Comments on: Third Hand Plays: “automatype” by Daniel C. Howe http://blog.sfmoma.org/2011/09/third-hand-plays-automatype-by-daniel-c-howe/ Sat, 25 May 2013 18:32:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Feliz Molina http://blog.sfmoma.org/2011/09/third-hand-plays-automatype-by-daniel-c-howe/comment-page-1/#comment-135606 Feliz Molina Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:56:04 +0000 http://blog.sfmoma.org/?p=32114#comment-135606 just want to add that Bebe Molina was a pseudonym for Feliz Molina who wrote the generative prose poem Roulette which was part of her MFA thesis at Brown.

]]> By: rr http://blog.sfmoma.org/2011/09/third-hand-plays-automatype-by-daniel-c-howe/comment-page-1/#comment-109977 rr Fri, 09 Sep 2011 22:52:43 +0000 http://blog.sfmoma.org/?p=32114#comment-109977 For consistency (RiText, RiHtmlParser, RiGoogleSearch)? Because naming conventions in computing dictate the use of caps in the middle of words? Because it looks cool? That’s all I’ve got.

]]> By: Brian Stefans http://blog.sfmoma.org/2011/09/third-hand-plays-automatype-by-daniel-c-howe/comment-page-1/#comment-109973 Brian Stefans Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:09:07 +0000 http://blog.sfmoma.org/?p=32114#comment-109973 Ha, thanks Rita. But then why the cap on the T?

]]> By: rr http://blog.sfmoma.org/2011/09/third-hand-plays-automatype-by-daniel-c-howe/comment-page-1/#comment-109972 rr Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:54:01 +0000 http://blog.sfmoma.org/?p=32114#comment-109972 “which he calls RiTa (I can’t find where he came up with this apparent acronym).”

It’s the Old Norse root of the English “write”:

Old English wrítan, = Old Frisian wrîta to score, write (Frisian write to wear by rubbing, etc.), Old Saxon wrîtan to cut, write (Middle Low German wrîten), Old High German rîȥan to tear, draw (Middle High German rîȥen, German reissen), Old Norse ríta to score, write (Norwegian rita, vrita, Swedish rita to draw); compare Old Norse and Icelandic rita (weak verb), to write.

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