Only 135 Vocabulary Items are Needed to Account for Half the Brown Corpus
Michael Aird
Apportion them some food in a bowl
offer it to them as though they are friends
after you finish eating,
take them to the 4 corners of your property
saying something like:
As of February 2013,
the highest finite Bacon number
reported by the Oracle
might have been yours
It’s for this reason
that the concept of decay must become
more than just after-dinner conversation
First, we present empirical evidence
that old nodes are less likely to obtain links
than nodes added more recently to the network
Secondly, the transition of a node
from the active to the inactive state
can be interpreted as a collective forgetting
Barry of Barry Maher & Associates
continues:
My clients almost never ask
for only employed applicants…
however, the burden is certainly
on the unemployed to explain
why they are unemployed
And that idlenesse, being repugnant
to the same ordinance, is a grieuous sinne
and also
for the great inconueniences and mischiefes
which spring thereof, an intolerable euill
What has become known
as the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” or “trash vortex”
which includes everything
from footballs and kayaks to Lego blocks
may actually represent a new habitat
Further,
we calculate that the arthropods
on the medians down the Broadway corridor
could alone consume the equivalent
of 60, 000 hot dogs every year
And to better utilize their services
the manual proposes providing them
with protective gear like boots and gloves
but not long poles used to point for things
or certain clappers that warn of their approach
To a large extent
the purification of the polis
should have a power-law distribution
just as dump sites serve as magnets
for additional dumping
Waste audits and workplans follow the principle
postulated in Gestalt theory
that the sum of the parts are best
led round with strings of figs on their necks
and whipped on the genitals
with rods of figwood and squills
The epidemic threshold is actually hinged
on the critical point separating
an active phase
with a stationary density of infected nodes
from a phase with only healthy nodes
and null activity
One of the most important things you can do
to not become contaminated
by the image of the long-term unemployed
is to fill your employment gap
with pursuits that help grow your career
not emptiness that could kill it
Start a professional blog
Volunteer
Go to networking events sponsored by
your university, industry, city and so on
If you want to show your work to the whole world
buying quality instagram followers
will immediately launch a Yule process
with manifold blessings and sundry benefits
The creation term here
considers the probability
that your reputation for reposting
will have a multiplier effect
Keep this keeping in mind
maybe
as a blunt reminder
it’s such a small-world network after all
one short hop to never again synchronize
with the other crickets
Work by Michael Aird has appeared in Lit, Lungfull!, Bombay Gin, Rhino, Salthill, Dislocate, Word for/Word, Shampoo and Bomblog. He has work forthcoming in Fence and Blackbox Manifold.
