Segue

In lieu of improvising a world-changing five-page midterm paper on Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, I've spent my evening running perpendicular to the task at hand. I've been lurking on my message boards, playing hangman, watching the Food Network, etc. etc. I've even started my final essay for the same course (which will be beautiful and candid, for sure).

In my tired hunt for distractions, and upset by the lack of options available for my hangman fix, my hunt through the internet has taken me to WordNet, Princeton's database of the English language. Now I'm excited; I put my paper away and started scribbling out some pre-gaming code that would begin to process through the database. I'd like to tinker with a few ideas regarding natural language processing at some point, though I suspect it won't happen for some time. So my evening was spent playing with words and playing hangman.

The paper never got finished.