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Skydiving video: Suren Weekly #4 2012

2012-02-06T15:13:33Z

Crap, two months since i last blogged. I should do something about that. That was my thought just now.

And, without further ado, here’s my skydiving video from last week (this week’s still in editing ). As you can see we are improving, getting ready for the international artistic championship in August. It’s gonna be awesome!

Video: Suren Weekly #52 – 2011

2012-01-02T19:40:04Z

It was great being back in the sky. Lots of fun!

Count (group by) number of line occurrences in file

2011-11-29T20:54:29Z

Here’s a neat ruby script to group and count the number of occurrences of lines inside a given file.

count.rb

list = IO.readlines(ARGV[0])
h = Hash.new {|hash, key| hash[key] = 0}
list.each {|item| h[item] += 1}
h = h.sort_by { |k,v| v }.reverse
h.each_with_index do |p,i|
  puts "(#{p[1]}) #{p[0]}"
  if ARGV[1] and ARGV[1].to_i <= i + 1
    break
  end
end

Usage is:

ruby count.rb <file> [show_at_most_n]

If you have a file named “faren.txt” comprised of the following lines:

test
test
awesome
dude
dude
dude
faren
meran

Running the script with:

ruby count.rb faren.txt

Will yield the following result:

(3) dude
(2) test
(1) awesome
(1) faren
(1) meran

In addition, if you pass the “show_at_most_n” parameter (a number), it will only print that number of results. For example 2 will show the following:

(3) dude
(2) test

New version of the red hot chili peppers lyrics generator

2011-11-29T20:31:00Z

This time i decided to make available online, here.

Have fun

Red Hot Chili Peppers lyrics generator

Red Hot Chili Peppers lyrics generator

2011-11-30T09:01:58Z

Here’s a little something i tried yesterday: a ruby script that mixes and matches verbs, nouns, adjectives, and colors to come up with crazy ass lyrics, red hot style. Enjoy

$nouns = IO.readlines('names.txt')
$adjectives = IO.readlines('adjectives.txt')
$verbs = IO.readlines('verbs.txt')
$adjectives << ['red','blue','green','white','black','yellow','brown','gray']
$pronouns = IO.readlines('pronouns.txt')
$adverbs = IO.readlines('adverbs.txt')
$prepositions = IO.readlines('prepositions.txt')

def get_rand(collection)
  sleep rand / 10000
  collection[rand * collection.length.to_i - 1]
end

def preposition_phrase
  "#{get_rand($prepositions).strip} the #{get_rand($nouns).strip}"
end

def adjectivated_subject_phrase
  the_part = "the" if rand.to_f > 0.5
  adjective = get_rand($adjectives).strip if rand.to_f > 0.5
  return "#{the_part} #{adjective} #{get_rand($nouns).strip}" if the_part and adjective
  nil
end

def generate_phrase
  as = adjectivated_subject_phrase
  adjectivated_subject_part = as.nil? ? get_rand($pronouns).strip : as
  preposition_part = rand.to_f > 0.5 ? preposition_phrase : ""
  verb_part = get_rand($verbs).strip
  object_part = rand.to_f > 0.25 ? get_rand($nouns).strip : ""
  the_part = (rand.to_f > 0.5 and object_part != "") ? "the" : ""
  adverb_part = rand.to_f > 0.75 ? get_rand($adverbs).strip : ""

  "#{adjectivated_subject_part} #{preposition_part} #{verb_part} #{the_part} #{object_part} #{adverb_part}".squeeze(" ").strip
end

def generate_lyrics
  result = ""
  (1..5).each do
    first_phrase = generate_phrase
    new_phrase = generate_phrase
    while new_phrase[-2, 2] != first_phrase[-2, 2] or new_phrase.split(" ")[-1] == first_phrase.split(" ")[-1] do
      new_phrase = generate_phrase
    end
    result << "#{first_phrase}\r\n#{new_phrase}\r\n\r\n"
  end
  result
end

puts generate_lyrics

Here are the sources: rhcp_lyrics_v2.tar. As a bonus there is a script to see how many attempts are required to reach the phrase “The quick brown fox”

HTML WYSIWYG editor with Flickr upload support?

2011-11-28T11:08:14Z

Lately i’ve been tinkering around with the idea of recreating my blog in a more handcrafted way (ruby on rails) as opposed to the current implementation using WordPress. Don’t get me wrong WordPress is awesome. It has many years and millions of websites as a testament of it’s awesomeness behind it. But i guess my hacker’s vein popups up every now and then to whisper the reasons why i should have something custom made

The biggest problem with this, is that WP’s interface to create posts is, again, awesome. You can find plugins for pretty much anything, especially to do tasks that are otherwise plain boring, like uploading pictures to your flickr account and instantly have them available in your post for inclusion. I’ve been trying to find something like that for those nice HTML editors out there (like tinyMCE and CKEditor), but so far have had no luck.

Anyone out there knows if something like that exists yet and where can i find it?

Bird versus window

2011-11-11T14:16:01Z

Is it me or did a bird crash into this window? The smudges on the outside really suggest it. Fascinating stuff! Except for the bird, that is

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Self physiotherapy

2011-11-09T00:22:08Z

This is what my evenings look like now: moving my arm slowly, trying to recover wrist movement. It’s unbelievable what one month of no mobility will do to your tendons and muscles. Hopefully next week I can start proper (professional) physiotherapy and do it faster.

Skydiving video : Suren Weekly #43

2011-11-05T12:44:09Z

I’m recovering from a broken arm, but my friends keep on having fun as usual, hehe

Suren Team – 2011 highlights

2011-10-27T13:21:22Z

some of our best skydiving moments in 2011