About Sammy

Sammy is a computer programmer from Kansas City who likes to create silly little websites like this in his spare time. He dreams of building a robot army to take over the world one day, and he believes this takeover will result in Midwestern States learning how to make a proper New York pizza (very hard to find).

You can find the blog he doesn't write in often enough here. Or you can find his twitter feed here.

Other useful things

About this site

So I put this little thing up as my default website awhile back, to help with apache configurations. No big deal. Then I started adding things to it, and ended up with a four page utility website that I find useful.

Since I have put absolutely no thought into the design of this site, and I don't care if you find it useful, it looks like a default Dreamweaver layout. If you came to that on your own, I commend you for your powers of observation.

Tools and generators

Page Fillers

I've been doing a lot more layout specific work that I would care to admit lately. And I got tired of clients asking me why their sites were in spanish when they hadn't given me any content, or when a layout was in testing. So I figured it was time to do something other than the standard Lorum Ipsim, and write my own.

Random Shakespeare Generator

My first attempt at one of these was taking the compiled works of William Shakespeare and breaking it into a very big array of words that could be called randomly. I separated the words so that they're unique, and compensated by adding joining words like is and was and or to the mix, so that you can get something that almost reads like a sentence.

War and Peace Page Filler

You know, I had never read War and Peace before doing this experiment. I suppose I probably should have. In this one, I broke it up by the sentence, and indexed the entire book, re-assembling groups of thoughts randomly, but over all, the same basic technique that I used for Shakespeare. The problem with indexing War and Peace and using it as page filler though, is that War and Peace is at times a very negative dirty little book, and it might give clients the wrong idea. So, just as funny as the random Shakespeare, but for totally different reasons.

Pride and Prejudice Page Filler

So after filling up a whole site with random and even funny combinations of sentences from War and Peace, I decided that I wanted something that would still be funny if you took random pieces of it out of context, but not overtly offensive.

Technical stuff