A rare Laura Post
[Posted by Laura]
I was reading previous posts and realize the pluot is not getting much coverage! So, let’s see what’s going on… We don’t know whether this babe is a girl or a boy, but tend to think of it as either “the pluot” or she. “It” isn’t right. He/She all the time is cumbersome. But really- the problem is: what would we do with a boy? Don’t they hit and stuff? I’m going to need remedial help on the care of boys. I don’t *want* to have a gender preference but-there it is. At the same time, I’m pretty confident that as soon as this kid arrives we won’t care whether the pluot’s a banana or “she” is a he. Babies. Hehe. I love surprises!!!!
Adam wrote:
Here’s what I was thinking of the other night at your party:
http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html
Given a paragraph of text, it guesses the gender of the author, based simply on words that each gender is likely to use.
For example, I fed this post in a got:
“The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!”
1 for 1!
I originally discovered this thing on Metafilter.
Posted on 14-Aug-05 at 11:06 am | Permalink
Adam wrote:
Oops, wait, the title is “A rare Laura Post”… 0 for 1!
Posted on 14-Aug-05 at 11:11 am | Permalink
lauramac wrote:
AhahahAHAH. Perhaps I was channeling Mark’s blog style.
Posted on 14-Aug-05 at 11:40 am | Permalink