Aren't we all just computer programs?

Catharsis

2005-02-09T02:45:33Z

libGrouphug.py:

import string
import httplib
import sgmlStripper

def getRandomGrouphug():
        
        connection = httplib.HTTPConnection("grouphug.us")
        connection.request("GET","/random")
        response = connection.getresponse()
        data = response.read()

        startPos = string.find(data,'<td class=\"conf-text\">') + 22
        data = data[startPos:]
        endPos = string.find(data,'</td>')
        data = data[:endPos]

        stripper = sgmlStripper.Stripper()

        ##warning, two different strip functions here

        #Note, this is a strip function from sgmlStripper to strip tags
        hug = stripper.strip(data)

        #this is the strip from string to strip beginning and trailing whitespace
        hug = string.strip(hug)

        return hug;

if __name__ == '__main__':
        print getRandomGrouphug()

ljPoster.py:

import time
import urllib
import urllib2

class ljPoster:
        """class to create an object that can log into and post on Livejournal.com and other sites which use
           the same code such as Deadjournal.com"""
        def __init__(self,username,password,server="http://www.livejournal.com"):
                """constructor requires username and password"""
                self.username = username
                self.password = password
                self.server = server

        def post(self,subject,body):
                """Post to livejournal"""
                #subject may only be 255 chars
                subject = subject[:255]

                #lets get the date in the tuple since LJ.com wants the local date or they won't post
                dateTuple = time.localtime()

                #lets create a dict
                self.ljRequest = { 'user':self.username,
                                                   'password':self.password,
                                                   'mode':"postevent",
                                                   'lineendings':'\n',
                                                   'subject':subject,
                                                   'event':body,
                                                   'year':dateTuple[0],
                                                   'mon':dateTuple[1],
                                                   'day':dateTuple[2],
                                                   'hour':dateTuple[3],
                                                   'min':dateTuple[4]
                                                   }
                #doing the actual posting
                data = urllib.urlencode(self.ljRequest)
                post = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.livejournal.com/interface/flat",data)
                return post


if __name__ == "__main__":
        """user should never invoke this as __main__ ..."""
        print "This is a library"

sgmlStripper.py:

#SGML stripper class, inherited from SGMLParser

import sgmllib

class Stripper(sgmllib.SGMLParser):

        def __init__(self):
             sgmllib.SGMLParser.__init__(self)

        def strip(self, some_html):
                 """Given a SGML/HTML string, strip tags"""
                 self.theString = ""
                 self.feed(some_html)
                 self.close()
                 return self.theString

        def handle_data(self, data):
                """Given a string, append to Stripper object's current data"""
                self.theString += data

adaptiveSystems.py:

import libGrouphug
import ljPoster
import time
import random

"""Create a livejournal robot"""
#paste your LJ login info here
myLivejournal = ljPoster.ljPoster("AdaptiveSystems","mypassword")

while (1):
        myLivejournal.post(" ",libGrouphug.getRandomGrouphug())

adaptivesystems @ 2005-02-08T14:14:00

2005-02-08T20:13:52Z

I used to order CD's from columbia house and bmg using vacant addresses and fake names so I wouldn't have to pay.

adaptivesystems @ 2005-02-08T14:14:00

2005-02-08T20:13:51Z

when i was driving around a few days ago i was backing up and barely hit this van. i got out and looked at the damage. no body damage just some scratches. so i left without telling anyone

adaptivesystems @ 2005-02-08T14:14:00

2005-02-08T20:13:49Z

ok confession....
i used a marker to draw onto my chinese teacher's when she walks by my desk...but she nv knew...

adaptivesystems @ 2005-02-08T14:14:00

2005-02-08T20:13:48Z

I stole a book from WH Smiths. I could easily afford it but there was no-one watching and they'd just bagged some 14 year-old moron for trying to leave the store with CD's with tags attached (beep!-beep!-beep!) and I figured there was no way they were looking at a 35 year-old guy in a business suit...

adaptivesystems @ 2005-02-08T14:14:00

2005-02-08T20:13:46Z

when i was in 7th grade this girl died in a car accident and my friend and i would go to the room where everyone wrote poems to the girl just to get out of class

adaptivesystems @ 2005-02-08T14:14:00

2005-02-08T20:13:44Z

I've been with my girlfriend for nearly 3 years, I love her and want to marry her but I've got this strange compulsion to have sex with an older woman before the end of the year. Just once.

adaptivesystems @ 2005-02-08T14:14:00

2005-02-08T20:13:42Z

i have a strange obsession with eds mom

adaptivesystems @ 2005-02-08T14:14:00

2005-02-08T20:13:41Z

i?m not as happy as my friend think i am. and i really miss to have someone to hold hands with.

adaptivesystems @ 2005-02-08T14:14:00

2005-02-08T20:13:39Z

i have to confess so much i dunno where to begin.

