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Captain’s Log

Open eoinnoble opened this issue 8 years ago • 4 comments

A very simple series of generated captains' logs, in the style of Emily Short's superlative Annals of the Parrigues.

Output: https://eoinnoble.github.io/captains-log/output/captains-log.html (thanks to @hugovk!) Code: https://github.com/eoinnoble/captains-log

January, 1767 My name is Jacob Collaart, captain of the pinnace “San Nicolás”. We set sail from Bangka Island, heading northwest to Sulu. This is my log.

January, 1770 Able seaman Jones did his best, but his impersonation of a particularly attractive albatross did not succeed in luring a meal out of the skies.

February, 1768 We set sail from Tapian Nauli, heading north to Thanlyin. We arrived at Thanlyin after 2 days’ sailing. The people here are purposeful and thorough, recognised for their curious pickles.

April, 1770 We set sail from Tamsui, heading east to Keelung. We arrived at Keelung after 1 days’ sailing. The people here are tardy and heedless, famed for their imbecilic librarians.

December, 1768 I’m deeply concerned about the crew, some of them are coming to the end of multi-year hangovers in the beating midday sun and remembering they’re still on my ship. I worry they might unionise… We came across a threatening galleon with dozens of cannon, flying a Portuguese flag, seeming to fly towards us. We passed across their line and commenced a very severe action, with the result that the entire mizzen mast, the aft most of the ship’s three masts, is shot away along with all the standing & running rigging sails etc. Look at what I have done…

March, 1767 We set sail from Dhaka, heading southwest to Simon’s Bay. Thus ends the tale of the “San Nicolás” and her captain, Jacob Collaart – lost to either cannibalism or sobriety, pray we never discover which…

eoinnoble avatar Nov 30 '16 10:11 eoinnoble

@eoinnoble Tip: select "Use the master branch for GitHub Pages" at https://github.com/eoinnoble/captains-log/settings and then you can link directly to https://eoinnoble.github.io/captains-log/output/captains-log.html

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hugovk avatar Nov 30 '16 20:11 hugovk

And it's worth sharing the screenshots in this tweet! https://twitter.com/eoinnoble/status/803945760316329984

hugovk avatar Nov 30 '16 20:11 hugovk

It's not simple, it's super complex! There's a world model and everything. Bravo!

lizadaly avatar Nov 30 '16 22:11 lizadaly

Done, thanks for the help Hugo!

eoinnoble avatar Dec 01 '16 12:12 eoinnoble