Interesting:

evilaptop: Dude, CHICKS DIG UNIX evilaptop: Everyone knows that evilaptop: Right?? JasonF: that’s almost as unattractive as someone who scripts festival to sing “99 bottles of beer on the wall” at a party

Funny how a lot of the attendees were also chatting on #trilug! hehehe

What??? You’re actually interested in how to do it??? Ok, ok… The source code was also provided! hehehehe

1. #!/usr/bin/python
3. # 99 bottles of beer on the wall.
4. # Inspired by (who’d of thunk) beer!
6. from os import popen
7. from time import sleep
9. def printsay(sometext):
10. print sometext
11. voicehandle.write("(SayText ""+sometext+"")")
12. # Start talkin' you varmint!
13. voicehandle.flush()
14. # It’d be nice if festival would tell us when it’s done talking.
15. sleep(3)
17. # 2 bottles, 1 bottle, no bottles
18. def pluralize(somenumber,sometext):
19. if ( somenumber > 1 ):
20. retval = str(somenumber)+" "+sometext+"s"
22. if ( somenumber == 1):
23. retval = str(somenumber)+" "+sometext
25. if ( somenumber == 0):
26. retval = "No "+sometext+"s"
28. return retval
30. # Open up a pipe to festival so we don’t keep respawning
31. voicehandle = popen("festival","w")
33. # Start with 99 bottles
34. num_bottles = 99
36. # Do what now?
37. refrain = "Take one down, pass it around."
39. # As long as there’s beer, we drink!
40. while ( num_bottles > 0 ):
41. printsay(pluralize(num_bottles,"bottle")+" of beer on the wall.")
42. printsay(pluralize(num_bottles,"bottle")+" of beer.")
43. printsay(refrain)
44. num_bottles = num_bottles - 1
45. printsay(pluralize(num_bottles,"bottle")+" of beer on the wall.")
46. print "—-"

Update:  Got to meet Daniel T Chen at the end of the meeting.  What a great guy!  Hope to see him soon again!