Geek Ipsum

[Vlad-Vekslyer]

We can have a Lorem Ipsum generator that mixes up geeksay translations and quotes together with random words.
Just need to make sure to escape any characters that might mess with people's markup like < or >.
Don't have a design for it yet, just probing for interest

[swapagarwal]

Interesting! Can you add a sample paragraph here on how would it look like?

[jcasteele]

One potential issue with this (I mean, it's not REALLY an issue, but still) is that Lorem Ipsum isn't actually "random" words... when it's done "properly" I guess you could say it's a scrambled version of an actual Latin text. Some of the words were just rearranged and a few are removed so that it would read as nonsense if trying to read it as standard Latin. What would be really interesting would be to either translate geeky phrases to Latin and then write a script to concatenate them together to preserve the Latin-ness of it, or maybe even take it a step further and take a suitably geeky work and translate that for a similar generator. Think something like Hitchhiker's Guide or Ready Player One. That's probably WAY overthinking it, but it seems like it might add an extra layer of geekiness to the whole thing.

(Though I guess for the geeky coup de grace it could be done in Klingon or something instead. :P )

[dk3775]

@jcasteele seems good thing to work on!