Overheard at the TriLUG meeting

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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

#!/usr/bin/python
# 99 bottles of beer on the wall.
# Inspired by (who’d of thunk) beer!
from os import popen
from time import sleep
def printsay(sometext):
print sometext
voicehandle.write("(SayText ""+sometext+"")")
# Start talkin’ you varmint!
voicehandle.flush()
# It’d be nice if festival would tell us when it’s done talking.
sleep(3)
# 2 bottles, 1 bottle, no bottles
def pluralize(somenumber,sometext):
if ( somenumber > 1 ):
retval = str(somenumber)+" "+sometext+"s"
if ( somenumber == 1):
retval = str(somenumber)+" "+sometext
if ( somenumber == 0):
retval = "No "+sometext+"s"
return retval
# Open up a pipe to festival so we don’t keep respawning
voicehandle = popen("festival","w")
# Start with 99 bottles
num_bottles = 99
# Do what now?
refrain = "Take one down, pass it around."
# As long as there’s beer, we drink!
while ( num_bottles > 0 ):
printsay(pluralize(num_bottles,"bottle")+" of beer on the wall.")
printsay(pluralize(num_bottles,"bottle")+" of beer.")
printsay(refrain)
num_bottles = num_bottles - 1
printsay(pluralize(num_bottles,"bottle")+" of beer on the wall.")
print "—-"

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

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Overheard at the TriLUG meeting