adaptivesystems @ 2005-02-08T14:14:00

2005-02-08T20:13:38Z

i can only talk to people when i'm drunk. i can't remember the last time i went to sleep sober.

adaptivesystems @ 2005-02-08T14:14:00

2005-02-08T20:13:37Z

I was pregnant and miscarried without telling my boyfriend...

adaptivesystems @ 2005-02-08T14:14:00

2005-02-08T20:13:35Z

i harbor feelings of discontent towards people that don't know what a confession is.

adaptivesystems @ 2005-02-08T14:14:00

2005-02-08T20:13:34Z

I was tutoring some 8th graders and one of them kept challenging me. Somehow I just blurted out, "Don't fuck with me." I still can't believe I said that. I didn't apologize, either. Actually, he's been behaving a lot better since then, but I still feel guilty about it.

adaptivesystems @ 2005-02-08T14:14:00

2005-02-08T20:13:34Z

I once hacked into a churches website and slaped "|-|@X0RED" in bold across the front...

...along with a dirty photo of the priest.

adaptivesystems @ 2005-02-08T14:14:00

2005-02-08T20:13:33Z

I brought home my boyfriend for the holidays. My parents hated him. Actually told me NEVER to see him again. He's black.

adaptivesystems @ 2005-02-08T14:14:00

2005-02-08T20:13:32Z

I'm a teacher. Once, a student left her wallet on the floor in my room. I opened it and found $80, which I took. She came back later that day and asked if I had seen the wallet. I handed it to her, and said that another student found it on the floor. She saw that her money was gone, and started to cry.

adaptivesystems @ 2005-02-08T14:14:00

2005-02-08T20:13:31Z

I can't believe i finally did it. I finally had sex with a girl that I have always thought was the most beautiful girl on earth. The only problem is that i promised myself that i would hold myself pure until I married. I really don't know how it all happened either. We were so crazy about each other for that one week. I guess usually people would call it a "one night stand" or something. But it wasn't just one of those. It was my first time. I found myself wondering if she was being for real or if she wasn't. I kept on being so self concious i really - I dunno. I can't describe it, I still have so many feelings for her, and i can't do anything about it because she lives so far away. I miss her so much I can hardly keep these tears back. Now i know what it is like to be attached forever. I still want to be pure for my one-day wife, but now there is always going to be that "one time" that I'm going to have to tell her about when we talk about getting married. Just like I am writing now. I hope she understands.

adaptivesystems @ 2005-02-08T14:14:00

2005-02-08T20:13:29Z

when i was young my grandfather had this little mexican dog named Buddy. He loved the dog so much and he had him for over fifteen years. I used to hate the dog and i would beat him constantly just because he was annoying me. Sometimes I would put liqour in his doggy bowl. Then one day I was practicing shooting my dads rifle and buddy was outside. I used him for target practice and I did pretty good because i killed the little shit deader than a doornail. I never told my grandpa and he took a long time to get over it. He was such a fucking pussy.

adaptivesystems @ 2005-02-08T14:14:00

2005-02-08T20:13:28Z

I am in love with a guy from my Earth and Space Sciences class. I'm too shy to talk to him and will never get past staring at him wistfully from a few seats away.
I've become extremely insecure since my last boyfriend dumped me and I'm afraid I will never have a boyfriend again.

adaptivesystems @ 2005-02-08T14:14:00

2005-02-08T20:13:26Z

I consistently pretend I don?t know what going to happen when my ex calls and asks me to hang out. I also pretend he doesn?t have a boyfriend.

adaptivesystems @ 2005-02-08T14:14:00

2005-02-08T20:13:25Z

When someone pisses me off, I become obsessed and consumed by my hatred for them. It is really crippling. I will spend hours at work just looking them up on the internet trying to find as much information on them as possible, and I won't get anything else done all day. What I do with all this information I acquire? Nothing. Just sit around and hate them even more, wishing zits and scars on them. I know that I am only wasting my own time and that this person doesn't care enough about me to hate me back, but I can't stop stalking her. I can barely even remember why I hate her so much to begin with.

adaptivesystems @ 2005-02-08T14:14:00

2005-02-08T20:13:24Z

When I was 15 and living at a boarding school, there was a huge spider in my bathroom. I was afraid to shower and go to class so I stayed in my room all day. Eventually I had to pee but was still scared of the spider, so I pissed inside an empty apple juice container and quickly poured it down the sink. My roommate later figured out what I did and laughed.

adaptivesystems @ 2005-02-08T14:14:00

2005-02-08T20:13:22Z

I fancy my dead friends sister.

adaptivesystems @ 2005-02-08T14:14:00

2005-02-08T20:13:21Z

i have stolen from my friends lots of times, usually to pay for drugs