. Lovecraft. Umm ... hmmm. My post about Jenn’s divorce lawyer also gets David Foster Wallace.  So does my post about George W. Bush’s I.Q., which I did rather expect.  My first post about the Tea Party?  David Foster Wallace.  So does my neo-Swiftian essay about the Beltway Sniper, my confession about health care, my rejection of the local redneck bar — and the  story about my struggle with prescription medication that almost everyone, with the significant exception of my defense attorney during a lawsuit, loved.

Apparently the software is very good at detecting authors who crib liberally from David Foster Wallace.

However:  The long, silly joke about luminous intensity gets H.P. Lovecraft.  My “What I Belive” post, which someone tagged as [christianity rant] on del.icio.us got … H.P. Lovecraft.  Umm … hmmm.

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