I have several compact discs worth of music that is sung in languages I do not understand (occasionally, that's English), and I've always found it fun to sing along to them, even though the lyrics might mean something like this:
Oh, you silly American
You have bought my music
You sing along with me now
Even as I mock you senseless
One of the things I thought boodler might be good for is generating soundscapes of nonsense, and see what my mind would have fall out of it. Thus, secrets. You'll need to get boodler running to hear it go. The basic idea was to come up with a bunch of nonsense phrases, and let boodler have at mixing them up, putting one in a chamber of alien advisors, all desperate to make their case.
They are rather single-minded, these advisors. Their vocabulary is stunted; it turned out to be difficult to babble insensible phrases into a microphone with variety, making sure nothing I understood accidentally slipped in (on that point: all of the phrases in secrets are nonsense to me: if you find meaning in them, more power to you, but keep me innocent of it).
So they feverishly repeat their warnings, jockeying for an ear. If I leave it on in the background, I occasionally think I understood something back there, in the mix. Yes.
Another friend of mine took the secrets phrases and broke them into individual phonemes, to further stir it. I haven't heard that yet.
I also wanted to goof around with building a little, low-rent user interface for boodler, to make it easier to play with it: thus came about leash.
Leash was written in python as a curses app. It needs a modern python (version 2.0 or greater) to go, because I needed it to also work with the X10 remote. I will say this loud: I am not a very good programmer, and this code proves that nicely. It does a lot of things backwards and wrong. Some of the things it does make very little sense, but were needed at the time. But it was an excellent learning experience. And it works (glory!), and by some measures that alone is enough.
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