What I did in November 2015

I took part in NaNoGenMo (National Novel Generation Month) and wrote code to generate a novel, mostly just using Markov chains, and my old NaNoWriMo novels and my Monochrome BBS diary as a corpus.

I visited The Owls Are Not What They Seem bar with Monika. It was a Twin Peaks themed bar. We found Laura in the room at the top of the stairs, solved some clues, saw Audrey dancing, and stood in Agent Cooper's office for a while.

I performed a bank heist and stole the crown jewels, along with my colleagues, at an escape room, on our team day out. We also visited the Sky Garden and then that night, drank cocktails in Vertigo 42, staring out over London, in awe.

I listened to talks about urban exploration in the boiler room at Senate House, and then explored the boiler room.

I went to the Globe Road Poetry festival, to the session on Poetry, artificial intelligence and computational creativity, and listened to poetry created by bots.

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