A variant on clock times was done in 2013 by Nick Monfort - World Clock [notes + python source]

Also available POD: http://www.harvard.com/book/world_clock/

An interesting lecture (transcription at link) on the problems of translating World Clock.

It sounds like you could get all of these done by December :-)

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 12:40 AM Hugo notifications@github.com wrote:

Not sure what to do yet, some throwaway ideas:

• A poet, struggling, gets stuck with words, tries others. Modify an
  existing epic poem, use Wordnik's related words.
• Dear Santa, I have been good this year and want: 1. , 2. repeat to
  50k.
• Chained tweets: 1. Find tweet, 2. find tweet starting with the
  previous tweet's last word, 3. repeat to 50k. Maybe ignore tweets with @ or
  links or #.
• A 50k version of Lassi and the Leavings' "Onnelliset".
• A Dictionary of Loved and Hated words. A bit like A Dictionary of
  Not-A-Words A Dictionary of Not-A-Words by hugovk dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2014#90 but
  using @lovihatibot https://twitter.com/lovihatibot instead: perhaps
  a loved then a hated word. Perhaps a loved, and then the same word hated,
  with example tweets. Perhaps alongside definitions. Perhaps definitions.
  Perhaps a chronological report thing to show top ones from each month over
  the last year.
• A boring diary. Or is it a rubbish reference book? Just clock times:
  "The time is twelve am. Twelve oh one am. Twelve oh two pm... And thirty
  seconds."
• A friend says he has trouble reading Russian literature due to
  keeping track of the unfamiliar names. So perhaps rewrite some Dostoyevsky
  with names like Dennis, Michelle.

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I would love to take a look at the chained tweets novel and the code, I had the same idea a few years ago but I find it a bit tricky to implement nicely. Good luck! ;)

Righto, first throwaway idea thrown:

A boring diary

#61

A preview of Dear Santa:

Perhaps I'll collect 24 chapters of 50k/24 words in case there's some variation, or maybe four times a day for a week.

Another preview of Dear Santa, taken from during a recent victory speech:

And later that day:

Dear Santa,

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